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Gun Camera
Gun Camera

Gun Camera

0.3 Dec 2005
Ended
Documentary

Overview

From the precision weapons of modern war to the aerial ballet of a dogfight, the gun camera has been a tool of reconnaissance and tactics since the dawn of flight and mechanized warfare. Climb into the cockpit as gun camera footage from nearly a century of war is analyzed, sometimes down to the frame, by a team of experts and the men who lived it.

English
E1

Moving Targets

The unwritten rule of war is: if it moves, shoot it. From the speeding supply trains of World War II to the desperate convoys of the war in Iraq, discover details of a half-century of war, including a debriefing with a WWII ace and his gun camera footage.

Dec 31, 2005 45m
E2

Air Supremacy

The lesson of World War II was simple: rule the skies and win the war. Through the lens of a camera experience 500-mph dogfights, deadly strafing airfield runs and the gritty 50-caliber hell of helicopter warfare in Vietnam.

Dec 31, 2005 45m
E3

Fixed Targets

Join Gun Camera on a search for the three B's: bunkers, bridges and buildings. Experience, firsthand, fixed target aerial assaults, including bombing runs over Europe and fiery attacks on the Vietnam jungle.

Dec 31, 2005 45m

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