World's Deadliest Aircraft - TBF Avenger

[hoodoo2001]

Poor historical narrative. Whoever wrote this wasn't close to being a WWII aviation historian.

Probably still in High School. 

[disturbedone5009]

50mm machine guns? They are actually .50 caliber which is 12.7mm.

[islandlifehawaii]

I am proud my grandfather Milton H. King piloted his own avenger that actually flew over the USS Missouri as the Japanese surrendered. It would be amazing to find one of his old flying buddies via this post.

[ghiaclock]

The coward Bush panicked and jumped without confirming the status of his two crewmen.Both ball gunner and radioman needed that extra bit of time to extricate themselves from the aircraft.Bush did not give them that extra measure.As commander,this was his main concern on bailout procedure.He is solely responsible for the deaths of Ted White and John Delany!

[BuickDoc]

@ghiaclock You are sick. Get some help. When your blind hatred gets to the point that you invent history to fit your conception of reality, you are sick. If there had been a hint of truth in your statement, Bush's opponents would have ripped him a new a**hole during the election, and the American people would have rejected him. Get some help!

[VitaminC440]

@ghiaclock : His Dopey son started the War with Iraq WMD's which ran on for 10 years,Now in Afganistan crippling the USA's economy. because Saddam said he was goin to kill his daddy. What a POS.

[alcapone796]

50 mm machine gun WTF!!!!!!

[mxtypx]

What a pity that there was so little actual footage of the Avenger in action. I found that a good deal of the footage had little or nothing to do with this aircraft. Much of the footage was stock footage, a fair amount of it picturing other aircraft. Not a lot of point to this I think.

[Cplblue]

lol wow, i thought people were saying 50mm as in poking fun of someone who posted earlier. He actually says 50mm....fail

[13lackLight]

man thats crazy. talk about chaos theory. If Bush had not been rescued that day, the world as we know it would have been completely different.

[DBDMotorsports]

how come there arent any german fighters or russian jets on this show lol

[Conwaya321]

@DBDMotorsports Yeah this show should be renamed "americas deadliest aircraft"

[yanneman57]

@Conwaya321 For the americans anything outside of the USA is considered as targets. Whenever americans call something 'World's' they only mean that it's of US origin. Compare it with the 'World series' in baseball which pretty much is unknown and unimportant to the real world.

[apatheticempathy]

... funny thing is my father was selected to be a gunner in the TBF and his father cried ... figured it was a death sentance. He went on to become a crewchief in the Pacific on a OSU2 "Duck". Two days after he left back for the states HIS "BESTY" Duck caught fire and burned to a crisp. He cried about that plane. God Bless you Father ~

[MaxPolej]

One a6m2 zero should easily shoot some of them without getting hit by them. If someone wrote here that they had 50mm cannon is fucking retarded almost evey uss fighter or dive bomber had several 12,7mm machine guns on it's wings or at the rear gunner spot.

[356butch]

At the battle of Midway, Lt. Bert Earnest's TBF came back with over 100 holes in it, the elevator cables were shot out but he found that he could still have control using the elevator trim. One wheel wouldn't come down for landing, All the crew had been wounded in some way. The turret gunner had been killed when a 20mm cannon shell exploded in his chest . Bert was still able to land back at Midway. Tough plane, tough crews flying them.

[ca139hvy]

50mm machine guns wow those are really big machine guns! I think he meant to say 50 caliber machine guns

[spanish111japan]

World's Deadliest Bomber? TELL THAT TO THE B-52

[gekko434]

the world would have been a better place if that submarine'd have not been there...

[tnhl77]

@gekko434 your a dick

[bigshow1fan]

LOL 50 mm??????

[Flo423]

the avenvenger is not the first bomber of navy during WW2. There was the Dauntless before

[BlorchHeadblownov]

Given how horrible US torpedoes were prior to 1944 and the lack of crew protection, yeah it was the deadliest aircraft- just not to the enemy.

