1. You can't beat the original Memphis Belle documentary film..."this is the ground front, this is the air front" gets me every time.
2. Total war is a totally alien concept to us at a time when wars are fought with little or no consequences to the general population. But total war it was and there were no holds barred.
My great Uncle flew Lancasters on 20 night raids over the industrial heartland of Germany. His bomber was last seen in flames trying to get home over the North Sea. He never made it.
my Father lived next to a liberator base in England. He remembers planes coming back damaged as well as seeing the light in the sky from London burning during the Blitz...70 miles away. My brother went to a Confederate Air Force meeting in Texas and met a Liberator crew from the same base my father could see. What a coincidence.
@BritishHistoryWWII but still all of europ has to thank britain for its firm resistands againtst hitler!!! I'm convinced that all of britains sacrifices made the world a better place, for a while ar leased.
@BritishHistoryWWII bombing german cities had the same efect on moral as had the bombing of british cities. people stood closer toghter. i would also think theat the resulting strugle for survival helped to find an excuse for not knowing what was going on in the concentration camps. aerial bombing first became evicient when the allies started bombing trafficlines and petrol facilities. the german army ran out of suplies and fuel before it finaly lost its fighting spirit.
FYI: -Beautiful piece of Indus.-design (-stylish up-sweeping tail later inspired swoopie taillight-fins on 1948-'49 Cads.); -and although used in a needless nightmarish WW2 conflict of USA Jews declaring war upon Germany; -we're slowly realizing we were duped into fighting against the knowing pleas of Gen.-Chas.Lindbergh and anti-Communist St.Hitler, whom warned of the real enemy being jewZionist King Rothschilds warmongering Bank'ster-mafia whom are still today Fraud'closing on millions.!!!
"I swear by God this sacred oath: That I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler Fuhrer of the German Reich and people, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, And that I shall at all times be ready, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath..."
A great film, Thank you. My father told me when it first came out he had a very hard time watching this. He had never spoken of the war really other than abstract terms. He had been a pilot in the USAF. The military didn't do much back then for the psychological effects of the war and so tens of thousands of men never dealt with the experience especially if it was brutal as it was for my father and one of his high school friends. I never knew how they each suffered until very late in my life.
My dad surved in the Philipines and at Guadalcanal. A munitions ship made it through the "submarine net" around the harbor early in 1942, and put a torpedo into the ship, which also carried over 1,500 men who all died instantly. The ship went up in a huge explosion, as 5,000 tons exploded. My dad's bunk, 2 miles away, was cut in half by a piece of shrapnel from the ship 4ft x 4ft x 1 inch thick. He was on guard dudty and not there. Oh, but for the Grace of God go I.
The "unsung heroes" of our past wars deserve to have their stories like this. I am SO proud of the men (and women) that have been borne from this country to defend it.
They deserve SO much respect and gratefulness from us!
Thanks so much for uploading this! I've watched it several times while at work (like now, haha).
this was back in the day when the military was really the military. war was really war. nowadays countries just wanna push a few buttons to launch nukes out of their silos and wipe out a nation entirely.
@MrTropics64 Your father participated in Operation Tidal Wave? My gods, what a mission... I salute your father and all of the men who served in WW II.
Noticing I was carrying around the 1965 book "Flying Fortress", my 7th grade biology teacher told me he was a B-17 bombardier & got a single 109. When I expressed admiration at that he pulled a face and said look,I killed people & we wont talk about this again.
@crifoter69 At least the American crews had the pretext of bombing military targets (that didn't always work). Imagine how the British bombardiers felt: intentionally killing thousands and burning whole cities, all under orders because Bomber Command thought that was how the war would be won.
@silverbud "morale" bombing, and that did not become official policy until the last year of the war, against Japan. In Europe, USAAF bombing was almost always aimed at military targets, be they tactical or strategic in scope. On a few occasions, they were persuaded to be the daylight arm of "city destruction" raids like Dresden (aiming at "military targets" right in the middle of town, wink, wink). I won't say the USAAF was blameless, but the RAF dropped all pretense of not harming civilians.
3:03 and crank it up. that sound is incredible. nothing and i mean nothing sounds like that.
well besides the wonderful aircraft, the story behind the fortress is one of courage and sacrifice. let us not forget the young men that give their lives to knock hitler on his ass.
oh the aircraft featured in this movie is based at the muesum i belong to. i go help out their regurally. this wonderful aircraft will be featured in next weekend's airshow!!! still flies regurally.
