B-24 Bombing Scene - Unbroken

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  • @kevinh5349
    @kevinh5349 Před 6 měsíci +837

    My dad was the nose gunner in a Liberator. Shot down over Hungary, he was going to get run through by pitchforks from angry peasants but a Hungarian soldier showed up and took him prisoner. Spent 11 months in a Stalagluft in northern Poland, was marched into Germany as the Red Army approached. Was liberatied by the British somewhere in Germany. Went to many Bomb Group reunions with him. RIP Dad.

    • @ttpq6618
      @ttpq6618 Před 6 měsíci +14

      Before you were born?

    • @azazelinblack
      @azazelinblack Před 6 měsíci +53

      @@ttpq6618 dude's talking about his dad, so he's probably an old man

    • @AB-bg7os
      @AB-bg7os Před 6 měsíci +8

      Im hungarian and a kurva apádat

    • @abeLAGUILAR-nz3lx
      @abeLAGUILAR-nz3lx Před 5 měsíci

      I heard that story so man times but your are yust got to be yust like a gu dormant next roomer mate next door . And feeds his days and I se many of I'm the. , stop it please , dreamer . Don't fuck yourself yust as she is .

    • @SergamingPlayz
      @SergamingPlayz Před 5 měsíci +23

      ​@@AB-bg7osyour country was defeated

  • @JayeL216
    @JayeL216 Před 10 měsíci +911

    The cgi in this scene is actually really well done. And that shot of the sunrise as the bombers approach is gorgeous

    • @MichalKaczorowski
      @MichalKaczorowski Před 9 měsíci +49

      Yes, mostly in movies, airplanes move unnaturally fast and perform absurd maneuvers. Plus hundreds of cuts and weird shots. But here the director is not the testosterone-packed Michael Bay but Angelina Jolie ;)

    • @jeffreylunger
      @jeffreylunger Před 7 měsíci +7

      A bit quiet though

    • @snakedogman
      @snakedogman Před 7 měsíci

      It's just that, because it's CGI they choose all these ridiculous camera angles because it "looks cool" but all it does is make your brain immediately go "ah this is CGI". Personally I would direct the CGI as if I was filming it for real, or as close as possible. Now it all just looks super fake, like most modern war movies.
      That's why Maverick was so good, because they actually got actors in actual planes.

    • @celinamilian
      @celinamilian Před 7 měsíci +5

      A woman produced this... I am ashamed @@MichalKaczorowski

    • @charlesmichaelschmitt6412
      @charlesmichaelschmitt6412 Před 7 měsíci +6

      Are you not entertained?@@celinamilian

  • @AJ-xc4nm
    @AJ-xc4nm Před 7 měsíci +591

    I love how calm and collected they all are. No screaming, no yelling. Just keeping calm while communicating and working through the issue. The time to grieve is later.

    • @kman-mi7su
      @kman-mi7su Před 7 měsíci +32

      If you do it enough times, it becomes "normal" and you know how to focus and do what is needed.

    • @russellmiles2861
      @russellmiles2861 Před 7 měsíci +21

      No wind or noise.

    • @adamazzalino5247
      @adamazzalino5247 Před 7 měsíci +31

      That's Hollywood for you

    • @ashishhembrom3905
      @ashishhembrom3905 Před 7 měsíci +6

      You should watch Memphis Belle then.

    • @redwater4778
      @redwater4778 Před 7 měsíci +3

      The women and children in the fire bombed cities screamed.

  • @flank84
    @flank84 Před 7 měsíci +443

    When i was a kid, the guy who lived across from my Grandparents had a garage full of RC planes. Turns out he flew 27 or 28 missions with the 8 Air Corp over Europe during WW2. Absolutely nuts how he managed to survive that many missions. I remember him showing me pictures of his crew coming back with just about half of a plane. Just unreal.

    • @jimsharp5044
      @jimsharp5044 Před 7 měsíci +11

      Had a scout master that flew with the 8th Air Force in 24s. He told me stories after I was in the Marines.

    • @ulrichschmidt5559
      @ulrichschmidt5559 Před 7 měsíci +21

      Thanks for sharing. I can share a similar story, but it's from the "opposite side" so to speak: when my Grandpa was 15 or 16, he and his school mates were drafted into the Flak crews that had to protect major German cities. His Flak battery was located in the industrial park of the city of Braunschweig.
      When I was a kid, he sometimes showed me pictures of his comrades, their battery and a Flying Fortress they had shot down. They sure looked proud on those pictures. Now 40 years later I wish I had asked more questions, but as a kid, I just didn't think of them... Like: did these boys operate the Flak on their own? Or did they have an adult officer commanding them? How much training did they get, before they had to go into combat? Did he know what happened to the crew of that American bomber? Did they die in the crash, or was the plane still able to make a "controlled landing" and they were taken to a PoW camp? From what I can still remember, the hull still looked pretty much intact. It was lying in a potato field and the wings, tail, propellers and other debris was scattered around it. (Obviously, it was far away from the Flak position, so the boys must have made a trip to the crash site after alarm was over or after their shift had ended?!)
      Isn't it crazy: now almost 80 years later thanks to CZcams & the internet, you and me can share these stories with each other, your Grandparents' friend showing you pictures of his bomber and my Grandpa showing me pictures of "his" Flak and a bomber he helped shooting down...

    • @SyrupDipper
      @SyrupDipper Před 7 měsíci +10

      @@ulrichschmidt5559 yea and a lot of people would call your grandpa a terrible person but in reality, at least in stories I have heard, german soldiers didnt really care about the politics, just keeping their comrades and family safe. I hope he had a good life and sorry for your loss

    • @wawawuu1514
      @wawawuu1514 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@SyrupDipper "german soldiers didnt really care about the politics"
      I guess then it's fine. Maybe if they cared about the politics a little more, there wouldn't have been a Holocaust.

    • @SyrupDipper
      @SyrupDipper Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​@@wawawuu1514 yea true, but it was hard to, I mean if you got caught plotting a rebellion or something, you were killed. A huge number of soldiers would all have to rebel at the same exact time to have any affect. Also, they wouldnt have much reason to do so, hitler advertised his concentration camps as like a vacation where families are taught good lessons to become good citizens, not death and torture factories.

  • @stevensonsteven5965
    @stevensonsteven5965 Před rokem +674

    My great grandfather was the lower ball turret gunner in a B-24, glad to see the movie doing it proud!

