Informative video with some nice rarely seen shots of these Japanese float planes. The F2A Brewster fighter was called the Buffalo however, not the Cougar FYI.

Good looking,but.....

5.43,right hand side seem to be SpitfireMk.XIV.

I thought I heard the B-24 was more difficult to fly.

@scottjuhnke6825 2 years ago I appreciate your effort, but you really do need to employ at least one editor, and probably two. One for technical/historical accuracy, and one for grammar/word choice.

TO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: Sir, the video while very interesting was poorly narrated and constructed. If English is your primary language, you must return to school to learn sentence construction, grammar, and proper pronunciation. There were too many errors in your dialogue to list here. Your errors made viewing the video difficult. The best advice I have for you is to take it down.

The 747 is now a freighter not a super tanker

I'd rather spend a day with a ball turret gunner than with any celebrity.

Cool

The greatest generation!

Great video! Was unaware of he high cost of firefighting.

America 1st ..... maga baby maga 👍

He was reprimanded for that. As a free French airman given an aircraft to fly the hierarchy saw it as reckless so early in the War.

I mean...give them credit...it was built in a hour😅

Me grandpa was a ball turret gunner

It's a Flying Boat,not a "Seaplane"!

LOVE THE HISTORY LESSON..👍

America 1st ..... maga baby maga 👍

My grandpa Jim was a tail gunner in a B17 over Germany.

N1K2J Shiden Kai vs Ki84???

This video is mostly nonesense. My dad was lead navigator in the Australian RAAF 200 flight which flew spy drop missions in Borneo late in the war. He said the Lib was a handful to fly especially when loaded up to the hilt. But don't forget aero dynamics were poorly understood back then and are still not fully understood now. The fact is in the ETO Liberators had similar operational outcomes to the B17 and the Lib probably dropped greater tonnage of bombs per mission than the B17. Also the B17 was virtually banned from the Pacific theatre because of poor range - it was a no show in that theatre ie useless. Finally the Liberator had a huge effect in the battle of the Atlantic against the uboats where it plugged the mid Atlantic gap which no B17 could do. The Lib also flew exclusively on the first raids against Ploesti oil fields in Romania. Churchill said the Battle of the Atlantic was the only thing that really worried him during the whole war. So the B24 was a real war winner while the B17 only operated in Europe (half a world war). There was a reason the Liberator was the most produced four engine bomber ever produced and that was because it was a real war winner.

Germany makes the best machines me210

semper fi,,,, mo fo

thats my diet out the window

Thank you for sharing his story

I believe the buoy at the end of the movie is on Terschelling Island, The Netherlands. The bunker museum is currently restoring the buoy.

As always, a well researched and well thought out video. Well done 👍

There was steel plating inside surrounding the body in the aluminum ball not sayin it was the safest place to be but that's a fact I guess Ai forgot to mention or my guess would be it's the evil left with their commie ways tryin their hardest to knock anything that has to do with our great military & country sad days for this country hopefully now this sorry admin is leaving things will get better

Brave men and yet boys. My father was a flight engineer A C Phillips flight Sargent Eastmoor no York. England he was twenty years old. Shot down in a Halifax prisoner of war. Bless them all

My great uncle Jim Swift was flying these

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It seems such a shame that the problem with the Whirlwind as a production aircraft was seemingly misidentified in then-standard RAF engineering jargon at the time. While the prototype was, by all accounts, excellent at the high altitudes required to engage enemy bombers, the production aircraft lost power and overall performance over 15,000 feet. This was put down by pilots as 'engine problems' - taken to mean a lack of power in the Peregrine itself. Yet, the most modern research suggests the engine itself was essentially fine. The real culprit, it seems, was the propeller fitted to the production models: The chord apparently created mach problems at high revs in the thinner air over 15,000 feet, resulting in a sort of feedback loop where the constant-speed mechanism of the prop started hunting, which led to a less-than-optimal transference of the engines' power to the prop. From what I've read, the original aircraft's constant-speed propellers were Rotol units, with a very fine chord, whilst production units were fitted (for whatever reason and it could conceivably have been cost, availability or both) with deHavilland propellers of a different profile. Mach issues were not well understood, the pilots would understandably have felt the power adjustments as inconsistencies in engine performance and so the real issue was simply not identified at the time.* An advanced aeroplane design needs to be built precisely as it was intended, and not compromised for the sake of expediency. This, I feel, is the real lesson of the Westland Whirlwind. *(And no, I don't believe that Brown was any more informed or qualified to have identified the true fault. He was a pilot, not an aerospace engineer, and that does count against him or his well-earned reputation.)

Shitbox.

