Airstrikes during World War II, Germany 1945 (in color)
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- Опубликовано: 9 мар 2014
- American pilots filmed their airstrikes on German freight trains, vehicles and factories in 1945. In their cameras they had color film material.
At 6:00 it comes to a massive explosion, probably after fuel tanks have been hit.
Music: • Freestone
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Filmed in color makes the war seem like it was only yesterday and serves as a reminder that this was total war.
4:45 Poor horse...
You know...if I had been a railroader in Germany 1939-1945, I would have asked for a BIG raise to work in these kind of conditions...
My mother was down there. On an open field with her mother. Alone. Walking.They were shot at by a fighter pilot. Just so. They survived. She was three years old then. Now, she is 75 and still shivers when a plane flies close over.
Similar story with my grandma on my moms side. As a child she grew up in Austria Hungary when the war broke out. Witnessing her Jewish neighbors and friends being slaughtered in the streets outside her house by the nazis. When the Allied forces got to the area she lived in she was forced to flee with her little sister. She was running and pushing her sister in a wheel barrel through an open field when a fighter dove down and started firing on them. She as well suffered from extreme PTSD.
@@gbitt1502 Except they weren't, you're just lying about what Germans did to cover your people's asses for the crimes they committed against them. There's still no proof to this day about the figures and references to those figures was announced in the late 1800's and is also mentioned in religious text.
Let me quote directly from the book "Yeager, an autobiography" , by Chuck Yeager himself (Page 63 - "On the Deck"):
"Our seventy-five Mustangs were assigned an area of fifty miles by fifty miles inside Germany and ordered to strafe anything that moved. The object was to demoralize the German population. Nobody asked our opinion about whether we were actually demoralizing the survivors or maybe enraging them to stage their own maximum effort in behalf of the nazi war effort. We weren't asked how we felt zapping people. It was a miserable, dirty mission, but we all took off on time and did it. If it occurred to anyone to refuse to participate (nobody refused, as I recall) that person would have probably been court-matialed. I remember seating next to Bochkay at the briefing and whispering to him "If we are gonna do things like this, we sure as hell better make sure we're on the winning side." That's still my view." (end quote)
Thanks for not adding phony gun sounds that so many guys do. I really like the clap-board IDs. You can figure out where they were and what their targets were. Too many of these trailers have been cut off - gone forever.
4:47 a really close call for the pilot
Awesome footage. Thanks for posting!
because in ww2... everything was a target
Watching those tracer bullets ricocheting high into the air reminds me of a news item I read back in the - I think - mid/late 1960s. The Australian Air Force was flying Mirage fighters back then, made under licence in Australia and fitted with two 30-mm Aden cannon.
A pilot from Williamtown Air Force Base was making ground strafing runs at the range one day when his engine went clang and suddenly lost power. He ejected and when the wreckage was later examined they found a cannon shell inside the engine. He had made a strafing run and, as he flew over the target, scooped up one of his own shells as it ricocheted off the ground.
If I had seen such a thing in a movie, I would have scoffed, thinking: "that's impossible."
Quite amazing the things that happen.
I still marvel at the picture of two bullets that collided and dropped to the ground connected. I believe it was found on a battle ground from WWI.
An American jet fighter managed to shoot itself down by firing a burst and descending rapidly into its own burst of bullets in the 50’s or 60’s
2:45 you can see return fire🔥 from ground
Thumbnail and Best part at 6:03
at 3:25 you can see one of the APIT projos fail, the tracer ignites the incendiary with the resultant airburst.
sorry for the horses...
amazing, starting at 3:36 and 3:39-3:55 watch the tracer rounds tumble, those barrels must be completely burnt out, they have a hard time hitting the ground let alone the target.
*The frame rate seems to be the only difference between this sick shit and wars of today!*
I would imagine with it going up that quick that 6:00 was ammo rather than fuel
racerdeth Yeah.
The spacing and building size makes that a munitions storage facility, maybe a factory, I can't see the main target well. All those little buildings are set a calculated distance apart to prevent sympathetic explosions, and probably with secondary concrete walls to a) make sure any explosion mainly goes upwards, and b) make sure the building is shielded from any blastwave from elsewhere. You can see the blastwave from the main building when it hits those walls, but the buildings still stand.Ok, looking at the thing frame by frame, I think that might be a prilling tower standing up next a pair of explosive or propellant manufacturing buildings. It is the smallest building in the cluster of 3 that goes up first.
High explosives storage bunker.
Top video,some unfortunate scenes in between though..
por fin encontrar algo bueno en youtube :)
They look colorized or have been excellently digitally restored.
What kind of weapon or round is the guy at 3:41 firing? Looks way too random and low velocity to be his machine guns, doesn't look like they detonate or have trails like rockets. Doesn't really look like ground fire. I'm at a loss.
