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(LiveLeak)   Can you handle 7 minutes with those brave battling bastards who flew over Europe in WWII. Now in colour   ( liveleak.com) divider line
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AirForceVet [TotalFark]
2014-06-22 12:33:58 PM  
In WWII, the Army Air Corps suffered more casualties than the Navy and the Marines combined. Most people don't realize how insane it was, getting into flying metal tubes over and over again to get shot out of the sky during missions.

Bombing runs over Europe wasn't as dramatic as storming beaches with John Wayne.

/Former father-in-law was a B-17 radio operator.
//Got shot down, parachuted & got captured as POW.
 
Badmoodman
2014-06-22 01:56:57 PM  
We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?
 
studebaker hoch
2014-06-22 02:45:52 PM  
It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.
 
reveal101
2014-06-22 02:53:37 PM  

Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?


War Thunder with Oculus Rift
 
some_beer_drinker
2014-06-22 03:00:27 PM  

reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift


i play war thunder.
 
thehobbes [TotalFark]
2014-06-22 03:13:30 PM  

some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.


I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race
 
Maynotlast
2014-06-22 03:22:38 PM  

reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift


That is AWESOME!
 
Diagonal [TotalFark]
2014-06-22 03:30:37 PM  
My father-in-law (RIP) flew those missions as nose gunner/navigator. He would NOT watch that kind of footage. He would leave the room when they came onto the TV. He would stay gone for about an hour.
 
thesloppy
2014-06-22 03:55:04 PM  

Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?


You just know half the Russian air-force has mounted dash-cams in their cockpits by now (to prevent aeronautical insurance fraud), we just have to wait for that footage to trickle out.
 
Bruce the Deuce
2014-06-22 05:42:54 PM  

studebaker hoch: It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.


The video was titled "World War II air combat color footage". Only subby knows why he would think it was only Europe.
 
darth_shatner
2014-06-22 06:08:01 PM  

studebaker hoch: It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.


Not to mention a Betty or Peggy bomber too.
 
zimbomba63
2014-06-22 07:18:48 PM  

darth_shatner: studebaker hoch: It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.

Not to mention a Betty or Peggy bomber too.


Who can blame the U,S., when the damn Nazis are crashing their planes into our aircraft carrier parked off of Hamburg.
 
Repo Man
2014-06-22 07:28:41 PM  
That Liveleak link would only play for a few seconds for me, and I tried three different browsers. In case anyone else has that problem, here's the same clip on YouTube.
 
Allen262
2014-06-22 08:03:13 PM  

thehobbes: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race


Combat Flight Sim 2 player/modder. I build planes and objects. Have Combat Flight Sim 1 and 3 around some place....
 
Tyrone Slothrop
2014-06-22 10:04:52 PM  
Serious question: was it more dangerous to fly in WWI or WWII?
 
phaseolus
2014-06-22 10:26:01 PM  

Diagonal: My father-in-law (RIP) flew those missions as nose gunner/navigator. He would NOT watch that kind of footage. He would leave the room when they came onto the TV. He would stay gone for about an hour.


I guess everyones' reactions was different. My dad was a navigator on a B-24 in the Pacific, and this kind of footage didn't seem to bother him any. I don't think he liked "12 O'Clock High" very much - it was in syndication when I was a kid and I watched it all the time - but I think that was because it probably bothered him if they got something wrong.

This *particular* video drives me up a wall due to the stupid editing and the obvious audio "enhancements". Normally I'd love something like this but I couldn't watch more than a minute.
 
Lokasenna
2014-06-22 10:53:29 PM  

thehobbes: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race


War Thunder is on PC, and the sim mode is more realistic than any sane person would actually want. They just added playable tanks and mixed battles too, but it's a bit of a shiatshow at the moment.
 
TeamEd
2014-06-22 11:11:45 PM  

Tyrone Slothrop: Serious question: was it more dangerous to fly in WWI or WWII?


WW1 was typically more dangerous, but it depended on the front and who you were fighting for.
 
cuzsis
2014-06-23 12:02:00 AM  

Lokasenna: thehobbes: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race

War Thunder is on PC, and the sim mode is more realistic than any sane person would actually want. They just added playable tanks and mixed battles too, but it's a bit of a shiatshow at the moment.


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/have really enjoyed IL2
//an oldie but a goodie.
 
