26. Defeating the Axis in Africa and Europe

26e. Air Power














26a. Stopping the Axis in Africa | 26b. The Americans Arrive - The Allies Push the Axis out of North Africa | 26c. Stalingrad - Stopping the Axis on the East Front | 26d. Allied Invasion of Sicily and Italy; Kursk - Reversing the Tide on the East Front | 26e. Air Power | 26f. The British and the Resistance | 26g. D-Day, 6 June 1944 | 26h. End of the Third Reich | 26i. Germany Post-War





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Air War Over Europe

 

P-47 (Thunderbolt)

 

The Thunderbolts

Ramrod to Emden

1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4i1l10OvE

 

P-47

Film about American fighter P-47 (Thunderbolt) pilots based in Corsica in action over Italy in 1944 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWD4ITJGdTw

with better color quality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhN5NsuEDOQ

 

# 1. How To Fly The P-47

Pilot Familiarization

1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcGoc7P1MnA

# 2. How to fly the P-47

Ground Handling, Take-Off, Normal Flight, Landing

1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y3v1-WMJS8

# 3. How To Fly The P-47

High Altitude Flight and Aerobatics

1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWaHlnI_LQ

 

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B-17F Flying Fortress

 

B-17 Flying Fortress

Episode from the Battle Stations documentary series (56:19)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfLl_sv35Pk




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B-17 Flying Fortress on bombing mission

 

B-17 bombing Focke Wulf plant, Germany, 1943

 

FLAK

US Army Air Force training film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MsRNauv7rM

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYVwqHM488




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The Story of the Memphis Belle




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B-17F Memphis Belle


Memphis Belle

The Story of a Flying Fortress

B-17 airmen flew one tour, consisting of 25 missions, and were sent home

 

Documentary film of the 25th and last mission of a B-17F crew in 1943, one of the first B-17 crews to complete a tour in Europe

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1_D5crgPk 

(40 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1_D5crgPk

 

Same with better quality:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZO6UtAfxEM

 

Memphis Belle 1943 

 

A recent British version using same footage with another narrator

 

Removed from You Tube


 
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B-17 waist gunners

 

Combat America

Documentary film made with Clark Gable in 1943 and released in 1945 (black and white) (includes film footage of bombing raid of Antwerp)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUrCoM13kag

in color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOr5grxNneY


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The War Lover

1962 British movie about a B-17 crew in England in early 1943

 

With Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner

 

(1 hr. 50 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-V6SztfsXU

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe10SJJGTeo

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgFR7U0QEiA

 



An Extraordinary Code of Honour - A Higher Call


Germany


20 December 1943


About the book A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II by Adam Makos


CBC (2013) (11:34)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlZg1fEepY


or


https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2417300647


or


https://www.invidiou.sh/watch?v=YKlZg1fEepY 


 


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The Fight for the Sky

Our fighter pilots versus the Luftwaffe in Western Europe

US Army Air Force 1945 documentary film

American fighter planes in Europe

P-47 (Thunderbolt) (operational in England in early 1943);

P-38 (Lightning); and

P-51 (Mustang) (operational in Europe in early 1944)

Fighters escorted and protected bombers on bombing raids from England over the continent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEJa9iBPYb0

 

Lockheed P-38 (Lightning)


 

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Episode from the Great Planes series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8LHjSHuls 

 

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Pilot Flight Training Film (1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHSH1ZGSWe0

or, the same, as: 

Lockheed P-38 Flight Characteristics (1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_2UmiCoJk

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKtfvcfHizk

 

P-38 Lightning Strikes

Episode from the documentary series Battle Stations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFrBkI9m0Ng

 

Angel in Overalls

Documentary (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kcitDzrgdQ

 

P-38 Fighter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkgeYImUCoA

 

P-38 Lightnings Shoot Down Admiral Yamamoto

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKvJgFldgGA

 

Reconnaissance Pilot

Short movie with William Holden produced by the Army Air Corps (1944)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMK1MCV_0x0

 

A Personal Story

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBcvm9bmHDA

 

Charles Lindbergh and Antoine St-Exupery flew the P-38 in the war.


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Target for Today

1944 documentary film about US 8th Air Force daylight precision bombing of northern European cities, including Brandenburg, Danzig, Goynia and Marienburg, with B-17s and B-24s in 1943

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuRPP0rGh3A&feature=related

 


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 493d Bombardment Group B-17 Flying Fortress Formation.jpg


B-17s on bombing mission of ball-bearing factories in Schweinfurt, Germany, Oct. 14, 1943

 

Schweinfurt and Regensburg

August 17, 1943

Episode 14 of the US Air Force documentary series The Air Force Story

B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb Messerschmitt factory in Regensburg and ball bearing plants in Schweinfurt

Deepest penetration of Germany by B-17s to date

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEm49EgG1hs

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMCMTuuTfDg

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT3RY9HD69Y

 

Eighth Air Force Black Week

October 8 - 14, 1943

148 B-17s lost on raids of Bremen, Marienburg, Munster and Schweinfurt in Germany.

70th Anniversary (2013)

Lecture by Seth Paridon at the National WWII Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcf9QmItPNY

 

B-17Gs bomb Berlin, March 6, 1944 

 

B-17 flying through heavy enemy flak

 

