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My dad flew P-51s off Iwo to escort B-29s over Japan. The camera on a 51 took the place of one wing 50 caliber machine gun. He flew with the 457th Squadron under the 506th Fighter Group on Iwo Jima. Iwo had three airfields on it. My dad’s not flew off of Airfield #3, the Northern most airfield of the three. He named his aircraft after my mom, Jean. Her birthday was on June 13. His aircraft’s name was “Jeanie XIII”. Someone in his unit took a small photo of my Mom and recreated it on “Jeanie XIII”’s cowling. We have many photos of him, his aircraft, his buddies in the bar and in the area and air still shots and areas around Iwo. At the end of the War all pilots were offered the 35mm wing camera footage if they wanted it. My dad accepted the footage and brought it home and placed it in a footlocker and placed it in our garage. I was born in Florida and in the 60’s Hurricane Donna came through Orlando and dumped a high amount of water there. Our home flooded with 3’ of water as did the garage with 4’. For weeks my mom, my younger brother and I removed everything in our home and placed the items in the front yard to dry. The items in the garage were the last to be moved out to the front yard. The footlocker was full of black algae. The films were covered and ruined. Luckily his photo albums survived. The photos and other paraphernalia are all we have for him. He got out of the Army Air Corp at the end of the War and returned home. One priceless piece of paraphernalia that he brought with him was a Pilot Log Book. Entries started when he was going through ROTC in college. It is amazing to read brief statements in his log book of his missions. He list an event where he and his wingman ganged up on one of the few “Zero”’s that flew when the B-29’s were dropping their ordinance. They were credited with the downing of a Jap Zero. As the video states, the escort P-51s, which could have been in hundreds of aircraft, were free to attack targets of opportunity all over Japan. The round trip flight from Iwo to the Japan drop off point and return took about eight hours. The external fuel drop tanks were made of a paper-mache type material because steel was so scarce. They were dumped prior to engaging the enemy. My dad has an entry when he dropped off “Jeanie XIII” in Saipan at the War’s end and how sad he was on that day in his life. He was also a flight instructor in the P-40 before joining the 457th. My mom told me years ago how he flew P-40’s “Over-the-Hump” in the Himalaya’s but I haven’t found any facts to support her information and she has since passed away. His rank at the end of service was Captain. in the Army Air Corp. He died at the young age of 36 from a massive heart attack and I was only 10 years old. I was anxiously waiting for his return home that day so that I could surprise him with my hitting the first of many Little League home runs but that meeting never happened. When I turned 18 years of age in 1966, I broke my mother’s heart. I dropped out of college and volunteered for the US Army’s Warrant Officer Helicopter Flight School knowing full well that I was going to be sent to SE Asia, the Viet Nam War. I spent a total of 2 1/2 years flying helicopter gunships, UH-1C (Huey gunships) and the AH-1G Huey Cobra. I got out and returned home an Army Captain at the War’s end with over 2,000 combat flight hours. “God, & Dad, Were My Co-Pilots!” Two peas in a pod? God Bless You Dad!
I saw 'We were Soldiers' the chopper pilots flew in all weathers and took many casualties off the battlefield while under fire. "You call and we haul"!
My dad was also in the 506th on Iwo. After my dad passed, I started attending the reunions starting in 2005. Google the fighter group for an entire website dedicated to them and their achievements.
My grandfather flew in the Hayate, a Japanese fighter, fighting P-51s. He was still very scared to fight the powerful P-51 and many times he thought he was going to die!
Not only that the canned aircraft engine sounds are obviously how a plane sounds from the ground. In the plane the engine will just have a steady drone.
Bialy That's indeed Japanese targets on their homeland (not necessarily Tokio itself), you can see many stills from these videos in the form of photos in some books covering 7th Air Force's missions of springtime-summer 1945. Also, some ricepaddies are clearly visible at one point. Please note, of course many a brick/concrete buildings were needed for certain purposes, even in Japan... they couldn't do all by living and/or working inside things made only of wood or rice paper. Greetings from Italy.
I read about a German fighter who took to shooting a British armoured train. Thing was, he didn't realize that the train was running on a narrow gauge railway. So he misjudged the distance to the ground going on the size of the train. He crashed. Another time a Fw190 straffed a British passenger service. It blew the boiler of the engine up, but in doing so the dome of the engine flew up in the explosion, hitting his aircraft as it flew over. He crashed. The engine was rebuilt a few months later (it would have been finished quicker if not for wartime shortages) and when it was finished it got a german cross painted on the side. The only steam engine to get a confirmed aircraft kill.
2:55 "Fischermen ... Destroyer or Logger, its the same enemy" - thats a hard scentence. My neighbour told me, they where 9 yo kids in the war that they got shot at from "Tiefflieger" several times when they were out in the fields. For shure its hard for an fighter pilot to destinguish between kids and army personal, but it doesnt erase the fact that they also shot at kids. He got really traumatized when a US or British fighter pilot was shot down in the area of Wildon in Stryia, Austria and they ran to the crashed wrack. They found a terribly wounded and bleeding but living pilot and a fukking SS Man ( he always named him Bergletz, i dont know if i write the name correct) came and stomped in the pilots face till he died. He still breaks into tears when he tells that story
It wasn't unique to the Americans either. Combat pilots flying in the enemy's space without challenge tended to attack absolutely whatever moved. They were encouraged to do so by the dehumanizing rhetoric of war and hate. Post war this looked bad-hence all the political efforts to distance from it or downplay (ie: American "precision" bombing).
@@huawietelcom4516 you mean what if America had occupied Korea in a brutal fashion? Or are you talking about the cruel biologicial experiments done on Chinese?
Imagine being a fisherman working as usual and a low flying P-51 appears on the horizon and starts shooting at you. Going from an everyday situation to one so terrifying must certainly be something.
@@bretdouglas9407 We pretty much did expect the enemy to play by the same rules of declaring a free-fire zone anywhere during the Cold War. Civil Defense in the US was a joke and an illusion because our leaders knew they couldn't offer any real protection against a full-on Soviet nuclear attack. If it makes you feel any better, the Soviets were fully expected to hit all US targets of any industrial or military importance just as we were expecting to go after them. The Soviets legitimately tried to have a real civil defense program and experts believe they could have cut their death rates during an actual attack by over 50% from what was expected to happen across America. The US position was "Why bother? you can either die quickly or die slowly in an irradiated wasteland" The only thing that mattered was making sure enough US strategic forces and civilian command and control survived to launch a retaliatory strike. The Soviets had plans for a "limited" nuclear attack on military assets and plans to go "all-out" against industrial and civilian targets of any war-making potential, which means manufacturing centers such as factories. Transportation networks such as railroads, bridges, tunnels, and roadways. And civilian infrastructure such as power stations, dams, energy grids, farms, fishing fleets, and food storage and distribution points. Just as we reduced Japan and Germany from the air over weeks and months, the US and Soviets would have reduced each other over hours during a nuclear exchange.
This footage is amazing, it is crazy how long some of these guys kept fire on targets, I bet there was a certain amount of pilots that got so focused on the damage they were causing they didn't pull out in time.
We had a P51 fighter group that flew these missions. The average time in the air was 8 hours! They couldn't move around so their lower half was very painfully asleep. They were literally pulled out of the acft by ground crews. From there the base commander had a massage center set up with beer and food. They could only fly every third day because it took 2 days to recover themselves. These guys were 19 years old and these missions tore their young bodies up. Navigation was by forming up on B29s like chicks on a mother hen and you dare not loose sight of them. Their worst mission was going to Japan they tried forming up with the bombers but a snowstorm got in the way 27 out of the 36 were never heard from again. These vets stories were scary as death lurked at every corner.
Donald Parlett jr This video features pilots and P51s from the VII Fighter Command stationed on Iwo Jima. a) The average mission duration was 4-5 hours. b) They often flew multiple sorties per day. c) The average age of a Mustang pilot (when they entered combat) was 24-25 years of age. d) The 7th flew predominately ground attack missions and only ground attack missions from July 1945. They navigated by themselves and most 7th jockeys only saw B29s parked on an airfield. e) There was no "massage" center on Iwo Jima - where do you trolls come up with this crap :)
I just got to say this.. a friend of mine told me her grandfather confessed to her that he was told to leave Pearl Harbor a week before the attack.. he was a personal physician to Harry Truman at the time..
@@jonjeffries3265 I've often wondered how convenient it was our carriers were all out if port doing maneuvers. Not saying we knew, just saying it was extremely good timing.
@@chetarmlin1196 It’s been said that it was known and was let happen because that was the only way the US could be drawn into the war. Americans didn’t want to get involved.
My great grandfather flew p-47 Thunderbolts and then p-51's toward the end of the war. Seeing this gives me a reinforced appreciation for these beautiful machines and the service given by the men like him who were at their helm.
