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Rare video footage of Japanese aircraft

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The_Editor

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Rare footage of Japanese aircraft:

Mitsubishi Ki-15 BABS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxy6aQDathc

Aichi E13A JAKE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wnyNHBOm8w

Kawanishi H8K EMILY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqNduio0L-I

Kawanishi H6K MAVIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9liCeUNpgqA

Mitsubishi G3M NELL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K09ya5d0quU

Kawasaki Ki-48 LILY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFr-AmhNzQo

Mitsubishi Ki-51 SONIA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF2FtSvt5uw

Mitsubishi G4M BETTY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDWHSc1hoSs

Mitsubishi Ki-21 SALLY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c-hH13g9zI

Nakajima G8N RITA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8c37_sCwHA

Yokosuka P1Y FRANCES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2i6XDFXOk4

Nakajima Ki-49 HELEN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXm0OpmHGw

Kyushu Q1W LORNA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FEANOAOulo
 
Those are very good rare films of Japanese planes and I enjoy it very much.

You know Guys their is a TV series call Wings the Luftwaffe and I was wondering way they never did another one for the Japanese call Wings of Rising Sun as well?

The Japanese where very good Airplane designers. Luckly the where not at the same level when it came to producing Powerful Airplane Engine in comparison to the West.

I sure wold have love to have seen a series covering their Airforce too.

Its just my opinion!:jump:
 
Thanks for the links to the Japanese warbird flicks, Editor!

That sure was a long time ago.

Cheers,
Chris
 
miamieagle said:
You know Guys their is a TV series call Wings the Luftwaffe and I was wondering way they never did another one for the Japanese called Wings of Rising Sun as well?
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Might be due to not enough good-quality film footage surviving the war compared to the German side. Look at most of those YouTube videos, they're grainy and the production quality is on a par with somebody's home movies. Still, the videos are pretty interesting and make you wonder just how much neat stuff is still waiting to be discovered in a stack of film cans somewhere. I'd love to see the entire film of the Japanese Pearl Harbor documentary from around 1942-43. That's where that stock footage of older B5N1 Kates launching off a carrier comes from.
 
After the Emily attack on Hawaii March 3/4,1942 the US foundout where the planes refueled ( French Frigate Shoals ) while flying from Marshall Islands.Most of the Japanese film of the Pearl Harbor attack was destroyed when USN Carriers attacked Kwajalein, Wotje and the Marcus Islands.


Talon
 
The Pearl Harbor film I was referring to was not the original attack footage but The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya directed by Kajiro Yamamoto (no relation to the admiral). This is the Japanese equivalent of John Ford's December 7th and a lot of footage from both flicks has been used in other movies and TV documentaries.
I think the only surviving footage of the actual attack are the morning flight deck launch scenes and that short view of Hickam Field shot from a Val or Kate.
 
A lot of films of the Japanese Military in WW2 was destroyed by our Gorverment as not to inspire future generations of Japanese to engage in Militarism as a answer to their future problems. We have got to remember that the Japanese constitution was written by the USA and it repudiates Militarism.

It was done with best intention but for us that love History it was a shame that they did this.

Just a opinion
 
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