GUN CAMERA COMPILATION IN HD COLOR - DOGFIGHTS AND STRAFING OVER JAPAN 1945 [ WWII DOCUMENTARY ]

Compilation of original color guncam reels from the Pacific War 1945 showing dogfights over mainland Japan and strafing airfields and other targets.
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Footage has been:
Researched
- Digitally restored
- Upscaled to FHD
- Edited together from various archive film reels
by Look in The Past channel.
After 1942, the United States made a massive effort to build up its aviation forces in the Pacific, and began island-hopping to push its airfields closer and closer to Tokyo. Meanwhile, the Japanese were unable to upgrade their aircraft, and they fell further and further behind in numbers of aircraft carriers. The forward island bases were very hard to supply-often only submarines could get through-and the Japanese forces worked without replacements or rest, and often with inadequate food and medicine. Their morale and performance steadily declined. Starvation became an issue in many bases. The American airmen were well-fed and well-supplied, but they were not rotated and faced increasingly severe stress that caused their performance to deteriorate. They flew far more often in the Southwest Pacific than in Europe, and although rest time in Australia was scheduled, there was no fixed number of missions that would produce transfer back to the States. Coupled with the monotonous, hot, sickly environment, the result was bad morale that jaded veterans quickly passed along to newcomers. After a few months, epidemics of combat fatigue would drastically reduce the efficiency of units. The most know fighter planes of the pacific war: American side: P-40 Warhawk, F4F Wildfat, F6F Hellcat, P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning, F4U Corsair Japanese side: KI-100, KI-102, KI-45, A5M, A6M, J2M, Ki-43. Ki-44
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[@impactguide]

Incredible footage. I never realised how low World War 2 era planes actually got when doing a strafing run. You can see multiple people on the ground running away from the airplanes being attacked. You can make out their entire body. The accuracy of the fire is also incredible; almost all fire is direct on target. The train being attacked got hit almost along it's full length, almost surely destroying it and its cargo fully. My guess would be that the reason this footage was taken was to assess the casualties/damage inflicted after a raid? Also, many thanks for not putting some overly dramatic music over the footage; I always feel that takes away from the truthfulness of the footage.
I always get a strange sensation of time from historic footage like this. Displayed in the video are people fighting for their lives, and for at least some of them it's a fight they will not win. Even the ones who got away safely the day this footage was taken, are highly likely to have passed away now. For many of them, we will never know their name or anything else related to their existince than what we see in this video. It's almost like watchinig a clip from an action movie now, something that almost doesn't feel real. But it was real. Everything we see here, happened some day in the past, and lead us to where were are today. And here we are, many miles away from the place these images were taken, many years into to the future, sitting in a comfortable chair watching this small slice of history unfold.

[@LookinThePastWarArchives]

I'm glad you like it! And yeah i never put fake sounds or music under these videos.
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[@snapmalloy5556]

Wish the films had been labeled.
I imagine this was all Hellcat and Corsair gun film

[@sebastianserrantes4470]

no it was mustangs who were escorting b29's
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[@ОмаоАминтаев]

Спасибо за Историю! Очень интересная хроника.

[@ArsLonga1967]

The strafing is in Europe.

[@davidv5388]

🙋 'Promo SM'