My great uncle flew P-38s in Europe. Mostly flew ground support but managed two air to air kills. He even saw a Me-262 in combat once.
@whirlwindeddie2124 Жыл бұрын
Lucky guy to made it past the Me-262
@georgebarnes8163 Жыл бұрын
Not really, the ME262 had an average engine life of only 15 hours, slow acceleration and turned into a slow glider when the ran out of fuel which was very quickly plus piston engine aircraft ran circles around it.@@whirlwindeddie2124
@brianglenn5266 ай бұрын
P-38 was a beast in Pacific Campaign, but not as successful in Europe
@gamertardguardian12993 ай бұрын
An honest grandpa, seems like everyones grandpa shot down 2 me262’s and have 20 air to air kills
@coop69513 ай бұрын
@@brianglenn526with what I know about WW11 disagree. The P 38 was an amazing aircraft pretty much in all theaters, due to its versatility, massive range and speed. They were used for reconnaissance, fighter missions, fighter/bomber intercept, bomber escort missions, bomber solo missions and we’re crucial for fighting Behind enemy lines and supporting covert operations with the SOE and OSS. One of its main drawbacks though with the fact that it’s pretty much the F 22 of today. It was expensive and extremely complicated with very finicky engines that required lots and lots of training which isn’t always abundant during wartime, So unfortunately there was more than a few accidents involving fatalities with this aircraft even in just normal flight not taking off or landing. The Germans called it the “Fork-Tailed Devil” and it was a constant thorn in the side of German military strategists. The Japanese nick named the lighting as well little less creative though 😂 “two planes one pilot”. In my opinion the plane was designed and built around the British Lancaster bomber success, but the p 38 was much better in every way I love her 😊.
@ryanhampson673 Жыл бұрын
Imagine you're an Allied pilot and something with no propeller looking like a bat flies right by faster than you've ever seen. The Me-262 and Me-163 must have seemed out of the future when first encountered.
@codominus1017 Жыл бұрын
Me-163 was never used irl. Rocket fuel was too corrosive for the frame
@colinsteadland Жыл бұрын
@@codominus1017 2:40 lol
@ryanhampson673 Жыл бұрын
@@codominus1017 Uhhh, no. It was used, there's gun camera footage IN the video of 163's.
@sticcckkko7480 Жыл бұрын
it was used a few times. melted a few pilots with is tstoff fuel which is just like high test peroxide. melted their entire bodies into gelatinous goop
@30AndHatingIt4 ай бұрын
Except the Brits and US both had operational jet fighters that were coming into service as the war ended. Had the war lasted 2 more months, the P-80 would’ve seen combat in particular.
@drosera88 Жыл бұрын
Man these guys had some balls. There's several shots where they are clearly only about 6-10ft off the ground strafing targets and pulling up at the absolute last second to avoid explosions or running into the target.
@Sten05 Жыл бұрын
Wt cas
@drosera88 Жыл бұрын
@@Sten05 Yeah except I don't even have the balls to do that in War Thunder.
@bladerj Жыл бұрын
ever heard of magnification lenses ?
@thecoolbird13 Жыл бұрын
@@bladerjeven then, clips like 3:17 are extremely close
@jeffrielley920 Жыл бұрын
The quality of gunsight cameras hasn't changed in 75 years.
@slyguythreeonetwonine31726 ай бұрын
Consider this: We are seeing copies of a copy of a copy of a copy. Imagine what it looked like freshly developed.
@paladin562 жыл бұрын
The 'Messerschmitt 109' at 9:41 is actually a French built Dewoitine D520, a fighter from the early part of the War. Many were requisitioned by the Luftwaffe and used as trainers.
@thekillertank12952 жыл бұрын
Nice catch. i thought it looked a little funky for a 109.
@ItsAlwaysRusty2 жыл бұрын
Spotted that also.. Fuselage behind the cockpit was way to stubby to be a Messerschmitt
@michaeldavid6284 Жыл бұрын
Yep. Knew it wasn't a 109 but had to pause it to ID the plane. That cockpit sitting way behind the wings is a dead giveaway, and the wide landing gear couldn't be a 109.
@spade3779 Жыл бұрын
I actually thought it was a captured Yak-1 haha
@notyou6950 Жыл бұрын
This is by far the longest continuous use of Singer sawing machine soundtrack ever put together for public display.
@knotsochice Жыл бұрын
Takes a minute to remember that gun cameras never recorded sound.
@-Ali_Salah- Жыл бұрын
Oh
@unbearifiedbear1885 Жыл бұрын
Yeah but watching silent "British Pathe" reels just doesn't have the same kind of impact... ...and I'd rather dubbed engine and guns than some toxic music!
@triode12122 жыл бұрын
The sound effects are pre-recorded canned audio added in post production. These gun cameras were usually silent .i.e. no sound was recorded. That is why there is audio of a plane diving when the visuals show a plane in level flight.
@Universal_exports878 ай бұрын
Can we all quit the complaining about the sound? This was created to show home that the War was very real and not only some far off event. Way cool. Thanks for this.
@peatmoss44158 ай бұрын
ES.....
