Gun Camera Footage from WWII, Dec 1944 - (2005 075 1D)

Scanned from the Air Zoo Archive. Footage may be incomplete and missing sound. The Air Zoo is a world-class, Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with over 100 air and space artifacts, inspiring interactive exhibits, full-motion flight simulators, indoor amusement park rides, a theater and over 100 education programs!

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  • @Tyfn954
    @Tyfn954 Жыл бұрын

    Just imagine. There is a human being inside that machine who’s getting ripped apart from that shells. Fascinating and sad.

  • @rubiconnn

    @rubiconnn

    11 ай бұрын

    It's okay, they are nazis.

  • @bensmitt7088

    @bensmitt7088

    10 ай бұрын

    Just imagine most of those men are in their mid 20’s. The majority of 20 year olds today are too worthless for words.

  • @rubiconnn

    @rubiconnn

    10 ай бұрын

    @@bensmitt7088 The 20 year olds of today are vastly more hard working than from the 20th century. Today's teenagers work for a tiny fraction of the pay that older generations used to get and work far longer hours.

  • @eaf-target-xx2745

    @eaf-target-xx2745

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@rubiconnnkeep dreaming. 20 year Olds today don't even know what gender they are, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. They wouldn't know hard work if it hit them in the face

  • @MACKWESTERN

    @MACKWESTERN

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@rubiconnn highly doubt that.. show the data on that!! would they get in a tin can with propellers and risk their lives for their country to fight Imperialst , Fascists and Authoritist?? Highly doubt it!!

  • @benkendall7489
    @benkendall7489 Жыл бұрын

    I'm floored by the quality of these, by far the crispest and clearest gun camera footage I've ever seen, gobsmacking

  • @slick4401
    @slick4401 Жыл бұрын

    That date, December 23rd, was right in the middle of the Battle of the Bulge, the first day when the weather improved enough for allied fighters to operate over the area.

  • @nickmitsialis

    @nickmitsialis

    9 ай бұрын

    that date or the next saw the largest 8th AAF bomber force ever gathered, in support of the Allied ground forces. I think it saw something like 2000 or 2500 heavy bombers flew missions (and we're not even counting the countless sorties flown by the tactical bombers and fighter bombers of the Second and 9the Tactical Air Forces.

  • @Smoshy16
    @Smoshy16 Жыл бұрын

    This is a lot of new footage to me. Thanks for posting!

  • @geoffreydowen5793
    @geoffreydowen57934 ай бұрын

    I'm a Brit navy veteran and just want to say thank you to the archivist 's for logging this historically important material . priceless 😍 Thank you

  • @thisisnumber0

    @thisisnumber0

    3 ай бұрын

    He nicked it😊

  • @user-di2pc2rg2c

    @user-di2pc2rg2c

    8 күн бұрын

    IT's russian game "lL2" ;)

  • @danielburgess7785
    @danielburgess77858 ай бұрын

    The number of contrails is stunning.

  • @BimmieJames

    @BimmieJames

    4 ай бұрын

    They might be pseudo contrails, as contrails are water vapor; a lot of these are pierced fuel tanks releasing atomized fuel.

  • @douglasdixon524
    @douglasdixon524 Жыл бұрын

    1:23, All of those contrails looks so cool.

  • @TheRaulr151
    @TheRaulr151 Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely terrific video.

  • @Youtubax
    @Youtubax7 ай бұрын

    This footage from late December ‘44 probably highlights the days the allied air forces scored the fastest air victories over Europe. Barely a week later on January 1st ‘45, Operation Bodenplatte was launch by an already crippled Luftwaffe on a desperate attempt to give their ground forces a break. Germany was virtually out of experienced pilots and very low on fuel supplies with aircraft that weren’t mainteined propperly due to logistic problems. After that, the few remaining German squadrons that managed to put fighters in the air were pretty much filling a formality as most had already accepted, althought not officially, the inevitable defeat.

  • @roderernst9990

    @roderernst9990

    5 ай бұрын

    yeah, thats the narative !

  • @MatthewHerronplus
    @MatthewHerronplus Жыл бұрын

    My grandfather flew F4U Corsair in the Marine Corps. I believe his rank was Major. Flew bombing raids over the pacific. This dogfighting stuff is amazing. I cant believe how close range they were!

  • @Shift2Movies

    @Shift2Movies

    10 ай бұрын

    My cousin's grandpa also flew Corsairs, and he lived to tell us about the time he broke two feet off his F4U Corsair's wing tip when landing on a carrier!

  • @derekpierkowski7641

    @derekpierkowski7641

    9 ай бұрын

    Congrats! My Pops flew Corsairs too. Vmf 323 Deathrattlers! Bet yer grand Dad was as Cool As my Dad.