Aye same, my grandad flew the p-47 Thunderbolt in the pacific theater, a lot in Burma. Had some amazing stories for sure. Their courage was on another level.
@@stefanberndt3312 yeah like how japan bombed thousands of inoccents at pearl harbor. you say that as if America was the only country who had incidental collateral during WWII.
@@revenant9277 i don't think pearl harbor is on the same level as heroshima and nagasaki, but yeah, everyone caused collateral, its the darkest part of war
* 6 - 7 hours strapped to a backrest in a cramped and cold cockpit with body's lower part first hurting, and later almost numb. * sitting alone behind 12 moving pistons and hope no mechanical issue will happen. Only the radio as a lifeline, and hope it will work OK, if not.. lost forever. * if anything wrong will happen: if over the Ocean you will meet the welcoming party from sharks, if over the Japan.. even much worse. Your own arsenal once out of the airplane: one M-1911 auto pistol. Your equipment: one life jacket. * flying at 400+ MPH down to 30 feet, just a split-second distraction and you're dead even before firing one round. * hope your 'top cover' mates are OK and wide-eyed up there. If not, even the least experienced enemy pilot will find easy jumping you from above while you're busy strafing the target. Putting it short: huge motivation, + lots of self-confidence, + one full cargo of courage. If not, you're not volunteering to do such a job.
Kaptin Fancy It could depend from the point of views... two utterly different things. But anyway, one precise kind of heroism in wartime is necessary, to have other kinds of heroism being free to come out in peacetime.
I met one at a club I play at maybe 5yrs ago.. I had no idea who he was.. he kind of showed an interest to sing a song, and I thought well maybe later.. his son told me who he was and I let him sing every song he wanted to sing.. felt wonderful shaking his hand..
The same way the Jews could feel satisfied when there's a terrorist attack in Berlin. The same way Japanese people could feel satisfied during 9/11. The same way a 9/11 survivor could feel satisfied when innocent peoples get bombed in Middle East. The same way an African could feel satisfied about a terrorist attack in France. The same way a South American could feel satisfied about a disaster in Spain. The same way French people could feel satisfied about a killing in the UK. Want me to continue or you get the stupidity of your comment and understand there's something wrong with you?
One of the best plane attack videos I've seen. 1 plane was shooting in a circular pattern, the plane that went down a row of docked boats. Amazing flying.
@@h.n.t.d7963 He was under conscription age and was often hired to repair airfields that was bombed. He say he saw Mustangs after a bombing. They were checking the result by lowpass maybe.
@@Valkaze111 having no sympathy for innocent people? Way to go monster! America has always been a white supremacist country fighting for a white supremacist world. They were bombing Japan before Pearl harbour too! At home and abroad! Why? Because they were protecting the interests of European colonists. Japan wasn’t invading the European colonies, they were liberating them! Looks like you lot need some ART along with CRT.
Hard to believe .50 cal rounds did that much damage to those ships. The P51 is my favorite fighter of all time. Close seconds are the P38 and F4U Corsair. Another incredible plane was the DeHavilland Mosquito. More of a light bomber/attack role but deserves tremendous respect in it’s own right.
You have to remember each plane had six of them and they were the H2 variant which fired 20 bullets a second, so in one second that ship received 120 50 caliber rounds. I have seen one 50 cal round not fired from a moving target already doing 400mph and it went straight through a railroad tie. I have been in a room where a sniper fired a 50cal round that hit the wall and without hitting anyone it felt like we were all punched and took the air out of the room briefly, plus it sounded like a car hit the wall. I could only imagine 120 of these a second against anything less than a tank and it wouldn't be pretty!
Many destroyer only had armor on their bridge and main guns. The rest would do nothing to stop a .50 AP round thereby killing crew and damaging systems and possibly starting fires. What is crazy to me is none the DD were shooting back.
@@PoofyKittyPants .Very interesting. You would thing they’d use more than wood. Then again, Japan had real issues obtaining material of all sorts so they cut material where ever possible.
@@PoofyKittyPants Most of the ships being strafed were just Destroyer Escorts, Gunboats and Sub Chasers-which would've had only a very light AA armament-barely noticeable when firing. At this stage of the war some ships were even abandoned entirely-Japanese Fleet Destroyers used powered mounts-and there was literally no gas left. Some might've been maintained as floating AA batteries but most of what was left was going to the remaining capital ships in the Navy.
The P-38 Lightning was the superior gunship and not only because it had one, 20mm Hispano cannon. All of its four, M2 Colt .50 caliber heavy machine guns and one 20mm cannon were concentrated in the nose instead of spread out in the wings. This concentrated cone of fighter proved devastating to any enemy fighter or bomber caught in it. Enemy fighters, including German fighters, would simply blow up. The USAAF intended the P-38 as an interceptor, a job which it performed par excellence, against enemy bombers and cargo planes. The Axis Powers never developed a comparable heavy bomber like the B-17, B-24, or British Lancaster and Halifax, though the Germans did try with the Me-264 prototype heavy bomber. The P-38 design was meant to engage and destroy up to and including potential enemy heavy bombers. That all said, the P-51B/D Mustang indeed proved the most versatile of all the USAAF fighter aircraft. It proved slightly faster than the P-38 by about 13 mph, could later carry bombs and rockets and was able to become Jack-of-all-trades and master of all: air superiority, escort, interceptor, fighter-bomber, and reconnaissance. As fast as the zoom climb of the P-38 was known for, even the P-51 could exceed the P-38 due to its lighter weight. The vaunted P-47 Thunderbolt could of course do all that but the Mustang had a longer range, and was more maneuverable thus better in dogfighting the German fighter aircraft. The P-51 Mustang thus emerged from WW2 as the USAAF's top fighter aircraft, excellente'. The even better P-51H was on hand but the jet fighter age had now dawned and all propeller fighter aircraft were consigned to the pages of military history.
1:43 that's really neat to see the steam pour out of the locamotive in the spots where it got hit. Little details like that make it just incredible to watch footage like this.
JAPANESE Train engineers were told to vent steam if they came under attack to make the pilot think the boiler was shot up. Didn't work, U.S pilots were aware of the charade.
Fighters launched in an escort role generally did not carry rockets, but P-51s sortie'd on search and destroy missions typically carried up to eight five-inch rockets, which were mostly used against structures. Ordinary cannon were more effective at destroying enemy aircraft, whether in the air or on the ground.
Strafing was one of the most dangerous combat missions. Numerous pilots became target fixated and did not realize how low they were or aware of the obstacles near their target. Strafing cost pilots on all sides of the conflict.
no citation needed lol. You can see how close some of the guys even in this footage got to hitting the ground. You can be 100% certain that many lost track of their altitude and couldn't pull out in time.@@20alphabet
Your statement is true. Strafing was about the most hazardous mission a pilot could undertake. What most viewers don't seem to realize is that most of these targets were protected by anti-aircraft batteries.
yeah, it's sound added afterwards, no doubt. While it takes away from the authenticity because the gun cams did not have microphones, it adds a whole layer to the experience with the sound.
My uncle (RIP) flew fighters out of England during WW II. He flew P-38's and P-51's. The Mustang was his favorite. He said it was the best fighter in the world at the time, turned tightly, rate of climb was good, and fast enough to dog fight with the ME-262 fighter.
He was a bit wrong with the ME-262, I think only 2 ME-262 was shot down in a dogfight in the entire war. The rest were lost due to ground fire or landing without fuel or taking off. And those two shot down were only shot down because the P-51 had a height advantage to give them extra speed. ua-cam.com/video/ZsjMBMv0w0g/v-deo.html
This "hosing" targets like this exemplifies complete air superiority . What Germans found most demoralizing was when our fighters would strafe single soldiers riding bicycles on country roads. This truly showed Germans the end was near.
A German general rode a motorcycle from place to place, hoping that a single motorcycle wouldn't be worth the attentions of a fighter bomber. He was killed by .50BMG fire when he was strafed.
Burt Hulbert America actually had a pretty terrible military when they joined. They were outnumbered and were using outdated equipment/vehicles. They didn't have the best soldiers, the best tanks, the best aircraft, or the best ships. What America did have however, was probably the best logistics anyone had ever seen.
Contested amphibious landing across the entire Atlantic. That was where we started. Oh, and the M-3 tank had a stabilized 37mm gun which allowed it to shoot, and hit, on the move at ~15 mph, against 1 meter square targets, while 500 meters away. Compared to the Pzkw III with also had a 37mm gun- but no stabilizer- it gave a 5 second advantage in a meeting engagement- enough to last all the rest of the German tank crews' life.