@thecursed018 ай бұрын
No :p
@mastathrash56093 жыл бұрын
Never have i seen guncam of me 262 nor have I seen any of that footage. Great video. Keep it up. Also the guy @ 3:33 God almighty, if he was able to pull out of that ...he probably dropped off more than empty shell casings in the water.
@Pete-tq6in3 жыл бұрын
The commentator is wrong at 09:41, the aircraft being strafed is not a Bf-109, it’s actually a Dewoitine D.520 in Luftwaffe markings.
@angusclark83302 жыл бұрын
Phew! Got that...
@Syd-41 Жыл бұрын
Flying through fire after explosion at 3:57…..very dangerous. Great upload.
@rael5469 Жыл бұрын
2:23 GEEEZ.....the accuracy of the pilot is amazing. Holy Christ I don't think a single round missed that enemy plane.
@rosmaromorsa6385 Жыл бұрын
to be fair you don't see the ones that miss
@rael5469 Жыл бұрын
@@rosmaromorsa6385 No, I am referring to this dog fight specifically. It was WAY more accurate than the average encounter.
@rosmaromorsa6385 Жыл бұрын
@@rael5469 Oh yeah, you can see the pilot walk the rounds onto the centerline of the aircraft.
@ryanhampson6734 ай бұрын
And what’s even more wild is the average age of these pilots was something like 24-25 years old.
@BinLamim Жыл бұрын
Interesting thing is, when you compare the gun camera footage from Europe and Pacific, how much more sturdy and durable the German planes were compared to Japanese. Planes here take a lot of hits and still fly, Jap planes take one bullet and burst into flames. Really shows the difference in construction and priorities for both nations.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
That was especially true in early war Japanese planes like the Zero. They were designed to be highly maneuverable dog fighters first and foremost. The weren’t armored like Allied aircraft & didn’t have self sealing gas tanks, so they burst into flames. Light weight construction. Their maximum dive speed was limited. Their later war aircraft were much improved, but their rate of replacement production was low.
@Mewithabeard Жыл бұрын
@@ZenosWarbirds Like the Germans too, they started to develop some very interesting and even futuristic designs late in the war, but they simply had no chance to make them even in small numbers, at least the Germans managed to their jets into the fight even if it was far too late to make a difference. Anyway it's fascinating to see how technology changed so relatively quickly during the war
@slyguythreeonetwonine31726 ай бұрын
Correct me if I am wrong, Japan never utilized self sealing tanks during the war. Everyone else did. Okay I'm not sure if the Italians did. But I'm pretty sure the UK and US and USSR and Germany did.
@jchapman8248 Жыл бұрын
When I was in my early teens (early 1970s), my friends and I would go to the local arcade to play games. There was one game there in particular where, for a quarter, you could operate a seated WWII anti-aircraft gun to try and shoot down German aircraft. The game used actual WWII aerial footage of enemy planes. Once you got the sights set on a plane and began firing, the a bell would ring for every bullet that made its mark, racking up your high score! I got to be very capable on that game. The footage here reminds me of that arcade game!
@megandarling2215 Жыл бұрын
Do you know what the game was called?
@jchapman8248 Жыл бұрын
@@megandarling2215That was so long ago. I think it may have been called FIGHTER ACE...not sure anymore, sorry.
@megandarling2215 Жыл бұрын
@@jchapman8248 aw, it’s ok anyway I understand thanks tho! I would love to play that game but of course it’s getting outdated was the footage in color or black and white?
@shanefelkel99668 ай бұрын
I remember a game probably older than that where you flew a WW1 biplane with a joystick. Probably an Atari arcade quarter game. The plane(s) were 3d blueprint outlines and not even solid looking. Still a pretty fun game in the day. Can't remember the name - maybe Barnstormer- or that might have been another game's name.
@cdncitizen47002 жыл бұрын
Some of those low passes had some surprisingly accurate "strahffing" runs... amazing air-to-air and air-to-ground footage.
@Oscifer113 жыл бұрын
It's interesting to hear how the pronunciation of straffing has changed.
@TheBranchez Жыл бұрын
This footage is priceless. Thank you for sharing it.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@usalax76 Жыл бұрын
2:21 *casual p-38 flies thru* "sup guys.."
@ThatoneWW2lover Жыл бұрын
Bro was like “look at my new wip”💀
@jesusofbullets Жыл бұрын
The commenter saying that the pilots ejection was premature, but I say that if you're in front of the enemy in a dogfight and you have no speed nor altitude, that's probably the smartest option to avoid dying.
@BigWheel. Жыл бұрын
Lots of people here are commenting with the benefit of hindsight, from a gaming perspective. So yeah...
@murderinmurphy6501 Жыл бұрын
He had enough altitude to bail though. He was probably pissing his lederhosen and I don’t blame him. You got to do what you got to do.
@simplyminded3529 Жыл бұрын
Some of the dives are insane. The low flying too on some of the airfields is ballsy asf. Fr like it’s at a point if you slowed down the footage it’d look like a car rolling up to a plane. Not a whole ass plane feet off the ground. Unbelievably brave.
@flybobbie14493 ай бұрын
My former and later fellow flight instructor left cans of gun camera footage when he passed. We never knew if it was from his aircraft or just a general collection.
