Anyone else notice how brave those guys on the deck are? Combat soldiers and pilots got all the interviews in documentaries but those guys on the deck are the ones running into the fire to rescue those exhausted pilots.
1. Planes didn't fly anywhere close to that fast when they were landing. 100mph is equal to 45m/second and the aircraft carriers were about 200m and the runways even shorter. And we clearly see from the footage that the planes didn't finish the runway in 4 seconds. 2. If they were flying at 100mph they would have been easily made a pull around. 3. The planes would have sunk slowly giving the pilot plenty of time to get out. 4. Even If the water was cold the human could survive surprisingly long time. The passengers of RMS Titanic could have survived about 30 minutes in the water before dying.
@@deltavgaming3447 im fine but you have to understand that the waters werent cold. And you could survive maybe hours there if not eaten by a shark. Also the crew on the carrier could be rescuing you within a 1 minute of that happening. The net could easily caused a fire or an explosion. If not already killed the pilot while flipping over or the engine pushing through the pilot.
Let's just call it an even. But you surely are one of the people who was stopped by the net and hit your head pretty hard while doing flips with you airplane.
Total bravery, pilots, aircrew, and men on deck, and also the camera men filming all the close calls, our highest respect to all of them, thanks for posting this.
Poor WW2 pilots. Went on a long mission, tired, wounded, still have to find the carrier (a lot through calculations and maths !!!!), and then land damaged airplanes... What heroes.
@@vonjager that is complete nonsense, of the combatant nations, nearly every single one was desperate for pilots by 1944, and sent many out with less than 5 hours flight time in their designated aircraft. Virtually every aviator flew at least one combat sortie except in the final waning days of the war. Maybe you are referring to the statistic that only 1 in 10 pilots achieved an aerial victory in combat. Bearing in mind that dive bomber, torpedo bomber, recon, and rescue planes are also naval aviators.
No GPS then and if you still had a working compass you didn't know if your carrier task force had changed course since you took off hours before. I presume they had to maintain course and speed toward the air strike's target for precisely that reason but what if a Japanese submarine appeared? When the pilots left Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown for the Midway attack they didn't know if their floating airfields would still be floating when they returned. For some Japanese pilots, they weren't!
@@alexriesenbeck You lack imagination sir. I read your and Michael's comments and immediately put my bob hat on whilst I considered these theses. As i concur with the original statement I shall now .............and it is done, remove it again.
Things got just a little bit safer after a British Naval officer came up with the idea of the angled flight deck in the early 1950s. Overshooting the deck and dropping in the sea was off to one side avoiding being run over by the ship.
My friends grandad served on a carrier in WW2. A plane dropped into the water and was run over, but the pilot made it out and survived as he overshot far enough to get out without being run over
@@kdrapertrucker Usually, yes, but if the arrestor cable breaks while it's arresting you, you might not be able to reach flying speed again before going off the deck. Either way, the angled flight deck is a lifesaver.
I am continually overwhelmed with admiration for the people who served in combat roles during WW ll. The unimaginable physical, mental, and emotional stress through which they persevered. My Dad is one of them, RAF 1936-1946, B of B, Africa, Malta, France, Belgium, as aero engine crew. Today’s service people no longer fight for honourable causes. They fight for profiteering corporate interests who hide behind the images of past glories.
As a Vietnam era vet, I fully agree with you. Vietnam, and now Afghanistan, were never meant by our government to be won. Our men and women died just so corporate America could get richer and richer. In the end, NOTHING was accomplished but the loss of thousands of innocent American lives....and for what? And what about the billions of dollars in arms and equipment that was abandoned and left to the enemy for them to use? All so totally STUPID on the part of the American government and it's leaders.
Back in the 1960s I think it was I watched a film clip of carrier landings with Dad. One fellow came in spinning and everything tore off but the cockpit. It was an epic crash. Dad got excited. He had witnessed that landing. He said when the deck crew got to it they leaned over and puked. There was red all over the deck. Fortunately it was hydraulic fluid, not blood. The pilot merrily hopped out without a scratch on him. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
Oh my goodness John! Horrifying! Thank goodness it was only hydraulic fluid! Aircraft carrier landings are some of the most dangerous activity in the military; but I have learned a lot from watching countless movies like the one above, and am relieved that today's aircraft have FOUR cables for their tail-hook to catch, (and they must catch the 3rd one, at 150+mph!) It is precision flying at low speed and a high angle of attack. It is the definitive skill that sets carrier pilots apart from all others. It makes me so stressed when I hear a pilot, perhaps low on fuel, with a problem, and he just MUST make that first try to get on that deck! I know how well trained they are BEFORE they go to a carrier, but sometimes, s**t happens and they go into the drink. I always get upset at that! (I know they usually get them out, but there goes that multi-million-dollar jet, to the bottom.) It takes the precise cooperation of the deck people and the pilots to accomplish that difficult task of landing on a carrier. We wish them ALL, HAPPY LANDINGS and SAFE deck work!
@@ROGER2095 I know. Maybe I should have said "he would never have said that". I remember was I was watching the moon landing. I was eight years old in Nacogdoches, TX watching a B&W tv.
The stages of a carrier landing 1: find carrier 2: calculate how to land on said carrier 3: attempt to land on said carrier 4:Pray 5a: touchdown landed safely 5b: rough landing “ohsh*tohsh*tohsh*toh-“ 5c: completely miss the carrier splashdown Alternatively in War thunder: *Ironarmenian lands B-29 on a WW2 carrier*
@@tommygallagher5747 if they had seen the end result ,what the elite they helped gain even more power have done to their nations ,many would have said fuck it fight your own damn war
@@kurtmogensen4815 Perhaps. The "greatest generation" seems to me a misnomer of sorts. They were the ones who, instead of whipping the hide off their college aged children, let the lefties have them. The results were the filthy, stupid hippies who gave rise to the millennials, and now look at things. I won't blame an entire generation, but I will blame the entire human race for having allowed all this crap to happen in the first place. And Americans are the most guilty of all. People complain about tyranny. Well guess what: WE are the reason for it, not the tyrants, who are mere symptoms of a far deeper cancer.
