Those aren't weather balloons-they were launched from Japan to ride the jet currents to North America-thousands of them were launched, and many fell over the US and Canada. They carried an explosive charge, and the hope was that they would start forest fires. They killed one family of picnic-ers that discovered it-otherwise no other real damage. many are still unfound in the wilds of the pacific northwest.
I'm a relative of two of the kids that were on that picnic trip. It was on May 5th 1945 on Gearhart Mountain not to for from the small town of Bly Oregon. The place is called Mitchell Monument. I try and visit every year, except this last summer there was a bad forest fire there. Luckily the forest service saved the Monument.
How do you know for a fact those particular balloons were the infamous baloon bombs launched against mainland USA? The Japanese along with all WWII combatants used weather balloons as well.
Most of the Japanese planes were built like kites. Great range and excellent maneuverability, but a few rounds and they went up like a torch. Some of their late war planes had armor and self-sealing tanks, like their George and Frank fighters, which were superb, equal to our Mustangs and Hellcats. But by then it was too little, too late, most of their best pilots dead and green youngsters flying. Didn't help either that their gasoline was of poor quality due to their supply lines cut strangled by our subs and mines. They never got the best performance that their later fighters were capable of.
On top of that the quality of the pilots went down very quickly after '43. The IJN and IJA never had scalable training programs (for may reasons, one, a fuel shortage, is mentioned above). They also never tried to retain skills by rotating successful combat veterans into training programs. They just used their trained pilots until they were all used up..... By '44 they were sending half trained kids out to fight U.S. fighter groups with plenty of hours of training, led by experienced combat veterans. This was probably one impetus for the kamikaze program: the pilots weren't good enough to fight effectively, but perhaps they were 'skilled' enough to crash into a U.S. ship......
@@nomdeguerre7265 Well said. The Japanese military were old school, and had no appreciation of the value of skilled pilots. They just treated them as expendable cannon fodder. Saburu Sakai remarks in his memoirs of his pilot training just before the war sounds more like Navy SEAL training. Hundreds, even thousands of capable potential fighter pilots were washed out by failing to succeed with ridiculous physical trials that had absolutely nothing to do with flying. Afterward, he was assigned on a warship for a period, and treated even worse with beatings and berated by his superiors.A considerable number of pilots were also lost flying great distances from Japan to reinforce squadrons in the Pacific, due navigational errors and weather.
Zero pilots were known to leave their chutes behind to save weight. Capture was out of the question and surviving a bail out over the ocean when your country had virtually no SAR was unlikely anyway. In his autobiography 'The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron' (Amazon Kindle), Juzo Mori relates how he was instructed to crash his airplane into an enemy position if he wasn't going to make it back (and how he almost did so). He also marvels at the U.S. Wildcat pilots bailing out when they were shot down over Midway. A must read for students of the Pacific War.
@@paulne1514 No, but you can find many written accounts describing the killing of unarmed Vietnamese and Iraqi civilians by American soldiers. Imagining one's own people to be incapable of committing atrocities is a mistake.
@@jiyushugi1085 The systematic, and officially sanctioned execution of civilians at Nanking and in other places, as some kind of sadistic sport to be enjoyed, is something the Americans have never indulged in. And the USA has been protecting the people of Japan, firstly against the Soviets and now China for decades now, because the world still doesn't trust a Japanese military build up not to be used aggressively against its neighbours. Its such a shame you had to jump to conflicts fought by other generations to slam the Americans, when the subject was WW2. The ignominy of so called Japanese 'honour' being only reserved for the Japanese themselves, whilst at the same time torturing civilians or unarmed POW's, all of whom the Japanese considered inferior compared to their own people, is no honour at all, and will haunt the reputation of Japan for the rest of this century, as well as the last. And I speak as a non American..........
@@artrandy I'm neither slamming Americans nor attempting to explain away the atrocities committed by the Japanese. And yes, it's very true that nothing the Americans have done compares to what the Japanese and Germans did during the war. However, history has shown that all human beings are capable of such acts and it's naive to imagine otherwise. Perhaps the best lesson we can take from such tragedies is that meddling in the internal affairs of other nations can trigger a series of unimaginable repercussions. Had the imperialistic Western powers not been colonizing the countries of Southeast Asia, and had America not forced Japan to open its country and sign unequal trade treaties (at the barrel of a cannon) the Pacific War would never have occurred.
@@jiyushugi1085 Neither the Americans nor the Europeans were responsible in any way, shape or form, for Japanese atrocities during WW2. That was down to Japanese culture alone, and the arrogant, uncivilised belief that only the Japanese themselves mattered. You say you're not making excuses, then go on to make the very same kind of inexcusable excuses, you say you're not making, in an attempt to deflect away from Japan's shameful inhumanity during this conflict! You are not going to outwit me buddy, English is my first language, and Im sufficiently proficient at it to spot a flimsy attempt at deception, like yours. The Americans were entitled to sell oil to whoever they liked, without having Pearl Harbor attacked in such a cowardly way, without even a declaration of war first. In view of Japanese aggression towards China during the 1930's, what sane politician anywhere in the world, except of course, your Nazi, Axis allies, would have wanted to sell Imperial Japan even a metal rice bowl.............? edit: sp
@@SanderAnderon Yes, it's not widely known, but Japan successfully bombed the mainland US by sending bombs up into the jet-stream. This operation was the developmental stage of what the Japanese were focussing on: bombing the mainland US with biological/chemical agents by the same methodology.
@@tim7052 I believe all the Japanese balloon bombs were incendiary. There was no control of them so the goal was to create large forest fires on the West coast. Targeting population centers was just not possible.
