US Navy aircraft from USS Yorktown (CV-10) attacking Japanese aircraft on Kyushu in March 1945
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- Опубліковано 13 лют 2022
- USS Yorktown was at the time sailing with Task Force 58 and launching raids against Japanese airfields on Kyushu, Honshu, and Shikoku with the aim of suppressing the airborne response to the invasion of Okinawa scheduled for April 1st 1945.
During the attacks on March 18th and 19th, the American naval aviators claimed to have destroyed 223 Japanese aircraft in the air and 250 on the ground, while the Japanese placed their losses as 161 of the 191 aircraft they committed in the air and an unspecified number on the ground.
At 0:15 an unfortunate single-engined trainer appears to have been caught airborne by the attacking forces.
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On a somewhat related note I lived on Okinawa for two years and did a lot of battle site touring of my own. A lot of the damage is still visible. Place the Japanese were held out still have impacts from bullets and bombs. Some of the caves even still have soot from flame throwers or you can tell they were blown in. One guy even had the barrel of an AA Gun as a fence post in his yard. Even today they’re still digging up UXO and finding rusted equipment. Thanks for sharing all these videos. We all look forward for more to come.
No fires in any of those planes strafed on the ground. Don't appear to have any fuel in their tanks.
Just because you strafe a plane doesn't mean the plane up and explodes. You've been watching too much Hollywood bullshit.
@@ficklefingeroffate Or Fuel shortage
Shows how little time they had to identify' align & shoot at a ground target.
Japanese army still had many planes in 1945. However, there were few pilots and fuel, so only option was to Kamikaze attack.
Spot on. The US subs operating in the South a China Sea had choked any fuel and food supplies coming from Dutch East Indies/Indonesia. 50% of Japanese civilian sailors had died during the war. It was so bad that merchant shipping didn’t even want to leave port to risk being sunk. By March 1945, the flow of fuel and food had ceased. The US sub fleet and aerial attacks on shipping had sunk about 8.5 million tons of Japanese shipping capacity, and Japan had only rebuilt 2.5 million tons to replace it. By August 1945, the Japanese were in pretty sorry shape with regard to food and fuel.
@@ppainterco the US silence department was highly effective in cutting off supply routes
thats a lot of Japanese planes considering it's 1945
they had no fuel
@@motha_trucker
and no pilots
And no chance
if i remember correct they held back 10.000 planes for the defense of the homeland if the allies invaded
and no waifus
I'm guessing some of those guys picked up damage from their own ricochets on those passes.
You can see some of it come back at the plane at 0:39-0:41
The Japanese plane trying to evade attacks at 0:20 looks like a Ki-51
Looked more like a D3A Val dive bomber to me.
The poster of this video said it was a trainer: "At 0:15 an unfortunate single-engined trainer appears to have been caught airborne by the attacking forces".
@@chpman2013 It does not look like a Val because:
1) It does not have the characteristical dorsal "fin" connected to the tail.
2) Wings don't have the characteristical markedly elliptical shape
3) It looks slightly smaller than the overtaking Hellcat, while the Val was actually bigger than an F6F (Ki-51 is instead smaller).
4) It does not have the wheel cover (usually removed for Ki-51, but always in place for D3A Val).
5) The only large airbase in Kyushu (like the one in the footage) was an Army base, so it's unlikely the presence of Navy plane
However, the latter two points could be debatable.
Agree Ki-51 Sonia
I stand corrected. I thought it a D3A based on the fixed landing gear, but now see its' wing size is a little too small to be one.
The Japanese people got off very lightly for their crimes. They were shown great mercy.
Thanks mate 👍🇳🇿
Thanks for sharing.
Here for the comments complaining about how many misses there are.... because these shut-ins never miss in War Thunder!
i play full real with a joystick and yeah it is tough
i miss a shit ton in war thunder, can't imagine real combat.
Awesome footage
With all those planes on the ground, looked like it was quite a turkey shoot.
Did anything get hit?
@@andrewhayes7055 when this mission was over, I think everything got hit.
@@andrewhayes7055 Judging from the videos I've watched, American aim during the war seems to be very poor. Nothing but misses for most of the video ... on stationary targets.
Reason there are so many Japanese planes is that there was some problem with B29 bombing from high altitudes. This is because world's fastest jet stream exists over Japan. So Japan's major fighter factories were operating until near end of ww2. (Many of B29 bombings were off target).🙄
Though the same bombing raids meant poor access to resources, meaning that a lot of late-war Japanese fighter designs (which actually included some quite potent fighters) were held back by lack of access to raw materials. Plus, by this point Japan had run out of pilots.
That's why they switched to low altitude firebombing of cities with industrial assets. That killed more people than the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Damn good footage.
Must have been difficult to fly in black and white.
恐らくではありますがこれは昭和二十年三月十八日の宇佐海軍航空隊への攻撃の映像でありますな。滑走路付近で待機する宇佐海軍航空隊の九九式艦上爆撃機や第721海軍航空隊の一式陸上攻撃機が写っておりますな。動画最後に写っている山は大蔵山かと思われます。
正確な分析ありがとうございます てっきり冨高かと思いました
Comparing this with ETO guncam, it looks like the Navy favored much higher altitude with a steeper dive on target when strafing compared to the USAAF method of getting in the weeds to avoid the flak.
A target rich environment
Anybody know what the proportion of tracer to ball was on aircraft guns at this time?
When the Task Force 58 finnaly arrive their destination.
it's kind of sad seeing that trainer get destroyed, it was probably just a young pilot, with no defenses and little skill
Shows the problem most fighter pilots encountered…… shooting from a distance beyond the harmonisation point of the guns. The bullets are crossing paths and the streams are actually getting wider and less effective. That is one of the things that separated the average fighter pilot from the best and most effective fighter pilots. Also, hitting airborne targets and ground attack would be two very different tasks I would think.
Target-Rich sprinkled with some light interdiction.
Damn spawnrapers!
There were not that many airplanes there.
most likely Hellcats 6- 50cals
Thought this might be an abandoned airfield, til :40, the bullets fly.
Horrible shooting accuracy. 🙈
BR: It's not a video game.
@@KB4QAA obviously. You have no clue what it’s like to fly them in real life sport.
@@billyrock8305 Yeah, 22 years in naval aviation, 40 years in civil aviation. I know nothing about it. All those weapons I fired and dropped count for nothing.
Here he is! Admiral Armchair, c/o of moms basement!
@@Sshooter444 Time for bed JR.
Some bad shooting.
I want you in their shoes.
To see if you can do better...
@@panzerivausfg4062 Ok cook put me in coach.
Ain't no video game. Ain't no infinite lives. Ain't no infinite practice or reset button.
@@drott150 Exactly
@@drott150 ain’t aint. Ain’t.