@morrischen5777 Жыл бұрын
Hottest KZbin channel in 1944: Daily Dose of Fighter Kills
@Zoey_96cx Жыл бұрын
Man i can tell how aggressive our pilots were. They were going in low and hard for some of these strafing runs and that one guy kept going back after that one aircraft went for a water landing. I mean he strafed him 3 to 4 times after presumably forcing a water landing. I love it.
@mightbefire9 ай бұрын
This guy never runs out of ammo. Never.
@DONKFORTRESS6956 Жыл бұрын
7:40 minor inconvenience
@thefrontier2288 Жыл бұрын
It's just a scratch. It'll buff out.
@jeffersondeleon925 Жыл бұрын
Have never seen me 262 in combat footage very much less getting shot down , wow and such amazing footage
@billrossignon86212 жыл бұрын
The ME 262 jet and ME 163 rocket fighter are still impressive to watch even when getting shot down. Incredible technology for Nov 1944. Had the ME 262 operated in large numbers in 1943 - 45, daylight bombing would have been too costly. I have done a quick research on the 262s combat record and found that most losses were while getting jumped while landing or takeoff. There was a German pilot Franz Schall flying an ME 262 that shot down 10 mustangs and four heavy bombers. Another guy shot down 20 mosquitos. These pilots were very experienced but still impressive considering they were flying against the best allied planes and the 262 was built in tunnels using slave labour.
@mitchelnorton26922 жыл бұрын
I saw on KZbin a guy brought his ORIGINAL Me-163 unpowered trainer to an air show AND flew it to boot. Well, technically glided it.
@dazag732 жыл бұрын
Agreed but even if they had been able to build lots of them they didn't have enough fuel or pilots to fly them by that time. These planes were at least three years too late for the Nazis- thankfully.
@chrisanderson62042 жыл бұрын
yup
@gotanon96592 жыл бұрын
It would not have made a difference
@LordNinja1092 жыл бұрын
@@dub-pilot That's such a demonstrably false myth.
@SoulAir Жыл бұрын
I'm glad to see some WWII ground attack passes are as near misses as my video gameplay
@randlerobbertson87922 жыл бұрын
Brilliantly restored footage.
@normalicious9734 Жыл бұрын
How zoomed in were the cameras on these planes? Or were they actually within melee range in some of these clips?
@Lepra441 Жыл бұрын
yes
@onkeltodor7601 Жыл бұрын
the cameras themselves seem to have a short telephoto lens but in post the image may have been cropped further, giving the effect of a more zoomed in image
@siraethelwulf8914 Жыл бұрын
Suddenly everyone is an experienced combat pilot, aeroengineer, historian and general it seems. Just watch the damn films and make your analysis later folks
@davidca962 жыл бұрын
Seeing that 262 in a flat spin is wild, and that 109 get raked from left to right and somehow the pilot popped the canopy and got out.
@galacticdragon9841 Жыл бұрын
the tech in from WWII amazes me, some how they were able to get video cameras small enough to be able to be reasonably fitted onto planes. The jets and rockets are very interesting too since it took another 20 years to get to space. Same with radar, I have no clue how they have been able to get radar stuff working at the end and after WWII without computers.
@dungareesareforfools Жыл бұрын
They weren’t video, they were film cameras. Film cameras are much more compact. (Video recording wasn’t yet invented in WW2, all TV was live or from film.) Radar doesn’t require computers - it’s analogue radio and CRT technology.
@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 Жыл бұрын
There are plenty of articles on how it all worked. Go do some reading, learn something new.
@sr71sr71 Жыл бұрын
If you ever get the chance to see some of the US Navy fighters, they placed the camera access ports next to the panels where the wings folded. They would have a switch in the cockpit to begin the camera when entering combat. It was the first time pilots could look back on their encounters and look what they did right and wrong, allowing them to learn and use it to teach other pilots. Realistically, we got to space relatively sooner than that as well. Gargarin and Shepherd both reaching space by 1961.
@madjoe8622 Жыл бұрын
There was a lot of analog computers used in ww2: the B-29 gun control, the Norden bombsight, the Torpedo Data Computer (TDC), the battleship Mk1A Gun Fire Control Computer. Plenty of videos on them on YT. Fascinating and impressive stuff.
@jobu888 ай бұрын
At 9:26 I believe that's a French Dewoitine 520 !! Note the large triangular tail fin and cockpit set way back behind the wing.
@moiLaPoisse8 ай бұрын
Je suis tout à fait d'accord. Ils ont été utilisés par les Allemands en école de chasse. (I agree. they were used by the Luftwaffe in the fighting schools)
@ATEKAmusic4 ай бұрын
Ah ben même observation :D
@ATEKAmusic4 ай бұрын
Totally agree
@EllaiSivan Жыл бұрын
i love how the narrator roasts the luftwaffe whenever a new segment begins
@DimaMuskind Жыл бұрын
Wow, that looks awesome! All these pilots are real heroes.
@marknelson59293 жыл бұрын
The twin engine aircraft under attack at 2:54 to 3:02 is an RAF Mosquito, both crew died. Its what we call these days 'blue on blue', an unfortunate factor of war, its a shame the US pilots recognition skills were not up to scratch that day. I assume when the film would have been downloaded back at base and reviewed the pilot would have been told.