My great grandfather and grand uncle both fought in WWII...Neither of them ever said a word about the war. God Bless all of the "greatest generation ".
My father also served in the Pacific he received bronze star Purple Heart Oakleaf cluster save a man's life but never spoke of it to. me when I pulled his DD-214 find out what he did that generation never talked about
My dad's cousin was a POW in Italian prison camp. He didn't talk about it until he went back to Italy to the family who hide them after escaping the camp. He could talk about it after then. He came back from the war saying there is no God, but had a change of heart in the 50s, and became a preacher. I saw him days before he died when he was in the rest home. Barely able to lift his head and unaware I was within 100 miles, he smiled and said, "Well, there's my old Arkie cousin." They didn't say much about the war. At his brother's funeral we learned he had been a code breaker and he never revealed that to any of us. Only a couple of brothers knew it.
You can only imagine the WW2 footage that would have been possible if GoPro style cameras were available to aircraft, back then movie cameras and film was expensive and in short supply no doubt.
Much of it was either shot on or transferred to 16mm film. Much of the equipment for reviewing the gun camera footage by the reconnaissance officers was on bell and Howell projectors and screens. After flying over the trenches in WWI, then barnstorming, flying the mail and mapping contracts, grandad was back in reconnaissance for WWII through North Africa, flying the “hump”, up the Marianas then was onboard the Missouri to film the singing.
It's very sobering to think that in each of these aircraft there are young men being torn to pieces by machine gun or cannon fire. Shame we can't put the egotistic politicians that start conflicts in the firing line and let everyone else get on with their lives.
No it's not. My opinion. My personal opinion is just what you see. Kill those motherfuc,,,,. Or they will kill you. So I'm happy and like footage like this.
@@rustycz21 you really didn’t read what @Paul N said. Put simply he said put those who start the conflict in the firing line. Therefore there would have been no conflicts ie Chinese massacre by the Japanese and the Phillipines would never have been invaded, nor Pearl Harbour, Darwin, the island campaigns, the Blitzkrieg, the Holocaust, WWI and WWII, Vietnam (purely Americans at fault there), the Gulf War, Falkland Islands etc.
I think the aircraft being shot down in frame 3:48 might be a rare Aichi B7A (流星, , "Shooting Star", Allied code-name Grace). If so, this is the first one I have seen in flight. On the night of 18 June 1945, the USS Twiggs was attacked and hit by a torpedo bomber off the coast of Okinawa. The aircraft circled back after scoring its crippling torpedo hit that detonated the Number 2 Magazine and crashed into the ship's fantail. The USS Twiggs sank shortly thereafter. 152 USN sailors perished in the attack. The torpedo bomber probably took off from Formosa, aka Taiwan. Some sources claim that an IJN torpedo-bomber unit operating from Formosa at this time was equipped with the Aichi B7A. The USS Twiggs had orders to proceed to Ulithi the next morning, but she was sunk with about half of her crew instead.
That one guy 2:03 who had his parachute ripped off while jumping from the plane was probably happy that he didn't need to face his superiors that day, or any day.
Japanese war birds were so maneuverably crafted at the cost of their fragility. Also, both interms of productivity and raising pilots, Japan was so much overwhelmed by the US.
That is true for the G4M and A6M, but really not so much in general. At the time those two aircraft were developed, sacrificing armor and self sealing tanks was the only way to meet the specs for performance set by the japanese military.
Japan had excellent fighter pilots at the beginning of the war, in all honesty better than our American pilots. The Zero specifically was unmatched in turning at slow to medium speeds, but was not armored and didnt have protected fuel tanks so it could take very little damage. The American pilots started to get better, with better planes, and the Japanese started to lose their good pilots and didnt progress in updated plane designs as well and in great enough numbers and were absolutely torn up.
So, this is footage from gun cameras, right?You press the gun button, the camera rolls. That would mean that he’s shooting at the parachutist, yes? I’m pretty sure you can activate the camera independently but still….?
American and Soviet pilots routinely shot enemy parachutes if their pilots were likely to land on their own side. The practise was forbidden by unwritten "Rules of War" in RAF and Luftwaffe. Cultural differences...
The balloon bomb is of particular interest....this is the only video I have seen of one being shot down (or attempting to shoot it down). During the final weeks of the war, my Uncle was stationed in Southern Alberta (Canada). After flying 132 combat missions in Europe as an RAF Hawker Typhoon pilot, he was re-assigned back with the RCAF doing various duties. Since he had many hours training in a Hawker Hurricane (and had combat experience), his last flight logged as an RCAF pilot was out of Lethbridge, AB flying a fully armed Hurricane chasing down a Japanese balloon bomb that had been spotted along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The balloon most likely drifted over the Canada/US border into Montana so he never got the chance to shoot it down.
What a feeling that must have been to open up those 50's, you can see the camera shake and then the rounds hitting the aircraft. For a young guy what an adrenalin rush.
@ASTROVORTEX Japan kept its best pilots in combat until they were killed. USA called best pilots home to train other pilots. After a couple of years, Japanese pilots were totally outclassed by USA pilots.
