WWII ALLIED AIR ATTACKS VERSUS RAILROAD TRAINS aka TRAIN BUSTERS 42324
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Dating to 1943, TRAIN BUSTERS is a 13-minute 1943 Canadian documentary film, directed by Sydney Newman. The film was made as part of the war propaganda effort by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Overseas Film Unit and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of the NFB's Canada Carries On series. The film depicts the Allied night bombing campaign over occupied Europe that was complemented by close air support missions flown by the RCAF targeting enemy trains.
In 1943, the RCAF strength and equipment consists of 32 overseas squadrons based in England. Two fundamental missions were essential to the Allied air strategy: night bombing and interdiction. While bombers struck at the heart of occupied Europe, the German war machine reacted by sending out supplies to their far-flung European bases by rail. The RCAF disrupted the "nerve centres" by attacking the rail system. These specialized ground attack fighters were extremely successful, with fighter-bombers destroying munition trains.
A Canadian-based Hawker Hurricane Mk XII is filmed; note the lack of a spinner that characterized the Hurricane fighters in Canada, while the mix of sequences purports to show a European sortie.
Typical of the NFB's wartime series of documentary short films, Train Busters relied heavily on military assistance in obtaining stock footage. The film incorporated footage shot over a period of time from 1939-1943. While the aerial sequences were limited to available footage, some of the aerial scenes were shot in Canada and carefully edited with other footage obtained from the British Ministry of Information as well as other sources, including pre-war German films.[3]
The RCAF aircraft in Train Busters encompassed most of the types used in Bomber and Fighter Commands, by the RCAF in 1943, including:
de Havilland Mosquito medium bomber/fighter-bomber
Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber
Hawker Hurricane fighter/fighter-bomber
North American Mustang I reconnaissance/fighter-bomber
Short Stirling heavy bomber
Supermarine Spitfire fighter, fighter-bomber
Vickers Wellington medium bomber
Reception
As part of the NFB's newsreel programs, Train Busters was produced for both the military and the theatrical market. As R.C.A.F. Train-Busters, the film was issued to military bases on May 25, 1943, as Newsreel of the Week: Issue No. 8, part of the Canadian Army newsreel series.[4]
Each film in NFB's Canada Carries On series was shown over a six-month period as part of the shorts or newsreel segments in approximately 800 theatres across Canada. The NFB had an arrangement with Famous Players theatres to ensure that Canadians from coast to coast could see them, with further distribution by Columbia Pictures.[5]
After the six-month theatrical tour ended, individual films were made available on 16 mm to schools, libraries, churches and factories, extending the life of these films for another year or two. They were also made available to film libraries operated by university and provincial authorities. Although available from the National Film Board either online or as a DVD, Train Busters is now largely forgotten.[1]
Historian Malek Khouri analyzed the role of the NFB wartime documentaries, with Train Busters characterized as an example of a propaganda film. "During the early years of the NFB, its creative output was largely informed by the turbulent political and social climate the world was facing. World War II, Communism, unemployment, the role of labour unions, and working conditions were all subjects featured by the NFB during the period from 1939 to 1946". In Filming Politics, Khouri described a "new-found fascination" with technological advances in winning the war, especially through the use of air power.
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I love the way the two Mustangs miraculously turned into Hurricanes.
Watch a bit closer, they switch back and forth frequently, I doubt the audience of the day knew the difference.
@@JohnHill-qo3hb Yeah, I saw that. In fact, I could have sworn I saw a glimpse of a Canadian Hurri without a spinner. I must rewatch it.
Neat camouflage trick huh...lol that's just the innocent ignorance of the viewing public
They're early P-51s too. (A)'s?
that's how we won the war. lol
Thank you Canada, for all you did to help us in both world wars. your contribution was immeasurable, thank you very much.
We take a great deal of pride in the contributions and sacrifice of our armed forces. Every November 11 brings an extraordinary number of people out to pay their respects, some with veterans in their families and others just appreciative of those who served and often gave their lives in the service of Canada and its allies.
