WWII P-47 Pilot Marty Jackson (Full Interview)
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- čas přidán 4. 09. 2024
- Marty Jackson served in the United States Army as a pilot and co-pilot during WWII. He flew the P-40 Warhawk, P-47 Thunderbolt, B-25 Mitchell, and C-47 Skytrain. Assigned to the 311th Fighter Squadron, he flew several combat missions, mostly sticking to supporting the infantry by napalm bombing and strafing runs. On Aug. 8, 1945, Jackson led a group of P-47s over the city of Nagasaki, Japan the day before the atomic bomb was dropped. They also flew over the city, observing for about 20 minutes, the day after it was dropped, seeing as the only ones who really knew about the radiation were the experts. He was a part of 72 combat missions, dropping over 50 tons of ordnance, and totaling over 215 combat hours.
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I'm an exterminator for about 17 years and some of my customers were war vets I would schedule them hours apart from other jobs so I could chat with them it would be every month and boy I'll tell you real men they were sweetest people also sadly they all have passed over the years
So lucky!!
This guy had a blast! He's the most animated of all the pilots.
I’ve been binge watching these interviews and I’ve loved hearing these veterans share their stories, their lives, along with the sacrifices they’ve made. They are all so incredibly humble and hard working, truly inspiring people.
Lol me too
This guy is priceless! God Bless you Marty! A true American HERO, along with the rest of the GREATEST GENERATION!! Thank you for your part in saving the world!
I could listen to this man all day! I Love War Veterans and there Great Stories too!! 💙🇺🇸❤🇺🇸💙🇺🇸❤🇺🇸💙
Agreed!!
A real character...and a remarkable memory !. Hard to get your head round what they experienced....or endured, more to the point. To keep on going and keep on functioning op after op when you see so many fall.
The courage and bloody minded determination they displayed during the conflict....and after the conflict is extraordinary, given the precious little help in dealing with the psychological trauma they suffered.Their humility is a lesson to us all. Absolute respect and gratitude
Thank you for your service Mr. Jackson. My father also was a P47 pilot with the 324th Fighter Group 316th Squadron over France and Germany. Their mission was mostly taking out enemy trains and armor.
One of my dear friends father flew P-47's over France and Germany as well. It was always amazing to go down to his little summer Cottage in Seaside Oregon and look through his photo albums, look at all the medals that he got, bronze star Silver Star promotions from Lieutenant, to Captain and then finally major. I never met the man because he had passed long before but I sure would have liked to sat down and chatted with him. I've tried to find information about him on the internet but have had no luck. His name was Roy mount.
9th AF?
@@fighterjetsteve
Yes, they started out with P40's in North Africa, after they they flew during the campaign in Sicily then Italy, then in July of 44 they transitioned to P47's and flew operations off of Corsica conducting fighter sweeps over southern France and escorting medium bombers of the 12th Air Force.
After that they flew ground attack during the invasion of southern France and moved to an airfield in southern France after the area was secured, then when the Germans attacked up north creating the Battle of The Bulge they moved north to Luneville France and eventually onto an airfield in Germany when the German military was collapsing, after VE Day they stayed in German as part of the occupation force, it returned to the US in November of 45 and was deactivated.
I love listening to these stories, they remind me of my grandfather telling me his stories from Chosin, Vietnam and Israel.
this man is amazing!!!
What a wonderful gentleman! Many thanks, Sir, for all you did during the war. The greatest respect.
What a gentleman. I wish we could keep these veterans forever.
What a delightful guy. I enjoyed Mr. Jackson's non- combat stories- -- basic training, and shooting cobras with his .45!
Thank you!
Wish they would let mr Jackson talk and stop cutting him off. Very interesting man.
I loved the stories about the daily non-combat things. They helped to flesh out the bigger picture.
@@jamesbinns8528 gives the total picture .
He has to ask them question!!!
@@user-ml3dp9hq7o there's a difference between prompting a conversation and interrupting . A good interviewer knows when to speak and when to shut up!!!!!
Thank you Gregg for all the work on getting these interviews completed, I’m grateful for all of the greatest generation’s sacrifices and service my dad was one of them Army Air Corps North Africa and Italy couldn’t get him to say much
Love this! Thank you for your service, Sir!❤🇺🇲🇺🇲
I could sit and listen to this man all day!
