The Plane That Did the Most Shocking Thing to Screw North Korea

[@RussSharpe]

That was a Douglas B-26 Invader, not the Martin B-26 Marauder. The Invader was designated an attack aircraft during WWII. After WWII the Marauder was retired and the Invader was re-designated a little bomber. Only Invaders served in Korea. Most aircraft you pictured are Marauders from WWII.

[@havocgr1976]

What do you mean they learned?They failed to strangle anything in Vietnam too.

[@TheMenagerie-bb5mr]

Due to politicians unwillingness to do what it takes.

[@marksimpson2689]

The pilot received the Medal of Honor, what about the rest of the crew, what did they receive got thier sacrifice

[@marlobreding7402]

The B-26 Marauder was a pilot killer early on until the Army Air Corps figured out the training of pilots. Being a former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace worker, I love the A-20 and A-26's. I made raydomes for the F-15's in 1973.

[@markregan1072]

This is so wrong. All the imagery of the B26 Marauder throughout this video is from WW2, not Korea. The Marauder was withdrawn from service in 1947, and the B26 designation was transferred to the A26 Invader, a distinctly different twin-engine light attack bomber manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Company. This video ought to be withdrawn. The famous Medal-of-Honour Walmsley mission was undertaken in a B26 Invader, not a Marauder. POSTSCRIPT: I notice the video banner picture has been switched after my posted comment to an A26 and the word Marauder removed from the title, but all the WW2 Marauder video imagery is still in the video itself. Still not good enough! Darks Skies is a good channel - please do better for this video! Walmsley's amazing story deserves to be told accurately.

[@ratatarsefactory]

I guess making videos with AI makes this type of mess... just supposing, as it was a previous videos sponsor...

[@unclefart5527]

Notorious for many mistakes, I wrote years ago there needs to be an editor to check these over. It's sort of like WWII grind house movies, directed by Ed Wood.

[@ratatarsefactory]

@@unclefart5527 yes, but not so many like this video, never depicting the good aircraft. But there is always some inappropriate footage inside beside trhe main (supposed) subject, yes.

[@dylanruzzo4069]

Chill, either watch or don't watch

[@Flocculation]

Absolutely not a big issue for me. Enjoyable story about a situation that I hadn’t known about.

[@garydargan6]

The lesson learned was that strngilig a determined enemy with massive airpower was a failure. Vietnam proved it

[@FXDGRND]

Vietnam proved you can't fight an enemy with limitations. F4's weren't allowed to fire long range missiles unless they had a visual on the plane. Bombers couldn't bomb certain targets because the Russian/ Chinese advisors might be there. Planes were required to fly the same path every day making it a turkey shoot on some days. Piss poor leadership on the upper levels of the government.

[@DonH-h3v]

In addition to the Martin B-26s rather than the Korea vintage Douglas B-26 (you did show 3 or 4 examples) I also noted that it seams most of the planning and briefing footage depicted USAAF personal rather than the USAF. Come on folks, I know you have a tight production schedule but let's at least try to make it look like you tried.

[@richardsimpson3792]

Yes with maps of the UK and Europe being show to pilots before they took off for N Korea...no wonder the operation was ineffective. Cool story though

[@johnking6252]

I'm so confused !!! Glad I read the book 🤪🤪🤪

[@justa.american8303]

Your voice-over is excellent! But your video of the Marauder and Invader needs work. Good all around information, but your quality needs work.

[@snakeplisken4119]

I didnt realise the Italians assisted the N Koreans in rail repairs🤔

[@CaptainSarky]

the word is battalions. I first thought it was "italians" but realised that could not be correct so I rewound the video and realised that the word was in fact "battallions".

[@snakeplisken4119]

@CaptainSarky Thanks that makes way more sense

[@mpgingdl]

Marauders in Korea? WTF?

[@carloantoniomartinelli5418]

Your conclusion is the fruit of poor choice and faulty logic; you might be surprised to learn that the US DID NOT WIN the Vietnam war...Fancy that huh ?

