German War Files: Dive Bombers And Combat Aircraft

[@SinOfAugust]

Said it before and I'll say it again: War Files Series are a treasure and I wholeheartedly commend you for giving people chance to enjoy it.

[@dougeroo1]

Wonderful series for true enthusiasts; thanks for posting these marvelous videos.

[@DrPfeil]

The only real objective documentary. Thanks for sharing this jewel with us.

[@vivaprez]

Thank u once again, excellent uploads

[@arlozeke1009]

Thank You! Great upload!

[@okramronan]

This is the best educational documentary series ever. No bullshit shit talking about other countries. Just real informative facts. Very educational.

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Thanks for the great upload! I love this series going way back. STUKA ACE TEN TIMES!!! @6:00, "He claimed 51 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles. "Hans-Ulrich Rudel. He flew 2,530 ground-attack missions exclusively on the Eastern Front, usually flying the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" dive bomber."

[@rayvonandes]

Great video, thanks. Nice to see a video without any slurs against Germans, Russians, Americans, etc. Just facts about an airplane. Awesome.

[@2serveand2protect]

MAN! I LOVE WHAT YOU UPLOADED! :D THOSE ARE TRULY BEAUTIFUL DOCUMENTARIES!!!

[@petertimowreef9085]

Stuff like this is why I like youtube, thanks!

[@asd36f]

5:55 - The Ju-87A has the biggest wheel fairings I've ever seen on a combat aircraft.

[@derptank3308]

Absolute u n i t I’m sorry but yeah. Very large wheel fairings.

[@Skott62]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing it.

[@machstem6390]

These are my sleepy stories. Im sad history like this will be long forgotton soon. Especially with how wild the world is now

[@malcolmallerton3946]

In the last few years it was not the amount of aircraft but a lack of fuel that finnished the German Air Force

[@Dth-str]

They produced more aircrafts then ussr and Britain in 1944. But they were out of sufficient training bcoz they out of fuel.

[@davidduval8681]

Very detailed. Excellent.

[@slobodanmitic1354]

Great documentary. Too bad sound is low...

[@tmarinelic]

What an upload!

[@spenner3529]

Perfection of aerial rockets rendered dive bombers obsolete. And it wasn’t the horns that scared civilians below, it was the heavy loads of high explosive about to detonate nearby.

[@joavisr5011]

combinations of both probably

[@ThePuschkin1986]

14:00 error: Operation Marita was the german invasion of Greece, the invasion of Crete was designated Operation Merkur

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Thats amazing that the Stuka is the last plane in German newsreels!

[@doubleT84]

05:15 The shown aircraft is a Henschel Hs 123 - not a 129 as said in the video.

[@WildBillCox13]

Yep. Good call, man. I was surprised, too. German War Files is usually quite accurate.

[@thurbine2411]

Well he ment the 123 cause the 129 was not even a dive bomber

[@mr.gunzaku437]

Fun fact: the Stuka's famous siren came in several versions and was an add-on from the factory. Most of them didn't come with it as the first versions would stay on constantly, though later siren models could be switched on and off by the pilot. It would actually be a warning for the ground targets and gave them ample time to get under cover. So, most Stuka pilots left the siren off. What you hear in the films is added by the studios later.

[@NathanDudani]

They also added some derided drag

[@Acid4Blood]

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@edsmartlang6307]

Tnx, great info but very low audio

[@paulfrantizek102]

Rudel was one of the giants.

[@bandwagon22]

In 1944 it was 8 times more dangerous for Luftwaffe pilots to fly against western allies than in the Eastern Front. The lost per flying mission was 0.7% in Eastern Front while staggering 5.4% in western theaters of air war. The way Germans could use obsolete aircraft like Ju 87 Stuka, Heinkel 111 and even pathetic night harassment aircraft in east underlined how low level Soviet Air Force (VVS) was even in 1944-45.

[@uncletimo6059]

or how vast east front was compared to very compressed western one.

[@Dth-str]

More then 3/4 German aircrafts destroyed against western Allies. Eastern front was mainly the front of ground forces.

[@txlaflash]

Awesome!

[@davidlafranchise4782]

Do they say anything about the Heineken hs-293?? That was WAY ahead of it's time, at least I haven't heard of the allies with anything comparable, I could be wrong!!

[@davidlafranchise4782]

Guided missile, sank a few ships .

[@Peter-rl4nc]

great series about weapons of the mighty german army and luftwaffe

[@mynameis9057]

never understood why they kept the fixed landing gear when aerodynamics were hampered and everything else flying by this time had retractable landing gear too. most stuka pilots despised the trumpets of Jericho themselves, especially if they couldn't turn them off at will. ▪☆☆☆▪

[@gorkivalenzuela6940]

Is there a similar documentary film about the Soviet Airforce and their planes?

[@4shink]

Why is the narration volume so low?????

[@TheSpritz0]

Can everyone imagine what the result would have been had the Germans had 4 times the Aircover at Kursk???

[@charlesfaure1189]

Many years back Saturday Night Live ran a skit based on "What if Napoleon had had a B-52 at the Battle of Waterloo?"

[@luvr381]

How is it the Stuka's sirens didn't sound in level flight?

[@ybergik]

The sound depends on the airspeed. Speed at level flight was something like 200-300 km/h, compared to 600 km/h in a dive.

[@wwmoggy]

they where able to turn it on in off in later versions . and later many pilots had them removed

[@elijah24567]

Okay. Again. As a enthusiast this Documentary are really amazing and educational but goodness i can hardly hear anything.

[@carcharinus6367]

19:12 - it may sound funny, but there is something wrong with these names. In a current German transliteration: *Bruno* for *"B"...* Dora for "D". *Bertha?* Hmm... By the way, the compilation of the footage of German war chronicles - competent. And that's what counts. But various minor sins (distorsions) - well - life! At least, there is something to comment on...