@@andrewvida3829 Ah yes, the whole "millennial" argument. Proudly left and proudly able to ignore the intolerance of the generations before me. My respect to the men and women conscripted into wars they wanted no part in, but less respect to for the children born afterwards that act like they had some part in it.
This footage is simply amazing! My grandfather was a crew chief for an sb2c hell diver in ww2. Its always been a struggle to find almost any wartime footage of them in flight or landing. I wish my grandfather was still around so I could show him this. I remember growing up and him telling me stories, me going to the library looking through stacks of books for more information on that plane to my dismay almost none of the books had anything on it, and the ones that had anything were just mentions of it or maybe a picture or two. The other planes on his carrier were more prominent and there are tons of info on them, like the f4u corsair, f6f Hellcat, f4f wildcat,OS2U kingfisher which reminded.me.of the helldiver but with floats as a kid. I remember him telling me at the end of the war he could have bought his plane for $1 per hi that its engine made. Idk if this was true, but that would have been a hell of an investment seeing as there are only a few in existence now compared to most the other planes I mentioned. Of course I understand that even at $1,000 that was a fortune back then.
So there is actually absolute LOADS of footage of this stuff so I don’t know what you are talking about there. The Navy had a thing where if you were coming in for a rough landing they would record it. They did this throughout WW2 so that they could learn from their mistakes and better adapt landing procedures.
Amazing footage, no snowflakes, no men pretending to be women, no woke attitude and behavior. Just warriors with guts flying amazing aircraft and frightening missions. Hats off....
My dad served on one of those baby flat tops during WW2. He was a quartermaster and boatswains mate on the USS Long Island. CVE-1. These mishaps happened often, especially in training new pilots.
Seeing ground crew haul ass towards the damaged planes and sometimes even on fire planes makes me wish my generation was As great as the heroes in WWII. Much love
Austin Jeffris implying new grounds crews don’t do that for the high tech and expensive jets, not to mention back then they didn’t have rigorous training for sea landings so today’s world wouldn’t need that
I remember listening to ww2 vets talking about there experiences in the 70s and 80s. They all loved it and looked back fondly as they discribed their adventures. There isnt the same sense of adventure and heroism now.
War stories are rarely completely truthful. Nobody who has actually been in a war wants to talk about the fear, horror and suffering. So they remember the good things and edit the other stuff so it doesn't hurt so much. War stories are how we cope with an experience no man should have to suffer. No doubt they were true heroes and should be celebrated as such. But we all edit our histories to come up with a past we can live with. One problem with PTSD today is that the images of war are so quickly made public and so irreversable that it is hard for soldiers to reconcile their memories.
My great uncle Fred came back a completely changed man from World War 2. Sullen, rarely smiled, and had a hard time relating and becoming close with people. Fred was a navigator on a B-24 bomber. He was shot down over the Phillipines in 1944 and saw half his crew get mowed down before making back to American lines. For him, his memories terrorized him until the day he died.
William Koppos I would think that he probably had a better chance getting away from the plane for when it starts going down would have sucked him down with it like a small ship. He had his life vest on so he was good in the water.
Dale, the libtard snow cunts don’t care, impeach the Obama lovers and all snow flake Democrats and ship them to China and Russia... They love it there!
@@dasd1am0nd some air realistic battles have aircraft carriers,unfortunatelly you cant choose your mission, it's random but if you want to train first, choose a naval plane from us, british or ijn tree and then do a test flight, you will spawn on a carrier
It’s amazing to watch these men risk and loose their lives for someone like me, who wasn’t even born yet. So that I can be free. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
@@Kay_213_ Get over yourself, idiot. The statement about no submarines in the sky is a takeoff from a joke about submarines being left on the bottom of the sea versus airplanes never being left in the sky. Step away from the keyboard, because every time you post you reveal yourself to be more of an idiot.
Even in the best of weather with lots of wind coming over the deck, there is no such thing as a "rountine" trap. I have close to 1500 on three carriers and I can say without hesitation that I was never "relaxed" on a single one of them. Some, at night and in bad weather could make your heart pound so hard you could both feel it and hear it.
Are you referring to the catwalks? The Tomcats were notorious for coming up too high on the power taxiing clear lf the LA (Landing Area) and several people have been literally blown out of the catwalks. Fortunately, there are steel nets on the outside of many of the catwalks. I was blown down several times after deplaning by fighter jocks who came up too high on the power.
He sure smoked 'em, though! That was a real heavy airplane, but one that had serious problems; it signaled the end of Curtis as a defense contractor. There were congressional hearings into the delays and cost overruns on the Helldiver after the war. They probably did OK given the demands to engineer, tool, and mass-produce a plane under wartime conditions. The plane managed to fulfill its mission but it wasn't a favorite of pilots by any means.
You all need to go watch the clip of them landing a C-130 on a carrier, just to see if it could be done. No arrestor gear. All brakes and reverse prop baby. Even loaded up it was doable. th-cam.com/video/ar-poc38C84/w-d-xo.html
7:35 Outstanding bravery by the deck crew sailor attempting to extinguish that fuel ignited fire and wearing no protective suit ! I have seen the rest of that clip and they got the pilot out of the cockpit alive.
6:30 That landing was pretty epic actually. The engine is smoking, the pilot probably has lower visibility because of it but still manages to land and stop the plane fast and seemingly without many major damage .
I respectfully suggest that everyone get the series Victory At Sea. It was produced in 1953/53 for television and consists of 26 thirty minute episodes and the footage is incredible. It is also famous for the magnificent musical score by Richard Rogers. It has been called the longest symphony ever written.
My GPA was at 7:13 in the white fire suit.... He was running with his CO and almost got courtmarshalled for turning back to live instead of dying.... What do U THINK was the right call.... I can honestly say I think if he'd gone with his CO i wouldnt be here.... That's just me and it's also my life we're talking about.... And also I CAN PROVE IT!
