GSAP FIGHTER KILLS ON D-DAY, 06/06/1944, REEL 3: 1) 11HD94929-941 2ND LT. R.M. LEIDY, - LMWWIIHD117

[@niallobrien78]

A bad day for Thomas the tank engine

[@-ShootTheGlass-]

I don’t think you’ll hear them say ‘not again!’... very short life expectancy for train drivers

[@Someloke8895]

Deffo caused Confusion, and Delay....

[@blckwtr2880]

Thomas did only follow orders

[@BackYardPropsWA]

He was just following orders

[@notices_demons]

.....choo.....choo

[@mattwarrensocal]

Wanted: railroad engineer. Competitive pay. Good benefits. Fast paced work environment.

[@ey7290]

"Must be bulletproof"

[@Lemon83166]

Must be able to work under minimal supervision.

[@wilsonandlucy]

Nicely played M.

[@doejon9424]

"Enjoy the beautiful landscape of Central / Western Europe, PTO starts accumulating on your first day, only 10 completed cargo train runs and you can take advantage of our generous retirement plan."

[@ajrob2888]

What about hazard pay!? Hahahaha!!!

[@adamhenry5791]

Could you Imagine the Carnage that would have been Captured on GoPros from WWII had they been around back then.

[@fonkyman]

@Despiser Despised loljust go to live leak or something similar... so much graphic brutality you wish you hadnt watched it

[@yopappy6599]

They did have "go pros". Where you think the footage came from.?

[@andrewmorton9327]

My father was in the 8th Army in North Africa. He was in a truck being driven along a road through the Western Desert near Sidi Barani when it was attacked by a German fighter. The driver drove off the road onto the desert and headed towards the German plane. This meant he had to steepen his dive and eventually had to break off. In the meantime the guys in the truck were firing their rifles at him (without any effect). He tried several times with the same result. In the end he gave up and flew off.

[@bpeyman68]

Gerald Spessard oh really?

[@qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm3937]

Gerald Spessard shit that’s mad. We’re the cameras better than what we usually see of that time or just more graphic footage that they can’t use for documentaries etc

[@Midnorme]

Spectacular footage, thank-you! I came across this video years ago and wanted to show this to my grandfather who was fascinated with anything WW2. Sadly he passed from cancer before I could find this video again to show hime. Miss you grandpa, hope you are watching this over my shoulders.

[@ALRIGHTYTHEN.]

As a railroader, I can imagine how crazy it would be to have bullets just start coming into the cab of the engine without warning. From boredom to chaos in a matter of seconds.

[@captainoblivious_yt]

To make matters even worse, having the boiler explode in your face (and the rest of your body too) was also something very common.

[@jwhmerica504]

No shit. I don’t think the old FRA 223 glass around us is gunna stop some hot 50 cal.

[@screens1979]

Lt. Sisson had trasers flying up at him at 5:00 😬

[@ALRIGHTYTHEN.]

@Dream Gary you'd receive the rounds well before you heard the plane.

[@dismemberedlamb9104]

That would have to be quite the mental toll.

[@Scott-th1vu]

I'm not sure which required more balls in WWII: signing up to fire at low level targets in a plane or signing up to be a train conductor with no air cover

[@richal4596]

Ball turret gunner on a B-17.

[@liampett1313]

@@richal4596 Casualties were far higher as a waist gunner. The worst would of been a U-boat operator.

[@benwilson6145]

The Pilot at least had excitement and control of his destiny

[@mkmkk]

ground level targets

[@Lerxstification]

The Germans were working on a locomotive with an ejector seat. Imagine that!

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

As a WWII Air Force living historian I have to keep reminding people that 1) these pilots were for the most part21 or younger, 2) we lost more pilots to ground fire than aerial combat. Some guys dreaded it and others relished the thrill. The sense of speed is quite obvious and shit pops up out of nowhere,e.g. Power lines, steeples,smoke stacks, and the rounds of ammo thrown up by any soldier with a simple firearm. Gotta respect those young men. It was not pretty nor nice but they did their duty, Thank you

[@svenr5235]

Donald Parlett jr Unfortunately not enough cowards died.