Maybe a wingman firing at the same target?
Stripped rifling in the barrels.
You almost had it! It is ground fire. Looks strange from the aerial view doesn't it!
One of these guys was a hell of a marksman. He was accurate enough to hit a sentry guarding a door from 2,500 yards while flying at 400 MPH OR SO... I'M Impressed!!
Does someone know which city this is?
Horses and carts? I suppose they could have been carrying arms.
3:25- what was that puff of smoke? Did the attacking planes' bullets strike a defensive round mid- way? Or just late burning propellant or something
Deux balles se sont heurtées chacune est tirée d'un canon différent
Two bullets collided...
Finally.. a strafing video with decent music
2:57 is that a tank?
+Commodore Schmidlapp It was for a few seconds after that clip. But then it was probably a coffin.
It looks like an armored halftrack to me probably a SPW-250/1. But it's hard to tell.
Why are air strikes called on homes and villages no where near any action sights? I understand the attacks on RR’s and rail yards, but on cars on roads and civilian houses?... what’s with that?
A lot of people ask the same questions.
First, think about the time. We were at war with a vicious monster army doing terrible things to civilians and military personnel. Then take into account they were ordered to shoot ANYTHING that moves! This for two main reasons:
First, even horse drawn wagons and cars near the end could and very often did carry war materials such as ammunition and even German army personnel hidden under hay or other things. Second, was to demoralize the German population. That was often argued by the pilots themselves, but even so, no known incidence of any pilot not following orders occurred.
As for the few villages that were randomly fired on, they were abandoned by the residents and German soldiers were suspected to be hidden there. Again, take into account the era and how things were looked at. It was war! As we all know..
War Is Hell..
I hope this helps you to understand a little better. Remember, the German army were killing indiscriminately men, women and children. It was a terrible time in history for everyone! Just think if the Axis had won the war! You might be without many rights you enjoy today. You might very well be speaking Japanese and you would certainly have no Jewish neighbors!! Also, and maybe of more interest to you, Hitler started the war by invading Poland on trumpt up charges!! I repeat..
War Is Hell..
Villages abandoned by the residents? In the western part of Germany? I doubt it. @@billyboy3031
May I please ask the title / artist of the music?
The track is called "Freestone", by Antoine Marsaud: ruclips.net/video/Xne3Z2TVCQo/видео.html
@@worldwarfootage : Wow! After four years I didn't expect an answer. Thank you! 😃
@@nommadd5758 - And when I looked at your post neither did I! Nice one Mr/miss/mz/mx worldwarfootage!
4:49 The only one humain moment in the video when the truck stoped when fired.
It’s cool cause these videos we’re shown to other pilots back in the days that were in flight training so they can could get a taste of flying.
So... Anyone have any idea what it was that exploded when shot? Also, that last train seems to be shooting back.
Something highly flammable and combustible!! Doesnt really matter except that I'm pretty sure the pilots reaction was, " WOAH!! FUCK YEAH!!!!"
Trains carried flack guns. They were usually transporting troops, supplies and equipment to the front.
Most likely an ammunition or fuel truck.
Atiraram nos cavalos que não podiam revidar os disparos. Cadê á nobreza??
What rounds did these brownings use? Ralfus? They look like they explode on impact
Probably some combination of armor piercing, armor piercing incendiary and tracer rounds.
I don't think they used explosive ammunition for the .50 cal, though I may be wrong.
But on bigger calibers, like the Hispano 20mm used on P-38s (and extensively on british planes) had high explosive incendiary ammunition available.
Shooting the farmer on his tractor and trailer......wtf!
Great video! Thanks for sharing this. What is the background music?
We don't know the name of the track. The artist is Antoine Marsaud.
Thanks!
at 4:17 shooting horses
what's going on with the bullets at 3:50.. strange, Good footage though :)
A lot of people feel those red rounds are ricochets of rounds fired by the attack plane, but more often are ground fire AT the aircraft!
05:35 Zivilbevölkerung? ??
แจ๊วดี นะ นะจ๊ะ ชอบดูภาพเก่า เท่ดี
Why do I like this random music so much ? ^^
I get it, the mission had to be successful but....shooting the horses?? WTF?
A few clips showed a couple horses pulling a cart and got all shot up by 50 cal. I sat silent about that one.:(
Yeah, it does seem a bit extreme, but when you understand the reasoning behind it it might help stomach it a little better.
The pilots were ordered to shoot ANYTHING that moves! Two main reasons for this, including horse drawn wagons. First, those couldb and later often did carry war material b such as ammunition and even hiding German military personnel. The other reason, and one often argued by the pilots themselvesb was to demoralize the German population. Even tho many pilots did not agree with that, none ever failed to follow orders. War Is Hell..