So true! My father was at Okinawa in WW2, and he taught me more about life because he saw the cruelty of war. He initially hated the Japanese people, but staying in Japan as part of the occupation forces changed his mind. The Military and Government of Japan were to blame for their poor choices, unfortunately as in all war the civilians paid dearly.
uh, no ....lets get our shit together and find ways to make it easier to transition and be less racist and give all our money to our Black brothers so they'll love us defund the military and the police and all fight toxic masculinity and get a much more effeminate populace ....
My grandpa flew a P-51 mustang in WW2. He was native American. From the Iroquois confederacy, he had a private pilot's license at the age of 16. He became a captain after his captain got shot down.
It's absolutely amazing how much damage 6 .50 caliber machine guns can do. I always felt that the mustangs lacked firepower, but this video definitely debunked that. Imagine armor piercing .50 cal rounds just peppering the boat you're in..
The long range bombing operations were conducted by the air force once they had captured airfields big enough for B-29s. Hellcats and Avengers were navy
I met a WW2 P51 pilot that was in Hospice with my uncle a few years ago he had some pictures of his plane with him sitting in the cockpit it had several kills on the side. I spoke to his daughter but he was never able to speak and passed within a few days before my uncle did.
I wonder if people of Nanking or the Korean “Comfort Women” think of what the Japanese did to them was “not fighting, just slaughter” too. 南京や韓国の「慰安婦」の人たちも、日本人が自分たちにしたことを「戦わず、ただ虐殺」しただけだと思っているのだろうか。
the Japanese took the defeat and turned it into a victory look at Japan today a shining star in the Pacific that exudes excellence everywhere Japanese go
@@christschool yeah, because we learned from WW1 that if you don't pick a country up after you've broken it down it will come for you. That being said, they now have one of the most respected countries on the planet--not bad to go from ashes to that in as little time as they did.
@@fender10g Well technically we were like "Wait a second here, don't you guys think this is a little unfair for Gemrany?" But every other nation said "Nah, fuck them." This time we picked Japan up before anyone could tear them down more and now looked what happened. Japan have become allies with us.
2:58- "Fishermen, logger, its all the same enemy". Killing non-combative civilians is a war crime, and a violation of the Geneva Convention. Back in the WW2 era, Japanese were dehumanized in the US press, so no one gaf about killing innocent civilians, which is why the narrator sounds so cavalier. For additional perspective, at that time the Japanese also portrayed US GI's as subhuman, and were particularly vicious with those they captured. Some day, maybe all of mankind will recognize each other as brothers.
(1) These Japanese were not "non-combative civilians." That train was moving war materials on that date, as a priority. Those fishermen's fish were going to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army as a priority of rationing. The Japanese, unlike other nations, did huge war-material making in HOMES as sub-contractors. Couples made aircraft wiring harnesses in their basement. (2) Japan at the time never ratified the Geneva Convention (as they boastingly told our Allied prisoners of war while starving them to death or beheading them in Japanese camps).
@@Dilley_G45 they won. If they lost then the firebombing of Tokyo alone would have been considered one of the vilest crimes against humanity ever comited. Most Japanese cities had to be completely rebuilt after the war, so absolute was their destruction.
@@taboritskygaming7841 they won....so did The Khmer Rouge in Cambodian Civil War. Still they were evil. The world is in shit because of this winner takes it all mentality
I used to live with an old WW2 vet who told me that he was aboard a vessel that was transporting new men over to Europe to fight the Jerry’s. He said they were stopped and letting the men take a dip in the ocean for a little while. He said they heard a low flying plane approaching but they were all swimming and in their underwear when they realized it was a German BF109. They were strafed twice. He said, that one plane killed a dozen or so aboard the vessel and tore the deck to shreds. He said it all happened so quickly that he didn’t even have time to swim under the water. He flew as a tail gunner in a B17 for 22 successful missions.
@J Y - Likely, it was the same thoughts they had when the B-25s in the Doolittle Raid hit them in early 1942. Didn't do a lot of physical damage, but the stark realization that Japan could be attacked directly woke up the Japanese to a new reality. Japan had never been attacked on their mainland in history.....until then!
As a teen, growing up in the early 70s, I knew very little of the role of Mustangs in WW2 and only a hint about its action elsewhere, perhaps the Korean war I suppose. But man, I remember the sound of that engine the first time one passed over our rural home in Southern Ontario. It immediately drew my attention, as I knew it wasn't like any of the planes my brother would fly, training for his pilots' licence. I rushed outside and marvelled as a single, solitary aircraft steadily and effortlessly rose from the local city airport , all gleaming and silver as it rolled into the sunny blue sky. The domed canopy proved it to be a Mustang fighter plane! Fortunately, this became a regular experience for me, as the planes' owner was indeed based in the local airport. The feeling of awe l experienced the first time, never diminished for me, each time that machine graced the local skies. What a magnificent machine!
You don’t turn the actual machine gun, you need to turn the whole airplane to hit the target, thats all 3 axis, using rudder and stick to control yaw, pitch, roll, watch your speed, angle of attack, keep checking your “6” and much, much more. Amazing work, bravery, stamina, calculation and many more parameters that pilots had to keep computing nonstop, while being under constant treat of enemy fire. People were made out of different substance back in those days. Thanks for posting this video
My grandfather (my dad's side) flew P-38'S But always thought the P-51 with it's Rolls Royce Merlin engine was the Sexist bird in the sky but my other grandpa (mom's side) flew The Jug P-47's and he always thought the Thunderbolts was the Sexist however, I can tell you Christmas was an interesting time of year because that when we would have all the family over lol I'll never forget those days which was the best time of my youth
I work and am friend with people from all over Asia, and the funny thing is that I've never once come across anyone holding a grudge against Japan. (The same way European have the decency and intelligence not to associate Germany with Nazis. But yeah, it requires intelligence). 99% of the persons who would bring up a 100+ years grudge against a country they don't even know are those white snowflakes keyboard warrior in the comments of a UA-cam video. They probably try to reinforce their ego by reminding that their papa fought in a war (and killed innocent people) while they never set foot outside of their country themselves, except when they were forced to.
@@kelleychilton2524 my grandfather was a guerilla resistance leader in the mountains of pampanga. there are horro stories, but no grudges by the time i was born. the sins of the father are not the sins of the son
Yeah once your “honorable” country admits defeat(do with that shame whatever you will) and admits the horrific crimes against humanity committed by Unit 731, Dr. Ishii and the city of Nanking, among others under the guise of your Divine Emperor. Germany has paid dearly for 80 years. Japan has to admit but once. Shameful really, what did the samurai do with shame? Yeah exactly.
@@little_crew War never adheres to international law, everyone does what they can to survive, many others just want to see the enemy destroyed, but almost no one stops to think about the international regulations on war, much less respect it It's something "normal" in such a broad conflict
@VictorELayne77 Man, you talk sooooo tough online when you're probably a creampuff in real life. Nobody denies Japan's atrocities; it's old news. Japan definitely could do more, especially to South Korea, to make amends but let's not forget crimes the US, UK, and France have done *since* WWII yet suffer little, if any, consequences since they curry favor with the current world order; the fact that Henry Kissinger was able to die peacefully in his time says it all. China gets away with its crimes since it's the world's factory, but something tells me you take no action on that front, either. May you never be a civilian target of war yourself, for you sure as hell would be singing a different tune!
My dad kicked a$$ as a fighter pilot in WWII. What did your dad do? Answer: he orders fancy coffee in his “man bun” while complaining that his company won’t let him work remote.
After the defeat of Japan the Marshall plan to restore the Japanese economy and industry and prevent starvation was the wisest and most human action of the United States. Instead of making future enemies, healing wounds prevented another possible war.
It was certainly better than the Versailles Treaty and our Belgian troops occupying Germany to drive Germans into despair and WW II. But ultimately, the Marshall plan served US interests, and afterwards we were allowed to buy US bombs to disrupt our EU neighbourhood, where the US then went to pilfer the oil and from where we are receiving millions of poor refugees.
@rick hale - The Marshall Plan did not include Japan, as it suffered far less destruction than European countries. The U.S. did, however, supply a great deal of assistance in restructuring Japan, especially its governing format. Gen. MacArthur wrote their Constitution which they still follow to this day.
@@Loulovesspeed Tokyo was fire bombed and level. Weapons was a cottage industry in Japan and did not provide industrial targets like Germany. I've seen documentaries crediting the Marshall Plan for Japan's rebirth. Your probably correct. One thing I learned in college composition is that just because it's in the newspaper or on TV doesn't mean it's true or factual. I'm old and skeptical but not jaded.
@ no excuses in a war such as World War 2. It's total war. No room for affection and compassion on the enemy in a war of survival. Sucks, but it was what it was...
The fact that land-based American fighters (not bombers) got within striking range of the Japanese homeland speaks volume in regards to how bad the war was going for the enemy.