My father flew B-24,s with the 15th Air Force out of North Africa and Italy. I was able to take him to see this movie when it premiered. He had a very hard time watching it . Unbeknownst to me, it brought back allot of nightmares for him after all those years. he called the 8th Air Force the ' Glory Boys'. He told me that none of the press cared about the forgotten front in Italy. He was in on the first Ploeisti raid and it stayed in his mind forever. It was a great movie nonetheless.
@MrTropics64 I've read about the 15th AF and the Ploeisti raids (which must have been pure hell for the Liberator boys). Big thanks to your dad and everyone else who took part on that (now almost forgotten) raid, we as a nation owe so much to them
@MrTropics64 The same thing happened when my dad took me to see Midway (1976)...a WW2 Navy veteran (Pacific), he was right in the thick of it and it brought back "real and vivid memories", he said. I also had a family relative who went down on his 10th mission over Germany and was a POW the rest of the war...understand what you mean & Thanks !!
@MrTropics64 Respect to your father for what he did as ploesti was just as tough a mission as schweinfurt and regensburgh i read alot about the missions from north africa and italy over the years and fell in love with the b25 mitchell as a result so im hoping to do my twin rating in the us and perhaps then sometime soon i will get the chance of flying a b25 but what your father did was an incrediable ordeal in desperate times and for that i take my hat off to him !
@MrTropics64 The Scene from 03.33 - 04.14 seems particularly poignant as it shows the base Commander, who is trying to deal with the emotional aspects of his Crews not coming back, and obviously trying o get a word in on the Phone to the Caller who is probably the senior Commander (if that makes any sense?) who doesn't care about anyone coming back so long as there are enough Planes to get the job done regardless. Would you say that was true to life in WW2?
lol that's not private Joker, that's his dad. hence why they look alike and why joker joined the military. given the time periods of both movies, that would would make sense wouldnt it?
@popsnacks2 I actually met Courtney Gains, who played Gene McVey, and we talked about the film. He didn't say anything about crashing haha. But he had a lot of great stories.
is this technicolor?
lostintheapplasauce 3 weeks ago
1. You can't beat the original Memphis Belle documentary film..."this is the ground front, this is the air front" gets me every time.
2. Total war is a totally alien concept to us at a time when wars are fought with little or no consequences to the general population. But total war it was and there were no holds barred.
Batters56 3 weeks ago
My great Uncle flew Lancasters on 20 night raids over the industrial heartland of Germany. His bomber was last seen in flames trying to get home over the North Sea. He never made it.
TheClaydon 3 weeks ago
Thank you for posting !
RPhoenixluver32 1 month ago
my Father lived next to a liberator base in England. He remembers planes coming back damaged as well as seeing the light in the sky from London burning during the Blitz...70 miles away. My brother went to a Confederate Air Force meeting in Texas and met a Liberator crew from the same base my father could see. What a coincidence.
smilo996 1 month ago
the real Memohis belle is at my airport in geneseo ny
66yoyomama 1 month ago
@BritishHistoryWWII but still all of europ has to thank britain for its firm resistands againtst hitler!!! I'm convinced that all of britains sacrifices made the world a better place, for a while ar leased.
friday3810 2 months ago 2
@BritishHistoryWWII bombing german cities had the same efect on moral as had the bombing of british cities. people stood closer toghter. i would also think theat the resulting strugle for survival helped to find an excuse for not knowing what was going on in the concentration camps. aerial bombing first became evicient when the allies started bombing trafficlines and petrol facilities. the german army ran out of suplies and fuel before it finaly lost its fighting spirit.
friday3810 2 months ago
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FYI: -Beautiful piece of Indus.-design (-stylish up-sweeping tail later inspired swoopie taillight-fins on 1948-'49 Cads.); -and although used in a needless nightmarish WW2 conflict of USA Jews declaring war upon Germany; -we're slowly realizing we were duped into fighting against the knowing pleas of Gen.-Chas.Lindbergh and anti-Communist St.Hitler, whom warned of the real enemy being jewZionist King Rothschilds warmongering Bank'ster-mafia whom are still today Fraud'closing on millions.!!!