  • @MatthewHerronplus

    @MatthewHerronplus

    9 ай бұрын

    @@derekpierkowski7641 thank you to your pops for his service!!! Ya their generation truly defined cool...

  • @MatthewHerronplus

    @MatthewHerronplus

    9 ай бұрын

    @shift2movies actually my grandfather also had an accident in a Corsair on a carrier. A plane landed on top of his plane and the prop crashed thru his cockpit. He was saved by his helmet which at the time was not a mandatory thing

  • @derekpierkowski7641

    @derekpierkowski7641

    9 ай бұрын

    @@MatthewHerronplus Pops would say "Scares me and I'm FEARLESS!!!🤣👍

  • @larryschmid3834
    @larryschmid383411 ай бұрын

    Man those guys were fearless in those flying buckets compared to what they fly today.

  • @Ididntaskforahandleyoutube

    @Ididntaskforahandleyoutube

    8 ай бұрын

    Buckets? Jesus.

  • @leemiguel3437

    @leemiguel3437

    16 күн бұрын

    At the time these planes were state of the art and the pilots knew no different.

  • @Brad-pv8uc
    @Brad-pv8ucАй бұрын

    Those fw190s were tough old birds

  • @scottparis6355
    @scottparis63552 ай бұрын

    Interesting how many of those target fghters were content to fly along straight and level foe 10 or 20 seconds while they were taking hits. I would think that the first time you heard or saw a bullet hitting you, you would cram the stick and rudder into their most extreme positions, and roll/spin out of the way. Maybe these were new pilots, and it took a few seconds for them to figure out what was happening.

  • @Munakas-wq3gp

    @Munakas-wq3gp

    Ай бұрын

    The films are slow motion. Also, usually if the plane flies straight it means the pilot has been hit and unconcious or dead...

  • @DKR-eg7pu

    @DKR-eg7pu

    21 күн бұрын

    by this time most pilots were rookies with a few hours of flying time, barely able to get it off the ground. Easy targets for USAF.

  • @Munakas-wq3gp

    @Munakas-wq3gp

    20 күн бұрын

    @@DKR-eg7pu In aviation, pilot experience and skill has a huge role in survivability. Noobs get wasted even if they fly superior planes vs inferior ones. This is true in real and simulated worlds...

  • @jj4791
    @jj4791 Жыл бұрын

    Incredible footage. Its amazing how well these tapes have held up. I wonder how much was lost to time?

  • @jacobdzik6238

    @jacobdzik6238

    11 ай бұрын

    In vatican and City of London. Thank You

  • @marine4lyfe85

    @marine4lyfe85

    8 ай бұрын

    Every allied plane that was shot down took it's gun camera footage with it.

  • @elblitzb
    @elblitzb Жыл бұрын

    Daaamn. Last one was point blank!

  • @bryantbridgewaters7177
    @bryantbridgewaters7177 Жыл бұрын

    Very nice Bf-109G-10 there at the end

  • @MarsFKA

    @MarsFKA

    8 ай бұрын

    Just sitting there, begging to be shot at.

  • @achimstemmer889

    @achimstemmer889

    3 ай бұрын

    Yep, could be showing JG 301 markings on the fuselage..

  • @bryantbridgewaters7177

    @bryantbridgewaters7177

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@achimstemmer889 Good eye. Yeah I think so too. Looks like it has the yellow and red reichsverteidigung bands on the fuselage.

  • @christopherhenery182
    @christopherhenery18210 ай бұрын

    Is there any Combat Footage from the 5th Air Born 1943-1945 ?

  • @enzogamer0843
    @enzogamer0843 Жыл бұрын

    Brooo the bulets lighting on the enemy plane fuselage that was f**King cool

  • @leventekovacs5291
    @leventekovacs5291 Жыл бұрын

    Now this is cool af

  • @judgepamtheredggfr6910

    @judgepamtheredggfr6910

    Жыл бұрын

    nah fam it was lit literally 💀

  • @honahwikeepa2115
    @honahwikeepa21156 ай бұрын

    Incredible and tragic. The greatness and the depravity of man.

  • @raffaele290663
    @raffaele2906637 ай бұрын

    In the first sequence I see Capt. R.W. Foy strafing an enemy plane that just crashed to the ground. Since it must have been obvious to Capt. Foy that the plane was impossible to recover after that crash, I wonder what was the point in that strafing, if not making sure that the enemy pilot did not survive. I also wonder whether this was the standard practice in the 363 squadron, or in the air force.

