Bomber shot down
 

Came across this on youtube awhile back. Makes you really think about what some of the airmen of WW2 went through....
You know the old saying "a picture is worth a thousand words" I guess that would apply here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oav6...layer_embedded


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thats actually quite moving.

Yeah first time watching I remember having a lump in my throat about time the B-24 came up at 1:45s

I almost had tears in my eyes thinking what those people must have gone through.:(

I never really thought of that, but the guys in the picture didnt have to go through what the guys in the video went throught.

The crew of the Enola Gay went through something no one else in history ever had or hopefully ever will. First, it was the overwhelming excitement knowing their actions had ended the second world war.

and second.... While laying in bed late at night their concious was haunted by the tens of thousands of women and children they had instantly vaporized.

Thanks for the video, some very sobering pictures. The music is perfect.

Thanks for that, its hard to imagine what is going on behind those images.

Very saddening.

Let us never forget

It technically didn't end the war, there was still a string of large scale battles in Manchuria then the war ended. Some historians have argued that it was this (the stunning defeat of over 1 million Japanese soldiers and over 8 thousand pieces of equipment in less than 2 weeks) and not the atomic bombings that caused the surrender.
I believe it was a combination of both though.

At least the Enola Gay crew didnt have to see other bombers next to them get obliterated or torn in half.

Very true. I'm sure it's not much fun seeing airmen dieing to your sides and knowing you very well could be next.

Actually, your wrong about the Enola Gay crew not seeing others be shot down. As a matter of fact, Paul Tibbets Jr. (The man who flew the Enola Gay) first saw combat with the 8th Air Force during 1942, and later in the Italian theatre. Those were some of the worst times for American bomber crews in Europe. Many were shot down, and many didn't come back. Several other Enola Gay crew members also saw combat before being assigned to the Enola Gay.

So saying none of them didn't see others die in combat ins highly insulting in away, because they probably had friends as well die in the skies over Europe or the Pacific, and maybe even on the ground.

well my mistake. I never knew some of them flew in Europe.

Very moving. Now I feel kinda bad about all the He 111s I shot down in the demo!

Thanks for posting this. I was actually trying to look for it the other day.