Early in the war, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero was easily, the best fighter plane in the world. Better than the British Spitfire and Messerschmidt BF-109. By 1943, it was totally outclassed by the Grumman F6F Hellcat. American pilots were getting better, while Japanese pilot quality, due to combat losses and poor training, was dropping rapidly. The Japanese were being strangled by the US sub campaign against their merchant shipping and fuel was in very short supply. Pilot training suffered badly.
it never was... if the Zero would have run up against Spitfire or Bf109 over Europe they would have quickly realized its very low limits... no armor, no self sealing tanks slow and not maneuverable at high speeds... they had a dog fighter were all other had boom and zoom fighter. The Zero packed to many negative trade of for range and maneuverbility... the dominance was quickly over the moment US pilots realized how to fight them. They did that already befor better figther were avaible. The Bf109 and Spitfire were still used long after ww2. The Zero was worthless by 1943 Next to that the Fw190 made its maiden flight in 1939 and entered service in 1941... totaly outclass the Zero in any respect .. only range was better... but the Fw 190 was never designed as a carrier figther that need long range. At 6000m the Fw 190 was whopping 100km/h faster and much more important the Fw 190 was still very maneuverable at higher speeds. The Zero is like the Katana a totaly overrated japanese wonderweapon that perfromed badly the moment the enemy realized how to use it many drawbacks against it. Stay in close formation, stay at speed, dont start low speed dogfigth against it and suddenly all the few Zero advantages were gone...
I see about everything in the Japanese arsenal that they had when it comes to NIP aircraft.Transports,A6Ms,Navy and army,Betty bombers ,scout planes,parachute bombs,and the like all flamed out and going ,going,GONE.
This was over Luzon in November 1944, probably a Kawasaki Ki-61. If you look at this still it clearly does not have Luftwaffe markings or a radial engine: i.imgur.com/uRJoDSH.jpg
@@hw97karbine the plane at 2:31 clearly has squared wingtip and very long nose, typical of FW190D (which has an inline engine, not radial). I am not aware of any Japanese fighter with squared wingtips.
@@francescoguzzetta if you compare stills, it matches the plan view of the Ki-61: i.imgur.com/9rfPhTO.gif The 190 Dora has an inline engine but at annular radiator which is quite different: i.imgur.com/0EYWb2R.jpg
@@hw97karbine I know very well both planes. Ki 61 has shorter nose, more tapered wings, and rounded wingtips. Also the lenght/width ratio is different (ki 61 has wingspan larger than lenght, fw190D has equal lenght and wingspan) There's no way that the plane at 2:31 could be a ki 61
What he said via google translate: "It's a painful image to watch, but it is overwhelmingly Navy aircraft that are hit by other images and blow fire. Army aircraft are generally strong against bulletproof. After all, there is a difference between bulletproof and non-bulletproof. Even with Navy aircraft, meteors do not become fire daruma (sic)."
Possibly a silly question but a genuine one... why put gun cams on planes as standard? Tanks didnt have them... anti aircraft guns didnt have them... so why on planes? Was it for tactical training after the event? Provide evidence of kills? Or what???
I think both are good reasons. Pilots of all countries tended to overstate their kills, not necessarily intentionally, and the reality is important to assess the enemy situation.
@@joeminella5315 Also to assess gun efficiency etc. At the start of the war Spitfires had 8 x .303 guns. Camera footage helped support pilot requests for some 20mm cannons.
NOPE..THOSE HAD SAND BAGS TO LOWER OR LET RISE,,,ALL AROUND THE SIDES OF THE RIG..YOU CAN FIND A BETTER PIC,,PLUS THOSE WHAT YOU SPEAK OF WERE PAPER,,,,THOSE BALLOONS WERE NOT PAPER EITHER
Yes at 7:11 when the plane goes by you can see the chandelier ring, battery and demolition charge that sits on top of the ring. Hard to see if the sand bags, incendiary and high explosive bombs are there. Actually I think at 6:26 you can see either the incendiary bombs and maybe some sand bags. Also I would think, almost by the time the balloons would have gotten to the coast, they might not have that many sand bags left or none at all.
@@brucewelty7684 are you attempting to troll? WHERE? This reply/question is so stupid I can't tell if you are really stupid or if you just think I am. Lol.
At 2.12 you see the pilot break free of his chute and fall to his death…deployed canopy at too high a speed….Ive seen this elsewhere on footage from the Pacific….
@@hw97karbine I'm related to the two of the kids that were killed near Bly Oregon on Gearhart Mountain from a Japanese balloon bomb. I usually visit the site every year, but this year there was a big forest fire there. The place is called Mitchell Monument.
@@leemcginnis738 I'm sorry but I don't see how any one can be a descendent of two kids that were killed. I imagine you meant related to. I'm not trolling you or anything. I read what you posted and it sounded off to me is all. Take care.
@@rickporras385 The gun cameras could be operated independently on many aircraft, they were not only used for confirming kills but also gathering intelligence.
Whos shooting who or is it a weather balloon we can see, I would like to see p38 gun camera's over port Moresby with one pilot taken on 25 Japanese planes by himself in the pacific war but some pilots say they were his wingman well were they that day
I think it shows bad taste and judgment to shoot at Pilots that have bailed out of their aircraft. This is just not a practise used by most airmen who had admiration for each others skill and bravery. The idea was to shoot down aircraft not pilots. Pilots were a casualty of kill not the target. Are these parachute bombs? what are they called? The idea of shooting down parachuting pilot was uncouth and dishonorable by airmen of any nation
Well, answer this question yourself. Such behaviour is a mix of hatred, anger, fear and combat stress, as well as just being a bad person. Is it anyhow reserved for the Japanese of that time only?
I'm not sure who taught these Japanese Pilots to fly,, but when the Enemy approaches from any advantageous angle, that's when it's time to pull your best Moves!!! Some of these guys didn't react at all?????
We're they shooting at enemy in parachutes? (Not that I blame them based on what I know about how utterly hostile and Savage and without Mercy those people )
The Japanese always seemed to shoot at an enemy in their parachute. The US did it as well against the Japanese. The US didn't really do it in Europe against the Germans, although there were instances of it happening. This is from what I've read....
