A selection of Guncam videos from Korea (Air to Air, Air to Ground)

[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).