  • @terrancedactielle5460

    @terrancedactielle5460

    5 ай бұрын

    Seems harsh strafing the downed plane but I imagine Capt Foy had lost many friends at the hands of the Luftwaffe at this point in the war so he probably wasnt in a merciful mood. If this was behind enemy lines there was a chance if the pilot survived unscathed he would be back up in a different plane the next day.

  • @elessartelcontar9415

    @elessartelcontar9415

    4 ай бұрын

    It is forbidden by the Geneva and Hague Conventions to fire at people bailing out of a disabled aircraft. The same rule applies to a downed pilot. He is out of the disabled airplane and is hors de combat (out of combat). He is not a combatant anymore, but a non-combatant. A pilot's job is to engage air-to-air combat and to attack ground troops from the air. It is legal to fire away at paratroopers.

  • @terminallyonline02

    @terminallyonline02

    4 ай бұрын

    @@elessartelcontar9415 That's completely false. That part of the Hague convention never passed, and the part of the Geneva conventions which outlaws it was added in 1977. However you feel about it, it was perfectly legal at the time. I encourage you to read Alexander Gillespie's "A History of the Laws of War: Volume 1."

  • @iannagel2499

    @iannagel2499

    Ай бұрын

    As the aircraft bellied in and didn't explode, the allied pilot's action is called making sure the guy inside doesn't live to fight another day. The American pilot had ,no doubt, lost friends over the course of the war and would have been in no mood to be lenient.

  • @ToddSauve

    @ToddSauve

    29 күн бұрын

    @@elessartelcontar9415 Chuck Yeager stated very clearly in one interview about his time as a fighter pilot in Europe during WW2 that he was under orders to shoot enemy pilots hanging in their parachutes, and he did. Straight from Chuck's own mouth on video somewhere here on KZread. Wars are terrible things.

  • @Sherwoody
    @Sherwoody5 ай бұрын

    Chilling, 2:34 mark, an inexperienced pilot that didn’t jettison his drop tank.

  • @jonathancraig4296
    @jonathancraig42966 ай бұрын

    First reel, CPT Foy violated the rules of war shooting that aircraft as it crashed into the ground

  • @GeneralNOH

    @GeneralNOH

    5 ай бұрын

    Problem is once youre in an actual war, the "rules of war" often dont mean a whole lot and arent really enforced. Remember, only 11 nazis were sentenced in the nuremburg tribunal, but a great deal more partook. Even in the modern day the USA have knowingly bombed civillians with 0 consequence, even what Israel has done recently went completely unchecked, only punishment being told "Please dont bomb civillians"

  • @wanderer7755

    @wanderer7755

    Ай бұрын

    Such is war. Perhaps Capt Foy ‘s best friend was shot out of his parachute that morning hm? We’ll just never know. Your comment is utterly pointless.

  • @michalkuliberda5102

    @michalkuliberda5102

    7 күн бұрын

    I'm Polish and all four of my grandparents went through five years lasting German occupations of Poland. With whole respect - I believe your comment is 100% right. But I want make you sure that Capt Foy's sin wasn't actually the biggest violation of rules while WW 2. 🙂👍

  • @chrishill9715
    @chrishill9715 Жыл бұрын

    Eighth Air Force , late 1944. I wonder if they are P51 Mustangs against these enemy fighters?

  • @francescofissore161

    @francescofissore161

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes unless it reads 56th Fighter Group, they kept P-47s until war's end.

  • @jj4791

    @jj4791

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes, in one of the early clips you can see he is firing only 2x .50 cals. P-51s had less ammo in their 4x outboard guns so they default to 2 remaining after they are spent.

  • @samburkes7552

    @samburkes7552

    Жыл бұрын

    @@francescofissore161 56th..That was Fran Gabreski's unit group..

  • @PiggyOinkenstein-ts4dp
    @PiggyOinkenstein-ts4dp14 күн бұрын

    Heavy stuff man,. real heavy.

  • @Rhino1277HotRails
    @Rhino1277HotRails Жыл бұрын

    December '44....most of these poor devils probably had very few hours....not punching off their tanks, flying straight and level...well, it had to be done.

  • @francescofissore161
    @francescofissore161 Жыл бұрын

    at 2:53, think it's a 'long-nosed' FW-190D-9.

  • @JGCR59

    @JGCR59

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes it is

  • @achimstemmer889

    @achimstemmer889

    3 ай бұрын

    I first thought also but you barely can see a bulge on the left side of the fuselage in front of the cockpit which can only be the super charger air intake and this was sitting on the left side only on DB engines; the D9 was fitted with a Jumo 213A engine with its air intake on the right side, so it s probably a late Me 109 version....in addition to that you can clearly see the spiralspinner, only very few D9 were painted like that at their smaller spinners..my 2 cents

  • @hooker9453
    @hooker94538 ай бұрын

    It`s nice not to hear the fake machine sounds added to some dogfighting videos.