AryanKnight 2 months ago
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"I swear by God this sacred oath: That I shall render unconditional obedience to Adolf Hitler Fuhrer of the German Reich and people, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, And that I shall at all times be ready, as a brave soldier, to give my life for this oath..."
aggies436 2 months ago
A great film, Thank you. My father told me when it first came out he had a very hard time watching this. He had never spoken of the war really other than abstract terms. He had been a pilot in the USAF. The military didn't do much back then for the psychological effects of the war and so tens of thousands of men never dealt with the experience especially if it was brutal as it was for my father and one of his high school friends. I never knew how they each suffered until very late in my life.
globalman 3 months ago
My dad surved in the Philipines and at Guadalcanal. A munitions ship made it through the "submarine net" around the harbor early in 1942, and put a torpedo into the ship, which also carried over 1,500 men who all died instantly. The ship went up in a huge explosion, as 5,000 tons exploded. My dad's bunk, 2 miles away, was cut in half by a piece of shrapnel from the ship 4ft x 4ft x 1 inch thick. He was on guard dudty and not there. Oh, but for the Grace of God go I.
ownyourfuture1 4 months ago
@ownyourfuture1 MY FATHE R SAW A SOILDER DIE FROM CNNCUSSION ONE MILE FROM WHERE A KRAUT ARTTILLARY SHELL LANDED IN ITALY.
MrSeanodwyer140 1 month ago
"They deserve SO much respect and gratefulness from us!" - They do, they sure do!
instruct2008 6 months ago 2
This is one of my favorite movies!
The "unsung heroes" of our past wars deserve to have their stories like this. I am SO proud of the men (and women) that have been borne from this country to defend it.
They deserve SO much respect and gratefulness from us!
Thanks so much for uploading this! I've watched it several times while at work (like now, haha).
MzRaj 6 months ago
thank you so much, this is a great movie. One of my ATF
TheWrongTone112 7 months ago
@ TheBATDJNuklier
Shut you're fuck hole hippie
LCpl. Gonzalez Battalion 3/3
Semper Fi
Faithful to the corps. Motherfuckers
BattleEightZero84 7 months ago
@BattleEightZero84 Calm down devil, no need to try and make us out to all be douche sacks.
Burnz2much 6 months ago
this was back in the day when the military was really the military. war was really war. nowadays countries just wanna push a few buttons to launch nukes out of their silos and wipe out a nation entirely.
TheBATDJNuklier 7 months ago
@TheBATDJNuklier You have the word "Nuklier" in your name.
War shouldent be fought at ALL.
codmod55 7 months ago
@MrTropics64 Your father participated in Operation Tidal Wave? My gods, what a mission... I salute your father and all of the men who served in WW II.
cleekmaker00 7 months ago
Noticing I was carrying around the 1965 book "Flying Fortress", my 7th grade biology teacher told me he was a B-17 bombardier & got a single 109. When I expressed admiration at that he pulled a face and said look,I killed people & we wont talk about this again.
crifoter69 8 months ago
@crifoter69 At least the American crews had the pretext of bombing military targets (that didn't always work). Imagine how the British bombardiers felt: intentionally killing thousands and burning whole cities, all under orders because Bomber Command thought that was how the war would be won.
educatedcockroach 6 months ago
@educatedcockroach
Do you learn that at school? One main focus of USAAF was bombing of cities ("moral bombing").
If they had bombed more military targets, the war would have ended sooner. Speer was happy the allies did not, he was the head of arms production.
silverbud 5 months ago
@silverbud "morale" bombing, and that did not become official policy until the last year of the war, against Japan. In Europe, USAAF bombing was almost always aimed at military targets, be they tactical or strategic in scope. On a few occasions, they were persuaded to be the daylight arm of "city destruction" raids like Dresden (aiming at "military targets" right in the middle of town, wink, wink). I won't say the USAAF was blameless, but the RAF dropped all pretense of not harming civilians.
educatedcockroach 5 months ago
@educatedcockroach Fuck you ...High five to Bomber Harris.
countrywideboy 4 months ago
3:03 and crank it up. that sound is incredible. nothing and i mean nothing sounds like that.
well besides the wonderful aircraft, the story behind the fortress is one of courage and sacrifice. let us not forget the young men that give their lives to knock hitler on his ass.
oh the aircraft featured in this movie is based at the muesum i belong to. i go help out their regurally. this wonderful aircraft will be featured in next weekend's airshow!!! still flies regurally.
ad356 8 months ago
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very good film.
Amphiter 8 months ago
i fell inlove with the B-17 flying fortresses when i saw this movie as a kid.
nothing but respect for those guys, both sides of the war as well. . . they did what they were told to do. . .
mrbassman25 8 months ago
My father flew B-24,s with the 15th Air Force out of North Africa and Italy. I was able to take him to see this movie when it premiered. He had a very hard time watching it . Unbeknownst to me, it brought back allot of nightmares for him after all those years. he called the 8th Air Force the ' Glory Boys'. He told me that none of the press cared about the forgotten front in Italy. He was in on the first Ploeisti raid and it stayed in his mind forever. It was a great movie nonetheless.
