1944 UNITED NEWS NEWSREEL WWII BOMBING OF TOKYO, JAPAN LIBERATION OF METZ, FRANCE XD31221

[@richalexandersen5524]

We used a similar extraction system in Vietnam with a C-130. The harness and rope attached to a balloon. A C-130 had a U-shaped catcher on the nose and would run into the rope just under the balloon. Crazy. Pulled guys out of the jungle. When I was stationed in Zweibrucken in the 70’s I like to visit Metz. Beautiful City. Thanks for posting.

[@duneuno1317]

Skyhook

[@Dr.Pepperdave]

Welcome Home!

[@brianfergus839]

Did you ever have to take that carnival ride?

[@unitedwestand5100]

The hook wasn't under the nose. It was on a winch coming out the ramp at the rear. A C130 has 4 very large props on the wings which would make snagging a rope with the nose very dangerous for the aircraft, crew, and whoever was getting extracted.

[@TheBadsectorzero]

i think i'll die due to the whiplash if my body's not conditioned enough.

[@rickb1973]

"Well, the sheep seems mostly okay.....Your turn, Larry"

[@rimckd825]

Thanks for that....

[@Hazwaste63]

When asked to comment, the sheep mentioned that the Gs were pretty baaaaad.

[@joebombero1]

I retired to the Philippines from Texas. Back in the early 2000s I used to look for elderly Filipinos and ask them about their memories of the war. I quickly learned not to do this. There was horrific suffering here. Everyone I talked with struggled with traumatic memories of school teachers or local officials executed in public or worse. Sad stuff. I can't imagine what the reality of years of Japanese occupation must have been like.

[@naughtmoses]

Gen. Hansell was fairly quickly replaced by Gen. Curtis "Bomb 'em back to the stone age" LeMay because, in part, the early raids dropped from 25-30K feet and didn't hit much of benefit. LeMay -- a veteran commander of the 8th AF B-17s in Europe -- sent the B-29s in at night at 5K and made a mess of virtually ever major Japanese city, save for three that were spared for "testing" of the "gadgets" in August of '45.

[@richardcline1337]

"Bomb 'em back to the stone age"....damned shame he didn't get to complete that task! They acted like savages and should have been treated like savages.

[@wiscgaloot]

The range of the B-29 was not 5,000 miles, but 3,750 miles. Just enough to manage this raid. And very satisfying to watch!

[@ostiariusalpha]

Almost certainly the narration meant the ferry range, which is indeed about 5000 miles, give or take.

[@tridbant]

Or, as it was wartime it could have been propaganda to give the impression that the Japanese could be hit any distance.

[@kennethjohnson6319]

I watched this United news reel in the early sixties of of footage of the bombing of Tokyo and sapan and the 6th army fighting and dying in the liberation of metz France

[@Kingwoodish]

67 Japanese cities were fire bombed in WW2. March 10, 1945 over 300 B29's dropped 250,000 incendiary bombs on Tokyo, destroying 16 square miles and killing over 100,000 people and over a million left homeless.

[@idlehands1864]

The Japanese killed 300,000 just in the Nanking massacre all civilians, Unit 731 killed 400,000 or more people by itself, compared to them the American bombing campaign was amateur hour.

[@hawkeyeten2450]

We dropped warning leaflets on many cities, so it wasn't like we didn't give any advanced warning.

[@buckhorncortez]

The first uses of airpower to target civilians were the Germans' bombing of Guernica, Spain April 26, 1937, and the Japanese bombing of Chungking, China (now Chongqing) on June 5. 1941. Once those precedents were established, further use was simply the same tactics that had been created by prior use.

[@zerofox1551]

Imagine if we prosecuted the war on terror in similier fashion.

[@buckhorncortez]

@@zerofox1551 What I imagine are comments without needing to use the cliche contrivance of the word "imagine" as if the person is introducing a novel idea...

[@rogercarrico4975]

What a ride that high speed pick up must have been! 0 to 130 mph in a second or two.

[@AdamBlackArts]

6:44 That right there looks like a ton of fun to me.

[@kevnwarriner8819]

That Sheep that boldly went where no Sheep had gone before was as much a Hero as the Human Airman who followed him 🛫 / / / / / / 🐏 Baaaaaaaaa! Baaaaaaaaaaaaa! Sorry I couldn't help it, that Sheep looked so shocked as it took flyte 😳😱 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣😂

[@BruceMusto]

How things changed on Saipan from the time the Marines landed. Dudes in the video hanging out at the flight line in swimming trunks enjoying their time in the South Pacific.

[@centeguahan3760]

Meanwhile in Guam, locals are glued watching the news on T .V. probably the only fuzzy channel available at the time of production.

[@Bob.W.]

If I recall correctly the first B-29 raids didn't hit much. High winds scattered planes and bombs.

[@bigimskiweisenheimer8325]

It was a mind fu*k to Japan. Proving we could reach them.

[@unitedwestand5100]

It seems like they used this to recover gliders on Normandy too. Sometimes loaded with severely wounded paratroopers that needed care in Hospitals in England.