@ZenosWarbirds3 жыл бұрын
I did some research on this. I was able to find another copy of this gun cam film that IDs the incident. It took place on 6th October, 1944. The American pilot was a 2nd Lt. in the 335th Fighter Squadron, flying a P-51 Mustang. It appears no one at the time, or later during the War realized it was a Mosquito. (Probably assumed it was an Me 410 or other German twin engine fighter. Encounters with Mosquitos in daylight in the air were probably rare.) I have no specific evidence of what happened to the Mosquito in question or it's crew. The American pilot was killed in action a month later, hit by flak, strafing a German airfield. He's buried in a military cemetery in Belgium. Out of respect for his family, I'm not identifying him here.
@zorbalight39333 жыл бұрын
@@ZenosWarbirds Thanks for confirming the earlier identification and update..
@anttitheinternetguy32132 жыл бұрын
I was about to point that out too. Horrible For everyone involved
@badcornflakes63742 жыл бұрын
The clip before that was a war crime, strafing a downed plane.
@Dalesmanable2 жыл бұрын
It’s even more of a shame that the producers and those that supplied them with this film, all acting without the stress of combat, made the same mistake.
@OfficialAceFilms Жыл бұрын
bro someone send this to Thunder Show fr
@Adin.0 Жыл бұрын
Insane quad kill over Europe I got back in '45
@Adin.0 Жыл бұрын
It probably wouldent even get chosen, some dude in a premium getting one gun kill would
@disclaimer4211 Жыл бұрын
2:28 Did that guy open the canopy to jump out of the plane while that guy is still shooting at him? Holy Crap!!!
@Numba1Man Жыл бұрын
Dang bro went flying
@aaroncourchene4384 Жыл бұрын
An American pilot in his memoirs, said he was trained to shoot down enemy planes,but after seeing friends killed,he wanted to"stick his guns in the other guys cockpit and kill him !" .😟
@codyskull2594 Жыл бұрын
Probably blew off that plane's canopy, dang the pilot got annihilated.
@45calGunslinger Жыл бұрын
Yeah the pilot probably heard his plane getting absolutely shredded and decided he wasn't hanging around to catch a bullet or for the plane to burn up around him. Or it was filled with so much lead the canopy latch was destroyed, which is honestly more likely.
@KuroHebi Жыл бұрын
Real life: Takes quite a few hits just to disable an aircraft. Meanwhile, in War Thunder: Couple of shots and the tail rips off.
@SadStuart Жыл бұрын
planes going 200 mph level act like this on sim
@KuroHebi Жыл бұрын
@@SadStuart 200mph level? What do you mean?
@SadStuart Жыл бұрын
@@KuroHebi no stress on the spars in easy level flight , stuff blows off when under stress and hit with explosives
@EthanolEnthusiast Жыл бұрын
Play DCS instead.
@TheSaturnV Жыл бұрын
2:20 That is what is known as being "Lit up like a Christmas tree." Walked it up the wing right into the cockpit.
@kevintucker3354 Жыл бұрын
And almost hit that P-38 at 2:22!
@TheSaturnV Жыл бұрын
@@kevintucker3354 Yeah, looked like a dang multiplayer server lol.
@Future18311 ай бұрын
He bailed out
@LeNomEstYves Жыл бұрын
I guess if you add the gun sounds constantly you're bound to be right some of the time
@gowensbach2998 Жыл бұрын
I was just thinking that too, as I watched this. I thought it was stupid of the pilot to be constantly firing until I realized it...duh! lol
@UsrDrakon Жыл бұрын
Really impressive! From France, Thanks to these men for coming liberate my country ! I cannot imagine the vision of our elders, who saw these fights in the sky... For the anecdote, I live not far from Cézembre island. Germans fortified the island and guarded the sea with artillery. It's the most bombed site of the all WW2 per m², mainly by Allied aviation. 20,000 bombs over an area of 0.095km², almost 5 bombs per m²!!!
@Apeksim9 ай бұрын
Late war, many of the Luftwaffe pilots were rookies who made aerial combats more similar to a Turkey shoot for the better trained Allied pilots.
@fibessnaredrum27759 ай бұрын
And yet when the trained luftwaffe went after rookies at the start of the war, they are glorified.. the double standards are comical from fanboys.
@indigohammer57322 жыл бұрын
I remember watching “The World at War” and there was gun camera footage of some poor bastard and a horse getting the treatment from 20mm cannon. Not nice. Interesting fact: The reason that there’s not much German aerial footage is due to the fact that most of the film was stored in Dresden.
@oni361 Жыл бұрын
This is some crazy footage
@spaceefficient9540 Жыл бұрын
love seeing in though
@bryantbridgewaters3977 Жыл бұрын
@ 2:31 notice that the Me-109 pilot is firing the cannon when the footage starts. You can see the gun smoke, tracers and shells explode when they hit the ground. Could it be that the pilot pressed the trigger as a reaction from when he got hit? Because the plane flew straight into the ground as if the pilot was either incapacitated or dead. Or maybe the American fighter caught him as he was attacking ground targets?
