My late Uncle, William C. Heath, flew as a flight engineer on B-29s out of Guam. He flew 14 combat missions. they were on their way to bomb Japan again when they got a radio call to come back, the war was over! In 1983, long after my uncle had died at age 55, I tracked down his pilot, Kenneth Midkiff, in Montgomery, Al. Rest in peace, gentlemen, well done.
@steviea427
9 жыл бұрын
I see the usual arguments springing up in the comments. I like the way Stephen Ambrose put it in the famed "World at War" series when asked the purpose of World War 2. "It defeated the Nazis of Germany, the Fascists of Italy and the Militarists of Japan, and never was justice better served".
@georgeaguliarsr2346
7 жыл бұрын
steviea427
@steviea427
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks George.
@lawrencetomlinson761
5 жыл бұрын
Raymond Gordon Trolling trolls, why bother.
@jjhpor
5 жыл бұрын
@Erich Klein I often wonder how much of the awful things that the Soviet Union became were accelerated by the insane things done to them by the west. Look at how the British and French and Americans joined the White Russians fighting the Reds in 1919. Look at how the French and British cowardly refused to stop Hitler and forced the Russians into their arms. In spite of it all the Russians bore the brunt of the Nazi holocaust and worked with the west but never, ever trusted us.
@starbar1958
5 жыл бұрын
@@jjhpor lol
@ashman187
5 жыл бұрын
When we do some more fighting ; we'll do some more commenting...
@rogermetzger7335
4 жыл бұрын
Did I hear that right? 2200 horsepower from each of four engines? I have trouble wrapping my mind around that!
@garycampbell8111
4 жыл бұрын
Initially, these raids were high altitude (30,000 ft) daylight raids using 500 lb GP bombs. Bombing accuracy suffered due to winds. General Curtis LeMay ordered a change to night bombing using incendiary bombs at a lower altitude (6,000 / 10,000 ft) & against the flimsy wood construction of the building’s proved to be very effective. It is estimated that the raid on Tokyo on the night of March 9, 1945 cost the Japanese more lives than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
@Ram-re5em
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great film I think Ronald Reagan’s narrating
@nushinabito6224
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad that everyone loves Japan as a Japanese
@yakacm
8 жыл бұрын
Love watching stuff like this, it's a shame there isn't better footage of the H bombs going off.
@yakacm
8 жыл бұрын
aye i meant a bomb.
@prestonknepper708
7 жыл бұрын
You had it right the first time. There were 2 bombs dropped on Japan.
@robertking3539
4 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a young Ronald reagan
@lance8080
4 жыл бұрын
Great job.
@johnshields6852
Жыл бұрын
Many realities in WW1 and every war till Vietnam, thank God for these men who answered the call, because of them I've had complete freedom. 🙏🇺🇲
@aa-hb3tg
Жыл бұрын
Americans have been murderers and not heros For all ur crimes u will pay likewise now
@garybiggs9010
8 жыл бұрын
Think we ought to do another bombing run with some stealth bombers just for good measure.
@tenohaikabanzai
7 жыл бұрын
Gary Biggs No you might damage FUKUSHIMA
@JHruby
4 жыл бұрын
Cool where in when did they take off.
@oloansitanggang410
4 жыл бұрын
Tks Allies....we freedom from Japan as a bucher...
@zenpiper
4 жыл бұрын
The B29s took off from the island of Tinian - 4.5 miles from Saipan. Saipan never had even one runway which could accommodate a B29. Whoever wrote this got the facts terribly wrong.
@allangibson8494
4 жыл бұрын
B-29s of the 21 bomber group did operate from Saipan until the fields on Tinian were ready (step 1 was capturing Tinian).
@keyarrahenderson9233
4 жыл бұрын
u i hear stukas
@deadendfriends1975
4 жыл бұрын
Papa Boeing's bird bird
@noborunonaka6670
6 жыл бұрын
Divided work
@bearbuster157
4 жыл бұрын
Butchers and bankers and teachers, oh my!
@apocyldoomer
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks to all the brave American men for doing what you did, sometimes a suicide mission, thanks for your service, you will never be forgotten. I served in the USAF, 1982-- 1988', during the Cold War, but, no big deal, you dudes were brave, shit, I'm drunk, haha! Thanks to you all!!
