VIETNAM WAR F-105 NAPALM BOMBING MISSIONS RAW FOOTAGE (SILENT) XD31101 

Better quality than security cameras

I'm sure there were a lot of farmers with their families there just trying to live their lives caught in the middle of this conflict. This looks beautiful not like a war zone. So very sad for these humans who were affected.

I saw this film once before - over 50 years ago I had come home and turned on the tv to the local PBS station and saw this. It was an hour long and wasn't all Napalm, but all sorts of ordnance drop from aircraft. The entire film was shots of bombs, canisters, etc film from the rear as they were dropped and showed in very high definition (for the time) the bombs hitting the ground. It was fascinating and horrible to watch. This is a small piece of that film!

This is weird. At once fascinating, horrifying, beautiful, terrifying, and, most definitely, thought provoking. It encompasses a point in history which shapes our republic to this day, fifty years later. I look at these isolated hamlets sequestered in equatorial forests and along jungle rivers and imagine the timeless simplicity of the lives of the inhabitants colliding with the mechanical forces of political and economic systems impersonal beyond their reckoning. A collision of all consuming fire destroying all it touches in a randomness too final to comprehend. We should take more care in what we unleash on the world. #inourname

I was on the ground for some of these in the Plain of Reeds.. 571st Engr, 3rd Bge, 9th Inf 69/70

they actually took beautiful shots of the bomb while it's killing people

"10 kids in a free-fire zone, all in line walking home. Last one in line walks home alone, 'cause na-palm sticks to kids"

The trees speak Vietnamese But the skies speak napalm.

I saw that one of the pilots in these vids grew a conscious. He was missing 80% of the time. With all his bombs gone, he could easily say, "Mission complete' and RTB.

Peaceful music and chimes Down below: *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*

Interesting to see that some of the casings bounce right back up after the aircraft without detonating. In some explosions you can see the casing bouncing up as it burns.

We were told if the communist in the north, invaded the south ,the whole country would be communist, then they would invade into Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, that never happened, we withdrew and the north and south was united. Now 51 years later we get goods from Vietnam, and you can go on vacation there and retire there. We were lied to by our government, in 1970 I was in the army, the day of my discharge, I threw my uniform in the garage, my friend William Charles Sheldon died there. I will never trust the government,again.

The only other aircraft I see are A1 Skyraiders. The old prop driven Spads. I fought in this country 68-69. My son vacationed there 2008. It’s a strange world sometimes.

🔺️Concussion wave and bomb fragmentation avoidance, Excellent 🔺️👍

The music 🕊☁🤍 The footage 💣💥🔥

Are these shots filmed with overcranked cameras? It feels like there's a strange slowness to the movement and explosions. Or maybe it's a weird side effect of the lack of sounds.

The rear facing cameras that we had showed the weapons dropping prior to impact, don't see that here. The cameras were located on the outboard pylon left (port) side.

“God Bless Napalm and the Dow Chemical Company” was commonly seen graffiti written everywhere during the Vietnam war.

So relaxing

Napalm meditation

Beautiful ambient music.

What music was used in this? Update: Il Mantra dei Re by Dna Health for those who are curious.

beautiful , pretty lullaby for pilots ;)

this is just like childhood memories.

Such relaxing music too

this video is fantastic and disturbing. not a hot take i know but the ambience combined with this devastating footage is so aesthetically kino.

We used to load FAE bombs on A-7 corair II. FAE Fuel Air Explosive. Kind of the more modern napalm back in the day.

Thank you for sharing these videos. I was born in Ben Tre before immigrating to the US.

It is shameful to see such a beautiful country and its people destroyed in such a way.

Thank you I LOVE MY FLAG

beautiful just what I needed along with A bomb footage

Haunting

Wow, great record of history.

Beautifully terrifying, and somehow relaxing.

2:03 that house was unlucky

Good view of Vietnam War

No matter the what I will never forget the smell of napalm in the morning. Aint nothing like that.

i like the XD31101

Death from above has a beautiful soundtrack

Very "Apocalypse Now" footage....

Watching these videos I always feel sorry for the trees.

watching this while listening to The 13th Floor Elevators - Baby Blue and its going to the music in a tragic way. I might just be really stoned but it is truly surreal. War is just so brutal. RIP to all the heroes on both sides. You have to realize even you're "enemies" have heroes.

very peaceful

why is everyone talking about the morality of napalm like idc it looks cool

Watch for the all the self-righteous comments that will appear here and ask yourself. If that keyboard warrior were in the GI's boots and taking small arms and mortar fire from one of those villages, would they be the first ones to be calling in those airstrikes? Or is that question moot because they would be in Canada instead?

