P-38 F-5 Reconnaissance Mission to Rabaul (1944-Restored)

Photo Reconnaissance pilots received the most in depth training in the Air Force. You'll get a good look at a Lockheed F-5 (recon version of the P-38) inside and out and follow the aircraft and her pilot on a long range mission filming the huge Japanese base at Rabaul. On return to base, the recon large format film is then unloaded and developed at his airfield, analyzed by Intelligence and used for identifying targets for a B-24 bombing mission against the island fortress.
This film is part of a 3rd Air Force's training series. Headquartered in Tampa FL, it encompassed the South Eastern United States with a network of specialized airfields, tasked with training 10s of thousands of pilots & air crew in operating and maintaining a wide variety of aircraft. They produced films like this to show trainees what to expect when they joined their combat units overseas, using real life examples with different aircraft performing missions around the world.
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There's alot of things that are not true on this film. When it came to alot of the missions that recon pilots flew in Europe alot of there missions where both taking pictures at both low level and hi altitude of the same target. I know this to be true because my dad was one of those pilots and have the pictures that he took while on said missions that he came home with after the war. There was so many times his plain had quite a few holes when he landed. He had a picture of one of the plans he flew back that had over 350 holes that the ground crew counted before they stopped counting all of them. That plan had only one engine that still ran and was missing part of one of the tail rudders to where it looked like a shark took a big bite out of it. The ground crew and others where amazed he was able to fly it at all let alone make it back to his base at Mount farm England. He recon group had the highest casualty rate than any other group in the war. He also flew the British spitfire vision of the recon plan along with the normal p-38 and the droop snoop style of the p-38 witch is where the cameras where it had a glass nose where another guy was.

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I respect your Dad’s service, but what exactly is “not true” in this film? It’s not intended to portray all aspects of F-5 missions. It’s a general (fictionalized)example of what they did. If you want to see some low level action, I suggest this film, based on a true story.
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