[@toast2610]

muh they had to do not so pretty things like killing unarmed civilians because it was their duty shit

[@stewartfrye]

I understand your comment, but I remind you that thousands of our boys lost their lives to a machine guns on Utah and Omaha beaches mostly because of no air support actually during the landings, yes before and yes later.. but not during the storming the beaches... Yet on D-Day our fighters were attaching power lines and trains instead of those machine gun nest. Im not saying the fault were the pilots, brave souls they were. But what about 116Th. 400 yards of open beach no cover because the bombers were told to delay the release of their bombs..... Those bomb craters were designed in part for cover. And then our Navy sat off shore while our boys charges the beach with a T-shirt for armor. Drive the destroyers aground and use the machine guns on our ships to help calm those nazi guns. Seriously,,, who plannned this invasion.... Our troops had 12 miles in a higgins boat before the slaughter. That same 12 miles is why only 3 tanks made it ashore, the rest SANK. The sacrifice of a couple of destroyers Vs thousands of our youngest men. Our pilots SHOULD have been covering those beaches, at all cost.... Lost by ground fire as dangerous, what Im saying is thousands of men were sacrificed and LOST to GROUNDFIRE without even a chance, and without cover at all. 3 1/2 hours while our boys were being machine gunned before they sent 2 destroyers to strafe the beaches....3 1/2 hours. Damn the tide came in before the planners even tried to help our boys on those beaches. The tide acted quicker than our planners.. How would those pilots feel if their task was to stand on that beach for 3 1/2 hours being machine gunned..

[@toast2610]

@@stewartfrye you make a valid point. Do you think this was accidental or deliberate? .. I mean it can be that the elites vs deplorables divide we see in the US today goes way back.

[@miked8227]

Couldn’t agree more, I couldn’t send in men to what was basically an open shooting range without giving them every chance to make it. Throw the kitchen sink at them bunkers , whatever it took. Seems human lives were treated as just another commodity like fuel, equipment, and food. Loss of America lives were a given

[@midnightrider7648]

It's amazing to think that my dad was fighting to scale that bluff on omaha beach while this was being filmed. He lived to raise a family, take care of my mom, enjoy grandchildren. Great guy. He passed 4-1-13 at 90 yrs.

[@Kimchiboy08]

midnight rider did he ever speak of the things he saw?

[@Paris.Kalachnikov]

R.I.P. sir

[@misha2197]

♡♡♡

[@bastogne315]

@@Kimchiboy08 No he doesn't cos its horse shit.

[@toast2610]

And to think doing bad things does not pay

[@mikeb6572]

3:04 He drops bellow the tree line.

[@whizkid00000]

These footages are gold. Shows you air to surface combat from back in the days. No RPGs, no anti-air missiles taking these guys down.

[@seanduffy2427]

No, but there was plenty of anti aircraft batteries, flak guns. It was not a cake walk by any stretch. There job was to disrupt supplies going to the front, trains, trucks, etc.

[@ZekePreiti]

3:20 omg that acuraccy.... flawless. not even 1 round wasted there...

[@pogmothoin1655]

The Polish were fantastic airmen and had balls of steel.

[@Kumileimasin]

How did they recognize all their targets in olden olden days when their vision was blurry black and white?

[@carlosdiromero]

They didn't

[@lazytitan1454]

ask the japanese

[@iiiDartsiii]

not to mention their eyes were filled with 1000s of eye floaters

[@Bestoftheworstfishing]

Because they saw it thru their windows 😑😑😑😑 you know like how you drive looking thru the car window. 😑😑😑😑

[@MairusPleilinen]

@@Bestoftheworstfishing you're so humourless person

[@HarisKohi]

4:11 ruined a family road trip

[@luger4323]

Yeah, looks like civilian car.

[@liamailiam]

war crimes

[@MrAdamske]

*from the backseat* Mom? Dad?

[@FuzNuts]

Griswolds euro vacation was cancelled.

[@eggshot]

Yh disgusting murderers

[@mikeggg1979]

I can watch these all day. The greatest generation

[@opoxious1592]

@Craig Johnson And muslims

[@captainoblivious_yt]

@Craig Johnson The greatest generation also includes the Germans.

[@TheMuston]

Btw, what a magnificent landscape. Well organised, well cured, no hateful buildings.

[@11SEXMACHINE]

3:05 nearly flew himself bbn into the ground due to target fixation.