    • @zlatanclovecic1944
      @zlatanclovecic1944 Před 9 měsíci +26

      I appreciate your grandfather and your comment. To me this scene is pretty realistic. No exaggerated AA fire on Japanese-held island, no planes exploding in the air, hard work for light Zeros to shut down a B-24 even without escort, yet still capable to damage it significantly, equally hard for B-24's crew to defend it and yes.. couple of real heroes wounded on the board.

    • @imamhussainibnmuawiya8630
      @imamhussainibnmuawiya8630 Před 9 měsíci +8

      my grandfather was a high ranking chief in the germen army so proud of him i look up to him he was one of the officers commanding in normandy

    • @stevensonsteven5965
      @stevensonsteven5965 Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@imamhussainibnmuawiya8630 what was his killstreak?

    • @eldefunes8665
      @eldefunes8665 Před 9 měsíci +6

      @@zlatanclovecic1944 Pretty realistic... muhahaha Four killed Zero's by a single B-24. It's complete Hollywood bullshit. Never happens. I love this really bad made movies. It's like comedy.

    • @willietorben560
      @willietorben560 Před 9 měsíci +7

      A great task for small men, no kidding. It took a special type of person to do that work, down there, exposed, always at risk of the turret getting stuck and the ship having to make a belly landing. Bless him; hope he made it thru the war in one piece.

  • @j.b.macadam6516
    @j.b.macadam6516 Před 3 měsíci +51

    My Father served as a Flight Engineer aboard B24's in the Pacific during WW2. The Engineer also manned the top gun turret. From there, he could keep a good eye on the engines.

    • @SCOOBMAN
      @SCOOBMAN Před 3 měsíci +3

      You must be proud, I'll admit war is hell, but your father had more balls than anyone from this generation and generations to continue. I cannot Fandom flying out there and luckily returning safe and sound and then doing it all over again balls of titanium right that what a MAN.

    • @j.b.macadam6516
      @j.b.macadam6516 Před 3 měsíci +3

      @@SCOOBMAN There's a reason that they are referred to as 'The Greatest Generation'! We owe them much!

    • @davidyarb5885
      @davidyarb5885 Před 2 měsíci +2

      My grandfather was the flight engineer / top turret gunner in B-17’s flying with the 15 th Air Force out of Italy in 1944/45.

    • @adamjewell422
      @adamjewell422 Před 16 dny +1

      Q’apLa!

    • @j.b.macadam6516
      @j.b.macadam6516 Před 16 dny

      @@adamjewell422 Yes, Qapla'!

  • @absolutetuber
    @absolutetuber Před měsícem +22

    The hell these young men went through.
    my father's cousin was a pilot of a Halifax bomber. I just learned that recently and have been reading/learning all about his service. He was a member of the RCAF and flew 18 missions. He was a part of Operation Hydra and was killed when his bomber was damaged and went down that night. He kept the plane up and level long enough for his crew to jump out. He, along with one of his Sergeants, was killed when the plane crashed. My ultimate goal is to visit his gravesite at the Berlin War Cemetery.

  • @madwill6569
    @madwill6569 Před rokem +812

    I wish war thunder bombing missions went this easy.

    • @watmat2956
      @watmat2956 Před rokem +67

      Only if you outrun the p-26 slowly headed towards you

    • @spitfiremkiv339
      @spitfiremkiv339 Před rokem +35

      it wasn't easy tho, just another day on the job for them

    • @gawwad4073
      @gawwad4073 Před rokem +60

      @@spitfiremkiv339 wasn't easy in reality but this movie is very far from it. A solo bomber would have been picked off by the first fighter.

    • @UmutcanOktem
      @UmutcanOktem Před 11 měsíci +9

      Skill issue

    • @Aaam1rK
      @Aaam1rK Před 11 měsíci +25

      Attention to the designated grid zone!

  • @jonyscaires
    @jonyscaires Před 9 měsíci +64

    The film portrays them as very young as they really were at the time. No old actors like in some hollywood movies

    • @MrNobody55555
      @MrNobody55555 Před měsícem

      yes, and in the older movies, the actors were heterosexuals & better actors.

    • @paulryan2128
      @paulryan2128 Před měsícem +2

      ​@@MrNobody55555
      EXACTLY!! Guys like Rock Hudson, and Montgomery Clift, and ... Marlon Brando? Maybe Randolf Scott? Cary Grant??!

  • @SentinalV
    @SentinalV Před 6 měsíci +20

    Bout time we see some love for the B-24 Liberator, most movies include HE-111’s, Lancaster’s, B-17 Flying Fortresses, and B-25(DoLittle Raid) and we never see the B-24 until this movie.

  • @johnwilletts3984
    @johnwilletts3984 Před 9 měsíci +216

    A few things to think about:- The Norden Bomb sight was better than the British version but only over 20’000 ft. But both needed clear sky to see the target. Consequently we saw the development of electronic navigation systems. All those 50 call guns came at a price in bomb load:-
    B17 = 2 Tons load, B24 = 4 Tons load
    Lancaster with mostly 303 cal = 6 to 10 Tons.

    • @FenderBender5150
      @FenderBender5150 Před 7 měsíci +30

      Yeah, not to get too technical here and all...but I like how the dude gets hit by two bullets in chest and head(7.7mm is what Zero was spitting) and they fix it all with just handkerchief and a good old... "I got you buddy... I got you" .😆😅🤣😂🤣😂😦😦

    • @gathasofpersia6432
      @gathasofpersia6432 Před 7 měsíci

      Errrrr Not exactly. The JaP ZERO HAD 20mm cannons too.@@FenderBender5150

    • @MrChickennugget360
      @MrChickennugget360 Před 7 měsíci +10

      @@FenderBender5150 might have been hit by shrapnel.

    • @FenderBender5150
      @FenderBender5150 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@MrChickennugget360 UHm? What shrapnal? The whole thing was made out Aluminum and fiber glass

    • @mryhdy6266
      @mryhdy6266 Před 7 měsíci +9

      I doubt that 10 or 12 50 cal machineguns weigh 2 or 4 tons more that 10 303's

  • @GordyInMA
    @GordyInMA Před 7 měsíci +18

    My dad served in what became the US Air Force during WWII and was stationed in England for his tour! He was a radio operator on B24’s!