@DSteuber0352 Жыл бұрын
Could've got his elevator controls maybe and just had to ride it in. We'll never know either way.
@its_adopted Жыл бұрын
damn war thunder plane rb battles are crazy
@adrian.motogarage1730 Жыл бұрын
sim battle*
@RoosterCP Жыл бұрын
These pilots got so low on some of these runs holy hell they had balls of steel
@walmars3curity Жыл бұрын
Yes, but the video is also zoomed in which makes the appearance of them going slower than they really were.
@yoschiannik84382 ай бұрын
Its really only footage like this that puts into oersoective how close quarters most dogfights where
@CosmicSkewer2 ай бұрын
the gunsight cameras were zoomed in but yes
@Stoic-of-Rome Жыл бұрын
All this footage had the sound added as gun cameras had no sound capability
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
It was added in 1944. SOP.
@joe18425 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, The brass band was a dead giveaway 👁👄👁 Im glad the video is real. Seeing it actually happen 👍
@k.t.1641 Жыл бұрын
Someone went overboard on the gun sound effects lol
@leecrt967 Жыл бұрын
9:40 That is a captured French Dewoitine D.520 Fighter in German markings. They were used by the Germans as advanced trainers.
@jasperbowmaster5038 Жыл бұрын
So it was a 520 then, I couldn’t figure out if it was that or for some reason I thought it was a LaGG-3
@andrezkamotu Жыл бұрын
Wow, a French Dewoitine D.520 fighter in German markings at 9:26
@matchc06352 жыл бұрын
weird to see these aircraft attacks either does nothing to their oppoent or disintergrate them in an instant, must be the film having pretty bad resolution and in B&W, thus would be kinda hard to make out tracer and bullet impacts.
@LordNinja1092 жыл бұрын
A lot of pilots didn't use tracers. It gave away their position
@williewilson22502 жыл бұрын
They're hitting hydraulics, fuel tanks, and even just holes whether you see them or not
@domosrage5434 Жыл бұрын
@@LordNinja109 Only the top aces of the war used less tracers. The average pilots absolutely required tracers.
@LordNinja109 Жыл бұрын
@@domosrage5434 It was unit dependent, though some pilots (Bud Anderson) continued using tracers while others (Robert Goebel) didn't.
@CaptainDemo779 Жыл бұрын
I actually really like the sound effects added. The old timey production value has a certain charm to it!
@thert.hon.thelordnicholson72612 жыл бұрын
Something went boom at 7:40 - any ideas what that was? Looks like some munitions were hit? Incredible footage all round.
@entarte26102 жыл бұрын
probably some large bombs or large artillery shell
@lluvik24502 жыл бұрын
imagine it was kerosine xD
@Joop.23-2-63 Жыл бұрын
Whatever it was, it sure was the jackpot.......
@jakek.8587 Жыл бұрын
yall the audio isnt real, they didnt have microphones on planes because all you would hear is the prop
@CharlizardGaming Жыл бұрын
It was recreated for the viewers
@rob-v1y Жыл бұрын
Duh. What a revelation. What gave it away? The repeating 10 second loop?
@CharlizardGaming Жыл бұрын
@@rob-v1y no the fact that you’d only hear the prop
@Nighthawke70 Жыл бұрын
0:20 Is a trick Yeager dubbed, "rat catching". They''d loiter around a Luftwaffe air base, watching for any of the jets to either be taking off or landing, then pounce. The knew in that phase of flight, the ME 262 would be the most vulnerable. That Komet though, you had to stay the hell back, or the fuel residues would ruin your engine, and maybe injure you.
@dickg Жыл бұрын
I wonder if you could just wait for the Komet to blow itself up lol.
@Nighthawke70 Жыл бұрын
@@dickg Some simply have.
@dickg Жыл бұрын
@@Nighthawke70 Oh boy what's that funny-smelling goo seeping into the cockpit and melting my legs???
@huverdoose Жыл бұрын
I especially like how the narrator presents these newly fangled jet and rocket aircraft as if they bring no new challenges to dogfighting.
@skota8150 Жыл бұрын
You can have the best planes ever built but if you don't have experienced pilots in the cockpit it means almost nothing
@ARCNA442 Жыл бұрын
Early jets weren't that much of an advance over late piston fighters. They were faster, but less maneuverable (as pointed out in this video).
@huverdoose Жыл бұрын
I especially like these comments.
@XSpamDragonX Жыл бұрын
The point of these videos is to provide both training and a morale boost.
@huverdoose Жыл бұрын
@@XSpamDragonX Ahhh, I see.
@martinhoracek7021 Жыл бұрын
time 9:26 ground attack I know that it sounds weird but could this plane be dewoitine D520 with german markings?
@sebastianlaguna28 Жыл бұрын
Yes, it could be
@harry4rrtiiurrr Жыл бұрын
Yes probably. This was the period when the nazis took over Italy so its very likely they took control of many of their aircraft aswell.
@sped17373 Жыл бұрын
@@harry4rrtiiurrr The Dewoitine D520 was a French aircraft.
