B-29 Crew rescued by submarine

[Tony]

This is an amazing movie picture taken by an amateur and was saved in a shoebox for over 65 years. Those of the Greatest Generation should be thanked everyday you visit them.

This is worth watching.... about 2.5 mins. An entire crew of a B-29 (12 aviators) was rescued by a US submarine after their plane was shot down in ~1945, 70 miles off the coast of Japan . The entire rescue was filmed in color fim but then sat in a guy's closet until now. This is a story from a Denver TV station of one of those rescued aviators to whom the video was delivered. It also shows their transfer to another submarine that is likely headed back to port before the one that accomplished the rescue."

link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid34762914001?bctid=672454611001

Can you imagine 65 yrs AFTER your rescue you get to watch it on film?

[dakman]

Thanks for posting this
reckon there is lots more
aviation history out there still
in shoe boxes

[corsair67]

Wow, that is amazing footage, and great that he got to see it after all these years.

The only complaint I have is that he says that God was looking after him that day - but surely if God had been in fact looking after him that day, God wouldn't have let the Japanese gunners chew the crap out of his B-29 in the first place!

[Tony]

May 22, 2011 13:50:23 GMT 12 corsair67 said:

Wow, that is amazing footage, and great that he got to see it after all these years.

The only complaint I have is that he says that God was looking after him that day - but surely if God had been in fact looking after him that day, God wouldn't have let the Japanese gunners chew the crap out of his B-29 in the first place!

Or - that could have been a test of faith...............

[corsair67]

May 22, 2011 16:23:51 GMT 12 Tony said:

May 22, 2011 13:50:23 GMT 12 corsair67 said:

Wow, that is amazing footage, and great that he got to see it after all these years.

The only complaint I have is that he says that God was looking after him that day - but surely if God had been in fact looking after him that day, God wouldn't have let the Japanese gunners chew the crap out of his B-29 in the first place!

Or - that could have been a test of faith...............

Bloody tough test if it was just a test of faith! ;D