The Korean war in the air (historic vids including Essex carrier)

[Duggy]

I have put this together over several years. 600 plus photos.

LINK --  http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?id=354

Enjoy.

[IckyAtlas]

Excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[BlitzPig_EL]

Thanks a lot for these!

I love the color schemes used then.

[Trooper117]

Great stuff!

B-17's as some sort of air sea rescue aircraft, plus Dakota's there as well...  

Edited November 30, 2025 by Trooper117

[BlitzPig_EL]

Also C46 Commandos! I would not have thought that any were still in service 5 years after WW2.

[Swoose]

By content creator "Not A Pound For Air-To-Ground": "This video traces the parallel origins of the MiG-15 and F-86 Sabre, comparing their aerodynamic and technical characteristics, and explaining how each aircraft performed in combat over Korea. I've considered pilot training, basing, tactical doctrine, and the evolving balance of advantage through the war. I'll also get into the sticky subject of which fighter did better in the conflict in Korea."    

 

[Aapje]

deleted dupe

Edited December 7, 2025 by Aapje

[Mysticpuma]

 

 

And a bonus playlist of a lot of Korean War footage.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqBcI2Nvj2I0bm9nPaBjRtyFGZutFdIk&si=V2TH-MmTJ6le8Jb7

 

 

Edited December 22, 2025 by Mysticpuma

[Kongo]

Gun Camera footage from 523rd FS in F-84Es on the 23rd of January 1951 near the Yalu from Jacob Kratt and Will Slaughter

 

Footage from 4th FIW around june 18th 1951  :

 

 

Footagefarm dated 1953 : 

 

 

 

Edited December 26, 2025 by Kongo

[BlitzPig_EL]

Were those films really that bad to start with, or is the the effect of poor storage over time degrading the images?  Honestly, it looks like someone smeared petroleum jelly on the lenses.

[LukeFF]

2 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

Were those films really that bad to start with, or is the the effect of poor storage over time degrading the images?  Honestly, it looks like someone smeared petroleum jelly on the lenses.

There is a prolific military video footage poster on X, hw97karbine, who says the problem is typically that when these films were first transferred from the archives, the transfer process methods were still not of the best quality, so you end up with these crappy-resolution films still floating around. According to him, the original footage was typically quite high-resolution for the time (as his posts show).

[Aapje]

 

Might be useful for the future...

[Duggy]

Lots of new photos added.

Link - http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?id=354&p=4

[BlitzPig_EL]

Outstanding stuff Duggy!

[MajorMagee]

Love this one.

[Aapje]

Embedding not allowed, so you have to click through:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8gkGVm9qVo

Quite interesting.

[J_Muta]

Hoping to see dogfights like this. 

[Mysticpuma]

http://youtube.com/post/UgkxfRuLwX-yNGddFUmcG8sh7qe6IgpVV3w4?si=cK7XcmeDeM9ulnQT

This is his FB profile.

https://www.facebook.com/share/14PyPNe2Zcq/

Just sharing in case he's open to questions and anyone wants to make contact with him 👍

[Flyingadjo]

A great playlist about the Korean war in the air by the YouTube Chanel "not a pound for air to ground". 

https://youtu.be/Z8gkGVm9qVo?is=E8b9jQEF9N4960-s

That helps pass the time while waiting for the release...

Edited April 27 by Flyingadjo

[Flyingadjo]

And there is another playlist on the same chanel about Korea war air to air combat.

One video is about the Essex class aircraft carrier USS kearsarge that saw combat during Korea war. #DLC Cheers! 

Edited April 27 by Flyingadjo

[LukeFF]

Casual Friday 🙂

[Avimimus]

Also going on in the theatre - a good two part documentary on the Royal Australian Air Force:

 

[Avimimus]

Another really interesting documentary - this one on the B-26 Invader units:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuJIfjXDiwk

Lots of good pictures, unit histories and tactics!

[Avimimus]

For general Korean War history, this series is quite detailed:

 

[Nearlymen]

A little bit of additional info about  Lou Spence C/O of 77 Sqdn. A good friend of mine was the late Dick Peters who flew as no.2 to the C/O Tommy Handley who took over command of 800 sqdn with their Seafire 47's during the Korean Tour. For a while just before the outbreak of the war, both 77 and 800 were based at Iwakuni, Japan and by all accounts got on rather well ! To the point that Lou Spence had a hankering to fly a Seafire 47 and after a good night in the mess with Dick they both ended up the next day doing a mech shake down flight at the same time ! Hmmm..quite by chance you understand ! lol !! So they both taxied out, went to far reaches of the airfield, jumped out and in a highly irregular operation swopped planes ! How I know this this, well I was chatting with Dick and he was showing me his log book and my eye was drawn to a very strange entry of a P-51, and thus the story unfolded ! I believe Lou Spences log books are in a museum somewhere, but I like to think in them is a strange entry of a seafire 47 and this is the tale ! As a footnote if anyone is interested in the story of the Aussies 77 sqdn in Korea I can recomended the book 'The Forgotten Few' by Doug Hurst, it's a good read !

Edited May 4 by Nearlymen