  • @yoggeebear3644
    @yoggeebear36444 ай бұрын

    Crazy to think in the 40's men aged 18-30 were doing this instead of video games. Tremendous courage and bravery... imagine loading into a sperry ball turret on a b-17 knowing that it was almost certain you would be blown to smithereens... flying over the ocean in a dogfight knowing that even if you land safely... your more than likely dead to a watery grave when the plane disappears into the darkness beneath you

  • @ekswhy2147
    @ekswhy21478 ай бұрын

    0:39 - Germán pilots called that infamousness.

  • @at1970
    @at197010 ай бұрын

    Can’t have been much fun being a German pilot by this point in the war. A few doz hours of training, lousy gas, no spare parts and the enemy is just getting better and more numerous.

  • @annoyingbstard9407

    @annoyingbstard9407

    9 ай бұрын

    They were equally poor at the beginning of the war against any competent opposition, as the battle of Britain showed.

  • @MarsFKA

    @MarsFKA

    9 ай бұрын

    @@annoyingbstard9407 The RAF had the same problem during 1940.; They had lost a lot of experienced pilots in the Battle of France and were feeling the pinch when the air war shifted across the Channel. During the Battle of Britain, fighter pilots fresh out of training were posted to operational squadrons where, if the squadron had been rotated out of the line, they received on-site training to try to bring them up to some sort of operational standard when their squadron went back up the sharp end. Many new pilots were posted straight to front line squadrons that didn't have the time to train them and many of them didn't survive their first action. It was said that a pilot who survived his first five actions had usually learned enough to improve his chances of staying alive. Some new pilots just fitted straight in. Bob Doe, for example, got two me110s in his first action.

  • @marknorris1381

    @marknorris1381

    6 ай бұрын

    I read a great book many years ago written by a German fighter pilot called 'Heaven Next Stop'. Highly recommended if you want such a perspective.

  • @terryfowler6090
    @terryfowler60908 ай бұрын

    That "human being" will kill you if he gets half a chance.

  • @d1agram4
    @d1agram43 ай бұрын

    0:37 bad form. Plane was down.

  • @MrBBaron
    @MrBBaron11 күн бұрын

    At this point in the war, most German skilled pilots were killed, and those that remained had little training and flight time. They were easy prey for the experienced Allied pilots.

  • @stephenbartley8133
    @stephenbartley813322 күн бұрын

    I'm British, and I know , If not for thousands of American men .. I wouldnt of never existed..I have no way of thanking them..

  • @scottw5315

    @scottw5315

    21 күн бұрын

    We helped but you handed the first defeat to Hitler in the Battle of Britain. When the mad Corporal invaded the Soviet Union the war would be lost to Germany. It merely took for more years to finish them.

  • @Nobody-rj2me
    @Nobody-rj2me Жыл бұрын

    2:36 did it just hit the bomb at the bottom???

  • @francescofissore161

    @francescofissore161

    Жыл бұрын

    not a bomb, it's a 300 liters 'belly' tank' typical of Me-109s.

  • @louisavondart9178
    @louisavondart91782 ай бұрын

    Who else was pulling hard on the stick to keep those enemy planes in view?

  • @markpaul-ym5wg
    @markpaul-ym5wg7 ай бұрын

    That German pilot bailed out when their was nothing wrong with his aircraft.The American pilot just kept following the empty aircraft until it spinned out and hit the ground.Chalk one up for the 8th USAAC!

  • @MDzmitry
    @MDzmitry Жыл бұрын

    1:55 Was just painful to watch, if that were .50cals fired at the Fw 190. Seeing hits all over the cockpit, I can't help but feel pity for the poor soul inside the aircraft.

  • @kittyhawk9707

    @kittyhawk9707

    11 ай бұрын

    Well they shouldn't have invaded Poland .. The war wouldn't have started and he would have been safe at home ..doing normal boring stuff ...

  • @noballsbigshaft4486

    @noballsbigshaft4486

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kittyhawk9707 Yes, because that random ass pilot had so much say in that decision. You're a fuckin genius.

  • @kittyhawk9707

    @kittyhawk9707

    11 ай бұрын

    @@noballsbigshaft4486 " just following orders" .. biggest excuse for doing shit ever .. they where all loving it when it was all going their way .. BTW .. What did the "random ass pilot " think he was getting into? .. A heavily armed FW190 is not a Cessna .. he wasn't going sightseeing was he??