[@terminusest5902]

T-34 armor was not week on the back. Unusually, it had similar armor on front, back and rear. It is possible that they mean the engine deck at the back which was flat. And it was sloping. The cast turret had greater variation than the hull. The later T-34/85 reduced the sloping of the side armor to fit the much more effective 3 man turret with a loader that could fire its 85mm gun much faster and the gunner could concentrate on accurate aiming and looking for targets. The commanders could also spend more time in an effective hatch looking for targets and directing the crew. As well as communicate with other tanks. Making the T-34/85 much more efficient than the T-36/76. With much better awareness, target acquisition, higher rates of fire and much faster target adjustment. As the commander and the gunner did not need to reload the gun. The very well sloped T-34/76 turret limited the crew to 2 in the turret. Meaning either the gunner or commander needed to reload the gun. If the gunner reloaded he could lose track of a target. If the commander was loading he had less time to observe for threats and command effectively.

[@peer6038]

Germany made the coolest aircrafts during WWII.

[@MasterGreymoon]

one word " Spitfire"

[@gretalind6590]

@@MasterGreymoon 😂😂😂

[@toddduffy1658]

@@MasterGreymoon Spitfire was slaughtered by ME 109 and FW 190, even the 110 crapped all over the Spitfire and Hurricanes.

[@terranempire2]

Yes at 14:01 You are hearing flight of the Valkyries. So technically the Sequence in Apocalypse Now is Francis Ford Coppola doing a Homage to a German propaganda film.

[@philperry4699]

_Ride_ of the Valkyries

[@LifeStyle-uh1ns]

Yup, Hollywood can turn out trash like Fury, but will never make a film about someone like Rudel.....

[@Ralphieboy]

soundtrack issues are much less pronounced on this one...

[@FINNIUSORION]

I've always found it amusing when people say stuka dive bomber. Not realizing they're literally saying dive bomber dive bomber just in different languages lol. Stuka is just the German word for dive bomber, they had and I believe still have stuka's that aren't the ju87.

[@superpianobaby945]

the kind of videos you click like on before you even start watching them

[@TheSpritz0]

Being a vet myself (not WW2, newer conflicts) I cannot wonder if JU-87 crews had a lot of PTSD from the carnage they saw & participated in...

[@elijah24567]

TheSpritz0 PTSD?

[@blackedelweiss601]

no more "ptsd" than American pilots fire-bombing whole cities in Japan or Germany

[@jamesmullan8590]

sound very low.😟

[@gorkivalenzuela6940]

The Stuka should have been radically improved, similar to the FW 190 did to the Bf 109.

[@matthewobrien3527]

Can't hear it.

[@sincarisma]

WOW, I just found out that the Soviets never downed a JU87. Nice film Goebbels.

[@danlittlebear]

Volume is way too low

[@tweezergeezer1]

I thought the commentator was British but he pronounced "proven" as pro-ven, nut pru-ven.

[@bnipmnaa]

He is British.

[@andrewey9389]

Pro-ven would mean he is a Scot

[@Spinnaker36]

Probably not a Scot, though such an anglicized accent isn’t necessarily a measure

[@philperry4699]

@@Spinnaker36 Maybe the narrator is computer-generated?

[@myparceltape1169]

@@andrewey9389 A Scot would prefer "not-proven" .

[@mohammadsaida4603]

Stuka was too horrible sound also most suitable aiming bomb to words their aims, but speed fire was more speed fly and machine gun was more effective than stuka

[@Nl-nn3ds]

Douglas SBD Dauntless was a better airplane.

[@chitlika]

No but the Vultee Vengence was

[@klubchez5224]

If you don't know about the war in the east don't talk to me about WW2.

[@bnipmnaa]

Why did they choose a narrator that couldn't speak German? His pronunciation of German words is atrocious, spoiling this otherwise excellent series.

[@spudwesth]

That is curious.

[@jackcpo]

too bad the narrator cant be heard

[@aleshkaemelyanov]

Прелюбодеи Алёшка Емельянов Ты был султан мне, не Аллах, на протяженьи части века. Но получил я дар на днях, каков вне власти человека - любовь, к заведомо чужой. Но, значит, то - господня воля. Пусть срок короткий, небольшой, но эти дни, как лес и поле, - ярки, богаты. Ласка, смех. Рай в обоюдной, нежной страсти. И вот познав великий грех, готов к огням, мученью, пастям. И пусть готовит кат крюки, топор, коней - к четвертованью, к костру - колючие суки, жердями бьёт усердно, тайно! И пусть жена твоя молчит. Их у тебя пятнадцать, восемь?!... Дай Бог тебе вот так любить, как мы недолго, будто розы. Но всё ж прошу я лишь о том, чтоб после казни по резону, пусть мой сердечный, жаркий ком лишь с нею рядом похоронят...

[@StaffanGoldschmidt]

Halftruth, lack of knowledge of the german language and total ignorance of military history makes the narrator a total fool!

[@avramcosmin5746]

+Staffan Goldschmidt I care little about his german as he is reading a pre-written script but I am very curious as to what you mean about military history and lack of knowledge because German War Files is one of the finest technical documentaries I have seen in my life. I think YOU should brush up on your military history.

[@bnipmnaa]

+Avram Cosmin You're absolutely right, this "Staffan Goldschmidt" character is a notorious fucking clown with absolutely nothing to contribute.

[@minot.8931]

To be fair... they call the invasion of Crete "Operation Marita" (13:57). Marita was actually the attack on Greece. The attack on Crete was Operation Mercury.

[@carcharinus6367]

@@minot.8931 - To be precise, in the original (in German) - *Merkur.*