Wish he could have been my grandpa.
Great job and thanks for sharing and thanks for your service to our great country and God bless each and everyone of you the greatest generation
I know this is an old video, but you really need to stop interrupting these veteran heroes while they're talking. Use editing to chop these into the segments you want AFTER the full, free-flowing interview is completed. Show them the respect they deserve!
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Thanks for your Service Mr. Marty Jackson!
Thank you very much for your interview. My Uncle Harry Jones may have flown with you as I recall some of his missions. Lives in Maine. Very proud of him and you for your service. Slow hand salute for those who didn’t make it a hand salute for you. SemperFi
You've got 10 hours in a B-25, here's a C-47...good luck!
If any of you ever get the opportunity to go see a WW2 air show. DO IT....... I did a couple years ago and got to ride in the back of a B-17.
It felt like flying in a soda can with wings, I could t imagine being shot up and flying over German occupied Europe. Them guys back then we're a different breed.
I'm thankful you attended one that was more well organized than the one in Texas. I'm an airshow fan and I had seen the display put on like the one in Texas before. Even then I thought.....wow there are alot of planes in the air. Have a close friend that also rode in a B-17...... he loved it also.🇺🇲🇺🇲
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What a character.. Awesome interview.
My grandfather just turned 97 a few weeks ago, he was in pacific theater. He's still pissed about them leaving all the Japanese high command and emperor in power. The treaty basically did nothing for all war crimes they committed, Japan was damn near as bad as Germany if not worse in some regards. It stopped Japan from invading other islands or countries but they got the better end of the stick with how the US helped them by giving them extreme tax breaks, raw material to support the country and to build it back. The US I believe still gives Japan those same tax breaks on selling their products here.
Dude can you at least let the man finish his sentence before cutting him off for all your breaks
All respect to this man though, they don’t make em like that anymore
what a great story teller
Seeing his reaction to some of the stories he reports makes me wonder. How did "cremating" all those Japanese make him feel after the war? Some of those guys had to do the most horrific things... And then live with them for the rest of their lives. Thank you for serving our country Mr. Jackson. It is greatly appreciated sir.
There were a lot of Japanese/Korean troops who were there by force.
My Grandfather was of the same mind, his ship brought POWs back from Tokyo who were on the Bataan Death Marches, and he hated them for what they'd done. But once I started to read about it, I found a lot of them were forced into Military service, or their families would suffer the consequences. In fact, there are a lot of families in Japan who want their ancestor's names removed from memorials that contain the names of the same War Criminals who put them there in the first place.
Three of my Uncles were murdered by the Japanese as POW’s after Singapore not to mention what they did to the Chinese the fact that a lot of these lunatic Generals were allowed to keep positions of high power in Japan after the war is disgusting.
This guy tells a great story, he’s got charm and personality.
I would like to second ANIL UNER IN THE TRIBUTE TO THIS GREAT AMERICAN PILOT . AND THANK ALL THE GUYS THAT FINISHED THE JOB .
What a character! What a hero!
It is quite possible my grandfather was on the submarine that sunk that carrier. he was on a boat recommissioned the Sailfish, which was once the Squalus, which had sunk and was first time a Mumfson lung was utilized by submariners. I recall his being the only to sink a carrier, which he really didn't talk about too much bc there was an American POW on that carrier when it went down.
The airport he discribes on Mindoro Island was still there in 1967 . Lots of big abondaned hangars and mostly steel runway. I am a Navy Navigator flying in the last single engined prop plane used in nam , based at then NAS Cubi Pt PI . Today of course its a rebuilt runway with modern hangars but still not used much. Thanks for the interview of this Greatest Generation fighter pilot !!
Wow. What a beautiful person. Thank you.
Very interesting and informative interview! True Heroes of WW2!
amazingly sharp guy, true hero, and amazing memory after all this time.
A fraction of his memories.He could have talked for hours and I would listen.
So sad this generation of heroes is slowly dwindling away.
Greatest among us for sure.