@bowlweevil4161
4 жыл бұрын
my cousin was navigator on one of the B-29's that fire bombed Tokyo and the stories that he would tell us kids around the campfire in the 60's still makes the hair on the back if my neck stand up to this day, and I am 70 now, BRAVE PATRIOTS!
@genedryer-bivins8314
4 жыл бұрын
My Dad was a pilot on Saipan in '45. I have some color slides he took in the sky and over Tokyo.
@dewikle2
3 жыл бұрын
@@genedryer-bivins8314 make sure you duplicate those images. Slides degrade over time. The color can/will fade and the substrate becomes brittle and fragile.
@jfloresmac
5 жыл бұрын
2019 and here I am blessing these guys' mission and rooting for them!
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
Yes & why not!? What they had done will never fade away!
@ernestdougherty3162
4 жыл бұрын
Amen to that God bless them American's
@stevechappell9115
4 жыл бұрын
Edigy -
@avenegas0691
4 жыл бұрын
Certainly, Mr. R. Reagan became "the Official voice" of those WWII films... Great documentary!
@kentcyclist
3 жыл бұрын
That’s not Reagan
@jrt818
3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't sure but have heard him narrate a film about China in that war. Did a good job like this narrator which made me think, "Is that Reagan?"
@billlewis9362
Жыл бұрын
@@kentcyclist If not Regan, who than!
@phenojack6364
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this... saw my Pops B-29 @14:08 "Thumper" !!!
@PeriscopeFilm
5 жыл бұрын
Tell us more!
@gibsondrummer
5 жыл бұрын
Your father was a courageous man if he is still with us thank him for his service to our nation! The great generation indeed
@leaderspeakusa
5 жыл бұрын
My father was on that plane too!!!!! He was a bombardier - had to switch plans several times because of attrition. Wonderful! He went on to Tinian Island and the west field. Decades later, I met Paul Tibbetts at a small airfield in south Florida. He and I chatted for about a half-hour. Mr. Tibbetts remembered my dad like that, "short fellow who couldn't be beaten at Cribbage!" How cool was that?
@rosablanche
4 жыл бұрын
@Grim Reaper And from me and fellow Brits.
@neils9739
4 жыл бұрын
@Pheno Jack, Yes please tell us more.
@Woody615
4 жыл бұрын
The B-29 shown at 9:15 has a tail designation of "T - Square - 5". This is "Joltin' Josie, The Pacific Pioneer." It was the very first B-29 to land on the new runways on Saipan. This is the very first landing of a B-29 arriving at Saipan on 12 October 1944. The "T" on the tail is for the 498th Bomb Group, the "square" means the 73rd Bomb Wing, and plane number 5 was part of the 873rd Bomb Squadron. This aircraft, piloted by Capt. Wilson C. Currier, crashed on takeoff from Saipan on 1 April 1945 with the loss of the entire crew according to the book, "Rain of Fire, B-29s over Japan, 1945" by Charles L. Phillips (USAF Ret.). A great read.
@kaptainkaos1202
2 жыл бұрын
May G@d have received them with open and welcoming arms.
@BuzzSargent
5 жыл бұрын
Ronald Reagan had a great voice for voice-over work in film. What a great man.
@davidmoser7849
5 жыл бұрын
True- he made army newsreels m-f, and never saw combat-oh, and he got his girlfriend pregnant before marriage
@darrenkastl8160
5 жыл бұрын
@@davidmoser7849 or were you a turkey baster kid? Artificial insemanation from across the room!
@darrenkastl8160
5 жыл бұрын
@@davidmoser7849 SQUIRT ! SQUIRT!
@doggedout
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidmoser7849 Idiots don't know Raygun served his country from the Brown Derby in Hollywood.
@Robin-oo5il
4 жыл бұрын
President Reagan built up the army and navy at a time when it was needed badly but at the same time he allowed the steel industry to all but collapse, Japan and South Korea sold their steel for less than it cost to make, which in turn began the Rust Belt.
@MrEjidorie
8 жыл бұрын
B-29 Superfortress bombers were nemeses for Japanese in 1945. My father was conscripted as an assemblyman to Mitsubishi War Factory in Nagoya City during the Second World War. When his factory was bombed by B-29s, quite fortunately, he could manage to escape. My father told me later that he had witnessed that Mitsubishi War Factory was completely demolished by carpet bombing.
