Video Military documentary footage after ww2

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Naval Pilot Killed (1958)

Aircraft carrier HMS Victorious waiting for the first of the Scimitars fighter bombers to arrive.
Scimitar plane piloted by Commander John Desmond Russell coming in to land, it touches down, hooks onto the arrester wires, wire breaks and plane rolls along deck.

Aircraft in sea with waves lapping over the cockpit in which is Commander Russell.
Helicopter flying over the aircraft with man who has been lowered on line to try and rescue Commander Russell, but the waves are still lapping over the closed cockpit. Helicopter with man still on line flying away from the spot where aircraft has sunk.

 

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Sydney, Australia. American aircraft carrier "Coral Sea"

Sky Warrior coming in to land. As it touches the deck, the nose wheel collapses, rolls along the deck and falls into the sea. The aircraft takes off again to wait for instructions.
Nylon crash barrier put in position. Airborne helicopter standing by for crash landing.
The Sky Warrior comes in to land, hits the crash barrier and skims along the deck on its nose. It comes to rest and rescue teams run out.
Crew jumping out of the crashed plane being helped by the rescue team.

 

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Though not footage, it is part of a documentary. It is a pretty accurate narrative of Mosul, pre and possibly since ISIS (don't know).

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But that was pretty par for the course on Route Tampa. My time there, you go down that route, several people will be trying to kill you and your buddies. Guaranteed, every time.

 

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On 4 August 1960 HMS Vanguard was towed from Portsmouth Harbour to the Breakersyard at Faslane in the Gareloch,Scotland, just a few miles from where she first set sail in 1946. Under the command of Lt. Cdr. W.G. Frampton were two officers and sixty ratings.She had been sold to the British Iron and Steel Corporation for £560,000.

 

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LV Military representatives assembling in grandstand. LV Military representatives arriving. CU Foreign naval and representatives. SV Soldier firing Garrand 300 rifles. CU Soldier firing Garrand rifle. LV Military personnel watching from grandstand.
SV Soldier demonstrating SMLE 303 Lee Enfield rifle.
SV Soldier preparing to fire new 280 rifle SV Soldier holding 280 ready to fire. CU Soldier looking through telescopic sight pan down to mussel of rifle. LV Targets. SV Soldier firing 280. CU Soldier firing new design 280 rifle. LV Military representatives inspecting gun and targets CU Hands holding new 280 rounds SV Roll of hold steel helmets from 600 yd. range.
SV Military personnel viewing new 280 machine gun.
SV Demonstrator about to fire 303 Vickers machine gun. CU Two RAF officers watching.
SV Firing 303 Vickers GPMG.
SV Demonstrator showing 3 army officers the new 280. MC Two army officers. SV Firing new 280 Machine gun. SV Taking out 280 rifles from sand bin. SV Army observers watching. SV Soldier firing sand covered 280 rifle.

 

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This film documents 1963's Operation Blowdown, an incredible test undertaken by Australia to determine what the effects of a nuclear detonation would be in a rainforest. For various reasons a nuclear device was not used, so the test (in the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland) relied on conventional explosives -- 50 tons of TNT.
Although today the test seems quite peculiar, at the time the "Atoms for Peace" initiative was being advanced by both sides in the Cold War and the idea that a nuclear device could be used to harvest trees for lumber en masse, certainly had its appeal.

A device containing was detonated to partially simulate a ten kiloton air burst in the Iron Range jungle. The explosives were sourced from obsolete artillery shells and placed in a tower 42 metres (138 ft) above ground level and 21 metres (69 ft) above the rainforest canopy. After the explosion, troops were moved through the area (which was now covered in up to a metre of leaf litter), to test their ability to transit across the debris. In addition, obsolete vehicles and equipment left near the centre of the explosion were destroyed.

The explosion was intended by the Robert Menzies government to test and examine the feasibility of air burst nuclear weapons for clearing forests and the use of mangled forests to slow troop movement in South East Asia, primarily Indonesia and Malaysia in the escalation of the time against Sukarno and the Konfrontasi Malayan Emergency. There was also a view to use such techniques in the later Myanmar conflict and Vietnam War, which were simmering at the time.

I was there 20 years after the event, the grassy jungle was taking over the site and there were remnants of twisted broken steel but no trees.

 

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Allied soldiers and scientists observe a Nuclear weapons test near Maralinga.

 

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The process of clearing and destroying sea mine explosives after World War II.

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RED FLAG Highlights from a fun time out round Las Vegas 30 plus years ago, dodging pretend SAMs and not going into Area 51.

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Exercise RED FLAG was started by the US in 1975 after studies in the Vietnam War showed not only that fast jet pilots and WSOs/RIOs had inadequate combat skills, especially against dissimilar aircraft, but that the loss rate improved dramatically if they could complete 10 operational missions. The idea of RED FLAG was therefore to give crews that 10 missions worth of experience before they went into live combat. The exercise has since expanded to all mission types and is run several times a year at the Nellis Ranges, each course lasting 2 weeks and with increasingly challenging scenarios as the crews progress.