WWII Wings Over Italy Dogfights Gun Camera & Ground Attack

[thealexthing]

shit! 6.25, Sure he blew his buddy up as well

[TheDirtyFord]

My 4x4. Is a Suzuki sidekick 1981. It's converted to run on propane. And I am in the process of trying to convert it so it can accept acetylene as well. I shy away from petro it's gettin real expensive . 1.29 a liter here. I would love an electric 4x4.

[MegaPoone]

Bugger modern jets and weapons. All you see is a missile hitting the target in a puff of smoke. Nothing like the old up-close-and-personal gun camera footage of the old prop fighter planes.

[igotbulletproof]

Holy shit! I would piss my pants being up there watching the flak explode like 10 feet away!

[modelleg]

Superb!

[deadcauz]

how primitive is humankind what a waist

[alexiswolfe]

@deadcauz You're right to a point. Unlike the wars in the last decade or so that are all about power and resources to feed the greedy capatalist machinery, WWII was inescapable, the barbarism of the National Socialists had to be stopped. Lets hope we as a species do, eventually, learn from history.

[the82spartans]

@alexiswolfe -- do you call the American middle class greedy capatalists because we all own cars to drive to our work?

[alexiswolfe]

@the82spartans I'm sorry you misunderstand my post. "greedy capatalist" is in reference to western (not just US) corporate greed that has a voracious appetite for, amongst other things, oil and other natural resources.

[the82spartans]

@alexiswolfe -- indeed then you consider all who consume commodities such as oil then we must be 'greedy' as the corporations are simply delivering a product in high demand in just about every corner of the world... if there was no demand for oil then your point would certainly be valid.

BTW, Happy New Year. : )

[alexiswolfe]

@the82spartans No I do not label consumers as greedy, many are just pawns in a corrupt system. Just because there is 'demand' (whether genuine or manufactured) does not mean it should be fulfilled at any cost, ie invading countrys and killing civilians in far away places by remote control just so petrol heads in the west can guzzle cheap gas in oversized 4x4s! no, that logic stinks and is treacherous to our planet and the human race. Happy New Year to you too ;-)

[the82spartans]

@alexiswolfe -- w/o fuel our entire economic system would fail... now, what's all this tripe about invading countries for so called 'petrol heads' in the west? If you are waxing on about Iraq, then tell me who is buying it from the Iraqi's? The Chinese for one. Climate change... what a joke. That kind of thinking is dangerous to the human race. Oil is the life's blood for the human race.

[alexiswolfe]

@the82spartans "Oil is the life blood of the human race"?? now you're being comical !? Next you'll be saying America is the land of the free!

[the82spartans]

@alexiswolfe -- yes, it there were no oil today then chaos would begin tomorrow... see you in the funny papers.

America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. ; P

[MrStig691]

@the82spartans idiot

[the82spartans]

@MrStig691 -- OK.... what did I do to you? Did I hit a nerve or are you on your period?

[bmgm3]

The guy at 5.50 really wanted that train, thought he was going to try and fly right through that tree line !

[ChampionFx]

@bmgm3

tree trimming and lanscaping ;)

[pottyracer3]

7:18 is that berlin or an italian city thats been bombarded

[pimpmytafel]

Spits taking off of a carrier ... a very rare sight ... wonderful footage!

[InkyNibIllustrations]

As interesting as this footage is to watch it's worth remembering that the pilots getting shot down are scared shitless 20 somethings wondering what the hell they done in the last 5 seconds of their life that allowed that Seafire to get the kill shot.

[graphicvideos1986]

For fuck sakes... the gunners of planes just strike the epitome of real men

[ammiles43]

Great editing !

[ChampionFx]

@ammiles43

THX ! ;-)

[MaxSafeheaD]

Damn that plane at the end got smashed!

[tryithere]

It's amazing how quickly air power became the defining force in war.

[pierix27]

the coalition of the United States Britain and Russia knew that Germany was breaking the rules on arms.

let's leave the communist propaganda.

delivery of the army's allies came only after the treaty, when it's too late in Russia cotavano thousands of deaths.

in 1947 in Italy there was a fight against communism and endurance.

the United States took 'agreements with the Mafia.

Salvatore Giuliani Vikipedia see.

[lynyrdpez]

@pierix27 Don't use google translate, if you don't speak English, just shut up...

[pierix27]

@lynyrdpez

Maybe you wanted to say: if I don't "write" in English, this is right!!

it's true, google traslate is not good.

thank you. ;-)

[thealexthing]

WOW! At 6.24 when there's the huge explosion looks like he blows his buddy out of the air too

[tryithere]

@thealexthing It's two different clips. The piece comes from the ground.

[ChampionFx]

@tryithere

what piece comes from the ground ? it's the same clip just in slow down motion to make it more visible and yes sadly that aircraft got caught in such unexpected huge explosion from ground pounding hailstorm of bullets from another aircraft

[tryithere]

@ChampionFx It's from a totally different angle, it's also a much lower altitude. the plane flying in front is already starting it's ascent, it's much darker out in the explosion portion, should I go on? The flying piece comes from the ground from the explosion

[ChampionFx]

@tryithere

clip @ 6:22 is the same clip as @ 7:27 , I just used the same clip sequence portion again with half speed filter applied over it plus highlighted the plane with annotation frame in case somone missed to see it in the first 6:22 footage as for some it is easy to overlook such detail.

If you mean and talking about someone else then I am completely lost since it was me using the same clip for extra half speed footage at the end editing video since the original footage ends @ 7:25

[tryithere]

@ChampionFx I'm not knocking the film or anything and thanks for uploading it, These films were edited before they were even released with some clips pieced together to show a complete battle scene or to make it look like something was achieved in one run while it was actually from another sequence.

[FairladyS130]

Great to see some good quality Allied gun camera footage, Youtube is full of poor quality German stuff.

[lothar29]

Al Bf109 del min 2:20 y 2:28, le dieron muy fuerte, se ve como abre la carlinga para saltar...

[southlondon63]

These are excellent film clips that i have never seen before and i must of watched hundreds over the years.Can't understand why there is so few hits, everybody seems to like German films of the 8th airforce and RAF getting blown out of the sky for some reason.

[rOEN911]

this is awesome on of the best gun camera videos ever

[ChampionFx]

@rOEN911

;-)

[WehrmachtLuftwaffe]

"The air is ours, and we know how to use it."

Great line!

[ChampionFx]

Yeah , he did said that , I don't listen much to those narrators , I didn't even thought about this sentence , all I want to see is gun camera footage , love that landscaping and tree trimming low pass locomotive attack ;-)

[biltongbru]

Good one, thanks!

[ChampionFx]

;-)

[palker4]

I wonder what did he hit in 6:24

[ChampionFx]

That must have been rather some kind of perhaps very significant ammo depot but the other plane flying in front just next to ammo depot when it exploded disintegrated immediately from the huge shockwave ;-(

I bet they had no idea there will be such a significant explosion and the front plane got caught in it .

I tried to show slow motion detail at the end how the front plane disintegrated in to pieces .

[palker4]

well in war you can never know when or how or from where the grim reaper will come for you

[ChampionFx]

So true and sometimes so unexpected ;-(

[Arcticviper]

wow, didn't notice that guy at first, that must have been quick for him. The concussion from the blast probably knocked him out instantly...