Gun Camera in 4K COLOR - PBM flying boat strafes train and ships on the pacific [WWII DOCUMENTARY]
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Great quality original color gun camera ( guncam ) reel showing a Martin Mariner flying boat in combat attacking Japanese train and ships.
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Footage has been:
- Researched
- Digitally restored
- Upscaled to 4K
- Edited
by Look in The Past channel.
The Martin PBM Mariner was an American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II. It was heavily armed for a flying boat as it had multiple gun positions at midship at the tail, nose and dorsal turrets They were mostly used for long range aerial search and rescue missions during WWII.
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Wasn't expecting a PBM flying strafing rounds!
You know you are screwed when even the big lumbering amphibs are “getting some”
1st PBM action film I’ve seen. Dad was a patrol boat commander WWII. Saipan, Mariannas and Okinawa.Yes, Navy referred to amphibs as flying boats to satisfy some die hard admirals.
But tĥere were also Catalinas without landing gear, those were true flying boats.
My understanding was always that a "flying boat" has a fuselage designed for flotation, compared to a "float plane" with a conventional fuselage but equipped with pontoons.
@elektro3000, you are correct with the terminology for each of aircraft.
Some float planes have wheels mounted on the floats to taxi out of the water onto dry land, and a few types can have the float removed, and regular wheeled landing gear install.
There's a clear distinction between a flying boat and an amphibian. The amphibian has a retractable landing gear, a flying boat doesn't. For the Mariner, only the PBM-5A version can be classified as amphibious aircraft, the rest were flying boats. Same can be said for the Catalinas, that became amphibs starting with the PBY-5A.
@@TheIndianalain Sorry, you're referring to a "seaplane." Go on over the Kenmore Air or Tropic Ocean Tours and tell them you want to take a tour in a "flying boat" and they will look at you sideways for a second before replying, "right away pops." The terms "flying boat" and "all water navy" had been mutually dependant on each other, as neither makes sense alone and they should be referred to in the past tense. To this day there remain quite a few airplanes without landing gear, it's quite practical in places like the Florida Keys and Puget Sound, to the point operators have developed amazing articulated trucks to reach under and snatch them by the floats for winter hangaring. While it is likely that many are referred to as "boats," no one calls any of them that anymore.
Martin Marlin was the very last flying boat retired in '67, the last commercial flying boat in service was the Short Solent until 1949.
Probably the most unusual gun camera film I’ve ever seen. Subscribed as a result.
I'm glad you like it!
Looks more like a hand held camera than an actual gun camera.
@@jongirolami4978... flying boats DIDN'T HAVE gun cameras. Only fighters...
Same! what grabbed me is that usually gun camera footage doesn't start until the trigger gets pulled. I was looking for bullet strikes way before they actually started shooting. That plane crew knew their business. Those were some LOW harbor passes.
@@slowpokebr549... it's not a gun camera.
PBM strafing a train… that’s a first. Thanks for sharing
My pops was with VPB -71 U.S.N.
His squadron did this type of action at night. PBYs were air sea rescue at first then the navy took a bunch of them , put 50cal in the side blisters , 30cal up front , added 500lb bomb under each wing. Painted them black. Night missions , 6hrs out , 6hrs back. Targets were troop transports and barges anchored near small islands in the Pacific.
The Black Cats
Look up the Call of Duty: World at War campaign mission called Black Cats of you haven’t seen it. It’s unbelievable.
@@DelcoAirsoft Thanks for the Call of Duty link.
That's some good stuff. Now I know why pops didn't talk much about the war. Some vets are just that way. They did their job , came home and started a family.
@@coastalkev3776 You’re welcome! That’s actually really cool that you’ve never seen that before.
I grew up playing that game as a 12 year old. I remember being absolutely blown away by it. I still am to some degree.
It’s a large contributing factor for why I love WWII to this day.
Strafing at 90 mph doesn’t sound like an occupation with a future…
Still better than being the receivers.
A time in history when real men existed
I didn't even know they could be used offensively like this against anything other than submarines. Pretty cool!
Research flying boats, B-24s, and B-17 dogfights in the Pacific. They'd be out scouting and would slug it out, an overlooked but awesome part of the Pacific war
They had a 4000 lbs. bomb load and could also carry torpedoes.
color just really brings it to life. You can really get the feel of the experience. Amazing times!
Such rare and incredible footage. You can tell the cameraman was having a hard time getting good shots of the action.
Wild footage.
