My dad was a side gunner in "Stinger." He got out just before Ploesti.

My Great Uncle Flew Steamin Jean.. Shot down in that ship. Then hit a storm around Bougainvillea and was gone. June 5th 1944. My Grandpa was storming the beach in Normandy the next day. Needless to say, My Grandma had a rough day. Grandpa came home.

My Great Uncle was lost in a storm around Bougainvillea June 5 1944.. In his letters he said he would get back from a run with palm trees stuck in place on the ship. Love the beer run to Australia

Epic!

6:50 nice stuntwork for 1943

Bro, I have a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, and I wouldn't wish these instructions on Albert Einstein...

Japan totally outgunned by US

I'm glad for them they could get a more advanced and holistic treatment of their conditions than in today's overcrowded hospitals. The world is more sick than ever before with big pharma crushing our health. Let's build hospitals like this after 2024.

… unfortunately, by the time the preflight preparations were completed, WW2, was over.

The P-47 & P-38 were the only planes besides the B-17 that were supercharged, the rest were turbo charged which stole from the horsepower and thus lowered speed

All these years later and we're still fighting Nazis. In our own country.

You don’t realise how frightening this stuff actually is until you see footage of it.

What accent is this?

27:41

Granddad was on that jump with the 503rd. Awarded a silver star there.

Western Michigan University campus scenes

All these films are made to look like duffeses are in our military! What this actually is is mass brainwashing using reverse psychology! Dont do what donny dont does!

What happened to countdown to detonation and shock arrival time? Read the series of books, ' We Were Crewdogs' for a first hand story of those who flew in SAC.

نرجو ترجمه فلم اللغه العربيه

The B-57B was a fine tactical bomber, but it wasn't intended to strafe targets. That was the A-4 Skyhawk's job.

0:38 “ the me262 is a single-seater fighter bomber-“ a what 😂

It's said the Germans based their more powerful, 88mm rocket Panzerschreck, after capturing early bazooka in North Africa.

Seen one 1973 it was loud

Thank you as a hypnotherapist I was looking for this after reading Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps The Score where he mentions this film.

The narrator mentions the man in the tow plane, but it could easily be a woman. Towing target sleeves was a common assignment for WASPs.

Very Hightech at that time! And very very secret. I wonder how they made this movie?

Props to the film crew that had to gather the footage on an airplane in flight. Nowadays it would be as simple as placing a gopro in the cockpit. But in the time it was filmed it was all analog. So there was so much more needed to capture the moment. The size and reliability of the camera was important, but also the pilots ability had to be carefully considered. So much more was done, and it's impressive considering what was available at the time.

The japs zero let the wildcat chase then on their tail then climb steep and wait for wildcats to stall then the zero picks the wildcat stalling. the wildcats find a way to out maneuver the zero by doing the wave x formation with wingmen and lure the zero to tail one wildcat then the other wildcat shoots the chasing zero.

Good one, Zeno-this will be incredibly valuable. Thanks!-Nick

My dad was B-24 pilot shot down during a raid on Ploiesti oil fields He was MIA escaped and evaded as well as worked with and aided the underground getting back to friendly allied lines

Zeno-I'm at a stage in my story where the B-24 crew has arrived at their hardstand. I haven't found anything that describes all the procedures they have to do before boarding. Do you have any videos like that?

Thank you for all your work in preserving history

My Dad served there CMSG Pete Pettit. did a TDY for six months , and than 2 tours. he loved the Thai people there.

Those searches weren't that thorough. My mother in law does that everytime she's visiting and thinks we aren't watching

You put your blurb across the bottom of the entire video. What a slob.

(2:53) First time ever I played the role of "Bitchin Betty". I was screaming pull up. That plane flew through the top of that fucking tree.

Good film. Funny though, the first part should be called, "Nachtjagers doing goofy shit". 8-)

Have you guy’s noticed that there were no torque wrenches used! Just by pure muscles 💪 and feeling the strength! 👋😂👉we’re spoiled now a days! With power tools and torque wrenching!

They spun the globe the wrong way (sunrise in the west) in the opening! LOL! I'm glad this crew made movies and didn't plan battles!!

My father was a medic. What he saw was bad.

Japanese flack is nothing compared to German flack

After flying his 50 combat missions in WWII, my father, Lt Col John H Belko ended up being a B-25 instructor pilot in Columbia, SC.

I should have been a ww2 fighter pilot, I was born too late

Thanks for uploading this

Great piece, thanks for posting! My dad was RAF ground crew in Burma and a lot of that film is pure tosh! It's very interesting but doesn't represent what really went on. There weren't many bombers per se, it was up close and personal. If you look at Burma there is nothing to bomb in the conventional sense! Dad worked on all sorts of planes but the vital one was the Hurriibomber. This was used as air support for when the 'brown jobs' - the army -- encountered Japanese resistance as they advanced through the jungle. They would call in the Hurribombers using them in a ground attack role. Thus they staggered through Burma, having to create new airstrips in the jungle every so often. Sometimes the Japanese would counter-attack. I recall my dad saying he had to go around collecting dogtags from the dead after one counterattack got close to them. He took the dogtag from one body and it had exactly the same name of one of his best friends - a bit of a shocking coincidence! My dad's legs were covered in scar tissue from the leeches and they gave him trouble for the rest of his life. He was still in the jungle when the war in Europe ended, he said it meant nothing to them. After Little Boy and Fat Man some Japanese in the jungle refused to believe their nation had surrendered and he was shot at in October! He didn't get back home until 1947 -- they just didn't have the transport to get everyone home immediately. There were several mutinies when this became known but it was all hushed up at the time. Cheers!

Nice thanks for posting,

good ol water injection

This guys in all these old ww2 instructional videos. Capt. Reynolds in the one about surviving after ditching a plane he was also the engineer who talked in the one about resisting enemy interrogation in Dulag Luft. I wonder what his name is….

I really appreciate this film and the soldiers’ responses later near the end of the film. What a journey toward healing these brave men walked. These were the fortunate ones.

"92% ran hot straight and normal" hilarious