It's 2024, do some reading. Ball turret high casualty rate is a myth. In fact, it was one of the safest after the co-pilot.

The PB4Y2 Consolidated Privateer was a completely new aircraft. The fuselage was lengthened along with the single rudder. The USN flew the PB4Y-2 in the Pacific. Numerous squadrons were deployed. VPB 108, 109, 119 just to name a few. Both the PB4Y-1 and 2 had the turbochargers removed from the engines since most of their flying was at a low level.

I read a story in WWII magazine back in the 90's. There is a story out there of a B17 tailgunner whose tail fell and he couldn't bail out. He said the waiting for the impact of terra firma was just killing him. Some how the tail hit a snow bank in the mountains and slide all the way down into the valley. Once he came to a complete stop he was taken in to captivity by is surprised captors and gave him a smoke and a stiff drink before taking him to a luftstalag. He survived the war. 🥇🥃🍻🫡🇺🇸

Minor correction. At time 6:20, the narrator states "of the 1000 sorties conducted by coalition aircraft...25% were from Navy ships...." Incorrect. That "1000" sorties stat was JUST THE FIRST NIGHT. Aside from hundreds of Air Force and Coalition air forces in Operation Desert Storm, there were 7 aircraft carrier battle groups in the combat theater. I was a Viking SENSO flying off of the USS Ranger(CV-61) designated "The Night Carrier". Our carrier alone flew 4,200 sorties over 42 consecutive nights. Otherwise, nice presentation.(I’m sure the Viking gods will weigh-in with other things to pick at) Those interested in the "Decoy" missions during Operation Desert Storm can watch this short KZbin clip I created about the first TALD mission. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4DUYnuOod1or5Y

Curious as to how this is considered a failure. No actual aircraft were built (only a mock up) and the SST program was canceled once the government stopped funding it. A more appropriate title would be "America's Canceled SST Project" or something like that, unless you're dumb enough to believe they weren't capable of doing it.

Thanks for that. About time someone did a doco on the Viking. I think it was a wonderful aircraft. Watched a couple of them land on the USS Carl Vinson once. Awesome.

Fact check Only a 6 % kill rate on the ball turret. Side gunners and cockpit (1943) where not the place to be. Only a view did not survive the ball turret according to the statistics. Wounded where pulled out. Dead gunners in the ball where pulled out if able. Those how had to stay during belly landing where dead. Loads of ww2 pup talk did make the the ball turret a mythological place . Even the poem of the ball turret was made up just to be come a nice poem

excellent video!

What was the movie the initial footage came from. I know I’ve seen it but can’t remember title.

My Dad flew 50 missions in Libs out of Foggia, Italy. 451st Bomb Group, 724th Squadron. He flew on two different ships. The first was Satan’s Sister, which was damaged so badly, it had to be pulled out of service for repairs. They then were assigned Maresydoats, in which he flew the rest of his missions. Satan’s Sister was repaired and flew again. The crew renamed it, (can’t remember the new name…) and very shortly after it reentered service, it was shot down killing all hands. I’ve always heard it was bad luck to change the names of boats. I guess the same holds true for bombers…

LOVE THE HISTORY LESSON...THANX 👍

My father taught B17 ball turret gunnery stateside (Not sure but I think is was Vegas) in WWII. In order to escape in an emergency it was necessary to tediously hand crank the gear to get the turret to the bottom position to allow escape. My father figured out a way to pop the ratchet from the gear allowing the turret to quickly drop to the bottom position allowing a quick exit! He said they changed the training manual after that. Who knows the lives that may have saved. A story I'll always remember.

Die Bachem Ba 349 Natter war niemals ein Kamikatze Flugzeug.

Ki 84 veteran pilot Sergeant Mizunori Fukuda is credited with the shootdown of the 3rd wingman of Thomas McGuire on the mission that the 2nd place American Ace supposedly crashed while manuevering with drop tanks on against a Ki 43 over Mindoro in the Phillippines 01/07/1945. The official version has Fukuda showing up after McGuire crashed but an incindiary 20mm fragment was found in McGuire's P38 wreckage and no variant of the Oscar was ever equipped with the 20mm canon whereas the Ki84 always was. In addition there was a discrepancy in the two after action reports of the surviving American pilots and one of them, Missing Aircrew Report 11589 (MACR 11589) attributed McGuire's P38 as lost to "enemy aircraft". In addition Fukuda reportedly claimed, not just one but two P38s shot down that day. I'll leave it to the reader of this reply to draw their own conclusions or not.

Many of the things you say are factually simply incorrect,your research into the subject leaves much to be desired! 😩😭

I know that sound from somewhere seriously

Jay Zeamer !! you owe respect !