Favorite American Fighter/Bomber

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#81

Thanks for the P-47 pics Panzerknacker.

Here are some images and info on my favorite version of the Thunderbolt - the P-47N.


From: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, by The Aeronautical Staff of Aero Publishers, Inc. in cooperation with Edward T. Maloney, curator of The Air Museum, Aero Publishers, Inc., 1966


From: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, by The Aeronautical Staff of Aero Publishers, Inc. in cooperation with Edward T. Maloney, curator of The Air Museum, Aero Publishers, Inc., 1966


http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/p47n_3v.jpg


From: American Aircraft of World War II, by David Mondey, Chancellor Press, 1996, p 222.

#82

Fearsome aircraft , a single pass with their 8x 0.50 cal and the japanese aircrafts was no more.

#83

My favorite American warbird is Grumman’s tubby little F4F Wildcat.

Not a pretty or particularly fast plane, but it was all we had in 1942 and it held the line against Japan’s A team.

'Course, it was probably the pilots that made the difference.

#84

Wildcat…? hmmm not the best performer.

#85

P-47 color video clips from WWII (including gun camera footage).

WWII film of the 337th Squadron based in Etaine, France, flying P-47 Thunderbolts (with narration and sound):
P47 Thunderbolts in Action_France 1945 - All Color Footage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fk9qdOUG4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shsxuauQA3w

American Pilots in Action at Second World War,Based in Etaine,France.On March 16th 1945, the 362nd fighter Group dispatched a total of 175 P47 Thunderbolts fighters against enemy transportation, associated facilities and ground artillery.

P47 in Action_France 1945 (same as above in B&W)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNRQBdCOSg

American Pilots in Action at Second World War,Based in Etaine,France.On March 16th 1945, the 362nd fighter Group dispatched a total of 175 P47 Thunderbolts fighters against enemy transportation, associated facilities and ground artillery.

1944-45 “THUNDERBOLT” Uncensored Complete Version (1 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLl3v7rmAU

1944-45 “THUNDERBOLT” Uncensored Complete Version (2 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drE0D_Z1zOs

1944-45 “THUNDERBOLT” Uncensored Complete Version (3 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGKaKHyL7YM

1944-45 “THUNDERBOLT” Uncensored Complete Version (4 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqgP26cyorQ

1944-45 “THUNDERBOLT” Uncensored Complete Version (5 of 5)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRV15kcac0

“Thunderbolt” (1947)
Director: William Wyler, John Sturges
Production Company: Carl Krueger Production
Introduced by James Stewart

Filmed in 1944 and early 1945 but edited only in 1947, this 45 minutes well preserved and almost forgotten documentary (by the great William Wyler) is about the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter bomber and its use in missions over Italy. In the prologue outstanding shots showing various placements of 1944 late model automatic color movie-cameras on board of the planes.

P47-350o. 1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron - In Combat WWII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWp-PhZaMkQ

FEB Brasil com Caças P47 em combate - Senta a pua! - WWII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f1n7yMQFwk

FEB - JAMBOCK - P47-Brazilian Fighter Squadron - WARII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBOUk2vFRQI

Republic P47 Thunderbolt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evPGnicmrQk

“The Unbreakable” P-47 Thunderbolt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83TWBAiAIs8

P-47 Guncam Footage - Strafing Tanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f9cqhuARrM

Airshows

P-47 "Thunderbolt - Wings Over Houston Air show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_gwlWCI0V0

A P-47 thunderbolt taking off in Sevierville, Tennessee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi1d4P774eE

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - P-47 Flyby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ej-h3TS3OU

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - YABBOS! P-47 “ThunderJets” er…umm “Thunderbolts” hehe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbVZPvcJUv0

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - P-47 Strafing Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYE6gfL0oE

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - P-47 Strafing Run 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSlWfAjzA80

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - P-47 Strafing Run 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqLN38fdBKA

Thunder Over Michigan 2005 - P-47 Strafing Run 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITrBRdFJBEs

P-47-P51-B25-PhotoShoot
Photo shoot P-47 Thunderbolt P-51 Mustang over Kentucky before 2001 not sure on time frame. Confederate Air Force B-25 Show-Me formation flight/photo shoot dawn patrol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BO7xOsU2CM

Duxford’s Flying Legends - Big Birds & Little Friends (includes P-47 and B-17)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIg73UNQ8g

Duxford Spitfire 2-seater taxi take-off (P47 Thunderbolt and others in the static line up)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pVH5RDkzZA

Video taken from iEN’s Warbirds 3 featuring the P47 Thunderbolt. (flight simulator game)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WbV72dGQIA

#86

Beautiful videos , very clear ones, sadly no time today to see it all.

