Japanese Newsreel WW2 | Rabaul 1944 | RIFE & DeOldify

Hi! Recently found my hands-on Japanese WW2 newsreels from NHK archive (The link is below) and decided to attempt to improve the original footage. Flowframes and RIFE used to up the FPS to 80fps which gave it a more "lifelike" appearance and then rendered it through DeOldify, it didn't go as well I hoped to but regardless it looks good.
"From 1940 (Showa 15) to 1951 (Showa 26), just before the Pacific War, a newsreel called "Japan News" was produced. During the war, when there was no television, "Japan News" was released every week at the movie theater and used to raise the fighting spirit of the people. Although it is a national film aimed at completing the war, it is extremely valuable as a video record during the Pacific War."
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[@iexist.imnotjoking5700]

Incredibly valuable footage! Thank you for uploading this.

[@user-ed8wc1yr8s]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-yd5mgrNN9i6s 広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。 It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.

[@maclennylucas2248]

@@user-ed8wc1yr8s Japanese military killed hundreds of thousands in china..even experimental chemical and biological weapons were used...war is evil..and atrocities on both sides are committed...the atom bombs killed many..but ultimately avoided the bloodbath that WOULD have happened if an invasion of the home islands would have taken place...the Japanese were training children to fight the American soldiers, which were being portrayed as evil rapist and murderers by the mininisty of propaganda.. That in itself is criminal...you can now dispense with your self perceived halos...

[@user-ed8wc1yr8s]

@@maclennylucas2248 kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-yd5mgrNN9i6s 広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。 It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.

[@JEJAK5396]

@@maclennylucas2248 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@hajimeyamada932]

戦意高揚報道用の映像なんでしょうが、当時の方々の笑顔を見せて頂きありがとうござい。 本当に良い笑顔ですね。

[@nialloshea8564]

Wow, thanks for sharing this! I grew up in Rabaul in the '70s - I've a photo of a 7 y.o. me sitting in the cockpit of one of those (wrecked) A6M's - WWII hardware was lying all over the joint. Memories...

[@molanlabexm15]

Curious what brings the Irish to Rabaul...

[@andrewstrongman305]

This is great footage, it's rare to see good video of Japanese combat aircraft 'live'. Rabaul became a trap for the Japanese, and most of the aircraft and pilots defending it were lost. The loss of veteran pilots in German and Japanese air forces could not be overcome as the war progressed.

[@ToreDL87]

Yeah faulty doctrines and ineffective use of the resources & personnel they had was the #1 contributor to their loss.

[@andrewstrongman305]

@@ToreDL87 Another factor with the Japanese is that because the A6M Zero was so successful in the first years of the war they were slow to improve on it. Also, their aircraft industry was simply not capable of producing large numbers of more effective aircraft.

[@ToreDL87]

@@andrewstrongman305 Yeah they were hung up on maneuverability (and to a degree, range), to the point that survivability suffered. In that sense, there wasn't much to improve upon with the Zero. And they were unable to obtain a powerful engine until late in the war, so maneuverability was the only thing they could only really excel in. Interviews with aces that survived it all shows they knew full well the value of energy fighting. Many of the maneuvers they learned were designed specifically to keep as much energy as possible while still giving them the upper hand. They just didn't have the planes to perform up to par from 1943 and on (I suspect chiefly because they lost the carriers from which any newer designs would have been operated from). They just weren't grunty & solid enough. And their dive bombers & torpedo bombers were mediocre even when they came out. On top of all that, their field mechanics weren't taught to make-do or repair planes & equipment to keep at least some of it working. Much of the abandoned stuff at Rabaul and places like it merely required overhaul/triage. And the aluminum they used for aircraft construction was so finicky it had to be largely hand-formed. Effectively, trading man-hours and quantity for precision. That they even came as far as they did from the late 1860's and on, and built and fielded as much war material as they did, it's almost a miracle. Of course, all for the wrong purpose. If not for their disrespect for life, the way they conducted themselves against civilians and p.o.w's (anything from camps and unit 731 down to fresh prisoners such as U.S aircraft crews captured at Midway and the like), and simply for losing, I don't think anyone would have batted an eye.

