Amazing. Terrifying also. Way too many shots of random strafing runs on buildings and boats clearly not military.
I remember seeing these gun camera films in an old movie about American fighter pilots. It had this kind of creepy detached narration by an actor pretending to be the flier. During a scene of him strafing some unknown person in a field, he said something like: "Wonder who this guy is? Well, no friend of mine."
BUDDA BUDDA BUDDA.
It may have been used for propaganda or was just reflective of post-war attitudes, but that footage was apparently pretty popular. I always think its strange to see things like that used as stock footage in older films; even stuff that's not remotely related to the respective real world wars. Its like cutting to Faces of Death clips in the middle of your action film. The crappy Japanese kids sci-fi movie Invasion of the Neptune Men used what I think is stock footage taken from the London Blitz AND American planes bombing
Japanese targets. And the Hitler Building, of course.