So it's ok for the winners to say "we were ordered to do it". But the losers get hung for saying the same thing.
"Shoot at anything that moves" ? We were the goodies and didn't do that.@@billyboy3031
The music makes it feel like I'm watching some sort of WW2 Top Gun type film lol. Cazy footage must have looked awesome from the ground, but also fucking scary lol.
People can bang on all they want about how war is ugly and war is wrong but when you have lost family and friends due to a a regime which is completely and utterly horrible then the mentality changes
I feel sorry for the engine driver , and stoker........
3:24 do two rounds collide in the air there?
I think somehow either the tracer or the propellant itself managed to set off the incendiary comp in the nose of the projectile. There's no way for two rounds to collide that close to point of firing.
@@ragnarbenson3443 you are exactly correct! Good call.
Those poor horses!
I know who started this kind of war, I know who was responsibe for the war in general, I know who imprisoned and executed my relatives, but as so as I do not agree with the evident concrete attacks against civilians.
This kind of fighting sucks.
I'll make a note of that.
Poor civilian train drivers
Strafing horse-drawn wagons? Shooting randomly into town centers? What the heck is this shit?!?
My father was alone on the field in the age of eleven when a Lockheed Lightning came down to shoot at him. Wow, what a hero.
Awesome video
Massive explosion at 6:00. Must've touched off a large petrol tank.
In fact a high explosives storage bunker.
the music is better than the shooting
How can all you critics even see what they are shooting at exactly and whether not there are troops or ot where they are shooting?
Germany seemed very defenseless by this time.
all this military expert behind pc are so entertain to read lol
The Luftwaffe strafed civilians in Poland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and the USSR long four to five years before this....
Yes, but we were the goodies. Not supposed to do that.
the jet paralized all the possible highway??
"Hey Captain, did you see me shooting that road and that empty field?"
"Yeah nice work jackass".
how you know it was empty lol oh yeah they did have hd camera back then i forgot.
Why shot random down in a city
this is my favorite anime
Some of them were apparently just as bad as our enemy, and murdered civilians indiscriminately by hosing towns with bullets with their formidable weapons, but that's life.
I'm pretty sure most of those wagon horses were diehard Nazi's, transporting 88mm shells to the front.. What a disgusting display, half of these clips are killing horse carts, and of those some seemed like farmers, not army. You never see a horses killed tally painted on the side of any aircraft though, for some reason.
5:44 ответный огонь, или рикошет своих боеприпасов?...
An American pilot once told me that he and six other P-51 fighters from his squadron caught a train in the open and strafed it until they all ran out if ammo......the train turned out to be a medical evacuation train full of wounded SS troops being evacuated but on closer inspection of the destroyed train, there were a hundred or more dead, mutilated SS officers, who were all riding along on the train escaping Russian forces....he told me that their strafing of that train gave him an incredible feeling of happiness, knowing that they had destroyed those on that train.....especially Fter his squadron was shown movie news coverage of liberation of several Concentration camps....! He said that made their attack on the train a real "win-win"....!
Horse shootdown at 4:45
When you get out of bed and your tired of people trying to kill you. So you go out and shoot every thing in sight.
You cannot justify this behavior, doing so makes you a sociopath.
Well in 1945 anything that moved in Germany was a target...
That houses moved a lot ...
Chris Weaver including children
@@lolarund4722 no, but German soldiers would hide in them AND hidden ammunition as well as weapons etc.
Think about the era and what was actually happening! It was a terrible, horrible war!!
War Is Hell...
@@abunatkat Have you ever been in an airplane?? Can you tell if it's a child or an adult from 2,500ft at 350mph?? If so, YOU should be in a fighter plane!! Different times then. Because of the things that were done, YOU are able to write your comment!
Your welcome.
- "Oh, look at that nice little town"
- "Yeah? Where is it located?
- "Germany"
- "Strafe it. And drop any bombs if you have 'em"
- "Oki doki"
Not sure I could have hosed a horse and cart 😢.. But could be hauling Ammo 😮
A couple lessons for the ignorant and uneducated. The Wehrmacht was HEAVILY dependent on horses from beginning to the end. The Nazis liked to give the impression they were totally motorized and armored juggernaut but that is totally false. IMO their excessive dependence on horses really choked the capabilities of the Wehrmacht. A horse can only move so fast, plus horses tire out and need rest breaks. They are maintenance heavy along with being slow.
Also they stole every thing they could from the occupied countries. In Holland they had to go to great effort to hide horses from the Germans, otherwise they'd have stolen them all.
In the last year or two of the war there was no reason for farmers to be transporting products. First, everyone knew the Allied planes were attacking anything on the roads. Second, anything of value to the German war machine was taken from the local people and transported by horse since trucks were at the most critical areas of fighting. Locals did not have anything to trade or sell that required two horses to pull, so its only logical the horses/wagon were German supplies.