Those aren't weather balloons-they were launched from Japan to ride the jet currents to North America-thousands of them were launched, and many fell over the US and Canada. They carried an explosive charge, and the hope was that they would start forest fires. They killed one family of picnic-ers that discovered it-otherwise no other real damage. many are still unfound in the wilds of the pacific northwest.
yes you are right ... press was told to keep it quite
OLD NEWS MAN
I'm a relative of two of the kids that were on that picnic trip. It was on May 5th 1945 on Gearhart Mountain not to for from the small town of Bly Oregon. The place is called Mitchell Monument. I try and visit every year, except this last summer there was a bad forest fire there. Luckily the forest service saved the Monument.
D. Pierce is correct. This is a little known story of ww2.
How do you know for a fact those particular balloons were the infamous baloon bombs launched against mainland USA? The Japanese along with all WWII combatants used weather balloons as well.
0:00疾風(hayate)
0:30銀河(ginga)
1:16瑞雲(zuiun) ?
1:20 銀河(ginga)
1:55零戦(ZERO)
3:15零戦(ZERO)
3:34流星(ryusei)
4:13 飛龍(hiryu)
4:28零式輸送機(reisiki)
5:00呑龍(donryu)
5:34九四式水上偵察機(94siki)
6:16風船爆弾(fusenB)
4:13 is ki-21 not ki-49
@@AreeyaKKC It's Ki-67 Hiryu "Peggy". Ki-49 you're talking about is Donryu.
6:18 Fusen-Go Ballon Bomb
@@smigoltime never thought i'd find Smigol here but ok lmao
Most of the Japanese planes were built like kites. Great range and excellent maneuverability, but a few rounds and they went up like a torch. Some of their late war planes had armor and self-sealing tanks, like their George and Frank fighters, which were superb, equal to our Mustangs and Hellcats. But by then it was too little, too late, most of their best pilots dead and green youngsters flying. Didn't help either that their gasoline was of poor quality due to their supply lines cut strangled by our subs and mines. They never got the best performance that their later fighters were capable of.
The fuel quality went down as well .
On top of that the quality of the pilots went down very quickly after '43. The IJN and IJA never had scalable training programs (for may reasons, one, a fuel shortage, is mentioned above). They also never tried to retain skills by rotating successful combat veterans into training programs. They just used their trained pilots until they were all used up..... By '44 they were sending half trained kids out to fight U.S. fighter groups with plenty of hours of training, led by experienced combat veterans. This was probably one impetus for the kamikaze program: the pilots weren't good enough to fight effectively, but perhaps they were 'skilled' enough to crash into a U.S. ship......
@@nomdeguerre7265 Well said. The Japanese military were old school, and had no appreciation of the value of skilled pilots. They just treated them as expendable cannon fodder.
Saburu Sakai remarks in his memoirs of his pilot training just before the war sounds more like Navy SEAL training. Hundreds, even thousands of capable potential fighter pilots were washed out by failing to succeed with ridiculous physical trials that had absolutely nothing to do with flying.
Afterward, he was assigned on a warship for a period, and treated even worse with beatings and berated by his superiors.A considerable number of pilots were also lost flying great distances from Japan to reinforce squadrons in the Pacific, due navigational errors and weather.
Nice to see a gun camera video without the addition or unnecessary music or insulting overdubed sound effects.
Was about to type the same thing but you beat me to it. 👍
Nice to see ANY video without music or other stupid noise ....
Zero pilots were known to leave their chutes behind to save weight. Capture was out of the question and surviving a bail out over the ocean when your country had virtually no SAR was unlikely anyway. In his autobiography 'The Miraculous Torpedo Squadron' (Amazon Kindle), Juzo Mori relates how he was instructed to crash his airplane into an enemy position if he wasn't going to make it back (and how he almost did so). He also marvels at the U.S. Wildcat pilots bailing out when they were shot down over Midway. A must read for students of the Pacific War.
Does the book also tell about Japanese pilots machine gunning Americans pilots as they hung in their parachutes?
@@paulne1514 No, but you can find many written accounts describing the killing of unarmed Vietnamese and Iraqi civilians by American soldiers.
Imagining one's own people to be incapable of committing atrocities is a mistake.
@@jiyushugi1085 The systematic, and officially sanctioned execution of civilians at Nanking and in other places, as some kind of sadistic sport to be enjoyed, is something the Americans have never indulged in.
And the USA has been protecting the people of Japan, firstly against the Soviets and now China for decades now, because the world still doesn't trust a Japanese military build up not to be used aggressively against its neighbours.
Its such a shame you had to jump to conflicts fought by other generations to slam the Americans, when the subject was WW2. The ignominy of so called Japanese 'honour' being only reserved for the Japanese themselves, whilst at the same time torturing civilians or unarmed POW's, all of whom the Japanese considered inferior compared to their own people, is no honour at all, and will haunt the reputation of Japan for the rest of this century, as well as the last. And I speak as a non American..........
@@artrandy I'm neither slamming Americans nor attempting to explain away the atrocities committed by the Japanese. And yes, it's very true that nothing the Americans have done compares to what the Japanese and Germans did during the war.
However, history has shown that all human beings are capable of such acts and it's naive to imagine otherwise.
Perhaps the best lesson we can take from such tragedies is that meddling in the internal affairs of other nations can trigger a series of unimaginable repercussions. Had the imperialistic Western powers not been colonizing the countries of Southeast Asia, and had America not forced Japan to open its country and sign unequal trade treaties (at the barrel of a cannon) the Pacific War would never have occurred.