[@unitedwestand5100]

Sorry, while gliders were recovered snatching them with C-47s from Normandy, the first snatched loaded with combat casualties was at Remagen. The first glider pickups to be made from German soil was near Remagen The 50th Wing landed two CG-4A gliders carrying medical supplies near the Remagen Bridgehead. The first glider’s tail section was slightly damaged upon landing but the “glider was not rendered unfit for pickup”. After supplies were unloaded the gliders were loaded with (first time in the ETO) wounded soldiers. The C-47s that towed the gliders flew in the vicinity for over two hours then snatch the two gliders when they were loaded and ready. So, two gliders were landed and two were recovered.

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

That logo for United News looks like the German Lufwaffe symbol except the eagle was facing to the right. by

[@jimrossi7708]

Well who decided to bomb Pearl Harbor ? “Let sleeping dogs lie”.

[@rogermetzger7335]

By the time B-29s were bombing Tokyo, the Japanese had to know there was no chance of "winning" the war. The best they could hope for from then on was that the U.S. citizenry would tire of the war and want to quit sending young men to fight it. Think how many Japanese lives could have been spared if the Japanese warmongers had just surrendered before their beautiful island nation was completely destroyed. So sad!!

[@alexcarter8807]

@@rogermetzger7335 It was mainly Tojo, he was a nut.

[@wiscgaloot]

I had a friend in college who was from Japan. A seemingly peaceful and calm guy, great guitar player, a bit of a hippie--but he said that Pearl Harbor was Japan's "shining moment of glory". That was hard to hear. We just had to agree to disagree.

[@arajoaina]

@@wiscgaloot you should have told him it was the shining moment of the end of Japan.

[@machtschnell7452]

That was exactly their strategy besides a fanatical defense of the homeland by armed civilians.

[@unitedwestand5100]

First commercial I've ever watched all the way through on KZbin. Candace Owen's, and Prager U for Kids! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@warrenmilford1329]

I can't believe they actually showed the dead body of the photographer Frank Prist. It would have been bad for any family or friends to see, if they happened to pop into their local cinema to watch the newsreels.

[@2Oldcoots]

From what altitude were the bombs dropped?

[@machtschnell7452]

Of course the USAAF did not know the bombing from high altitude was very inaccurate after dropping 6 miles through the atmosphere.

[@GoSlash27]

6:21 I laughed. I'm sure that makes me a bad person.

[@samk2266]

One thing I don't understand about WWII is why Japan wasn't able to put up a better air defense. I understand how Germany got overwhelmed because allied aircraft could launch from England a short distance away, but even with IwaJima captured there should have been enough time to detect these large planes on radar and at least keep them away from the cities. For some reason Japan didn't have enough fighter aircraft available.

[@k.h.1587]

Attrition.

[@gdlonborg]

By the time B29's were in the air, the japanese pilot supply had been dwindled by combat losses, our subs were sinking their supply ships, they wer low on fuel, they had been through years of nonstop combat and the concurrent losses. They were attritted.

[@alexcarter8807]

Our policy was to choke off their supplies of oil, rubber, and other materials. We were wrecking their planes faster than they could build and fuel them.

[@michaelmacgeorge1082]

@@alexcarter8807 Plus, we killed all their experienced pilots making it easy to beat the newbies.

[@stevek8829]

What radar?

[@JoseCarlos-lm9pr]

Estou à procura de imagens de archivo

[@jerrydillon9436]

Thanks Larry for volunteering..,uh.. I volunteered???

[@jamesslick4790]

6:47 I'd have shit my self before I was 10 feet off of the ground.

[@j.dragon651]

At 9:01:20 it's Christopher Loyd! Maybe he can really travel in time.

[@ricksgarage8069]

I'm not so sure that incinerating tens of thousands of women and children is something I'm inclined to be proud of.

[@jujitusuka]

This was *total* war they wouldn’t surrender and had every intention to make the US forces who landed on Japanese soil pay dearly. The Japanese resolve to keep fighting was clearly evident even after the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the reason the US dropped the second one, I mean _really_ the Japanese seriously considered fighting on after an atomic bomb wtf. If you want to compare atrocities how about the rape of Nanking, the Burma railway and treatment of POW’s, Korean ‘comfort’ women, the activities of Unit 731……..

[@ricksgarage8069]

@@jujitusuka It is lamentable that the innocents must pay for the sins of the guilty. War makes barbarians out of us all.

[@jujitusuka]

@@ricksgarage8069 : indeed. Be thankful that the allies won. Wars post WWII are questionable but WWII needed to be fought to overcome extreme evil regimes. I’m not disregarding innocents who lost their lives by any means and many died on all sides.

[@thunderbird1921]

We dropped warning leaflets on multiple cities in the days beforehand. They urged citizens in the Japanese language to leave the area as bombing was going to occur (coupled with a propaganda message telling them their government was dooming their land to suffering and destruction). We did similarly with at least some communities in North Korea too, during that war several years later.

[@ricksgarage8069]

@@thunderbird1921 How thoughtful of us.

[@hvacbear8]

That sheep gets back to the farm "You'll never believe what I just did".