Flak Training for (American) Pilots in WW 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYVwqHM488&feature=related

German flak towers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=morpAvNtdYc&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDWv917ZhjU&feature=related


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P-51 (Mustang)

Over Germany from January 1944

 

Conquest of the Air

Episode from the 1950s documentary series Air Power with Walter Cronkite on CBS-TV

The B-17s and P-51s over Germany in January 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKXKTh50USM


P-51 Mustang during WW2

Operational in Europe in early 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4Jl2wFKNE

 

North American P-51 Mustang

Documentary film from the Great Planes series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VuvbYfQawY

 

P-51 Mustang

A restored Mustang shows off its stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9iJBxR39Y

 

Flight characteristics of the P-51 airplane

1944 Army Air Force training film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSPmA_iH_w

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJtGXMdxGM

 

P-51 Mustang

Episode from the documentary series Warbirds of WWII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRXEqP2YSho

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuaTQ_orc7U 

 

Preddy, the Highest Scoring Mustang Ace

Documentary about George E. Preddy, WW2 flying ace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNj-2siJMg

 

Dogfights

Bud Anderson's P51

Documentary about the P-51 Mustang with WW2 flying ace Clarence E. ("Bud") Anderson

Two clips:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB6ka32iTbU

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85-HYbvfNE

 

Bud Anderson

2013 interview with P-51 Triple Ace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzzuMzOcKM

 

Conquest of The Air

1957 episode from the weekly Sunday CBS documentary series Air Power with Walter Cronkite

The P-51 (Mustang) fighter arrives in England and the B-17 bombers penetrate deeper into Germany; American fighter planes strafe the French countryside before D-Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RkPDL0i6yA

or

http://youtube2.download/convert.php?v=1RkPDL0i6yA

 

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The Battle of Berlin

23 August 1943  -  24 March 1944


Excerpt from part 2 of the 1986 documentary Wings of the Storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lHP_yiR-Qg

 

Wings of the Storm

Documentary

Part 1. The Volunteers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE7RuGMH7mU

Part 2. The Survivors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVPPPbQT1z4

                                      

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An RAF Night Bombing Raid on Berlin in early 1944

1944 documentary in colour by Air Commodore H. I. Cozens, station commander, Hemswell, of a night bombing raid on Berlin by the RAF’s No. 1 Group with Lancaster bombers in the winter of 1943/4


Bombers

RAF Bomber Command

(1:01:57)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7b_w5EX04E

or, the same but missing introduction:

Night Bombers

(59:17)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQAA2rcBno

 

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Operation Titanic

1944 bombing operations over Germany during WW2

Americans use Russian bases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGKETOf1S-U

 

B17G bombing railroad in Szob, north of Bucharest, Oct. '44

 

The fireboming of Dresden   -   the city in flames

 

Dresden bombed to atoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU3wkOGXlcY&list=PL5AE14178E6B9DD70

 

The Firebombing of Dresden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uopjdkvXbGw

 

How Germany was bombed to defeat

Episode from the documentary series Secrets of World War Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjcMhdjCiaI

 

Oblique aerial view of ruined residential and commercial buildings south of the Stadtpark (seen at upper right) in the Eilbek district of Hamburg, Germany. These were among the 16,000 multi-storeyed apartment buildings destroyed by the firestorm which developed during the raid by Bomber Command on the night of 27/28 July 1943 (Operation GOMORRAH). The road running diagonally from upper left to lower right is Eilbeker Weg.16,000 apartment buildings in Hamburg were destroyed by RAF fireboming in the night of July 27/28, 1943

 

The Bombing of Germany

American Experience documentary discusses aerial bombardment of Germany from November 1942 to May 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXauFZoJEwc

 

The Big City

Episode from the 2010 Canadian documentary series Warriors of the Night about the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1944 to 1945

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZqCYrdS_I

 

Bombing Germany

Episode from the 2001 BBC documentary series Timewatch about the final phase of the British bombing campaign

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=737PPxhTjUU (48:23)

 

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The Fighters

Episode 12 of 13 of the 1998 documentary series Clash of Wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pngVk58lBN0

 

Fighter Combat Formations

Attack and Escort

U. S. War Department training film narrated by Ronald Reagan (1943) (13:43)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Vke_HZtAE

 

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The Bombers

Episode 13 of 13 of the 1998 documentary series Clash of Wings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJFBOkdpV3A

 

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Messerschmitt Me. 262 


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German Messerschmitt Me. 262 - first jet fighter in combat, July 1944

 

Messerschmitt 262 - Race for the Jet

Documentary film from the Battle Stations series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOrPGLMYCM

Or, the same, as:

ME-262 Schwalbe 

Documentary from the series Wings of the Luftwaffe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNrY7X5_vg

 

Jet Fighters, Jet Bombers and V Weapons

or

German Jets And V1 And V2 Flying Bombs Of WW2 

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBCD7lW7F4o

 

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Gloster Meteor

 

British Gloster Meteor jet fighter, operational in July 1944

 

Gloster Meteor - British Jet fighter (Rare Footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q60bhhM3aWk

 

Development of the Gloster Meteor Jet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvrO5N4LjNA

 

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America's First Jet Flight

Bell XP-59A

October 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhF49AJrVg

 

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