My dad did three years at Randolph as a cadet, graduating as a 2LT in March 45. He took so long because he already received his commercial ticket at age 18. If a pilot went through P-40 transition gunnery training in 43-45, at Randolph, his instructor was a cadet, my father.

In WW2, over 15,000 USAAF personnel were killed in training and domestic flight accidents. As my dad once told me, "Three a day in Tampa Bay!" He survived the training process and managed to score well enough on exams to be posted to specialized training to become a pathfinder navigator/radar bombardier in the A-26. Was ready to head out to Okinawa to support invasion of Japan when the Bomb dropped and the war ended. Never left the USA.

@robertnegron9706

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a lot of people. Shows the danger. Rip.

@jamesevans9007

3 жыл бұрын

Triple ace Bud Andersen, in one of the many interviews he has given, commented on the attrition in flight training. He pointed to the government's overriding need to get pilots trained expeditiously at the cost of strict adherence to safety protocols as a cause of many training accidents.

@glennledrew8347

3 жыл бұрын

But this film, designed to aid in recruitment, gives the impression that the training is so safe that an entire course could be accident free. Ha!

@JugSouthgate

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertnegron9706 15,000 out of how many trained?

@oceanic8424

Жыл бұрын

A time when both aircraft, and lives were cheap. : (

This was a very interesting army air corps recruitment film, my uncle went through this same recruitment program and became one of the first hellcat fighter pilots to shoot down a Japanese zero while on the aircraft carrier Belleau Wood in 1943

This was great. My father went thru and carried on to fly P-51’s in Europe, Army of occupation, Korea, Vietnam. I went thru the Army Warrant Officer Program in 1977. I left after 31years if service. The Army Warrant Office Program was long, tedious and challenging. Best thing I ever did. Even met up with more than a few crew Chiefs at Ft Rucker in later years

@h3lld1v3rfilms6

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service.

@MattH-wg7ou

2 жыл бұрын

Man, I wish the Air Force had a Warrant Officer program! Oh to be able to fly without all the extra officer queep!

@oceanic8424

Жыл бұрын

@@MattH-wg7ou Learn French, and try out with the French Navy. They have no college degree requirements for naval aviators. On top of that, all French fixed wing naval aviators do their carrier qualifications in the US with the US Navy.

@MattH-wg7ou

Жыл бұрын

@@oceanic8424 thats interesting. But Im a Commissioned Rated Officer in the US...dont think the military would take kindly to that haha.

@haroldkaufman9579

Жыл бұрын

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A year later, they all would be thrown into the grinder of WWII. Such an amazing generation of willpower and commitment.

🎶Up in the air, Junior Birdman, Flying so high off the ground, Is it a bird, plane or Superman? No! It's Junior Birdman upside down.🎶

The planes in this film at 17:24-ish are either BT-9s or BT-14s - an early forerunner of the AT-6/SNJ. AT-6s show up later.

21:00 "It's a mans world here!" That maybe so, but don't forget the women who built and delivered those war planes!

@MattH-wg7ou

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Division of duties was a successful idea.

@irish89055

Жыл бұрын

@@MattH-wg7ou the majority of people building ships and planes were men.. it was great to have the women helping and I believe most of the plane deliveries where female WASP pilots

"Duty, Honor, Country." Vital, beautiful words. Edit: The Constitution, making the most successful country in the world, rings true and great, as well.

@jamesm.taylor6928

4 жыл бұрын

I am a Marine Vetran and very proud of that. Nothing exceptional to many maybe but it means a whole lot to me! It literally sickens me to watch the younger generations proudly help out exclaiming America was never hreat, the we are and always have been evil no different than Nazi Germany. It infuriates me to an extreme degree when I watch a poor Jewish couple completely surround be Younger hdealthy big and strong men.dressed head to toe in the SS/SA type of Uniforms that ANTIFA seems to love so much, complete with t as they are cowards. he the face masks to hide begind

A very interesting look at history. My uncle was in the AAF as a flight engineer on B-24's in the Pacific beginning in 1943 (he survived). Those times and aircraft were certainly different although basic flying is still the same. I took instrument training in some of those Link trainers. This was "stick and rudder" flying, pilotage, map reading, dead-reckoning and a lot of other learned skills before computers. Sadly, basic airmanship is being replaced with electronics. I guess I'm "old school."

@bluegent7

4 жыл бұрын

True navigation should still be taught. You never know when electronics fail, for several reasons including enemy activity.