[@javelinXH992]

S C A change of underpants was probably needed after that one. Very close call.

[@tomwatson9032]

Yikes

[@stephenealferez5226]

@@ppe4383 in war mate ya ain't only fighting for your country and freedom but also for yourself

[@aleckrug1554]

@@ppe4383 how many civilians did the Nazis kill by shooting, gas, and bombing raids? But yeah let's just let terrorists organizations run wild in the middle East and across the world. Civilian casualties can happen just like getting into a car cras can happen or anything else. Think of all the civilian casualties when the world trade center was attacked. Probably more in one day then American forces have in history

[@RuruRampage]

@@ppe4383 you act like the rest of the world hasn't and isn't still committing horrendous atrocities.

[@vdromuzaraki]

An old game called Blazing Angels on hard difficulty maybe is the nearest to live this kind of action on shoting ground targets. That was a good game of WWII.

[@jeffharris9797]

I found myself watching this video just to get to the ads, so I could hear the rest of the story about "Crispy". Thank you, sir, for your selfless service to this great country.

[@opoxious1592]

Great country? You mean the country with it's massive heroine epidemic, and Oxycondon addicts? Well, you should be really proud.

[@paultaylor4951]

My Grandad was an ambulanceman in London throughout WW2. Always laughing, he went quiet when asked about his war-time experiences. He had seen some truly terrible things. Thanks to all the old-uns who helped to defeat Nazi fascism, lest we forget.

[@JohnWilkesBased]

Yes, it's a good thing that they helped the Soviet communists imprison half of Europe and prosecute the Cold War in all of its forms, including Vietnam. Your grandfather was a good man I'm sure but he fought the wrong enemy.

[@Immortal_BP]

i never would have thought that WWII plane footage would be this good of quality... its better than modern footage lmao

[@KlLLERROBOT99]

Absolutely wonderful. Adding this to my playlist for WW2 history

[@eshelly4577]

My grandfather was in the 8th Panzer Division on the Russian Front. He said that being strafed by aircraft is the worst. Followed by artillery. You just lay in a ditch hoping you don’t get hit.

[@ronburgundysmustache6717]

nazi

[@joeytroutman9506]

9:00 that's about 15 feet off the ground for sure

[@CFO404]

Das war kein Meter Rüdiger

[@chriscoco3036]

Amazing how accurate they were,

[@Rickusty]

3:03 Cpt. Clayton, what a bad ass pilot there! so low

[@alonsocushing2398]

He certainly had balls. Right down in the dirt there.

[@berrytharp1334]

Rickusty was getting ready to comment on that flying. He was just a few feet above the top of that truck...between the trees..wow

[@TexasGTO]

Rickusty The camera is zoomed in a bit to help whoever watches later see wtf is going on. He was low for sure though.

[@moe109_]

Rickusty might be a little bit of zoom tho

[@ericp.9497]

Zoom or no zoom, there were definitely 1-2 shots where we were looking *up* at the tree tops!

[@DebowNation]

The dive from 3:05 - 3:10 was pretty damn ballsy.

[@TheArsenalgunner28]

And the one at 8:55, these pilots are insane

[@wushlc]

yea those were men not boys

[@bevant9218]

Probably flying lower than desired while being so focussed on the target. It all happens so fast.

[@RebelInTheF.D.G]

8:58 Can't imagine seeing a fighter leveling out with a train and tearing through it like that. That's insane.

[@boanil7948]

Alternative Title: "Why air cover/defence is important, Lesson 1"

[@cade9409]

*I guarantee that if it was 40s none of these comments would be crying and hating the USAAF for shooting at trains.

[@petitflocon647]

Skelytun _ error you idiot. many official documents of french resistance report to US leadership that the airplanes killed many civilians or wrong target. there is many many report about the hate of the europe population about the way USA attacked everything. Sometime populations dvdn says that USA went worst than nazis.

[@crimzonempire4677]

loo lolo show me the evidence

[@gazmj1400]

loo lolo and many French and Dutch resistance all said they would rather die by yanky or British bombs then give the fucking Germans the satisfaction

[@hrotha]

I don't think it's controversial to say that the rules of engagement were way more lax back then and that, as a result, lots of civilians were unnecessarily killed. That the standards have changed is a good thing.