#87

Awesome clips George.

#88

Thanks Guys :slight_smile:

#89

But just good enough to hold the line…

#90

That is true, the Zero was a very overrated aircraft if you asking me.

#91

Memphis Belle The Story of a Flying Fortress 1944 - Color - 41 minutes 30 seconds
One of the best documentaries made during the second world war, a good insight into the daily life of B-17 crew.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2683413579748075712&q="b-17"
another link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7489217776148774785&q="b-17"
shorter introduction
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4006920902497844900&q="b-17"

WWII B17 footage - Color - 17 minutes 17 seconds
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2257018867806151378&q="b-17"
another link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2257018867806151378&q="b17"

Report from the Aleutians - Color - 47 minutes 4 seconds
A official documentary movie about the misson of the US forces on an island of the Aleutians, from which US bombers are attacking the Japanese occupied island Kiska. The movie includes footage from a bombing raid over Kiska with B-17 and B-24 bombers.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2780483724942444910&q="b-17"

Color newsreel footage of American B17 bombers over Germany.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2753554690795579878&q="b-17"
another link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2753554690795579878&q="b17"

MISSION
Music video of a typical Eighth Army Air Force bombing mission. Originally part of an oral history taken from a B-17 navigator. The … all » purpose of the video is to give the viewer a sense of what a mission was from takeoff to landing
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8243374180096578890&q="b-17"

B-17 being attacked
Quite amazing footage from the gun camera of a German aicraft attacking a B-17 bomber, these planes where also known as the flying … all » fortress, this video is a testament of the ruggedness of these wonderful planes, it also gives a glimpse into the type of attack the brave airman that manned the planes had to suffer.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7931404995467072231&q="b-17"
another link
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7583924550380356308&q="b-17"

B-17 Flying Legend: Robert M. Janson (A Photo Essay)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6994659934983658316&q="b-17"

“Aluminum Overcast” - Color - 38 minutes 25 seconds
The flying fortress turned the tides of the war over europe. This amazing aircraft brought home many of pilots and crew. The Experimental Aircraft Association ownes and operates this particular aircraft. See footage and historical photo’s of the B=17 in action. Hear first person accounts of flying over Germany and what the pilots and crew endured on those long missions. This is downloadable in the MPEG 4 format
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1539420054655161693&q=“b-17”

John O’Connor. World War II. Air Force. Veterans Memorial Archive
B-17 Bomb run. ETO. Oral History
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5019079588727977426&q=“b-17”

Riding in the nose of a B-17G. Over the east San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgHJiTm3E8&mode=related&search=

B-17 flight: takeoff - from inside the plane at waist gunner position.
Taking off in a B-17G at Hayward Airport, California. Sorry for the annoying camera clicks- I can take photos while I film, and it freeze frames and adds the cheesy click, I now discovered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hsDZbA2Cg4&mode=related&search=

Flying in a B17 Bomber
I’ve always wanted to fly in a WWII Warbird and I finally did! Flying a warbird over Hilton Head, SC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2i9VRGoxN0&mode=related&search=
another link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoPq9oc73k&mode=related&search=

B-17 ball turret gunner - Airshow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2342330782419863828&q="b-17"

B-17 ball turret gunner exit - Airshow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8881219139607844104&q="b-17"

Aluminum Overcast - A WWII Vintage Aircraft
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8178436180257990974&q="b-17"

B-17 Walkaround.
A minute long clip of a walk around a WWII B-17 Flying Fortress called Nine-0-Nine from Wings Over Gillespie in El Cajon on April 22, 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwC1S2Mjq6w&mode=related&search=

