WWII CAS

[Sokol1]

[Trooper117]

Ouch!... glad I wasn't under that lot.

[Uufflakke]

I get the feeling it is a training area for US aircraft. That might explain the red smoke.

If such a  tiny hamlet is set afire by one sortie after another for strategic reasons, eliminating hidden headquarters or anything alike, it would have been reported and published.

Or even when the hamlet was burnt down without any reason (what happened to Dresden) there would have been published about much earlier.

 

Aren't that P-47's at the beginning of the video?

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

I'm on my phone but it appears to be all P-47's. The pink smoke marks the FLOT - forward line/own troops. Everything "in front" of the smoke is enemy. it also allows the spotter to give enemy positions and make adjustments in relation to the smoke via radio. Based on the setting it is probably good combat footage.

Edited December 4, 2016 by II/JG17_HerrMurf

[Sokol1]

In YT comments:

 

"This was the town of Grubenbach Germany. It was after Germany surrendered, and the town was used as a training target and as punishment.

The town was empty, and the equipment staged to help train pilots before their next assignment.

My father was assigned to document and grade these training sessions, and I have seen them numerous times over.

The videos can be obtained from the national archives. Interesting video, but it is not combat."

[II/JG17_HerrMurf]

I stand corrected