It's always so strange to hear how thin is the border between a young life and a cemetery.

The vintage narrator at time 3:00 sounds like a young Ronald Reagan.

I am neither German, British, nor American, but when I see what happened to the bombed cities and the civilian population, I have no sympathy for bomber crews, regardless of their nationality.

*¡THE name is F 4 PHANTOM 2 NOT the F 1 phantom!*

Thank you. Never heard this before.

Really good storytelling, I'll check out other videos.

Sent to a slaughter...rip, all😢

Great stuff again, Jeff. This is going to be a monster! Cheers Phil

Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.

Sigh…. How American won the war…again No mention of the 2 stage supercharged Merlins that were devised for the MK X Spitfires, which completely outclassed the FW 190 way before any American Fighters were on scene. Without this engine there would be no Mustangs…

It's great to hear from all are U.s military guys from world war II love to hear their stories thank you for sharing! Sincerely me

The US Pilots had order to kill German Aces on the Parachute. You can substitute planes easily but not good Pilots. And the US Pilots did this often. In the German Luftwaffe it was strictly forbidden to shoot Pilots on the parachute and they were punished if they do. But the History is written by the winner. It is so since the old roman Empire. I know you would not belive it but if you do some honest research work, you will see it is true.

A Dienstpferd that can fly.

I always wondered about the idea behind that wing design.... Ingenious minds in this world...

I know, that its not conected to the topic, but is video in the background from IL-2: Great Battles? also, great video! Ill definitly subscribe to you!

German planes simply ran out of ammunition.

Both the 109 and Spitfire were limited by their designs. Both were limited in role, difficult to manufacture, short ranged, and had horrible ground handling characteristics. Both went through multiple improvements but outside of point defense, they needed something better

1:08 - why dont you say bombing of civilian areas was the goal of these missions, not hitting the frontline and fighting there. Quite a huge difference cause nothing was a precise strike back then and not even now cause how often missed US forces the precise strike ? I can remember nice footage from iraq were dozens of innocent had been killed, same for the bombings in Kosovo and what not. No wonder that those defending their own territory will fight back as hard as seen in the invasion of Somalia . Most americans claim the USA had never invaded Somalia and then it is time for another real lesson about american history and why the avaerage american education level is so low. American education is at the lowest level due to missing challenges and simple multiple choice tests which are not used here cause those do not reflect what pupils and students have learned - and if those americans arrive here to study for free they have no issue with the language but with the form of the examins each and every semester cause they have to write explanations and essays about complex questions. But the USA needs hollywood to teach people a lesson: Black Hawk Down - and everyone will awake and starts thinking if that could have something to do with an invasion in somalia. And the other moment they are back on the offense and in the counterattack : those barbarians who had slaughtered our men Not really, cause first americans invaded their country under force and then the Helicopter was taken down - everything else is up to them cause no american soldier should have been there first hand. If you fight tribes then you have to live with how they fight. If you can not bear it retreat. And that then happened for a good reason I bet. And guess what would happen if stupid trump would start to occupy greenland ? Well, we would take american families as hostages living around the garrisons and then blockade the garisons by civilians out of protest and in support of our danish neighbours. We will have 100.000 hostages, the garisons will suffer from the blockade and we do not care about trump and nato cause we had not beneffited back in the american iraq and afghanistan adventures cause we had to pay for all the mess and destabilisation in those countries cause we had to deal with millions of refugees till today - not to mention the losses of men due to abuse of power in those american occupied zones which then fired back on our areas. Times are changing and we would have no issue at all if the nice danish population would cancel the contract with the US forces and maybe offer such garison for anyone else who want to pay for that. It is their territory and Trump had messed it up. Ask the trump voters how stupid they could have been to bring him to power and mess it up with Danmark and the EU - which has a bigger population than the USA even without UK. We are ucked up with all the american issues, or what would you say if you occupy US territory with our forces and send from there spies across the USA ? Americans have abused hospitality so it is time to leave our country forever. But we will not agree nor follow any sanctions adventures but might put our own sanctions in place in case of another invention like iraq and afghanistan. and btw: german nazis protected pilots and crews shot down over our territory while the civilian population would have killed those who would have survived a crash just due to the fact that those americans had killed civilian relatives before. The Nazis needed those crews alive not dead. Therefore they searched for the crews and protected those against the revenge searching civilians. And we had relatives and have relatives who emigrated in 1870s but never fought against their relatives or tend to avoid being drafted cause they were aware that they might hit a relative cause have of the family had emigrated back then. Now many have returned due to the circumstances and that germany offers a safer life and living.

War itself is immoral… but if war is waged. The goal is to win, or make money. If the war is fought to make money.”Rules of war” are put into place. However, if your actually fighting a war to win… how do you do that? By killing the enemy in whatever way possible. Make the war so bloody one side either has to match or back down. Besides, why is it “OK” for infantry soldiers to be killed by “boobytraps” that are horrific. Made to mame not kill. But pilots get spacial treatment? None of it makes sense. War is to kill and win. Don’t like that??? Stop fighting wars. Very simple. However, fighting wars to make money… just make it a war crime… you know to make the war last longer.

My father, Glen R (Bob) Hollinger, was a bottom turret gunner on Oh! Hardluck 43-37775. He completed all his missions without injuries. He told a few stories that would make a great movie. On one mission over Germany, they sustained damage to the fuel tanks in the wings forcing them to land at a bombed out runway in Belgium. They landed at dusk and sought shelter. Local farmers found them and took them in to care for them. During the night another B-17 landed there with two engines damaged. Between the two crews and the farmers, they repaired the fuel tanks of Oh! Hardluck and transferred the fuel from the other B-17. Both crews came back in Oh! Hardluck. I wished I had asked my father more questions about his missions. He passed away in 1985 and took all those stories with him.

I had to stop watching there were too many commercials.

"You never take advantage of a crippled plane" - the knightly code of pilots deriving from WWI had apparently somehow survived in a few cases in WWII. It's not sheer mercy so much - rather pride to be behave like a noble knight of old. Anything else would hardly been in accordance with the iron cross painted on the fuselage with its roots going back to the ancient crusade order of Teutonic knights. During WWI the number of pilots were very limited, thus it was kind of a privilege to be one of them and from there a spritit of nobility emerged - an international nobility which occasionaly did superseded nationalism.

That's a lie about the Bf-109 being in a losing battle against Spitfires in 1941! The Friedrich was even more a shock to the Spit Mk.5 than the first FW-190A. 109F's hunted Spitfires back to their bases in England even! In fact the RAF AAA crews had a lot to do in 1941 protecting their damaged Spitfires when they landed. All the Spitties went treetop altitude to run from the 109's who followed them back over the channel just to get help from AAA crews! Many "Sorties" of Spitfires never returned home from France, especially when they encountered JG-2 and 26 Aces! Just the Mossie Fighterbombers were fast enough to escape the 109F's, but when the 190 was on partol, even the Mossies had suicide raid's! And I am talking early Mossie Bombers and not the 1943-45 Reconnisance Versions!

The greatest fighter plane of WWII

Two warriors who never would have hated each other unless convinced to do so! All they had left in the end was respect for each other. Beautiful!

Plot twist: 190 was *actually* the P-36

The Macchi .202 was far better than the Hurricanes and Kittyhawks, but he was also a very skilled pilot. Nice video to cover the often ignored fighting in the MTO. BZ.