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
Mission accomplished!!
@busterbiloxi3833
4 жыл бұрын
Was pops a war criminal?
@dazdragon445
4 жыл бұрын
thanks for sharing. Glad your father made it out alive
@jaygoins1157
4 жыл бұрын
Buster Biloxi The man was probably just doing his job for his country
@MrEjidorie
4 жыл бұрын
@@busterbiloxi3833 Of course not. My father was a high school student at that time. Most of men in in their working life were already conscripted into Imperial Army, so a lot of students and girls were mobilized as temporary workers in order to fill vacancies.
@rinardman
4 жыл бұрын
In Reagan's description of the B-29: "...and a body longer than a Corvette." No, not THAT Corvette. THIS corvette: 'a small warship'. :)
@bearbuster157
4 жыл бұрын
Glad Reagan called them Superforts; which is correct!
@frequentlycynical642
4 жыл бұрын
Strato Super Fortress is correct.
@johngeverett
5 жыл бұрын
I don't recall seeing any credits, but that narrator surely sounds like Ronald Reagan!
@lf.8433
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is him.Says that at the top.
@busterbiloxi3833
5 жыл бұрын
Look up, genius, and see the description that mentions the narrator. Can you do that?
@samiam619
5 жыл бұрын
Buster Biloxi ooh, Buster. You musta gone to skool to learn you some readen and riten. Listen, I’m not in the habit of reading the description to find the name of the narrator, even if he is a two-bit actor who joined the Culver City Commandos. Closest he got to a gun, there was a guy on set to make sure he didn’t hurt himself with it. 😁
@brucewalker6852
4 жыл бұрын
@@busterbiloxi3833 their is no need to be rude
@busterbiloxi3833
4 жыл бұрын
Try looking at the credits, Ace!
@davidjohnson3103
4 жыл бұрын
Bravest men ever.....thanks so much for allowing me to grow up in a free country.
@stevenwilson8461
3 жыл бұрын
We sure do have a lot of rules for a so-called free country...
@AndrewViniarski
4 ай бұрын
Way less rules than would be if japs had won.
@marchutchings8834
4 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry for the innocents that died, children.
@isorokudono
7 жыл бұрын
God bless all those boys who fought on Iwo Jima, they gave us a place to land and prepare to have our just retribution for Pearl Harbor.
@davidlentz9683
5 жыл бұрын
Iwo Jima provided a base for fighter escorts, and haven for crippled bombers. Thank you Marines.
@danzervos7606
4 жыл бұрын
One of my mothers life long best friend's husband fought on Iwo Jima. The back of his skull was shattered and they wanted to put a metal plate in his head. The success rate for such operations was very low and his wife refused to allow them to do it. He spent his life with nothing but skin and hair protecting the back of his head, he lived into his 80's and has children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren surviving him.
@Thesage50
2 жыл бұрын
That’s former President Ronald Reagan narrating.
@waltonwarrior7428
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. Those were brave men flying a great airplane. God bless them and America.
@johndeere365
9 жыл бұрын
These were different times the fire bombing was started weeks after leaflets were dropped over the target citys warning all women and children to pack up and leave my dad was in this b-29 squadron 498th 73rd wing t sqare 5 joltin jossie thee pacific pioneer bombrr he talked a little about the war years after this tore him up knowing the deaths caused it had to be done to help end the war this times were brutal on all sides nothing to brag about
@jeffring8954
5 жыл бұрын
You know damn well there was no warning.. Leaflets..lmao!! Hey just to let ya know in couple weeks we are gonna bomb you😂🤣😂🤣 Dumbest shit I've ever heard!
@rabbi120348
5 жыл бұрын
@Jeff Ring My sensei in Denver in the late 90's was a 13-year old boy in Hiroshima in August 1945. They dropped leaflets telling the women and children to leave. His parents got him out to a relative some 20 or 30 miles away. So I guess there were leaflets. Those who were smart saved themselves.
@radek5690
5 жыл бұрын
Rod, My relatives in Japan was bombed by th B-29. But they were farmers and they did not target where my relative were living, but they can feel and see in the distance where they were bombing. She said it was very frightening. They were living inside a cave near their farm. Even if you drop leaflets, where do you go? My parents said Japan was in sad shape at this time, they had nothing. Even though they were farmers they had only potatoes and rice, everything else was gone. This is what I was told. You cannot blame your father, my parents are American now and they do not have any ill feeling towards America. Japan got what came to them because of the country's leaders. God bless your father. He is our hero. Take it easy.
@moncorp1
5 жыл бұрын
Different times indeed rod warner. One in which youth feel it is not necessary to use punctuation.
@moncorp1
5 жыл бұрын
@@jeffring8954 ~ That was because they weren't after civilians, they were just aiming to destroy the manufacturing plant. You're comment is the dumbest sh*t I'VE ever heard.
@sabretom7594
4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Ronald Reagan narrating.
@ladypilliwick8179
7 жыл бұрын
what's sad is the B29 was such a great beautiful achievement and with the on coming of the jet fighter became totally obsolete by the Korean War nice video. thank you for the post
@4thstooge75
6 жыл бұрын
The Russians thought so, They reverse engineered the B29 and copied it (dumb idea) meanwhile the US was already designing the next generation of jet bombers.
@charlesrobinson8358
5 жыл бұрын
?
@davidlentz9683
5 жыл бұрын
@@4thstooge75, the props hung on. Early jets were fuel eaters. SAC first all jet bomber, the B-47, was medium. The first all jet heavy, the BUFF, B-52, didn't come into service until the mid 'Fifties.
@daveburch235
5 жыл бұрын
B-29s were used very effectively against North Korea, carrying out MacArthur's prediction that "We'll bomb them back to the Stone Age". They did require protection by American jet fighters to survive the MiGs, but they did the job.
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
Yip, it is a great flying machine! In fact, to complete the "B-29" from conscription then to actually fly that it took more money than to do the same with the A-Bomb!
@ual737ret
5 жыл бұрын
I wonder what Ronald Reagan would think and what he would say about what the political climate is in this country today.
@ual737ret
5 жыл бұрын
Big Bill O'Reilly Reagan was a Lieutenant in the US Army during WW 2. He had bad eyesight so he was classified as being fit for limited service. It was not his fault that he couldnt serve in combat. You are talking through your ass.
@ual737ret
5 жыл бұрын
Big Bill O'Reilly He could have avoided the army altogether. You call me a coward, asshole? Too bad you can’t say that to my face.
@conveyor2
5 жыл бұрын
@Big Bill O'Reilly
@jamesfix5258
5 жыл бұрын
You get the government you deserve....
@charlesflinnill978
5 жыл бұрын
Probably the same thing I do, pathetic.
@ronhoffstein8142
8 жыл бұрын
The '29 crews out of Grand Island, flew many training missions into the Caribbean, out of GI, well before their commitment took them to Japan. This presentation makes it appear that they just gathered in GI, then went off to Japan. As a kid growing up in GI, at the time, it was truly something to remember.
@ronhoffstein8142
8 жыл бұрын
jim smith While I'm sure you're right, it still missed a significant part of their history. My family lost a friend who was a navigator on one of those missions.
@MichaelOnRockyTop
3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't imagine flying from the West coast to Hawaii with nothing guiding you but a paper map
@j.d.schultzsr.9215
3 жыл бұрын
BigRedChester, How about a well-marked navigational chart, magnetic compass, magnetometer, gyro, sextant, RDF (radio direction finder) and dozens of men who've each spent at least several months studying and practicing navigation. Those of us living in the GPS era may never understand, nor even appreciate the millenially-honed art and science of navigation without it. On the way to the fun & games of Vietnam combat, our XO, Mr. Englehart told us that we would sight Oahu at 11:15 AM, next morning. Sure enough, 11:15--RIGHT ON THE NOSE--there she was, Diamond Head, rising her gorgeous face from the briny blue. No sailor or airman can ever forget such a sight.
@jerrynewberry2823
5 жыл бұрын
Confucius say: people who live in paper houses, shouldn't support thrones.
@alexandrecosta4832
4 жыл бұрын
Jerry Newberry Jesus said “ live by the sword and you will die by the sword”
@jerrynewberry2823
4 жыл бұрын
@@alexandrecosta4832 too late. I was already in a war. Now if you are going to take vengance, bring firepower.
@dmr122003
5 жыл бұрын
what a generation, every man , woman, and child did their part to keep america free, to save the loser generation of today who don’t disrespect the flag and this country, thank you so much for all you gave . i will never forget, and you have my utmost respect.
