Avion Park - Gun Camera Action from World War Two (1998)

Experience World War Two aerial combat the way fighter pilots saw it – through the gun sight! This production is loaded with historic footage: in it, you'll witness the terror of the air war during World War II exactly as it was fought in Europe and the Pacific, all seen from the unique vantage point of the cockpit. This unique video gathers together–for the first time on one programme–all the very best uncensored gun camera footage from Allied and Axis film archives. A special presentation in our series "No Easy Days, Gun Camera Footage of WWII" shows it the way it happened – with U.S. bombers under relentless attack by Nazi fighters and American P-51s, P-47s, P-38s and P-40s as they charge into battle. Watch air-to-air pursuits all the way into the ground with dozens of aerial shootdowns, many in breathtaking detail. Then strafe factories, trains and ammo dumps right into the heart of Germany and Japan. It's all here, in this special collector's edition of digitally mastered "Gun Camera Footage of WWII". Share a unique fighter pilot's point of view as Luftwaffe Me109s and Fw190s tear into a formation of B-17 Flying Fortresses, decimating them with concentrated machine gun and cannon fire. Then see the battle from the perspective of the American gunners, pouring concentrated fire back into the swarms of fighters. Join a formation of P-40 Warhawks as they 'bounce' a flight of Ju52 Transports and their fighter escorts over the Mediterranean and watch through the gun sight as they chase them all the way back to their landing field and strafe the surviving aircraft.