“The Outsider” - Decades before ‘Flags of our Fathers’ this 1961 film follows Ira Hayes from basic training, to Iwo Jima, and the years following the war. Gain an appreciation of Ira’s demise as survivor’s guilt is thrust into the hero’s spotlight.
Hidden Gem: One of the best accounts of just how happenstance the second flag raising was.
WW2 helicopter
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was the helicopter in service during WW2,
if it was, what army employed the helicopter -
Germans had them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SrUyNG4fYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9R9Zq6P9M&feature=relatedBell is the other company to make them for US army, but Germany was first
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i believe russia also had a prototype as well
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it looks like there were lots of helicopters that were used by the armies, mostly for reconaissance and rescue,
i do not see any combat helicopter references, i.e. helicopter gunships, although the helicopter was employed at combat,
germany used a helicopter from 1941 for convoy protection and artillery spotting,
the u.s. developed anti-submarine helicopters,
wikipedia lists 40 -50 helicopters that were developed during WW2 -
Japan also had an American made helicopter. It wasn’t capable of lifting much, but the Japanese fixed that by putting in a better engine. Hurray for common sense!
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Near the end of the War Japan Devoloped a Chopper to fill their Much Needed Anti Sub Warfare Gap. Too little too late though
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I had thought Korea was the first war with helicopters. When I see the crude machines they used for medivac, I shudder to think what the WWII ones must have looked like.
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Korea was indeed the first war to use helicopters on a significant scale. They were most experimental in WWII.
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