  • @jamespennington7919
    @jamespennington7919 Před 9 měsíci +86

    The effectiveness of bomber guns is overplayed here, but nonetheless, on the budget, it's nicely done.

    • @anonymousdude9099
      @anonymousdude9099 Před 7 měsíci +26

      I thought the same thing! Who needs fighter escort with those gunners! LOL

    • @camward9293
      @camward9293 Před 7 měsíci +38

      You should read the book this movie is based on. The crew of "Super Man" (along with the rest of the formation) actually did shoot down those fighters and actually sustained more damage than what is depicted here. It was verified that not a single Japanese plane that took off to defend the island made it back home.

    • @Ixyon77
      @Ixyon77 Před 7 měsíci +5

      ​@@camward9293 Probably one of those cocky pilot story written by someone so naïve as you are...

    • @camward9293
      @camward9293 Před 7 měsíci +27

      @@Ixyon77 That's a weird way to say you haven't read the book lol

    • @Ixyon77
      @Ixyon77 Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@camward9293 That's the weirdest way to say you can't understand a comment properly...

  • @ryanward8039
    @ryanward8039 Před 9 měsíci +130

    Stepping out onto a catwalk in the bomb compartment, the doors are open, no safety harness, no parachute and under enemy fire. Those men were a level of badass that our generations will never even dream of being. RESPECT.

    • @Noisemaker50
      @Noisemaker50 Před 7 měsíci +32

      falling out of a plane so that my grandpa won't call me a pussy

    • @canyonoverland5003
      @canyonoverland5003 Před 7 měsíci +23

      My grandfather fought in WW2 and by the time he was 24 years old he fought against the Nazis and fathered 3 kids. Here I am at 35 walking around the apartment in underwear troubleshooting my crappy WiFi.

    • @freeshooter4084
      @freeshooter4084 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@canyonoverland5003join the military

    • @infaereld2055
      @infaereld2055 Před 7 měsíci +5

      Wait till you hear about WWI aviators

    • @brianlevor4175
      @brianlevor4175 Před 7 měsíci +7

      @@canyonoverland5003 Can't blame yourself for struggles you did not have to endure.

  • @gavin-cy
    @gavin-cy Před rokem +42

    Really want more movies about bombardier

    • @alxyt8480
      @alxyt8480 Před 11 měsíci +6

      Watch the documentary about the longest bombing run in the Falkland war

    • @talkingfish2382
      @talkingfish2382 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Give Memphis Belle a watch if you haven't

    • @gavin-cy
      @gavin-cy Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@talkingfish2382 I’ve watched it. It is one of the best movieI have ever watched.

    • @steriskyline4470
      @steriskyline4470 Před 10 měsíci +1

      @@gavin-cy dambusters is old but good!

  • @CrossOfBayonne
    @CrossOfBayonne Před 9 měsíci +36

    B-17s were also used in the Pacific to an extent but were later assigned to use in Europe.

    • @justarandomsubnauticaplayer
      @justarandomsubnauticaplayer Před 9 měsíci +10

      Yeah, the B-17's in the pacific were replaced with B-29's

    • @wbertie2604
      @wbertie2604 Před 7 měsíci +7

      ​@@justarandomsubnauticaplayer B-24s for shorter range, B-29s for longer range missions.

  • @SanDeezyBreezy61986
    @SanDeezyBreezy61986 Před 7 měsíci +88

    The Norden was very accurate -- the bombs hit the ground every time!

    • @Nuvolari1939
      @Nuvolari1939 Před 7 měsíci +4

      А без "Нордена" бомбы улетели бы в космос? )))

    • @stephensmith7293
      @stephensmith7293 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Read a book once that said the accuracy rate for target hits, was about twenty five percent.

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 Před 6 měsíci

      @@stephensmith7293 I don't think it was anywhere close to that.

    • @johnmilner2316
      @johnmilner2316 Před měsícem

      @@tonyennis1787 Obviously destruction was the main aim of a bombing raid but breaking the morale of the civilian population was almost as important and every bomb that detonates, whether or not it kills, affects those on the ground. As a small child I was 200 yards from the impact of a V1 flying bomb - 80 years later I can still remember how a group of adults were utterly terrified as they waited for the explosion!

    • @politrazor
      @politrazor Před 7 dny

      ​@@johnmilner2316не всегда бомбежки помогают напугать мирное население! На некоторые народы эти бомбежки действуют как способ озлобления и сплочения, помогая пропаганде правительства разбомбленных.

  • @lucax2300
    @lucax2300 Před 10 měsíci +94

    The suspense to be inside of these bombers. Always getting flak, and the target isn't always military targets. War is hell indeed.

  • @StillPlaysWithModelTrains1956

    Excellent production. Well done and thank you.

  • @blainedunlap4242
    @blainedunlap4242 Před 7 měsíci +18

    Took a ride in B17. You have as much protection from bullets as you have from a beer can.

  • @LaurelKildare
    @LaurelKildare Před rokem +100

    The men who gave everything so that you could watch this video...

    • @joestead346
      @joestead346 Před rokem +12

      Thank you, cameraman.

    • @retsiembrU
      @retsiembrU Před 11 měsíci

      Amin

    • @smokeybirdman
      @smokeybirdman Před 11 měsíci

      Nonsense. The men who were exploited for profit and greed

    • @arkwill14
      @arkwill14 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@smokeybirdman So they _should_ have let the Axis win?

    • @jasonscott7734
      @jasonscott7734 Před 9 měsíci

      And all women can do is bad mouth men today.

  • @Paulius-lb4ng
    @Paulius-lb4ng Před 7 měsíci +97

    Father-in-law’s bomber continued patrols over Japan after the surrender, but even after the official surrender was still getting shot at for weeks after still. He was 19 by the end.

    • @trition1234
      @trition1234 Před 7 měsíci

      can you blame them? used for 2 nuclear experiments,long lasting damage to DNA,worse then our depression and flying over your country to basically give a middle finger to you so yeah the pot shots and understandable lol same with the south in the US the north were terrorist and burned farms and killed family and children. starved us all when we wanted independence.

    • @LK-qj3tr
      @LK-qj3tr Před 5 měsíci +3

      Thats crazy, do you mean by airplaines?? Or was there just random AA guns still scattered?