@natalie_v0.0.1 Жыл бұрын
such neat footage, thanks for uploading! I can't even imagine the mettle these young pilots had to do these crazy strafes and maneuvers.
@BobBobBob20422 жыл бұрын
Q. How many rounds shall we make it sound like the boys had to fire? A. Yes.
@titantanic72552 жыл бұрын
2:25 “you’ve got a hole in your left wing!”
@Sumi_S2 жыл бұрын
Attack the d point
@theSkeev037 Жыл бұрын
@@Sumi_S I refuse! Defend the D point!
@OperatorBravo521 Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that read this with the warthunder radio voice.
@felixbui9818 Жыл бұрын
@@OperatorBravo521 no lmao
@pvt.bushmann59032 жыл бұрын
2:22 Lightning photobomb
@n3307v Жыл бұрын
Best gun camera video I've seen.
@Luke.Skywodka Жыл бұрын
Really? They never recorded sounds.
@guinnog2 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant footage. The sound effects rather let it down and the air to air is far better than the air to ground.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
The sound effects were added in 1944. The same ones were used over & over in documentaries & movies. No one cared. There was a war & the audience was there to see “Fighter Kills”
@guinnog2 Жыл бұрын
@@ZenosWarbirds Thank you, I wasn't sure. They're truly awful; I wonder how easy it would be to add something more authentic?
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
@@guinnog2 That would be very difficult to do & still preserve the narration. It’s an historical artifact that is what it is😊
@Armis71 Жыл бұрын
@ZenosWarbirds One could be so bold to just redo all audio including narration with voice AI, but you'll lose authenticity. It was created in 1944.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
@@Armis71 I have produced many WW2 videos where I have added realistic sound effects sampled from actual aircraft & weapons when the original footage is silent. I don’t do that where there is original narration & SFX. That would be a disservice & disrespectful to the hard working men & women who produced these films during WW2, most of whom, as in this case, were serving personnel in the U.S. armed forces. That was their contribution to the war effort. More than 700,000 people have watched this film. A tiny minority have complained about the sound effects . I understand that some are ignorant & think that I produced the SFX, so I take the time to explain that they are original, 1944. Beyond that, I could care less about the opinions of a few armchair couch potato KZbin critics.
@Xeno10012 жыл бұрын
2:52 if I’m not mistaken, that’s a Mosquito… blue on blue I suppose. Even more obvious at 2:58 and you can even make out the black and white invasion stripes. Edit: Did the Mosquito clips get removed? Why?
@ZenosWarbirds2 жыл бұрын
You are correct. This is already in comments. Nobody picked this up when this film was made during WW2. I did some research & IDed the date and location. The 8th AF P-51 pilot who shot the Mossy down was KIA shortly after & is buried in Belgium. It may have been mistaken for an ME 410. There is no record if the Mosquito pilot survived. The RAF was always notified of the USAAF mission routes in advance to avoid friendly fire. Why a single Mosquito strayed into that area in daylight I do not no. Stuff happens in War.
@Xeno10012 жыл бұрын
@@ZenosWarbirds stuff happens, it sure does happen.
@theshadow9385 Жыл бұрын
Now after reading so many comments, I would just like to say how lovely @ZenosWarbirds is to reply to so many people; having to repeat themselves because a lot of people have commented about the same things. And each time, they have not just copied and pasted their reply, they have written it differently. Thanks for taking the time @ZenosWarbirds.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
You’re welcome👍
@wanderer7755 Жыл бұрын
I've been subscribed to Zeno for years. I'm guessing from the plethora of silly comments that this must have turned up on a lot of kids' KZbin recommendations recently. He's been flat out giving history lessons ever since... More patience than I'd have!
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
@@wanderer7755 It comes with the territory. I’m happy to help people who have a genuine interest. And blocking the trolls is fun too. 😉
@wanderer7755 Жыл бұрын
@@ZenosWarbirds right on - thanks for the uploads over the years its great stuff.
@RT-mm8rq2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I read somewhere that in the last years of the war the US removed tracer rounds from thier fighters. The kill ratio actually went up. You might notice this in some of the footage, no tracers.
@LupusAries2 жыл бұрын
But you might also notice observer rpunds (the flashes you see) those are rounds that explode to give an idication of the hit. Usually more reliable indication of your aim. Early war british observer rounds did not cause any real damage, while the german B Patrone (B cartridge) or Beobachterpatrone (Observer round) was pretty damaging for a rifle calibre round.
@F14DSUPERTOMCAT Жыл бұрын
Interesting, any more info on this?
@Bo_Nidle Жыл бұрын
They definitely did that to the bombers due to their use giving gunners a false impression of trajectories. There is a video on youtube about it in detail but I cannot recall its name. I'm not sure that they did this to fighters. I know they used to make the last 50 or so rounds in the belts of P-51's and P-47's MG's tracers to give a visual cue to the pilot that they were low on ammo.
@Chase-ts7gu Жыл бұрын
I do have to wonder what some of these pilots were doing. For example, around the 6:30 minute mark, there’s a FW-190 just flying straight. While it’s getting shot at. Maybe the pilot was injured or something but I found it odd.
