Land and Live in the Desert for Airmen, 1945, Restored

This remarkable film dramatization was used to train US aircrew on how to survive a crash landing in the desert. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator "Pippin" lands 400 miles from their nearest base, 60 miles from the nearest watering hole, on the desolate sands of North Africa. Two of the crew are wounded and temperatures hit 130 degrees F during the day. Their radio is out and they forgot to bring critical emergency supplies, figuring they wouldn't need them. What follows is a text book case on how to make it out of the desert. You'll see how to turn a B-24 into a liveable survival shelter, strip your aircraft of useful parts,set up and maintain beacon fires day and at night, learn from the Arabs on how to dress and drink in the desert, build and mark a rescue landing strip, ration food, water and supplies, deal with the hot sun & dehydration and a lot more.
You should stay with your ship for three days, but if you're not spotted by then, it may be a good idea to send a couple of guys for water and help, so you'll learn how to trek across the desert through sand storms and blistering heat. All this is shown in dramatic 1940s "film noire" fashion, featuring a cast of notable character actors including Craig "Peter Gunn" Stevens, also to be seen in "How to fly the B-26" and "Recognition of the Japanese Zero."
I restored the audio and video. Zeno, Zeno's Warbird Videos zenoswarbirdvideos.com
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"Land and Live in Extreme Environments for WW2 Airmen" DVD
* Land and Live in the Arctic
* Land and Live i9n the Jungle
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[@ZenosWarbirds]

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[@F.Krueger-cs4vk]

Love these old military archival surivial movies, reminds me of old black & white movies at the cinemas when i was a kid back in the 60's. Sad most of these fellows will have passed or very elderly now. Dad fought during the war, passed Dec 2006. Love & missed very much. Never spoke much about his service times, must have been to hell & back. I thank them all for their services & may they all rest in peace. Hope to see dad again one day. Thankyou for sharing, drifted away to the past for a moment, a tear & a smile. 👋 🇦🇺

[@twstf8905]

Very matter-of-fact, your comment. No need for prepositions, (or postpositions,) predicates or even pronouns, your statement. Got no use for 'em. Makes it much more direct, to the point. A little easier to read, too. No beatin' around the bush. Barking up the wrong tree. No nonsense, tomfoolery or shenanigans. Sounds like a radio announcer from the 30's. Dad's Dad used to talk that way. Hell of a guy, Grandpa. That was a different time. A whole other day and age. Back when Men were MEN. They'd go to Hell & back. Hope to see them all again one day. Maybe in the great beyond. Reading this took me back. Drifted away to where one is inspired to leave a wise-ass response, using the same inflections and tempo to get the absurdity across. 🤣 Hope it works lol If not for you then some outside observers. Peace, Love and Batman. ✌

[@inurafacititia7352]

Flight of the Phoenix !! with Col. Jimmy Stewart is a good one too.

[@BarryHope-bj5um]

I deployed to the KSA, we got to the point of not asking the temperature, it was 2, too hot. We wore our gloves if we worked on metal and we put vehicles we were going to work on in the Air Conditioned garage. Oh yeah, I was stationed at Ft Bliss, TX. we got practice.

[@jrcadet4]

Interesting to watch this film havin grown up mostly in the Mojave Desert. The advice is pretty good, and the precautions are the things a buddy and I took to heart when flying across the emptier stretches. Luck, after all, is the residue of good planning...

[@twstf8905]

Comments, after all, are the residue of armchair philosophers. 🤣

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

​@@twstf8905And empty cleverness is the residue of being an edge lord.

[@philliprogers964]

Once you start taking long or big drinks of water you will find you can't stop wanting even more and soon you're left with no water

[@twstf8905]

Roger that. 👌

[@chs82ndab]

Noticed Wally Cassell in this training film. Sands of Iwo Jima 1948 among others.

[@circuit-breakermi3865]

Mr. Roper from 3's company in his WW2 days.

[@ThePauperPrepper]

Now that was a really entertaining film, for a training film of course. I consider myself fairly well survival savvy and I picked up a few good pointers. I do recommend anyone into Emergency Preparedness to watch this film, as well as those interested in Warbirds. Thanks for getting this up for us to see!

[@michael7v6]

These are so entertaining.

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

Thanks Zeno!

[@hansmueller3029]

" SITDOWN GEORGE, n keep your shirt on. We gotta practice our Village People number ! "

[@shidzngigglez]

😂

[@raymondyee2008]

Interesting training film and it should have been released in 1943. But remember if the crew of the B-24 had to bail out at night over the desert like "Lady Be Good" did then it would have been a much different story.

[@kenfox5442]

Thanks

[@vincent-wu7bw]

I guess the crew of the Lady Be Good didn't get to watch this one.

[@twstf8905]

Ba dum dum PSSSSH 🥁

[@rolandjaycutter3504]

35:30 I love that nose art.

[@steves1900]

Very interesting. There's a Phil in every group, isn't there? Thanks, Zeno.

[@stephenarling1667]

Phil's the one who finds Hedy Lamarr sitting on a sand dune.

[@plumduff3303]

Reminds me of my honeymoon

[@inurafacititia7352]

You all should see the movie "Ice Cold in Alex." It's about a few British soldiers and a spy heading over the desert to Alexandria - waiting on that Ice Cold Beer. A marvelous movie and definitely one to see. John Mills stars (1958) in the true story and winner of the Berlin International Film Festival. Really Worth Seeing if you like great movies.

[@twstf8905]

What if you don't!? 🤣

[@-xirx-]

Another good film is "S for Sahara"

[@-xirx-]

And "flight of the phoenix"!