Yes it true Canadians made the best cannon fodder. The British High command loved Canadians, liked Kiwis and detested Australians. Why? Because no matter how stupid or suicidal the order the Canadians would attempt to carry it out, If it was too stupid or too suicidal the Australians would say piss off were not doing it and the Kiwis were somewhere in the middle.
BTW The Bankers won that war they win every war, they financed both sides and 78 years later are still collecting the interest on those loans. Your income tax does not go to infrastructure or social services all of it goes to pay of those old war debts. Sales Tax, pole Tax, GST and every other kind of tax go towards infrastructure and social services. We are all tax slaves to the Banks and no body bothered to tell us. Bankers wars where the survivors are turned into tax slaves for 100 years after the war finishes. Loose you Dad or Brother in the war and be a tax slave for 5 generations.
@@MegaDavyk MegaDykhead...
@@MegaDavykDieppe is a prime example. The British similarly liked the Indian army and eventually had to set India free in return.
My dad deployed with 110 Army Cooperation Squadron, RCAF, to the UK in February 1940, as the first RCAF Squadron to operate in WWII.....the RCAF Squadrons were re-numbered and 110 Squadron was re-numbered as 400 Squadron, RCAF.....making it the very first RCAF Squadron of WWII.....still serving in today's RCAF as 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, RCAF, based at CFB Borden, Ontario in support of Canada's Special Operations Regiment and our national counter-terrorist unit, The Joint Task Force Two (JTF2)....Per Ardua Ad Astra......
Halifax, Stirling, Wimpey what a treat!
Britain was lucky to have the contribution from Canada and all the other commonwealth countries from around the world .
Thanks fellas , things may have turned out differently if you hadn't been there .
Imagine being the conductor, nothing you can do. Even a ship can slowly turn, war HAS to suck shi
Awesome! ...and well done train attack at the end! Love the Hurries skirting the rails
closing, closing on the target and the IIc's 20mm cannons finally popping the locomotive's boiler... wow!
Music to intrusive and loud. Great film.
Brave Canadian soldiers are a formidable force to reckon with!
I´m a railfan. And great discovering, two mistakes: on a Canadian WW-2 movietone news, from 6.45 to 6:54 images are from Spain´s Basque Country CAF factory, words in Spanish are partially visibles in front of a building ("Compañia Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles"). Under Generalissimo Franco dictatorship, but not on ocuppied Europe under German control. And just next images, about steam locomotiv are filmed at Babcock and Wilcox factory in Bilbao, also in Spain´s Basque Country.
I love finding things like that in films. NOT detracting from the films, just catching some errors!
Did you notice that some of the footage was from Hollywood films? Don't hope for accuracy in propaganda.
" largely forgotten ",, that is sad but true. Lest We Forget.
AAH, the Halifax, and the Wimpy (Wellington) ... beautiful!!
@jonnybeck: You forgot the Stirling mate!
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars I always had a problem with the Short Sterling's ridiculous 3 story landing gear... I mean: Why?
@jonnybeck: Isn't it obvious? It's so that they don't have so far to get into the air! 😉 The fact the undercart was electric and apparently sometimes developed a tendency to retract at unexpected times gets me! 😱
@@PercyPruneMHDOIFandBars Let us not forget the certain death that awaits a careless mechanic (unless your name is Rocket J. Squirrel...)
Oh , to have had heat-seeking missiles for those steam engines !
Canada didn't have much of a population and not much in the way of military hardware when the war started but that didn't stop them. They pulled their share of the weight and my hat's off to them for that. Good job!
My American uncle fought with them in France and Germany and he came home with a deep respect for Canadians that lasted all his life. He didn't give respect like that lightly and, believe me, that should be enough to convince anyone.
Thank you, Canada.