@@funnerthanbefore4947 That is very interesting. I have seen that film clip literally dozens of times and wondered if those men on deck were hit when the plane crashed into the island. From your remark I presume that the officer was killed. You refer to him as your grandfather's CO, so was he the ship's captain, or a squadron commander? And I wonder why anyone would have been charged for getting out of the path of a crashing aircraft. Also, what ship was that?
@@mikebrown1926 actually noone was injured when it hit the tower.... The doorway stopped the propeller and didnt let the engine block through... But apparently it was filled with smoke pretty quickly.... The guy he was following was his boss is all I know... He was under order to follow and the guy pretty much didnt care how far behind he was... Thats the impression I got from the story i was told... My father has the service records sealed in a container in his bedroom... I hope to one day acquire the history he has in his possession and the knowlage that comes with it... Thats pretty much all i know besides what i initially wrote in the comments prior... Thanks for the interest in it..
It's awesome seeing the deckhands rushing to a damaged plane to help the pilots. After the 'Mission Beyond Darkness' one plane desperate to land in the dark landed right after another and it plowed into deckhands and planes, killing 3 or 4 men. The poor pilot had to carry the burden of this the rest of his life. These pilots not only had to fly to the target and head back at night time running low on fuel-they also had to crunch numbers with a pencil and knee pad to calculate the shortest route back. Incredible.
I was a Radioman on a carrier(CVA-31) and one rainy night during flight ops I was on the island structure and looked down into a Douglas Skyraider cockpit. The pilot was a young ensign and must have just cleared the height requirements. I commented to myself that his mother would be terrified if she saw the scene I was watching.
Sean McDonough I heard of one guy who fell overboard the USS Enterprise in 2012 and he still has really bad back issues... he writes online, check it out
That's a real common issue in Naval Aviation period. The aircraft, pilots, and deck crews all take a beating. The USN has lost more aircraft and manpower just getting AC on/off deck than to enemy action. There's a million ways to die on the roof of an aircraft carrier.
@@derekpowell1762 - Of course all allied hero's who fought and supported the war against Adolph were the greatest generation. I loved your video. Made me laugh. Great little pal you have there. Take care!
I had a client, used to be a regular at my Barbershop, named Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy flew Hellcats/Wildcats off carriers in the South Pacific. He use to grin and say he was "The worst pilot the Navy ever had!" When we asked why, he said 'cause every time i brought one back it was on fire, full of holes!' I said 'damn Jimmy, dont you get in trouble for that?' He said 'Hell yes, they put you in another plane and send you right back up!' Told us he piled up 11 planes during the war... R.I.P. James Olson!
It's hard to tell the difference between molten materials. You have to look closely at the way it flows. All molten metallic things glow a bright shade of orangeish yellowish.
These days, carrier pilots are among the best of the best. Trained to the highest of standards. These guys had mere months of training and maybe a couple hundred hours if they were lucky. AND they were dealing with new and unproven technology. It's amazing to watch.
We used to have man overboard drills when i was in the U.S Navy on a cruiser in Viet Nam. The Boatswain Mates would throw a dummy named Oscar overboard. Most of the time he missed the screws, but once in a while they hit him. The Boatswain Mates would just sew him together for the next drill.
Aside from a battlefield, the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is perhaps THE most dangerous workplace in the world. Huge respect for the deck crewman who risk life and limb to get these aircraft stopped, and the pilots out of their planes. They 've never received the credit they're due.
@Th Tough Huge respect for firefighters also, especially the firefighters on the flight deck of the carriers, affectionately known as Crispy Critters. The hazards they face are immense, and add to the statistics of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier being the most dangerous workplace on earth - in peacetime. Props to all firefighters and police and I acknowledge the danger they face, but my point is not the occupation, but the workplace itself.
Thank God for the Grumman Ironworks! They built tough, rugged machines that would keep a pilot or a crew alive, even if they were a hunk of junk on a flight deck. Many wrecks were salvaged for usable parts and components. Nothing was wasted by the aviation machinists' mates. If a plane wrecked and tied up the flight deck, then out of necessity because of other incoming planes, it would have to be jettisoned over the side.
An incredible part of history. Those planes were tough alright as tough as the pilots who flew them and the deck crews who kept them flying and saved so many lives.
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I feel for the people that placed their lives at such risk and the terror that people went through. If only man was not so stupid to start wars - if only. Have a nice day all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
Lol I remember war thunder as a German plane player I rarely see anyone try to land in the carrier if I ever do see one......well let say they are dead.
@Deus Vult boom n zoom well Japan and Germany plane might good at this then again there a idiot try to turn around but later to be caught with a spitfire shooting at your cockpit.........dive fast and get out fast when I was playing on german plane .
my grandfather who was a fighter pilot in the Pacific said WW2 was a dmmmn waste of human lives, resources, and property, and not to be like them and shoot at each other... but resolve your differences peacably... he called his generation the most dmmn foolish generation ever. He didn't want any awards or honors, he just wanted the whole dmmmn bvllsh1t to be over, because it had taken over everybody's lives. He left the service after it was over and went back to being a chemist.
Hero's are not born, They are forged thru hardships. They are tempered thru stress. They are the ones who thrive on the thing's that would make lesser give in. SALUTE!
According to someone else, it was an incendiary bomb that had failed to drop off its rack. It has a barometric fuse, so once the plane had reached a certain altitude, the bomb detonated and began leaking ignited napalm inside the bomb bay.
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I didn't see any fails. Just a lot of brave men bringing in their craft as best they could, and the terrific action of their deck crews...
Agree. And there's at least one fail, however small, in every takeoff, flight, and landing.
Tend to agree. And feel extreme sorrow for the ones that didn't survive the landing
@@ferdinandvries4032 I felt very humble and very sad by the end. 👍🏻
agreed
Love your comment. So true.
Anyone else notice how brave those guys on the deck are? Combat soldiers and pilots got all the interviews in documentaries but those guys on the deck are the ones running into the fire to rescue those exhausted pilots.