Warbirds: B17 Sally B at Duxford
Warbirds - fairly rare clip I got off a now-defunct sat channel called ‘Magazine’ this has something to do with the mag Flypast and is about B17 Sally B at Duxford.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HGd0XQx6u4&mode=related&search=

Warbirds: Sally B Lands at Duxford
Warbirds: Sally B Lands at Duxford comes in past another B17 Mary Alice and Vulcan XL426.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP7biwK1gdU&mode=related&search=

Duxford Flying Legends 2006 Impressions
Duxford Airshow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsflV7YeJSk&mode=related&search=

B 17 start up - Airshow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3968654640611446640&q="b-17"

Starting Engines 3&4 and taxiing of EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast at Spokane Washington’s Felts field
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6280892703843604829&q=“b-17”

Taxiing of EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast at Felts field before take off at Spokane Washington’s Felts field
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=41495730907533585&q=“b-17”

Take off of EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast at Spokane Washington’s Felts field
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7202193379863872706&q=“b-17”

Final and landing of EAA’s B-17 Aluminum Overcast at Spokane Washington’s Felts field
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4992336625709717785&q=“b-17”

B-17 fly over and landing at Stafford, VA regional airport 9 October 2006
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1846820631732738934&q="b-17"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8301332638390053258&q="b-17"

B-17 Yankee Lady and B-24 Diamond Diamond Lil at The Confederate Air Force Show
Lost Nation Airport Willoughby Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=64580012252994618&q="b-17"

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress interior at San Marcos Airshow April 2005
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6489005889735641421&q="b-17"

B-17 and B-25 Yellow Rose San Marcos Airshow
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8858689781726797925&q="b-17"

2005 Geneseo Air Show Highlights
B-17, B-25, & F4U (Corsairs)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1996957966401767270&q="b-17"

B-17 Bombing Run @ EAA Oshkosh Wisconcin Air Show 2006
Also features Lancaster bomber and P-51 Mustang.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2491348734637061271&q="b-17"

DER TAG DER VETERANEN - Oshkosh Wisconcin Air Show 1995
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3084372190320395357&q="b-17"

B17 Flying Fortress flyby over Warsaw
Flyby over Old Town in Warsaw of B17 Flying Fortress during 62-nd Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1919043432103861240&q="b17"

ME 109’s attacking B-17’s
Various angles of an attack by BF109’s on some guys in their flying fortresses.It musta been tough up there, respect to all you guys that fought in ww2.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3562652847428590456&q=“b17”

Messerschmitt ME109’s
This is footage of two ME109s with original Daimler Benz engines filmed in 1996. It is a trailer from a DVD release called “One Summer - Two Messerschmitts” availabe at www.FlyingMachines.TV … (more)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq21MLP8gYI&mode=related&search=

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G10
From Video Game
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1960333192078104951&q="b17"

Ball turret gunner
From Video Game
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1557589706299087565&q="b17"

Airshow Action: Spitfire at Duxford
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YOr9ZWArRE&mode=related&search=
Spitfire line-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0QsW_MPuM0&mode=related&search=
Warbirds: Spitfire Doc Pt3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_u5r9Oc7hg&mode=related&search=

#92

I’t must of been awesome flying in a B17.
Those nose turret clips are brilliant.
Awesome clips George.
Thanx.

#93

A lot of videos there George, very good :twisted:

#94

I liked the P-47 Thunderbolt and the B-24 .

#95

Thanks Guys :slight_smile:

Watching films like these makes me feel good - a nice way to unwind.

My favorites were:

Riding in the nose of a B-17G. Over the east San Francisco Bay Area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgHJiTm3E8&mode=related&search=

The B-24, P-47 and other vintage aircraft were a nice bonus too in the first clip (B17 Ride).

Glad you all liked it. :slight_smile:

#96

Thanx for the feedback.

#97

Color video clip showing P-47 Thunderbolts strafing German Tiger tanks.
(saw this posted at another forum and had to post it here).
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6635752499311348219&q=wwii

#98

God dam…I never see so many tracer fliying around in my life.:shock:

I think is a Panther tank, probably some hit in the engine compartment made it caught fire.

#99

I can’t say for sure whether it is a Tiger or Panther. On my player the images are a little blurry.

#100

Well , I am not 100 % sure, but my “sixt sense” told me so. :cool: