Zeno=92s Warbird Video Drive-In Big August 2008 Newsletter
Hello RC Warbirders ---
You=92re invited to drop by Zeno's Drive-In www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com
for this month=92s summer six pack of a half-dozen WW2 combat aircraft
do***entary films playing over the Internet. We're paying special
attention to the 65th Anniversary of the epic Ploesti mission,
including a new film on one of the participants, the 98th Bomb Group,
now playing at the Matinee. The newsletter is a little late getting
out because Zeno has been beavering away producing several new
programs.
Just like the day we opened on July 15, 1997, all the World War II
aircraft videos on our site are showing for free, for your viewing
pleasure
Now showing At the Matinee
=93White Tailed Marauders=94 The 323rd Bomb Group and their B-26s Premier!
Exclusive Production. Rare color film of B-26 Marauders in action in
the Spring of 1945. See the 453rd, 454th, 455th, and 455th Bomb
Squadrons operating against Germany from their base in Laon, France.
All color footage really brings this bygone era startlingly back to
life. Special treats include escorting P-38s and a round trip mission.
A must for Marauder fans everywhere!
=93The 98th Bomb Group Liberators Over North Africa=94 Premier! Exclusive
Production -- hear Zeno speak! This recently discovered footage shows
Medal of Honor winner Col. John R. "Killer " Kane and the men of the
98th Bomb Group in the Summer of 1943, shortly before the heroic,
costly Ploesti mission, at their desert base in Benghazi/Benina,
Libya. You'll see legendary B-24s like "The Vulgar Virgin," "The
Sandman," and "War Cloud." Sadly, several of these ****ps were filmed
here for the last time before they were lost over Romania. There's an
unexpected gem too. Soon after the Axis surrender in Tunisia, 9th
combat cameraman Jim Bray hitched a ride on a B-24 and filmed all the
major North African targets the 98th had hit from the air, from El
Alemein to Tunis. You'll see Tobruk, Tripoli, Benghazi, Bizerte and
more from above, the way pilots and crew saw them during the Desert
War. And the big Liberator goes in low too so you can take in sunken
war****ps, clamoring liberty ****ps unloading their cargoes, and bombed
out harbors that have long since been rebuilt. This is a priceless
time capsule.
=93Medal of Honor: Ploesti August 1, 1943 On August 1, 1943=94 Specially
trained elements of the 8th and 9th Air Forces flying B-24 Liberators
based in Benghazi Libya launched a daring low level attack on Ploesti,
over 1,200 miles away. They struck hard, but the cost was high.
Unescorted by fighters and coming in literally at tree top level to
surprise the enemy, 54 out of 162 of the attacking bombers were lost,
along with 540 American air crew. Every member of the attacking force
was awarded a medal, including 5 Medals of Honor, the highest
decoration awarded by the U.S. military. Of the Medal of Honor
recipients, only Col. Leon Johnson, 44th Bomb Group, and Col. Jon
"Killer" Kane, 98th Bomb Group, survived the mission.
=93Air Siege Ploesti March to August 1944=94 The capture of the Foggia
airfield in on the Adriatic in Italy in 1944 provided the 15th Air
Force with a new base to launch a new series of Air attacks on
Ploesti. This time, B-17s and B-24s attacked with fighter escort at
high altitude. Losses were again heavy, with over 1,800 air crew lost
to FLAK and enemy fighters. Accuracy suffered when defenders used
smoke pots to obscure the target, so P-38s were used as dive bombers
to penetrate the defenses. Soon P-51s helped to achieve total air
superiority over the target. By the end of the Ploesti air campaign in
the fall of 1944, 90% of Romania's oil production was knocked at a
cost of 270 bombers and 49 fighters and their crews. Narrated by
Ronald Reagan.
=93B-24s Get Back=94 Many of the B-24 crews who survived the Ploesti
missions swore that they owed their lives to their rugged Liberators.
This remarkable film that shows how B-24s overcame incredible battle
damage to bring their crews home. Numerous examples of seemingly
critically damaged B-24s making it back. This is a fascinating
instructional training film too with specific techniques to bring your
badly crippled ****p down safely. Some great B-24 combat footage too.
The 362nd Fighter Group on the prowl over Germany. Premier (Color)
Drive-in Exclusive. Held over another month by popular demand. This
video contains some of the most exciting color air action sequences to
come out of World War II. Select 362nd Fighter Group P-47 Thunderbolt
fighter/bombers were especially equipped with extra color movie
cameras to capture thrilling ground and air attacks as they happened.
These squadrons were tasked with striking targets inside Nazi Germany
as the war against the Third Reich entered it=92s final act in Spring,
1945. The result is unique "from the cockpit" views putting you in the
middle of attacks on tanks, airfields, trucks, rail yards, bridges,
trains, fighters, and more. You'll even see antiaircraft fire arcing
up from the ground, bursting around the big Thunderbolts as they make
their low level strikes. You'll see 362nd CO Col. Joe Laughlin and the
pilots and crews of the 377th, 378th and 379th Fighter Squadrons and
their aircraft in living color.
If you haven't stopped by Zeno's Drive-In before, we also feature
1940-45 vintage WWII Army & Navy films and pilot=92s manuals on how to
fly the F4U, F6F, P-38, P-39, P-40, P-47, P-51, P-61, TBF/TBM, AT-6/
SNJ, B-17, B-24, B-25, A-20, A-26, B-26, B-29, and Stearman N2S .
Alert! =96 Alert! There=92s been an F-86 jet sighted over Zeno=92s
Drive-In=
!
That's over 16 hours of rockin' World War II props for free viewing
over the Internet!
Check Six!!
Zeno
Zeno=92s Warbird Video Drive-In /World War II Aviation Videos.
Celebrating 11 years on the Internet 1997-2008
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideo=
s.com
PS, If you have any concerns about using the RealNetworks RealPlayer
to watch our videos, I recommend using the =93RealAlternative=94 media
player instead. It will play RealVideo files just fine, is
independently produced, a small download, and has none of the
pur****ted vices of RealNetwork=92s RealPlayer. You can download the
RealAlternative player here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/real_Alternative.htm
Online Videos: Ploesti Liberators, White Tailed B-26s & Screaming
P-47s
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