IL-2 Great Battles | CG-4A Waco Glider | D-Day Glider Landings

[@arthurcrego8297]

My Dad in WW2 flew C-47 and took part in Dday and dropped para troopers and towed Wacos into Normandy, He was a Lt. in the 9th USAAF. I am a 77 yr old Vet my self by from a far different war.

[@harrythebait9793]

Thank you and your dad for your services. 💜

[@careyamos485]

Thank you for your service

[@Caigul]

15:43 might have been good to over shoot a bit with that glider getting hit with arty

[@michaelbourgeault9409]

gliders...Brilliant! Jingles Landings mandatory!

[@highflya2709]

My utmost respect to the guys who did this for real, they were by far the ballsiest and maddest lads of them all! As an experienced glider pilot myself IRL, I can't even imagine myself being able to attempt this. They would've had to drag me into the cockpit and strap me down like a mental patient.

[@flannelblindllama]

Looks like you landed in the swamp. Not sure you’re getting the Jeep out.😂 great video though. Those men were ridiculously brave.

[@colindouglas7769]

Excellent landing, Taff! The thing about landing a glider is you only get one shot at it.

[@Lagmaster33]

Gliders and their airborne troops played a vital but sadly very underappreciated part in the D-Day. Glad to see them getting love!!

[@secretsquirrel6308]

Many missed their drop zone. Elsewhere, the krauts had flooded large areas in anticipation of airborne assault.

[@jamesrussell7760]

After being at the mercy of Lady Luck while being on the tow cable, a dead stick landing at night. Pretty scary, Taff, but you did extremely well. I have a private pilot's license for single engine propeller aircraft and I have made many night landings, but always at well lighted airports. All you had was a few fire pots to mark the landing zone -very well done!

[@roberts1938]

Fantastic mission. Full respect to the people who landed in Normandy on D-Day. It seems to me that marking discharge areas is a more complicated matter, and it probably was. I wonder if Horsa Glider and maps for Operation Market-Garden will ever appear. I'm a big fan of this surgery. I read a lot about it and heard stories from my veteran friends. I knew about a dozen of them very well. Unfortunately, none of them are alive today.

[@jasonrusso151]

You'll find them alllllllll....doin' the Lambeth Walk... HEY! The Longest Day, Major Howard's men.

[@johnnycalv]

Hold until relieved

[@LawrenceSeetoh]

that was such a cool mission, I hope they add more glider missions, thank you Taff

[@simoncampbell-smith6745]

Very atmospheric indeed a great video.

[@joeaustin4472]

Fantastic episode taff, those gliders are icons of the allied war effort against the axis powers. This was excellent as it highlights some areas of the war that don't always get the deserved spotlight, as soon as this started playing I was thinking of the classic icon film, 'The longest day'.. the after landing.. 'Saving Private Ryan'. Great work in highlighting the gliders, their crews and the heroic allied troops that we're transported in them, if ever you plan to make another special with these, looking forward to it. German spotlights, AAA batteries to face, uncertain landing areas and enemy ground troops heavily armed.. it takes true warriors with stone strong nerves and guts to operate these beauties. Great special taff, was utterly excellent. Thanks so much mate 👏 👍

[@johnnycalv]

Would love a campaign in a horsa glider say Pegasus Bridge (operation dead stick) or Market Garden would be so cool

[@old_guard2431]

Visuals are fantastic.

[@blackarrow1460]

This is great! Is this IL-2 Battle of Normandy pack?

[@joestiller4270]

Great mission be nice to see some parachute missions. By Allied Parachutes

[@Warsage29]

I have to say I loved this glider mission I hope see more aswell and maybe some c47 missions

[@dvalz1254]

Fantastic mission. First try?😊 Love the series

[@maverick7439]

Amazing job Taff

[@barbarossa1234]

Seriously, I can’t even imagine.

[@Perktube1]

I would love more glider and paratroopvideos.❤

[@careyamos485]

Good job on the videos keep it up taff

[@40093jjmia]

My great grandfather designed and contributed this aircraft as an engineer at ford motor company and suggested to mske these planes out of a specific spruce

[@retmarut4499]

All those glider pilots had to control their landing was manipulation of drag. I find it absolute fascinating that most gliders actually achieved a successful landing (landing gear intact or not).

[@monseigneurchildebert8329]

Great video !

[@funzel666]

Hi Taff. Congratz to a succsessful mission. Great video. Btw. can you do the the mission of Major Priller and his wingman on D Day which was was the only sortie of the Luftwaffe that day strafing the beaches? I would appreciate it very much. Thank you!

[@markusv311]

Very nice, is this a campaign or single mission available in the game or did you create by yourself?

[@stuartcollett3252]

Glider pilots, or at least the British ones, were told to get back to allied lines on D day to fly another wave back over on subsequent nights. This was not the advice at Arnhem later in the war. The advice to the brits then was to stay and fight with a unit.

[@robshirewood5060]

What is not mentioned is that a large percentage of them were RAF Pilots who were transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment and had to under take Infantry training (the original GPR men being Army) and fought like Lions at Arnhem, and many died. There is a great book called Arnhem Airmen which covers a lot of the different transport and glider units that fought there, at times it brings tears to the eyes when one imagines the sacrifice.

[@ozzieladykats9938]

Boom!!!!! Crashh!!!!!!! "woowwww!"

[@jakeyt8687]

Nice

[@thisherehandleIdospout]

You're lucky you chose to hop that hedgerow and land in the field beyond - From the look of all the carnage in the first field, not to mention that glider that got hit right behind you as you were coming in , it looks like the Germans had that field dialed in with artillery 😬

[@marc13bautista]

Nice.

[@VaderGhost124]

Landing lights was a bold move. Did they actually deploy them?

[@edwardjohansson2909]

That was so cool, just hoping you don't get lit up by all those ground forces and then landing wether you like it or not! Would have been nice to be able to point the light source up a bit in the end and i can't fathom that they actually did this in the middle of the night, so scary. In daylight would have been suicide of course

[@johnnycalv]

Operation Varsity was near to that unfortunately 😔

[@old_guard2431]

Well, you don’t have to worry about your engine getting knocked out anyway.

[@andrewmontgomery5621]

This reminds me of Medal of Honor Vanguard

[@secretsquirrel6308]

What friendly lines? Other than sparse underground resistence and the Pathfinder themselves, the whole continent was enemy occupied. Yes, very courageous men.

[@HydroSnips]

Any Horsas?

[@patrickrose1221]

Fair play, it don't half get the hairs on the back of your neck up don't it pal 😬😅👍🕊️

[@MrLBPug]

Perhaps you should do something about your capture software, because the resolution of your videos is so low and blocky sometimes (mostly in the night segments) that it takes a lot away from the immersion. Pity, because I enjoy them otherwise.

[@timonsolus]

That's KZbin compression of the video to reduce its file size.

[@TaffinExile]

@@timonsolus Spot on, its the KZbin Encoding / Compression of the video, the Raw footage is clean.

[@foreverpinkf.7603]

Wonderful atmosphere, historically accurate, but a torture for the viewer. Black dogs fighting in a tunnel on a moonless night. Get well soon.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Meh ? slightly interesting once.. but after that, probably not. Pity Devs aren't building French planes ? or maybe redoing CLOD ?..