WWII Gun Camera Footage

[hw97karbine]

USAAF B-17 Flying Fortress with open bomb bay doors loses what appears to be a .50 cal ammunition belt while under attack by a Luftwaffe fighter circa 1944

 

[hw97karbine]

RAF Hawker Hurricane goes down after taking cannon fire from a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109 F in 1941

 

[hw97karbine]

Soviet Lavochkin La-5 fighter in the sights of a Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 over the Eastern Front circa late 1944

 

[hw97karbine]

B-25 Mitchell bomber with "invasion stripe" markings and port undercarriage lowered trailing smoke while under fire from a Luftwaffe fighter in 1944

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Just to say again, Karbine, I really appreciate you digging into this stuff. You joined not too long ago, but damn, proving your worth.

 

[hw97karbine]

Appreciated, I've been interested in the subject and accumulating material for well over a decade and this is a good outlet for those with a specific focus compared to general social media.

 

[mjfur]

B-25 Mitchell bomber with "invasion stripe" markings and port undercarriage lowered trailing smoke while under fire from a Luftwaffe fighter in 1944


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I've seen this before and believe it is the only instance you will ever see a B-25(or B-26) in gun camera film. I also believe this is an RAF B-25. You can see the white of the stripes but no white upper wing insignia.

 

[hw97karbine]

I've seen this before and believe it is the only instance you will ever see a B-25(or B-26) in gun camera film. I also believe this is an RAF B-25.

Agreed on both counts, seeing Allied medium bombers on gun camera is exceedingly rare. The only time I've ever seen a Mosquito shot down for example was in this friendly fire incident.

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[hw97karbine]

USAAF A-36 Apache strafing Axis motor transport along a winding road in Valle del Sacco near Castro dei Volsci in the Summer of 1944

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

USAAF A-36 Apache strafing Axis motor transport along a winding road in Valle del Sacco near Castro dei Volsci in the Summer of 1944

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Strafing in the italian campaign was a dangerous job

 

[hw97karbine]

Strafing in the italian campaign was a dangerous job

... especially in an aircraft powered by a single liquid-cooled engine that was one rifle bullet away from catastrophic failure!

On a completely different note, here is a very curious scene showing what looks very much like a B-24 Liberator on a Japanese airfield in China strafed by USAAF fighters circa 1944

Is there any information about Liberators captured by the Japanese?

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

... especially in an aircraft powered by a single liquid-cooled engine that was one rifle bullet away from catastrophic failure!

On a completely different note, here is a very curious scene showing what looks very much like a B-24 Liberator on a Japanese airfield in China strafed by USAAF fighters circa 1944

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Is there any information about Liberators captured by the Japanese?

Maybe a LB-30 from Java?

 

[hw97karbine]

Maybe a LB-30 from Java?

Good theory! We know that is where some of the captured B-17s came from.

 

[cammerjeff]

On my phone it's hard to tell, it could be a B-24 or LB-30, it could also be a Nakajima G5N

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Good theory! We know that is where some of the captured B-17s came from.

The 11th BS (7 BG) flew there

 

[hw97karbine]

On my phone it's hard to tell, it could be a B-24 or LB-30, it could also be a Nakajima G5N

I don't think it could be a G5N, the wing position, dihedral and aspect ratio does not seem to match

 

[hw97karbine]

Luftwaffe Heinkel He 111 caught on the ground with engines running at a French airfield by a USAAF fighter in 1944

 

[hw97karbine]

VVS Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik rear gunner returns fire in an ultimately futile attempt to fend off attacks from a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 110 flying low over the Eastern Front in 1943

 

[Gnomey]

Nice ones!