Just finished up with the first 6 episodes in the series, and I really enjoyed it. Some great flying scenes using real B-25s, and it has an excellent cast as well.

I agree. The GF and I binge watched it all last Friday. Highly recommended.

The movie is entertaining, but read the book.

“The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
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“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
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“Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. He had to start at the top and work his way down, and with sympathetic friends in Washington, losing money was no simple matter. It took months of hard work and careful misplanning. A person misplaced, disorganized, miscalculated, overlooked everything and open every loophole, and just when he thought he had it made, the government gave him a lake or a forest or an oilfield and spoiled everything. Even with such handicaps, Colonel Cargill could be relied on to run the most prosperous enterprise into the ground. He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.”

The book is brilliant. I read it while in the army in 1970.

As an aside. Joseph Heller (the author), Mel Brooks, and Dustin Hoffman grew up together in Brooklyn and were close friends.

I read the book when I was in Air Force JROTC at age 16. As I recall I found it a difficult read at times. I should read it again to see if thats changed.

I wouldn't expect a 16 year old to comprehend Heller's dripping irony on every page. To do so requires living as an adult.

Still my favorite book to this day.

I had forgotten all about this new series. Gonna watch it and then read the book again for about the 7th or 8th time.

Series is on Hulu I believe.
Going to begin it today as my treadmill entertainment.