[@andrewstrongman305]

@@ToreDL87 Bear in mind that their army and navy both developed better fighters as the war progressed. They developed some very decent fighters by the end, but as I said earlier, their industry could not produce many of them. Aside from all the shortages they faced, Japanese industry was crude compared to the US, Germany, or Britain. Newer, more powerful engines were always plagued by problems in those countries, but they had the tools and resources to keep progressing. Japan had many designs from German manufacturers, but they could not produce them. Probably the closest they came was their home-made version of the Me-163 Komet.

[@ToreDL87]

@@andrewstrongman305 Absolutely! And on top of not being able to produce many of the newer fighters, the quality on those they built was... varied, as well. Precision machining on advanced designs was hard too. You're thinking about the KI-200, they also built the KI-61 (essentially a Japan'ified 109).

[@williamkoppos7039]

1:19 an old A6M2 with no lower landing leg covers, must have been a real left-over. The others appear to be new A6M5's. Love the bouncing on take-off from the rough grass field.

[@user-ey7go4tc1k]

着色版,素晴らしいです。 分かり難いモノクロ動画しか観た事ありませんでした!!

[@KoolKman]

My parents lived in Rabaul from 1956-61 and they said that they had 2 crashed Japanese zeros in their back yard and my older brother use to play in them and he said they still had the engines and cockpit instruments in them too, I wasn't born till '62 when they came back to Australia but Mum always said the scariest thing about living in PNG were the 'Coconut Crabs' which could crack open coconuts amongst other things and she worried about my brother and sister 'playing' with them. - Great footage BTW.

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Worth Millions today

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Seriously valuable. I live near Chino museum in California and if you ever come across WW2 aircraft wrecked or just parts it could make you rich beyond your dreams.

[@hodaka1000]

My father testified at the War Crimes Tribunals at Rabaul and Toyko When he was at Rabaul he bought a brand new Jeep for £5 He said the fellas at the disposal site on hot days would take Japanese (Harley Davidson) motorcycles swimming and ride them off the end of a jetty Thirty five years ago I knew a Dutch lady in North Queensland who as a kid was on the last ship to make it out of Singapore and then lived at Darwin and she said they had a wrecked Japanese bomber in their backyard My father worked at Bankstown Aerodrome in the 1960s with a crane picking up DC3s and dropping them to break them up for scrap He built a caravan with a door he said came from a DC3 I believe it was the internal cabin door and he brought home two 24" diameter aircraft drop tanks one he cut the top out of to use as a canoe and the other one we had tied to a rope swing in a tree in the backyard at Seven Hills

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

There are a lot of Zeros at the bottom of the Simpson Harbour in Rabaul

[@olentangy74]

Amazing footage! It’s like a looking through a portal into the past!

[@soundknight]

It's so interesting to see the men inside their little planes, a war fought by millions of individual stories.

[@t.j.payeur5331]

This was remarkable. As big a deal as Rabaul was it's great to finally see the place itself from ground level, thanks!

[@kilcar]

My father USNR- CB 20, was under the pounding from Japanese bombers attacking Woodlark, Kiriwina,, and later Banika in the Russell Islands. To think I'm looking at the exact individuals who were attacking his airdromes on those Islands

[@crooner3336]

As some of you have commented, you have not seen Japanese footage or you would like to see more. You can find a lot of Japanese newsreels from here. It is their footage after all and I don't own this nor I am affiliated with them, this is purely done for educational purposes. www2.nhk.or.jp/archives/shogenarchives/jpnews/list.cgi?value=1940 From NHK Archive: "From 1940 (Showa 15) to 1951 (Showa 26), just before the Pacific War, a newsreel called "Japan News" was produced. During the war, when there was no television, "Japan News" was released every week at the movie theater and used to raise the fighting spirit of the people. Although it is a national film aimed at completing the war, it is extremely valuable as a video record during the Pacific War."

[@delta212cpd]

Well thanks a whole bunch for the link. Its awesome! 👍👍

[@casparcoaster1936]

I got a job teaching English for 40 bucks an hour in Tokyo (near Ikebukuro station) in 1990, it was the most fun year of my life (so far). NHK was the place you got a great language lesson!! "Biru wa arimaska? O kuda sai..."

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

Thank you for an outstanding effort !

