-My Father was there when this film was taken, he served on Saipan-Tinian-Guam as a 1st Lt. in the USA Medical Corps. He came home in 1946 after a stint at Camp Atterbury commanding German and Italian POWs there.
Great, I don't see alot of variety shown of Pacific AAF planes, except maybe P-38 and B-25. Mostly Navy stuff. Glad the jugs was tearing up stuff like they were known to do.
Seizing the Marianas (which included Saipan) was of major strategic importance for the U.S. The islands, though remotely situated in the Pacific, were nevertheless close enough to mainland Japan to allow American B-29s to strike most areas in the Japanese home islands and return without refueling. Tinian, another island in the Marianas, would ultimately be the island from which the atomic bombing missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flown.
-My Father was there when this film was taken, he served on Saipan-Tinian-Guam as a 1st Lt. in the USA Medical Corps. He came home in 1946 after a stint at Camp Atterbury commanding German and Italian POWs there.
Nice! Rarely run any WWII videos in full-screen mode. This one was HD for the time.
Ty from NZ👍 🇳🇿
Cool footage. Looks like they sent all the old 'Razorback' 47s to the Pacific.
Those Japanese aircraft would be worth a mint today . But I expect they were all scraped !
Great, I don't see alot of variety shown of Pacific AAF planes, except maybe P-38 and B-25. Mostly Navy stuff. Glad the jugs was tearing up stuff like they were known to do.
残して置いて欲しかったな。
Большое спасибо за видео! Именно настоящее так ценно.
Marty Caidin was there.
Seizing the Marianas (which included Saipan) was of major strategic importance for the U.S. The islands, though remotely situated in the Pacific, were nevertheless close enough to mainland Japan to allow American B-29s to strike most areas in the Japanese home islands and return without refueling. Tinian, another island in the Marianas, would ultimately be the island from which the atomic bombing missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flown.
Surprising to see P-47s. Saipan would eventually become a base for the B-29.
these young men are so dam good
Those P-47's had been catapulted off a carrier.
amazing
A lot of zero 52
8:02 Look he put BB-8 on his cowling:)