Challenging WW2 Pilots Tasks
 

Just found this short movie today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&fe...&v=V6cl4TvZopA

At the time there was still some military transport going on horse drawn, but this looked more like haystacks.
The allies strafed almost anything they could find in late 1945 and many fresh pilots probably wanted to fire off some bullets at the Germans before the war's end, and not return 'empty handed'.

I'm sure they are actually blue players in disguise.:grin:

Correct but also allied fighter pilots who fired bullets into groups of innocent civilian passersby, childs or farm workers stand with such a criminal behavior outside the provisions of national criminal law and international war-laws like the Geneva convention. Shame, this has nothing to do with honorable human behavior. Its an unpunished war crime!

So I guess these wouldn't be legitimate targets?

http://www.twitt.org/ho_xii_oxen.jpg
http://www.lovettartillery.com/pics/...Horse_team.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iFhWYem27G..._union_ww2.jpg


Who knows what was in the wagon. Stores? Munitions? If you can pick out the detail from that gun camera footage you've got better eyes than me.

It's in a combat zone and the pilots were probably give orders to interdict all road transport and that would include animal drawn vehicles.

The German army, if anyone cares to study actual history was largely horsedrawn right to the end of the war.

LOL, Beat me to it Skosh. :)

Check out the cart at 43 seconds. Does that look like it explodes? I wonder what was in side?

A war that wouldn't have happened if.........well we all know the story, the Allies certainly did do some questionable things....but at least their actions could be blamed on provocation, the Germans (Nazis) however chose to indulge in these same things from the beginning of the War as agressors.

Yes I saw the exploding cart.....must have been that 'special' type of haybales, probably for the stables at the petting zoo in the 'camp Zion' holliday park.

oh guys please.. it happened on both sides, you had to keep your head down because it was total war. The Germans did it, the Japanese did it (I'm sure the Italian did it too at some point), and God knows if the American and British did it as well.

It is a war crime, and when documented or reported it was also treated as such, unless some cases where the population put their hands on the pilots and tore them to bits.

It's called collateral damage.

If memory serves me correctly, the Janes WWII Fighters Sim had legitimate Horese drawn targets.

I can see that there would be a certain reluctance on cruelty-to-virtual-animals grounds for not having them, though I'm surprised on a historical basis that ROF doesn't have them.

Some how I don't think a poll based on 'give me animals to shoot (Y or N)' would be in good taste!

Well... I'm german and I think my grand/great-grand-parents deserved what has happened to a point, because of letting the nazis come to, and stay in, power, all too often willingly and knowingly (in all respects - see the self-protective "we didn't know" mantra) - but that is a bit over the top imo. Mainly thinking of the animals, which didn't deport a single jew etc., though.

Btw: Maybe the cart exploding at 43s is a horse-drawn steam engine, then used to process wheat etc. I think you can see it venting some steam just before the bullet hits (or it was already damaged from some previous attack). Albeit the cart looks rather small for that and I hardly believe those were moved around when under steam. Shrug.

Could be a field kitchen.

Hi all,

Any videos of German aircraft straffing refugee columns in France 1940?

It happened. War is hell...

Best Regards,
MB_Avro

They were probably destroyed along with the RAF strafing Red Cross ambulance videos.

guys please, let's not play again the game of higher moral grounds.. ALL countries involved in WW2 committed war crimes at some point.