  • @noballsbigshaft4486

    @noballsbigshaft4486

    11 ай бұрын

    @@kittyhawk9707 They were forced to follow orders. Soldiers that refused to fight would be imprisoned. That pilot knew what he was doing, but that doesn't mean he really had a choice. I also never said anything about them following orders, I said that pilot didn't have any say in the invasion of Poland. And you can't just group millions of people into one opinion. Not all Germans were loving it, most probably wanted it to end. War is hell, and the eastern front had the most brutal fighting ever, even when Germany was winning.

  • @MDzmitry

    @MDzmitry

    10 ай бұрын

    Not being apologetic towards Nazism or the Luftwaffe, but I'd be more happy to see the pilot bail out. Death of a human is always tragic, and war is never a fun thing.

  • @PicroMenis88
    @PicroMenis8810 ай бұрын

    this is fucked up and impressive at the same time

  • @adamdelarozza1985
    @adamdelarozza19859 ай бұрын

    cool

  • @Marween
    @Marween Жыл бұрын

    ww2 dog fights are insane!

  • @veterankasrkin7416
    @veterankasrkin741611 ай бұрын

    No tracers?

  • @kittyhawk9707

    @kittyhawk9707

    11 ай бұрын

    usually 1 in something like every 10 rounds was a tracer.. and they fired in very small bursts 1/2 sec's so you may not see them ..

  • @alanluscombe8a553
    @alanluscombe8a5538 ай бұрын

    Damn. Shooting them up as they crash landed

  • @anthonymorrison2167
    @anthonymorrison21679 ай бұрын

    they need the same cameras these guys were using to take all of those ufo pictures these are better quality than the new stuff.

  • @mirrorblue100
    @mirrorblue1007 ай бұрын

    I'm just always amazed at how poor quality the gc footage was.

  • @MRFLESHSTORM
    @MRFLESHSTORM6 ай бұрын

    as soon as i saw every thing in reverse i stopped watching.

  • @federalreservebrown2507
    @federalreservebrown25073 ай бұрын

    looks like they had chemtrails back then too

  • @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    3 ай бұрын

    jet stream not chemtraikl

  • @scottw5315

    @scottw5315

    21 күн бұрын

    @@F-15E_StrikeEagle Sarcasm my man, sarcasm.

  • @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    21 күн бұрын

    @@scottw5315 ok

  • @manuelperales8217
    @manuelperales8217 Жыл бұрын

    I know war is like that, but I don't think you can really be proud of strafing an enemy pilot who has just crash-landed. Some will say that this enemy will no longer be able to get into another fighter and go on killing comrades. But this scene must surely leave a taste of both victory and bitterness.

  • @janreznak881

    @janreznak881

    10 ай бұрын

    Deliberate murder. An actual war crime. But these are the "good guys", and the winner writes the history. There's a famous color film of a P-47 Group, where they're proud to show things like strafing a famer on a horse and cart. These are your "heroes".

  • @sithticklefingers7255

    @sithticklefingers7255

    10 ай бұрын

    The allied pilot may have just lost friends or ground personnel to that fighter. People will get vicious over that.

  • @SunofYork

    @SunofYork

    10 ай бұрын

    You are with the decents..... a minority on KZread

  • @manuelperales8217

    @manuelperales8217

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sithticklefingers7255 However, many fighter pilots on both sides claimed to be more focused on destroying the enemy aircraft than killing its pilot.

  • @NonSektur
    @NonSektur8 ай бұрын

    Nice material. And thank you for NOT adding silly sound effects or some idiotic music.

  • @notaulgoodman9732
    @notaulgoodman9732 Жыл бұрын

    Cpt. R. W. Foy. Google search doesn't yield anything much.

  • @Peter1x2y
    @Peter1x2y9 ай бұрын

    you had luck that GRÖFAZ was not clever and did not see the ME262 ... !!

  • @johnadams-wp2yb
    @johnadams-wp2yb5 ай бұрын

    At this stage of the war, the Luftwaffe were down to newly qualified pilots. .50 calibre fodder, poor sods.

  • @ricardocorbie6803
    @ricardocorbie680310 ай бұрын

    I am critical of the first frame, without having the thought of the attacking pilot,, I can only say if the Hun has made or is trying to get down, you belly in,, for god’s sake stop firing!! Clearly this guy is out of the fight, can do no harm, you have the kill,, anyway God bless!! Just imagine if positions were reversed!! The old proverb “ do onto other’s as you would like to be done to you!”

  • @natowaveenjoyer9862

    @natowaveenjoyer9862

    7 ай бұрын

    An enemy that survives is an enemy who will come back to fight you another day. That pilot ensured it didn't happen. I'd expect nothing less from our servicemen.

  • @ricardocorbie6803

    @ricardocorbie6803

    7 ай бұрын

    @@natowaveenjoyer9862 were you to be on the opposite side of that action,,, I guarantee you wouldn’t feel that way!! Trust me, as a retired former soldier!!

