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BK_JG27_Treiber 12-10-2010 01:32 AM

Galway's right, this is well off topic.
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0...lean_super.jpg

K_Freddie 12-10-2010 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway (Post 203435)
Well you cannot really say this is environmentally sound ...

Pilots must have had baked beans for breakfast.. just as well they were going fast, or they might have exploded.
:)

I/ZG52_Gaga 12-10-2010 12:24 PM

i looked on youtube & i couldn't find any IJN or IJA gun camera ..

they didn't have any... did they?

Tacoma74 12-10-2010 12:39 PM

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Originally Posted by I/ZG52_Gaga (Post 203555)
i looked on youtube & i couldn't find any IJN or IJA gun camera ..

they didn't have any... did they?

The link that was originally posted was of U.S. gun cameras over Japan. The title is a little misleading.. i thought the same thing as you did. As for Japan having gun cameras on their planes check out this link:

http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aerial_cameras

I/ZG52_Gaga 12-10-2010 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Tacoma74 (Post 203560)
The link that was originally posted was of U.S. gun cameras over Japan. The title is a little misleading.. i thought the same thing as you did. As for Japan having gun cameras on their planes check out this link:

http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aerial_cameras

So ... they did have gun cameras but we have no footage ... ok i see!

ThaNKS!

I/ZG52_Gaga 12-10-2010 06:03 PM

and ... look what i just found ...

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/292/7...r_Bombing.html


Photos stored in camera for 68 years - Pearl Harbour Bombing



http://beforeitsnews.com/ckfinder/us...images/111.JPG

there some breathtaking shots there, with explosions etc..

Les 12-10-2010 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by I/ZG52_Gaga (Post 203565)
So ... they did have gun cameras but we have no footage ... ok i see!

ThaNKS!

I remember reading somewhere that the allies destroyed all the Japanese guncam footage shortly after the war.

I'd be a little bit surprised if there wasn't some stashed away somewhere though.

Thing is, I can't think of a time between the end of the war and even now when an official release of such footage would have been politically or diplomatically beneficial. I don't think historians get a lot of say in those sort of matters, not when there are 'more important' factors involved.

I/ZG52_Gaga 12-10-2010 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Les (Post 203738)
I remember reading somewhere that the allies destroyed all the Japanese guncam footage shortly after the war.

I'd be a little bit surprised if there wasn't some stashed away somewhere though.

Thing is, I can't think of a time between the end of the war and even now when an official release of such footage would have been politically or diplomatically beneficial. I don't think historians get a lot of say in those sort of matters, not when there are 'more important' factors involved.

You only hide, whatever is embarasing for you ...

... and there's no way they have destroyed a single frame ... these things do not hapen in the real world ...

Sokol1 12-10-2010 08:40 PM

Guy talking about shooting (german ) pilots in parachutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8LVl...layer_embedded

No mercy for Japanese sailors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6gFQH54k0M

Sokol1

I/ZG52_Gaga 12-10-2010 10:40 PM

er ..... when a person finds him self in life threating situation goes through a metamorphosis so to speak.

To the above add the "alien environment"

the fact you can't decide for your self

you are constantly under terrible stress

you are surrounded basically by males

females are scarce so tension builds up geometrically

and so on ...

That guy shooting those helpless persons in the water
would possibly even shoot his own mother in the very same black waters .

That 's the altered state of mind you possibly get into,
when you have shacked hands with death himself so to speak ...

It is my firm believe that we should refrain from judging things
that we wish, we'll never have to go through...

my point is war is war and xxxx happens,
let's hope it never happens again ... (as in WWIII)

how the yanks put it ...

my 2 or 3 cents ...


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