@@jiyushugi1085
Neither the Americans nor the Europeans were responsible in any way, shape or form, for Japanese atrocities during WW2. That was down to Japanese culture alone, and the arrogant, uncivilised belief that only the Japanese themselves mattered.
You say you're not making excuses, then go on to make the very same kind of inexcusable excuses, you say you're not making, in an attempt to deflect away from Japan's shameful inhumanity during this conflict! You are not going to outwit me buddy, English is my first language, and Im sufficiently proficient at it to spot a flimsy attempt at deception, like yours.
The Americans were entitled to sell oil to whoever they liked, without having Pearl Harbor attacked in such a cowardly way, without even a declaration of war first. In view of Japanese aggression towards China during the 1930's, what sane politician anywhere in the world, except of course, your Nazi, Axis allies, would have wanted to sell Imperial Japan even a metal rice bowl.............?
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those are some very rare clips, especially the balloon attacks---NEVER seen footage like that before
Absolutely!! I wonder if they were a part of those bombs Japan sent into the jet-stream with which to bomb the US mainland?
@@tim7052 that's a interesting thought...googled 'japan bomblets oregon' and they look just like those at the end of this vid.
Because it's not real. Computer generated
@@SanderAnderon Yes, it's not widely known, but Japan successfully bombed the mainland US by sending bombs up into the jet-stream. This operation was the developmental stage of what the Japanese were focussing on: bombing the mainland US with biological/chemical agents by the same methodology.
@@tim7052 I believe all the Japanese balloon bombs were incendiary. There was no control of them so the goal was to create large forest fires on the West coast. Targeting population centers was just not possible.
My great grandfather and grand uncle both fought in WWII...Neither of them ever said a word about the war. God Bless all of the "greatest generation ".
My wife's father served in the Solomon Islands during WW2,,, and never spoke a word about it as well
My father also served in the Pacific he received bronze star Purple Heart Oakleaf cluster save a man's life but never spoke of it to. me when I pulled his DD-214 find out what he did that generation never talked about
My father was a marine in Korea. All he would ever say about it was ( it wasn’t that bad) ??
My dad's cousin was a POW in Italian prison camp. He didn't talk about it until he went back to Italy to the family who hide them after escaping the camp. He could talk about it after then. He came back from the war saying there is no God, but had a change of heart in the 50s, and became a preacher. I saw him days before he died when he was in the rest home. Barely able to lift his head and unaware I was within 100 miles, he smiled and said, "Well, there's my old Arkie cousin." They didn't say much about the war. At his brother's funeral we learned he had been a code breaker and he never revealed that to any of us. Only a couple of brothers knew it.
Vs. the worst generation
You can only imagine the WW2 footage that would have been possible if GoPro style cameras were available to aircraft, back then movie cameras and film was expensive and in short supply no doubt.
Much of it was either shot on or transferred to 16mm film. Much of the equipment for reviewing the gun camera footage by the reconnaissance officers was on bell and Howell projectors and screens.
After flying over the trenches in WWI, then barnstorming, flying the mail and mapping contracts, grandad was back in reconnaissance for WWII through North Africa, flying the “hump”, up the Marianas then was onboard the Missouri to film the singing.
No artificial gun sounds. Nice.
Here’s some just in case; pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. 🔥 lol
Agree
I don't know where you got this video but thanks for sharing. It deserves to be seen by all.
It's very sobering to think that in each of these aircraft there are young men being torn to pieces by machine gun or cannon fire. Shame we can't put the egotistic politicians that start conflicts in the firing line and let everyone else get on with their lives.
Let our leaders duke it out with Blount instruments might be a good idea
Tell that to all the Chinese that Japan slaughtered!! And the people of the Philippines,!!
No it's not. My opinion. My personal opinion is just what you see. Kill those motherfuc,,,,. Or they will kill you. So I'm happy and like footage like this.
The young men in the zero aicraft wanted you kill.to kill or be kill.
@@rustycz21 you really didn’t read what @Paul N said. Put simply he said put those who start the conflict in the firing line. Therefore there would have been no conflicts ie Chinese massacre by the Japanese and the Phillipines would never have been invaded, nor Pearl Harbour, Darwin, the island campaigns, the Blitzkrieg, the Holocaust, WWI and WWII, Vietnam (purely Americans at fault there), the Gulf War, Falkland Islands etc.
I think the aircraft being shot down in frame 3:48 might be a rare Aichi B7A (流星, , "Shooting Star", Allied code-name Grace). If so, this is the first one I have seen in flight. On the night of 18 June 1945, the USS Twiggs was attacked and hit by a torpedo bomber off the coast of Okinawa. The aircraft circled back after scoring its crippling torpedo hit that detonated the Number 2 Magazine and crashed into the ship's fantail. The USS Twiggs sank shortly thereafter. 152 USN sailors perished in the attack. The torpedo bomber probably took off from Formosa, aka Taiwan. Some sources claim that an IJN torpedo-bomber unit operating from Formosa at this time was equipped with the Aichi B7A. The USS Twiggs had orders to proceed to Ulithi the next morning, but she was sunk with about half of her crew instead.
I believe you are correct, it has the correct profile...bent wings and long canopy.
@@davidcraig9357 Roger all.
It's a B7A for sure, also for me the first time to see such a rare plane in an motion picture.
That wing shape certainly looks like it.
The plane does not look downed. Some damage is possible. The pilot used the maximum capabilities of the 6-ton's aircraft.
That one guy 2:03 who had his parachute ripped off while jumping from the plane was probably happy that he didn't need to face his superiors that day, or any day.
I thought I’d seen all existing Pacific guncams , but I was wrong, thanks for the video.
Japanese war birds were so maneuverably crafted at the cost of their fragility. Also, both interms of productivity and raising pilots, Japan was so much overwhelmed by the US.