The music is so relaxing

i can’t take this video seriously with mystical music in the background

That went from beautiful to holy shit real fast

Alt tabbed, listening to nice calm music Oh yeah im watching napalm strikes

Those coconut palm groves are beautiful

I watched footage like this as a kid. Perhaps recorded soon before. I recall being angry that "we missed one", a building but because it played more than once, I looked in vain for a machine gun or anti-aircraft gun. There were none, no matter how hard I searched. Only what looked like farming homes and very humble at that. It changed me from thinking that we were the "good guys" under attack to wondering what was going on. It wasn't about Communism. I already knew early that Russia had been an important WW2 Ally to the USA. I was proven correct when the same corporations profiting from the Cold War gleefully shipped American Jobs AND American Technology To COMMUNIST China. I got my answer from Nixon. Richard Nixon was filmed, standing in front of a Map of the region when he was Eisenhower's Vice President. Nixon spoke about the Rubber and Tin available in Vietnam and elsewhere. That answers the question about why France (Michelin Tires) was there before we were. You can watch Nixon on Ken Burns' "Vietnam", Episode One. .

Gee i may put this on loop and sleep to it ...😮

The smoke and tendrils from the impact point look kinda like white phosphorus. Was this the napalm, or the ignition mechanism? Magnesium? Guess I’ve seen too many gasoline simulations of napalm. P.s. Love the sound track.

The music makes it sound like it’s a peaceful napalm strike

That looks more like white phosphorous, based on those white starburst patterns that are made instead of a giant mushroom cloud of fire and smoke, which is more characteristic of napalm.

Supersonic nuclear strike bomber, the F105 Thundercheif ( THUD). Being used as a Frontline ground attack strike fighter .. USAF lost over 60% of the produced F105s in Vietnam...terrible losses, but a badass Nuke Wagon

Never thought watching napalm being dropped on a village could be so calming. Who knew?

Did the F105’s typically fly that low during missions?

what were the targets look like houses

War thunder cinematics getting really good

And yet UN didn't condemned US about this war crime

Out standing ! I was c on the ground watching this stuff in real life, we mud Marines just love that happy package of Napalm and white phosphorus or willy pete,,,you can shoot at Charlie and he'llrun at your position shooting as they went, you can barrage him, he keeps coming, but when the nap and we started falling they scattered and ran to a hide,,,that stuff is just brutal, if you draw the unfortunate duty to make a strike damage assessment,,,

Hell on earth

If it is silent, why do I hear music??......However, it is better than hearing the boom and screams of victims as they are burned.

Very scattered, not just one big area like video games. They are not even close to knowing what they are dropping on!

Music?

Strangly beautiful..... until you realize what's happening

This music is so fitting for the peace the USA brought to Vietnam!

Bombing such a beautiful country feels almost sad with the haunting background music playing. Great video!

Just strolling in the sky about to cook some fried rice

I think at around 6:00 it's the footage they used in Zero Dawn?

Sweet history

Who knows for sure that those are thuds and not huns. Also why did were we loading some Bluies with fins on them just like iron bombs. The fins prevented the tumbling. Looks like A1E Skyraiders around 9:00

Looks like all residential?

“So long and thanks!” - Henry K.

HOLY COW! 1:50 you can actually see one of their barnyard animals get blasted right up to aircraft level on the left side of the blast

