Thunderbolt | Full War Movie | James Stewart | William Wyler | John K. Cannon

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
  • Featuring actual aerial combat footage. A WW2 documentary on the P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bomber pilots in missions (Operation Strangle) from their base in Corsica to Northern Italy in 1944, destroying railroads, bridges, trains, vehicles, German supplies, and hard targets on the Italian mainland, far behind the front-line. Operation Strangle, the idea of which was to weaken the German front-line forces by depriving them of supplies, thus helping the Allied offensive. The iconic Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is considered one of the greatest fighter-bombers of the war.
    James Maitland "Jimmy" Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart's film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the "American ideal" in the mid-twentieth century. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors. He received numerous honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1968, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1980, the Kennedy Center Honor in 1983, as well as the Academy Honorary Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, both in 1985. He received the Academy Award for Best Actor, the only competitive Oscar of his career, for his performance in the George Cukor romantic comedy The Philadelphia Story (1940). Stewart's first postwar role was as George Bailey in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He also starred in Winchester '73 (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954) and The Naked Spur (1953), and by Alfred Hitchcock in Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958). During this time he received Academy Award nominations for his roles in the comedy Harvey (1950) and the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Stewart also starred in The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) as well as the Western films How the West Was Won (1962), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
    Director William Wyler was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), second again only to Ford's four. His directorial career spanned 45 years, from silent pictures to the cultural revolution of the 1970s. Nominated a record 12 times for an Academy Award as Best Director, he won three and in 1966, was honored with the Irving Thalberg Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' ultimate accolade for a producer. So high was his reputation during his life that he was the fourth recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, after Ford, James Cagney and Welles. He ranks with the best and most influential American directors, including Griffith, DeMille, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Steven Spielberg.
    Wyler helped propel a number of actors to stardom, including finding and directing Audrey Hepburn in her debut starring role, Roman Holiday (1953), and directing Barbra Streisand in her debut film, Funny Girl (1968), both winning Academy Awards. Olivia de Havilland and Bette Davis both won their second Oscar in Wyler films, de Havilland for The Heiress (1949) and Davis for Jezebel (1938). Davis said Wyler made her a "far, far better actress" than she had ever been, while Laurence Olivier, who received his first Oscar nomination for Wyler's Wuthering Heights (1939), credited Wyler with teaching him how to act for the screen. Wyler's three Best Picture-winning films each featured a Best Actress or Actor Oscar winner - Greer Garson in Mrs Miniver, Fredric March in The Best Years of Our Lives, and Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur. Other popular Wyler films include: The Westerner (1940) with Gary Cooper, The Letter (1940) again with Davis, Detective Story (1951) with Kirk Douglas, Friendly Persuasion (1956) with Cooper and Dorothy McGuire, The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck and Heston, The Children's Hour (1961) with Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine and James Garner, and How to Steal a Million (1966) with Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.
    Directors: William Wyler, John Sturges
    Stars: James Stewart, John K. Cannon, Ira C. Eaker
    Trivia:
    Filmed in 1944, not released until 1947.
    Director William Wyler lost his hearing during the production of this film when he flew in a noisy, unpressurized transport plane. He was subsequently medically discharged from the Army, but eventually got some hearing back in one ear. Hence, the delay in the release of this film.
    ► Subscribe to get all the latest content bit.ly/3MUpeLC
    #jimmystewart #williamwyler #thunderbolt #worldwar2 #jamesstewart #warmovie #academyawardwinner #fullwarmovie #TheStreamMovies #ww2 #wwii

ความคิดเห็น • 90

  • @Murgatroyd999
    @Murgatroyd999 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Excellent documentary. Commander of that squadron was a Lt. Colonel at the ripe old age of 24. 🤯 The Greatest Generation indeed.

    • @dennissvitak5475
      @dennissvitak5475 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When there is a vacancy, promotions are to the senior man. I enlisted in the Air Force, JUST after the end of the Vietnam War. Three years later, 50 thousand junior NCO's got out, after their four year enlistment was up. I was selected for Staff Sergeant (E-5), at aged 20. I ended up testing for Senior Master Sergeant (E-8) at aged 31.

    • @roadyholmes
      @roadyholmes 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My neighbors brother was a W-1 in Vietnam, who by attrition became c.o. of his helo co. 'Stalemate @ Anzio' due to timid initiative or lack thereof..

  • @stevev939
    @stevev939 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    This film caught my attention some years ago, Grandfather was in the P-47 named " My Naked A" unfortunately he didn't make it two weeks before the war ended. it was said he volunteered for that last mission. The small town he went down in Northern Italy San Felice actually put up a plaque with his picture acknowledging the effort. My aged mother dearly misses him to this day.