  • @ToddSauve

    @ToddSauve

    29 күн бұрын

    @@ricardocorbie6803 Chuck Yeager said he was under orders to shoot enemy pilots in their parachutes so they didn't come back up in another airplane. He said he did so. War is a wretched business.

  • @mr.samurai901
    @mr.samurai90128 күн бұрын

    I felt bad for the first pilot. It looked like he survived the crash landing sbd then got strafed into a fireball... Definitely not the WW1 type chivalry at all...

  • @argos2500
    @argos2500 Жыл бұрын

    👏👏👏👏👍👍

  • @1FokkerAce
    @1FokkerAce10 ай бұрын

    1:40... that pilot was alive and kicking. 1:52.... that pilot was dead as Hell.

  • @Mag_Aoidh
    @Mag_Aoidh Жыл бұрын

    Well that sucks, maybe barely survive a crash landing then get ripped apart when you come to a stop…

  • @janreznak881

    @janreznak881

    10 ай бұрын

    It's called murder.

  • @dannibarber5793

    @dannibarber5793

    9 ай бұрын

    It's called he can,t get in another fighter and kill again

  • @SkinPeeleR
    @SkinPeeleR10 ай бұрын

    Hu? Foofighter @1:55? 😮

  • @neriksen
    @neriksen3 ай бұрын

    Some had honour, many were evil incarnate. Guess what side the latter.

  • @pandamusic8373
    @pandamusic837311 ай бұрын

    I have the real footage of this- nice sound effects……..there was no sound in gun cameras in ww2 fyi don’t lie to the audience.

  • @grahampalmer9337
    @grahampalmer93377 ай бұрын

    By 44 & later most of the german pilots these allied ones came up against were poorly trained & inexperienced kids. Long gone were the swathes of luftwaffe combat honed pilots, even to train them. Very much the same situation the RAF was in in the summer of 1940. The losses amongst seasoned pilots was near catastrophic. The German's problem from 44 on was two fold: loss of experienced pilots & the problem of replacing lost aircraft - a 'catch 22' scenario. Watch how many german aircraft are flown, or continue to fly, on flat non evasive courses when attacked. Six or eight 50 calibre guns all rapidly firing Armoured Piercing Incendiary or High Explosive rounds is devastating on any thin aluminum skinned fragile 'vessel'.

  • @brooklynbummer
    @brooklynbummer6 ай бұрын

    Cannot legally steal anything, dumb idea.

  • @Roter_Baron
    @Roter_Baron9 ай бұрын

    O primeiro cara pousou, e o americano continuou atirando nele 😶‍🌫

  • @yourgrandmasalzheimerpills1143
    @yourgrandmasalzheimerpills1143 Жыл бұрын

    Damn the second clip where the other aircraft is already crashing and the other pilot still feels the need to gun him down is kinda sad. Hope he had a reason for it.

  • @LordNinja109

    @LordNinja109

    Жыл бұрын

    You destroy a plane, it's replaced in days. You kill the pilot, that's months or training and experience that can't be replaced.

  • @janreznak881

    @janreznak881

    10 ай бұрын

    @@LordNinja109 That's murder. It's against the rules of war. Happens on all sides, yes, but the 'good guys" are proud of it. THAT's the difference.

  • @stlrockn

    @stlrockn

    10 ай бұрын

    I thought the same thing. The enemy aircraft was impacting and he still fired a few more rounds into the wreckage. Makes me wonder what happened leading up to this.

  • @graygray1960

    @graygray1960

    9 ай бұрын

    Take your worst feared moment in life, x it by 100, then act rationally or without malice at that moment.

  • @chargree

    @chargree

    9 ай бұрын

    He did. It’s called WAR. Are you really that dumb? People who have never sacrificed anything for this country getting to judge those who protected all the rights those people have is the great irony of our time.

  • @johnmcdonald157
    @johnmcdonald1573 ай бұрын

    Seems as if the German pilots make little or no attempt to evade being pursed.

  • @madmanmechanic8847
    @madmanmechanic8847Ай бұрын

    What a trip most of the shots the plane in front just flys along doesn't even try to evade just flys there and let himself get shot all to hell .Must of been very green pilots no combat experence or training

  • @martinjeffery3590
    @martinjeffery35908 ай бұрын

    JUST IMAGINE HAVING TO RIP OFF THE VIDS FROM OTHER PEOPLE

  • @AirZoo

    @AirZoo

    8 ай бұрын

    we scanned these from the physical reels in our collection...