7:45 look at the guy left. wow
seegurke93.That guy deserves a medal! Because at great risk to his own life -he attempted to buy time to save the pilot (and ship).
The prop was just inches away as he ducked in with the extinguisher. Incredible bravery.
Unsung heroes
Jibriltz think of all the times that happened with no film crew recording? True unsung heroes.
I have great respect for these young men running fast without any fear to save the pilots. These are what real heroes look like.
"Introducing the safety barrier"
- well that doesn't look safe to me
Better then flying off the deck
@@intellectualbaguette7507 water's not dangerous but taking your wheels out is. And it's *than.
1. Planes didn't fly anywhere close to that fast when they were landing. 100mph is equal to 45m/second and the aircraft carriers were about 200m and the runways even shorter. And we clearly see from the footage that the planes didn't finish the runway in 4 seconds.
2. If they were flying at 100mph they would have been easily made a pull around.
3. The planes would have sunk slowly giving the pilot plenty of time to get out.
4. Even If the water was cold the human could survive surprisingly long time. The passengers of RMS Titanic could have survived about 30 minutes in the water before dying.
@@deltavgaming3447 im fine but you have to understand that the waters werent cold. And you could survive maybe hours there if not eaten by a shark. Also the crew on the carrier could be rescuing you within a 1 minute of that happening.
The net could easily caused a fire or an explosion. If not already killed the pilot while flipping over or the engine pushing through the pilot.
Let's just call it an even.
But you surely are one of the people who was stopped by the net and hit your head pretty hard while doing flips with you airplane.
Total bravery, pilots, aircrew, and men on deck, and also the camera men filming all the close calls, our highest respect to all of them, thanks for posting this.
Poor WW2 pilots. Went on a long mission, tired, wounded, still have to find the carrier (a lot through calculations and maths !!!!), and then land damaged airplanes... What heroes.
Only 1 in ten naval aviator in WWII saw actual combat.
vonjager not true
@@vonjager that is complete nonsense, of the combatant nations, nearly every single one was desperate for pilots by 1944, and sent many out with less than 5 hours flight time in their designated aircraft. Virtually every aviator flew at least one combat sortie except in the final waning days of the war.
Maybe you are referring to the statistic that only 1 in 10 pilots achieved an aerial victory in combat. Bearing in mind that dive bomber, torpedo bomber, recon, and rescue planes are also naval aviators.
@@vonjager WTF are you talking
No GPS then and if you still had a working compass you didn't know if your carrier task force had changed course since you took off hours before. I presume they had to maintain course and speed toward the air strike's target for precisely that reason but what if a Japanese submarine appeared? When the pilots left Enterprise, Hornet, and Yorktown for the Midway attack they didn't know if their floating airfields would still be floating when they returned. For some Japanese pilots, they weren't!
My hat is off to these pilots.
Literally.
I'm not wearing my hat right now.
I didn't even adorn a hat before viewing
So metaphorically
@@youriefavre9003 no, literally. Although I did put my hat on later.
@@alexriesenbeck You lack imagination sir.
I read your and Michael's comments and immediately put my bob hat on whilst I considered these theses.
As i concur with the original statement I shall now .............and it is done, remove it again.
Things got just a little bit safer after a British Naval officer came up with the idea of the angled flight deck in the early 1950s. Overshooting the deck and dropping in the sea was off to one side avoiding being run over by the ship.
My friends grandad served on a carrier in WW2. A plane dropped into the water and was run over, but the pilot made it out and survived as he overshot far enough to get out without being run over
Or.....with no aircraft parked in front of you you could advance the throttle and fly off the other end.
@@kdrapertrucker Usually, yes, but if the arrestor cable breaks while it's arresting you, you might not be able to reach flying speed again before going off the deck. Either way, the angled flight deck is a lifesaver.
"a good landing is where you can walk away from"
- _i forgot the person's name_
...¿Joe McCuack, DuckTales?
Gotta add swim away from to that
Was just thinking that exact same thing.
aro algezion skipper
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. Chuck Yeager (first man to break the sound barrier).
We must NEVER forget the bravery and determination of the flight and deck crew that gave so much for all of us.
If the planes on the ground and the pilots alive it’s a successful landing
THAT'S ME IN WAR THUNDER
Cowerdnerd Despacito too bad there no ground for hundreds of nautical miles
With the hellcats they flew it's amazing if no parts got torn off landing
Walk away: good landing. Use plane again immediately: great landing.
Wow who plays war thunder?
Music starting at 7:15 is Magic Surroundings' by Drift Far Away. Found it buried in the comments! LIKE THIS SO OTHERS CAN SEE!
Thank you
Thx
Very nice. Thx
It is available on Amazon Music. Downloaded immediately... Talk about evocative?
Too bad it's so damn short. A fine tune.
Hold J to leave your aircraft
*You got a hole in your right wing*
@@pjayx7320 BUT I DON"T HAVE A RIGHT WING.
war thunder? Lol
Forgot My Name J
Just Alt Control Del for quick ejection.
Very much respect for those WWII pilots and all the crews that were involved.
I am continually overwhelmed with admiration for the people who served in combat roles during WW ll. The unimaginable physical, mental, and emotional stress through which they persevered. My Dad is one of them, RAF 1936-1946, B of B, Africa, Malta, France, Belgium, as aero engine crew. Today’s service people no longer fight for honourable causes. They fight for profiteering corporate interests who hide behind the images of past glories.
my dad also RAF. WWII.
As a Vietnam era vet, I fully agree with you. Vietnam, and now Afghanistan, were never meant by our government to be won. Our men and women died just so corporate America could get richer and richer. In the end, NOTHING was accomplished but the loss of thousands of innocent American lives....and for what? And what about the billions of dollars in arms and equipment that was abandoned and left to the enemy for them to use? All so totally STUPID on the part of the American government and it's leaders.