[@marshalljcm8009]

一升瓶持ってるの、日高登貫さんじゃないか。 この日、3機撃墜したんだよなあ。 まだ20歳、実戦ニ年目だった。いわゆる天才だったんだよねえ。

[@user-je8je4fn3l]

なんで日本海軍戦闘機隊の索引に載ってないんでしょうかね？単行本も出しているのに。

[@paulguzman1634]

This is some real time rarely seen - if ever early Pacific War history stuff here! I really enjoyed the raw video of these Zero fighters, I believe they are A6M-3's, and they look so awesome taking off from those primitive fields in this superb clip. The B-25's in action were a nice icing to the cake. Got to explore this in depth to see what else I can identify! Thanks for putting this up for us to enjoy!

[@MrRobster1234]

I think I saw some A6M5's in there too. The ones with the more egg shaped cowlings.

[@crooner3336]

I took a look into the NHK site and there is some more stuff from Rabaul and later on, there is some Ki-84 stuff, but I also liked seeing the B24 and B25s in this footage.

[@paulguzman1634]

@@MrRobster1234 You may be right, there is so much to see and it is challenging (and fun!) to identify some of these aircraft!

[@paulguzman1634]

@@crooner3336 I was checking it out as well, lot's of really great historical content for us to enjoy!

[@MrRobster1234]

@@crooner3336 I would love to see that. The Ki-84 is one of my favourite aircraft.

[@jonbowhay9386]

By the by, Crooner did a superb job with these. He may not have been totally pleased but they look so much better than even in the movie theatres at the time. Just excellent really.

[@dokabenmonth]

At 05:46 That's Tetsuzō Iwamoto writing, one of the top scoring aces.

[@jerry5876]

How do you know? You recognize any other famous Ijn pilots?

[@aberamagold7509]

No idea what was going on but it was interesting to watch. I left my very insightful comment because I know the more comments a video gets somehow helps the channel.

[@KittenGoneBad]

Amazing to think that the few men still alive today from that archival film will be in their 80's and 90's. Interesting also to see the B-25 from the other side of the camera lens.

[@Sporkmaker5150]

Seems like yesterday that WW2 vets were in their 80s. For any of these guys to be in their 80s they'd have to be like 12 or 13 year old pilots. Time keeps having its way with all of us.

[@nicholasmoran1879]

The Japanese didn't withdraw what was left of their fighter wings and fully give up on contesting the air over Rabaul until February 1944, but by December 1943 Rabaul was already getting hit hard by raids staged from the new Allied air bases on Bougainville. Either this footage was taken mostly in the latter half of 1943, or they were very creative in choosing subjects and camera angles to avoid showing the damage to ground facilities especially. Either way, it makes sense the Newsreel dates from early 1944 -- editing and distribution took a lot longer in the pre-digital, pre-KZbin era ;-).

[@moistmike4150]

My God! That WW2 must've been terrifying! I'm just glad no one got hurt.

[@lychan2366]

A rare video documentary of what it really looked and sounded like when Japanese pilots took off from and returned to their airbases in the Pacific islands. Thanks also for the WW2 newsreels from NHK archives. Wish that the Japanese could provide English subtitles for the English-speaking world to better understand their narratives and perspectives during WWII.

[@cbrvo8440]

Dan Carlin has an excellent audio history of WW2 in the Pacific : "Supernova in the East". Click around and you can DL the whole series and listen w/o commercials.

[@lychan2366]

@@cbrvo8440 Thank you

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

4:44 Its so crazy you can see Mt Tavurvur in the background of the airfield. It looks fresh from an eruption the year before in 33'. Amazing footage. That volcano is still spewing ash to this day 🌋🌴🌌

[@PenDragonsPig]

Now that was damn interesting. Never seen a B25 or such pinned by a fighter viewed from the ground n stuff.

[@andrewtaylor940]

Amazing footage. Especially the planes in operation and in something approximating their actual colors.

[@guydegregg6869]

Would have been fascinating with translation but definitely worth watching.

[@johnlowell5905]

The ending is hilarious, the fighter commander reports no losses and they celebrate the glorious victory. They did mention previously that some losses were inevitable in such furious combat.

[@pauleveritt3388]

I would throw a few bucks at having it translated accurately.

[@datziklegendz1225]

2:36 you can see the lead b24 takes a hit to the wing/engines and begins to trail what I'm assuming is either coolant or fuel. Wild to assume every flight was going to be your last....

[@lambastepirate]

You forget when you are young you always think it will be the other guy who gets it!

[@Ricky40369]

Coolant in a B-24?