[@hrotha]

I disagree, but frankly, I think this is a debate that would require data and qualifications that probably neither of us have. My impression, however, is that limited warfare might well be more protracted, but it's still less destructive in general. Look at Ukraine or Libya. I suppose Syria may count as a counterexample in recent times, though.

[@balldude8573]

Old boy at 4:10 just lighting up a single car then proceeds to pull 14 Gs to avoid smashing into the ground. Man what a time it must have been.

[@scottmclennan6114]

Those boys are so low they nearly clipped the telegraph poles.

[@alteredbeast67]

I think you mean tree tops and high branches. The Mosquito was famous for picking up European plant based debris maybe around the tail/rudder. Plus the had two engines which is a great advantage when trying to get home if one of them quits due to damage/failure. But a ww2 single seat fighter allied or axis taking out a telegraph pole would almost certainly cut through the wing and ailerons like a knife through butter. There's no way anyone could have collided with such a obstruction and keep flying/stabilize the aircraft. Even the P-47 would be hard pressed to sustain this kind of damage and still be able to fly anywhere near flight and level. And yes ive seen ww2 coming back with all kinds of damage. But the laws of flight and weight to air ratio means no single seat fighter could loose a wing and continue to fly. Unless it was just a few inches of the wingtip. But even then, some of those wings hold hydro oil and control flaps. The aircraft would have to be at constant opposite lock and one false move would end in a flaming freefall. Not to mention how do you land an aircraft with half its wing missing?... Its hard to troll through the stories from ww2, and know which ones were fact and which were fiction (bs). And this was done for all kinds of reasons.....

[@toast2610]

at least you did not call them men

[@rogerhearn7109]

Scott McLennan Just give a thought to the Mosquito pilots running in on a target at 50 feet off the ground and up to 300/400 m.p.h. That's why the Germans called them "BANDITS OF THE SKYS" look on you tube and find videos about mosquito squadrons having to climb up from 50 foot to be able to bomb targets and not get damages from there bombs exploding, And bringing home pieces of trees embedded in there planes through low level flights, being ticked off by ground crews having to repair said damage to be ready for the next sortie

[@johnemerson1363]

Sometimes they did! I remember an 8th air force photo of a P-47D with a piece of telephone pole in the leading edge of the wing. Do that to a Spitfire wing and its gone.

[@nissansilviakouki]

I remember seeing a picture of a p51 that had struck a pole with the left wing

[@MrGhendri]

As a steam engineer I just love seeing a good Loco hit.

[@browndoggyntnt4590]

Looks like a 'Holy crap' moment at 6.26. High tension lines and pylon.........

[@TheRaulr151]

Absolutely amazing footage. Greatest generation by far!

[@USNVA11]

@3:09 - that pilots huge gonads were dragging along the dirt road ! 😳 Unbelievable .....

[@MrSwitchblade327]

By shooting a ground target on rails with no defense? Please

[@Primus54]

@@MrSwitchblade327 More fighter pilots were downed performing ground attacks like these than from aerial dogfights. What these films don’t show are the hundreds of bullets being thrown up from the ground from many directions because they don’t have tracer rounds. Please…

[@paddle_shift]

Everything was point and shoot as far as gunnery from a plane. How rewarding it must have been to hit something big or important especially after mostly missing most targets. The fact they were good enough (great enough) to hit ANYTHING is amazing. Also, being shot at at the same tine.

[@ah64Dcoming4U]

this footage is better quality than any UFO shots i've seen

[@michaeljohnson-li5nn]

…. or any Bigfoot sightings.

[@therealmaxspeedster]

Man...The dive angles on some of these passes are insane! I mean trees and wires all over the place too....And that 90 degree deflection shot on the speeding white car was absolute perfection.

I'm sure whoever was driving it was also thrilled.

[@brianpaul21]

Exact same thoughts with leading that car. Looked like every single round was on target and shooting in between the trees!

[@Internet_Guy99]

Crazy pull up at 3:07

[@Baldur1975]

Absolute perfection to kill paramedics and civilians. Yes. When I watch the videos of the helicopters in Iraq, nothing has changed. But you can not hear the laughter on these recordings.

[@willylatham1815]

Norrin Radd stop being a lil bitch. War is war and has been since the dawn of man.

