german infantry in world war two

german infantry during world war two

Edit of various black&white WWII footage. Including aircraft bombing and strafing ground targets, gun camera and bomb-bay views, and bombers being shot down.

Vintage WWII colour footage of P-47 fighter-bombers of the 377th Squadron in Eta Vintage WWII colour footage of P-47 fighter-bombers of the 377th Squadron in Etaine strafing and bombing ground targets.   more...Features a mixture of external and gunsight veiwpoints.  less

war

war

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-S4x7h81JQ USS Midway in San Diego Harbour

This is a movie we are making for our world history class. By oNOProductions part 2 is coming soon.

P-47 "Jug" combat over Germany. What could be better?

history of p51 mustang

Another treat for fellow Spitfire fans (and who isn't?) have yet to pop this on MF so please be patient.

Misha Defonseca

intimidatingly intense beats - www2 archive footage - hopefully emphasises the human sacrifice
serving the will of others - fight to the last man ,,,,right
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certainly well-known facts discovering up

The Tupolev Tu-4 (NATO reporting name: Bull) was a piston-engined Soviet strategic bomber which served the Soviet Air Force from the late 1940s to mid 1960s. It was a reverse-engineered copy of the U.S.-made   more...Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
Stalin ordered Tupolev and his design bureau to copy the B-29s down to their smallest details, and produce a design ready for quantity production as soon as possible. Tupolev duly copied the B-29s bolt-by-bolt where possible, reverse engineering the design where necessary.

The Soviets used a different engine, the Shvetsov ASh-73, which had some parts in common with the Superfortress' Wright R-3350 but was not identical. The remote-controlled gun turrets were also redesigned to accommodate Soviet 23mm cannon.  less

something sinister called war - but putting this to better use - pointing you to my bl0g -only megavideo has any pop ups & they go away after one click - the rest are mostly private videos on chinese   more...hosts - all are easily downloaded as flv exactly like any online flash video - so why bother with bittorrent ?<a href=http://photo.livevideo.com/photo/aaa_439BCF0A146647D980EFBBAED2C66B60.aspx><img border=0 src=http://cdnl3.livevideo.com/image/12/330912/746574_po.gif></a>  less

Flamethrower tanks and AVREs etc

rare colour ww2 propaganda - bombing germany

No these are Russian planes. The Lisunov Li-2, originally designated PS-84 (NATO reporting name Cab), was a license-built version of the Douglas DC-3, produced by the GAZ-84 works near Moscow, and subsequently   more...at GAZ-34 in Tashkent.  less

The backbone of taking the war to the enemy for nearly half a decade was RAF Bomber Command. Great respect to the crews of the Lancasters and Halifaxes shown in this video. Only one thing bugs me about   more...the footage - they have obviously dubbed it; the sound of the explosions is in synch with the detonation and yet it must be miles away. Doc makers frequently cock this up - to hell with the physics, it's all for dramatic effect.  less

Rocket firing Typhoons WW2 - but that's just part of this excellent (IMHO) clip because you see other classic examples of the use of rocket projectiles in WW2 from the invasion barges to the first use   more...of SAMs, ground to air guided rockets. But IMO the most effective was the Tiffie hammering the Panzers post D Day.  less

this is a good video - rare historic archives

The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter, often referred to as simply the Beau, was a British long-range heavy fighter modification of the Bristol Aeroplane Company's earlier Beaufort torpedo bomber design. The   more...name Beaufighter is a portmanteau of "Beaufort" and "fighter". Unlike the Beaufort, the Beaufighter had a long career and served in almost all theatres of war in the Second World War, first as a night fighter, then as a fighter-bomber and eventually replacing the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber
By fighter standards, the Beaufighter Mk I was rather heavy and slow. It had an all-up weight of 16,000 lb (7,000 kg) and a maximum speed of only 335 mph (540 km/h) at 16,800 ft (5,000 m). Nevertheless this was all that was available at the time, as the otherwise excellent Westland Whirlwind had already been cancelled due to production problems with its engines.

The Beaufighter's main claim to fame would be that it was coming off the production lines at almost exactly the same time as the first British airborne radar sets. With the four 20 mm cannons mounted in the lower fuselage, the nose could accommodate the radar antennas, and the general roominess of the fuselage enabled the AI equipment to be fitted easily. Even loaded down to an even heavier 20,000 lb (9 t), the plane was still fast enough to catch the even slower German bombers. By early 1941, it was an effective counter to Luftwaffe night raids. The various early models of the Beaufighter soon commenced service overseas, where its rugged build and reliability soon made the aircraft popular with its crews.

A night-fighter Mk VIF was supplied to squadrons in March 1942, equipped with AI Mark VIII radar. As the faster de Havilland Mosquito took over in the night fighter role in mid to late 1942, the heavier Beaufighters made sterling contributions in other areas, such as anti-shipping, ground attack and long-range interdiction in every major theatre of operations.

In the Mediterranean, the USAAF's 414th, 415th, 416th and 417th Night Fighter Squadrons received 100 Beaufighters in the summer of 1943, achieving their first victory in July 1943. Through the summer the squadrons conducted both daytime convoy escort and ground-attack operations, but primarily flew defensive interception missions at night. Although the Northrop P-61 Black Widow fighter began to arrive in December 1944, USAAF Beaufighters continued to fly night operations in Italy and France until late in the war.

By the autumn of 1943 the Mosquito was available in enough numbers to replace the Beaufighter as the primary night fighter of the RAF. By the end of the war some 70 pilots serving with RAF units had become aces while flying Beaufighters.1941 saw the development of the Beaufighter Mk IC long-range heavy fighter. This new variant entered service in May 1941 with a detachment from No. 252 Squadron operating from Malta. The aircraft proved so effective in the Mediterranean against shipping, aircraft and ground targets that Coastal Command became the major user of the Beaufighter, replacing the obsolete Beaufort and Blenheim.

Coastal Command began to take delivery of the up-rated Mk VIC in mid 1942. By the end of 1942, Mk VICs were being equipped with torpedo-carrying gear, enabling them to carry the British 18-inch or the US 22.5-inch torpedo externally. The first successful torpedo attacks by Beaufighters came in April 1943, with No. 254 Squadron sinking two merchant ships off Norway.

The Hercules Mk XVII, developing 1,735 hp at 500 feet was installed in the Mk VIC airframe to produce the TF (Torpedo Fighter) Mk X - commonly known as the "Torbeau." The Mk X became the main production mark of the Beaufighter. The strike variant of the Torbeau was designated the "Mk XIC." Beaufighter TF Xs would make precision shipping attacks at wave-top height with torpedoes or rockets. Early models of the Mk Xs carried ASV (air-to-surface vessel) radar, but this was replaced in late 1943 by AI Mark VIII radar, house  less

German U Boat in Canada in WW2