World War Videos and Documentary

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...30178234459087

About 3 minutes 20 seconds into the clip, you will see an F6F Hellcat, it's hydraulics shot away during a strafing run, pancake on the carrier deck and slew into the island. A deckhand was crushed between the aircraft and the superstructure and killed. The number on the plane is 30.

The lanky pilot sitting dazed in the cockpit is a gentleman named Andy Cowan. Today he is hale and hearty at 87 and lives just north of Salinas, Ca. To this day he cannot recall this accident without a tear coming to his eye. The swabby who was killed was his crew chief.

Andy was the longest serving Navy fighter pilot in WWII. He was on his shakedown cruise off Gitmo on December 7th, 1941. The carrier Ranger made flank speed to Norfolk and the pilots were transhipped to San Francisco by train, then sped to Hawaii by ship. He saw Pearl not long after the sneak attack, and again is unable to speak of it...a horrible disaster. He immediately went aboard the Lexington and in the course of the war had 4 carriers shot out from under him as he fought in every major Pacific battle. Coral Sea, Midway, Battle of Santa Cruz, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima.

I am dedicating this thread to War videos and Documentary in the last century including World War 1 and World War 2

World War 1

Scene From Western Front in Gallipoli in 1915 , french soldiers Fighting

(footage : ITN source)



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Battleship Szent Istvan Sinks (courtesy : itn source)



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War in the Middle East

Part 1 in series : Blood and Oil

World War 1 in 1914



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Part 2 Blood and Oil

Russian and British Attack on Ottoman Empire



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Arab War ( 1919-1925)



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Part 3 Blood and Oil

World War 1 in the Middle East

French - British attack



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Part 4

Ottoman Army to cross Suez Canal to advance into Sinai Desert to invade Egypt



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Part 5

78,000 British Army consisting Anzac Troops and French lands Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 and opposed by 60,000 Ottoman troops, beach invasion by British and Allied soldiers failed Disastrously.



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Part 6

Battle in Iraq



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Part 7

War in Caucasus



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Part 8

War continues in Iraq in 1916, surrender of British Troops in Iraq after siege by overwhelming number of Turkish troops.



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Part 9

Desert War in Sinai , war in Palestine



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Part 10

Baghdad falls after 1,60,000 British Soldiers ,consists of overwhelming majority of Indian troops attacked Ottomans in Baghdad.



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Part - 11

Battle for Gaza in 1917



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