[@walteralter9061]

Some seriously good shooting at 4:10. Good quality new footage.

[@one-eyed-jaxbehind-the-duc9720]

The sound quality is outstanding!

[@-ShootTheGlass-]

Reached out and took the drivers wallet on the way...just crazy flying

[@cinnamanstera6388]

Looks like a beautiful country side. A true tragedy what war does to people and places.

[@michelgardes]

75 years ago, kids in their early 20s were anonymous heroes flying incredible machines in extreme conditions. Today's kids believe that an action cam will make them heroes, and their biggest fear is... to remain anonymous.

[@Xman8184]

There are no kids in the U S Military.

[@Xman8184]

@Fresh Start my comment was not directed to you, but to Michel so chill out!

[@yopappy6599]

Xman8184 Well it doesn't matter who it was directed at, thats how this shit works my friend, and he clearly stated, in writing, "kids in their early 20s", So your comment is outta context and therefore irrelevant anyways. And I am chill, so relax. You can't get mad when you type dumb shit, and ppl correct you.

[@Xman8184]

@@yopappy6599 Oh! Ok thanks boy. You said a mouth full of nothing. Once again there are no kids in the U S MILITARY.

[@Strohhut81]

@@Xman8184 It was young men who were made to murder. they shot mercilessly at civilians who did not judge themselves. they couldn't help it, because everything happened on the orders of the supreme authority. history has been rewritten and murderers become heroes.

[@SimpleWay13]

It's incredible how all the guns are super accurately zeroed

[@bastogne315]

As a pilot myself, i drive buses, i can appreciate the skill required to perform some these manouvres.

[@nelson587]

Great video of WWII action .. Slow it down to 1/2 speed to pick up even more details of destruction by our attacking pilots ...

[@jaydoherty6063]

Crazy how accurate the fire is and how good the video is in terms of filming it

[@zoesdada8923]

Sometimes I forget these are gun cams and that the pilot is firing the entire time the film is rolling

[@djangorheinhardt]

Yes I thought about that with all the cackling and gloating as we watch Allied pilots trying to kill other " supposed " enemy workers..Doesn't say much for our humanity or civilised behaviour does it .

[@djangorheinhardt]

Sorry this comment is for Logan Court of the comment above.

[@petersouthernboy6327]

4:14 racing staff car gets hammered

[@tbonemc2118]

Notice throughout these clips that the emphasis was completely about removing the means to make war because if the troops and arms weren't at the battle they weren't in the battle. In most of these we didn't see entire trains being strafed but just the engines although those staff cars would have been attacked to kill the occupants.

[@manlybeardman]

Damn imagine your trying to gun down a train and an ad pops up.

[@AD-us9lw]

OR worse, if you're' the pilot gunning down a train car just to find out too late that it was an ammo car and it goes up.. And you're in the blast zone. You go BOOM!

[@richal4596]

These gun camera compilations are so cool. Miss the military channel. They likely didn't realize at the time how much they hurt German defenses on D-Day.

[@smurphy1977]

I agree… I miss when the History channel was actually about history. Now is nothing but pawn shops and how to make knives and swords.

[@Dolphin665784]

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-day. Let that sink in.

[@hicks727]

a small gun camera built into a fighter plane..pretty damn good for 1944

[@mcren6781]

Damn LT Thwait was one hell of a pilot. Dude was the closest and most accurate out of all the pilots.

[@stevenmccart5455]

A couple of those pilots staffed the entire length of a train or a road. Incredible flying.

[@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial]

This is insane. The skill level of them pilots is just unbelievable

[@3vimages471]

Those pilots.

[@pozloadescobar]

They were 100% switched on and deadly. To call them anything but heroes would diminish them

[@peghead]

It seems a large portion of the ammo was incendiary rather than the typical mix that also included tracer and ball, maybe because strafing was more about starting fires and tracer was much more valuable in air-to-air gunnery and that for air-to-ground missions, incendiary was substituted for tracer. A good example is the tracer @9:10 but it also was common practice to add a bunch of tracer rounds toward the end of each ammo belt to warn the pilot of soon-to-be-expended ammo. Any thoughts?

[@smarterthananatheist]

Achtung. Actung. Following an unexpected technical issue, the 3.30 from Berlin will be delayed until further notice.