Back in the 1960s I think it was I watched a film clip of carrier landings with Dad. One fellow came in spinning and everything tore off but the cockpit. It was an epic crash. Dad got excited. He had witnessed that landing. He said when the deck crew got to it they leaned over and puked. There was red all over the deck. Fortunately it was hydraulic fluid, not blood. The pilot merrily hopped out without a scratch on him. Any landing you can walk away from is a good one.
If the plane is on the ground and your alive then you landed
Someone else mentioned "Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing you can also reuse the aircraft, is a great one. "
@@jolene_simz You're a troll and an idiot.
How old are you
Oh my goodness John! Horrifying! Thank goodness it was only hydraulic fluid! Aircraft carrier landings are some of the most dangerous activity in the military; but I have learned a lot from watching countless movies like the one above, and am relieved that today's aircraft have FOUR cables for their tail-hook to catch, (and they must catch the 3rd one, at 150+mph!) It is precision flying at low speed and a high angle of attack. It is the definitive skill that sets carrier pilots apart from all others. It makes me so stressed when I hear a pilot, perhaps low on fuel, with a problem, and he just MUST make that first try to get on that deck! I know how well trained they are BEFORE they go to a carrier, but sometimes, s**t happens and they go into the drink. I always get upset at that! (I know they usually get them out, but there goes that multi-million-dollar jet, to the bottom.)
It takes the precise cooperation of the deck people and the pilots to accomplish that difficult task of landing on a carrier. We wish them ALL, HAPPY LANDINGS and SAFE deck work!
"Never fly the A model of anything" - Pilot Edward Thompson
Chippyho123 if everyone followed Thompson’s logic we wouldn’t have aviation. We would be a bunch of cowardly landlubbers.
what about the fw190a
Neil Armstrong never said that
@@truckindave1 Armstrong wasn't in the A model when he landed on the moon.
@@ROGER2095
I know. Maybe I should have said "he would never have said that".
I remember was I was watching the moon landing. I was eight years old in Nacogdoches, TX watching a B&W tv.
The stages of a carrier landing
1: find carrier
2: calculate how to land on said carrier
3: attempt to land on said carrier
4:Pray
5a: touchdown landed safely
5b: rough landing “ohsh*tohsh*tohsh*toh-“
5c: completely miss the carrier splashdown
Alternatively in War thunder:
*Ironarmenian lands B-29 on a WW2 carrier*
Feltorum stages of landing in warthunder
1 find carrier
2 land on carrier
3 fail
4 explode and die
Stages in war thunders carrier landings:
A: find the ship
B: crash land on purpose
GhostArmy1 Kamikaze
Feltorum this is me in war thunder add me I’m lonely playing this game jeancarlos700
Then go change your pants.
What an adrenaline rush this must have been. You brave men. May you rest in peace and always be remembered.
Nowadays those rushes are unimaginable... Highest adrenaline when TV remote disappears 🤭🙄
@@mailempfaenger u okay maam crazy
The Greatest Generation, mostly passed on now. May they rest in peace, their battles over.
I feel fortunate to have been alive and to have met so many of the greatest generation. Sad that they are mostly all gone.
I’m sad I didn’t meet much any of them
@@tommygallagher5747 if they had seen the end result ,what the elite they helped gain even more power have done to their nations ,many would have said fuck it fight your own damn war
@@kurtmogensen4815 Perhaps.
The "greatest generation" seems to me a misnomer of sorts. They were the ones who, instead of whipping the hide off their college aged children, let the lefties have them. The results were the filthy, stupid hippies who gave rise to the millennials, and now look at things.
I won't blame an entire generation, but I will blame the entire human race for having allowed all this crap to happen in the first place. And Americans are the most guilty of all.
People complain about tyranny. Well guess what: WE are the reason for it, not the tyrants, who are mere symptoms of a far deeper cancer.
@@andrewvida3829 Ah yes, the whole "millennial" argument.
Proudly left and proudly able to ignore the intolerance of the generations before me. My respect to the men and women conscripted into wars they wanted no part in, but less respect to for the children born afterwards that act like they had some part in it.
These were brave SOB's.. sad to think most of them have passed by now.. but I am grateful for their service! Amen..
So true..dying daily by the hundreds..Americas finest going home one last time!
6:13 That's some mighty fine flying right there.
Couldn't have executed it better
This footage is simply amazing! My grandfather was a crew chief for an sb2c hell diver in ww2. Its always been a struggle to find almost any wartime footage of them in flight or landing. I wish my grandfather was still around so I could show him this. I remember growing up and him telling me stories, me going to the library looking through stacks of books for more information on that plane to my dismay almost none of the books had anything on it, and the ones that had anything were just mentions of it or maybe a picture or two. The other planes on his carrier were more prominent and there are tons of info on them, like the f4u corsair, f6f Hellcat, f4f wildcat,OS2U kingfisher which reminded.me.of the helldiver but with floats as a kid. I remember him telling me at the end of the war he could have bought his plane for $1 per hi that its engine made. Idk if this was true, but that would have been a hell of an investment seeing as there are only a few in existence now compared to most the other planes I mentioned. Of course I understand that even at $1,000 that was a fortune back then.
So there is actually absolute LOADS of footage of this stuff so I don’t know what you are talking about there. The Navy had a thing where if you were coming in for a rough landing they would record it. They did this throughout WW2 so that they could learn from their mistakes and better adapt landing procedures.
This compilation just shows all the ones that lived; maybe show some of the heroes that died crashing on deck, or going over the side.....
Amazing footage, no snowflakes, no men pretending to be women, no woke attitude and behavior. Just warriors with guts flying amazing aircraft and frightening missions. Hats off....
My dad served on one of those baby flat tops during WW2. He was a quartermaster and boatswains mate on the USS Long Island. CVE-1. These mishaps happened often, especially in training new pilots.
Seeing ground crew haul ass towards the damaged planes and sometimes even on fire planes makes me wish my generation was As great as the heroes in WWII. Much love
Austin Jeffris implying new grounds crews don’t do that for the high tech and expensive jets, not to mention back then they didn’t have rigorous training for sea landings so today’s world wouldn’t need that
I remember listening to ww2 vets talking about there experiences in the 70s and 80s. They all loved it and looked back fondly as they discribed their adventures. There isnt the same sense of adventure and heroism now.
