No, of course it isn't Band of Brothers or even The Pacific. Nor should it ever have tried to be. The story is different, the setting is different, the sheer number of both combatants and casualties is unimaginably different. So they didn't try to be.
The prime story choice they made, and maintained right up to the last minute, was an utter devotion to showing the experience as the flyers saw. No dwelling on bereaved lovers, no bogging down in minutiae, just the war, as seen by the men within the most dangerous theatre of operations of the war. So yes, that means we get the POW stories - because there were so damned many of them, how could it not be told?
Pushing TV technology to the limits, making bold choices and, above all, remembering that wars are not won by B17s (or Sherman tanks, or frigates or howitzers) but by *men and women* putting their lives on the line, or making sure the crew knows where to go, or ensuring that (like my mum did) they were properly fed when they returned from missions. This is what story telling is, not "did that image have the right number of rivets?"
And Rosie Rosenthal. What a man, what a man.