[@peterbarlow7781]

Amazing footage. Super interesting.

[@Oligampla]

Awesome video! Good shooting!

[@notices_demons]

I wish you had footage from the ground of the heavies flying over in waves at the front on D-Day, now that was something to behold.

[@Steez51]

Watch at +1.75 speed for realism and you'll see how it actually looked and the immense chances they took strafing. We lost a lot of pilots to strafing including aces like Gabreski who got so low he bent his prop and became a guest of The Reich.

[@TheRaulr151]

I tried that....thought 1.25 was more realistic but still fast paced.

[@jacob2790]

Watching at regular speed for realism....cause thats how it was filmed.

[@xMahaDMAhx]

What is the criterion to call someone an "ace"?

[@mitchermedersen6932]

4:32 I wonder if you can stille find the bullets that hit the water? Hope someone can clear this up for me

[@bloodsurf69]

That's is some amazing flying.

[@globalavenger7580]

My dad was a P-51 pilot. He said after the very dangerous job of flying bomber protection, missions to take out ground targets of opportunity were "gravy".

[@leok619]

Mine too. P-51 8th AF 357/362 fighter group. But he said strafing airfields risky because of the AA and if I recall correctly his canopy was shot off while doing just that. He made it back and by the end of the war had logged almost 500 hours of combat flight time & 18 victories.

[@halbarbour7805]

The 361st Fighter squadron flew P-47 Thunderbolts and P-51 Mustangs.

[@mrh678]

4:10 What timing, angle and accuracy on a moving target side on

[@LifestyleCommando]

More trains running in 1944 than there are today

[@davidmoser3535]

When the USAF got done, there were no trains going in France

[@tennisace40]

Amazing and scary..The pilots had to maneuver to get the shot,take it for 2 seconds then avoid all types of obstacles and incoming fire and then get out.Its not a video game.Truly impressive.Thank you for your service!!

[@rovingenglishman]

04:10 LT Wadlow. Shot of the year!

[@randallwickus9883]

P51's six .50 cal. Usually 4-6 bullets between tracers. Once you're in their sights, you were finished. My uncle was on the other side in WW2. He feared the P38 more.

[@aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh]

can't imagine being on the ground with one of those planes shooting at me

[@greyfrenchsummer]

My nonna told me once that a mustang (clearly she only knew it was american) started shooting at her along the road she was walking down, and she had to find cover in a ditch nearby. She kinda told me how that bullets sounded. I cannot even imagine how scary could it be.

[@fishyc150]

I can. i was in the first gulf war when US planes took out two of our tanks. It wasn't very nice!

[@aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh]

@@fishyc150 woulda tactically shat my pants

[@fishyc150]

@@aaaaarrrrrggggghhhh after that incident I was on a route clearance recce with the engineers checking if certain roads were suitable for certain vehicles etc. We were two vehicles out alone in "no mans land". 4 Apache helicopters flew across our front. The last stopped and turned towards us, pointed its nose down as if to look who we were. My commander half joking half panicking said "hold tight to something, we're about to be blown up" I shat myself... I was only 18!

[@K.D.A_24]

@@fishyc150 what happened after ?

[@indiajesuslovesyou]

Lt. Cherry? We had a A7-D pilot back in the 70's in the Colorado ANG who was a fighter pilot in WWII. Half way through this film you will see a Lt. Cherry listed however I do not know if this is same guy that was in our Colorado Air National Guard Unit at Buckley? James

[@joelhassig6099]

See if you see him in here: www.littlefriends.co.uk/galleries/56th-fighter-group/

[@alexrea6338]

So much respect and admiration for our military. Thank you all for your service. Then and now.

[@Simsonschieber]

Whats on 10.30? Its no military vehicle. Nice service...

[@mjoelnir58]

Respect for air terrorists shooting on a lot of civilian targets including individuals on fields bikes wooden farm vehicles?Real heroes ......

[@EthanL21800]

@@mjoelnir58 in occupied France nobody that wasnt a Nazi was in a car

[@nuclearthreat545]

so many good targets on one day, literally had no idea d day was coming

[@weerobot]

When the silence is deafening..........