A 4 to 7 loss ration fighter against bomber sounds not that impressive - unless you multiply it by those soldiers being killed then you get a 4 to 70 up to 84 killed ratio. And that is not really sustainable and the relatives would wanna know the reasons WHY they had been defeated that badly and why these missions were so deadly or why they did not get a better protection. 4 to 70 killed is a different result than the count by simply planes lost - and not to talk about the costs of such bombers compared to a fighter. And the results were also terrible cause at the end the war production increased and as seen in iraq and kosovo all the precision strikes were nothing than mythose otherwise the west would not have killed civilians in a train calling that a precision strike against a bridge . In the late 2000 and 2010 a lot of british former bomber pilots and crews had gotten older and needed treatments the british rotten nhs could not provide anymore cause they had and have no hospital capacities for such surgeries. So they got for cheap surgeries - in germany and even in Hamburg so those crew members got the best care and treatment they could ever get - just at the spot they had bombed decades before - the same civilian area and the nice bomber harris dehousing strategy or killing the wifes and kids of soldiers on the front. Since brexit those days are gone , those crew members now have to dy cause the nhs was no longer willing to pay the prices and then those capcities had gone to other patients from around the globe and mostly arabic countries. Those crew members and their relatives were the most ashamed that they were forced to leave not only their hometown but also country to save their lifes and then had to go into those areas where the crew members still could remember that these were their civilian target areas cause the yards and industry was along the river not inside the city. It took a huge toll and they also had hard times to accept to go there, stay there and trust a son or grandson who had survived their raids cause the 3 year old of 1944 airraid were the master surgeons in the 2000s whom they had to trust.

Well done, really enjoyed this video!

Saw one video. German Ace Hermann Graf (1912-1988) the first fighter pilot to achieve 200 aerial victories If he would have been killed early in his military service. A lot of pilots would possibly survived the war.

little to no experience pilots are using this remarkable machine. but if this machine was made when the war started it might have a different outcome

Focke-Wuld 190 or as the english dubbed it BUTCHER BIRD....

Another example of hiring the best not DEI’s. Plus these guys love their country and freedom. They were willing to fight for it.

Because of this airplane .BMW still utilizes the blur of the propeller as their emblem on their cars!

One would never wait to put gear and flaps down on final. The gear and flaps are dropped on the 180 degree break turn ahead of the boat so that the plane is configured and on speed on the downwind. the level 180 degree turn to final is initiated abeam the island.

Thank you for bringing these stories to us, and respectfully understanding what had to be done during war time. The video recreations are really a way for someone like me, who doesn't understand anything about flight etc...to better understand the scenarios involved.

Kurt's original design was infact supposed to have an inline engine but wasn't going to happen due to lack of engines

My mom built tails of the F4U Corsair. I have a photo of my mom holding a riveter.

AVOID CLICK BAIT - BS about everything BUT the video title! AVOID CLICK BAIT

Excellent video! Please keep episodes like this coming!

Best looking plane from WW2. I would have wanted a P-47 though! Great video.

To ten który bombardował w 1939 roku polskie miasta i zabijał polskie dzieci!

Your research is flawed

13:10 The Fw-190 was not a great heavy bomber interceptor, because it did not perform very well at high altitude, and heavy bombers operated at high altitude. Towards the end of the war the Kurt Tank developed the "Dora" (Fw 190 D) where this issue was addressed.

My Grandfather was active in WW2 as well. He told me many stories. It was very important to him and his comrades to let the vulnerable be. People have to realise many Germans did not agree with Hitlers views.

They spent more money designing the B-29 then they spent on making the atomic bomb. And yet these supposed Engineers decided to use metal that was flammable in parts of the turbocharging system of course you're going to get engine fires.

Thanks for a great video. The evolution of the "Butcher Bird" is fascinating to me (I've got 1/32 scale model kits of an A-4 and TA152H-1...just need a 190D-9). The FW 190D-9 is one of the most pleasing airframes of WW2.

The MiG 15 was undoubtedly impressive and very advanced for its time, but everybody knows that the MiG 28 was the most badass MiG ever made.

Great video! Of all planes I’d take the P-47 jug.

You talk about the "greatest dogfight", but don't even say who the German ace is. If this was the BF 109K with GM-1, the Mustang wouldn't stand a chance.