By the end of the war Canada had the World's 4th largest air force and 5th largest Navy. Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@davebadger8437 He said, "not much in the way of military hardware when the war started" American didn't have much of an army when the war started, either! New recruits practices with wooden rifles until they got to Europe; actual functioning guns were used at the rifle range only at the time!
@@davebadger8437 That's not saying much. By that time, much of the great nations' airforce and navy had been depleted.
Would have been some of this in Japan as well. Cool!
The one pilot from Gadsby Alberta. A town of 50 maybe cool stuff
Like Australia and Canada and other countries outside of England had a British private telling the soldiers of other countries want to do no matter what service or rank the private tell how to do things or it would be a court case
10:27 Riding shotgun while being strafed by a Mustang. How was your day, honey?
Especially as they are shooting at you with Allied weapons.
This used to be a pretty common attack back then. I wonder why the Germans did not at some point introduce some kind of emergency release valve into their locomotive boilers so in case of an air attack they could simply get rid of the overpressure inside the boiler. With that, there would only be that much the planes could do to the train and at least there would not be an exploding locomotive that could wreck the rest of the train. It just be stuck somewhere on the rails and that's it.
I love how the planes change from Mustangs to Hurricanes then back
Yeah. A20 Apache. Not a Mustang, professor.
@@MarksUselessChannel Wasn't that the North American, A-36 Apache?
The Adventures of Pappy and the Canadian Kid up next!!
Freedom isn't free
If you want to see a train being attacked, skip the first 10 minutes of blurb.
@ 7:23 Either a pair of P-51A Mustangs or their half brother the A-36 Apache.... Correction! They're P-51As (no twin 50 cal nor 20mm sticking out of the wings! Which the variants of the A-36s had) @ 7:30
That had to be pretty tough trying to stop a train with .30 caliber bullets.
at 9:00...the Pilot is firing HORIZONTALLY at the bridge of the ship. DAYAM!
1st half has nothing about trains!
Canandian Hollywood. The 'German ' Guards armed with SMLE rifles and Bren guns?' Nice bit of display flying though
Definitely the great Lorne Green
Brave canadians !
The brave and effective fighting men and women from Canada's airforce, sadly, are not well demonstrated in this overly edited production. But thanks for putting it together anyway.
8:48 Hawker Tempest (or Typhoon).
Is ths a Clash of Arms? AKA Train in Vain?
Busting up thomas the trains cousin fritz the steam guzzler!
Canada's military is a grower, not a show-er.
why are they showing hurricanes
The National Film Board of Canada wishes to gratefully acknowledge the efforts of Colonial Service Commander Adama for his contribution in narrating this film.
Thanx for posting this stuff... I never seem to tire of it... The late 30's and early 40's... when men were men, girls was girls and our mores were a bit more clear cut...
It was truly an amazing era, when the stakes were never higher, and all of humanity stood to gain or lose depending on the outcome.
@ 6:58 the worker w/ goggles... Classic!
There was mostly filler and not many train attacks.
First 10 minutes was just blurb.
Yeah most of this was a movie. Not real combat a movie
Didn’t know the Germans had Royal Scot locomotives 🙄
Holy crap, that is Lorne Greene narrating! AKA, "Ben Cartwright", or as Canada knew him in WW2, "The Voice of Doom".
I am a fan of trains, so it does pain me to see trains get strafed. It pains me even more, however, to think of what the Nazis would have used them for if they had been left unmolested.
Surely an easier train kill can be achieved by simply damaging the tracks half a mile ahead of the train?
A lot easier to replace a track than to keep having to build locomotives and trains freights.
"Ve must shoot zem down with our vhistle!"
It is the engine screaming in fright !......:)
sound written in
we used to fight Nazis. now we accuse anybody we don't like of standing with swastikas.
no id french
british lee enfield at 9:33:04 probs a propaganda shot.
Ground shots of the train being attacked and exploding. Must have been provided by Goebbels. I hope they thanked him
Wandering around with a paper model whilst someone blatts off a machine gun? Sod that for a game!