  • @MM-vv8mt
    @MM-vv8mt Před 19 dny +2

    Growing up, our neighborhood was full of WWII vets who were all quietly heroic. One man was a tail gunner on a 24 in the Pacific, and was shot down twice. He said the first time he was scared witless but got rescured after a day or two in adrift in a raft, and when he looked in a mirror, he said all of his hair had turned white.

  • @chriscaza4916
    @chriscaza4916 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Impressinnant! On est complètement immergé dans l'action et le sentiment oppressif est énorme!

  • @UnCannyValley67
    @UnCannyValley67 Před 7 měsíci +46

    Props to the cameraman for risking his life to get this amazing footage.

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 Před 7 měsíci +45

    Flak wasn’t just black puffs of turbulence but hot showers of metal shards.
    Hitting and penetrating anything on the aircraft. Oil lines, fuel lines, hydraulic lines, control cables, arteries.

    • @WillOfFir
      @WillOfFir Před 7 měsíci +4

      Im bodybuilder and i could take on that thing

    • @19nuanda75
      @19nuanda75 Před 7 měsíci +2

      infatti, hai ragione. un colpo di contraerea che andava segno disintegrava l'aereo, se invece scoppiava a 5 mt lo danneggiava , compresi i suoi piloti.

    • @MichaelJohnson-dd9yo
      @MichaelJohnson-dd9yo Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yup, the ol' man was up there bombardier and navigator, flak would shake that plane all over the sky..

  • @DMAN590
    @DMAN590 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Man these b-24's were quieter than my prius, impressive!

  • @Henningstar
    @Henningstar Před 9 měsíci +95

    Fantastic scene and movie, but the fact that there's less sound in that B-24 than onboard a 737 commercial plane I sincerely doubt.

    • @Bilbirk62
      @Bilbirk62 Před 9 měsíci +13

      It is a MOVIE

    • @Mugdorna
      @Mugdorna Před 9 měsíci +29

      Certain "realistic elements" would render any footage unwatchable

    • @jaggedskar3890
      @jaggedskar3890 Před 7 měsíci +13

      Many pilots grew deaf in their left ears while the co-pilots grew deaf in their right ears due to serving aboard B-24's.

    • @SH_K
      @SH_K Před 7 měsíci +2

      Look, even commercial flight videos on youtube get its sound feed directly from the radio. Why? It is because the cabin noise disrupts the listening environment of viewers.

    • @michaelagnew7493
      @michaelagnew7493 Před 7 měsíci +7

      My grandfather wore hearing aids after piloting a 24. All four engines added up to 5,200 HP, which at 150 each is the same as 35 cars revving 20 feet away from you, for five or so hours.

  • @OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy
    @OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy Před 7 měsíci +4

    Nobody on comms ever called "pilot to bombardier."
    The crews on these planes were closer than brothers.
    They lived and died together in the worst conditions imaginable.
    When you called someone on comms, you called them by their nickname.
    Hollywood really needs to stop doing that "pilot to bombadier" nonsense.
    I suppose someone might have done it once as a joke, but never for real.
    My uncle was a door gunner on a B25 and flew in the raid on Remagen.
    He had been a pilot instructor for most of the war and he insisted on going where he had trained so many to fight.
    They bombed the 88s on the hills and escaped by flying down the streets of the city.
    They were so low, they had to look up to see the German people looking out their windows.
    It must have been a hell of a thing. Supermen... one and all... the greatest generation.

  • @jesuitenquelle
    @jesuitenquelle Před 7 měsíci +24

    The film highlights American heroism, it's worth acknowledging that all nations involved in WWII had their own stories of struggle and sacrifice.

  • @les2934
    @les2934 Před měsícem +1

    My father was a waste gun/radio operator over Palawan B24 and later transferred to P38 recon. He had Apple Creates full of pictures, and my mother threw them out even after I begged her to give them to me for safekeeping. That generation wasn't into passing on family history. I remember sneaking into the attic to view these pictures. Oh, well, flashbacks watching this short movie.

  • @davesskillet9235
    @davesskillet9235 Před 7 měsíci +2

    My uncle taught pilots how to fly the B-17 at Shepard Air Force Base during the war. I always liked watching movies like this even though this is about the B-24 my uncle had a lot of air paintings and memorabilia from the war a cool man cave.

  • @SirEpifire
    @SirEpifire Před 9 měsíci +87

    Only thing that really stands out to me is how they're lead ship but end up flying alone for the entire fight (no layered cover from other bombers). Other than that, it stands up pretty well!

    • @garyanderson3087
      @garyanderson3087 Před 9 měsíci +37

      Probably because bomb bay doors are stuck open, unable to keep up with the rest of the formation

    • @darchibald8303
      @darchibald8303 Před 8 měsíci +30

      In the biography, it states superman(the b24 zamperini was assigned to) thebomb bay doors were stuck open, and the plan kept dutch rolling so it lagged behind the formation. It was common practice to leave struggling bombers behind bc endangered the rest.

  • @johncheetham4607
    @johncheetham4607 Před 9 měsíci +4

    To hear that Rolls Royce engine. Bloody amazing. Thanks for the upload

    • @Neil-jm6om
      @Neil-jm6om Před 9 měsíci +9

      They're B-24's, so they're Pratt & Whitney engines as far as I'm aware

    • @johncheetham4607
      @johncheetham4607 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Neil-jm6om thanks for the information. I really enjoy listening to a Merlin engine.
      As an ex bus driver. Used to enjoy driving the Volvo B10.
      Diesel cars have allot of torque.

    • @Neil-jm6om
      @Neil-jm6om Před 9 měsíci +2

      @johncheetham4607 No problem. When you wrote rolls-Royce, I had to double check there wasn't an escorting P-51D, which did have merlin engines.
      You absolutely can't beat the sound of them! Especially in a Spitfire

    • @johncheetham4607
      @johncheetham4607 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@Neil-jm6om They used the Merlin engine in the American P 51 tank busters.
      My Grandfather Ronald Hughes were Oldham Royal Tank regiment WW2.

    • @johncheetham4607
      @johncheetham4607 Před 9 měsíci

      @@Neil-jm6om totally agree.
      But believe that the mosquito that were built out of wood was a Rekki plane.
      I'm an engineer in two fields. Can tell when an engine is knocking.
      Remember try to buy a second hand car.
      First thing I do before the engine is turned on. I lift the bonnet.
      Check the Oil. If it has milky white. That means the previous owner used cheap oil. Gadgets had blown and engine had leaked into the engine. Tip for you.
      I'm a steel construction engineer and a computer engineer.
      Used to do repairs on the petrol and diesel engine car's.

