My father was Lt. Jefferson Copeland who commanded LST776. His ship was commissioned July 20, 1944, a month before this film was shot on the Mississippi. This is the first time I have seen this documented film of the Brodie Rig in action. Somewhere on that ship, my father was there. He died when I was six and never really remember too much about him when he was still with us but I have most of his Navy letters, ribbons uniforms etc. Thank you for sharing this wonderful tribute.
@gunnergoz
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I knew of the system, seen some photos, but never film of actual operations. What a kludge of hardware, guts and willingness to try whatever works. Those were real brave sailors and airmen, and we call them the Greatest Generation for a reason.
@MyBelch
Жыл бұрын
This and the Fulton Recovery system rank up there with the ballsy-est ideas ever implemented. Well done fellas.
@plugs313
9 жыл бұрын
Now THAT, gentlemen, is one heck of a pilot...
@someorrs
5 жыл бұрын
its true, you can land a cub anywhere.
@Thunderous117
4 жыл бұрын
Pretty sweet video, reminds me a lot of the trapeze system used on the airships Zrs4 Akron and Zrs5 Macon to launch sparrowhawks
@kennedysingh3916
6 ай бұрын
Watched from Old Harbour Jamaica, it the first time seen something like this but during WW2 a grasshopper was the first plane to land on the newly built US army airfield in my country 1941, Vernam Field.
@Thorr97
9 жыл бұрын
What an exceptionally clever idea! In the time before practical helicopters, light planes such as these were about as good as it got for artillery spotting and liaison work. But putting them aboard aircraft carriers would've meant fewer fighters and bombers. Coming up with a way to launch and retrieve these planes without having to use regular aircraft carriers was a real advance! Had Operation Downfall had to take place, this system would've been put to practice and there would've been a lot more Marines and Army soldiers alive as a result of the more precisely spotted naval gunfire and as a result of the casualties flown off from shore. Very clever indeed!
@joeminella5315
6 жыл бұрын
Great stuff! Thanks for posting. I hope that pilot got some recognition!
@Paladin1873
3 жыл бұрын
I would not want to be the pilot or the poor swabbie dangling from the cable.
@oldgafirefighter
11 жыл бұрын
Great piece of military aviation history! My late father flew L-4 & L-5 artillery spotter planes during WWII, but never used the Brodie system. Thnaks very much for posting!
@oldgafirefighter
11 жыл бұрын
Notice the upper right surface of the L-4 beginning about 15:00, interesting mottled camo pattern. Also Navy blimp near the end...Great stuff
@gunnergoz
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think it was camo, simply dope applied to set the fabric during repairs to the wing covering and the color was a deeper green than the original finish.
@g99allen99s
7 жыл бұрын
An autogyro would have no trouble with takeoff, but in landing would have to manuver around the superstructure.
@UTubeGlennAR
6 жыл бұрын
Actually an auto gyro needs to build up most of it's rotor RPM via the wind rushing past the blades since the blades are not powered. Thus an AG would eather need a lot of forward speed of the LST and an area with out obstructions to snag the 300+ RPM blades on a rolling take off. An AG can be flown like a kite towed behind a fast ship/submarine but than it can not free fly and get away from it's tow vehicle.
@billevans7936
4 жыл бұрын
Still blows me away..
@Giovanniram22
11 жыл бұрын
Incredible and dangerous! Great video! I didnt knew about this system.
@journey7x
9 жыл бұрын
Was this ever widely used? It looks simple in the middle of a river. Can't imagine doing this in the North Atlantic at sea state 3 or 4.
@friday3810
8 жыл бұрын
+journey7x as far as I know it was used a cople of times at okinawa
@darkwood777
4 жыл бұрын
Used in the Philippines.
@michaelfortunato3117
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@Aabbcczzxxcc
3 жыл бұрын
amazing footage!!!
@AnthraciteHorrorStories
6 ай бұрын
Wow!
@rutledge9016
10 жыл бұрын
I visited LST 325 in Evansville IN today I heard about brodie system for first time great tour dads friend lee hunter from Vincennes in was involved in getting ship too the USA from crete .. REMEMBER BUY AMERICAN
@UTubeGlennAR
6 жыл бұрын
:} Vary Vary interesting. However in a war zone the entire ship and its personnel would be "Sitting Ducks" since this operation was obviously vary laborious and slow to make just one take off. :}
@johnbasiglone1219
6 жыл бұрын
UTubeGlennAR They would be no more vulnerable than the crew and the Marines aboard an AKA(troop ship) while offloading LCMs or LVTs and during the process of Marines going over the side, descending the cargo nets and boarding landing craft. In fact, the ships and crews would be far less vulnerable than the Navy ships, crews and Marines during the assault phase of an amphibious landing. The amphibious assault ship must be at anchor or not underway and holding fast until the amphibious assault is underway, until all the troops are ashore and their initial supplies are on the beach, usually days at a time; generally, the AKAs and LSTs were close in, on or near the beach for several days during the assaults on places like, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima. Where's the vessels employing the Brodie System must be underway(not sitting still), making as much speed as possible and can operate beyond the range of shore based artillery batteries. Broadie system launching and recovery would cause less exposure than launching and recovering a Kingfisher(floatplane) from a cruiser or a battleship, where these seaplanes were launched and recovered from cruisers and battleships on a daily basis. And generally since 1944 we owned the Pacific and the Japanese Navy was in it's death throws.
@billevans7936
4 жыл бұрын
Affirmative
@midgetrace
5 жыл бұрын
During transfer and while a guy repels down to the top of the plane the engine is running. Is to stabilize the plane?
@g00gleminus96
5 жыл бұрын
No, the only way to start the engine was to hand-start it. You literally had to have a guy standing in front of the propeller, grab the prop with his hands and rotate the thing a few times. There was no starter motor. So, impossible to start while in the Brody trapeze. You had to start it while it was on the deck. Still, the Piper Cub was such a low-RPM aircraft that idling the engine didn't waste much fuel. The engine was small, depending one which variant it had a 64 horsepower piston engine. Not exactly a gas guzzler.
@michaelsamuel9917
8 жыл бұрын
It would've been simpler to just use an Auto gyro!!!! They were been used by the Japanese navy for the same purpose as these planes and Gyros were already in use by newspapers since the 1930's!
@JohnDoe-qe4ko
4 жыл бұрын
this is a cool way to take off and land but I dont really see a point in it because these planes are stol capable
@ace10229
4 жыл бұрын
pacific theatre.
@sequoyah59
5 жыл бұрын
Besides our welfare state, the only one other activity that I know of can waste more money faster than a nation at war.
@RobMcGinley81
6 жыл бұрын
Typical American over engineering. Rest of the world used a seaplane!
@lycossurfer8851
5 жыл бұрын
So did the rest of America.
@darkwood777
4 жыл бұрын
Seaplanes were widely used by the US for fleet operations. But you can't use seaplanes for spotting once you've placed your field artillery on land. Here you get to use your FA spotters for two different roles without taking up room on the LST with superfluous seaplanes and the additional crew to operate and maintain the seaplanes.
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