Tavistock institute founded in 1921 researched the effects of shell shock. With this data available they turned to an idea and developed this idea that has it's history in shell shock. As the necessary technology was available they applied shell shock via airplanes, meaning bombers. The target was the German civilian population. Mr. Kurt Lewin (nose man) developed the idea of aerial bombing. After ww2 the organization that was in charge to study the aerial bombardment, transformed itself into an Air Force organization. On March/01/1946, Army Air Force Contract No. MX-791 was signed, creating the RAND Corporation as an official think tank, defining Project RAND "a continuing program of scientific study and research on the broad subject of air warfare with the object of recommending to the Air Force preferred methods of techniques and instrumentalities for this purpose." On May/14/1948, Rand Corporation funding was taken over by H. Rowan Gaither (👃), head of the Ford Foundation. This was done because the Air Force had sole control of the Atomic Bomb program for the Cold War with the Strategic Air Command, the missile program, and many other elements of the "terror strategy". It became a billion dollar game for the scientists, with John von Neumann (nose man), their leading scientist, becoming world famous as the inventor of "game theory", in which the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union engaged in a worldwide "game" (war game) to see which would be the first to attack the other with nuclear missiles. In America, the schools held daily bomb drills, with children hiding under their desks, meanwhile those scientist were smiling to what length they could manipulate society. This new organized tool with the name RAND Corporation set now out to plan new bombing campaigns based on the available data they already accumulated through ww2. The Korean war ended with farmers on both sides having been extensive targeted and weren't able to produce thereof enough food anymore. The U.S. bombing campaign having had the logistics (roads) wiped out for distribution of the food, had the farmer not anymore capable to produce enough food, thus wide spread starvation was experienced by Koreans. After the Korean War more Koreans died due to food shortages than due to the actually combat actions on both sides (inclusive the heavy massacres on Korean civilians). The planning of the Vietnam bombing campaigns according to Daniel Ellsberg (a nose man, he stole the Pentagon Papers that consisted of information concerning the Vietnam War. This information was withheld from the American public) pointing this out in his book "Secrets", published in 1971, had been delegated to General McNamara and his assistant John McNaughton. Both of these individuals of course are chosenites. In this bombing campaign the U.S. Bomber Command dropped nearly double the tonnage of bombs dropped on Europe and Soviet Russia during ww2. The result also here was like in the Korean war, a shortage of food. In addition to the aerial bombing of farms (Farm Land) the chemical warfare agents - Agent Orange and Agent Purple were released on the fertile farm land to destroy the soil of the farmers. The extensive Search & Destroy operation of the U.S. Army And Marines paralyzed the villagers to produce rice/food. The communist Guerilla fighters called Vietcong killed mercyless the South Vietnamese farmers as they became targets of both, American Soldiers and VC (Vietcong). As starvation occurred in South Vietnam by having reduced the food production of the South Vietnamese farmers through sheer terror bombing and raids from the Vietcong and U.S. Army and Marines and the agent orange/purple chemical warfare agents, the food processors of America were ordered by the U.S. government to ship white rice by the tons to Vietnam to guarantee a continuation of the war. After the war more Vietnamese died through starvation related infections than through the search & destroy and bombing campaigns together. The weed killer agent orange and agent purple made Vietnamese and American soldiers sick. It destroyed animals, birds and the fish in the Rivers and ponds as the soil got contaminated, thus the ground water was poisoned, too. The RAND Corporation was never indicted. The only difference by principle to the terror bombing of Germany in ww2 and that of Korea and Vietnam was, that the Germans defended their cities by having an air defence. Korea and Vietnam had no air defence. Book references: The World Conquerors by Louise Marshalko.///The Octopus by Elizabeth Dilling.///The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling.///Murder By Injection by Eustace Mullins.///The Beasts Of The Apocalypse by Olivia O'Grady.///Kill Everything That Moves by Nick Turse.///

Freedom!!!!

I get why napalm was used... I just hope it never gets used again.

WAR CRIME

That plane dropped a bjg bomb right into the cabbage patch at the end

I have studied many wars during my lifetime. Whether the US involvement in Vietnam was the “right” decision will always be debated. Napalm / incendiary bombs were used by the US against Nazi Germany and Japan, often with devastating results. Cities like Hamburg, Tokyo and many others were reduced to rubble with massive civilian casualties. Certainly, the US and allied objective during WW II was bringing the war to an end as soon as possible, and civilian casualties were an unfortunate consequence. In Vietnam, like Hamas in Gaza today, the VC infiltrated many villages / homes / facilities and used innocent civilians as human shields. Given this situation, what was the US supposed to do?

Nothing I saw here looked like an F105 run...maybe a lot of AE1 runs, but surely nor an F105.

Surreal ✌️ Peace

Anyone remember an 80s or 90s movie intro with aerial footage like this? The quality was amazing

Ooooohh aaaaahh.

The calming sound of people’s homes being destroyed by terrorists.

So beautiful. Tears drop.

Life experiences are necessary

That's crazy to be responsible for death and destruction

Theres willy pete in there too.

was that a body @ 1:48? at 11 oclock

A war we could have and should have won, the politicians lost the war not the men and women who served our country and answered the call. I served during the war in the Navy and instead of going to southeast Asia I went to the Mediterranean to hunt down the soviet war machine also known as the cold war.

Hell is forever

Xin loi Charlie!

Mostly Douglas A-1 Skyraiders

*people probably dying from explosions* video: *relaxing music intensifies*

props to the cameraman who's able to keep up with a thunder chief

Somebody's hooch got a nasty surprise.

I remember some guy named Scott who had a neckless made out of ears. Guy was out there.