  • @capaopintado5111
    @capaopintado5111 Před 6 měsíci +1

    A reprodução da sonoplastia da batalha é fantástica, motores e tiros...

  • @horatiohornblower4123
    @horatiohornblower4123 Před 20 dny

    My great great uncle was an Australian, born 1923. He transferred to the RAF 53 squadron in October 43, he was a wireless operator air gunner and went on a total of 54 missions. He became a B-24 pilot in December 44 then returned to Australia in February 45. Later was in the Korean War and also Vietnam flying Neptune’s escorting troopships in 1965 operation trimdon. 1939-45 Star, Atlantic star with France and Germany clasp, Defence medal, war medal, Australian service medal 1939-45, Korea medal, and Australian service medal 1945-75. Lefty the Air Force in 1970. Service years April 1942 - September 1970. Squadron Leader Thomas Clifford McGrath

  • @crackerackadingdong
    @crackerackadingdong Před 4 měsíci +14

    This scene is better made than the entire Masters of the Air

    • @jordan6049
      @jordan6049 Před 3 měsíci +8

      No its not 😂

    • @lufthansamd1176
      @lufthansamd1176 Před měsícem

      Facts

    • @amramjose
      @amramjose Před 20 dny

      I thought the masters of air story was good but agree with you, the graphics and battle scenes were pretty bad.

    • @ad3mn
      @ad3mn Před 16 dny +1

      Don't know why can't they make great WW2 movies anymore. The whole thing was so sterile, not just the CGI, but the uniforms and stuff and i guess Apple spent millions on the series. Nowhere near BOB or Pacific lvl.

    • @PhonoDirect
      @PhonoDirect Před 4 hodinami

      IDK... You have the aircraft under a strong fire from Zeros, port side of it uncovered by the defensive fire after the gunner was knocked down by the Zero. And in this very situation the only loose crew member seems to have a plenty of time for a generic heroic shit talking with the wounded gunner. And right afterwards proceeds to closing the bomb bay, with those oh, mighty protective sheets of aluminum metal. Instead of grabbing the machine gun and shooting at the attacking Zeros. Now, that's what I call combat priorities...
      On the plus side, at least there is no woke crap in the scene. These days the absence of the woke BS is often sufficient to call it a day with the movies.

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 Před 7 měsíci +3

    Sometimes the captain would after touching down ( no brakes ) instruct crew to rearward tail section to apply weight over deployed tail skid holding nose off as long as possible.
    Some speed scrub available. Also after sufficient reduction of ground speed crew chutes attached to waist guns could be rip cord pulled for impromptu drag chutes.
    Rudder inputs to try to maintain runway alignment until enough authority still left to attempt ground loop.
    Air craft to damaged try to attempt bailout over friendly territory.
    Oft times simply no option as aircraft destroyed.

  • @VTDMilitaryHistory
    @VTDMilitaryHistory Před měsícem

    The scenes in the video look very realistic. very suspenseful and thrilling

  • @killbot86
    @killbot86 Před 9 měsíci +2

    After all that back and forth, he never did close those bomb bay doors ....

  • @RandomMan439
    @RandomMan439 Před rokem +57

    I would NEVER get into a bomber. Don't have the stones for it and I am not ashamed to admit it.

    • @masterhamsterbreeder
      @masterhamsterbreeder Před rokem

      bombers nowadays are stealth meaning you wont get intercepted

    • @Cybernaut76
      @Cybernaut76 Před 11 měsíci +14

      How can you tell you dont have the stones? Nobody can declare themselves a hero or a coward forehand. Only the real thing determines that....something only our grandpas had the chance for. Thank God that we were never offered the chance to prove ourselves, that we were never needed in this same duty than some in our grandfathers generation...

    • @nocturnalrecluse1216
      @nocturnalrecluse1216 Před 11 měsíci

      I do.

    • @Bilbirk62
      @Bilbirk62 Před 9 měsíci

      BS@@Cybernaut76

    • @homerfry9234
      @homerfry9234 Před 7 měsíci

      Feel your chances are better going infantry? No thanks.

  • @daxtonbrown
    @daxtonbrown Před 7 měsíci +6

    My dad was a tailgunner in B24s out of Spinazola Italy. A better man than I.

  • @geoffmcnew5863
    @geoffmcnew5863 Před 6 měsíci

    Hollywood actor and Brigadier General James Stewart flew B-24s as a Major in WWII, and won the Distinguished Flying Cross while Deputy Commander of the 2nd Bombardment Wing, 445th Bombardment Group...he was for real.

  • @LudinjavierGarciaarias-hb6gi
    @LudinjavierGarciaarias-hb6gi Před 9 měsíci +1

    Me parese aver visto esata partes antes😢 fueron os mejores heroes en vida real

  • @hud86
    @hud86 Před 9 měsíci +57

    How did we go from 18 year olds being the maturity of 50 year olds to 50 year olds being at the maturity level of 18 year olds?

    • @ArmyJames
      @ArmyJames Před 9 měsíci

      No world war for the past 78 years, that’s how.

    • @jay_dave8722
      @jay_dave8722 Před 9 měsíci +14

      TikTok 😂

    • @TheOtherGuys2
      @TheOtherGuys2 Před 9 měsíci +14

      Hard times produce strong people. Strong people produce easy times. Easy times produce soft people. Soft people produce hard times. The cycle repeats every 20 years or so.

    • @jasonchang867
      @jasonchang867 Před 9 měsíci +8

      “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times” from novel by G. Michael Hopf.

    • @TheOtherGuys2
      @TheOtherGuys2 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@jasonchang867 Close enough

  • @Ro6entX
    @Ro6entX Před 7 měsíci +3

    Think I’d feel better in a B-17, or B-29 if entered later in the war. B-24s were notorious for catching fire real quick

  • @eko333
    @eko333 Před měsícem +2

    Louis "Louie" Zamperini, a boy who always faces adversity, finds direction in his life thanks to the help of his older brother. He turned his energies into running and managed to qualify for the 1936 Olympics. However, when World War II broke out, Louie enlisted in the military. After his plane crashed in the Pacific, he survived for 47 days floating on a raft before being captured by the Japanese navy. In a prisoner of war camp, Louie becomes the main target of a cruel commander.