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Google has become too controlling. Time for a UA-cam alternative.
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How is transportation safety enhanced through old footage of trains, boats and factories being shot up?
And Americans wonder why everybody hates them...
@@CrookedNose2131 Haha! Check out the rest of the channel :P
My dad flew P-51s off Iwo to escort B-29s over Japan. The camera on a 51 took the place of one wing 50 caliber machine gun.
He flew with the 457th Squadron under the 506th Fighter Group on Iwo Jima. Iwo had three airfields on it. My dad’s not flew off of Airfield #3, the Northern most airfield of the three. He named his aircraft after my mom, Jean. Her birthday was on June 13. His aircraft’s name was “Jeanie XIII”. Someone in his unit took a small photo of my Mom and recreated it on “Jeanie XIII”’s cowling. We have many photos of him, his aircraft, his buddies in the bar and in the area and air still shots and areas around Iwo.
At the end of the War all pilots were offered the 35mm wing camera footage if they wanted it. My dad accepted the footage and brought it home and placed it in a footlocker and placed it in our garage. I was born in Florida and in the 60’s Hurricane Donna came through Orlando and dumped a high amount of water there. Our home flooded with 3’ of water as did the garage with 4’. For weeks my mom, my younger brother and I removed everything in our home and placed the items in the front yard to dry. The items in the garage were the last to be moved out to the front yard. The footlocker was full of black algae. The films were covered and ruined. Luckily his photo albums survived.
The photos and other paraphernalia are all we have for him. He got out of the Army Air Corp at the end of the War and returned home. One priceless piece of paraphernalia that he brought with him was a Pilot Log Book. Entries started when he was going through ROTC in college. It is amazing to read brief statements in his log book of his missions. He list an event where he and his wingman ganged up on one of the few “Zero”’s that flew when the B-29’s were dropping their ordinance. They were credited with the downing of a Jap Zero. As the video states, the escort P-51s, which could have been in hundreds of aircraft, were free to attack targets of opportunity all over Japan. The round trip flight from Iwo to the Japan drop off point and return took about eight hours. The external fuel drop tanks were made of a paper-mache type material because steel was so scarce. They were dumped prior to engaging the enemy.
My dad has an entry when he dropped off “Jeanie XIII” in Saipan at the War’s end and how sad he was on that day in his life.
He was also a flight instructor in the P-40 before joining the 457th. My mom told me years ago how he flew P-40’s “Over-the-Hump” in the Himalaya’s but I haven’t found any facts to support her information and she has since passed away.
His rank at the end of service was Captain. in the Army Air Corp.
He died at the young age of 36 from a massive heart attack and I was only 10 years old. I was anxiously waiting for his return home that day so that I could surprise him with my hitting the first of many Little League home runs but that meeting never happened.
When I turned 18 years of age in 1966, I broke my mother’s heart. I dropped out of college and volunteered for the US Army’s Warrant Officer Helicopter Flight School knowing full well that I was going to be sent to SE Asia, the Viet Nam War. I spent a total of 2 1/2 years flying helicopter gunships, UH-1C (Huey gunships) and the AH-1G Huey Cobra. I got out and returned home an Army Captain at the War’s end with over 2,000 combat flight hours. “God, & Dad, Were My Co-Pilots!” Two peas in a pod?
God Bless You Dad!
I saw 'We were Soldiers' the chopper pilots flew in all weathers and took many casualties off the battlefield while under fire. "You call and we haul"!
@ Andy Hutchinson God bless you and your Dad and thank you for your service!
Thank you for sharing and thank you and your dad for your service to our country.
Hell of a story. You tell it with well deserved pride.
My dad was also in the 506th on Iwo. After my dad passed, I started attending the reunions starting in 2005. Google the fighter group for an entire website dedicated to them and their achievements.
1:42 - that is some amazing rudder/stick work by the pilot. Entire burst was on target. That's a very experienced pilot.
Was your right foot stomped to the floor like my foot was?
@@ionhunter yes, with the stick slightly pushed forward.
Come on, man I play War Thunder , I can do that in my sleep
Yes, I was thinking about passengers on that train...
@@lehcyfer I guess they didnt exactly get their fares'-worth!!!
My grandfather flew in the Hayate, a Japanese fighter, fighting P-51s. He was still very scared to fight the powerful P-51 and many times he thought he was going to die!
Then God spared his life
@@alexm7627
No...his flying abilities did.
@@eckyx9019 a man can have nothing if its not first given to him from heaven
@@alexm7627
Hard work give me everything I have, not some mythical super-being.
@@eckyx9019 life didn’t create itself
Hey you want to go fishing.. Sure what could possibly go wrong..
Oscar Mayer what you don't realize is that none of them had a valid fishing license. They deserved it.
Worse.....fishing.....trip....EVER.
How ironic it would be if the P-51 shooting at them was named after a fish, or Pisces..
I was wondering wtf you were talking about, and then I saw THE clip. Perfect. I haven't laughed that hard in a long, long time.
A bad day fishing is better than a good day at.....I stand corrected.
The gun camera footage here has added sound effects. The machine gun sound it was added in because the cameras have no sound capabilities
John Smith yeah pretty poor.
Very astute observation. but it made it more exciting!
I saw the same videos as videos from Europe, there is too many brick buldings for "Tokyo"...
Not only that the canned aircraft engine sounds are obviously how a plane sounds from the ground. In the plane the engine will just have a steady drone.
Bialy That's indeed Japanese targets on their homeland (not necessarily Tokio itself), you can see many stills from these videos in the form of photos in some books covering 7th Air Force's missions of springtime-summer 1945. Also, some ricepaddies are clearly visible at one point.
Please note, of course many a brick/concrete buildings were needed for certain purposes, even in Japan... they couldn't do all by living and/or working inside things made only of wood or rice paper.
Greetings from Italy.
You can see how easy it was to become target fixated, and fly straight in to the ground.
Or not pull up soon enough strafing a train when a car explodes and snaps a wing off. There's film of that from the following aircraft.
@Rafael Enriquez At least he lived.......
yeah, i felt really anxious when in saw them go in so close to the ground before pulling up. These men had real nerves of steel.
I do that on gta 😂😂
I read about a German fighter who took to shooting a British armoured train. Thing was, he didn't realize that the train was running on a narrow gauge railway. So he misjudged the distance to the ground going on the size of the train. He crashed.
Another time a Fw190 straffed a British passenger service. It blew the boiler of the engine up, but in doing so the dome of the engine flew up in the explosion, hitting his aircraft as it flew over. He crashed. The engine was rebuilt a few months later (it would have been finished quicker if not for wartime shortages) and when it was finished it got a german cross painted on the side. The only steam engine to get a confirmed aircraft kill.
2:55 "Fischermen ... Destroyer or Logger, its the same enemy" - thats a hard scentence. My neighbour told me, they where 9 yo kids in the war that they got shot at from "Tiefflieger" several times when they were out in the fields. For shure its hard for an fighter pilot to destinguish between kids and army personal, but it doesnt erase the fact that they also shot at kids. He got really traumatized when a US or British fighter pilot was shot down in the area of Wildon in Stryia, Austria and they ran to the crashed wrack. They found a terribly wounded and bleeding but living pilot and a fukking SS Man ( he always named him Bergletz, i dont know if i write the name correct) came and stomped in the pilots face till he died. He still breaks into tears when he tells that story
Like a real life SS Neegan. Dayum!
Sick SS bastard
That pilot really taught that fisherman what-for. Mission accomplished.
It wasn't unique to the Americans either. Combat pilots flying in the enemy's space without challenge tended to attack absolutely whatever moved. They were encouraged to do so by the dehumanizing rhetoric of war and hate. Post war this looked bad-hence all the political efforts to distance from it or downplay (ie: American "precision" bombing).
@@capthawkeye8010 all of those are good points.
When your team has captured all the objectives and is now spawn camping.
You must play battlefield.
@ThyPeasantSlayer yes😂
@ThyPeasantSlayer lmao true 😂
That is true! And funny!
Japanese pilots were still flying directly into our B-29s. Hardly spawing.
Anything Japanese: exists
P51 pilot: so anyways I started blasting!
Targets of opportunity.
tsk tsk tsk what if it
was the other way around?
@@huawietelcom4516 you mean what if America had occupied Korea in a brutal fashion? Or are you talking about the cruel biologicial experiments done on Chinese?
@@huawietelcom4516 December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.
@Woody Meggs Why is that?
Imagine being a fisherman working as usual and a low flying P-51 appears on the horizon and starts shooting at you.
Going from an everyday situation to one so terrifying must certainly be something.
The pilots were going to make sure that catch of fish was never going to feed the Japanese people.
Targets seem to be civilian. The trains,and the fishermen.dought whether the factories were military ..