@danstrayer111
4 жыл бұрын
and look at it now.
@ianmclellan8514
4 жыл бұрын
Millenials and somali reps are wretched ingrates whi do not deserve to live in the United States.
@jameswise6110
4 жыл бұрын
Even I as a child collected metal and tinfoil for the war effort to give to the guy who picked it up from our neighborhood at least once a month .
@dmr122003
4 жыл бұрын
@@jameswise6110 thank you for all you did..what a great generation...
@clearingbaffles
4 жыл бұрын
17:05ish USS Pennsylvania in dry dock with 2 destroyers very little damage (Sister ship to USS Arizona) why mention her granted the USS Utah was not really a battleship any more but she was a complete loss
@rickjay3805
4 жыл бұрын
I was lucky to meet Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and got to shake their hands.
@busterbiloxi3833
4 жыл бұрын
Have you been able to wash off the filth?
@frequentlycynical642
4 жыл бұрын
@David Watson Reagan started the decline of the American middle class. And he conspired with Iran.....very illegally.....before the election. Full disclosure: I am a fraternity brother of Reagan. Embarrassing.
@frequentlycynical642
4 жыл бұрын
@Jan Pearson Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Soviet collapsed of its own issues. Reagan had nothing to do with it.
@frequentlycynical642
4 жыл бұрын
@Jan Pearson Believe what you want. The Soviet Union was almost in the dust bin, with or without St. Reagan.
@donaldcoder8851
5 жыл бұрын
Americans are a strong people, and they could not let the attack on Pearl Harbor go unrewarded.
@jfloresmac
5 жыл бұрын
Those Boeings are big and strong like the US Saludos amigos!
@iskaykabeya609
4 жыл бұрын
Donald Coder American are not strong, they don't know why they are fighting. if they know they wouldn't have fought. the power behind American strength is in the hands of Roman Catholic Jesuits.
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
@@iskaykabeya609 BS, Iskay K! Can you explain why after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor the US military induction centers were flooded with thousands of volunteers & new recruits.
@shizukamori6755
4 жыл бұрын
Donald Coder The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in open combat. We only targeted warships, manned by combatant personnel. No civilian facilities were deliberately hit. Even the Kamikaze pilots targeted warships exclusively. These bombers and the monsters inside them firebombed Japan INDISCRIMINATELY. They killed women, children, infants...could you ever justify that
@albertojoseyanespantin2803
3 жыл бұрын
@@shizukamori6755 Boy you'd be disappointed to learn about what the IJA did in China, and other nations in SE Asia!
@jayc3110
4 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful glimpse into this phase of World War 2, featuring America's "Greatest generation"... The men who took Saipan and the flyers who ended the war with Japan in the final chapter... Those were truly great heoric men. So many of them were literally boys, in their late teens. A great find... Thank you so much for uploading this!
@Junk65
4 жыл бұрын
Donny BONESPURS was only 4 years old in 1945. He would later develop BONESPURS to evade serving in the military. Sad!
@steamtorch
4 жыл бұрын
Trump was born after WWII.
@michaeldavid6284
2 ай бұрын
The first B-29 raid on Japan was not in 1945, it was the night of June 15-16 1944, when 75 B-29s were dispatched to attack the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata in northern Kyūshū. It would have taken about 2 minutes to get that fact straight.
@6h471
5 жыл бұрын
This isn't the first B29 raid on Japan, the first one was an attack on the steel works at Yawata Japan by 75 B29s based in China on the night of June 15/16 1944.
@tuckerizer666
5 жыл бұрын
@Harold Albert they were B25 Mitchell bombers. I knew a man who put high performance carbs and extra fuel tanks in the planes before they flew to California. They loaded them on the Hornet and the rest is history.
@mogensthorsen7641
Жыл бұрын
beuthiful airplanes, respekt for tbose guyes vho gave us that fredom vhe have too Day. Brave America good blees you All, Blees from Denmark 🇩🇰✈️🛫🛬🚀👌👍
@kinezo1961
5 жыл бұрын
I thought i recognized that voice.
@Gloryzuki
26 күн бұрын
Isn't this the documentary that was voiced by future president Ronald Reagan?