  • @rafffu1
    @rafffu1 Před měsícem

    my fav movie ever

  • @Willysmb44
    @Willysmb44 Před 7 měsíci +3

    NO way there'd be a navigator wearing glasses on aircrew

  • @gundam116
    @gundam116 Před 6 měsíci

    3:09 love how he says “uh oh”

  • @EnterpriseXI
    @EnterpriseXI Před 9 měsíci +1

    This reminds me of the B-17 mission in Call of Duty Expansion pack

  • @TXTundra-ex8bw
    @TXTundra-ex8bw Před 7 měsíci +15

    I can't imagine how horrifying that must have been. when men were men. nothing but respect to our veterans

  • @andrewelliott1592
    @andrewelliott1592 Před 7 měsíci +52

    My granddad was in the USAAF in the Pacific and he was initially a ball turret gunner on a Lib, before finding out the Japanese frequently were shooting out the landing gear on planes so that at least 1 guy, the ball turret gunner, would die in a landing. He moved to another position on the plane before eventually being a part of the ground crew for the Enola Gay. Changed her spark plugs the morning of Hiroshima

    • @lzl4226
      @lzl4226 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Why would the ball turret gunner be still in the turret during landing and if they're accurate enough to aim for the landing gears why don't they just shoot out the engines instead?

    • @samulilahnamaki3127
      @samulilahnamaki3127 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@lzl4226 Ball turrets were, at least early in the war, unreliable. Gunners got stuck in them until return to base. Donald L Miller mentions these kind of incidents in Masters of the Air. If I remember correctly, there was also a picture, or maybe it was so vividly described that I painted the picture in my mind.

    • @lzl4226
      @lzl4226 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@samulilahnamaki3127 If that were the case wouldn't they bring some kind of tool onboard, like a pickaxe or something to dig hims out. I mean I can't imagine a case where knowing the landing gear is broken, and your friend is going to be crushed to death and doing nothing about it.

    • @samulilahnamaki3127
      @samulilahnamaki3127 Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@lzl4226 I don't have the book here to check. But what I remember, hatch of the ball can be opened only in one position and if ball got stuck in any other, it was impossible to get gunner out. I've seen B-17 in Chino museum and that ball is quite small. Metal and small windows, might be impossible to get through from any other way. Of course crews tried to get gunner out to the last moment, but at some point fuel run out. I highly recommend that book, tv series is coming in January.

    • @asphaltmilkshake4596
      @asphaltmilkshake4596 Před 7 měsíci +7

      No offense to your grandad's war stories, but that seems extraordinarily unlikely. lzl4226's above post covers some of the most glaring reasons why.

  • @jsmcguireIII
    @jsmcguireIII Před 6 měsíci +1

    The book is excellent. The B-24 was a deathtrap for so many of our boys.

  • @CAT_DOG1
    @CAT_DOG1 Před 7 měsíci

    Best Movie

  • @FredNesbitt
    @FredNesbitt Před 7 měsíci +4

    My Dad flew B24s over Europe and lived to tell the tale. Scares me to watch these.

  • @anthonyjasso4125
    @anthonyjasso4125 Před 7 měsíci +3

    These were 18, 19, 20 year old kids. We owe everything to them.

    • @lowe_sa2976
      @lowe_sa2976 Před 7 měsíci

      Nobody asked them so nobody owe them anything.

    • @thesnazzycomet
      @thesnazzycomet Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@lowe_sa2976 dont be disrespectful

  • @shoes919
    @shoes919 Před 23 dny +1

    This scene alone is better than masters of the air

  • @NonsenseFabricator
    @NonsenseFabricator Před 7 měsíci +1

    Now I'm just a simple country lawyer, but it seems strange there isn't more wind and noise with the doors open as they are.

  • @christophersnyder1532
    @christophersnyder1532 Před rokem +43

    I have this film, and liked that Angelina Jolie directed this, and also liked Katheryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, and Zero Dark Thirty. It doesn't matter to me if it is a woman, or man who directs any war oriented feature, I am going to watch.
    Take care, and all the best.

    • @fubar12345
      @fubar12345 Před 9 měsíci

      Culture wars is artificial anyway - used to divide people, emerged as a counterattack to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Implemented by the exploitation of social media algorithms, which encourage outrage to drive engagement. Never get baited into taking sides in the culture wars/identity politics!

    • @eltonyancey6426
      @eltonyancey6426 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Great book to read also.

  • @Ixyon77
    @Ixyon77 Před 7 měsíci +25

    OK... That bomber vaporized 5 Zero in mid air without going down... That's a complete Hollywood ratio.

    • @scottishscott3504
      @scottishscott3504 Před 7 měsíci +18

      The book mentions that they did shoot down 5 zeros, but it was with the rest of the bomber formation. Not just on their own.

    • @Ixyon77
      @Ixyon77 Před 7 měsíci

      @@scottishscott3504 Here I see one bomber shooting down 5 Zero. So that's a Hollywood ratio. Don't give a god damn s... about the book.

    • @dougmccoy1260
      @dougmccoy1260 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Sgt Benko of the 308th bomb group in China was first or second scoring gunner in the war. An officer was sent as an observer on a mission because they didn't believe his success. On that mission he shot down 7 Japanese fighters. He had been Arizona state skeet champion. His plane was the Goon.

    • @Ixyon77
      @Ixyon77 Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@dougmccoy1260 Propaganda had well worked on you too I see...

    • @dougmccoy1260
      @dougmccoy1260 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@Ixyon77 my dad was in the 308th in China. Radio operator and gunner. There is a lot of material about Sgt Benko. Look up top bomber gunners. Lookup Benko. Lookup the goon b-24.

  • @schwieb24
    @schwieb24 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The air in the cabin is perfectly still despite there being massive open air gun ports

  • @raymondvia3786
    @raymondvia3786 Před 7 měsíci +2

    My late uncle flew B-17s from Kimbolton England with the 379th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force and missed Second Schweinfurt by a month and a half.

  • @dundermifflin3847
    @dundermifflin3847 Před 11 měsíci +38

    That moment when you know you have to switch to your secondary aircraft in WT

  • @elitedima9672
    @elitedima9672 Před 7 měsíci +6

    It's amazing to think today's fighter jets can carry more bombs than WW2 era heavy bombers

  • @panzerabteilung
    @panzerabteilung Před 4 měsíci +1

    i prefer how the fight is filmed in unbroken, this tv show is like red tails, very hollywood, fast action and fireballs style

  • @les-go
    @les-go Před 7 měsíci

    Where iis the wind??? All Doors Opened! But is AMAZING Scene! Congratulations!