@@dulankakAny factory would have been a legit military target.
Americans learned how to take the war off the battlefield and onto the people. So brave so honor so courage.
@@redwater4778as did every country in that war
Back when war was simple,
RoE: Shoot anything on the enemy team that might have the slightest impact on the war
Shoot literally everything that moves or might move someday
Yup and they can do the same to us
@@bretdouglas9407 Actually, they started with us in Hawaii!
If you take the rules of war away and declare free fire zones anywhere, then you should expect the same in return thats all
@@bretdouglas9407
We pretty much did expect the enemy to play by the same rules of declaring a free-fire zone anywhere during the Cold War.
Civil Defense in the US was a joke and an illusion because our leaders knew they couldn't offer any real protection against a
full-on Soviet nuclear attack.
If it makes you feel any better, the Soviets were fully expected to hit all US targets of any industrial or military importance
just as we were expecting to go after them. The Soviets legitimately tried to have a real civil defense program and experts believe
they could have cut their death rates during an actual attack by over 50% from what was expected to happen across America.
The US position was "Why bother? you can either die quickly or die slowly in an irradiated wasteland" The only thing that
mattered was making sure enough US strategic forces and civilian command and control survived to launch a retaliatory strike.
The Soviets had plans for a "limited" nuclear attack on military assets and plans to go "all-out" against industrial and civilian
targets of any war-making potential, which means manufacturing centers such as factories. Transportation networks such as
railroads, bridges, tunnels, and roadways. And civilian infrastructure such as power stations, dams, energy grids, farms,
fishing fleets, and food storage and distribution points.
Just as we reduced Japan and Germany from the air over weeks and months, the US and Soviets would have reduced each other
over hours during a nuclear exchange.
This footage is amazing, it is crazy how long some of these guys kept fire on targets, I bet there was a certain amount of pilots that got so focused on the damage they were causing they didn't pull out in time.
Its called target fixation and yes. Maybe more than what got shot down. Especially with the p 47s.
Me in BF V
@@mikeschiavoni5973 🤓
Also it's called pearl harbor - enough motivation to keep anything on target
They really were blasting
We had a P51 fighter group that flew these missions. The average time in the air was 8 hours! They couldn't move around so their lower half was very painfully asleep. They were literally pulled out of the acft by ground crews. From there the base commander had a massage center set up with beer and food. They could only fly every third day because it took 2 days to recover themselves. These guys were 19 years old and these missions tore their young bodies up. Navigation was by forming up on B29s like chicks on a mother hen and you dare not loose sight of them. Their worst mission was going to Japan they tried forming up with the bombers but a snowstorm got in the way 27 out of the 36 were never heard from again. These vets stories were scary as death lurked at every corner.
Capt Jerry Yellin and his brothers. RIP warriors.
@Dingus...what is wrong with you?
Donald Parlett jr
This video features pilots and P51s from the VII Fighter Command stationed on Iwo Jima.
a) The average mission duration was 4-5 hours.
b) They often flew multiple sorties per day.
c) The average age of a Mustang pilot (when they entered combat) was 24-25 years of age.
d) The 7th flew predominately ground attack missions and only ground attack missions from July 1945. They navigated by themselves and most 7th jockeys only saw B29s parked on an airfield.
e) There was no "massage" center on Iwo Jima - where do you trolls come up with this crap :)
Ego Alters was wondering the same thing.
Doctor Boot comparing the badass WW2 vets to today's soy boy military.
"It's only 6 .50 cal MGs" said no one ever.
That locomotive took a beating. It is hard to believe those were .50 cal. rounds.
P-47 in Europe also had .50 (x8) and shot up lots of German trains!
@@vanjimbo Exactly!! Tremendous fire-power! Helluva weapon!!
Incendiary rnds will lite things up pretty good..
@@samburkes7552 I don't know, the Hispano and 4 50 cals on the Lighting seems a bit better haha
"Sucker punch me on a Sunday morning again..." ~USA 1941
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I just got to say this.. a friend of mine told me her grandfather confessed to her that he was told to leave Pearl Harbor a week before the attack.. he was a personal physician to Harry Truman at the time..
@@jonjeffries3265
I've often wondered how convenient it was our carriers were all out if port doing maneuvers. Not saying we knew, just saying it was extremely good timing.
@@chetarmlin1196 It’s been said that it was known and was let happen because that was the only way the US could be drawn into the war. Americans didn’t want to get involved.
Don't fuck the USA! Hell yeah! 🇺🇸
My great grandfather flew p-47 Thunderbolts and then p-51's toward the end of the war. Seeing this gives me a reinforced appreciation for these beautiful machines and the service given by the men like him who were at their helm.
In the battles over Japan the p 47 did very well.
Aye same, my grandad flew the p-47 Thunderbolt in the pacific theater, a lot in Burma. Had some amazing stories for sure. Their courage was on another level.
shooting at fishermen trawlers...so they shooting civilians..so they are war criminals
@@stefanberndt3312 yeah like how japan bombed thousands of inoccents at pearl harbor. you say that as if America was the only country who had incidental collateral during WWII.
@@revenant9277 i don't think pearl harbor is on the same level as heroshima and nagasaki, but yeah, everyone caused collateral, its the darkest part of war
* 6 - 7 hours strapped to a backrest in a cramped and cold cockpit with body's lower part first hurting, and later almost numb.
* sitting alone behind 12 moving pistons and hope no mechanical issue will happen. Only the radio as a lifeline, and hope it will work OK, if not.. lost forever.
* if anything wrong will happen: if over the Ocean you will meet the welcoming party from sharks, if over the Japan.. even much worse. Your own arsenal once out of the airplane: one M-1911 auto pistol. Your equipment: one life jacket.
* flying at 400+ MPH down to 30 feet, just a split-second distraction and you're dead even before firing one round.
* hope your 'top cover' mates are OK and wide-eyed up there. If not, even the least experienced enemy pilot will find easy jumping you from above while you're busy strafing the target.
Putting it short: huge motivation, + lots of self-confidence, + one full cargo of courage. If not, you're not volunteering to do such a job.
coming out as gay is more heroic
Kaptin Fancy It could depend from the point of views... two utterly different things.
But anyway, one precise kind of heroism in wartime is necessary, to have other kinds of heroism being free to come out in peacetime.
The 1911 wasn’t automatic, it was semiautomatic
the cockpit of the p-51 was never cold, it gets to 140F
@@kaptinfancy then you're my hero.
Complete submission was the goal. Never attack America is the lesson.
How’s that War on Terror working out for you???
ROTFLMFAO
Bartonovich52 war on terror ? Have you been living under a rock ROTFLMAO
FUCK OFF
Your country is not América, It is USA. Americans are too the people from Honduras, el Salvador and Guatemala Who are going to visit you! 😂
*never attack America directly is the lesson. They keep on losing against new types of non-direct conflicts
As the eldest son of a Bataan Death March survivor I find this extremely satisfying to watch
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I met one at a club I play at maybe 5yrs ago.. I had no idea who he was.. he kind of showed an interest to sing a song, and I thought well maybe later.. his son told me who he was and I let him sing every song he wanted to sing.. felt wonderful shaking his hand..
But you know that not a single person killed in this vid was participating in china and indochina?
@@emil-1609 250,000 plus Chinese felt the same way when the Japanese murdered them for the Dolittle Raid on Japan!
The same way the Jews could feel satisfied when there's a terrorist attack in Berlin.
The same way Japanese people could feel satisfied during 9/11.
The same way a 9/11 survivor could feel satisfied when innocent peoples get bombed in Middle East.
The same way an African could feel satisfied about a terrorist attack in France.
The same way a South American could feel satisfied about a disaster in Spain.
The same way French people could feel satisfied about a killing in the UK.
Want me to continue or you get the stupidity of your comment and understand there's something wrong with you?
One of the best plane attack videos I've seen. 1 plane was shooting in a circular pattern, the plane that went down a row of docked boats. Amazing flying.
This deserves so many views
My father was under there. The fighters were passing so low he could see the face of the pilots.
did he alive now?
Cant imagine what he have seen
@@h.n.t.d7963 He was under conscription age and was often hired to repair airfields that was bombed. He say he saw Mustangs after a bombing. They were checking the result by lowpass maybe.
@@ktcworks my grandparent was working on railroad in indonesia, glad he was only work for about 4 month before finaly japan surrender
1:24 Love the way they shift the rudder to strafe left and right. Maximum damage for a a train
This never gets old
1:43 Very satisfying moment when the pilot achieves clear hits for most of his bullets.
This is awesome, excelent footage.
It’s great, I love it
@@anselanokayan9978 same
Perverts.
@@themarbleking I have no sympathy for the Japanese during this time of era, so it was satisfying to watch.
