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Title: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: jeffdn on October 29, 2013, 12:42:31 PM: I was watching a video on Superior History's YouTube channel (they've got some excellent stuff) and one of the videos has a bunch of gun camera footage from American planes strafing Luftwaffe birds on the ground... this one cuts from stock footage of a Jug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2FFtu441s&feature=player_detailpage#t=1272) firing its machine guns to a Lanc being strafed. Interesting! I wonder if it's an editing error or a captured bird or something.

EDIT: other cool German birds getting blown up in gun cam footage in this video include: Me-410, He-177, Fw-190, He-111, and many more!
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: whiteman on October 29, 2013, 03:43:28 PM: possible emergency landing and the plane was destroyed to prevent it being used by the germans
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Scherf on October 29, 2013, 05:10:38 PM: This one was discussed some time back on another forum:

"It could very well be PB362 lost 18 Aug. 44 near Rouen . Local report states that allied fighters set it alight one hour after the crash and a german car was also destroyed . Look closer , on the left ."

There's (*cough*) a number of allied types in that film.
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Slash27 on October 29, 2013, 05:24:53 PM: Swear I saw a Mossy getting lit up. :eek:

Thanks for posting that Jeff.
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: MiloMorai on October 29, 2013, 06:23:44 PM: Sure looks like a Mossie being shot at @ 17:40
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Scherf on October 29, 2013, 06:45:59 PM: 'tis.
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Guppy35 on October 29, 2013, 10:43:40 PM: We've discussed this one a few times :) Mossie was shot down by a pair of 4th FG Mustangs. both got 1/2 credit for a Ju-88. Recce Spitfire XI getting clobbered by friendly fire at 11:30 or so as well.

Shooting up force landed birds was standard practice. There is a fair amount of film out there of it being done. The Spit XII drivers of 41 squadron got sent out on a mission to shoot up the first force landed Spit XIV in May of 44 as just one example.

The Germans were quick to camouflage force landed birds for just that reason.
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Kenne on October 30, 2013, 01:46:06 AM: at 28:42, isnt there another strafing AC in the far left of screen caught in the explosion that follows?
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Slash27 on October 30, 2013, 03:31:06 AM: Sure looked like it. Anyone else duck when they flew through the exploding locomotive debris?
Title: Re: P-47s strafing Lancasters?
Post by: Scherf on October 30, 2013, 04:29:05 AM: Quote from: Kenne on October 30, 2013, 01:46:06 AM
at 28:42, isnt there another strafing AC in the far left of screen caught in the explosion that follows?

That particular sequence shows up in a number of places on YouTube. One of them has the following comment:

P-51B-15, 43-24761, of the 361st FG [I assume this should be 361st FS], 375 FG, flown by 2nd Lt. Sherman Armsby, who was killed. It happened on August 26, 1944 at Perl, a small German town near Luxembourg.