Repo Man
2014-06-23 12:03:26 AM  
This guy has done an impressive job of using Il2 1946 in combination with other animation and live actors to recreate some German intercept missions. Not that a mission in an American heavy bomber was ever easy, but those prior to the introduction of the P-51 and its ability to escort them all of the way to the targets must have been especially terrifying.
 
reveal101
2014-06-23 01:28:04 AM  

some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.


RunAwayFetus on War Thunder. Reveal101 on steam.
 
some_beer_drinker
2014-06-23 03:58:18 AM  

reveal101: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

RunAwayFetus on War Thunder. Reveal101 on steam.


If I see you, i will make an extra effort to make sure you are dead.
 
kommasar
2014-06-23 05:37:46 AM  

Allen262: thehobbes: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race

Combat Flight Sim 2 player/modder. I build planes and objects. Have Combat Flight Sim 1 and 3 around some place....



How do you run CFS2? I really miss playing it now.
 
August11 [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2014-06-23 08:09:05 AM  

studebaker hoch: It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.


Came here to see if anyone else spotted those meatballs.
 
justanothersumguy
2014-06-23 08:24:46 AM  

reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift


OMG!  WANT!
 
abhorrent1 [TotalFark] [BareFark]
2014-06-23 08:32:14 AM  
Yes I can. "WWII in color" is an awesome series.
 
Drexl's Eye
2014-06-23 09:05:14 AM  
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studebaker hoch
2014-06-23 10:47:24 AM  
August11

studebaker hoch: It looked like a couple Japanese Zeros snuck into that Berlin air combat footage.

Came here to see if anyone else spotted those meatballs.

They were in Berlin to repay the Germans for their help in bombing Pearl Harbor.
 
lamric
2014-06-23 12:21:59 PM  

Tyrone Slothrop: Serious question: was it more dangerous to fly in WWI or WWII?


Life expectancy of a WWI pilot was less than 2 weeks.  Wood and fabric airplanes had a habit of failing during dogfight maneuvers and parachutes were considered cowardly.
 
Whatthefark
2014-06-23 03:41:00 PM  

Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?


With Twitter and GoPro cameras, war could be fun again!

/not really.
 
Allen262
2014-06-23 03:42:55 PM  

kommasar: Allen262: thehobbes: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

I'm sorry.

/MS Combat flight sim ftw
//PC Master Race

Combat Flight Sim 2 player/modder. I build planes and objects. Have Combat Flight Sim 1 and 3 around some place....


How do you run CFS2? I really miss playing it now.


I have it on XP still and works well on Win7 and 8 for the most part. It worked fine on my Gateyway with Win7. I ran the install and it worked fine. No need to any compat mode or admin setting in my case.

Some have probs with Win7 and 8 but  99% of probs can be fixed by not installing into Program Files x86, Running as administrator and/or setting a compat mode.

Some of the last thing I have did was a rebuild of the old AI B-24D to a player/AI B-24J

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and a P-47N made from the CFS3 P-47D-25 that was included in the CFS3 SDK.

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If you want to get back into CFS2 head on down to the http://www.sim-outhouse.com basement.. I mean CFS2 General Discussion fourm.
 
shanteyman
2014-06-23 03:50:53 PM  
I had a fishing buddy who had participated in the Ploesti raid. His matter of fact description of what he saw that day blew my mind. He told me when his B-24 landed back in Libya there were nearly 400 holes in it from flak and fighter fire. These guys had brass balls for sure.

The Schweinfurt Ball Bearings works was another really bad place to try to hit. The inability or unwillingness of Bomber command to supply long range fighter escort left the B-17's on the two raids there defenseless for nearly 2 hours at a time. It's a miracle any planes returned from there.

/// RIP Bob.
 
Ivandrago
2014-06-23 03:52:25 PM  

Whatthefark: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

With Twitter and GoPro cameras, war could be fun again!

/not really.


https://www.youtube.com/user/FUNKER530

All the GoPro combat footage you could ever want.
 
Elzar
2014-06-23 08:28:08 PM  
Awful colorization - they should have left the footage in black and white.
 
reveal101
2014-06-24 01:22:29 AM  

some_beer_drinker: reveal101: some_beer_drinker: reveal101: Badmoodman: We need to have another war soon, now that Twitter is here. These images would be so much more timely that way and the impact would be immediate. Who wants to wait 70 years to see color combat footage when I can see it on my smartphone NOW?

War Thunder with Oculus Rift

i play war thunder.

RunAwayFetus on War Thunder. Reveal101 on steam.

If I see you, i will make an extra effort to make sure you are dead.


Good man.
 
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