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Title: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: Jag34 on September 29, 2010, 12:42:59 PM

"Some recently declassified raw color footage featuring American aircraft in action over Japan during 1945". I checked out this and have never seen any of this footage. Not sure when it was released, So enjoy.
http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=220670&page=1 (http://shock.military.com/Shock/videos.do?displayContent=220670&page=1)





Jag34, The Tiger Squadron.

Title: Re: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: whiteman on September 29, 2010, 03:29:09 PM

Nice!

Title: Re: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: Rich46yo on September 29, 2010, 07:19:13 PM

Oustanding find.

Title: Re: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: Krusty on September 29, 2010, 08:47:38 PM

Nothing new. A lot of it has been making the rounds for many years. I recognized half of them by memory as being used ad nauseum in most Wings episodes, or those myriad documentaries that try to fill the void since Wings went off the air.

Title: Re: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: Guppy35 on September 30, 2010, 01:01:16 AM

Quote from: Krusty on September 29, 2010, 08:47:38 PM

Nothing new. A lot of it has been making the rounds for many years. I recognized half of them by memory as being used ad nauseum in most Wings episodes, or those myriad documentaries that try to fill the void since Wings went off the air.

Quit watching Wings then :)

Most of it appears to be from the Iwo based VLR Mustangs.  I'd agree that most is stuff that's been seen before.  Always thought it interesting that the PTO was in color and the ETO was black and white.  Not sure why that was.

Title: Re: 1945 Gun Camera Footage Over Japan
Post by: Brooke on October 08, 2010, 01:52:30 AM

Thanks for posting the link!