But he'd worked with producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg before, on HBO's 2010 adaptation of his book “The Pacific," "so I had great confidence.” Gary Goetzman was also an executive producer on ...

He has written a book about his service and even met Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks at the Hollywood premiere of the miniseries "Masters of the Air." Perseverance is something Luckadoo has mastered.