Gun camera footage
I thought I'd seen most of the gun camera footage from World War II that's been converted to video format, but courtesy of XBradTC at 'Bring the Heat, Bring the Stupid', here's a collection that's...
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Interesting thing about "gun camera footage" - Screwball Buerling a Canadian and one of the greatest airborne killers of WW2 was at one time believed to be a liar until incontrovertible evidence of...
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For fighter pilots did chances of surviving getting shot down diminish once aircraft starting using 0.5" or 20mm rather than 0.303" or its equivalent?I found the choice of background music a off...
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I suppose that 0.50cal and 20mm did more damage, so I suppose so, but they probably fired at greater ranges and shorter burst.
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I was thinking if they wounded the pilots. You can survive a 0.303 hit and bale out but a 0.5"?
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I must have been terrifying being an engineer on those trains being attacked. You have no way to evade and you're standing directly behind a high pressure steam filled vessel that will burst as soon...
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A survivable hit from a .303" might be almost as survivable in .5"; a 1mm deep touch from the former would be a 3.5mm deep touch by the latter. A lethal hit from .303" is no more lethal if it were a...
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I believe Hartman usually opened fire at 100m or less. I really doubt fighter pilots tried to hit specific parts of a locomotive. More likely they just aimed at the center of the target and tried to...
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Tempest Pilot by CJ Sheddon, I think, I'll check tomorrow if I remember.
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