Thanks to my friend Tom for finding this bit of history and knowing that I would like it.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAV6v0XKue8&w=420&h=315]
The air show in this video took place in 1945 at Freeman Field in Seymour, Indiana, only four months after the German surrender and just one month after the Japanese surrender. All kinds of captured Axis aircraft, including, according to my friend, a German Arado 234 and a DO-390. (I will admit that unless there was a Revell or Monogram model of a plane, I probably can’t identify it.)
Anyone know what the 4 engine AC is at 4:56? I don’t recognize/remember it.
B-32 Dominator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfH2Id83lY4
Unless I’m mistaken, at the 5:00 mark or so is a Nakajima Ki-43-IIb (three bladed prop vs. two bladed of the earlier “Oscars”.