[@rogueapparatus6414]

What an incredible show of aviation mastery! The balls of these brave men! Some of these guys are strafing down to like 200ft with planes crossing within sight

[@medicineman360]

So, I can only imagine the chub one of those pilots would get, when flying around and finding a "target of opportunity"... especially something like a train!

[@mikefranklin1253]

I wonder if struck on some shelf is the film of Rommel being strafted?

[@calartian85]

2:07 beautiful shooting right there.

[@flipyao]

i wonder the size of Go Pros back then. Mounted on those planes

[@fakshen1973]

Some of those pilots were deadly accurate. They just hammered the same spot with ease. The tracers just seemed to dance on the target.

[@pozloadescobar]

It's incredible. Difficult for us to fully comprehend the skill and dexterity that is required. What a fearsome group of young men they were, heroes by any description

[@IrishTechnicalThinker]

The horror when you're reading on a train and having a pleasant conversation, then a 20mm cannon ripping through the carriage.

[@samsum3738]

Terrifying .Those pilots and gunners were brave beyond measure .

[@garrypalahitski3194]

More terrifying being in those trains being scathed with gunfire from out of nowhere.

[@donaldp9259]

This video got a thumbs up from me immediately for not dubbing in phony sound effects or stupid music.

[@77thTrombone]

5:20 *Masterful flying & shooting by Capt Carter.* At first you can't tell much, as he's shooting into the smoke, but as he banks right & up, you can see he's just _perforating_ the entire train, car by car, with nary a round gone astray.

[@alexantonio8546]

Truly an Ace of space

[@clintdavies491]

go on lads give em some strafing. I salute you brave people.

[@T-Rektosaurus]

This kicks ass! Glad I found this channel

[@truth6778]

Aucshwitz was best hotel and hospital in that times :)

[@Internet_Guy99]

There's a bunch of Nazi revionist here

[@kevincorson8699]

Ahhh...go suck on sauerkraut!

[@floppa98]

So did any of these trains they attacked have their containers filled with juice? If so then what would happen to those?

[@mbtfp]

Today on ebay: Selling used steam train, like new, just a few scratches.

[@tamar5261]

I bet they have a bit more than a few scratches

[@livingonthetyne]

Still better quality than todays UFO footage

[@peghead]

And 'Bigfoot'.

[@yopappy6599]

2:52 What the hell kinda plane was that?

[@barneydadog]

P47?

[@Diogenesk9]

It kinda looks like those german experimental jets...but it's probably a regular american plane with blurry camera footage

[@mrfishydudeman]

3:16 That's the Port of Rouen, next to the village Croisset (near Caen)

[@stannisbaratheon2758]

I like it this way. I hate those documentaries that put fake sounds in WWII footage. Specially “World War In Color”

[@Shadolife]

How many of you are maneuvering your body and tilting your head as the aircraft moves in on target?

[@rosemarylusty8045]

Never fails to amaze me to see the incredible organisation, cost of material and items of war that Germany expanded so much resource on ( that could have built-up a huge part of the world if applied to peace): how many trains and the men and ordinance alone were destroyed just on the one day? Surprising to see how accurate the air fire power was -Mustangs?

[@joelhassig6099]

Some Mustangs, Some Thunderbolts.

[@WintersWar]

the plunders of war gave them the means though.

[@digitalkrampus1330]

is it the VIII Fighter Command? I wasn't sure....

[@pbrstreetgang2467]

I see a hell of a lot better shot grouping with these strafing planes than I do watching a stationary Apache helicopter shooting that ridiculous chain gun.

[@mattewing9550]

Hell yeah. Had to make these shots count brother.

[@TheCleansingx]

Yeah but there's a difference. Helos tend to orbit the target and the sideways recoil will have an effect on accuracy. Compare it with an A10 instead

[@thomascrothers9884]

@@TheCleansingx yeah plus usually the helos are firing miles away from the target, if they were closer it would be a hell of a lot more accurate

[@Mewithabeard]

@@TheCleansingx Plus the ammunition is designed to fragment on impact so they can kill or wound from about 5ft away from where the rounds hit. It's as accurate as it needs to be and has been shown to be a nightmare for enemy infantry

[@andrewsanders6270]

The rate of fire is amazing ! 20 mm guns have about 4 times the power of a 50 caliber I recently learned !!!