[@kingssuck06]

The engines are air cooled it’s gotta be fuel. They could make it back like that, but the risk of taking another hit and starting a fire is now in play

[@wittgensteinedface3946]

5:55から6:00までの映像の中央の男性パイロットは、伝説の撃墜王｢西沢広義｣に見える。

[@user-mk9er5ck5q]

6:00〜6:12の右側は小高登貫兵曹ですね。著書にもこの時の司令賞の写真が掲載されています。

[@paoloviti6156]

How interesting to know the name of those two pilots from you two. Thank you guys 👍👍

[@crooner3336]

Awesome fact, thanks for sharing.. 素晴らしい事実、共有してくれてありがとう

[@davidjames1063]

Something I've NEVER seen before ! Thanks !

[@Manu-rb6eo]

The Zero fighter is so a beautiful plane specially the type 21 in grey colour for carriers 😍

[@Ebergerud]

It could be 1944. The IJN withdrew their flyable aircraft from Rabaul in late January after they had squandered the carrier trained pilots deployed there in about October 43. Zero is a beautiful plane - absolutely graceful.

[@mebeasensei]

I was wondering about that too. I mean, when did Rabaul become isolated? And then it became a subsistence like existence as the troops foraged for food and cultivated crops one they lost communications with Japan.

[@Ebergerud]

@@mebeasensei There was a special report done on Rabaul for the Strategic Bombing Survey. During the isolation period - nearly two years - the 85,000 man garrison had good news and bad news. The good news was that they had a lot of supplies left over, good facilities (they even got a couple of planes air worthy and confused the allies by attacking Manus) and Simpson Harbor which is loaded with fish. The bad news was that rookie allied air units new to the theater were often sent to bomb Rabaul to get used to real operations as the Japanese still had a little flak. Aussie and New Zealand troops were also given the job to break down its defenses - an idiot objective that led to a very slow, careful and not very violent campaign - in WWII terms. The allied "bag" in the area was huge. Figure 85,000 on Rabaul, 17,000 on Kavieng, 40,000 on Bougainville and 200,000 on New Guinea. Trained soldiers utterly wasted - could have been used at many later battlefields. That was largely MacArthur's doing, but nobody likes to say anything nice about MacArthur.

[@Idcanymore510]

Finally the Japanese viewpoint! A bit tired of seeing footage from only one side of the campaign. Please upload more if you can find it.

[@crooner3336]

That's what I thought also. I took this from the NHK archives website as a test to upgrade the framerate and AI coloring somewhat worked. I suggest you look at their website as they do own the footage and I don't want to get into trouble. It contains reels from 1940-2010. I put the link in the description, better to use a translator so it's easier to navigate.

[@aikobros]

戦意高揚映画だが、実際には戦争だから、これくらい上手くいったときでも、少なくとも帰ってこない同僚がいるのが普通なわけだ。 仕事にみんなで行って、上々の出来でも必ず誰か死ぬ職業とか絶対嫌だよな。やっぱり戦争は避けたいな。

[@cbrvo8440]

Thank You Very Much! This is a wonderful restoration.

[@Holland41]

Did I see some brief footage of a white-tailed Australian P40 banking in to attack? Great material and so rare.

[@sergioricardo8807]

Magnific

[@matthewwong3237]

3:45-3:46 RNZAF or RAAF P-40 in South West Pacific tail identity markings

[@akondofswat209]

Phew ,for a minute I thought the Japanese were losing..

[@trob1173]

Shows how confident they still were having the planes parked close together like that.

[@cbrvo8440]

Rabaul may have been IJA largest, most heavily defended airbase outside of the Japanese home islands.

[@dannydoj]

True fact. The Aussies and Americans attempted to activate the dormant Rabaul volcano by bombing its crater in the hope of causing a catastrophic eruption. No success.

[@gorflunk]

They get points for innovation, though.

[@hoodoo2001]

We had the spare bombs, so why not?

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Which Rabaul volcano are you talking about there are a few of them in the simpson harbour

[@user-un5nn7kl3h]

太平洋戦線のトップエース、岩本徹三氏と小高登貫氏が迎撃してます。

[@user-je8je4fn3l]

離陸シーンの車輪カバー無しの５機目は、岩本飛曹長機でしょうか？地上員におじぎをする余裕があるので。

[@user-un5nn7kl3h]

@@user-je8je4fn3l様、トップエースですから激戦でも操縦に余裕があります。身長は１５０ｃｍと凄い小柄ですが、長年の激戦を生き抜いた猛者は笑っても凄みがあります。 そこらのチンピラ８９３は逃げるでしょうね。

[@user-je8je4fn3l]

胴体左側面の桜🌸の撃墜マークも映して欲しかったですね！

[@taijuan5087]

Awesome! Any chance of getting a subtitled translation?

