Raptor01 Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Don’t know if these have been posted, but watched them last night. P-47 ops during the final days in th ETO, in color being readied and in action. The strafing in video 2 looks computer enhanced & colorized, nevertheless looks pretty cool. John https://youtu.be/BGbJ-85F1MQ https://youtu.be/AylvQVit9So Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted March 16, 2019 Share Posted March 16, 2019 Nice! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 On 3/16/2019 at 9:54 AM, Niels said: Nice! Not sure if I'd call those vids "nice". Some of those strafing videos are pretty gruesome but it brings home what total war is all about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GW8345 Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Very Nice, thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Johnopfor Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Interesting seeing the mixed "razorback" and "bubbletop" formations..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 15 hours ago, 11bee said: Not sure if I'd call those vids "nice". Some of those strafing videos are pretty gruesome but it brings home what total war is all about. War is never nice, but seeing color film from 70+ years ago like these are! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 6 hours ago, Niels said: War is never nice, but seeing color film from 70+ years ago like these are! Can’t argue with that. Do you think it’s all authentic or was some “colorized”? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Niels Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 Believe this is original. My grandfather took some color film back in late 30's using old 16mm film, and when my mother had this film copied to VHS at the time the gent doing the copying said the colors where amazing, and that you can't get better color rendition today. (His words, not mine) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Slartibartfast Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 While the quality was good, I wish enough research was done so that a voice-over identifying who, when and where was added instead of the music tracks. I'm reading Chris Bucholz's account of the 362FG at the moment and recognized their aircraft in several places. They had red fin tips with a black stripe underneath it and the typical red, yellow or blue squadron colors on their noses. It's difficult for this 61-year to realize most of those flyers were under the age of 25. The older guys were already flying desks. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
afspret Posted March 19, 2019 Share Posted March 19, 2019 seen small bits of the second one before but not all of it, or the first one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dutch Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 I'm building a couple of 366th FG Jugs and have their WWII memoris with lots of photos of life on the continent moving from one makeshift base to another supporting the gorund troops. There are several first hand accounts of individual missions and several of members getting shot down or crashing. Yes, most of these guys were young, definitley under 25 years old. Not sure what the survival rate was, but it was not as good as the bomber escort boys, I'll bet. Thanks for sharing the link. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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