that date or the next saw the largest 8th AAF bomber force ever gathered, in support of the Allied ground forces. I think it saw something like 2000 or 2500 heavy bombers flew missions (and we're not even counting the countless sorties flown by the tactical bombers and fighter bombers of the Second and 9the Tactical Air Forces.

He nicked it😊

IT's russian game "lL2" ;)

It's okay, they are nazis.

Just imagine most of those men are in their mid 20’s. The majority of 20 year olds today are too worthless for words.

@@bensmitt7088 The 20 year olds of today are vastly more hard working than from the 20th century. Today's teenagers work for a tiny fraction of the pay that older generations used to get and work far longer hours.

​@@rubiconnnkeep dreaming. 20 year Olds today don't even know what gender they are, and expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. They wouldn't know hard work if it hit them in the face

​@rubiconnn highly doubt that.. show the data on that!! would they get in a tin can with propellers and risk their lives for their country to fight Imperialst , Fascists and Authoritist?? Highly doubt it!!

They might be pseudo contrails, as contrails are water vapor; a lot of these are pierced fuel tanks releasing atomized fuel.

Buckets? Jesus.

At the time these planes were state of the art and the pilots knew no different.

My cousin's grandpa also flew Corsairs, and he lived to tell us about the time he broke two feet off his F4U Corsair's wing tip when landing on a carrier!

Congrats! My Pops flew Corsairs too. Vmf 323 Deathrattlers! Bet yer grand Dad was as Cool As my Dad.

@@derekpierkowski7641 thank you to your pops for his service!!! Ya their generation truly defined cool...

@shift2movies actually my grandfather also had an accident in a Corsair on a carrier. A plane landed on top of his plane and the prop crashed thru his cockpit. He was saved by his helmet which at the time was not a mandatory thing

@@MatthewHerronplus Pops would say "Scares me and I'm FEARLESS!!!🤣👍

The films are slow motion. Also, usually if the plane flies straight it means the pilot has been hit and unconcious or dead...

by this time most pilots were rookies with a few hours of flying time, barely able to get it off the ground. Easy targets for USAF.

@@DKR-eg7pu In aviation, pilot experience and skill has a huge role in survivability. Noobs get wasted even if they fly superior planes vs inferior ones. This is true in real and simulated worlds...

The 16 seconds is cinda incorrect on the p47 they had from 2k to 3.5k rounds of ammunition and the gun would over heat before they could shoot all the ammo

yeah, thats the narative !

In vatican and City of London. Thank You

Every allied plane that was shot down took it's gun camera footage with it.

Just sitting there, begging to be shot at.

Yep, could be showing JG 301 markings on the fuselage..

​@achimstemmer889 Good eye. Yeah I think so too. Looks like it has the yellow and red reichsverteidigung bands on the fuselage.

We helped but you handed the first defeat to Hitler in the Battle of Britain. When the mad Corporal invaded the Soviet Union the war would be lost to Germany. It merely took for more years to finish them.

Seems harsh strafing the downed plane but I imagine Capt Foy had lost many friends at the hands of the Luftwaffe at this point in the war so he probably wasnt in a merciful mood. If this was behind enemy lines there was a chance if the pilot survived unscathed he would be back up in a different plane the next day.

It is forbidden by the Geneva and Hague Conventions to fire at people bailing out of a disabled aircraft. The same rule applies to a downed pilot. He is out of the disabled airplane and is hors de combat (out of combat). He is not a combatant anymore, but a non-combatant. A pilot's job is to engage air-to-air combat and to attack ground troops from the air. It is legal to fire away at paratroopers.

As the aircraft bellied in and didn't explode, the allied pilot's action is called making sure the guy inside doesn't live to fight another day. The American pilot had ,no doubt, lost friends over the course of the war and would have been in no mood to be lenient.

@@elessartelcontar9415 Chuck Yeager stated very clearly in one interview about his time as a fighter pilot in Europe during WW2 that he was under orders to shoot enemy pilots hanging in their parachutes, and he did. Straight from Chuck's own mouth on video somewhere here on KZfaq. Wars are terrible things.

Well you just dig up ol Capt Foy and charge him with war crimes. Good luck with that. 😅

nah fam it was lit literally 💀

Yes unless it reads 56th Fighter Group, they kept P-47s until war's end.

Yes, in one of the early clips you can see he is firing only 2x .50 cals. P-51s had less ammo in their 4x outboard guns so they default to 2 remaining after they are spent.

@@francescofissore161 56th..That was Fran Gabreski's unit group..