[@oldbaldfatman2766]

Feb. 13, 2022---Hit the CC button and it'll show it's in Japanese, but then hit the circle button to select the language you want. That's what I did, though more than once, I've gotten some weird translations no matter what language it might be.

[@crooner3336]

CC might work as suggested.. Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese. The NHK archive website when using google translator for example is easier to navigate. Usually, there is a description of what the reel is about.

[@FPilotBierce]

@@crooner3336 I tried using the automatic translator and it was very flawed.

[@crooner3336]

@@FPilotBierce That's what I assumed. Wish we could get an accurate translation. Google translator on NHK website writes this "Consolidated B-24 blows fire and shoots down. In addition, one aircraft, B-24, heads straight toward the abyss. Unable to withstand the attack of my fighter, which devours violently, the North American B25 escapes to the ground. The enemy makes the quantity say something and rushes. Even if it is a fluke, it sometimes causes damage to us. Enemy fighter, P-40."... There is more but it doesn't fit well.

[@allancarey2604]

I’d love to see subtitles :)

[@crooner3336]

Seems that the CC function works, don't think its accurate enough though. Unfortunately I don't speak Japanese. The NHK archive website when using google translator for example is easier to navigate. Usually, there is a description what the reel is about.

[@allancarey2604]

@@crooner3336 - I’ll try (I’m tempted to ask my Japanese sister in law, but my Grandfather bombed the area more that once with the Australian Air Force in B-24’s & I’m not that comfortable opening that can of worms even though the aircraft looked like B-25’s ) thanks for posting though

[@crooner3336]

@@allancarey2604 Yeah, well past is in the past but knowing the history in that region it's understandable

[@chuckcanada4065]

Very interesting thanks for posting this so cool!

[@user-nu8qr8no6e]

凄い！カラーだ！

[@francisebbecke2727]

August 15th 1945 Japanese commander's address to his troops: "Remember all that stuff I've been telling you to fight to the death for the emperor? Well blow it off and now we will just make Corollas."

[@Dejaelvicio507]

I think that even the camera influenced the maneuverability of a Japanese fighter.

[@broccoliface4501]

Have they increased the size of the Japanese home islands on that ending card? It looks like it stretches all the way to the Bering strait if im reading it right.

[@paoloviti6156]

What an interesting Japanese footage, I'm impressed! A very dumb question: is it colourized because I don't remember ever seeing original Japanese colour footage! Really thanks for sharing this footage👍👍👍

[@crooner3336]

I haven't either, the original is black and white. I just ran it through the AI colorization DeOldify which you can find in the description. I have not affiliated with NHK anyway, but make sure to check the NHK archive for more.. There is some awesome stuff there.

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@crooner3336 At the time of surrender many invaluable archives were destroyed by the Japanese themselves out of rage, if only to deny the Americans their trophies. Add to that the documents destroyed during the bombings. Some outstanding pics of the attack on Pearl Harbour were discovered in 1943 in a desk drawer at the Japanese Aleutians HQ on Attu (or Kiska, I don't remember). We owe it to the cold for the preservation ! Yet, many documents were salvaged for the courage of many archivists, like those at NHK. I believe that Japanese authentic footage of Midway and Leyte will resurface one day. After all who could have believed that Japanese authentic pictures of Hiroshima & Nagasaki immediately after the blast, could have survived ? There were also illegal appropriation by some unscrupulous officers, this time by the Americans, as reported by an American pilot on the Yorktown at Midway, who had salvaged some footage of the attack on the Hiryu, only to see them robbed ! During the second attack on the Yorktown by the avenging Hiryu, footage taken by the Americans was destroyed by fire in the dark room, while being developed. Re : ''Climax at Midway''(1962) by Thaddeus V. Tuleja. Walter Lord in ''Incredible Victory'', mentioned a Japanese civilian cameraman of the Domei News agency who from the Akagi, missed nothing on film the blazing inferno aboard the Kaga. I've forgotten his name, unfortunately. He survived the sinking of the Akagi, but (like in Chekarus, NO witness allowed to live !) he stayed with the Navy for protection & probably shared the exile of the lower rank survivors, for the torture-prodigal Kempetai would have happily terminated him. It would be interesting to see the Japanese propaganda movie made after Midway, for the official news was that it was a Japanese victory. Re : The Toho-made outstanding 1960 movie ''Storm Over The Pacific'', with Toshiro Mifune as Admiral Yamaguchi of the Hiryu. Again, thank you very much for your thorough research and especially for your very poor self-promotion.