Civilians moved by foot and at night to avoid contact with any German forces. Civvies also stayed off waterways like canals or rivers because the only goods being transported were either German supplies or stolen by Germans for their war machine. Civvies were in FAR more danger of being murdered by SS or other Nazi enforcers than by any Allied aircraft.
Pretty wild how stupid some people are to not figure that out.
nice to read an educated point.
This is one of the most informative and knowledgeable comments I've seen!!!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!
Altho there will STILL be tree hugging, weak minded, self proclaimed world savers that are STILL going to find fault with what you said and what happened back then, so THEY can have what they have and can do now!! Of course these very same ones have NEVER been anywhere near war and so have no clue! Same ones complain about the mistreatment of livestock on there way from McDonald's as they're munching on a Big Mac and eating chicken nuggets!!
German strong during ww2 but now
@3:25 two rounds collide and make alittle smoke, pretty cool stuff
Robert Schubert. Here I was thinking it was a flak gun shooting from the train
I was wondering what was those tracer things flying left and right. Glad I found your comment in this cancer.
Correct me if I've just seen several instances of a war crime here.
Skip to 6:00 for the explosion in the thumbnail.
Well done. Thank you Veterans
Flying in the clear sky without enemys fighters and AA guns, shooting buildings and farms. Told everyone you win the war, soviets helps a little bit. Nice job Murrica, as always.
I know these pilots are risking their lives but...man that looks like fun.
Remember what Goebbels said. "Do you want total war??". "YEEEEESSSS" they all replied. Well, you got what you wanted.
Not quite sure what they are shooting at in every strafe but okay
01:42 - 01:47 wtf?
I'm a Brit and although I can thank my forfathers for their bravery during the 2nd world war I find this extremely distasteful and pretty pointless. The majority of country dwellers probably had little knowledge of what was going on. Eye for an eye? NO thanks.
simon fuller It is not just 'distasteful' as you call it. At Nuremberg it would have been called 'war crimes'.
I'm guessing that you're O.K. with the thought of total submission, speaking German and saluting everyone with a raised arm and a snap of your heels. Way things are going, maybe you'll still get your chance...only you're gonna bow to the east five times as day.
@@henryseidel5469 it's a war mate kill or be killed!!! It's not a game of tiddlywinks ya know. They started the war and we finished it by any means possible... In fact I felt sorry for them, but I'll never forget the bitterness my grandfather had for German soldiers and people. He did not like anything Germans right up until the day he died... Lest we forget...
Op dat we het Nooit vergeten ! vrede op aarde,make love not war 👍
best shooting 5:06
@6:05 KABOOOOOM! Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Mostly indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians.
At this stage of the war it was a turkey shoot. They were literally firing at free will. The war was lost for Germany. I sometimes think of this as an overkill.
First you hate it,then you love it.
Two things I don't like about this video.
1. Apparently random machine gun bursts into villages and city areas. No specific, clear target. Not cool.
2. Farmers on wagons with horses fuel the war effort. Reluctantly, these are legit targets.
Mike Miller , farmers on wagon, the family has got to eat..
Mike Miller yes but you must remember that they brought it upon themselves by initiating total war and by doing those exact things to Britain, Russia, and any city/settlement the Germans went after. It was total war and we hope it never happens again
This is quite sad. Was there not a front somewhere where these fighters could've attacked enemy soldiers and help win the war? Instead they are 'demoralizing' horses and a handful of civilians in some random small and completely unimportant rural villages?
That WAS exactly what they were trying to do. Demoralize the German people. Under orders. Remember this was a different time and a horrible war. German army were killing civilians of all races!
Most of these villages were abandoned by the population and soldiers and ammunition were hidden in these small villages. Horse drawn wagons and cars were often used to carry war material near the end. At this point, concentration camps had been discovered and war atrocities were found. It was a race to end the war as fast as possible at all costs to save as many lives as possible. It's been said by more powerful people than I...
War Is Hell..
Pretty bad shooting...
I love train busting ... Especially when the boiler blows up !
Make Love, not War !
Wie im Computerspiel. ..
I wonder if the pilots listened to this same music when they were shooting 😎
voll daneben
The train hits are the best just because it's so satisfying to watch the steam start pouring out of the engine all over.
Also this music is stupid.
6:30 Anti-aircraft guns? Farmers, children, old Wifes and Cows are not so dangerous.
testversucher Thats the result of Total War
Infastructure
Yeah, none of those can bear arms or support the troops with food/shelter etc. Then again there was this thing called the Hitler Youth.
I don't subscribe to the general shooting into residential areas or horses pulling carts. That's where I draw the line.