  • @MM-vv8mt
    @MM-vv8mt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    The P-47 was an incredible aircraft. It had the mass of a tank powered by a 3,000 hp engine, armed with 8 .50 cal MA-2 machine guns aimed at 500 yards. It was heavily armored with the pilot protected in a heavy cast "bathtub", which greatly increased survivaility. It could out dive any German fighter, a lesson which many German pilots learned the hard way. The best fighter-bomber of the war. The leading fighter ace in the ETO, Maj. Robert Johnson, 28 kills, flew a 'Bolt'.

    • @stargazer5784
      @stargazer5784 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      The British nicknamed it the 'Jug', short for Juggernaut. It certainly was a hellraiser. Basically, a huge engine with a pilot, some guns, and the occasional bomb strapped to it. On a footnote, the engine in the P-47 D-40 was an 18 cylinder 2000 hp 'Double Wasp', basically a supercharged, bomber style twin row engine (yikes!), and the plane was equipped with 8 Browning M2s giving you around 4000 rounds per minute total (I stand corrected, 6000). Top speed was well over 400 mph with a 42,000 foot ceiling. Yee Haaa! What a ride! Was it as maneuverable or nimble as a P-51 or P-38? No, but it didn't need to be, nor was it intended to be. It was built following a different doctrine and wasn't intended to be a dogfighter. The P-47 might be thought of as an early kind of interceptor I suppose. It could come in very fast at extreme altitude, dive on a formation, and simply shoot things to pieces before the enemy knew it was there. Cheers my friend!

    • @kirkgorte128
      @kirkgorte128 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      The P&W R 2800 did not produce 3,000 hp. Most pilots preferred gun convergence of 250 to 300 yard's. The Thunderbolt had armor plate in the pilot seat, but no cast bathtub!!!

    • @mikebeard8505
      @mikebeard8505 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You are confused

    • @knlazar08
      @knlazar08 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@kirkgorte128
      I think the cast tub is just some people confusing the modern A-10 Tbolt 2(which does have such a tub), for the original WW2 P-47.
      As is often the case, disagreement is due to confusion and misunderstanding.

    •  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      No "cast bathtub". That's in the A-10 "Warthog", also known as "Thunderbolt II". And "mass of a tank"? Really? A P-47 weighed about 10,000 pounds empty. The smallest WW II main battle tank, Japan's Type 61, weighed 35 tons. That's 70,000 pounds. Try to get your facts straight before pontificating as an aviation expert.

  • @extremelydeplorablebodean839
    @extremelydeplorablebodean839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The Thunderbolt, a magnificent aircraft, the grandfather of the A10 Thunderbolt 2. I was a engine ,hydraulic mechanic on the A10 A for the 23rd TFW Flying Tigers 76 AGS Vanguards,. Stationed at England AFB Alexandria L.A. 1987-1991, also service in Desert Shield, Desert Storm at the King Fodd airport Saudi Arabia. The THUNDERBOLT & THUNDERBOLT 2 brought their pilots home when no other plain would or could have. The original Thunderbolt with its Pratt & Whitney 18 cylinder double wasp engine was a beast & would keep flying with cylinders missing, Heard one story of a pilot limping his aircraft home with 8 cylinders shot off, that's half of the cylinder banks. A10 Thunderbolt 2 where just as rugged & brought a few pilots home with pieces of the airframe missing. Both where armed to the teeth. The original Thunderbolt P-47 had 8 Browning ma duce 50 cal machine guns while the A10 A was armed with a gau 8 gatteling gun in 30mm. The A10 was being taken out of service until Desert Shield Desert Storm & the durability of the airframe was proven to be indispensable for close air support. As a engine troop we where mixed with hydraulic troops & cut trained into hydraulics first & then crew cheif as well, this was due to the aircraft being on the chopping block until after the 90-91 conflict.
    My planes tail # was 982-653 named Misfit. I was proud to have served with the Flying Tigers that Clair Chaunalt had originally started & to be able to have worked on such a fine aircraft. I worked along side some of the best people I could have asked for on the flightline. I was proud to serve my country in the way I did & proud to know the A10 Warthog saved so many ground troops by giving them the support they needed from time to time in different situations. Jimmy Stewart was a Pilot in the Army air corps & then in the newly formed U.S. Air Force.
    Also the armor plateing around the cockpits of both aircraft, the A10 had a titanium tub that surrounded the cockpit .

    • @Gpacharlie
      @Gpacharlie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      An amazing (warthog) aircraft. It must have been very cool to repair and maintain it. Thanks for the history.

