WWII Carrier Video

[HAL Pilot]

 

[Gatordev]

It's amazing what technology and a little engineering can do. Back then, a plane a day was no big deal. Today, I can't take a three day weekend w/out having some safety brief.

 

[badger16]

Great Video...did anybody hear the clanging sounds through out...those dudes had balls made of steel. Great post.

 

[Ace_Austin]

No doubt, its amazing the pattern the Corsair had to fly. From what I understand about the only way to be able to see the deck through the landing was that constant left hand turn because of how far her nose stuck out.

 

[BOMBSonHAWKEYES]

Its pretty easy to pick out the iron sight cripples.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

I think I saw A4's in there

Seriously, great footage.

 

[squorch2]

When men were men and LSOs wore skivvies while waving.

 

[KSUFLY]

My great-uncle has told me stories of his time on the USS Intrepid and how planes would come in and go spinning out of control or would break in half. I guess it's hard to picture it until seeing those videos. He also had some pretty amazing stories about a double Kamikaze attack. It's sad that we're losing the guys that went through those times at such a rapid rate.

 

[Junior]

I recently got back from CQ in the mighty Super Goshawk and was pretty proud. My wife thought it was pretty cool too, until we watched a WWII carrier documentary on the History channel. She immediately thought my achievement wasn't a big deal anymore.

Those old timers were unbelievable aviators.

 

[A4sForever]

When men were men and LSOs wore skivvies while waving.

LSO's in skivvies ..... SOP in South Texas and the P.I. ...


AND ... between recoveries on USS BOAT.

 

[Stubby]

Here is another one to put things into perspective.... this is what those guys were up against....

 

[Carno]

Does anyone know how often men on the deck got injured/killed?

I'm not looking for an exact number, just trying to get a sense of how dangerous it was on the deck.

 

[BOMBSonHAWKEYES]

Carrier Aviators flew around the boat with their canopy open. They didn't do it to look cool or cool off. They did it because it was the first step in the ditching procedure.

 

[raptor10]

Again WOW. Its really hard to imagine the magnitude of evil that we went up against during WWII.

 

[Lawman]

I just got done watching the Taffy 3 engagement on Dogfights. That is pretty damn moto. Almost made me think it would be cool to be a SWO with what the Destroyers did during the battle.