[@joeyartk]

Just goes to show there weren't any good guys or bad guys in the war. Just 2 competing empires fighting for dominance in Asia.

[@johncitizen3927]

Remember who attacked who....

[@machtschnell7452]

Who attacked whom. ... Transitive verb requires objective case of the pronoun.

[@Jake-hi9hq]

God bless America!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 💪💪💪

[@comiskey2005]

Time traveler @10:53 snapping a selfie.

[@willamcombs1106]

@ 6:20; "Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"

[@BobDeCaprio]

Industrial targets - lol

[@bazzmcfury9550]

I never thought I'd ever see the very second in a sheep's eyes, when his whole perspective on live gets totally turned upside down.

[@bradbutcher3984]

Please stop putting the time counter and PF film number so large on these videos. It's uselessly hiding things I'd rather see when it's this large. Watching them with it is like playing cards with my brother's kids.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@mistervacation23]

What you say,

[@jameshigh5050]

They alway say every flight was a success but that’s not true.

[@richardcline1337]

Same three frustrating identity markers over plagiarized public domain materials!

[@alexius23]

The B-29’s quickly encountered the Jet Stream that blew the bombs off target. The Japanese raiders came from Iwo Jima.

[@markkoval4251]

Audio HORRIBLE!👎

[@galens2543]

🐑💨 Worlds fastest sheep!

[@jesseharriott4253]

Not even 100 years has gone by since all of these brave men gave their lives to ensure our freedom. Now thanks to the actions and opinions of one man has taken our freedoms away. I do not want to say they died for nothing so I'll say this instead. #letsgobrandon...🤢

[@jefffriedberg]

Running timer onscreen is a tremendous distraction, and I quit at 1:48, thumbs down, and kill feed.

[@PeriscopeFilm]

Here's the issue: Tens of thousands of films similar to this one have been lost forever -- destroyed -- and many others are at risk. Our company preserves these precious bits of history one film at a time. How do we afford to do that? By selling them as stock footage to documentary filmmakers and broadcasters. If we did not have a counter, we could not afford to post films like these online, and no films would be preserved. It's that simple. So we ask you to bear with the watermark and timecodes. In the past we tried many different systems including placing our timer at the bottom corner of our videos. What happened? Unscrupulous KZbin users downloaded our vids, blew them up so the timer was not visible, and re-posted them as their own content! We had to use content control to have the videos removed and shut down these channels. It's hard enough work preserving these films and posting them, without having to spend precious time dealing with policing thievery -- and not what we devoted ourselves to do. Love our channel and want to support what we do? You can help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.

[@jefffriedberg]

@@PeriscopeFilm Got it. But it’s still a distraction. Maybe if you darken it?

[@Beemer917]

Next a man , a sheep , and a semi naked woman are picked up! Look at the g forces on those puppies!

[@prestonhanson501]

Back when America was great

[@danilorainone406]

70 years later,,japan rebuilt and peaceful, w germany ,europes economic and free miracle, tokio stadium attendees a thousand with decent voices sang german beethovens ode to joy,,,it's on there someplace

[@thunderbird1921]

And North Korea? 65+ years later still a tyrannical craphole. Goes to show the difference between wise democracy leadership and Communist brute power.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

Terrible distorted audio

[@tallerstond8105]

this is made in 1944

[@The_DuMont_Network]

@@tallerstond8105 It was screwed up transferring to KZbin. 1944 audio was just fine, albeit monophonic.It didn't sound like that when the film was made.

[@tomschaffner9704]

Don’t be a jerk Doc.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

@@tomschaffner9704 What? I state a fact and I'm a jerk?

[@stevek8829]

@@tallerstond8105 so what? Do you think they didn't have good audio then? They did.

[@billmiller7613]

Stopped bombing them too soon

[@richardcline1337]

After what DeGaulle did to the Allies in the 1960's maybe they should have let Germany KEEP France! No big lose.

[@ziggy2shus624]

The bombing of Japanese industry starting in Nov 1944,....BUT, the Japanese industry was already dead by then. So, the US was bombing a nothing, but that doesn't stop the US propaganda from ranting and raving. Japan industry depended on oil, but the oil tankers were sunk by submarines and B-25s and B24s operating out of China....... No oil, no industry. In that era bombing from 20 to 30,000 feet up was next to useless, as the bombs went everywhere except where they were supposed to hit. As the bombing of a dead industry was useless, the US, under the direction of Truman "the terrible", started bombing big cities like Tokyo, as the bombs would hit somewhere in the big city. The US fire bombed the wooden cities, burning to death one million defenseless Japanese civilians, including tens of thousands of little Japanese babies. Even today, the burning of thousands of little Japanese babies is considered a great achievement by the US Airfarce.

[@iancostigan5047]

It was all out war. The Japanese would not surrender. They finally surrendered when they saw what one b29 and one bomb could do. The other bombings involved hundreds of us bombers. Do you think the Japanese high command gave 2 shits about Innocent American babies? The didn't give a fuck about babies or innocent people in China or any innocent human in southeast Asia or Oceania. Japan was not at fault for there atrocities because they lost, right?