[BloisFulcher]

@BlorchHeadblownov Yeah, I thought torpedo bombers were considered relatively ineffective versus dive bombers. At least at Midway that was the case.

[johniwuji]

4:42 george w walker bush in world war two 45 years before he become the president of the united states of america

[johniwuji]

3:41 is a movie

[sakikonaomi]

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[philizitus]

WTF!? Deadliest Aircraft because bush was sitting inside ? :D

[300bruns1990]

50mm.. so it had 2 inch guns rotfl... wish they'd edit these friggen videos for accuracy, but the military channel would never be the same if they did

[LYinKansas]

Bush Sr. bombed Wake as a training mission, what a life to have lived.

[killingamps]

Subaro Sakai lost en eye to an Avenger gunner, which he approached from behind and below, think that it was a Wildcat. That .30 popgun came in handy that dat!

[sabram24]

trio of 50 mm machine guns ehh? thats some serious hardware

[tdr124]

@sabram24 He has to mean .50cal right? haha it wouldn't need to carry bombs with the firepower of three tanks.

[turkeymuncher14]

Let's just thank God that it wasn't George W. Bush.

[julian111993]

@turkeymuncher14 he would have nuked japan for revenge instead of attacking iraq =D

[ghostdivision7]

At 4:12

I can't stop thinking about how the world would look today, if that one pilot was not saved....

[CDMJDMHHC]

@ghostdivision7 you are ass!

[ghostdivision7]

@CDMJDMHHC

No seriously. The whole world as we know it is influenced by this kind of events. I'm not saying the world would be a better place if Bush sr. was not saved back then.

[omgswords]

i thought it was the AC-130 U

[mikey1978416]

50mm machine guns....i dont think so

[Raguleader]

@mikey1978416 Yeah... that's just embarassing. .50 cal, not 50mm -_-

[bigbeartr57]

Does anyone know where I can get ahold of this full-length? Even if I have to buy it. The Discovery shop doesn't seem to have it.

[shairyar123]

bush was a weak man, he made his army do everything I could punch him in the face right now if he wasn't a pussy and covered with his "men"

[Raguleader]

@shairyar123 So what you're saying is "I could punch him in the face if I wasn't a pussy and afraid of getting my ass kicked."

[shairyar123]

@Raguleader i said it for fun, i could punch him in the face btw he is old lol i was bored dude

[Tyco200]

Lol, Bush was a TBM pilot? Awesome. Too bad he was such a bad president, but in the end, I miss him in comparison with Obama... Obama is a joke.

[916ppl]

@Tyco200 it was Bush father Bush.

[84fal]

As gunner on TBF -TBM two 50 cal one each wing one 50 cal in turret total three. radio man had 30 cal which was removed on later versions 50 cal = 1/2 inch. it was sometimes referred to as ruptured duck. was a tough old bird

[merritttrucker]

A company in Fredericton, NB Canada was using TBM Avenger bombers as water bombers. One of which was signed by George H. W. Bush during a visit to Canada.

[yongkai65]

George H. W. Bush was a TBF pilot and no one thought that 1 day he would be the pres

[Torbellicus]

Too bad he survived.

[4everUSNavy]

dude you are stupid...

he said George H W Bush. not George W Bush.

[neverfearchrisishere]

@4everUSNavy .... arguably the second worst president in history, the father REALLY didn't do a great job. but was better than his son, since although he didn't acchieve much, he atleast didn't mess things up for the entire planet for the next decade..

[Ju1ceem4n]

was he the father bush or retarder ass fuck bush?

[MaxVerhaag]

@Ju1ceem4n i think it's the father since jr was 2 late to join in in vietnam so i don't think he fought in ww2...:P

[Raguleader]

@Ju1ceem4n If you paid attention, you'd know cause they said his name in the clip.

[SuperTelecom]

LOL! "A trio of 50mm guns" Fuck that shit, its clearly a supreme flying tank destroyer.