  • @davidmorris6278
    @davidmorris62784 ай бұрын

    War what is it good for absolutely nothing

  • @dannielson2946
    @dannielson2946 Жыл бұрын

    The USA had small portable video 📹 cameras in ww2 that were closely guarded and kept secret 😳 for years...I mean the capacity to do that in the 1940s is insane!!!! And wouldn't be available to civilians for years!!!! Dude even in the 70s and 80s video cameras weren't that portable...not till the 90s did they really becomes economical and portable and widely available! But we are seeing 👀 real gun camera footage from a small portable video recorder like maybe the size of a shoe box ...dude that's so interesting 🤔 😳 I'm just so! Startled !

  • @Rjelmiles

    @Rjelmiles

    Жыл бұрын

    It wasn't video. They were 16mm film cameras mounted in the wings of P-47s and P-51s. The same carmeras were mounted in the nose or wing pylons on the P-38s. They weren't kept secret. There is an amazing amount of newsreel footage from the war years that featured (then) recently shot gun camera film that was shown in movie theaters across the U.S. homefront.

  • @ernestchadwell9069

    @ernestchadwell9069

    Жыл бұрын

    Lol. Look up "cine camera" - civilians had them too.

  • @davidgrahamscott

    @davidgrahamscott

    10 ай бұрын

    Not a video camera but a film camera, dood

  • @AlexAlex-dt7im

    @AlexAlex-dt7im

    9 ай бұрын

    И что там секретного, у нас у русских тоже стояли на многих самолетах.Обычный фотопулемет.

  • @pvtjohntowle4081

    @pvtjohntowle4081

    7 ай бұрын

    It was called a Sony Handicam they had them in the 40 's for real didn't they? 😅😅😅😅

  • @xaxoon69
    @xaxoon6914 күн бұрын

    The poor bastards. A few weeks later, the war was over. Was there a code of honor not to kill parachutist pilots?

  • @janreznak881
    @janreznak88110 ай бұрын

    0:30 seconds in. One of the hero "good guys" is strafing a plane that has just crash landed. Deliberate murder.

  • @awilson2385

    @awilson2385

    10 ай бұрын

    You mean the guy in the warplane who was trying to kill the good guys moments before? 70 years later and some armchair quarterback is making judgment calls from mom's basement.

  • @hansgruber650
    @hansgruber6507 ай бұрын

    Germans shot down more aircraft than all but their footage is minimal, why?

  • @stephenhowlett6345
    @stephenhowlett63457 ай бұрын

    That first one didnt mess about he even fired on the crashed nazi and set it ablaze.

  • @davidrivero7943
    @davidrivero79439 ай бұрын

    Werent they just indoctrinized nubie Pilots by that late in the War ? Them Butchers got sent off to the Slaughter Plant & quartered.

  • @torsten811
    @torsten8117 ай бұрын

    US Americans are shooting at defenseless pilots who are already lying on the ground. Pilots who jumped from the parachute were also shot at. This was an absolute taboo for the Germans.

  • @andthenhedead6076

    @andthenhedead6076

    5 ай бұрын

    It was taboo for both sides however it’s hard to stop individuals in something as messy as a world war

  • @noelmckenna3510
    @noelmckenna351010 ай бұрын

    My grandfather was a spitfire pilot his plane took a hit and he baled out luckily he managed to fall into the path of a German me262 and he grabbed on crawled along the fuselage and pulled off the canopy and ejected the Luftwaffe pilot, my grandfather flew the plane back to bigginhill .

  • @karaokeblaster3081

    @karaokeblaster3081

    10 ай бұрын

    LOL looks like the truth

  • @teenagerinsac

    @teenagerinsac

    10 ай бұрын

    Whopperville yeah right😮

  • @MarsFKA

    @MarsFKA

    8 ай бұрын

    @@langstonrowe8243 His grandfather was Battler Britton - they wrote comics about him in the 1950s. He could do *anything*!

  • @rob379lqz
    @rob379lqz8 ай бұрын

    Sheesh! The sights are upside-down! No wonder it took so long to win the war when they finally inverted everything. Brits🙄

  • @bezimienny_andzej6425
    @bezimienny_andzej6425 Жыл бұрын

    Too bad Luftwaffe archives got burned along with tens of thousands of civilians during the Dresden pointless war crime bombing. Unfortunately all that survived was uploaded in lowest quality possible. There are some videos from Finnish and Italian archives, but no one ever bothered to digitalise those. Too bad because I'd love to see effects of MG151/20 on fighters - we have extremely little of such footage.

  • @kittyhawk9707

    @kittyhawk9707

    11 ай бұрын

    Yeah and i suppose Putin is your HERO .. BTW you care to spare a thought for all the civvies that lost their lives to Nazi bombs ? ... no thought not ... You reap what you sow .. Don't start a war then cry when you get your ass whooped!!