That is true for the G4M and A6M, but really not so much in general. At the time those two aircraft were developed, sacrificing armor and self sealing tanks was the only way to meet the specs for performance set by the japanese military.
Japan had excellent fighter pilots at the beginning of the war, in all honesty better than our American pilots. The Zero specifically was unmatched in turning at slow to medium speeds, but was not armored and didnt have protected fuel tanks so it could take very little damage. The American pilots started to get better, with better planes, and the Japanese started to lose their good pilots and didnt progress in updated plane designs as well and in great enough numbers and were absolutely torn up.
I don't know what they were thinking.
The Betty bomber, AKA the flying zippo.
@@davidca96
A key factor was the lack of functional radios in the Zero. Pilots could not coordinate their maneuvers the way the US pilots could.
この映像に登場する機体には必ず誰かが乗っている。太平洋戦争に於ける日米両軍の戦歿者に対し黙祷🙏
Crazy footage, I bet this was the best transfer they could get from film
Some fantastic footage there.
Was very cool, especially seeing that footage of the Fu-Go balloons. They were the first weapons, though mostly ineffective, to be intercontinental.
That's epic man, shows exactly what is was like!
風船爆弾をアラスカで迎撃するP-38とは珍しい‼︎
My great grandfather fought in ww2 he didn’t say much God Bless all those and fought and died for our freedom
So, this is footage from gun cameras, right?You press the gun button, the camera rolls. That would mean that he’s shooting at the parachutist, yes? I’m pretty sure you can activate the camera independently but still….?
American and Soviet pilots routinely shot enemy parachutes if their pilots were likely to land on their own side. The practise was forbidden by unwritten "Rules of War" in RAF and Luftwaffe. Cultural differences...
Even late in the war ,with more advanced aircraft, turning with a japanese plane looked to be a challenge.
True. Americans always favoured boom and zoom. Turnfighting was already old news by WW2.
The balloon bomb is of particular interest....this is the only video I have seen of one being shot down (or attempting to shoot it down). During the final weeks of the war, my Uncle was stationed in Southern Alberta (Canada). After flying 132 combat missions in Europe as an RAF Hawker Typhoon pilot, he was re-assigned back with the RCAF doing various duties. Since he had many hours training in a Hawker Hurricane (and had combat experience), his last flight logged as an RCAF pilot was out of Lethbridge, AB flying a fully armed Hurricane chasing down a Japanese balloon bomb that had been spotted along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The balloon most likely drifted over the Canada/US border into Montana so he never got the chance to shoot it down.
What a feeling that must have been to open up those 50's, you can see the camera shake and then the rounds hitting the aircraft. For a young guy what an adrenalin rush.
The colour shot of the Japanese bomber trailing burning fuel underneath is strangely satisfying.
5:35 Not entirely sure, but I'd wager that the "unidentified floatplane" was likely a Kawanishi E7K.
Oh thank goodness, no one added that horrifically stupid stock machine gun noises.
So many clips Ive never seen before.
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to bad no sound, still kicks ass!
You mean real pilots don't zoom climb and do outside loops to escape like the AI does in IL2??
Check 2:08, looks like pilot was not strapped very well to the parachute and just went down without it :o
Sometimes the straps snapped at high speed.
Some of these gun camera films were later used in Hollywood movies and TV shows including “Black Sheep Squadron”.
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I can't believe how close the fighter came to the bomber in that black and white film. 25 Yards away? !! At the closest point?
We prefer to be left alone.
Don't start it. We will finish it.
This is strangely satisfying. Like popping bubble wrap.
Japanese Zeros had neither armor nor self-sealing fuel tanks. When hit by incendiary rounds they burst into flame.
二酸化炭素式の消化装置、セルフシーリング、45mmから55mmの防弾ガラス、8mmの防弾板は52型以降から装備していますよ。
@ASTROVORTEX Japan kept its best pilots in combat until they were killed. USA called best pilots home to train other pilots. After a couple of years, Japanese pilots were totally outclassed by USA pilots.
当時の空戦の様子がわかる貴重な映像ですね。
流星は残された写真が少ないので、動画は更に珍しいと思います。
Cute. But nobody thought putting a camera on one of the 400 planes that attacked the Yamato?
At 1:58 did that guy just fly into friendly fire??
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Early in the war, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero was easily, the best fighter plane in the world. Better than the British Spitfire and Messerschmidt BF-109. By 1943, it was totally outclassed by the Grumman F6F Hellcat. American pilots were getting better, while Japanese pilot quality, due to combat losses and poor training, was dropping rapidly. The Japanese were being strangled by the US sub campaign against their merchant shipping and fuel was in very short supply. Pilot training suffered badly.
it never was... if the Zero would have run up against Spitfire or Bf109 over Europe they would have quickly realized its very low limits... no armor, no self sealing tanks slow and not maneuverable at high speeds... they had a dog fighter were all other had boom and zoom fighter. The Zero packed to many negative trade of for range and maneuverbility... the dominance was quickly over the moment US pilots realized how to fight them. They did that already befor better figther were avaible.
The Bf109 and Spitfire were still used long after ww2. The Zero was worthless by 1943
Next to that the Fw190 made its maiden flight in 1939 and entered service in 1941... totaly outclass the Zero in any respect .. only range was better... but the Fw 190 was never designed as a carrier figther that need long range.
At 6000m the Fw 190 was whopping 100km/h faster and much more important the Fw 190 was still very maneuverable at higher speeds.