Everyone knows 12.7mm is almost 50 =/

[losilover1907]

dude bush was a avenger pilot!!!

[MrKukenimunnen]

@losilover1907 Yes, he was, but he IS a moron.

[tdr124]

@MrKukenimunnen just to clarify he is talking about Bush senior who was even shot down on a raid and rescued then flew again. Bush Jr. was in the Texas Air Guard, and- naturally- it is kind of a dark area.

[MrKukenimunnen]

@tdr124 Just to clarify... I like talking about bushes... the dark area...

[livadi9]

@losilover1907 and shoot down:-)

[spanish111japan]

@losilover1907 Wich bush?

[356butch]

@spanish111japan George H W Bush or Bush 41 as he's sometimes called.

[alexpower15]

@losilover1907 like Kennedy he was in the pacific two

[pianomansas]

@losilover1907 They have the EXACT one that he flew here on long island and it is signed by him!

[pramboy09]

looks like this needs an imperial to metric converter!! .50 inc cal is not 50mm i don't think it would get off the ground!!

[Redfox161616]

I think that is a .50cal is 12.7 mm

[pramboy09]

i know

[RipJack645]

why did i get a cat food comercial before my video?

[n3360m]

yeah, these commercials really blow

[nolifemerc]

lol early american navy aircraft was so slow and bad they almost sucked, lucky they had brave pilots, more luck is the japanese planes didnt have armour and also had bad tactics.

[MudShaShaShaark]

"early american navy aircraft was so slow and bad" Very true. And to make it worse the torpedos on the torpedos bombers were virtually useless. I've read several books on the pacific war and I've never read of a confirmed kill by torpedo bombing in the first year of the war. They went off course, under the ship, or sometimes just bounced off the hull without exploding.

[skah07]

woah.,george bush's father is an avenger pilot., look at that....

[femersund]

1 × 0.50 inch Browning M2 fixed forward-firing in wing leading edge, 600 rounds each 1 × 0.50 inch Browning M2 trainable rearward-firing in dorsal turret, 400 rounds 1 × 0.30 inch Browning M2 trainable rearward-firing in ventral postion, 500 rounds

Thats all

[hoggdawn]

I had NO idea they carried 50mm guns. Man---those are 20mm bigger than what the Warthog carries! No wonder they were such good planes. Uh---wait a minute---could it be they meant 50 cal?

[darkzero79]

im sure they mean 50 cal... i cant imagine the plane carrying a freaking cannon

[thesayxx]

no it's a canon! :)

[luigio14]

it is 50 mm guns mate, kinda insane really :| lol

[TerryOS]

My father flew an Avenger as well, off the deck of the USS Yorktown CV10. He was shot down off the island of Truk in the S. Pacific. Later he AND his crew were rescued by submariners. (unlike Poppy Bush who bailed).

[hwoods01]

submarines did ALOT of work picking up downed aircrews.. The PBY Catalina saved quite a few as well.. YEOMAN work that goes unnoticed.. thanks for the comment.

[agwhitaker]

At 1:42 -

- armed with a trio of 50 millimeter machine-guns,

They really need to proof read the script of these vids.

[altratronic]

I agree. How could the Military Channel make a mistake like that in the first place?

[BlueBoy11035]

I say the same NAVC130VET!!!

Wow, exciting Vid.

5***** Stars for this great Video.

Exceelent work. Well done.

Dennis

Federal Republic of Germany

Paratrooper Veteran

'~*@-_-@*~'

[NAVC130VET]

beutiful aircraft with some serious firepower and multi use. Especially with the later models that came out in 44 with radar giving night ops

[Krust666777]

Avenge some rice boats

[carnage2681]

Lol.....did he say a trio of 50mm machine guns ;D

[yewtubepl0x]

woaah.. same here lol

[killer00630]

Wow,I didn't know H.W Bush was a pilot...