"Dive Bomber" - USS Enterprise CV-6, 1941

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xfighter79

16 жыл бұрын

This is a scene from the film "Dive Bomber," which shows how USS Enterprise CV-6 appeared in 1940 and early '41.

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@FN_FAL_4_ever 12 жыл бұрын

I just watched "Dive Bomber" after ordering it on Amazon, and it choked me up when I saw the Devastators in flight, knowing that many of their crews would be killed and entombed with their planes in the Pacific in less than a year from the movie's release. If you guys get a chance, read the book "A Dawn Like Thunder", which reflects back on the actions of Torpedo Squadron Eight.

@raybin6873 2 жыл бұрын

I just can't imagine how dangerous it was to be working on flight deck with all those spinning propellers.

@Spudskie 15 жыл бұрын

Great to see all this pre-war footage! Other films include "Hell Diver", "Son of a Sailor" (both filmed aboard Saratoga) and "The Flying Fleet", which was a silent film that included the Langley.

@gators1941 15 жыл бұрын

The Planes shown were the SB2U Vindicator from Bombing or Scouting 6 at 0:58, the Douglas TBD from Torpedo 6 at the beginning and a Brewster Buffalo from Fighting 6 at 1:11. Both the SB2U and horrific Buffalo thankfully were replaced by SBD Dauntlesses and F4F-3 Wildcats by December 7th 1941. Torpedo 6, under Commander Eudene Lindsey, retained their TBD's and lost 10 of 14 at Midway. Great rare video of the Big E

@apatheticempathy 13 жыл бұрын

great Devastator and Vindicator !!! Sadly, Not one of either flies today

@canuckster24 11 жыл бұрын

It's a TBD Devastator fellas, 3 crew members, folding wings, even on the side number it has a T which stood for Torpedo Squadron 3-T-6 (aircraft 3 from Torpedo Squadron 6). The SBD did not have folding wings as many here have mentioned and the Vindicator was not a biplane.

@rocknative70 4 жыл бұрын

TruthfulImmigrant You’d guess VT-6, but you’d be wrong. It’s part of VT-3 (Torpedo 3 ), and its ship number 6 in the squadron. The first number - Before the aircraft carrier squadron mission designator (‘S’ for Scouting, ‘F’ for Fighting, ‘B’ for Bombing and ‘T’ for Torpedo). After Pearl Harbor, the squadron designator was taken off the fuselage, such that this aircraft would simply be painted as ‘ T - 6’ - so crew on the ship could tell what airplane in the squadron it was, quickly.

@rocknative70 4 жыл бұрын

@TheBlackSpider82 9 жыл бұрын

Excellent footage. Thank you for sharing.

@matrox 13 жыл бұрын

I thought I have seen all the ww2 footage that was there to see, but I ain't never seen this before.

@progx8679 8 жыл бұрын

Nice Devastators, Vindicators and Buffalos !!!

@raymondyee2008 Жыл бұрын

Except when the Pacific War started they got badly chewed up by Japanese A6Ms.

@namelastname871 3 ай бұрын

@@raymondyee2008 Historic combat aircraft nonetheless.

@namelastname871 3 ай бұрын

I was here originally around 2002 for Buffalo formation light color ( yea, before the post or youtube; blue ). Actually few yrs later we have the recovered one from Russia indeed and I could verify it.

@namelastname871 3 ай бұрын

Well naturally we never called it Buffalo here in Finland.. but Brewster B-239.

@jimmyggh1 13 жыл бұрын

WOW! Devastators, Vindicators and Buffalo's in color!

@kevinballenger1211 Жыл бұрын

I Would've Loved To Have Been An ABH3 Aboard That Flight Deck! ⚓

@stanstenson8168 Жыл бұрын

AOC Finn rode back from Pearl with us on a Tiger cruise. (Connie). He was impressed on how fast we could move ordnance. I'm like, forget that. You're a freaking legend. I'd love to see how those guys did it also.

@FN_FAL_4_ever Жыл бұрын

Hell no, it was bad enough in dealing with just the E-2Cs and CODs, can’t imagine working the flight deck with that many spinning props!

@aercastro82 14 жыл бұрын

Very nice film about the flight operations in pre-WWII. It is funny to me that todays US Navy use the same procedures and the same color shirts to specific job. For instance, the plane handlers wearing the yellow shirt which it's still in use, the chock and chain crew (blue shirts) also still in use, and they're using the same hand signals. Been there and done that but with the Hornets, the Rhinos, the Vikings, the Prowlers, etc. in USS Kitty Hawk

@apatheticempathy 11 жыл бұрын

I saw a rare Brewster Buffalo fighter actually land ! At 1:10 How cool is that ?

@kdraper2007 13 жыл бұрын

Aircraft 3-T-6 appears to be the TBD Devestator torpedo bomber.