  • @scottsevers6194
    @scottsevers6194 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    And god bless Jimmy Stewart. An amazing man, actor and warrior. And the P47 ( Jug ) was a brutal street fighter. ❤

    • @TomB-t5c
      @TomB-t5c 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      amen

  • @bobzooka6531
    @bobzooka6531 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    The actors Jose Ferrer and Lloyd Bridges are the uncredited narrators. Jose Ferrer's voice is the first and main one. It's Lloyd Bridges' voice that takes over during the mission. Jose Ferrer also narrated the documentary about the B17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle. Thankfully we have these documentaries so that this and future generations will be able to gain some understanding about how complex fighting an actual world war can be.

    • @ernestoflores5771
      @ernestoflores5771 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I 'm fan of Lloyd Bridges !, very good actor.

  • @MoonmanSpacejam
    @MoonmanSpacejam ปีที่แล้ว +22

    what amazing footage and documentary

  • @frankholden237
    @frankholden237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Fascinating, I had never thought about the air war behind the lines in Italy before. My father was on a British flag oil tanker running East coast US to the med around that time. The tankers had 'spar decks' above the main deck that they carried aircraft on, maybe they carried some of those Thunderbolts.

  • @kiwidiesel
    @kiwidiesel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    That Pratt & Whitney wasp family of engines was the radial equivalent to the Merlin inline series. Turned almost every airframe it was fitted to into aerial assassin.

  • @craig4867
    @craig4867 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    My first model that I built when I was 5 years old was the P-47 and I'm still building them today between combat missions 🇷🇺

    • @Gpacharlie
      @Gpacharlie 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😮

  • @tomconte2847
    @tomconte2847 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My Father's village was on the receiving end a few of these missions. When I wanted to enlist in the Airforce in the early 70s he wasn't too happy about it. Even today the village has damage from WW2.

  • @danielreichert2025
    @danielreichert2025 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is awesome stuff, thanks 🙏 so very much. My father was in Anzio with the 3rd armored division and he had a hand in the destruction of Monte casino . Wonderful footage Ty again 🥰🤙

    • @TheStream
      @TheStream  ปีที่แล้ว

      Very cool! Glad you enjoyed it.

  • @morrismonet3554
    @morrismonet3554 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My Italian grandparents immigrated the U.S.A. in the 1920's along with their young child, my aunt. They both worked for Republic Aircraft building the P-47s on Long Island during the war. My father was born here but too young for WWII. He enlisted during the Korean war.

    • @TheStream
      @TheStream  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanks for sharing your family's history!

  • @mattosullivan9687
    @mattosullivan9687 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I love these old movies. I also fly a radio control Thunderbolt. It looks way cool

  • @melvyncox3361
    @melvyncox3361 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Great documentary.P47 certainly aeesome,and a flying tank with that double wasp!

  • @ScottCarlson-cz7wj
    @ScottCarlson-cz7wj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think the two workhorse fighters that did the most slugging in WW2 were the Thunderbolt and Hellcat. Not the sexiest but, they were the Mike Tysons. Fighters at heart that lived to fight, day after day after day. Brutes that did it all; dogfight, strafing, and bombing. My Dad had a jewish boss who flew thunderbolts in WW2. He knew he was toast if he was shot down. Once, he flew down a street at road level, and put his bombs through the double doors of a target building at the end of the street. Those guys were real men.

  • @glenndotter5065
    @glenndotter5065 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you greatest generation!

  • @pburgvenom
    @pburgvenom 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    C👀L MOVIE, THANKS FOR POSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🇺🇸

  • @danjohnston3422
    @danjohnston3422 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "Somebody in that field. Wonder who they are. No friend of mine..." Coooooold blooded. And pity the poor Italian locomotive engineers. Not hearing Jimmy Stewart anywhere in this. He's not the narrator.

    • @SachaSommer
      @SachaSommer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It does not say that he was the narrator. Have you watched the movie from the beginning?

    • @PauloPereira-jj4jv
      @PauloPereira-jj4jv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He wasn't the narrator, he just does the introduction.

    • @bobzooka6531
      @bobzooka6531 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The actors Jose Ferrer and Lloyd Bridges are the uncredited narrators. Jose Ferrerr's voice is the main one. It's Lloyd Bridges' voice that gives the line about "...no friend of mine..."

  • @John-ih2bx
    @John-ih2bx 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Awesome, thank you

  • @rogerrendzak8055
    @rogerrendzak8055 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Boy, the words to 'Little Brown Jug' sure changed, at the end. Ha-ha-ha, He-he-he☺️!!! I wonder if there was ANY CONNECTION, to that song, and the P-47's nickname🤔??? Anyone, anyone???

    • @extremelydeplorablebodean839
      @extremelydeplorablebodean839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I've heard the jug nickname came from the shape of the nose cowling & or that jug was short for juggernaut. Seems to me both fit.