[@slackdaddy1912]

Great footage rarely seen, and you have to remember these guys were shooting, and being shot at, with 3” bullets. Mighty serious stuff, where life depended on your flying prowess and the abilities of your aircraft.

[@caseyjonessnr1200]

Very interesting footage.

[@davidhull1481]

Those little planes didn’t seem to have even a rudimentary tail wheel

[@bobkrohn8053]

And no armor.

[@GJones462-2W1]

Real A6M Zeros! That's totally awesome to an aviation lover. That was such a good looking fighter, but I think the Zeke's were slightly better.

[@PoochAndBoo]

Uh, jonesy, the Zeke and Zero were different names for the same airplane! Not sure what you mean by "Zekes were slightly better."

[@PoochAndBoo]

Strange thing for an "aviation lover" to say.

[@GJones462-2W1]

@@PoochAndBoo I thought there were aerodynamic changes between zero models, and some increase in efficiency/speed, but alas, I was incorrect. I guess aviation lovers need never be wrong about anything aviation, huh?

[@PoochAndBoo]

@@GJones462-2W1 There WERE changes made to various models of the Zero. But they were all Zero's. And except for one version, the square wingtipped A6M3 model 32, which got the name "Hamp", they were all coodenamed "Zeke." This is because G2 mistakenly thought they were a brand new fighter from reports that were coming in. Turned out it was just another Zero model.

[@GJones462-2W1]

@@PoochAndBoo That sounds like the train of thought that I was riding on, when I was thinking that the Zeke was an ac apart from the zero. Indeed, sounds like you've done your homework on the Zero. Thanks for the correction!

[@alanjameson8664]

By 1944 Rabaul was no longer a fleet anchorage for Japan because of US air superiority; there had been heavy losses of fighter aircraft and pilots. The base had been turned into a self-supporting prison camp with very few successful supply deliveries. If those photos of aircraft were taken in 1944 they were presumably staged, using the same aircraft repeatedly. Nice restoration of the films, though.

[@user-ed8wc1yr8s]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-yd5mgrNN9i6s 広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。 It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.

[@jamesholden6142]

@@user-ed8wc1yr8s STFU troll. Nothing but disinformation and fantasy in your post. Read up on the Rape of Nanking, Bataan death march, Japanese torturing and killing virtually every prisoner they took, cannibalism by Japanese soldiers, comfort women, and the list goes on. Today's Japan is a vital ally, but they got that way only after they were defeated and rebuilt from the ground up by the U.S. and it's allies

[@motisy7861]

@@user-ed8wc1yr8s this is a troll. Ignore it.

[@user-ed8wc1yr8s]

@@motisy7861 これは荒らしです。 それを無視します。 kzbin.info/www/bejne/moCcp3ivaMeBpLs kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3XEc5eie66gq9k kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIu3pYxpgN6sgrs

[@ghimmy47]

@@user-ed8wc1yr8s He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind. Also, research Nana-san-ichi Butai or Unit 731.

[@landsurfer66]

Very cool. Interesting to see WWII news from the Japanese perspective.

[@garyhooper1820]

Never seen their filming before , looks quit chaotic

[@user-ed8wc1yr8s]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g3-yd5mgrNN9i6s 広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。 It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.

[@cwie2968]

Zero pilots: We are the best! F6F pilots: Hold my beer

[@IamScoHo]

Great stuff. Thank you so much! If only the translator worked...

[@Christian762]

The ending with the eagle over the world is like the Hollywood made-up Nazi propaganda newsreel in the Rocketeer movie. It's so over the top.

[@stay_at_home_astronaut]

Look at how high the pilots can adjust their seats for takeoff.

[@GameAholicsVideo]

Yes -- it's a wonder they didn't get bugs in their faces.

[@deafsmith1006]

Use Google translate and cut-n-paste of the Japanese writings and you will see what each film is about.

[@ursus9104]

Tenno Heikka Banzai!