@rhall4th 13 жыл бұрын

@switchest26 Search for "Dive Bomber" on Amazon.com under the category Movies & TV. It's available in both DVD and VHS.

@kdraper2007 13 жыл бұрын

@Davis4037 dauntless had folding wings, but this was a prewar movie, i'd say it was probably a valtee vindicator, which was replaced in service with the SBD.

@stanstenson8168 Жыл бұрын

The Dauntless did not have folding wings.

@DElkan 12 жыл бұрын

Harry was lucky to be in Bert's plane! He was lucky that machine gun round didn't impact 2 inches closer. Bert's "metal lazarus" was indeed a charmed aircraft, and Bert was lucky to have instinctively trimmed the plane out before he hit the water. All those 2 guys flew on was luck, and it is sad that Jay Manning didn't share in that fortune. Those guys need to have their stories told to American youth, because they certainly are incredible. Also, have you found Fred Mears' book "Carrier Combat"?

@neptunisregis11 14 жыл бұрын

@barkon I am a private pilot but the only experience that I have landing on aircraft carriers are the different microsoft flight simulators. The easiest flightsim aircraft that I have landed on Aircraft carriers is the MAAMSIM TBF/TBM Avenger. The most difficult is the A-7E or the F-4J Phantom. The jets are more difficult because of the speed.

@switchest26 13 жыл бұрын

this was a badass movie..i wonder where i can get it?

@hairglowingkyle4572 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like a footage from early 1990's damn

@rhall4th 13 жыл бұрын

The Vindicator was a monoplane.

@kdraper2007 13 жыл бұрын

@matrox this is from a hollywood movie

@VFA103JollyRogers 15 жыл бұрын

these are all Devastators

@A20havoc 16 жыл бұрын

great movie...from the classic movie "Dive Bomber"..I got my DVD from ebay and I love this movie due to it awesome colors. The Brewster Buffaloe only combat in US hands was at Midway and they got slaughter by the Japanese Zero. They were also present in Burma mid Dec 1941 and also got beat up pretty badly. But in the hands of the Finns...they were warriors againsts the russian planes. Hats off to the finns pilots.

@ellenhawk 13 жыл бұрын

@Davis4037 Looks like the Douglas TBD Devastator

@Hardcorediver44 7 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe that just 20 years before I was born, the navy was fielding such absurdly obsolete aircraft. We should always be on the cutting edge of aircraft, no matter what the year is.

@timhinds1 7 жыл бұрын

Hardcorediver44 just a small matter of available technology that's all. There was huge progress from then until you were born.

@namelastname871 3 ай бұрын

That's just 4 years after Hindenburg tho.. from zeppelins to monoplane carrier aircraft? that's fast in by any standards..

@barkon 15 жыл бұрын

I do wonder if it was easier or harder to land a slower prop-driven aircraft as opposed to a jet aircraft. Or, is it apples and orange as there were too many other differences such as arresting gear, navigation and other variables?

@raymondyee2008 2 жыл бұрын

Cool flying scenes. Remember this was before Pearl Harbor got attacked so for a while the USN looked good on film.

@demoniodoar 12 жыл бұрын

incredible buffalo?not exist videos over that plane in youtube,final sad enterprise cv-6,after war disassembled in hakensac river in 1960...

@VS24AT 10 жыл бұрын

These aircraft are attached to the Saratoga air wing CV-3 Saratoga

@MrAlumni72 5 жыл бұрын

VT-3 was assigned to the Saratoga and the Enterprise at different times. Since the movie was filmed on and around the Enterprise, I'm guessing that during the span of 1940-41, during filming, VT-3 was assigned to the Enterprise. Squadron assignments during the war rarely matched the CV number they were assigned to, and while less frequent, the same thing happened from time to time before the war. So it's not necessarily a good idea to assume that since it's torpedo squadron #3, the ship must be carrier #3.

@f-4j986 4 жыл бұрын

空母エンタープライズにF2AバッファローとSB2Uビンディケーターはあったっけ？

@f-4j986 4 жыл бұрын

1938～1942　空母エンタープライズ所属機：F2Aバッファロー・F4Fワイルドキャット・SBDドーントレス・SB2Uビンディケーター・TBDデバステーター・TBFアベンジャー 1943～1946　空母エンタープライズ所属機：F6Fヘルキャット・F4Uコルセア・SB2Cヘルダイバー・TBFアベンジャーてな感じだったのかな？

@oceanmariner 4 жыл бұрын

A lot of these pilots probably didn't survive WWII.

@3ISAMAGICNUMBR 12 жыл бұрын

Dauntless dive bomber not torpedo bomber.

@littleruckus 14 жыл бұрын

wow now a day movie carrier in ww2 are fake and doesn't even look like a carrier at all, take a example of Attack on pearl harbor. but this movie is accurate

@VS24AT 16 жыл бұрын

Waive off paddles lol