War stories are rarely completely truthful. Nobody who has actually been in a war wants to talk about the fear, horror and suffering. So they remember the good things and edit the other stuff so it doesn't hurt so much. War stories are how we cope with an experience no man should have to suffer. No doubt they were true heroes and should be celebrated as such. But we all edit our histories to come up with a past we can live with. One problem with PTSD today is that the images of war are so quickly made public and so irreversable that it is hard for soldiers to reconcile their memories.
My great uncle Fred came back a completely changed man from World War 2. Sullen, rarely smiled, and had a hard time relating and becoming close with people. Fred was a navigator on a B-24 bomber. He was shot down over the Phillipines in 1944 and saw half his crew get mowed down before making back to American lines.
For him, his memories terrorized him until the day he died.
ww2 at 70s and 80s, how many drinks you all had or maybe you are just plain stupid.
@@mangoje9260 hes talking about WW2 veterans sharing their experiences during the 70's and 80's not that WW2 started during the 70's and 80's
@pyropulse Can you *not* call paying attention to PTSD "pussifying"?
Sound effects are a great bonus!
That's Michael Hordern doing the narration. One of the best voices ever, and my favourite Gandalf.
Pilot at 2:50 casually dives into raging Pacific like its a backyard kiddie pool. Talk about stones on these guys.
Yeah got a kick out of that too. Just strolls out onto the wing, takes in the view, and slips into the big pond. One of the lucky ones.
William Koppos I would think that he probably had a better chance getting away from the plane for when it starts going down would have sucked him down with it like a small ship. He had his life vest on so he was good in the water.
Warm water, life preserver, with tons of ships around. My kids are braver going off the high diving board.
They did this to make America free. Now we let the liberal snowflakes shit on my fathers memory , this SJW and globalist commie shit MUST STOP
Dale, the libtard snow cunts don’t care, impeach the Obama lovers and all snow flake Democrats and ship them to China and Russia... They love it there!
Brings home how brave these pilots were and the risks they faced
Все эти летчики - герои!
I have to say that the Foley work on this film is beyond measure...
7:36 that guy deserve a lot of respect!
All solders and vets do, they went through a lot to keep our country free for generations to come
The fire you can see is much less than the invisible flames.
Crash Landing
Critical damage, plane can not be repaired
Hold J to leave your aircraft
Fucking tourist!
war thunder reference
You got a hole in your right wing!
Im which modi can i land on an acc? (Yes im a noob)
@@dasd1am0nd some air realistic battles have aircraft carriers,unfortunatelly you cant choose your mission, it's random
but if you want to train first, choose a naval plane from us, british or ijn tree and then do a test flight, you will spawn on a carrier
It’s amazing to watch these men risk and loose their lives for someone like me, who wasn’t even born yet. So that I can be free. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Is the plane on the ground? ✅
Is the pilot alive? ✅
Perfect landing
I have lived a good life as a result of the brave souls in this video....and many many others. Thank you all. Godspeed.
The sea beds must be littered with broken aircraft.
Craig Welsh it’s a big sea.
Just look at Lake Michigan. You won’t believe how many are down there! XD
But no submarines in the sky.
Yeah well no shit because submarines don’t fucking FLY KAREN
@@Kay_213_ Get over yourself, idiot. The statement about no submarines in the sky is a takeoff from a joke about submarines being left on the bottom of the sea versus airplanes never being left in the sky.
Step away from the keyboard, because every time you post you reveal yourself to be more of an idiot.
Yep, brave flyers, great planes and ships, stupid wars.
It’s satisfying seeing a pilot land on the carrier without much trouble.
1:59 The noise of a Pratt and Whitney R-2800-10W Double Wasp Engine. Just beautiful.
Beautiful footage
Even in the best of weather with lots of wind coming over the deck, there is no such thing as a "rountine" trap. I have close to 1500 on three carriers and I can say without hesitation that I was never "relaxed" on a single one of them. Some, at night and in bad weather could make your heart pound so hard you could both feel it and hear it.
Steve Hammond, Thank you for your service Sir!
It sounds like a lot but that is really about average for someone who stayed in as long as I did (25 years) before I retired.
one question, did the men standing on the lower sides of the carriers airstrip ever get pummeled by the air craft that would land in that crevice?
Are you referring to the catwalks? The Tomcats were notorious for coming up too high on the power taxiing clear lf the LA (Landing Area) and several people have been literally blown out of the catwalks. Fortunately, there are steel nets on the outside of many of the catwalks. I was blown down several times after deplaning by fighter jocks who came up too high on the power.
1500 traps. man thayt's awesome1 send me a note if you ever plan to be in central nc. were you ever at Pax river?
6:13 I'm amazed a plane with a missing tail hook was able to stop by only using it's brakes.
He sure smoked 'em, though! That was a real heavy airplane, but one that had serious problems; it signaled the end of Curtis as a defense contractor. There were congressional hearings into the delays and cost overruns on the Helldiver after the war. They probably did OK given the demands to engineer, tool, and mass-produce a plane under wartime conditions. The plane managed to fulfill its mission but it wasn't a favorite of pilots by any means.
And the Helldiver was one of the heaviest embarked plane of the time!
The SB2C ... otherwise known as the SonofaBitch second class!
He did an impressive job bring it down with only smoked tires.
You all need to go watch the clip of them landing a C-130 on a carrier, just to see if it could be done. No arrestor gear. All brakes and reverse prop baby. Even loaded up it was doable.
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7:35 Outstanding bravery by the deck crew sailor attempting to extinguish that fuel ignited fire and wearing no protective suit ! I have seen the rest of that clip and they got the pilot out of the cockpit alive.
was not very smart of him though.
Putting pressure inside that burning tank can (and did) make it into a volcano. He was lucky
@@anomalyp8584 what was that pouring out ? molten aluminum ?