The Zero is like the Katana a totaly overrated japanese wonderweapon that perfromed badly the moment the enemy realized how to use it many drawbacks against it. Stay in close formation, stay at speed, dont start low speed dogfigth against it and suddenly all the few Zero advantages were gone...
6:49 - That balloon is good in "dogfight", take many pass. ;))
1:59
Is that a Hellcat caught in a crossfire? I think it got hit in the wing
Yes it's an F6F
Look at 7:50 That plane did a 180 degree losing a wing. With those kind of forces what did it do to the pilots neck?
4:28 I wonder if that is a Nakajima L2D or a captured C47.
It's a "Topsy" which was a copy of a DC-3.
@@davidfindlay6841 the L2D "Tabby" was the DC-3 built under license. The Ki-57 "Topsy" was developed from the K-21 heavy bomber.
was that a B-17 shooting it down with the left waist gunner?
cameras sure have came a long way in 80 or 90 years
I see about everything in the Japanese arsenal that they had when it comes to NIP aircraft.Transports,A6Ms,Navy and army,Betty bombers ,scout planes,parachute bombs,and the like all flamed out and going ,going,GONE.
3:50 evasive action
I can't even lie, Air to Air Combat in these days looks absolutely Horrifying.. these aircraft were so friggin Slow!!!
1:55 looks like a P51 cuts right in front of the camera as guns are firing.
It's an F6F Hellcat but yes it looks like there was some inadvertent friendly fire
My father also was in the Pacific three years never spoken.
I wonder what was the purpose of these gun camera's. Solely for propaganda or was the footage studied for technical/strategic reasons?
Mostly technical & intelligence & training reasons. A spin off was propaganda.
Dad was a naval aviator in WWII. They were shown in aerial gunnery classes etc as part of training. I'm sure they were used for other purposes also.
At 2:31 it's a German FW190D. That's is ETO, not Pacific
This was over Luzon in November 1944, probably a Kawasaki Ki-61. If you look at this still it clearly does not have Luftwaffe markings or a radial engine: i.imgur.com/uRJoDSH.jpg
@@hw97karbine the plane at 2:31 clearly has squared wingtip and very long nose, typical of FW190D (which has an inline engine, not radial).
I am not aware of any Japanese fighter with squared wingtips.
@@francescoguzzetta the A6M3?
@@francescoguzzetta if you compare stills, it matches the plan view of the Ki-61: i.imgur.com/9rfPhTO.gif
The 190 Dora has an inline engine but at annular radiator which is quite different: i.imgur.com/0EYWb2R.jpg
@@hw97karbine I know very well both planes.
Ki 61 has shorter nose, more tapered wings, and rounded wingtips.
Also the lenght/width ratio is different (ki 61 has wingspan larger than lenght, fw190D has equal lenght and wingspan)
There's no way that the plane at 2:31 could be a ki 61
Japanese Pilot: I'm full of holes and on fire!
US Pilot: Keep firing!
1:55 is it double hit or friendly fire?
Friendly fire. The plane dodging between camera and target looks like an F6F Hellcat.
why do they keep shooting at the planes when they are going down, just curios, is it the adrielene
how about some music for a good inspiration
2:18... Shot at a parachute. Gun camera only works when the gun is activated.
Incorrect. The three position armament switch in the P 47, P 51 and P 38 says - Down Guns, Middle Camera Only and Up Guns and Camera.
He didn’t shoot him. He used turbulence to collapse his chute. Let him think about it a while as he fell to his death.
a few American planes got in the way -- wonder if they got any 50 cal. holes in their tail
4:35 Good shootin', Tex.
1:99 that's impressive.
2:10 is it me or did that pilot become separated from his parachute?
@@hammerofdavey long way down...
見ていて辛い映像だけど他の映像でも被弾して火を吹くのは圧倒的に海軍機が多いね｡陸軍機は総じて被弾に強い｡やはり防弾と非防弾の差が出ている。海軍機でも流星は流石に火ダルマにはならないね。
What he said via google translate: "It's a painful image to watch, but it is overwhelmingly Navy aircraft that are hit by other images and blow fire. Army aircraft are generally strong against bulletproof. After all, there is a difference between bulletproof and non-bulletproof. Even with Navy aircraft, meteors do not become fire daruma (sic)."
Anyone else see an arm come out of the right side of the cockpit on that first video? Or am I just seeing things?
He guy was being like the slower driver that waves you to pass them when you come up on them.
It's a fragment detaching from the airframe under impact of bullet
There is footage, I’ve seen elsewhere where the pilot frantically waves his arms after multiple hits…it could be this footage…incredible close up…
Shooting a bloke in his parachute at 2.14.
What plane is that at 4:29, anyone...
Likely a Showa/Nakajima L2D, a license built version of the Douglas DC-3
Possibly a silly question but a genuine one... why put gun cams on planes as standard? Tanks didnt have them... anti aircraft guns didnt have them... so why on planes?
Was it for tactical training after the event? Provide evidence of kills? Or what???
I think both are good reasons. Pilots of all countries tended to overstate their kills, not necessarily intentionally, and the reality is important to assess the enemy situation.
@@joeminella5315 Also to assess gun efficiency etc. At the start of the war Spitfires had 8 x .303 guns. Camera footage helped support pilot requests for some 20mm cannons.
Today tanks and even infantries have gun cams, i think the purpose is mostly for combat assestment, while there's maybe other purposes for this
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4:05 流星？？
ASK IN ENGLISH
@@MrRiprip56 Ryusei？
What were the balloons' mission?
Ride jet stream from Japan to USA, fall to earth and start forest fires
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Pearl Harbor
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5:02 Bristol Beaufort?
6:37.. that looks like one of the incidiary balloons the Japanese sent to bomb the west coast.