Thank you endlessly for your service Sir!! May God bless you always!!! ✝️🇺🇸✝️
aside from the hero this man is. this dude is old but just look how well he can speak he has a young voice for his age i think
Thank you Mr. Jackson for your service and story. I wish you could have told your story without the interviewer person suddenly cutting you off mid sentence. I thought that was rude.
God bless him and all our vets. ❤🇺🇸
Love Marty!!
Some good stuff. A real hero. Very talented fellow.
Old school class and grit
They don’t make men like this anymore
Our greatest generation!
imagine serving with this guy!... this guy had some laughs lol... what a character
This gentleman is amazing! Funny, bright! Wonderful story teller. Could listen to him all day. Not real impressed with the interviewer on this one.
Can I ask why you kept cutting and taking breaks?
I wanted to say that too. The guy would be in the middle of telling his story and the interview person would suddenly and without notice cut the poor guy off. I think it was so rude to do that to Mr. Jackson
@@bigmoniesponge Ok, It's just that the poor man looked so startled when they suddenly stop him talking. I felt bad for him.
It's for a commercial break.
i think it would be better to not interrupt them in the middle of there story you brought him totally of topic the second time good video anyway we need to remember
This is a fantastic video. Thanks so urchin
Get this man on jocko podcast!!!!! I want to hear his whole story!!!!
It blows my mind that these guys went from these experiences to working in a post office or a factory or something
Yeah. I've always thought how they reacted to everyday stress after serving in the war. A flat tire, a broken down car, a dying pet were probably such insignificant events most people would stress over. Quite interesting to think about.
Would love to meet this guy. My father was in 368 java Angel's.
Bet this fellow was a great time to hang around during the war and after for that
A Diamond.
Tnis man is sharp .
Amazing man
I wish you could double like videos
This is a fkin man... along with all other of this generation!
And of course all service men and women etc anyone who serves their country
14:27 hahahaha what a great joke
Amazing video. Mr Jackson is a riot, and very informative. His anecdotes and filling in obscure cultural details of the time are fascinating. I bet he is an absolute treasure to his family, and I imagine his kids and grandkids adore him. What an interesting historical perspective and a fun person.
God bless you Mr Jackson!
" Gangsters " 😳🤣🤣🤣 too funny 👍😎 ‼️
singing in that boys choir who would ever have suspected that 10-12 years later he'd be shooting down enemy planes in Japan
God bless thies men . We are free today cause of them JESUS bless them
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He is a very interesting and humorous character T the title said he was a P 47 pilot where is the testimony of what he did as a P 47 pilot 🤔
There's another interview with him where he talks about flying the P47N in the Pacific, what's really memorable of that account is him talking about flying low level over one of the cities the day after the bomb was dropped on it, I can't remember if it was Hiroshima or Nagasaki but he recalled that what really struck him as odd was despite all the rubble the way all the streets and sidewalks were swept clean, as if people had literally swept them off with brooms.
And if you look at pictures of those cities immediately after they were bombed it's true, all the sidewalks and streets are clear, it's weird and eerie once you notice that.
@@dukecraig2402 It was Nagasaki. Not all the streets looked swept - just the wide main streets, but they were not swept at all - the city was heavily industrial with steel frame buildings, next to domestic wooden buildings - thus there was not much brick rubble after the bomb exploded at 2,000 ft altitude. The roads were undamaged & most of the destruction of property was not directly from the bomb, but from many thousands of fires that started in peoples homes. It rained & that washed the black soot off the roads making them stand out clearly from the air. Marty Jackson was flying at 5,000 ft which is too high for him to truly assess the state of the road surfaces - he was a mile in the air above those roads.
@@nightjarflying
Yea, never mind him, he was only the person that was there, I'm sure you'd know far more about what he saw than he did.
@@dukecraig2402 The person that was there said the streets "looked swept", he did not say they that they were swept. Considering he made that observation in person only hours after the bomb exploded & just after a heavy rain, it is obvious that a nuclear bombed city can't possibly sweep 40 square miles of streets while also dealing with 10s of thousands of casualties & countless fires. So why don't you shove your sarcasm up your arse & engage your brain.
First I ever heard that everyone in the south was in the Klan. Very prejudiced person.
This guy is very abrasive. Wouldn't want him to be covering my back.
Hand him a .45 and I would follow him to hell and back.