@@Valkaze111 having no sympathy for innocent people? Way to go monster! America has always been a white supremacist country fighting for a white supremacist world. They were bombing Japan before Pearl harbour too! At home and abroad! Why? Because they were protecting the interests of European colonists. Japan wasn’t invading the European colonies, they were liberating them! Looks like you lot need some ART along with CRT.
When the sky starts speaking english
Germans be panicking
"Shit theyre above us"
"How"
Luftwaffe didnt expect our radar haha
Hahah beautiful
When the skies start speaking John Moses Browning.
@@lairdcummings9092 Exactly! Never forget!! He was a firearms genius!!
@@samburkes7552 the moses of firearms manufacturing and technology
When you hear that R-R Merlin engine, it’s all over! Best description of the Mustang I’ve ever heard: “A nasty little shark. A killing machine.”
Unless it's a Packard Merlin.
1:26. Notice how he is using his rudder to yaw the aircraft left and right creating a circle of rounds. Amazing technique.
Hard to believe .50 cal rounds did that much damage to those ships. The P51 is my favorite fighter of all time. Close seconds are the P38 and F4U Corsair. Another incredible plane was the DeHavilland Mosquito. More of a light bomber/attack role but deserves tremendous respect in it’s own right.
You have to remember each plane had six of them and they were the H2 variant which fired 20 bullets a second, so in one second that ship received 120 50 caliber rounds. I have seen one 50 cal round not fired from a moving target already doing 400mph and it went straight through a railroad tie. I have been in a room where a sniper fired a 50cal round that hit the wall and without hitting anyone it felt like we were all punched and took the air out of the room briefly, plus it sounded like a car hit the wall. I could only imagine 120 of these a second against anything less than a tank and it wouldn't be pretty!
Many destroyer only had armor on their bridge and main guns. The rest would do nothing to stop a .50 AP round thereby killing crew and damaging systems and possibly starting fires. What is crazy to me is none the DD were shooting back.
@@PoofyKittyPants .Very interesting. You would thing they’d use more than wood. Then again, Japan had real issues obtaining material of all sorts so they cut material where ever possible.
@@PoofyKittyPants Most of the ships being strafed were just Destroyer Escorts, Gunboats and Sub Chasers-which would've had only a very light AA armament-barely noticeable when firing. At this stage of the war some ships were even abandoned entirely-Japanese Fleet Destroyers used powered mounts-and there was literally no gas left. Some might've been maintained as floating AA batteries but most of what was left was going to the remaining capital ships in the Navy.
The P-38 Lightning was the superior gunship and not only because it had one, 20mm Hispano cannon. All of its four, M2 Colt .50 caliber heavy machine guns and one 20mm cannon were concentrated in the nose instead of spread out in the wings. This concentrated cone of fighter proved devastating to any enemy fighter or bomber caught in it. Enemy fighters, including German fighters, would simply blow up. The USAAF intended the P-38 as an interceptor, a job which it performed par excellence, against enemy bombers and cargo planes. The Axis Powers never developed a comparable heavy bomber like the B-17, B-24, or British Lancaster and Halifax, though the Germans did try with the Me-264 prototype heavy bomber. The P-38 design was meant to engage and destroy up to and including potential enemy heavy bombers.
That all said, the P-51B/D Mustang indeed proved the most versatile of all the USAAF fighter aircraft. It proved slightly faster than the P-38 by about 13 mph, could later carry bombs and rockets and was able to become Jack-of-all-trades and master of all: air superiority, escort, interceptor, fighter-bomber, and reconnaissance. As fast as the zoom climb of the P-38 was known for, even the P-51 could exceed the P-38 due to its lighter weight.
The vaunted P-47 Thunderbolt could of course do all that but the Mustang had a longer range, and was more maneuverable thus better in dogfighting the German fighter aircraft.
The P-51 Mustang thus emerged from WW2 as the USAAF's top fighter aircraft, excellente'. The even better P-51H was on hand but the jet fighter age had now dawned and all propeller fighter aircraft were consigned to the pages of military history.
Ok it doesn't have what pilots were saying so let me help
Jack:what is that?
Billy:I don't fuc*ing know let's shoot at it
George George clearly you know nothing of Total War
George George but they’re shooting those water buffalo! Yup, it’s their tractors and food!
All this hate for no reason. For the record Iaughed at your comment.
That strafing run at 1:37 was so badass
Extremely skilled pilot, using his aircraft's flight characteristics to get the maximum effect from his weapons.
imagine being in a train and the next thing you know youre being chased by an ace pilot
1:43 that's really neat to see the steam pour out of the locamotive in the spots where it got hit. Little details like that make it just incredible to watch footage like this.
Imagine being the guy running the train and seeing lead rain. 🌴😎🌴
JAPANESE Train engineers were told to vent steam if they came under attack to make the pilot think the boiler was shot up. Didn't work, U.S pilots were aware of the charade.
Yeah these graphics are insane!
Honestly did not know escorting fighters carried rockets! Learn something new every day
There are many P-51 variations......
Fighters launched in an escort role generally did not carry rockets, but P-51s sortie'd on search and destroy missions typically carried up to eight five-inch rockets, which were mostly used against structures. Ordinary cannon were more effective at destroying enemy aircraft, whether in the air or on the ground.
And they were point and shoot only. No guidance.
sammni I think you’ll find that the footage with rockets is borrowed from the RAF Typhoons and Tempests in Europe.
I'm fairly sure during WW2 P-47's carried bombs and rockets for attack runs once their escort jobs were complete.
Strafing was one of the most dangerous combat missions. Numerous pilots became target fixated and did not realize how low they were or aware of the obstacles near their target. Strafing cost pilots on all sides of the conflict.
Citation needed.
I wouldn't be surprised seeing how low some of those planes were when they pulled out. Though as another guy said, a citation would be nice.
no citation needed lol. You can see how close some of the guys even in this footage got to hitting the ground. You can be 100% certain that many lost track of their altitude and couldn't pull out in time.@@20alphabet
and people on the ground trying to shoot down the fighter
Your statement is true. Strafing was about the most hazardous mission a pilot could undertake. What most viewers don't seem to realize is that most of these targets were protected by anti-aircraft batteries.
One of the Most Beautiful Aircraft ever made.🇺🇸
...Doppler effect of engine while in the POV of the plane
yeah, it's sound added afterwards, no doubt. While it takes away from the authenticity because the gun cams did not have microphones, it adds a whole layer to the experience with the sound.
My uncle (RIP) flew fighters out of England during WW II. He flew P-38's and P-51's. The Mustang was his favorite. He said it was the best fighter in the world at the time, turned tightly, rate of climb was good, and fast enough to dog fight with the ME-262 fighter.
He was a bit wrong with the ME-262, I think only 2 ME-262 was shot down in a dogfight in the entire war. The rest were lost due to ground fire or landing without fuel or taking off. And those two shot down were only shot down because the P-51 had a height advantage to give them extra speed.
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I'd feel worse about this if the Japanese had not been so sadistic.
They still have not paid for their sins, the Cold war let them off.
@@TheLifeEvents Some have no remorse for the brutality.
America did drop the nuke tho
Nothing wrong with that.
@@MadeAnonymously we all know that. What's your point?
This footage is insane
You know things are bleak when they had open cockpit bi-planes on the airfield
training aircraft
Free Ground Kill.
Woke even back then...
Probably used as trainers for IJAAF pilots.
@@CL-vz6chWhat?
1:35 Can't imagine being the driver on that train 🤔
Catastrophic
How about those fishermen just fishing running on the beach for their life haha
Lol
Even if he’d survived, he’d be parboiled by all the scalding steam from the damaged boiler.
Oh no I saw quite a few .50s hit that cab he’s surely dead
P51 matched with a Merlin engine. What a beaut,
... and 6 each 50cal machine guns.
@@bluepacificsurf ...and pilots that have the balls to strafe ground targets with those machine guns lol
Imagine fighting a war where you dont have to worry about rules of engagement
This "hosing" targets like this exemplifies complete air superiority .
What Germans found most demoralizing was when our fighters would strafe single soldiers riding bicycles on country roads. This truly showed Germans the end was near.
Yes, it showed the Germans that America had so much ammunition we could waste it by shooting at a single soldier on a bicycle.
grayfoxx3 precisely!
A German general rode a motorcycle from place to place, hoping that a single motorcycle wouldn't be worth the attentions of a fighter bomber. He was killed by .50BMG fire when he was strafed.
Burt Hulbert America actually had a pretty terrible military when they joined. They were outnumbered and were using outdated equipment/vehicles. They didn't have the best soldiers, the best tanks, the best aircraft, or the best ships. What America did have however, was probably the best logistics anyone had ever seen.