  • @lyubomirmilev4594
    @lyubomirmilev4594 Před 7 měsíci +9

    Just a note here. When you get hit by bullet from a plane it's not the same as the normal bullets. The small hole shown in the movie will be more like 10 inch see through hole or even dismemberment.

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 Před 6 měsíci

      They were shooting rifle caliber bullets.

    • @drive_punk
      @drive_punk Před 4 měsíci

      The Zero had two rifle caliber machine guns. He probably got hit with those instead of it's 20's.

  • @kev3d
    @kev3d Před 7 měsíci +18

    Amazing those planes could take off at all with the weight of those massive brass balls.

  • @Markus_Andrew
    @Markus_Andrew Před 6 měsíci +1

    It was refreshing to see Liberators getting some film time for once instead of Flying Fortresses. They were more numerous, after all - almost 19,000 Liberators built compared to almost 13,000 Fortresses.

  • @TyroneSayWTF
    @TyroneSayWTF Před 2 měsíci

    The CGI and effects in this scene (and subsequent ones too - like the B-24 crash landing later) are at least on par (if not above) those from the 'Masters of the Air' Apple TV series. The only thing that may have been a tad underwhelming in this battle scene is that the appropriate level of damage from 20mm shell hits from the A6M Zeros didn't seem to be accounted for (damage-wise on the B-24). Other than that, it is absolutely outstanding - effects-wise!

  • @MrTaylorTexas
    @MrTaylorTexas Před 7 měsíci +5

    The cgi is almost pretty good compared to old Hollywood war movies. It's hard to beat real planes.
    It's personally interesting to watch because my grandfather's brother went down in the English Channel in a B24. He was the nose gunner.

  • @andrewsteele7663
    @andrewsteele7663 Před 10 měsíci +3

    Absolutely brilliant movie, hard to watch and stay impartial, now that the Japanese are now are mates,

  • @asther113
    @asther113 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Actually historically accurate in a sense...

  • @fload46d
    @fload46d Před 7 měsíci +1

    My uncle was due to fly B24s against Japan in 1945 when the war ended.

  • @diogenes2454
    @diogenes2454 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Watch the movie the other night amazing story. Incredible how long they were able to survive at sea....then to endure Japanese labor camps...More light needs to be shed on the atrocities Japanese committed against POWs during the war...When Hollywood has to make up fictional stories about a tank crew or a group of rangers sent extract one private you know a writer and or director has not done their homework on the subject.

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 Před 6 měsíci

      The Japanese even treated their own soldiers horribly.

  • @Grunzer212
    @Grunzer212 Před 9 měsíci +31

    Mein Opa war Kommandant eines Sd.Kfz 171 (Panther), Er hat in der Schlacht von Kurks gekämpft und überlebt, mein absoluter Held und Vorbild.
    R.I.P an alle gefallenen Soldaten, die für die Ziele anderer Gefallen sind.
    Liebe grüße gehen auch an meine US kammeraden raus, mit den ich zusammen im Einsatzt war.
    Panzer Hurra!!

    • @marcelbugiel1634
      @marcelbugiel1634 Před 9 měsíci

      Man kann und mag sich nicht vorstellen durch welche Höllen die teils extrem jungen Männer gegangen sind. Ich weiß aus Erzählungen, dass mein Urgroßvater väterlicherseits in Stalingrad gefallen ist. Traurig das wir heutzutage alles als selbstverständlich empfinden, aber vergessen, dass es nicht so sein muss. Respekt an alle gefallenen Soldaten aller Seiten und mögen sie in Frieden ruhen.

    • @HerzAusStahlYT
      @HerzAusStahlYT Před 7 měsíci +4

      Alle meine vier Ur-Opas sind leider an der Ostfront gefallen. Ich hätte gern ihre Geschichten von meinen Großeltern weitererzählt bekommen...Ehre an alle Soldaten, die gedient haben!

    • @user-zh9on1gj8h
      @user-zh9on1gj8h Před 7 měsíci

      Твой дед был фашистом, чтоб гореть ему в аду!!!

    • @michaelagnew7493
      @michaelagnew7493 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Take that somewhere else

    • @alexxrapel
      @alexxrapel Před 7 měsíci

      Да, твои камрады служили Цели, одни под Курском, другие в Аушвице, от каждого камрада по способностям. Все они гниют к счастью.

  • @linkpink2714
    @linkpink2714 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Where is the wind and cold !!!!!!! This is absolutly unreal video !!!

  • @stargazeronesixseven
    @stargazeronesixseven Před 7 měsíci +2

    🙏 We lost so many Good Innocent Men , Women & Children during WWII ... May the innocently Departed Souls be Blessed to a Better World & Realm ... & be Reunited with Their Loved Ones in due Time & Space ... 🕯🌼🌿🌍🕊

  • @arkwill14
    @arkwill14 Před 7 měsíci +4

    I wish that the portrayals of flak weren't so overdone. If you've ever seen footage of real bombing missions it just isn't nearly that thick. But in scenes like this every one of of those flak bursts that are within 100-feet of the the aircraft should be doing significant damage, probably even fatal damage, but they are not. In close ups they're showing AA shells like that one at 2:09 -- it literally blows up right outside the cockpit and between two bombers so you know it had to be really close. That window should be gone. Both planes would have absorbed a whole lot of shrapnel and the closer one probably would have it's right wing and engines fatally shredded. Somewhere along the line Hollywood started believing that AA shells have to actually hit the planes as they explode to do any damage - but they are area-effect weapons and close is good enough. ...same with Depth Charges.

  • @anatoleondulet4881
    @anatoleondulet4881 Před 7 měsíci +5

    This is absolutly unreal video, crew members were much more protected against shrapnell with heavy vests. It was cold at this altitude etc.

    • @INCDZONE
      @INCDZONE Před 7 měsíci

      planes where lightly armoured.... due to weight of taking off carrying their bombs..

    • @camward9293
      @camward9293 Před 7 měsíci +3

      While they did *sometimes* have vests, the crews in the Pacific Theatre did much lower level missions than their European counterparts. You even hear the wing commander at the beginning of the clip go "At 8,000 feet, this is it boys." Nobody needs supplemental oxygen at 8,000 feet, much less a thick winter coat.