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Yes at 7:11 when the plane goes by you can see the chandelier ring, battery and demolition charge that sits on top of the ring. Hard to see if the sand bags, incendiary and high explosive bombs are there. Actually I think at 6:26 you can see either the incendiary bombs and maybe some sand bags. Also I would think, almost by the time the balloons would have gotten to the coast, they might not have that many sand bags left or none at all.
Wish there was sound.
And WHERE would the sound originate?
@@brucewelty7684 are you attempting to troll?
WHERE?
This reply/question is so stupid I can't tell if you are really stupid or if you just think I am.
Lol.
almost got away style.
I liked it when the Tomcats took on the Zero’s!!!!!
Balloon bombs over the Pacific headed for Oregon and California being shot down at 6:16.
At 2.12 you see the pilot break free of his chute and fall to his death…deployed canopy at too high a speed….Ive seen this elsewhere on footage from the Pacific….
The target at 7:15 appears to be a balloon bomb.
That is a Fu-Go balloon that was not manned: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
@@hw97karbine I'm related to the two of the kids that were killed near Bly Oregon on Gearhart Mountain from a Japanese balloon bomb. I usually visit the site every year, but this year there was a big forest fire there. The place is called Mitchell Monument.
Sorry guys wrong time stamp….2.11-2.12….slips out of harness…too fast to deploy…quite a common thing would occur…the forces involved were big…
@@leemcginnis738 I'm sorry but I don't see how any one can be a descendent of two kids that were killed. I imagine you meant related to. I'm not trolling you or anything. I read what you posted and it sounded off to me is all. Take care.
2:17 buzzing the defeated opponent.
Maybe. Those gun cameras only filmed when the gun was active.
@@rickporras385 I didn't see any tracers going. If he was shooting at a bailed out airmen then I must say he wasn't a very good sport.
@@thejohhny2943 The object of battle is to kill the enemy, not his equipment.
@@rickporras385 The gun cameras could be operated independently on many aircraft, they were not only used for confirming kills but also gathering intelligence.
Perhaps, it's rare enough to see Japanese aircrew bail out that it's worthy enough to record.
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6:15 maybe "baloon bomb"
Whos shooting who or is it a weather balloon we can see, I would like to see p38 gun camera's over port Moresby with one pilot taken on 25 Japanese planes by himself in the pacific war but some pilots say they were his wingman well were they that day
Maybe the balloons were the incendiary ones launched from submarines to stàrt fire's on the west coast of the USA
@@walterrwrush They launched them from Japan. The balloons would enter the jet stream.
@@leemcginnis738 funny how with time the memory of a fact can Change. thanks for the refresh
Alec Baldwin was flying one of those planes, he'll shoot anyone.....
YIKES! That was good!
Many Americans were shot down too
Something like 10 or 12to 1 ratio not sure exactly
I think it shows bad taste and judgment to shoot at Pilots that have bailed out of their aircraft. This is just not a practise used by most airmen who had admiration for each others skill and bravery. The idea was to shoot down aircraft not pilots. Pilots were a casualty of kill not the target. Are these parachute bombs? what are they called? The idea of shooting down parachuting pilot was uncouth and dishonorable by airmen of any nation
Balloon Bombs, take a careful look at some of them and you can see that it isnt a human being attached.
Them are pretty obviously spherical balloons and not parachutes
3:36 Ryusei???
Almost certainly, the wing profile is very distinctive.
@@hw97karbine Yes, I think so too.
Looks like Inverted Gull Wing..
Wasn't shooting parachutist poor form that only the Japanese did??
The targets they were shooting at in the last minute of the film were balloon bombs, not pilots in parachutes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_bomb
Well, answer this question yourself. Such behaviour is a mix of hatred, anger, fear and combat stress, as well as just being a bad person. Is it anyhow reserved for the Japanese of that time only?
@@PJ-wh1tq yes....
@@madisntit6547 quite so...thanks.
Woah! 2:00 nearly 2 for 1
Except the one who cut in front is friendly.
Later-war Japanese aircraft were much better protected: too bad they didn't learned that earlier!
戦争とはいえ、友軍の最後の映像は見ていて辛い…
パラシュートで降下しているパイロットを攻撃している映像には怒りを覚えた(正に鬼畜の所業)
ちなみに条約違反
パラシュートではなく、爆発物を入れた熱気球です
@@SpanishDio
あれのどこが熱気球なんだ？どう見ても降下中のパイロットではないか！
キミが言ってる熱気球が仮に風船爆弾の事だとしても、形状が風船爆弾と全く違う
The twin engine machines seemed to brew up real quick
Probably Bettys. Japanese planes often had no self-sealing tanks.
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I'm not sure who taught these Japanese Pilots to fly,, but when the Enemy approaches from any advantageous angle, that's when it's time to pull your best Moves!!! Some of these guys didn't react at all?????
Balloon bombs
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We're they shooting at enemy in parachutes?
(Not that I blame them based on what I know about how utterly hostile and Savage and without Mercy those people
)
Look closely, they are balloons.
I didn't see any shooting. That may well have been an American that was being looked over as he floated downwards.
The Japanese always seemed to shoot at an enemy in their parachute. The US did it as well against the Japanese. The US didn't really do it in Europe against the Germans, although there were instances of it happening. This is from what I've read....
It looks like the pilot flew right over the top. I herd doing that will cause the parachute to collapse and the person to fall.
Those were not people in the chutes that are in the video.
1:57……. Shit you think is a good idea when your 19. 🤣 testosterone is a helluva drug, and lacking amongst pilots of these days at times.
English, please.
At 2.22, shooting at a guy in a parachute.... not good...👎
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