Bomber shot down 2 [HQ]

Inspired by the first video and of course the brave men who flew these missions day after day!!, some extra pics and video footage

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Entertainment

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• ww2
• bomber
• shot
• down
• under
• attack
• b-17
• b-24
• b-25
• aircraft

[Photonzos]

61 German cities were reduced in fire storms to nothing.

That is women and children too. Cooked and burned.

There is not another nation on this planet which has looked back at their transgressions as much as the Germans. 3 documentaries per week minimum. It is a pity other countries do not have that level of self reflection and critical appraisal of history. Germany should be applauded for that.

[WrellikW]

You guys are fighting over a video? The subject here is that people died for what they believed in and followed their leaders. In this video, people died! Stop fighting and praise them for doing what they believed in. Both sides did a good job for what they were told to do. On both sides they were Heroes! They died doing what they were told and paid the ultimate price; God bless them and their families!!!

[tomkrzyt]

@ZeeNotzee I fully agree with you.

[ZeeNotzee]

The 'Allies' were pawns for Jews.

[m1leswilliams]

@B17Boy We were lucky the Japs made you finally join then :-)

[m1leswilliams]

@WrellikW I'm sorry but blindly following a misguided leader isn't a hero. If that were the case Mugabe is a hero, as is the Hutu s and Tutsis. The Taliban believe in their cause as do Al'Queda. Sorry but I totally disagree. The heros stood up to wrongdoing, and in the case of the Nazis their side didn't have heros that followed Hitler.

[xxxchrist1]

The music is far more appropriate than some corporate shit like Dire Straits.

[boeing747ba]

the reason these planes were shotdown is because the germans know there crap they want to make a remix of them falling. our country scared them when our spitfires, hurricanes, lancasters and halifaxes came they feared for there life and hid

[B17Boy]

You are 5 miles up. On oxygen - there is no pressurization. It's 25 below zero. If you take off your glove, your skin will stick to metal. Your 50 caliber machine gun has enough ammo for about 1 minute 45 seconds of firing. The fuselage skin is maybe 0.040 of an inch thick; that's your armor protection. Flak rips through it like a blowtorch through butter. Not to mention 20mm cannon shells. Some missions can last 8-10 hours. My father flew like that a little more than 30 times over Germany.

[B17Boy]

@acoow - I agree with the overall statement because of the hindsight of results. However, the US had the Pratt & Whitney R-2800. It was used in the F6F Hellcat, the F4U Corsair, and the P-47 Thunderbolt. The P-47M and N series had range comparable to the P-51. However, British engineering needed US manufacturing (Packard) to produce enough of the Merlin powerplants, not just for US fighters, but for RAF aircraft as well. I believe that's why it was called the Allied war effort.