  • @BasedPoliwhirl

    @BasedPoliwhirl

    10 ай бұрын

    If only Germany had refrained from pointless warcrime Poland invasions the Dresden bombing might never of happened.

  • @bezimienny_andzej6425

    @bezimienny_andzej6425

    10 ай бұрын

    @@BasedPoliwhirl One pointless war crime does not justify another.

  • @awilson2385

    @awilson2385

    10 ай бұрын

    There were legitimate military targets in Dresden. The "war crime" mantra is pure bullshit.

  • @nickmitsialis

    @nickmitsialis

    9 ай бұрын

    Dresden was bombed at the request of "Uncle Joe" to support The Red Army's drive in the city; I've always been convinced that the faux outraged "reaction" to Dresden was merely because it's located in East Germany. Hamburg got 'flash fried' in 1943; it was such a terrible firestorm that even 'Dolph' took notice of damage and chaos==but nobody ever bitches about Hamburg. (then again, they never bitched about the VERY FIRST firestorm bombing: Belgrade 1941).

  • @reddragon84n
    @reddragon84n3 ай бұрын

    0:44 why is he shooting the crashed plane? war criminal

  • @tylerkaralynallen9286

    @tylerkaralynallen9286

    2 ай бұрын

    Actually not. This practice wasn’t banned until the 70’s At the time it was acceptable practice.

  • @neriksen
    @neriksen6 ай бұрын

    He’s hit the deck and yet the dog keeps firing. So typically American so many cowboys, so few gentlemen. Imagine if the luftwaffe ace that guided the B17 home over the channel acted in that manner. The guy in the mirror will escape his doing.

  • @whatever55fsx
    @whatever55fsx10 ай бұрын

    Just imagine a pilot flying under the Nazi regime, a regime that caused millions to suffer and die , fascinating and SAD, I don't think so!

  • @jacobjonm0511
    @jacobjonm05113 ай бұрын

    Anericans were so unfair towards the enemy! They are known for shooting enemy pilots in parachut. In the first video the German pilot crash landed and the Yank shooting at the wreckage. So inhuman!

  • @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    @F-15E_StrikeEagle

    3 ай бұрын

    tell me ONE incident where an american pilot shit at pilot in a parachute also, unfair? WAR ISNT FAIR LIFE ISNT FAIR GET OVER YOURSELF

  • @jacobjonm0511

    @jacobjonm0511

    3 ай бұрын

    @@F-15E_StrikeEagle you sound so clueless mate. Just search for "US airforce straffing WWII" and watch how your "heros" were shooting randomly into civilian houses, farmers, animal farms, fishermen, and of course enemy pilot in parachut. Targeting civilians during a war is a war crime. Shooting enemy pilot is parachut is a war crime. You got away with it because you were winners. I am not even from Europe.

  • @jacobjonm0511

    @jacobjonm0511

    Ай бұрын

    @@F-15E_StrikeEagle look up in the internet and KZread and US pilots interviews themselves. Learn to research.

  • @ToddSauve

    @ToddSauve

    29 күн бұрын

    @@F-15E_StrikeEagle Chuck Yeager himself said their orders were to shoot enemy pilots hanging in their parachutes. Words straight from Chuck himself, with no visible remorse. 🤷‍♂

  • @scottw5315

    @scottw5315

    21 күн бұрын

    Is it lawful to strafe ground troops? What's the difference? At this point in the war, the Germans had killed tens of millions of Russians and hundreds of thousands of Allied forces. Their armies were still all over Europe and Scandinavia. They were still firing V-1s and V-2s at London and in support of their ground forces. To say they weren't getting any sympathy is a massive understatement.

  • @ADRAPER1303
    @ADRAPER130310 ай бұрын

    They did Nazi that coming.

  • @TheEdgeOfChairs
    @TheEdgeOfChairsАй бұрын

    Some nazis didnt have a very merry Christmas... Or any Christmas in 1944 or beyond. Id feel bad for them, but then I remember that they're Nazis

  • @mot-trance
    @mot-trance10 ай бұрын

    I see there are 95% of just Flight-Stdents in the German Fighters as well as they are sitting ducks, not see an enemy behind, dont release the extra fuel tank, fligh straight ahead... Thats how you become a As...

  • @Joe-bx4wn
    @Joe-bx4wn10 ай бұрын

    Tojo lost his Mojo. 🎌

  • @brentcole70
    @brentcole7010 ай бұрын

    Merka

  • @brentcole70
    @brentcole7010 ай бұрын

    Bet there’s boys weren’t some goof goons beehawww

  • @thisisnumber0

    @thisisnumber0

    3 ай бұрын

    In English?