RARE WWII FOOTAGE-P-51s OVER JAPAN

[Basilisk195]

No - of course not, but in 1945 British carrier aircraft should have flown as first allied a/c over Japan. Perhaps 10 minutes later had come the first US planes .... :o)

[Basilisk195]

From which airfields the P-51D's are starting for flying over the Japanese homeland?

[Eurofighter19]

@Basilisk195

From Iwo Jima, once it was secured by US forces.

Their first escort missions over Japanese mainland was on April 7th, 1945

[Basilisk195]

@Eurofighter19 It's an interesting movie. I have read that the first Allied aircraft which had flown over the Japanese homeland was a/c of the British Fleet Air Arm.

[Eurofighter19]

@Basilisk195

Prior to the Doolittle Raiders on April 18, 1942?

[yooperd]

Great vid, lots I haven't seen on there.