Ship Busters | Coastal Command raids Norway (1945)
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- Опубликовано: 6 ноя 2023
- This dramatised 1945 Royal Air Force propaganda film details the story of Coastal Command's raids against German coastal shipping and how the effects of these raids forced changes in tactics.
"Ship-Busters" tells the story of a Free-Norwegian DeHaviland Mosquito reconnaissance crew, tasked with finding hidden ships in the fjords at dawn, and the follow-up strikes by squadrons of Mosquitos and Beaufort Beaufighters.
All those beautiful Mosquitoes and Beaufighters😊
I've three photo albums of an Australian who flew with No.455 Squadron initially on Hampdens with Bomber Command, before it was transferred to Coastal Command, still on Hampdens using torpedoes on shipping strikes - before taking on Beaufighters and continuing in the anti-shipping role off Norway etc. These albums were found in a dumpster outside the vets house after he died. His family came up and cleared the house out, throwing out all his belongings, including his uniform, which was saved by a good friend of his (it was he who also rescued the albums) after which the albums were passed to me. The albums are a real window into his service, departure from Sydney by ship, training in Canada, arrival in UK etc, forming up with aircraft etc.
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outstanding, just a remarkable film with the best/most-absorbing audio quality I've heard in archival footage in a long time. Bravo!
Friends dad flew Mosquitoes with Coastal Command from Banff.Some of these photos I have seen 50 years ago in High School,he had a box full of strike photos and notes.These probably still exist.
A good bit of filming. Though many aircraft in what was known as the Banff Wing lost quite a few aircraft. I read somewhere that it took a few attempts to get the action on camera as the designated aircraft with the camera man onboard kept getting shot down. Low level attack whether it's ground targets or ships was probably the most hazardous of all air ops. Not for the feint hearted.
Excellent film of the Beaufighters and Mosquitos. Thanks for the post.
A good deal of this combat footage was filmed by Wing Commander Richard Atkinson DSO, DFC Bar of 235sq RAF in November 1944.
Thank you so much for this, I live in far NE Scotland (used to live at the point where the Beaus and Mossies from Banff and Dallachy would meet up with their Mustang escorts from Peterhead), and love to take in as much about this forgotten part of WW2. Never seen this film before, and its another brilliant one, the use of German propaganda against them is always interesting to see.
Hard to say if you people will see this... My uncle flew with the 407 Demon Squadron. They patrolled off the Dutch coast. He went down in a Hudson while his flight was sinking a German cruiser and its escort.
Ground attack was a very hazardous undertaking - especially against ships that are bristling with AA defences.
Those sure are some beautiful airplanes!
There are folks today that have no real understanding of what it meant to be in global war, or appreciation of what it took for those that fought it. Videos like this at least give a hint at the risks involved. Preserving the history of the war, and of those that had to fight it is, indeed priceless.
On the 27th of November 1944 divebombers took of from HMS Implacable and attacked MS Rigel next to the island of Tjøtta, more than 2500 people died, most of them pow's from eastern europe.
The Bristol Beaufighter is my favourite WW II aircraft. I used to work in the hangar they were made
Very tragic environmental nightmare for the norwegian coast, these kinds of documentaries really bring the awful reality of war home.
Challenging and dangerous job and theatre that gets little recognition thank you for posting
This video really shows the abysmal accuracy and ballistic characteristics of the 5" Aircraft Rocket.
Brave people who would have felt excitement and fear in similar measures I imagine! I can feel that just watching this video, but unlike so many of them, I’m not about to die! Thank you all posthumously! Cheers to all who appreciate their efforts!
I'd like to think that the reason so many of those rockets missed their target was because of the interference of the gravitational pull of the gigantic steel balls of these pilots.