@patrickeh696
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone can copy and use this video without any licensing. The channel owner is lying about needing permission
@falconeaterf15
6 жыл бұрын
Watch Fog of War to see Robert Macnemera explain the facts on the bombing of Japan. He and Lemay agreed they would be considered war criminals after the war if they lost.
@jjhpor
5 жыл бұрын
I consider McNamara a war criminal but then I guess we did lose the war in vietnam. LeMay was just crazy.
@jamessullivan1348
4 жыл бұрын
The greatest generation!
@neils9739
4 жыл бұрын
They said all but 2 of the B-29's made it back to Saipan from the Tokyo bombing mission. Anyone know any historical information of the 2 aircraft or survivors or fate of the crew of those Superforts?
@redveiner
4 жыл бұрын
The painting on the side of the B-29, 'Waddy's Wagon", depicted the likenesses of the 10 man crew. Waddy's Wagon went down near the coast of Japan with all men lost, so sad. These men died for our future freedom. Not one, would ever take a knee during the National Anthem.
@MrMenefrego1
4 жыл бұрын
Narrated by future President of The United States of America, Ronald Reagan! The Boeing B-29 'Superfortress', which was designed and built by the U.S. Boeing Aircraft Corp. and flown primarily by the United States Air Force during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 'Flying Fortress', the 'Superfortress' was designed for high-altitude strategic bombing but also excelled in low-altitude night incendiary bombing, also in dropping naval mines to blockade Japanese shipping. B-29s also dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; becoming the only aircraft to ever use nuclear weaponry in combat. The decision to utilize atomic bomb technology by President Truman was made primarily to save U.S. and Allied servicemen's lives; as the planned invasion of the main islands of Japan would have caused tens-of-thousands of causalities.
@notmenotme614
Жыл бұрын
“A body longer than a corvette” It took me a minute to realise he was talking about a class of warship, not the car 🤔
@richardmcgowan1651
3 жыл бұрын
People who would argue about these missions don't understand what total war is or why it was necessary during WW2. WW1 was a world war but the technology of that time stopped it from being a total war. Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany had to be defeated even if it cost every man, woman, and child in the free world.
@IBenZik
5 жыл бұрын
Good to hear Ron's voice again.
@charlesflinnill978
5 жыл бұрын
I was wondering if that was Pres Reagan's voice.
@IBenZik
5 жыл бұрын
@@charlesflinnill978 Yes it was.
@archlich4489
4 жыл бұрын
@@charlesflinnill978 Ditto
@mikebronicki6978
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, the bastard that saddled generations with debilitating debt. ...good times.
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
@@mikebronicki6978 if you are talking about President Reagan you have him confused with hate America obama!
@clayvillanueva326
3 жыл бұрын
Thats the worst and sad thing happened of people of Japan dropped of Fat ang little boy bombed killing innocent people...
@larrytischler8769
5 жыл бұрын
They said all but two came back to Saipan. It would be interesting to know how many took off for Tokyo.
@charlietanner6211
4 жыл бұрын
111 is what i gleaned from the net
@pogz2021
4 жыл бұрын
And america is the best of all country you see they're all hero lucky of all country save by USA did not conquer us all or else we are americans to ahahahaha
@stevenbaer4979
4 жыл бұрын
We had to do it cause the Japanese gave us no other choice? It's America amazing ingenuity and massive industrial might to out produce the Germans, Japanese, USSR, and the British put together.
@zenpiper
4 жыл бұрын
Who wrote this hogwash? The base in the Pacific was TINIAN, not Saipan !! They are next to each other, but Saipan didn't have enough room for all of the airplanes. I LIVE on Saipan!
@AubieTheTiger177
4 жыл бұрын
29's were based on Guam, Tinian and Saipan.
@MultiCappie
5 жыл бұрын
Just for scale, the B-29 Superfortress was about the same size, same engine power, and similar flying altitude as the modern Q400 turboprop. Differences were that the B-29 wings were 50% wider, which gave it much more lifting power, so it could weigh double at takeoff, but flew about 200 km/h slower.
@briggsquantum
5 жыл бұрын
Aside from the B-29 having 50 feet more in wingspan, and 70,000 lb higher gross weight, and another 10,000 feet of service altitude, yeah, about the same......
@MultiCappie
5 жыл бұрын
@@briggsquantum You're not very good at reading, I see.