    • @nobodyknows3180
      @nobodyknows3180 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I actually had to google that, and when I found a rendition of that song right here on You Tube, I realized that the melody is one that is very recognizable - but the song dates back to 1869, and the reference is to a little brown jug that a farmer and his wife are ever sipping off - sort of a chronic drinker's song. But as to why the P-47 was referred to as the Jug is the shape is that of an old milk bottle on its side - thick and flat at the nose and tapering towards the tail.

    • @louharlow5692
      @louharlow5692 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The name "JUG" was bestowed by the Brits - first P47s had a 3 blade prop- too slow in climb; then they came with a 4 blade and best of all was the 4 blade paddle prop! P47's was 1st plane to break sound barrier and not pull off the wings on pulling out of dive.

  • @R.boomhower
    @R.boomhower 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I think the P47 Thunderbolt was one of the most underated fighter - dive bomber. It was worthy to be used in Vietnam for its speed and dive bomber staffing performance, could carry the same payload as the Sky raider.

    • @PauloPereira-jj4jv
      @PauloPereira-jj4jv 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The Thunderbolt was not used not even in Korea.

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He said it was?

  • @timsparks1858
    @timsparks1858 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Best Tank buster of WW2. More effective than the Sherman tank.

  • @tomjoseph1444
    @tomjoseph1444 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I cannot imagine the modern Air Force tolerating the conditions that the Army Air Corps did back then.

  • @johnhopkins6260
    @johnhopkins6260 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Old man": my father was 27 when he landed at Gela, 29, Normandy

  • @dariostabletopbastelecke4846
    @dariostabletopbastelecke4846 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    17:21 Decorated like a Christmas tree😂🎉

  • @TheTerryGene
    @TheTerryGene 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    While James Stewart introduces the film, the actual narrator for the body of the documentary is Lloyd (“I guess I picked the wrong time to stop sniffin’ glue!”) Bridges.

  • @extremelydeplorablebodean839
    @extremelydeplorablebodean839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It was the 9th Army air corps tasked withground straffing whitched turnned out to be very dangerous when it came to German air feilds due to the flack guns, the Germans where sharpshooters when it came to flack guns. Many Airmen where shot down strafing German airfeilds.

  • @90836usaful
    @90836usaful ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Real American peace loving men with real purpose.

    • @SachaSommer
      @SachaSommer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Americans love war and weapons. Study a little history!

  • @petepal55
    @petepal55 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder how many times I've watched this?

  • @rongraham9372
    @rongraham9372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I mustvadmit on the ground the P47 looks like a lumbering Mustang on steroids. However, up in the air those profile attacks were absolutely amazing. Seen the P47 in a completely new light!!

  • @Allansybesma
    @Allansybesma 7 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Big, powerful, fast, could take big hits from enemy fire and fly back home.

  • @James_Knott
    @James_Knott 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This film was shot in 4:3, not 16:9. Please leave it that way, instead of destroying what the director intended!

  • @kennethcovert7218
    @kennethcovert7218 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The p47 thunderbolt reminds of the A 10 thunderbolt

  • @haroldhumerickhouse7904
    @haroldhumerickhouse7904 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The P47s on the strafing run are different than the razorback ones that took off from the base. They have bubble canopies. The canopied P47D variant. I’m not sure which particular canopy P47D variant.

  • @bobwelo
    @bobwelo 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

  • @michaelbailey2476
    @michaelbailey2476 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yankie fighters were brutal. They look so purposeful, built to absorb the blows and engines to match.

  • @billhillyer334
    @billhillyer334 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Be all you can get

  • @Tonetwisters
    @Tonetwisters 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lecithin, people ... lecithin and lots of it.

  • @parrotraiser6541
    @parrotraiser6541 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The print quality is very poor.

    • @TheStream
      @TheStream  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for your feedback! We strive to offer the best available versions of these films, but sometimes the quality of older prints can vary. We appreciate your patience and hope you still enjoyed the film!

  • @colintraveller
    @colintraveller หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thats a repost ripped another channel

  • @jason60chev
    @jason60chev หลายเดือนก่อน

    All Stewart did was to introduce the film. He's not a part of it, nor has anything to do with the story.

  • @sourcetext
    @sourcetext 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    One of the government and Hollywood propaganda movies ...just like today .

  • @bjam66
    @bjam66 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Serious aviation porn!

  • @lesliemeehan3724
    @lesliemeehan3724 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not a movie

  • @rongraham9372
    @rongraham9372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I mustvadmit on the ground the P47 looks like a lumbering Mustang on steroids. However, up in the air those profile attacks were absolutely amazing. Seen the P47 in a completely new light!!

  • @rongraham9372
    @rongraham9372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I mustvadmit on the ground the P47 looks like a lumbering Mustang on steroids. However, up in the air those profile attacks were absolutely amazing. Seen the P47 in a completely new light!!