Contested amphibious landing across the entire Atlantic. That was where we started. Oh, and the M-3 tank had a stabilized 37mm gun which allowed it to shoot, and hit, on the move at ~15 mph, against 1 meter square targets, while 500 meters away. Compared to the Pzkw III with also had a 37mm gun- but no stabilizer- it gave a 5 second advantage in a meeting engagement- enough to last all the rest of the German tank crews' life.
Those guys are putting rounds on target in a big way. Nice work, need more of these clips to remind and teach young people about WW2.
So true! My father was at Okinawa in WW2, and he taught me more about life because he saw the cruelty of war. He initially hated the Japanese people, but staying in Japan as part of the occupation forces changed his mind. The Military and Government of Japan were to blame for their poor choices, unfortunately as in all war the civilians paid dearly.
@@timtomlinson5806 exactly.. people are just people. War is the worst thing we make people do to each other
uh, no ....lets get our shit together and find ways to make it easier to transition and be less racist and give all our money to our Black brothers so they'll love us defund the military and the police and all fight toxic masculinity and get a much more effeminate populace ....
@@duke9555 avoiding war and fighting racism is effeminate? 🤦♂️
Stupid much?
The true WW2 history is nothing like what our history books have indoctrinated us with for the past 75 or so years unfortunately
My grandpa flew a P-51 mustang in WW2. He was native American. From the Iroquois confederacy, he had a private pilot's license at the age of 16. He became a captain after his captain got shot down.
your grandpapa was a murderer in our age. War is a murder regardless of why.
What an amazing man.
@@videos40058 At this time, there was sadly no peaceful solution.
Your grandpa was amazing, Native American getting a pilot license at 16!! Respect
@@videos40058 And you are everything thats wrong with this world. Peace has never stopped tyrants once they are in power only violence
The marksmanship of these pilots was out of this world, almost every round was on target. Amazing stick and rudder work.
Easy to shoot civilians
@@giornogiovanna5943 Like the civilians that were strafed at Pearl Harbor?
@@giornogiovanna5943 you act like Japan is so innocent
@@PriuswithV12 Well I mean, fisherman are literally civilians
@@darthvader7684well I suppose unit 731 and what happened at Nanking didn’t exist yeah?
1:42 damn good run
It's absolutely amazing how much damage 6 .50 caliber machine guns can do. I always felt that the mustangs lacked firepower, but this video definitely debunked that. Imagine armor piercing .50 cal rounds just peppering the boat you're in..
This footage is incredible
日本人パイロットは敵国の逃げ惑う人（兵士含む）を射撃することは無かったと戦後のテレビインタビューで元パイロットが述べていました。
Strange to see the P-51's in the Pacific theater after the Grummans(and others) had been there for so long it seemed.
P-51s didn’t get to the pacific until late 1944 iirc
Became a Usaaf operation when the bombers came in needed long range escorts
@@kiheirc3195 The fighters could only reach Japan after the capture of Saipan.
The long range bombing operations were conducted by the air force once they had captured airfields big enough for B-29s. Hellcats and Avengers were navy
@@allangibson2408 You mean Iwo Jima.
Wise man say: “Don’t start not shit, won’t be no shit”.
That's what North Korea says hahaha
@@rudeboyjohn N Korea wouldn’t be saying that if China and Russia didn’t back them up
@@omarhandely6930 Even when they don't, they still say it lol
@@omarhandely6930 And besides, what about us? We didn't fight WW2 alone....we still don't fight alone.
@@rudeboyjohn Nobody said we did. But Russia and Britain would've been defeated without US intervention with material, equipment, and LIVES.
I met a WW2 P51 pilot that was in Hospice with my uncle a few years ago he had some pictures of his plane with him sitting in the cockpit it had several kills on the side. I spoke to his daughter but he was never able to speak and passed within a few days before my uncle did.
P51 the Cadillac of the sky.
God bless em'..
@@bigpants6121Herman Goring is quoted as saying “ The first time I saw a P51 over Berlin I knew we had lost the war”
They must have been guarding the Fortresses.@@PangurBan-l1s
戦闘では無く単なる殺戮
I wonder if people of Nanking or the Korean “Comfort Women” think of what the Japanese did to them was “not fighting, just slaughter” too.
南京や韓国の「慰安婦」の人たちも、日本人が自分たちにしたことを「戦わず、ただ虐殺」しただけだと思っているのだろうか。
the Japanese took the defeat and turned it into a victory look at Japan today a shining star in the Pacific that exudes excellence everywhere Japanese go
@@christschool yeah, because we learned from WW1 that if you don't pick a country up after you've broken it down it will come for you. That being said, they now have one of the most respected countries on the planet--not bad to go from ashes to that in as little time as they did.
@@fender10g Well technically we were like "Wait a second here, don't you guys think this is a little unfair for Gemrany?" But every other nation said "Nah, fuck them." This time we picked Japan up before anyone could tear them down more and now looked what happened. Japan have become allies with us.
001 002 yep whooped the absolute dog shit out of them😂
@001 002 right. But we would have left em that way, save for what we learned from Germany after ww1
It's called discipline taught at a very young age in Japan.
If ever a nation regretted starting on another, I'll bet it was the Japanese especially when two buckets of sunshine came their way.
Lol
Don’t worry, it’ll be coming your way soon enough...
@@lawrenceinsley4114 and we will kick ass again
@@hunterjacobs2178 not this time.
@@lawrenceinsley4114 what ever you say kid
That’s some great skill with fire placement. No modern guidance systems, just eye and experience.
2:58- "Fishermen, logger, its all the same enemy". Killing non-combative civilians is a war crime, and a violation of the Geneva Convention. Back in the WW2 era, Japanese were dehumanized in the US press, so no one gaf about killing innocent civilians, which is why the narrator sounds so cavalier. For additional perspective, at that time the Japanese also portrayed US GI's as subhuman, and were particularly vicious with those they captured. Some day, maybe all of mankind will recognize each other as brothers.
Ja, but ve are not in Geneva.
"Geneva Convention'a" is "for English see".
(1) These Japanese were not "non-combative civilians." That train was moving war materials on that date, as a priority. Those fishermen's fish were going to the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army as a priority of rationing. The Japanese, unlike other nations, did huge war-material making in HOMES as sub-contractors. Couples made aircraft wiring harnesses in their basement.
(2) Japan at the time never ratified the Geneva Convention (as they boastingly told our Allied prisoners of war while starving them to death or beheading them in Japanese camps).
The poor fisherman. Probably never seen a flying monster before.
the Japanese govt. planned on having civilians suicide charge incoming america ships in the event of an invasion.
Allied war crimes machine gunning civilians....why weren't their generals hanged
@@Dilley_G45 they won. If they lost then the firebombing of Tokyo alone would have been considered one of the vilest crimes against humanity ever comited. Most Japanese cities had to be completely rebuilt after the war, so absolute was their destruction.
@@taboritskygaming7841 they won....so did The Khmer Rouge in Cambodian Civil War. Still they were evil. The world is in shit because of this winner takes it all mentality
Cute reading arm chair war crimes commissioners. My guess none of you have been in the survice or have a clue how the real-world works.
When the title said "Attacking Tokyo" they weren't kidding
As a light sport pilot I understand how dangerous flying is, I can't imagine how terrifying it would be to be shot at while doing so.
I used to live with an old WW2 vet who told me that he was aboard a vessel that was transporting new men over to Europe to fight the Jerry’s. He said they were stopped and letting the men take a dip in the ocean for a little while. He said they heard a low flying plane approaching but they were all swimming and in their underwear when they realized it was a German BF109. They were strafed twice. He said, that one plane killed a dozen or so aboard the vessel and tore the deck to shreds. He said it all happened so quickly that he didn’t even have time to swim under the water. He flew as a tail gunner in a B17 for 22 successful missions.
The P51 was an absolutely superb aircraft! When you think that in the ETO they could fly from East Anglia all the way to Berlin and back!
As superb escorts. The Red Wings did a tremendous job.
THE BRITISH MERLIN ENGINE , thats why .
@@ardshielcomplex8917 Merlin and Mustang are a great combo.
Is that right ? Did they have a big fuel tank or something ?
@@BlueStarJT I believe the Mustang has a disposable fuel tank that gave them extra range.
This incredible clip shows how prostrate Japan was near the end of the war. No antiaircraft fire, no fighter planes, nothing.
Yeah if you’re gonna start a war and then not defend your capital city, you’re basically asking for it
Just Imagine what the Japanese must’ve thought when they realized their enemy could reach their country with fighters.
@J Y - Likely, it was the same thoughts they had when the B-25s in the Doolittle Raid hit them in early 1942. Didn't do a lot of physical damage, but the stark realization that Japan could be attacked directly woke up the Japanese to a new reality. Japan had never been attacked on their mainland in history.....until then!