[@xisotopex]

good job, great footage!

[@eslSlightz]

2:42 Stuka sound was added 😛

[@danielmacpherson1630]

they looked happy to get that sake

[@shootfirst2097]

I would love to see a video of the final combat footage of each of those Zeros taking off. You know most of them were shot down.

[@jread21205]

I don't think they are Zeros. They look more like Nakajimas.

[@innpressTV]

Japan awesome

[@trevortaylor5501]

Interesting view of the enemy.

[@joeburns4294]

Yata, yata…Reading the comments on the morality of the A bomb. Hindsight is 20/20. There were those in the bomb creation effort and others ‘in the know’ that questioned the morality of using it. It was originally planned to be dropped on Berlin, but the war in Europe ended faster than anticipated. Based on the horrific casualties suffered on both sides in the Pacific, focus then turned to Japan. Top generals and admirals in the Pacific were not in the loop about the Manhatten Project. Though the war was lost at that point, the Japanese had no intention of surrender, making an invasion of home land Japan inevitiable and planned for Nov ‘45. Final decision on the bombs use was up to President Truman. At the time, US geography is the only thing thst kept the US cities from being bombed. The Germans were experimenting and attempting to develop nuclear weapons. The Japanese had a couple attempts at bombing the US West coast that were feeble in nature and did very little damage. Every single warlord in Japan and Germany interviewed after the war acknowledged they would have used it too, if able. Truman’s choice was clear, and cannot be judged in the context of 75 years later. He said years later, knowing what he knew then, he’d do it again. And as commander in chief, it was the correct decision based on the projected losses of a full scale invasion. Also, conventional bombing raids on Japan to that point, killed more people, than those of the A bomb strikes. The propaganda film above, was clearly intended to bolster the morale of the Japanese people, who had no idea how disastrously the war was going for Japan at that point.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Wow. The whole film and not one time was a plane green, or a hinomaru red. Some grass was green when it's more likely to have been yellow, uniforms pale yellow when they were light green, bizarre dull browns everywhere. I hope better colorisation, like the stuff that was seen twenty years ago, returns.

[@stevetheduck1425]

That said, the tidying up of the footage was good, but no attempt was made to correct the various undercranked speeds. That row of Ki-43 Hayabusas' had one do a standing start that would not have been out of place at the olympics. Good to see, bad attention to detail.

[@crooner3336]

@@stevetheduck1425 Appreciate the feedback, but like I mentioned this was done via free-to-use AI programs. The colors are messed up and the footage is interpolated so there is that warping you mentioned. The expensive AI programs might do a better job or It would be great to do proper colorization by hand, but that would have to be done frame by frame.

[@zankisan]

零戦の主脚カバーが無い💦

[@user-yz5dw7hw9n]

69機撃墜とあるけど実際には20機から30機の撃墜撃破だろうな それでも大戦果であるのは間違いないけどあれだけの敵機の攻撃を受けた地上の基地施設はどうなったのだろう？

[@PauloPereira-jj4jv]

I sincerely doubt that even 20 aircrafts were shot down by the Japanese. But this propaganda film would never show the truth.

[@user-ms9os1dp7e]

実際は13機らしいですよ。それでも邀撃戦で全機帰還は間違いなく勝利ですね!この頃のラバウルは地下要塞を建築しており被害があるとしたら滑走路、高射陣地や畑くらいじゃないでしょうか？

[@weaverflytyer]

@@user-ms9os1dp7e it's very hard to know the truth, all factions of the war lied about kill numbers, and japanese records are particularly hard to find 真実を知ることは非常に難しく、戦争のすべての派閥は殺害数について嘘をついていました、そして日本の記録は特に見つけるのが難しいです

[@user-ms9os1dp7e]

@@weaverflytyer いいえこれは米国の戦闘記録に基づいたデータです

[@user-ms9os1dp7e]

@@weaverflytyer No, it's based on U.S. combat records.

[@ronnonyabizness5240]

Subtitles would make this.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Still think the Zero is one of the “rightest” looking planes of the war.

[@jimmiller5600]

It was introduced in 1940, just in time for the Pacific war to expand.

[@guaporeturns9472]

@@jimmiller5600 yep.

[@greasyflight6609]

What was the "George" Japanese fighter...later version of the Zero?

[@PoochAndBoo]

The George had nothing to do with the Zero. It wasn't even built by Mitsubishi. It was the N1K built by Kawanishi.

