That's because you're seeing clips from at least 4 different movies put together. Pearl Harbor is where all the low altitude shots come from. The shots of the bombardier are not even in B-25s, that's from Unbroken, which was B-24s. Not sure about all of the shots of Japanese pilots in the cockpits, but I believe the third movie is Catch 22, with the desert painted B-25s in it.
@@Arltratlo ah, I see. That explains why the US has the highest GDP in the world worth 23.32 trillion dollars annually. Because we can't count to 4. Got it. Thanks for the brilliant insight.
@@soldat2501 funny, you are #1 country in debt, to China....and people in prison...and military budget, but what place you have in infant mortality again, or gun violence or even better, school kids shoot inside schools?? btw: Canada is greater as the USA!
Actually the Bombers use in the movie unbroken is B24 Liberator, which is many guns are mounted and bigger than b25 mitchell, btw i like your cool videos👍.
Yeah, i seen the b25 at first....then all of a sudden i noticed a ball turret and im thinkin I dont think b25's had a ball turret so like ya say he did a mix including the good ole b24
What's really interesting is that none of the B-25s in this scene have ball turrets until the bomb doors get stuck. Then all of a sudden we have a ball turret on this one plane. WTF right?
@@BigSkyCurmudgeon Both B-24 and the B-25 are from two movies, and the pilot who is shot through the eye is Sakaii from a third movie. Since you referenced it, the Doolittle raid on Tokyo was launched from the USN aircraft carrier Hornet (CV-8) not a land-based airfield. Additionally, the closest B-25 J at 0:01 is a late model B-25J with the turret moved forward from its mid-fuselage former position to directly behind the cockpit and the B-25 J has mid-fuselage side gunner positions and has a tail gunner position not found on the B-25B. The Doolittle Raiders used the earlier B-25B with the lower Bendix remote turret removed to save weight replaced with two broomsticks stuck into the tail as fake machine guns, and without the later gunner canopy for the tail, no side gun positions and the upper turret in the mid fuselage location. You can check out the movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo for the correct B-25 variant and the actual launch footage (the distance shots of the B-25 taking off, not the recreated launch from the carrier deck), there's closeups of the mid upper turret position with actor Robert Walker, Sr. Van Heflin as the pilot of the B-25 "Ruptured Duck" and Spencer Tracy as Col. Doolittle. As to Sakai, at the time of the Doolittle raid, he was stationed at Lae New Guinea. Sakai was later wounded in attack on SBD Dauntless dive bombers over Rabaul, which is accurately depicted in the Japanese film Zero Pilot (1976) which used models on strings, on the level of realism found in Japanese Kaijū eiga films from Toho (such as Gojira no Gyakushū, US Godzilla Raids again), different from the clips CGI, which have been cobbled together to make this video. Ironically, Sakaii described the aircraft he attacked as TBF avengers stating the aircraft had turrets. Such is the fog of war. Sakaii was involved in the post surrender attack on B-32 Dominators on August 18, 1945 when the USAAF conducted photoreconnaissance and cease fire compliance. A "combat mission" not mentioned in his Samurai!, the biography written by Martin Caidin. Sakai had believed the aircraft were B-29 Bombers.
Interesting how the B-25’s morphed into B-24’s at the end of the clip. Credit to the Zero pilots; they ruled the roost during the initial stages of WW2. Both sides had their share of hero’s. I read the book “Zero” by Martin Caiden, about Saburo Sakai.
I'm not so sure sir. These Zeros were literally "flying cardboards" but the American planes were literally "flying tanks" especially their first naval air cooled cylinder fighters the F4 Wildcats that Zeros couldn't shoot down guns but only with their limited cannons.
Are some of the Zero clips from a movie about Saburo Sakai? If I remember correctly, he took some .30 cal machinegun hits from SBD Dauntless tail gunners that hit the cockpit injuring him on the skull. Specifically I remember about him taking the hits, losing control and finally regaining it when the blood cleared from his eyes. He struggled to fly the plane back to Rabaul, which was a very long flight.
55 years ago, I worked with an older gentleman in my University's foreign language lab. I was a student worker and he was there to fix the electronics we used for the foreign language tapes. He told me he flew in a B-25 during World War II in the Pacific. He said the roughest missions he flew were against a Japanese naval base called Rabaul. I wish now that I had asked him more about his missions in the B-25.
Rabaul was a major Japanese base, as important to them as Midway was to the United States. Your lab instructor flew some of the toughest missions of the war.
@@datamek in point of fact, it was a flight of SBD Dauntless dive bombers - not Avengers. Sakai mistook the aircraft for Avengers. The injury he sustained would likely have been worse had the aircraft firing at him been an Avenger, since the .50 round would have been considerably more destructive.
It was all over for the Japanese when the U.S. Navy introduced the F6F Hellcat, and the F4U Corsair was just icing on the cake! Total domination of the skies by the U.S. Navy and the USARMYAF with their P51's and P38's....