@@swampratt36 I actually don't know what it is. Because fuel doesn't burn that way, the way it burns reminds me of Napalm. It might be oil too.
горит магний.
@@swampratt36 I thought maybe magnesium, burns at 3100°C.
こういうのを見ると、改めて空母への着艦がどれだけ難しいテクニックかが嫌でもわかる。
*Amazing footage..God Bless our Veterans..God Bless America* 🇺🇸
Am i the only one who feels emotional to these videos?
🥺🥺🥺
6:30 That landing was pretty epic actually. The engine is smoking, the pilot probably has lower visibility because of it but still manages to land and stop the plane fast and seemingly without many major damage .
Война дело опасное и не для слабых духом...морские лётчики это элита авиации...честь и хвала выполняющим присягу
This compilation takes "another happy landing" to a whole new level
No fails at all! The country's greatest generation doing their very best in very trying, exhausting and dangerous conditions
"You have got a hole in your right wing"
More like 'There's a stub that used to be your right wing.'
James Robert good one ^_^
Left wing*
You got a wing in your right hole
left
Восхищаюсь смелостью пилотов и корабельной команды. Это завораживает.
My respect for those brave pilots and ship crew. That's amazing!
Солидарен.
На это приятно смотреть
@@pushokneko4714 STO ICIO RUSKI MOZET NAPISAT.
PROSTO MUSOR MIRA...........................
I respectfully suggest that everyone get the series Victory At Sea. It was produced in 1953/53 for television and consists of 26 thirty minute episodes and the footage is incredible. It is also famous for the magnificent musical score by Richard Rogers. It has been called the longest symphony ever written.
Agreed, Mike. And the musical score alone is worth the effort it takes to find the series.
My GPA was at 7:13 in the white fire suit.... He was running with his CO and almost got courtmarshalled for turning back to live instead of dying.... What do U THINK was the right call.... I can honestly say I think if he'd gone with his CO i wouldnt be here.... That's just me and it's also my life we're talking about.... And also I CAN PROVE IT!
@@jamesevans9007 who doesn't like some bad👽ss music when they're watching they're GPA kick some A$$!!!???? 🍻
@@funnerthanbefore4947 That is very interesting. I have seen that film clip literally dozens of times and wondered if those men on deck were hit when the plane crashed into the island. From your remark I presume that the officer was killed. You refer to him as your grandfather's CO, so was he the ship's captain, or a squadron commander? And I wonder why anyone would have been charged for getting out of the path of a crashing aircraft. Also, what ship was that?
@@mikebrown1926 actually noone was injured when it hit the tower.... The doorway stopped the propeller and didnt let the engine block through... But apparently it was filled with smoke pretty quickly.... The guy he was following was his boss is all I know... He was under order to follow and the guy pretty much didnt care how far behind he was... Thats the impression I got from the story i was told... My father has the service records sealed in a container in his bedroom... I hope to one day acquire the history he has in his possession and the knowlage that comes with it... Thats pretty much all i know besides what i initially wrote in the comments prior... Thanks for the interest in it..
Исторические,, кадры,,, очень,, интересно,,, смотреть,, спасибо,, за,, ролик,, Автору,,
Navy pilots are the greatest airmen
These pilots are real heroes, thank you for serving our nation
It's awesome seeing the deckhands rushing to a damaged plane to help the pilots. After the 'Mission Beyond Darkness' one plane desperate to land in the dark landed right after another and it plowed into deckhands and planes, killing 3 or 4 men. The poor pilot had to carry the burden of this the rest of his life.
These pilots not only had to fly to the target and head back at night time running low on fuel-they also had to crunch numbers with a pencil and knee pad to calculate the shortest route back. Incredible.
I was a Radioman on a carrier(CVA-31) and one rainy night during flight ops I was on the island structure and looked down into a Douglas Skyraider cockpit. The pilot was a young ensign and must have just cleared the height requirements. I commented to myself that his mother would be terrified if she saw the scene I was watching.
He would have told you not to tell his mother lmao
I see no fails just brave men doing what I can't.
I dont know how they could fly with such balls of steel
That was amazing to watch. Thank you to all of those brave pilots who are trying to do so much with such little technology. True heroes!
I love how planes look like they weigh the same as a balloon when they are landing.
I wonder how many of those pilots suffered from back issues later in life...
Sean McDonough I heard of one guy who fell overboard the USS Enterprise in 2012 and he still has really bad back issues... he writes online, check it out
Yep sparring the details, my uncle was a test pilot for the Air Force his back didn't fare well.
That's a real common issue in Naval Aviation period. The aircraft, pilots, and deck crews all take a beating. The USN has lost more aircraft and manpower just getting AC on/off deck than to enemy action. There's a million ways to die on the roof of an aircraft carrier.
all of them
I was thinking the same thing. I've have a fused back, and seeing them sitting up high like that in the Avengers made my back hurt...
These American Hero's who survived their landings were right back at it within days. Takes courage and determination. Bless em all.
One at least was a raf spitfires mate just saying
@@derekpowell1762 - Of course all allied hero's who fought and supported the war against Adolph were the greatest generation. I loved your video. Made me laugh. Great little pal you have there. Take care!
I had a client, used to be a regular at my Barbershop, named Jimmy Olsen. Jimmy flew Hellcats/Wildcats off carriers in the South Pacific. He use to grin and say he was "The worst pilot the Navy ever had!" When we asked why, he said 'cause every time i brought one back it was on fire, full of holes!' I said 'damn Jimmy, dont you get in trouble for that?' He said 'Hell yes, they put you in another plane and send you right back up!' Told us he piled up 11 planes during the war... R.I.P. James Olson!
7:28 appreciate the help boys but I don't think fire extinguisher will do it against molten lava
Peter R What the hell was that even
@@polarbear6479 The engine melting I would think
@@pimzk2 Looks more like molten aluminum, would there be that much magnesium in an aircraft engine?
@@polarbear6479 Dunno, but it looks a lot like thermite. Coudl the aluminum casings have ignited? Seems unlikely, but you never know.
