A Most Peculiar WWII Musical Moment in “Masters of the Air”

Generations of WWII movies have served up endless repeats of the same old songs from the era — “In the Mood,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” a little Glen Miller, a bit of Artie Shaw, a touch of “We’ll Meet Again, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When.”

But this new Apple TV air war in Europe series, which I will be reviewing in a day or two (premieres Friday), scrounged up an oddity. And you know me and musical oddities.

This is not an anarchonism, let me hasten to add. I may wonder when the acronym “MIA” came into use, or the phrase “wheels up” came to be used as a military departure time. But Our Man Woody wrote this little anti fascist ditty right in the middle of all that fuss and bother.

It’s an odd song to have a young woman sing to the Yanks and Brits in a party “over there” in “The War.” She sings it almost as a lament.

The message? Timeless.

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