[@greasyflight6609]

@@PoochAndBoo Was it better than the Zero?

[@PoochAndBoo]

Much. Some experts, including Allied pilots who flew captured examples, considered it the best Japanese naval fighter of WW2.@@greasyflight6609

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

the Zekes were all zeros werent they

[@jonbowhay9386]

This way of reporting and speaking is typical of the period. Very breathless and urgent. Have heard it often. They are saying that this or that B-24 is being shot down. At one point they mention a B-25 as well. I doubt that. And what you see are those aircraft on fire. Toward the end when it shows the tally of downed aircraft, the pilots are brought sake and the reporter says that they show great happiness don't they?" The reporter sounds a little unsure of himself at that point. Just before that, the reporter says that "once again they have lived through it." Those were B-24s from Henderson Field in Guadalcanal of the 13th AF. It is listed on the maps shown at the beginning of the film as well. They were called the Long Rangers as they did fly very long missions up the "slot" which was a more or less open span of water bracketed by small islands. I am no historian, so please do not get angry if anything I say here is not totally correct. It was a long time ago. . But I certainly understand exactly what the reporter said. The Japanese used to call their pilots: 'Warera no arawashi". Our wild eagles. This as the poster here states is Nippon Hoso, Japan Broadcasting. The NHK in the upper left side is modern and it must have been shown on modern Japanese television as that display was not used during the war. The Japanese were surprised at the reach of AAF aircraft quite often. It was the same at the Isthmus of Kre. They were sitting up there fat, dumb and happy when they were heavily attacked by B-24s of the 10th AAF out of India. That was a 24 hour mission in the air and some of the planes had to land before getting back to Panda or Madagangh as they ran out of fuel. But 18 to 24 hours in the air nonstop was something in an unpressurised ship. Sorry for going on. Cheers.

[@davidhull1481]

Pardon my ignorance but were those Japanese planes attacking? If so, who was filming?

[@Sporkmaker5150]

The planes taking off from the ground, and the pilots celebrating at the end were Japanese. They were attempting to defend Rabaul (a major Japanese naval base) against American and Australian bombers. The newsreel was filmed by the Japanese themselves for propaganda purposes, though in reality they were losing badly.

[@bastogne315]

Wow, so young, so KIA.

[@carrisasteveinnes1596]

At 4:14 Toasty parachutist there. Oops...

[@ADRAPER1303]

Wonder how that turned out for them?

[@vondiesel3070]

Newsreel shows Rabaul getting pounded.

[@generalbooger9146]

At the end they're all excited about finally eating a meal. lol

[@stephenlight647]

I could be wrong, but these look like the Japanese Army’s Ki-43 fighters, and not the Japanese Navy’s Zero.

[@pauka13]

These are definitely type 52 Zeros. You can even see a type 21 at 1:20 with partially removed landing gear covers wich is interesting.

[@markrichards2634]

No Unmistakably A6M series.

[@wememe1059]

This certified old

[@edwardchong7212]

Little that those men knew the full might of the US military

[@Sporkmaker5150]

They would soon learn.

[@adameckard4591]

Needs narration and it would be more powerful.

[@volksgrenadier3231]

Battle of new britain

[@1joshjosh1]

Fun fact. The Japanese race didn't evolve to see colour until at least the 1960s.

[@garyrunnalls7714]

Wow model 52's

[@marthageorge7987]

Arigato♡

[@stevepringle2295]

Wow

[@KwalaUser]

何で皆んなキャノピーを開けて離陸して行くのか?　誰か教えてください。😊

[@haruigoigo6807]

何十年にも渡って毎回の様に日本軍の被害（撃沈、撃墜、空爆）ばかり見せつけられてきたから、これからはこう言う映像ばかりで良いよ。全メディアを相手にしているのだから。

[@demonprinces17]

Could have subtitles

[@redtobertshateshandles]

Eventually they got caught on the ground. Not very efficient chasing flying aircraft.

[@CorsetGrace]

I wish there were subtitles. I would like to know if this was pure propaganda or had a modicum of truth to it.

[@pmi7696]

Great work thanks. Looking at 5'53, is 34 P38 Lightning and 14 F4F Corsairs the tally of the day? Hard to believe; Propaganda at its best?

[@ugolagazzi4246]

Is it possibile to get subtitles not japanese?😅😆😆😆