@miguelangelo442 Жыл бұрын
Probably for propaganda
@esti1798 Жыл бұрын
@@miguelangelo442how would they do that then? First they would have to acquire an fw-190 then somehow get it to fly perfectly straight without a pilot because why would they put a pilot in a plane that’s getting shot at.
@miguelangelo442 Жыл бұрын
@@esti1798 i dont know, its Just a possibility.
@Warbasho Жыл бұрын
You must consider that most of the luftwaffe’s best pilots had been killed by this time in the war.
@DVAmarkera Жыл бұрын
Возможно он потерял сознание чуть раньше, ведь снаряды были огромными. Попробуйте испытать себя в warthunder. Самолеты уровня как у w190, но у других стран так же наносили страшнейший урон за пару секунд
@herringroe8931 Жыл бұрын
The pilot in the video hits the ground target from the beginning of his shot, so his shooting is very good. In addition, the slow speed of the aircraft seems to give him plenty of time to correct his shooting. It must be an excellent aircraft that can fly stably even at low speeds.
@MarsFKA Жыл бұрын
Any pilot who wanted to survive strafing an airfield would have been wise to keep his speed up. The Germans never skimped on anti-aircraft guns and airfields were usually well-defended. In his book, "The Big Show", Tempest pilot Pierre Clostermann told how he and six other Tempests attacked a German airfield late in the War. Seven Tempests crossed the airfield boundary, two flew out the other side.
@KenoNoir Жыл бұрын
The A36 segment was really cool with all the dive bombing
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
If you’re into A-36s, I recommend our video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXnbdYSafr-Mpac
@user-zk8tg8ko1u Жыл бұрын
7:37 what the hell... if I was in that plane I would be kinda shocked
@45calGunslinger Жыл бұрын
They would have been used to seeing munitions stockpiles going off. It's hard to see in B&W but wagons carrying explosives were clearly marked to be handled carefully, so the pilot probably fired on it deliberately.
@DONKFORTRESS6956 Жыл бұрын
minor inconvenience
@apfelsnutz2 жыл бұрын
So sad... some of the Pilots (Kids) had less than 20 hours in type.... specially at the end of the fighting. Bless them All.
@jamesszabadics5911 Жыл бұрын
9:25 is a Dewoitine 520 Not an ME 109
@ncormontagne Жыл бұрын
Yup, I thought the cockpit was way further back compared to a 109. I thought it could be a captured Yak as well. But the Dewoitine makes sense.
@thinghammer Жыл бұрын
I've seen some, if not most, of this footage before. My big question is: when they fly through the fireball and smoke, aren't they asking for trouble? Seems like a good way to damage the plane.
@ryanhampson673 Жыл бұрын
If htey pulled up too hard they could stall the wing and induce a roll, and that close to the ground thats fatal. Better to chance. if its just flames its so fast no issues.
@TwoStageTrigger Жыл бұрын
@@ryanhampson673 except at the middle of the video when they're shooting at a train and set off a huge explosion. The shockwave and shrapnel could damage the plane, or make it lose control.
@ryanhampson673 Жыл бұрын
@@TwoStageTrigger True, flying metal would ruin your day lol.
@terrified057t4 Жыл бұрын
What floatplanes were hit at around 3:41 to 3:52?
@ritz4411 Жыл бұрын
idk but it kinda look like the BV 138 but im not sure because there are 297 BV 138s were built between 1938 and 1943 and this is 1944
@adam_zikry09 Жыл бұрын
first one in the open looks like one of the Do 18 series of scout planes while the last few do look like BV 138 or a Do 24
@Joop.23-2-63 Жыл бұрын
For sure it's a plane with a double tail not with a double boom like the BV-138. It also isn't the double tail, 3 engined Do-24, because of the positions of the engines in the wings. Therefor, I think it's a non German plane and the French Latécoère 631.........
@ethanboyd7843 Жыл бұрын
We edited in the same gun firing absurd amounts of ammo but this is awesome I had no idea they archived them like this. Thanks!
@webersteve1547 Жыл бұрын
What we see here is young guys in their last moment
@thomascalegari755410 ай бұрын
At 9,24, it's not a M-109....it's a french plane, with german cross, a Dewoitine D520😊
@minhthunguyendang990010 ай бұрын
Mr. Thomas Calegari, you nail it ! 9:24>9:28 I had to slow down to get it.
@lucas828 ай бұрын
Definitely a French-made fighter with that distinctive triangle shaped vertical stabiliser, but I suppose it could be a Morane Saulnier as well, which looks very similar to the Dewoitine and which was also used by the Luftwaffe.
@moiLaPoisse8 ай бұрын
@@lucas82 You're right, it's a D.520 used by the Luftwaffe in the fighting schools.
@captaindookey2 жыл бұрын
They didn't have mouse aim back then.
@wtdoober Жыл бұрын
Im guessing this audio was edited in?
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
Audio effects were added in 1944, using pretty much the same ones over & over. Gun cameras were silent.
@DrTWG Жыл бұрын
Never !
@wtdoober Жыл бұрын
Thanks for reply
@danmave7510 Жыл бұрын
@@wtdoober imagine if the commentator was the pilot 😂
@fizkallnyeilsem Жыл бұрын
It'd be nuts to think if the fucking narator was inside the cockpit with the pilot
@TomBartram-b1c Жыл бұрын
The film was originally silent as the planes didn't have mics. Sound added in the studio.