Well, they were Canadian.
wish the PF# and the time was in the top left or right hand corner.
Now THAT was one of the WORST propaganda films ever. Thanks PF for sharing.
when do they attack a train ?
WHERE WERE THE TRAINS? BUSTER
Speaking as a Canadian - that film is extremely embarrassing!
From 6:45 onwards, these are Spanish engines !
That's okay. They are being attacked by Hurricanes not Mustangs.
Wait a minute... didn't the bombardier have control of the plane
just before "bombs away" in the British heavies?
Yea and the Americans risked bombing in daylight and strafed targets on the ground.
Gawd, Early NFB was colossal propaganda. Come to think of it, it still is.
who designed and what was the intended purpose of that stupid little cap worn at 2:35?
It just looked so idiotic on one side like that!
That cap @ 2:35 was known to American GIs as the"Overseas Cap". It also had another name which you might find offensive because it deals with a part of a woman's anatomy. Cheers
fermin benedetti LOL Thanks. it just look like the most useless and ridiculous hat ever issued to soldiers.
Garrison cap, or c*nt cap. when worn straight it isn't that bad. he just thinks he's being cool.
As an old Canadian who grew-up watching documentaries on all subjects related to WWII, this is the first time I've ever stopped watching because the 'soundtrack' was too irritating. I couldn't make it past 1:30.
Let's shed tears for the poor Nazis.
Move that counter you pricks........
Pt2.......
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Hurricanes not Mustangs
Heck. This looked so staged with coal shuttle helmeted Germans with Enfield rifles and Bren guns. No gun camera shots, at least up to 11.33 minutes. "Hedge hopping" where there were no hedges - over the channel actually. That's wave hopping, I don't know. must be for propaganda. I carried on to see a couple strafing clips thrown in. I'm grateful for the Canadian effort during WW2 however. Thank you.
THANK YOU to the Antifa Soldiers from Canada!
Unbelievable carnage caused by the indiscriminate strafing of both military and civilian traffic. Trains, cars, lorries, horses and cyclists indiscriminately mown down. Looks dispassionate and clean from up above, doesn't it?
A great book that touches on this idea is Frederic Arnold's Doorknob52, which tells the true story of an American pilot who was shot down over Sicily and then had to walk back through enemy lines to get to safety. That included the area he had just strafed and bombed. So, he saw first hand the carnage that he had wrought with his aircraft. www.doorknob52.com/
I'ts called "Collateral Damage".
One of my favorite books.
john kevin wilshaw Kind of like the blitz huh?
Looks like payback time for supporting a megalomaniac. Dedicated to the victims of Warsaw, London, Amsterdam, Stalingrad and so many other places.
Laugh.
Canada rides the back of America's military
Thank you Canada, for all you did to help us in both world wars. your contribution was immeasurable, thank you very much.
MrTubbymarshall I appreciate and thank you for those words, sir. My grandfather, Willis Jacob, passed away in 2013. He served in the Canadian Navy from 1939 to 1945. He actually lied about his age to get the OK from the Navy to fight for his country. He was only 16 years old and his entire life he loved his country liked he did his family. Thank you for showing my grandfather respect by simply mentioning and showing Canada respect. You remember all men and women like my grandfather when you say those words. Too often people talk WW2 history and they will talk about the Allies, yet, the majority bring up the USA, Great Britain and even Russia before mentioning Canada. Even though the Canadians joined the war from the very start in 1939, SMH. The USA weren't forced to enter the war until the final few weeks of 1941. Canada had the same deal in World War 1. By the way, not meaning to down-play or minimize the colossal contribution from the United States in both wars. Just making an example of why I think Canada should be in people's consciousness when they think of the countries that sacrificed to help win the two most important wars in "modern" times. Anyways, thank you again for the comment!! Sorry for the long reply :/ haha