MrTropics64 8 months ago 36
@MrTropics64 I've read about the 15th AF and the Ploeisti raids (which must have been pure hell for the Liberator boys). Big thanks to your dad and everyone else who took part on that (now almost forgotten) raid, we as a nation owe so much to them
limateam5 7 months ago
@MrTropics64 The same thing happened when my dad took me to see Midway (1976)...a WW2 Navy veteran (Pacific), he was right in the thick of it and it brought back "real and vivid memories", he said. I also had a family relative who went down on his 10th mission over Germany and was a POW the rest of the war...understand what you mean & Thanks !!
Waistgunner39 1 month ago
@MrTropics64 Respect to your father for what he did as ploesti was just as tough a mission as schweinfurt and regensburgh i read alot about the missions from north africa and italy over the years and fell in love with the b25 mitchell as a result so im hoping to do my twin rating in the us and perhaps then sometime soon i will get the chance of flying a b25 but what your father did was an incrediable ordeal in desperate times and for that i take my hat off to him !
afvnut75 1 month ago
@MrTropics64 The Scene from 03.33 - 04.14 seems particularly poignant as it shows the base Commander, who is trying to deal with the emotional aspects of his Crews not coming back, and obviously trying o get a word in on the Phone to the Caller who is probably the senior Commander (if that makes any sense?) who doesn't care about anyone coming back so long as there are enough Planes to get the job done regardless. Would you say that was true to life in WW2?
soeffingwhat 1 week ago
Does anyone of you know the name of the starting melody?
stoepselization 8 months ago
THANK YOU!!!!
mrceebees14 9 months ago
THANK YOU FOR THIS MOVIE!!
realgaylog 9 months ago
FINALLY! i've been lookinng for this on youtube for awhile since pearl harbor was BS. thanks mate
christopherlng753 9 months ago
lol that's not private Joker, that's his dad. hence why they look alike and why joker joined the military. given the time periods of both movies, that would would make sense wouldnt it?
VladFerdinand1 9 months ago
thanks for putting this up
dogs345321 10 months ago
This movie made my Childhood... My mother counted EVERY time i watched it. All 164 times. God, i wish i could find it again...
tigermanguy5 10 months ago
never saw the movie thanks.. heard they accidently crashed a real one though while making it...
popsnacks2 10 months ago
@popsnacks2 I actually met Courtney Gains, who played Gene McVey, and we talked about the film. He didn't say anything about crashing haha. But he had a lot of great stories.
marvelmax03191 10 months ago
@marvelmax03191 theres a video on youtube of it crashing...very depressing
popsnacks2 10 months ago
thanks for the upload .
762ranger 10 months ago
Thanks, I love this movie so much!
SoulSurferGS8 10 months ago
german civilians? they were freakin' brainwashed! they're NAZIS!!!
player3200 10 months ago
god bless you for putting this vidio on youtube!
Steamboater100 10 months ago
fantastic movie and a great peice of history. :)
BlackValkyire 11 months ago
Great movie.
newlywed9205 11 months ago
Hitler killed more civilians than the bombers ever did, thank you very much. And, by the way.... don't start nothin', won't be nothin'.
afretired04 11 months ago
Carpet bombing....no smart bombs
lvtemplar65 1 year ago
@lvtemplar65 oh sure, why looking for your target when you can hit a whole bunch of stuff and hit your target eventually...
fidan2fast 1 year ago
@fidan2fast Yeah let's hit lots of innocent civilians and maybe hit a bomb on that factory where POW's are doing slavery...great call...
Orvieta 11 months ago
Best Movie ever.Thank you so much.
motokid032 1 year ago
US bombers were killers for german civilians
T34pobeditel 1 year ago
Thank you so much for uploading this! I love this movie! I been searching on YouTube for this movie forever! Thank you so much for uploading this!
TheSupercaitlin1 1 year ago 14
@TheSupercaitlin1 same her until i found the dvd
123takua 1 year ago
Excelent work man! I was wondering why This great movie was not on youtube for so long. I´ve been looking for it for months!
ondracekivo 1 year ago
@ondracekivo It once was. But YT, you know...!
Tubenjunge 1 year ago