Tom Hanks as Self - Narrator (voice)

Steven Spielberg as Self - Filmmaker

James Stewart as Self - Pilot, 453rd Bomb Group (archive footage)

John 'Lucky' Luckadoo as Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal as Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

John A. Clark as Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

Harry Crosby as Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

Joseph Armanini as Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group

Frank Murphy as Self - Navigator, 100th Bomb Group

Owen 'Cowboy' Roane as Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

Donald L. Miller as Self - Author, Masters of the Air

Seth Paridon as Self - Historian, Mississippi Armed Forces Museum

Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self - United States President (archive footage)

Bruce Alshouse as Self - Tail Gunner, 100th Bomb Group

Robert Wolff as Self - Pilot, 100th Bomb Group

Gene Bankston as Self - Togglier, 100th Bomb Group (archive footage)

Thomas Jeffrey as Self - Commander, 100th Bomb Group, May 1955-February 1945

Dr. Conrad C. Crane as Self - SSI Senior Historian, US Army War College

Gen. (Ret.) Curtis Lemay as Self - Cmdr., 3rd Bombardment Division (voice) (archive sound)

Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ira Eaker as Self - Commander., 8th Air Force, 1942-1944 (archive footage)

Randall Hansen as Self - Author, Fire and Fury

Gen. (Ret.) James Doolittle as Self - Cmdr., 8th Air Force, 1994-1954 (voice) (archive sound)

Dr. Tami Davis Biddle as Self - Author, Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self - Supreme Allied Commander (voice) (archive sound)

William 'Bill' Couch as Self - Bombardier, 100th Bomb Group

Dr. Matthew F. Delmont as Self - Author, Half American

Richard Macon as Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)

J. Todd Moye as Self - Author, Freedom Flyers

Alexander Jefferson as Self - Pilot, 332nd Fighter Group (archive footage)

Marilyn Jeffers Walton as Self - Author, From Interrogation to Liberation

Joseph Stalin as Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill as Self - British Prime Minister (voice) (archive sound)

Adolf Hitler as Self - Leader of the Nazis (archive footage)