Yes it is

I first thought also but you barely can see a bulge on the left side of the fuselage in front of the cockpit which can only be the super charger air intake and this was sitting on the left side only on DB engines; the D9 was fitted with a Jumo 213A engine with its air intake on the right side, so it s probably a late Me 109 version....in addition to that you can clearly see the spiralspinner, only very few D9 were painted like that at their smaller spinners..my 2 cents

They were equally poor at the beginning of the war against any competent opposition, as the battle of Britain showed.

@@annoyingbstard9407 The RAF had the same problem during 1940.; They had lost a lot of experienced pilots in the Battle of France and were feeling the pinch when the air war shifted across the Channel. During the Battle of Britain, fighter pilots fresh out of training were posted to operational squadrons where, if the squadron had been rotated out of the line, they received on-site training to try to bring them up to some sort of operational standard when their squadron went back up the sharp end. Many new pilots were posted straight to front line squadrons that didn't have the time to train them and many of them didn't survive their first action. It was said that a pilot who survived his first five actions had usually learned enough to improve his chances of staying alive. Some new pilots just fitted straight in. Bob Doe, for example, got two me110s in his first action.

I read a great book many years ago written by a German fighter pilot called 'Heaven Next Stop'. Highly recommended if you want such a perspective.

not a bomb, it's a 300 liters 'belly' tank' typical of Me-109s.

jet stream not chemtraikl

@@F-15E_StrikeEagle Sarcasm my man, sarcasm.

@@scottw5315 ok

Deliberate murder. An actual war crime. But these are the "good guys", and the winner writes the history. There's a famous color film of a P-47 Group, where they're proud to show things like strafing a famer on a horse and cart. These are your "heroes".

The allied pilot may have just lost friends or ground personnel to that fighter. People will get vicious over that.

You are with the decents..... a minority on KZfaq

@@sithticklefingers7255 However, many fighter pilots on both sides claimed to be more focused on destroying the enemy aircraft than killing its pilot.

Well they shouldn't have invaded Poland .. The war wouldn't have started and he would have been safe at home ..doing normal boring stuff ...

@@kittyhawk9707 Yes, because that random ass pilot had so much say in that decision. You're a fuckin genius.

@@noballsbigshaft4486 " just following orders" .. biggest excuse for doing shit ever .. they where all loving it when it was all going their way .. BTW .. What did the "random ass pilot " think he was getting into? .. A heavily armed FW190 is not a Cessna .. he wasn't going sightseeing was he??

@@kittyhawk9707 They were forced to follow orders. Soldiers that refused to fight would be imprisoned. That pilot knew what he was doing, but that doesn't mean he really had a choice. I also never said anything about them following orders, I said that pilot didn't have any say in the invasion of Poland. And you can't just group millions of people into one opinion. Not all Germans were loving it, most probably wanted it to end. War is hell, and the eastern front had the most brutal fighting ever, even when Germany was winning.

Not being apologetic towards Nazism or the Luftwaffe, but I'd be more happy to see the pilot bail out. Death of a human is always tragic, and war is never a fun thing.

Problem is once youre in an actual war, the "rules of war" often dont mean a whole lot and arent really enforced. Remember, only 11 nazis were sentenced in the nuremburg tribunal, but a great deal more partook. Even in the modern day the USA have knowingly bombed civillians with 0 consequence, even what Israel has done recently went completely unchecked, only punishment being told "Please dont bomb civillians"

Such is war. Perhaps Capt Foy ‘s best friend was shot out of his parachute that morning hm? We’ll just never know. Your comment is utterly pointless.

I'm Polish and all four of my grandparents went through five years lasting German occupations of Poland. With whole respect - I believe your comment is 100% right. But I want make you sure that Capt Foy's sin wasn't actually the biggest violation of rules while WW 2. 🙂👍

Feel free to let us all know your source of the "rules of war". If you mean the Geneva Convention, there is zero about shooting at an aircraft that has crashed to the ground. And if you're horrified that the pilot was killed, it is irrelevant if he was killed while in the air or on the ground. Here's a newsflash, Sparky: he's an enemy soldier, and they die in war, whether they're shooting back at you or running away. Do a few minutes of research before posting brain-dead comments.

I served 27yrs and 5 combat tours. I am well aware in the rules of war. Visit ft Leavenworth sometime, and some Soldiers will let you know what they thought the rules were too. Of course who cares. Foy wanted the machine, not the man, and was most likely firing because he wanted his gun tape to record the aircraft crashing to get credit for the kill. If you even read about modern combat, like the Navy kills of the Libyan MIGs decades ago, both Navy pilots were jubilant that they saw chutes. I don’t need any lessons or advice.