It's hard to tell the difference between molten materials. You have to look closely at the way it flows. All molten metallic things glow a bright shade of orangeish yellowish.
did dude at 7:22 got shot through the back? broken glass and blood on the windshield?
Благодарю за кадры!!!
These days, carrier pilots are among the best of the best. Trained to the highest of standards. These guys had mere months of training and maybe a couple hundred hours if they were lucky. AND they were dealing with new and unproven technology. It's amazing to watch.
Eric 'winkle' brown was the greatest of all naval aviators.
I salute the brave airmen and deck crewmen for their courageous service. God bless everyone of them.🇺🇸🇨🇦
2:17 After a tragic water crash, probably survivable, he is run over by the ship.
IL2 sturmovik everyday
@Paul Pflaum
Probably will take you back in Tupperware too
@Paul Pflaum
Dumb joke pay it no mind
We used to have man overboard drills when i was in the U.S Navy on a cruiser in Viet Nam. The Boatswain Mates would throw a dummy named Oscar overboard. Most of the time he missed the screws, but once in a while they hit him. The Boatswain Mates would just sew him together for the next drill.
Paul Pflaum Wow, any details on who the guy was???
Aside from a battlefield, the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is perhaps THE most dangerous workplace in the world. Huge respect for the deck crewman who risk life and limb to get these aircraft stopped, and the pilots out of their planes. They 've never received the credit they're due.
@Th Tough Huge respect for firefighters also, especially the firefighters on the flight deck of the carriers, affectionately known as Crispy Critters. The hazards they face are immense, and add to the statistics of the flight deck of an aircraft carrier being the most dangerous workplace on earth - in peacetime. Props to all firefighters and police and I acknowledge the danger they face, but my point is not the occupation, but the workplace itself.
God Bless and Thank Them All.
A moment of silence for all of those heroes who died in those accidents
Thank God for the Grumman Ironworks! They built tough, rugged machines that would keep a pilot or a crew alive, even if they were a hunk of junk on a flight deck.
Many wrecks were salvaged for usable parts and components. Nothing was wasted by the aviation machinists' mates.
If a plane wrecked and tied up the flight deck, then out of necessity because of other incoming planes, it would have to be jettisoned over the side.
An incredible part of history. Those planes were tough alright as tough as the pilots who flew them and the deck crews who kept them flying and saved so many lives.
Rare footage of us navy doing japanese kamikaze on their own ships..
its look like japan ship air carrier 2:08-2:10
@@sabilaahmad3731 no
WHAT A CRAP STATEMENT ! YOU OBVIOUSLY ARE NOT A CHILD OF A NAVY VETERAN ! SHAME ON YOU . 👉WHIMP👈 🇺🇸
Jim Millier spell wimp right first
@@s.y4580 Let Me know how Well Your Brain works after 2 Major Brain Surgeries and Diffuse Axonal Traumatic Brain Injury ! Just being able to See and use these little buttons is a Milestone . 🇺🇸 Patriot and 2nd Amendment Defender for Life .
Помним Героев. Спасибо вам за Победу.
Эти парни спасали жизни на восточном фронте тоже!!!! ✌️👌🤗
So many pilot sacrifice of their life to made us to fly safe in 2020
Tough machines and even tougher men.
This was my Mom and Dad's generation.
God bless them all.
At 66, i feel i owe these men something....
These are your real heroes boys and girls don't get them confused with sports figures.
Живая история, вечная слава и память, солдатам и солдатам - кинооператорам
Да, было время.
I feel for the people that placed their lives at such risk and the terror that people went through. If only man was not so stupid to start wars - if only. Have a nice day all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
"But some got down all wrong." A good British writer and narrator does not miss THAT opportunity!
And let the war thunder flashbacks begin
Miles til if the plane is on the ground and the pilot is alive it’s a successful landing
I feel like the only war thunder player that can properly land on a carrier
@@ghostarmy1106 it's not so hard anymore. Used to be really hard.
Lol I remember war thunder as a German plane player I rarely see anyone try to land in the carrier if I ever do see one......well let say they are dead.
@Deus Vult boom n zoom well Japan and Germany plane might good at this then again there a idiot try to turn around but later to be caught with a spitfire shooting at your cockpit.........dive fast and get out fast when I was playing on german plane .
My Dad was on RN carriers in WW2, mainly Hellcats. His wartime photo album has some amazing pictures.
The scene at 7:50 never ceases to amaze me. Bravery, dedication, professionalism. The guy in the fire suit never flinched, never wavered.
We should all aspire to be that person. No matter what.
my grandfather who was a fighter pilot in the Pacific said WW2 was a dmmmn waste of human lives, resources, and property, and not to be like them and shoot at each other... but resolve your differences peacably... he called his generation the most dmmn foolish generation ever. He didn't want any awards or honors, he just wanted the whole dmmmn bvllsh1t to be over, because it had taken over everybody's lives. He left the service after it was over and went back to being a chemist.
What I love is, No "Critical Past" watermark across the whole video, great job FootageArchive!
Hero's are not born, They are forged thru hardships. They are tempered thru stress. They are the ones who thrive on the thing's that would make lesser give in.
SALUTE!
Well said!
That fire scene from 7:27 is truly remarkable.
I'd like to know what happened there. Maybe molten aluminum.
According to someone else, it was an incendiary bomb that had failed to drop off its rack. It has a barometric fuse, so once the plane had reached a certain altitude, the bomb detonated and began leaking ignited napalm inside the bomb bay.
It is probably one of the early napalm bombs used in the latter part of the Pacific war
The one dude on the right keeps missing with the fire extinguisher
@@blumpfreyfranks8863 That makes sense. It didn't seem to be fuel, I thought maybe lubricant, but that is just like napalm.
The greatest generation, that ever was.
As I saw from this video more planes were actually lost during the landing on a carrier than in combat.
Angle flight decks really helped. Thank you Brits!
Yeah, watching so many of these planes hitting the island was awful.