  • @DiscretionwithReason
    @DiscretionwithReason Před 7 měsíci

    Reminds me of my bombing missions on Fighter Ace 3.5.

  • @bfhfhfhdj
    @bfhfhfhdj Před 9 měsíci +2

    great clip, but no wind and too clean.

  • @user-cz1kh7qn4y
    @user-cz1kh7qn4y Před 7 měsíci +4

    Эти мужчины герои! Привет из России!

  • @JesusMagicPanties
    @JesusMagicPanties Před 9 měsíci +24

    “It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
    ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

    • @danielmeadows3712
      @danielmeadows3712 Před 7 měsíci +2

      So if someone forces their way into your home you wouldn’t defend your family, even if it cost your life?

    • @MrTaylorTexas
      @MrTaylorTexas Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@danielmeadows3712 That's a pretty lame comparison.

    • @thesnazzycomet
      @thesnazzycomet Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@danielmeadows3712 that doesnt go with what the other guy was saying.

    • @BeardsleyMark
      @BeardsleyMark Před 6 měsíci +1

      Heller was a self centered twit and an excellent writer. Who wins the war makes a HUGE difference to your family, your neighbors and everyone in your country. .

    • @sculpy2758
      @sculpy2758 Před 6 měsíci

      @@BeardsleyMarkIt was spoken by Yossarian (probably) so it's a deliberately self-centred, self-preservationist, myopic line. He has no family, friends, or real connections to anyone. Such a great novel.

  • @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw
    @JoeHinojosa-ph8yw Před měsícem +1

    Jimmy Stewart was a flight leader on B24s, did 50 missions, they sent him home cos he started seeing an invisible rabbit friend named Harvey......

  • @jeffanon1772
    @jeffanon1772 Před měsícem +2

    I ised to go to Church with an opd gentlemen who'd been a gunner on one of those things...he said his knees shook from fear so badly every time that he could barely crawl onto the plane....

  • @seppetoni7874
    @seppetoni7874 Před 9 měsíci +5

    this movie doesn't capture the desperation and hardship these men went through at all.

  • @medsavir1751
    @medsavir1751 Před rokem +4

    Good movie...🔔

  • @richhickman6863
    @richhickman6863 Před 15 dny

    My dad was in the 8th AAF, 93rd bomb group, “Ted’s Flying Circus” a Tech Sgt and waist gunner on “Little Old Lady” sand “Wham Bam”. Came home with 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses.

  • @LorenaCacao-tf5eh
    @LorenaCacao-tf5eh Před 3 měsíci

    Es una obra de arte

  • @leonidlemburg1148
    @leonidlemburg1148 Před 9 měsíci +15

    Scoring hits while shooting without lead, and a Norden bombsight that releases the payload upon locking in the target....oh boy.
    If I was a director of a multi-million dollar picture, I'd hire military experts to attend shooting and editing.

  • @MuddieRain
    @MuddieRain Před rokem +4

    Friend or foe at the end?

    • @grahamh3796
      @grahamh3796 Před rokem +10

      The other planes? The other bombers flying away as they were able to fly faster with no damage.

  • @MsArzu333
    @MsArzu333 Před 7 měsíci

    GREAT

  • @wierdwesterner
    @wierdwesterner Před 7 měsíci +4

    Scary how open that rear gunner is to enemy fire

    • @MrK1kk3r
      @MrK1kk3r Před 7 měsíci +3

      Production B-24's had a fully enclosed rear turret, this version depicted in the film never went anywhere near production. Strange how they still deciced to show it like this.

    • @sculpy2758
      @sculpy2758 Před 6 měsíci

      @@MrK1kk3r Was thinking the same. The plane just looked instantly wrong as soon as you see that wide open, glassless, non-turret of a rear gun. On a B-24?! wut?

  • @1996REDWOLF1996
    @1996REDWOLF1996 Před 7 měsíci +6

    I love this; Flack got altitude correctly. Our plan:
    a) Start changing altitude.
    b) Wiggle left and right to throw flak off.
    c) Nah, just eat all the shrapnel.
    And the correct answer is c. It's like Fury: you have a Tiger, they have Shermans that can penetrate the Tiger at 100m. What do you do? You obviously charge with the Tiger. Just pure genius

    • @1996REDWOLF1996
      @1996REDWOLF1996 Před 7 měsíci

      And yes, I know flak has orders to shoot in a circular cone, but they are eyeballing where the projectiles are

    • @UGNAvalon
      @UGNAvalon Před 7 měsíci +7

      Not sure if this is sarcastic, but aren’t you supposed to maintain course until the bombs are dropped (which they did) so that the bombardier has the best chance to hit the target (which he did), and then bug out immediately afterward (which they did) ?

    • @1996REDWOLF1996
      @1996REDWOLF1996 Před 7 měsíci

      @@UGNAvalon Ah, yes, the grand accuracy of 20%. Also, those 20% are bombs that fell within the targeted area, meaning you would still call it a hit even though you missed the actual target (like a bunker, part of a building, etc). Also, look at 1:38; that's the distance they are at the moment when the first shell hit, meaning they were still so far away from the targeted area. Like yeah, you actually need to fly in a straight line for aiming, but you don't need 30 minutes of flying straight in order to aim

    • @michaelagnew7493
      @michaelagnew7493 Před 7 měsíci +2

      They didn't have a choice to maneuver since they had already hit the IP (initial point), where the bombardier takes control of the plane. Being the lead plane, if their bombs are off, everyone's are off. They had to fly through the flak, drop the bombs, and then get the hell out.

  • @mikeboone4425
    @mikeboone4425 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I wish my uncle paul was still alive to see this he was a bombardier in a B-24 flying from Africa to italy . He had a big chunk blown of his butt got a purple heart he said he would rather have his butt back . But it's some where over Italy, he gone now along with all his friends great uncle just the best.

  • @Firebrand55
    @Firebrand55 Před 7 měsíci

    When the lead aircraft drops they all drop...

  • @charlesanderson32
    @charlesanderson32 Před 6 měsíci +3

    My Father was wounded and shot down in a B-24D Liberator over Germany! Was captured and became POW. LIBERATED..

  • @danmoscaliuc1881
    @danmoscaliuc1881 Před 9 měsíci +5

    Meanwhile in the radio chat: " Attack the D point! "