@artemkurteev4 ай бұрын
Documentaries: ww2 planes only had enough ammo to fire for about 30 seconds WW2 pilots: RATATATATATATATATTATATTATA
@WilliamSucksAtYT2 ай бұрын
the sound is added in post. the cameras do not record sound.
@whateverprecisely Жыл бұрын
Really great video. Respect to all fighter pilots, this stuff ain't easy. It looks like the weaponry isn't terribly accurate, but I suppose the automatic nature of them and the mass production warrants that. Seeing that plane crash and explode is pretty scary
@TheSaturnV Жыл бұрын
Accuracy was actually pretty good. The vibrations of the engine, the guns blazing and the motion of the aircraft itself make for some pretty shaky camera footage. Add the tracers in and it looks like the rounds are out of control. Also, pilots could have the ground crew set their gun convergence to very near or farther out. If they had it set close the rounds would widen out pretty far when going for a train out at distance.
@mechengineer4894 Жыл бұрын
One factor viewers should be aware of are these guys getting shot down were overwhelmingly rookies cause they didn't have the luxury of sending veteran pilots home thousands of miles away to train the next batch of recruits like the US. These guys flew until they were killed in action.
@Novous Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and that's Germany's fault. In the US when tankers had tanks repaired they sat around. In Germany, they literally sent them to the front lines in Russia. ... where they died. Japan also didn't appreciate human life, and started out better than the USA but by time they used up all their "heroes" there was nobody but kids left to fight. Shortsighted apathy led to their downfall.
@achimstemmer8892 жыл бұрын
9:41 = Must be a Devoitine D. 520 with Luftwaffe-markings, interesting coz very rare!
@zeolol98172 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed, The narrator said it was a Me-109 😆
@achimstemmer8892 жыл бұрын
@@zeolol9817 😂
@taskforce58 Жыл бұрын
At first I thought that was a Morane-Saulnier M.S.406, but I think you are correct.
@reese2694 Жыл бұрын
3:18 ...*ALTITUDE. ALTITUDE.*
@FoxWithTheAngels Жыл бұрын
Pants thoroughly shitted.
@Krezna Жыл бұрын
Leaked by Gaijin
@dankdoggoes152 Жыл бұрын
0:42 tail control lost
@entropybentwhistle2 жыл бұрын
Looks like the cameras picked up a couple of ME262s going into a flat spin in the first few vids. The German pilots never had the time to really learn those planes…good thing too.
@blackwoodsecurity531 Жыл бұрын
They were notoriously fickle. Every flight, basically needed a complete engine overhaul
@thejdmguru6215 ай бұрын
You don’t realise how frightening this stuff actually is until you see footage of it.
@entropybentwhistle3 ай бұрын
When you focus for a second and remember this isn’t some abstract film you’re watching, but a literal life or death battle that actually happened, it is terrifying to be on either end of the gun.
@scrink911710 ай бұрын
Really neat to actually see/hear abut the A-36, from what I remember it was less than a thousand or so made. I didn’t know they fought over the skies of Italy
@ZenosWarbirds10 ай бұрын
I think you’ll enjoy this. ☺️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/ganNmH14iq6obrMsi=EJq9H1pwgJ9Wi09P
@MANNYzZ Жыл бұрын
Quite cool seeing that a p51 can catch a me163
@dougdarby3564 Жыл бұрын
After the boost phase to reach the altitude of our bombers Komets soon became gliders,and could be caught fairly easily
@mustang5132 Жыл бұрын
They only had a couple of minutes of propulsion before they became a glider. IIRC, it was only between 5-7 minutes
@harry4rrtiiurrr Жыл бұрын
P51s were very fast for props but when a me163 gets caught in a turn or low alt its very vulnerable
@vonfragesq71452 жыл бұрын
At 9:40 that is in fact a Dewoitine D520 captured by the Germans from France in 1940. They captured several and used them as advanced fighter trainers.
@JumbalayahJihad Жыл бұрын
Is it just me or did the sound effects start becoming less and less synced as the video went on? Like you could hear machine gun spraying when the plane wasn't shooting or shooting in bursts as well as explosion sounds that didn't have an explosion on the video at all. Don't know what to make of that.
@ZenosWarbirds Жыл бұрын
The film was produced in 1944 by the Air Corps. Synching the SFX like we can today wasn’t a high priority. ((All gun cams were silent.) There was a war on & these films were produced on a tight deadline. Audiences were more interested in the gun cam film than the accuracy of the added effects.
@ryancrazy1 Жыл бұрын
2:21 how he just walks it across the whole plane...
@joet7136 Жыл бұрын
Swiss cheese.
@UnknownPersononGoogle Жыл бұрын
Because the pilot was probably too wounded to do anything and in a turn like that a deflection shot is easy.
@MonkPetite Жыл бұрын
Wonderful editing of the news reel makers.. normally the pilots have about 2 sec to fire. But some in these reels are 10 to 15 sec opportunities. Mirrored images and so on.