It was practically over by the end of 1943 where the Hellcat, and Mustangs were later in arriving. The first P-38s for the 5th and 13th Air Forces arrived in Aug 1942 and Corsairs began operating from Guadalcanal Feb 1943. P-47s were with the 5th AF starting in June 1943 (348FG). 1st Hellcat action was Sep 43. The Mustangs did not appear in the Pacific until late 1944 and were never the most numerous types. Some Mustangs served in the CBI starting in 1943, but these were A-36 and P-51As. P51B/Cs did not make to China until 1944.
@@martinricardo4503 That's right, the U.S. Navy and the F4 Wildcat were outmatched by the Japanese Zero until the F6F and the F4U Corsair showed up in 1943. The P38 Lightning had been in the Pacific from the very begging of WWII and was successful in its own right! The P51 was in the war much later but was also dominant and was great for escorting bombers just like they did in the European theater.
Great CGI but historically very inaccurate- Doolittle’s bombers spent 60 seconds over Tokyo and were long gone before AA batteries or home defence Zeros even knew what what going on - ie caught Japan totally by surprise
They mixed scenes from Pearl Harbor, the newer Catch 22 show, Unbroken (that's where the B-24's are from) and whatever movie(s) the Zeros are from. Wild mix.
Superbly edited- I thought it was one movie. Great choice of footage and composition. But what was the bottle at 3:10 about? Dude messed up his vision for nothing.
@@RodolfLeclerc It's more than that. The B-25s with "6A" on the tail are from some movie, maybe Catch 22....and there's also B-25 footage from Pearl Harbor.
I don't think Japenese flak was ever that heavy like German flak was, but it makes good Hollywood drama, just like the bombs exploding with big flames; real bombs don't explode with flames.
An exception might've been the parafrag groups, two of which initially flew A20s and one initially flew B25s, all usually targeting Japanese airfields or ammo dumps. They were generally in and out at low level before the targeted base could respond. Skip bombing missions might've taken their toll with those groups however but I'm not familiar with those casualty numbers. I've heard two veteran crew-members of a B17 in the Pacific claim that Japanese Army pilots didn't seem to want any part of them. I didn't get their time or place in theater.
I may be wrong but light flak was more of a problem than fighters for the B25 and A20 particularly later in the war when they had solid noses with batteries of .5 inch guns. I don't know what the B25H was like to fly with a 75mm gun in the nose and how many ships/boats that chewed up. Even P38's flying top cover can only do so much.
this clip mixed movies up so the B-25 Mitchell's transmogrified into B-24 Liberators. The latter part is from a movie about Saburu Sakai on the day he lost one eye and kept flying.
@@kammmmal211 I just could never figure after getting so many losses in the mid years of the war, why they not make better aircrafts that have both? Or at least make upgraded versions of Zeros deal with this weakness and have both durability and maneuverability, of course mileage too. I know it could very well have been possible for them to do it.
@@alilaldin2708 if you're maneuverable and experienced enough, it will not be impossible to make opponent on your six to overshoot and regain the advantages. Zero is a king of the sky in fighter vs fighter (only if they are not caught off guard) but weak against bomber interception mission. 7.62mm bullet alone not desirable for them but 50. Cal from bombers? That's the cause of huge number of loss i guess
At 0:34,the nose of a B-24 is seen and a crew member is wearing a patch of the 13th Air Force,but no B-24s are anywhere....just B-25s........ I should add that my initial impression was that this was the Doolittle raid over Japan, so to see B-24s there indicated that it wasn't that raid at all. Also,the B-24s were never seen taking off,so where did they come from? Lastly,while great artwork cgi was shown,there was a problem with American insignias. The B-24s/B-25s have mid-WW2 insignias at the start, but near the end of the clip they wear the early '41-42 red /ball/in the star roundel.
In October I will be visiting my son in Japan, who is stationed in Tokyo. Are there any Imperial Japanese Museums with Japanese aircraft? 10月に東京に駐在している息子を訪ねる予定です。日本の航空機を展示している帝国博物館はありますか? 10 Tsuki ni Tōkyō ni chūzai shite iru musuko o tazuneru yoteidesu. Nihon no kōkūki o tenji shite iru teikoku hakubutsukan wa arimasu ka?
Freunde, lasst sie ihr Leben in vollen Zügen genießen, damit die Gedanken derer, die in der Vergangenheit lebten, nicht umsonst waren. Egal wie es ausgeht. Grüße aus Japan. ayato.zip.
@@144shipyard2 Agreed, everyone fought for something they were all brave and it’s sad to know millions of people from all around the world died.May they all Rest In Peace
Je ne sais pas si l'un est un grand acteur et si l'autre est un grand metteur en scène, mais une chose est sûr, il y a un mélange de scènes de films différents, qui ne sont pas digne d'un bon réalisateur. On a jamais vu de tourelle ventrale sur un B-25.