Actually, the U.S. Army Air Corps. My dad joined the Army Air Corps in 1940 and saw it become the U.S. Army Air Forces. He got out before it became the U.S. Air Force.

@jaylowry

2 жыл бұрын

The U.S. Army Air Corps ceased to exist on June 20, 1941 with the issuance of Army Regulation 95-5. Thereafter, commanders of the numbered Air Forces reported directly to the Chief of the USAAF. Flyers definitely continued to call it the Air Corps long after though.

"...the exaltation of that first, swift thrust...the power of the sweaty, throbbing motor seeming to reflect his own desire." Later, when he got home to his wife: "Brace for impact"🤣😂🤣🤣😂

These Ryans look like little two seat race planes. What a bummer it is to find they're only about as fast as a Cessna 172.

Primary trainers had an inverted air cooled 6 cylinder Ranger engine. PT -19.

Loyal American Youth! Never heard that before and I am 61 years old! 4 years in USAF

@irish89055

Жыл бұрын

Very loyal.....

This had to be prior to WWII. The Sam Brown belt was dropped form the uniform around the start of WWII.

@dukecraig2402

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it has to be. The name was changed from United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in June of 1941, a full 6 months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Contrary to what a lot of people think it wasn't called the Air Corps during WW2, it was called the United States Army Air Forces, as I pointed out the name was changed six months before America entered the war.

Fairchild P T 19, Vultee B T 13, North American A T 6. Student shows great situational awareness and acrobatic skills,, fighter school. Student shows great communication and command ability,, four engine heavy bomber school. Student has difficulty with fundamental flying skills,, gunner training.

Sign me up. Just for the skeet shooting.

I think it’s mildly amusing that they show up for training in suits and ties. Nowadays they show up in blue jeans and T-shirts.

@princetchalla2441

5 ай бұрын

Cheaper to replace nowadays, and the price of suits has gone up. If it were cheap enough and didn't get soiled so easily I reckon most would keep the suits on nowadays even at work, unless you're messing with oil on the daily

It must have been made before the "Army Air Corps" became the "Army Air Forces" in 1941

@ronaldfazekas6492

2 жыл бұрын

Yep--the wing insignia is the pre-1942 model with the red "meatball" in the middle

@ronaldfazekas6492

2 жыл бұрын

The basic trainers have bright blue fuselages and bright yellow wings

3:45 what is that rank? 4 chevrons? Was it a US Army Air Core rank?

I assume the rifle check routine was eliminated during the war for aviators..

Mark Zuckerberg is a time traveler. 1:28

"Physically, mentally, and spiritually, it has been among the most profitable 10 weeks they ever will be priveleged to live." But not financially.

@sharidavenport5283

3 жыл бұрын

Financially was not the immediate goal, although having all their physical needs met - housing, food, clothing, medical care, even psychological care after a fashion - was certainly a valuable resource for all these young healthy men, plus $75 a month ($1320 in 2019 dollars! Works out to about $304.61 [2019 equivalent] per week to do with whatever they please, as well as to send money back home to the parents/family to help them out. This would only increase as they advanced through the program and up to active service, then with the inevitable increases in rank) especially after living the prior decade in the depths of the Great Depression. The country was still swallowed up by it in many ways, and would be for some time to come. The concept of full nationwide employment wouldn't be fully enjoyed until later 1942. This is certainly a lead up to a much better skill set than they had when they got there, and even if not successful in the primary outcome, these are skills no one could take away from them. Also very valuable.

@j.d.schultzsr.9215

2 жыл бұрын

The only financial renumeration was, upon graduation from flight training, they each got a seat on the NY Stock Exchange.

I suspect this is pre-war for the US.. 1940 or 41

Formation flying wasn't going to come that's soon..

My father was a "Belly Gunner" in WWII. His name was George Louis Hathaway, Sr. www.findagrave.com/memorial/82671391/george-louis-hathaway. That's his gravestone. I wish I could have known him. I was 2 when he died.

Laboratorians?

There all so skinny. A time before fast food and high fructose corn syrup.

Five chevrons/no rockers - what rank is that?

@satanofficial3902

4 жыл бұрын

Private Corporal Corporal.

@evinchester7820

3 жыл бұрын

cadet nco?

@seoceancrosser

3 жыл бұрын

Sergeant General

@natejohnston5356

3 жыл бұрын

Cadet Technical Sargent in the Civil Air Patrol which is the same organization as in the film

@h3lld1v3rfilms6

3 жыл бұрын

Private Sergeant

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