[@rayw3294]

You get all these programmes with bear grills. But it was all back then. But long before. Since humans were humans. We are a resourceful lot. Thanks by the way.

[@twstf8905]

Deep.

[@Roarmeister2]

Chocolate bars will be practically liquid at 125°F

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

Yes, those would have been melted and messy.

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

They did produce chocolate that had a higher melt point for the African Theatre of the war, but °125?

[@Roarmeister2]

@@bunnyfoofoo9695 High wax content.

[@bunnyfoofoo9695]

@@Roarmeister2 Rather like eating a chocolate candle then.........lol..

[@jaykay8570]

Tropical Hersheys could hold their shape for one hour at 120F

[@twstf8905]

Haha the "Pippin II" that is. 🤣👍

[@gregj4857]

Dad flew a B24 in WWII

[@tikitavi7120]

Check out the story of the Lady Be Good that went down in the Libyan desert in 1943. Not as lucky as these guys.

[@ralphklene1357]

Rest in peace forever.. The lady be good !.....

[@freedommike4862]

That's some good dope skip

[@rogerhuber3133]

Wouldn't it be better to go inside the A/C rather than ride out a sandstorm outside?

[@joseftrumpeldor6240]

Excellent film, thank you, Zenos! However, no mention at all on what desert critters you can eat. If you are lucky enough to snip off the tail of a scorpion, you could eat it and they are fairly plentiful at night. Anybody know where this was filmed? I'm guessing in the Mojave desert or at any of the zillions of airfields that sprung up in Arizona during the war. Parts were obviously filmed on a soundstage in Hollywood.

[@D5quared91]

Josef Trumpeldor The Issue was water, not food. They had plenty.

[@oldsaerotech1167]

Scorpions kind of taste like chocolate. Seriously mentioned.

[@overcastfriday81]

Does this video reflect best practices taught by the USAAF throughout the war? If so, this training most likely was provided to the Lady Be Good crew.

[@jayhenderson2683]

Lucky to make 1 to 3 miles a day. It's not flat land. Massive dunes. One could take all day or more. And everyone must have a back of neck cover. Even in the shade because of reflection off sand, parachutes and the plane metal.

[@billbright1755]

Each situation would be unique. Depending on many variables. Distance from any assistance foremost. Too remote,, and no rescue, she gets pretty grim very quickly. Traveling in the heat of day would be certain doom.130 Fahrenheit is simply to hot even beetles must burrow neath the sand to shelter.

[@ericlakota1847]

33:00 the plane is like newel in hay stack

[@mistervacation23]

Too bad The crew of the lady be good didn't see this but I don't know if it would helped them anyway

[@raymondyee2008]

This video didn’t cover what happens when a crew has to bail out at night over the desert which was what happened with “Lady Be Good”.

[@stoneblue1795]

They look silly in those sunglasses. Must have been an exciting perk for being in the film.

[@D5quared91]

You must have never been to the desert idiot

[@johnallen2771]

Why do you think the Bedoin nomad tribes exist, almost entirely in the desert. They wander from place to place and there's a lot of them. They made a powerful force when gathered together with Laurence of Arabia. They know about the right clothing and probably just about everything else having to do with the desert.

[@ameenahussain8219]

thh&hp

[@jrcrawford4]

Sure makes you wish the Lady Be Good fellows had been a little better prepped. Some truly sad parallels.

[@inurafacititia7352]

You won't hear the phrase, "Copy That" in this movie since the use of that phrase is reserved for Hollywood Teenage Boys. "Copy That" only means that a secondary person or group heard the original order/information. For the Primary person/unit to hear an order or information sent to them, it's "Roger" - NOT "Copy That". The phrases used by the military in Hollywood are just that - Hollywood. The Chances of hearing a "Copy That" is breaking the military protocol of communication (which, by the way, is an offense and is a 'Chargeable Offense' in war time.

[@jchrg2336]

Holly film time...hollywood

[@BigboiiTone]

Yes

[@churchofchris1973]

Always carry sun bear lotion

[@Dr.Pepper001]

Rod Serling wrote an episode of the Twilight Zone with a similar plot.

[@thealpengeist2126]

Rod Serling based that Twilight Zone episode on the true story of the "Lady be Good", A B-24 Liberator (like the one in this video) that disappeared without a trace in1943 following a bombing mission over Naples, it was the crew's first mission and the aircraft was thought to have been lost over the Mediterranean Sea on its way back to its base in Libya, The navigator had made a crucial, severe error though, he thought he was still over the Sea but had in fact overflown his base and the plane was actually flying deep into the vast Lybian desert. The crew bailed out when the fuel gauges were on empty and to their surprise, they landed on a sandy desert floor and not water. The plane continued on, ran out of fuel and made a hard landing onto the desert floor by itself. Not until 1958, when an oil exploration team accidentally discovered the mostly intact "Lady be Good" B-24 were the facts unveiled about what happened. All but one of the crew members survived the bailout and landed safely, (one crew member chute failed to open). Search teams scoured the area near the crash site and found the crews bodies along with a diary from one of the crew describing how they tried hard to survive for many days but eventually, all perished.

[@the_arcatan]

But what the hell does George make? Dust masks and spiral fatigues? Help, I can't sleep.

[@mrcharles1602]

Spiral puttees, long leg wraps to cover the tops of boots and the bottoms of trousers. Stops the sand getting in and causing blisters and sores.

[@spudskie3907]

Too bad this was made in 1945. It would have been useful for "Lady Be Good".