That’s when they started moving resources into anime
@@joelgrosschmidt5507 And hello Kitty.
1:04 １発目で撃たれてるのは大阪八尾の老原の変電所の建物(健在)と２発目は国道25号線だね。
The p51 was originally fitted with an alison engine but it proved poorly at high altitude so they retrofitted it with a rolls royce merlin engine
It was also an excellent escort for the Flying Fortress. Red Wings excelled at this duty.
You are correct Bobby 👍
@@bigpants6121 tails
@@gladiammgtow4092 Thx.
Rolls Royce licensed Packard to build Merlins in the USA. Most P-51s had "Packard Merlins"
Always fascinated by WWII. Much respect to that time frame.
X2
If this was a Hollywood movie, everything would be blowing up from every bullet impact.
2:54 how lucky were those 2 guys
Lucky as hell
very
They’re we’re hit, we just don’t see it.
@アフタヌーンヌアクショット Americans are criminals.
Evidence of American war crimes. A horrific massacre.
The Cadillac's of the sky
David Digital nah...more like Rolls Royce of the sky...Packard built Merlin powered.
Tommy John Ahh you didn’t get the reference...
Youtubax I understand but RR is better than Cadillac.
Tommy John ua-cam.com/video/VNTQSbvlutg/v-deo.html
Actually Mustangs.
As a teen, growing up in the early 70s, I knew very little of the role of Mustangs in WW2 and only a hint about its action elsewhere, perhaps the Korean war I suppose. But man, I remember the sound of that engine the first time one passed over our rural home in Southern Ontario. It immediately drew my attention, as I knew it wasn't like any of the planes my brother would fly, training for his pilots' licence. I rushed outside and marvelled as a single, solitary aircraft steadily and effortlessly rose from the local city airport , all gleaming and silver as it rolled into the sunny blue sky. The domed canopy proved it to be a Mustang fighter plane! Fortunately, this became a regular experience for me, as the planes' owner was indeed based in the local airport. The feeling of awe l experienced the first time, never diminished for me, each time that machine graced the local skies. What a magnificent machine!
That Packard motor is iconic.
ばあちゃんが当時1番の親友が機銃掃射で体穴だらけにされたって言ってたな。
You don’t turn the actual machine gun, you need to turn the whole airplane to hit the target, thats all 3 axis, using rudder and stick to control yaw, pitch, roll, watch your speed, angle of attack, keep checking your “6” and much, much more. Amazing work, bravery, stamina, calculation and many more parameters that pilots had to keep computing nonstop, while being under constant treat of enemy fire. People were made out of different substance back in those days.
Thanks for posting this video
@1:40 lit the entire train up from back to front perfectly. That's marksmanship.
P-51s was like Where you think you're goin ?? 💥💥
Thanks to you all.amazing footage
My grandfather (my dad's side) flew P-38'S But always thought the P-51 with it's Rolls Royce Merlin engine was the Sexist bird in the sky but my other grandpa (mom's side) flew The Jug P-47's and he always thought the Thunderbolts was the Sexist however, I can tell you Christmas was an interesting time of year because that when we would have all the family over lol I'll never forget those days which was the best time of my youth
I’m surprised some of these fighters could pull in time given the weight of the pilots’ cajones.
From 01:42-01:47, walking rounds up the length of the train! That was classy!
Great footage thank you for sharing it with us.
0:01 Some former Japanese pilots wrote that they fully stepped on the rudder pedal to skid and avoid the bullets.
I work and am friend with people from all over Asia, and the funny thing is that I've never once come across anyone holding a grudge against Japan. (The same way European have the decency and intelligence not to associate Germany with Nazis. But yeah, it requires intelligence).
99% of the persons who would bring up a 100+ years grudge against a country they don't even know are those white snowflakes keyboard warrior in the comments of a UA-cam video. They probably try to reinforce their ego by reminding that their papa fought in a war (and killed innocent people) while they never set foot outside of their country themselves, except when they were forced to.
@Yay Israel If that's all you have to say, that's good. :)
I personally know several Filipinos who have horror stories to tell from WWII.
@@kelleychilton2524 my grandfather was a guerilla resistance leader in the mountains of pampanga. there are horro stories, but no grudges by the time i was born. the sins of the father are not the sins of the son
Jesus, look how low the pilot gets at 2:31! He could practically reach out and touch those planes on the ground.
He's shooting them from the side, not above! Probably 15-20 ft. off the deck!
I kept waiting for the HD Remastered footage.
Love the sound of those engines! You can almost picture the pilots hand on the throttle while the. 50 cal's add to the music.
This type of footage was silent. All the sounds have been added.
These pilots are fucking gnarly as hell. The fighter at 2:32... look how low he gets before pulling up. Gawdstruth.
ここではp51の素晴らしさやパイロット腕について話すのではなく、このビデオを見ることで、戦争の悲惨さについて学んで欲しいものです。一般人までが巻き込まれてしまった悲惨さを...
Yeah once your “honorable” country admits defeat(do with that shame whatever you will) and admits the horrific crimes against humanity committed by Unit 731, Dr. Ishii and the city of Nanking, among others under the guise of your Divine Emperor.
Germany has paid dearly for 80 years.
Japan has to admit but once.
Shameful really, what did the samurai do with shame? Yeah exactly.
@@VictorELayne77 南京事件についてはかなり難しいことがありますね。もちろん日本が他国に対して行ったことで批判されるべきことはあります。しかし南京事件以上に米軍による国際法違反の空襲で一般人が何十万人と亡くなっています。
@@little_crew War never adheres to international law, everyone does what they can to survive, many others just want to see the enemy destroyed, but almost no one stops to think about the international regulations on war, much less respect it
It's something "normal" in such a broad conflict
@@armandoventura9043 それの理論になるならば南京事件も正当化されますね。国際法の遵守は国家としての責任です。日本の場合東京裁判(正当性は極めて低いと言われるが)が行われましたが、逆に米国の国際法違反、戦争犯罪を裁くことはありませんでした。
@VictorELayne77 Man, you talk sooooo tough online when you're probably a creampuff in real life.
Nobody denies Japan's atrocities; it's old news. Japan definitely could do more, especially to South Korea, to make amends but let's not forget crimes the US, UK, and France have done *since* WWII yet suffer little, if any, consequences since they curry favor with the current world order; the fact that Henry Kissinger was able to die peacefully in his time says it all.
China gets away with its crimes since it's the world's factory, but something tells me you take no action on that front, either.
May you never be a civilian target of war yourself, for you sure as hell would be singing a different tune!
My dad kicked a$$ as a fighter pilot in WWII. What did your dad do? Answer: he orders fancy coffee in his “man bun” while complaining that his company won’t let him work remote.
my dad could beat your dad
Now that was some shooting! Impressive footage!
Now they felt the punishment the Nazis did ! Allied air power pummeled the Nazis unrelentingly !
After the defeat of Japan the Marshall plan to restore the Japanese economy and industry and prevent starvation was the wisest and most human action of the United States. Instead of making future enemies, healing wounds prevented another possible war.
It was certainly better than the Versailles Treaty and our Belgian troops occupying Germany to drive Germans into despair and WW II. But ultimately, the Marshall plan served US interests, and afterwards we were allowed to buy US bombs to disrupt our EU neighbourhood, where the US then went to pilfer the oil and from where we are receiving millions of poor refugees.
For clarity: B and F troops occupied the Ruhrgebiet in 1922.
@rick hale - The Marshall Plan did not include Japan, as it suffered far less destruction than European countries. The U.S. did, however, supply a great deal of assistance in restructuring Japan, especially its governing format. Gen. MacArthur wrote their Constitution which they still follow to this day.
@@Loulovesspeed Tokyo was fire bombed and level. Weapons was a cottage industry in Japan and did not provide industrial targets like Germany. I've seen documentaries crediting the Marshall Plan for Japan's rebirth. Your probably correct. One thing I learned in college composition is that just because it's in the newspaper or on TV doesn't mean it's true or factual. I'm old and skeptical but not jaded.
@@vanbrabant6791 I did not understand the b and f troop reference.
“...Fisherman...It’s the same enemy...”
They feed armies
@@vinny4411 or their families and themselves because you know.. they literally had no choice.
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no excuses in a war such as World War 2. It's total war. No room for affection and compassion on the enemy in a war of survival. Sucks, but it was what it was...
"Honey ,I got first class on the train ".."We're up in the first car"
2:13 that one missile hit that factory went in one window and came out the back of the building you can see if you pay attention that’s wild
the .50 M2 machine guns can create a lot of havoc on stationary ground targets, plus some rockets.
The fact that land-based American fighters (not bombers) got within striking range of the Japanese homeland speaks volume in regards to how bad the war was going for the enemy.
“Its the same enemy”
Thats some hard shit there folks