@markhull1366
4 жыл бұрын
Vietnam era veteran here. Son of WWII veteran. Writing this in July 2020. As odd as this may sound, I'm sure glad that most of these great brothers and sisters of mine aren't here anymore to see how the cancer of socialist/marxist ideology is sweeping our country right now. Our children have been brainwashed by the schools and institutions of higher learning. It started in the 1970's and has virtually consumed our education system. Today, 40-50% of the population thinks it's great. They have no idea of the sacrafices that we made to keep this great nation of ours free. The history here isn't being taught anymore, or if it is, it's being perverted into something that bears no resembalance to actual truth. They're being taught to hate their country and tear down our statues and burn the history of what made America great. They're drinking the poisonous koolaid of lies that America has been, and still is, a nation of racism, bigotry and hate. They're being taught to "Cancel" everyone who doesn't think like they do. They are blind to the fact that socialists/marxist ARE the ultimate oppressors of the greatest gifts that God entitles us to: Freedom and Liberty.
@johncherish7610
4 жыл бұрын
It is sad but for them they will inherit the socialism they so crave and want and when they eradicate freedom. It will be them that complain that things have gotten worse. The decline in the economy will relegate many of them into the slavery of the state, not even realizing that they killed real freedom with their actions. Stupid is as stupid does they will get what they deserve for their shortsightedness.
@magnussoevgaard8091
4 жыл бұрын
That was awesome! I saluted many times the Brave American.servicemen who made Japan pay.
@chrisbond7324
3 жыл бұрын
It's not funny but today they teach these kids in our schools to spit on these type of people that save their lives
@gaoxiaen1
8 жыл бұрын
It really sucks to get your ass kicked when you started it and deserved it.
@stevenwiederholt7000
4 жыл бұрын
Actually if memory serves the 1st B-19 missions were flown from China.
@pilotboy3328
4 жыл бұрын
Steven, you are correct.
@stevenwiederholt7000
4 жыл бұрын
@@pilotboy3328 Don't Worry, I won't Let It Go To My Head! :-)
@davidcase1286
4 жыл бұрын
awesome. My grand father in law worked at a Nakajima plant, but not the one they targeted. It was likely the Musashino plant which is around 11 miles from central tokyo. come to mention it, that area does not have many old buildings....
@danwells7691
6 жыл бұрын
evert house and school and church was an arms manufacturing plant
@wntu4
5 жыл бұрын
Very true. They made much use of the 'cottage industry' concept.
@satguy
4 жыл бұрын
Ronald Reagan had a great voice, other than JFK the only president I could listen through a complete speech.
@bunnyrabbit008
6 жыл бұрын
Karma is a bitch
@kindnessfirst9670
3 ай бұрын
To bad it's narrated by Reagan who was such a jerk.
@robertblomberg5730
4 жыл бұрын
My dad was stationed at GRAND ISLAND NEB ALSO WAS AT GUAM WORKED ON B-29'S
@pablpfanque
5 жыл бұрын
Historian Victor Davis Hanson states that , for every Japanese civilian and soldier that was killed in WW2, they killed 9 people. Another thing, without the A bomb forcing a surrender, fleets of B29s freed up from the European theater, would have burned Japan to the ground while the USSR grabbed more Japanese territory. That said, think of Hiroshima in 1946 and Detroit in 1946, now look at each today. That's a non sequitur I know, but theres irony there.
@jamesmcdermott1808
5 жыл бұрын
There were no B-29s in the ETO, they were never going to be used there, only in the Pacific.
@yank-tc8bz
5 жыл бұрын
My understanding is there were no B-29 in Europe.
@jamesmcdermott1808
5 жыл бұрын
@@yank-tc8bz True, they did send one to England to make the Germans aware that they could be in real trouble.
@davidlentz9683
5 жыл бұрын
@@jamesmcdermott1808, despite what the Gipper told us, the first B-29 raids were launched from China. The birds were deployed by way of England and India. The results were disappointing.
@jelink22
4 жыл бұрын
@@davidlentz9683 You are right: "On 15 June 1944, 68 B-29s took off from bases around Chengdu, 47 B-29s bombed the Imperial Iron and Steel Works at Yawata, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. This was the first attack on Japanese islands since the Doolittle raid in April 1942. ---wikipedia. So this film depicts the first raid on Tokyo since the Doolittle attack.