An enemy that survives is an enemy who will come back to fight you another day. That pilot ensured it didn't happen. I'd expect nothing less from our servicemen.

@@natowaveenjoyer9862 were you to be on the opposite side of that action,,, I guarantee you wouldn’t feel that way!! Trust me, as a retired former soldier!!

@@ricardocorbie6803 Chuck Yeager said he was under orders to shoot enemy pilots in their parachutes so they didn't come back up in another airplane. He said he did so. War is a wretched business.

usually 1 in something like every 10 rounds was a tracer.. and they fired in very small bursts 1/2 sec's so you may not see them ..

It's called murder.

It's called he can,t get in another fighter and kill again

You destroy a plane, it's replaced in days. You kill the pilot, that's months or training and experience that can't be replaced.

@@LordNinja109 That's murder. It's against the rules of war. Happens on all sides, yes, but the 'good guys" are proud of it. THAT's the difference.

I thought the same thing. The enemy aircraft was impacting and he still fired a few more rounds into the wreckage. Makes me wonder what happened leading up to this.

Take your worst feared moment in life, x it by 100, then act rationally or without malice at that moment.

He did. It’s called WAR. Are you really that dumb? People who have never sacrificed anything for this country getting to judge those who protected all the rights those people have is the great irony of our time.

we scanned these from the physical reels in our collection...

It was taboo for both sides however it’s hard to stop individuals in something as messy as a world war

You mean the guy in the warplane who was trying to kill the good guys moments before? 70 years later and some armchair quarterback is making judgment calls from mom's basement.

tell me ONE incident where an american pilot shit at pilot in a parachute also, unfair? WAR ISNT FAIR LIFE ISNT FAIR GET OVER YOURSELF

@@F-15E_StrikeEagle you sound so clueless mate. Just search for "US airforce straffing WWII" and watch how your "heros" were shooting randomly into civilian houses, farmers, animal farms, fishermen, and of course enemy pilot in parachut. Targeting civilians during a war is a war crime. Shooting enemy pilot is parachut is a war crime. You got away with it because you were winners. I am not even from Europe.

@@F-15E_StrikeEagle look up in the internet and KZfaq and US pilots interviews themselves. Learn to research.

@@F-15E_StrikeEagle Chuck Yeager himself said their orders were to shoot enemy pilots hanging in their parachutes. Words straight from Chuck himself, with no visible remorse. 🤷‍♂

Is it lawful to strafe ground troops? What's the difference? At this point in the war, the Germans had killed tens of millions of Russians and hundreds of thousands of Allied forces. Their armies were still all over Europe and Scandinavia. They were still firing V-1s and V-2s at London and in support of their ground forces. To say they weren't getting any sympathy is a massive understatement.

It wasn't video. They were 16mm film cameras mounted in the wings of P-47s and P-51s. The same carmeras were mounted in the nose or wing pylons on the P-38s. They weren't kept secret. There is an amazing amount of newsreel footage from the war years that featured (then) recently shot gun camera film that was shown in movie theaters across the U.S. homefront.

Lol. Look up "cine camera" - civilians had them too.

Not a video camera but a film camera, dood

И что там секретного, у нас у русских тоже стояли на многих самолетах.Обычный фотопулемет.

It was called a Sony Handicam they had them in the 40 's for real didn't they? 😅😅😅😅

Actually not. This practice wasn’t banned until the 70’s At the time it was acceptable practice.

Yeah and i suppose Putin is your HERO .. BTW you care to spare a thought for all the civvies that lost their lives to Nazi bombs ? ... no thought not ... You reap what you sow .. Don't start a war then cry when you get your ass whooped!!

If only Germany had refrained from pointless warcrime Poland invasions the Dresden bombing might never of happened.

@@BasedPoliwhirl One pointless war crime does not justify another.

There were legitimate military targets in Dresden. The "war crime" mantra is pure bullshit.

Dresden was bombed at the request of "Uncle Joe" to support The Red Army's drive in the city; I've always been convinced that the faux outraged "reaction" to Dresden was merely because it's located in East Germany. Hamburg got 'flash fried' in 1943; it was such a terrible firestorm that even 'Dolph' took notice of damage and chaos==but nobody ever bitches about Hamburg. (then again, they never bitched about the VERY FIRST firestorm bombing: Belgrade 1941).

LOL looks like the truth

Whopperville yeah right😮

@@langstonrowe8243 His grandfather was Battler Britton - they wrote comics about him in the 1950s. He could do *anything*!

In English?