I wasn't even aware that Mariners had machine guns. My father-in-law did tell me some stories about his time as a flight engineer/radio operator on those. Changing cylinders on the open sea from a tarp, etc
This only shows how weak Japanese air defense was by the end of the war.
ok but i wouldn't be complacent about that....only takes one bullet fired from a rifle in the right spot to bring down a plane...and they would have decapitated you had you baled out
Still sent Kamikazes after the fleet though.
Where was this?
The island shown at 1:00 looks like the one at (34°41'47.1"N 137°36'06.5"E).
But I cannot confirm it.
I live less than a mile from where they built these planes at. Middle river Maryland Baltimore County
I love watching the gun cam footage
Not a gun cam.
It’s like an old boat version of the AC-130
Nimitz had the Navy still on the offensive even after the first bomb and many pilots got killed and it was a big question for higher ups if it was even worth it knowing the Japanese were close to surrender. This vid shows how lacking the AAA was and the plane apparently shooting unarmed objects but it was a slow and easily target.. Good vid.
At some moment, japan was out of any anti-aerial defenses, I guess. looking how easy were to fly at japanese aerial space.
Great footage, but it was difficult to follow at times. It would be great to see this run through an image stabilization program. Then we could really see in better detail what was happening.
Screw image stabilization. This is what it was like and it is real.
I am not sure image stabilisation works after the fact, if you realign each frame you might have to crop those frames which just wouldn’t work as a movie. I am guessing that the cameras were already in place for surveillance and therefore weren’t lined up to where the guns were pointing.
@@teeanahera8949 Yes, each frame would be cropped somewhat, but since the action is primarily in the center, that will always be within the shot.
@@Monaco-BuilditFixitDriveitEver relax dude. An image stabilized version can exist in tandem with the original. There is value in being able to view details without having to go frame by frame.
Have to echo a lot of other comments. Don't see Martin Mariner gun camera footage too often. Very interesting.
It's not a gun camera.
Check out Gordon Forbes' "Goodbye to Some" - he was a navy B24 pilot in the pacific doing just this sort of thing.
Great book - I’ve attempted to research this footage - it appears to be from a PB4Y unit.
By this point the allies had complete air superiority over Japan so they could fly unimpeded on these runs
So if you were in a small boat getting strafed, rather than trying to run away from the plane, which you can’t do, would it make more sense to turn directly towards the plane thereby increasing the combined closing speed and reducing the time under fire ?
Maybe in a video game, yes. Yes it would. Especially if you toggled off flight assist.
I think you are screwed either way.
@@unionsquaregrassman James Bond might be able to pull it off. 😂 Yeah. I was just thinking of the least worst option. The natural inclination of the boat would be to turn tail and run away from the plane. But you can’t outrun it. So I came up with this idea. 🤷♀️
The target should try to move on a course perpendicular to the firing aircraft. The target's movement will force the gun/bomb aimer into a maximum deflection shot - the hardest kind. It also minimizes the length of a machine gun's beaten zone since the bullets will typically be "walked into" the target using splashes or fountains of dirt flying up from the surface around the target.
The attacking aircraft pilot was trained to approach at roughly a 45 degree angle as it maximized the chances of scoring at least some hits. If the pilot tried to fly on a path parallel to the target, such as a long railroad train or a ship, they would generally miss to one side, or perhaps put nearly all their ammunition into the target.
As far as time in the beaten zone, I don't think 10 km per hour for a sampan is going to matter, even against a flying boat moving at 150 km per hour much less a fighter-bomber moving at 450 km per hour.
Is this the person I called about the Dodge parts?
The location of the first footage is probably the lake Hamana in Shizuoka pref. where there are a lot of auto factories now such as Suzuki, Yamaha and Honda. The railway caught on camera should be the Tokaido line, which connects Tokyo and Osaka, two major cities in Japan. The line was of course a vital for Japan's wartime produciton then and as a result the U.S. attacked the facility.
Thank you for the additional info
I've never been seasick or airsick in my whole life. I think I'm now both! Amazing footage nonetheless.
My Uncle served on PBM's during the war. Radioman, I think.
I had one grunch but the eggplant over there. A drive by comment to help with the YT algorithm.
I tried this in FarCry 5, so I'm a bit of an expert on this, and I can wholeheartedly confirm that this is hard to do.
WW2 is a bit early for color film in a guncam. Impressive.
The pilot holds the phone surprisingly steady..