@jameshorn270
4 жыл бұрын
This may have happened after this film was bade. The early 29s, like all new aircraft had its teething problems, and the plane was beginning to get a reputation as a killer. When the Wing which dropped the Bomb received its first planes, COL Tibbets requested that it be delivered by a WASP crew. When the pilots saw women bring in the killer without a hitch, they shut up about it being too tough to fly.
@filipino3871
4 жыл бұрын
I hope China should learn this lesson!
@abhinavmahan4006
2 жыл бұрын
China is not as weak as 1945 Japan
@aa-hb3tg
Жыл бұрын
The only nation to learn a lesson is usa . There will be a nuclear war and usa and the Anglo Saxon scum race will be wiped off the planets face
@rosewhite---
5 жыл бұрын
Grabd Island used to be biggest mule market in USA?
@joselopezmoya9786
2 жыл бұрын
THAT SOUNDS LIKE RONALD REAGAN'S VOICE AS COMMENTATOR.
@jeanmeslier9491
4 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this film in the movie theaters in the late 1940s or early 1950s. .25 cents, 10 cents admission, 10 cents for a box of popcorn and 5 cents for a cup of Coca Cola.
@lesliesmith9155
3 ай бұрын
If you can't take a joke you should not join 😊
@donthomcsi
5 жыл бұрын
My dad trained navigators at Mather after a stint in the Phillipines on a B17. This documentary brought home to me the need for accuracy and detail that was such a part of his personality that drove me crazy as a kid. If only I'd known why. Pleasure hearing Reagan's voice.
@ramroddrone5449
4 жыл бұрын
The hero generation
@jojostudrock8185
4 жыл бұрын
Gotta wonder if my mother helped build that B-29. Rosie The Riveter
4 жыл бұрын
Headphone warning @ 0:02 ..... Holy shit Batman ....
@kmvenezia4337
7 жыл бұрын
Great footage. Fortunately I was able to turn off Ronald Reagans Bullshit
@matrox
4 жыл бұрын
Thats Ronald Reagan narrating.
@yumpinyiminy963
4 жыл бұрын
Crap! Your right. Sounds like he's awake.
@schizy
4 жыл бұрын
*The last war of which we Americans can be proud.*
@HemlockRidge
4 жыл бұрын
Total crap! I'm proud of our Armed Forces in ANY war.
@Mr.little.man217
5 жыл бұрын
Different video I'll never be able to recall the exact details of attributes the planes that didn't make it back basically tore apart from the turbulence. The violence of the fire storms had an unforeseen effect on the planes ability to fly. Not sure if it is the same raid but still, an eery thing to imagine. Regardless of politics now or of the time it was a horrific measure of our capability of destruction.
@wntu4
5 жыл бұрын
Not this raid. The fire bombing came later.
@robertewalt7789
5 жыл бұрын
Grand Island NY is just a few miles up stream from Niagara Falls.
@ianmclellan8514
4 жыл бұрын
Nebraska, not New York state.
@kneelneil
5 жыл бұрын
Pres Reagan was a superb narrator. Can I also say, as a non American, he was also a great President.
@mediamattersismycockholste562
5 жыл бұрын
He melted down the Soviets, that's for sure :)
@4bulldurham
5 жыл бұрын
No, Reagan was the stupidest President we've ever had.
@CPTdrawer22
4 жыл бұрын
@@4bulldurham - Actually, that [dis]honor goes to a succession of DemonKKKraps, not the least of whom was the most recent, who wasn't even eligible to be on the ballot, having relinquished his possible American citizenship and never reacquired it. De Oppresso Liber
@clearingbaffles
4 жыл бұрын
neilwin you can and thanx!!
@alexcarter8807
4 жыл бұрын
No, he sucked as a president.
@acoba15
4 жыл бұрын
Woody's Wagon I believe was lost at sea after facing engine trouble and the PIC attempted to ditch...this is a wonderful piece of history that we should never forget.
@bengkeeooi9084
3 жыл бұрын
This is panishment ,teach his how be humanright
@almost1889
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine watching urself when you were in a war film Must bring back memories
@WaterFaucet24
4 жыл бұрын
My great Uncle Mark died on Saipan. Semper Fi
@rickvelocity5578
4 жыл бұрын
Thats too bad. He wouldn't see all the good that he paid for with his life. GOD BLESS HIM & ALL OTHERS LIKE HIM!!!
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