FW 190 pilot bails out after being shot down by a P-51 Mustang (Romania, 1943).
September 22, 2024
FW 190 pilot bails out after being shot down by a P-51 Mustang (Romania, 1943).
by Legatus_Aemilianus
8 comments
The quality of WW2 guncam footage amazes me. I hope that guy’s chute opened.
That is incredible that even back then the gun camera footage was that good!
no one ever thinks about getting hit by your own plane when bailing out….but it happens.
Were the pilot’s chances of survival high in this type of ejection?
wooo go mustang!
15 AF got their first P-51 in spring of 1944. Also, German planes in Romania at that time were exclusively Bf-109 or nightfighting twin-engined designs. The only time when a P-51 and a FW-190 could meet over Romania was in the second half of 1944, when USAAF started their shuttle bombing missions with pit-stops in Soviet Union, and the German aerial units assigned to the Eastern front got pushed into Hungary and Romania. On the other hand, Romanians had IAR 80, their indigenous fighter with radial engines that could have been misidentified as FW.
Great footage! Holy shit this would have got some upvotes on 1943 Reddit
What were American fighters doing over Romania? Was it some sort of support for the USSR? Were they operating from Italy or Russian territories?
8 comments
The quality of WW2 guncam footage amazes me. I hope that guy’s chute opened.
That is incredible that even back then the gun camera footage was that good!
no one ever thinks about getting hit by your own plane when bailing out….but it happens.
Were the pilot’s chances of survival high in this type of ejection?
wooo go mustang!
15 AF got their first P-51 in spring of 1944. Also, German planes in Romania at that time were exclusively Bf-109 or nightfighting twin-engined designs. The only time when a P-51 and a FW-190 could meet over Romania was in the second half of 1944, when USAAF started their shuttle bombing missions with pit-stops in Soviet Union, and the German aerial units assigned to the Eastern front got pushed into Hungary and Romania. On the other hand, Romanians had IAR 80, their indigenous fighter with radial engines that could have been misidentified as FW.
Great footage! Holy shit this would have got some upvotes on 1943 Reddit
What were American fighters doing over Romania? Was it some sort of support for the USSR? Were they operating from Italy or Russian territories?