It's a shame four of his fingers are covering the lens 😑
I'm forever thankful to the service members past and present, and allied nations, who work to combat inhumane dictators and alike from spreading to the free world. Stuff isn't always perfect, but good people always step up to correct it. I served in the Navy and I loved it, I encourage any young adult to look into what the military has to offer that can benefit their lives (I know it doesn't always work like that) while serving the country and world 💪👍
Well I hope you step up and prevent Trump from turning, as promised by him, the US into a dictatorship.
@@teeanahera8949 nice cherry picking Trump's comments. Personally i would not encourage any young person to join the military at this time - why? To go die in some Godforsaken place because your government thinks it is necessary? And yes, i'm a veteran. Can't deny no new conflicts and wars under Trump.
These guys must have been bored to do a run like that.
My thoughts too but guys will do funny stuff when bored
Strafing at 120 knots!
thought this was a video game at first. this is very different. where was they flying over looks well developed. was it japan? if so how come it was so close and escaped the zeros? good vid.
These planes had a ridiculous amount of guns on them, they could slow pass just laying waste to everything.
ya see, we didn't try to board the boats, we straffed them, get it ?
*strafing* makes international news in minutes these days. i assume you're referring to the recent botched navy operation against a nation that we are not officially at war with.
*strafed
I’m surprised a PBY tried this. They’re not very fast and are a large target. They were generally used for scouting, sea rescue and remote area resupply.
not PBY Catalina, but a PBM Martin Mariner
@@Nikitas1978 Catalina did that too.
@@abrahamdozer6273No kidding.. lots of types of planes did it but the title says PBM so shhh 🤫
@@guaporeturns9472 (My dad was a WWII RCAF PBY-5 pilot in the Indian Ocean.)
@@abrahamdozer6273 Cool , I love the Catalina…. My dad was in the 82nd Airborne, made all 4 jumps in WWII.
That's just crazy, in color no less. Was that Mariner part of the 14th Airforce?
Glad you like the footage :)
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Does anyone know the approximate altitude they are strafing at?
It looks like less than 250ft, and sometimes less than 100ft like at 0:27. Flying so low over those telegraph lines makes one pucker, especially if flying a small aircraft.
Looks like mainland Japan. Was it before they set up air defense
Where is the first scene?
Lousy camera work, but there is a war going on. And in my opinion, that is not a gun camera, it is a handheld camera. But I wasn't there.
Thank you for your efforts. May you and yours stay well and prosper.
The AC-130's Grandpappy.
No audio for me. Anyone else? :/ Thx.
Black Cats ost
What was the date of this film?
It's in 1945
Huh, this seems to be some very rare footage of an attack on either the Japanese home islands or Formosa (Taiwan). Very interesting.
Glad you like it!
I was wondering about location.
You'd barely think a war was on.
so mostly footgae of killing innocent fisherman
I think congress ought to get involved, they can fix the problem….not
That pilot was acting in retaliation for the Japanese attack on the American fishing fleet docked in Pearl Harbor? Oh and by the way, without flak and in a clear day... how do you miss the bomb on that railway at the beginning? Must take some skills. One thing is undeniable: The video quality is amazing. Sure I'd be embarrassed if I was the pilot, probably taken to court for war crimes (again, fishing ships... really?)... but the video, deserves a thumbs up and the channel a sub just for the remastering quality. Thank you.
Thank you for the kind words!
Trying to upload interesting and rare footage, and bring out the best quality.
American pilots in the Normandy Invasion were literally told to shoot anything on the ground that moves. The same thing applied in Japan - Allied aircraft (especially bomber escort fighters after completing their escort duties) would strafe the hell out of literally anything that moved on the ground - trains, vehicles, ships, and even commercial shipping and fishing vessels - Allied pilots were instructed by their superiors to do this. I'm not saying it's OK, but this isn't some rogue pilot - all of them did this.
Obviously not a gun camera. Misleading title.
Obviously...amateur photographer!😂
That's a civilian train, a civilian freighter, and fishing vessels. If they were military, that plane would have been blown out of the sky...
No surprise there, the targeting of civilians have a utility of force, no one gives a shit about any Jus in bello crap. What irritates me is how anyone can be so stupid to think there are 'good guys' in a war. Every human depravity and wickedness is normal in war, and turns young people into evil monsters from which they can never come back from.
I'd rather be trapped in a cell with a rapist than any animal who kills, especially like the gunner in this film. By any measure killing is more wicked than a the monstrous crime of rape, which is also something soldiers do... Less medals for that though, I suppose.