Gun Camera-P-51 Straffing in Japan 1945

[Jack Cook]

72nd FS 21st FG P-51Ds attacking a Japanese airield in 1945.

[b17warbirdguru]

Gotta love color gun camera footage!

[Zachary]

P-51 Mustang - Cadillac of the Sky!!!!

[tom d. friedman]

i recognize the nell bomber, but is that a zeke resting on barrels or jacks??

[Nathan]

i recognize the nell bomber, but is that a zeke resting on barrels or jacks??

Is it a Rufe? The first pic looks like a Pete.

[Steve Nelson]

Looks like a Zeke with the tail propped up. I think the bipe in the background is a Nakajima E8N "Dave," possibly re-equipped with an inline engine. It's definately too skinny for a Pete.






What interests me are the Hinomarus (meatballs) on the Nell. It appears to either be very faded, or to have been deliberately painted out. At first I thought maybe the photo was simply bleached out, but the Zeke in the background clearly has red insignia.

SN

[lmritger]

A Zeke on blocks... maybe he was strafing in Philadelphia.

Cool footage!

Lynn

[Jack Cook]

It's a Aichi E13A Jake Floatplane you yick-yacks
or not

[gregv]

why is there an overall grey A6M still around in 1945? A training aircraft would be green over orange by this point, wouldn't it? And a front-line aircraft would be green over grey or natural aluminum, so does this indicate a ground-instruction or decoy A6M2 or A6M3?

Interesting pics!

cheers

gv

[Mr Widgeon]

[quote="Steve Nelson"]Looks like a Zeke with the tail propped up. I think the bipe in the background is a Nakajima E8N "Dave," possibly re-equipped with an inline engine. It's definately too skinny for a Pete.

I think it's an ALF (Kawanishi E7K - Type 94 Recce seaplane), the tail looks about right and it looks like it has a 4 blade prop.