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We Flew the Mig

WW2 Carrier Flight Deck Crew Training

The Story of the First Flying Fortress Strike

This video contains some of the most exciting color air action sequences to come out of World War II. Select 362nd Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt fighter/bombers were especially equipped with extra color movie cameras to capture thrilling ground and air attacks as they happened. These squadrons were tasked with striking targets inside Nazi Germany as the war against the Third Reich entered it's final act in Spring, 1945. The result is unique from the cockpit views putting you in the middle of attacks on tanks, airfields, trucks, rail yards, bridges, trains, fighters, and more. You'll even see antiaircraft fire arcing up from the ground, bursting around the big Thunderbolts as they make their low level strikes. You'll see 362nd CO Col. Joe Laughlin and the pilots and crews of the 377th, 378th and 379th Fighter Squadrons and their aircraft in living color. As an added bonus, there's rare color footage of Operation Varsity, the airborne assault across the Rhine.

We Flew the Mig

(1954 B&W 11:00)

In September, 1953, a North Korean defector handed over the first Russian Mig 15 to fall into US hands. This was a momentous occasion because the Mig had proven to be a worthy adversary for the North American American F-86 Sabre in the skys over Korea.

The Mig was immediately subjected to comprehensive testing. You'll see Chuck Yeagar and other top test pilots putting the Mig through it's paces and hear what they learned, along with a point by point performance comparison with the F-86. Nice footage of the Mig's armaments too.

Attentive Russian fans will no doubt pick up on the fact that some of the "faults" listed by the US test pilots - like problems with the heating & defrosting systems -- were malfunctions in this particular aircraft and not endemic to the Mikoyan bureau's design.

The Mig 15 is tested with USAF markings

Weapons inspection ------- Yeager reports to "the Brass"

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"We Flew the Mig" on our new

F-86 FJ-2 DVD which also includes

* How to Fly the North American FJ-2 Color

* The Fighting 51st See the 'Fighting 51st" Fighter Group and their F-86 Sabres in action in Korea

* No Sweat Murphy's law takes over when an

F-86 pilot slacks off on "the little things."

* 438 page F-86F Pilot's Manual

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Flight Deck Crew

Landing & Re-spotting Carrier Aircraft

(1943, Newly restored Color, 25:00)

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Major air battles in the Pacific in World War II often turned on the ability of each side to quickly launch, land, rearm & refuel, and then relaunch their aircraft. This unique film is an unusual look (in color) at how US Navy carrier flight deck crews were trained to quickly land, park, fuel & re-arm incoming aircraft. As a bonus, you'll see GM FM-1 "Wildcats" and Grumman TBF "Avengers" up close, handled expertly on the tiny deck of a CVE "jeep" escort carrier. An unscripted, unplanned highlight during the filming was when a TBF came in too hot and crashed on the flight deck! Fortunately, no one was hurt.

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The Story of the First Flying Fortress Strike
"Mission Accomplished"

(1943 B&W 12:00)

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On August 17, 1942 eighteen B-17Es from the 97th Heavy Bombardment Group, Eighth Bomber Command (later Eighth Air Force) from Grafton Underwood, performed the first daylight raid over Northern Europe by US heavy bombers. Escorted by RAF Spit Vs & IXs, 6 bombers ran a diversion along the French coast, while 12 more Fortresses attacked the primary target., the important rail yards at Sotteville, France, near Rouen. This mission was a crucial first step in establishing the efficay of American daylight precision bombing doctrine. Success of the raid was vital so that VIII Bomber Command CO Gen Ira C. Eaker went along for the ride in B-17E "Yankee Doodle. Click here for more info on the Sotteville Raid.

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Though small in scale, the raid was a success, with precision hits on important rail assets, with only two Fortresses sustaining minor damage. Lucky for us, combat cameramen recorded this historic action from briefing through "bombs away."

Mission Accomplished is featured on the

US Bombers Go to War DVD

which also includes

* Target Tokyo The first B-29 strike launched from Saipan

* Conquest by Air A strategic overview of the air war in the ETO

* Bombers Over N. Africa B-17s & B-25s cut off Rommel's retreat

* Doolittle Strikes Japan! Jimmy Doolittle's B-25s raid Tokyo

* Two films on the epic air raids on the Ploesti oil fields

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