[@M-I-k-e1301]

Too bad bad this is about the Korean War and has nothing today with Vietnam which won’t happen for anth 20+ years lol

[@davegrove795]

Love your videos! Also, we, awkward, did not strangle the Trail in Vietnam. They literally never stopped.

[@BrianHintz-d9u]

The biggest problem with this channel is inaccurate video connected to rather story line. The A26/B26 mistake is really bad, but this video mentions 1952 with images of McArthur, who had been gone long before. /this is not an isolated issue. You need to tighten up your timeline accuracy.

[@deltavee2]

So it never did work....

[@RussSharpe]

You seem to use a lot of WWII film footage in your Korean War story, including 8th Air Force mission briefings.

[@annehersey9895]

Sorry but it didn’t work in Vietnam either!

[@ditzydoo4378]

you say B-26 as in Marauder, but your thumbnails is an A-26 Invader (the better of the two).

[@sonofthehills]

Thumbs down, there is so much inaccuracy here it's ridiculous. Change it.

[@michaelgill5186]

B26 in the Korean war ? I dont think so, Invasion stripes? and the Designation went to the A26 Invader !!!!

[@vernmeyerotto255]

Using pictures of American railroads to depict North Korean railroads is pretty piss poor journalism

[@andrewblake2254]

yep i did not know the AT & SF had a branch to North Korea. And before that some WW2 DRG German trains.

[@brianreed5839]

“…the other side of the world” umm Korea is in the same part of the world as Japan.

[@bluescatreimer]

I didn't know Santa Fe operated passenger trains in N Korea during the Korean war as seen at 14:30 in the video. Also a lot of WWll footage as well.

[@halporter9]

But the N. Vietnamese weren’t strangled and, in the end, won the war. So the AF got it wrong and vastly overestimated air power in both wars. See Gen. Sherman’s Personal Civil War memoires where he offers an extended discussion of the profound difficulties of choking off rail transport in enemy country for more than a few days. His troops also developed extreme efficiency in reconstituting sabotaged and destroyed rail corridors also.

[@jmp.t28b99]

Totally misleading video by someone who knows very little about aircraft.

[@craignelson3243]

So North Korea had their own Santa Fe Railroad?

[@auro1986]

yes now say you taught kamikaze to japan

[@tomeickhorst6787]

Korea was after ww2

[@bobcornwell403]

Yeah. But the enemy won in Vietnam.

[@zkee3112]

The Americans lost though?

[@badian37]

This is all wrong! Get your facts straight! I stopped watching it...

[@scottsevers6194]

I'm pretty sure, the Korean War was a United Nation's action?? All this has acknowledged is the US Aircrews and Troops. 😂😂😂😂

[@markgordon2260]

I didn't realise that the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad aided the North Koreans.

[@willk1266]

Was i the only person who initially thought the video said Italians and north koreans at 12:14? I thought, that's a weird pairing.

[@X-JAKA7]

8 minutes ago?

[@Narmacil427]

Sub-1000 views? Yass😆

[@jamesragus1577]

Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment for your channel!😊

[@gs637]

Well, sorry, no like from me this time. &, apparently this didn't work in Vietnam either...

[@coloradomountainman8659]

Love these videos, but that annoying, distracting background "music" needs to go.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

😅

[@mingfanzhang8927]

😊

[@markduchow7371]

By the way, that Martin B 26 Marauder ended the war as the safest US bomber in the war.

[@veggieman_sa]

Terrible video

[@josephpacchetti5997]

👍🇺🇸

[@Paulftate]

America 1st ...... maga baby maga 👍

[@DSAK55]

🤡

[@brianreed5839]

All of ya’ll with PhD’s in war history need to get off my third grade war history Chanel. I’m only earning a C+. So let it go!

[@keithnorman3519]

I dont know if ive missed this revelation before but you are Damian Lewis…..aren’t you? If not you’ve got the greatest voice over copy I’ve ever heard.