Junkers Ju 87 Stuka - In The Movies

[@Thirdbase9]

Every tank was a Tiger, every plane was a Stuka.

[@victoriacyunczyk]

In the Pacific, every plane was a Zero.

[@sonoftherabbitpeople4737]

Every gun an 88.

[@gbricks1430]

And everyone had an mp40

[@hans4239]

Every Allied soldier is American

[@dakilakilada3053]

Means Bismarck in every battleship

[@gooraway1]

Mixing the Stuka with scenes from Flying High was genius. It is interesting how the pilot/rear gunner team was so prevalent in pre war combat aircraft design but proved so ineffective defending itself in actual combat.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

lol I've been itching to use that movie for some laughs for awhile now. This was as good of an opportunity as any.

[@ambientlightofdarknesss4245]

Tbf the gunner pilot combo proved very effective in ww1 when aircraft were still nothing but wings of canvas and wood strapped to an engine and the close engagement ranges and much longer engagement times in ww1. The designers just never thought it would be obsolete in ww2

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq surely not.?..just don,t call me Shirley....apols for the Airplane reference.....good vid..maybe some SOE/ WW2 resistance stuff down the line with a smidgen Allo Allo....keep up with the great work that you do sir...best wishes from the wirral...E

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq surely not.?..just don,t call me Shirley....apols for the Airplane reference.....good vid..maybe some SOE/ WW2 resistance stuff down the line with a smidgen Allo Allo....keep up with the great work that you do sir...best wishes from the wirral...E

[@evancrum6811]

I actually think US Navy dive bombers were effective with rear gunners. Remember that bombers like the B-17 and B-24 shot down more fighters than actual fighters.

[@dragonstormdipro1013]

Ahhh the diving Stuka...the sound of every diving, crashing, allied aircraft seen in Hollywood.... And even MiGs

[@eamonnclabby7067]

It,a the planes you don't hear, like the Beaufighter...which decimated German ,Italian and Japanese shipping, sometimes overshadowed by the De Haviland Mosquito..

[@matthewfergusons4318]

World war II classic vintage airplanes that would be good in the Ukrainian conflict the stucca would be one of them you can add flares in other kind of measures against missiles you can maybe add former sensor pods you can use it link that to a tablet in the in in for cow pit like GPS like how they have the GPS mounts and modern cars think that would work trying to rewire the whole advantage aircraft you could use the tablet as your computer screen they light enough and small enough you can fit in a small world to airplane cow pit just with a special mount on the internet so you can see you do a lot of things with a modern tablet anyway so why not sensors onto a vintage classic world war II plane I don't know how successful to integration would be on that but I think you could get pretty good assess there's a few sturdy old birds that can carry modern armament that drones used today and I think they could be pretty deadly I think a mosquito The genome in mosquito can carry a lot of glider bombs a B-17 can carry a whole button and drones maybe you can carry a butt ton of that stuff occurs the Coursera can carry hellfires quite easy I know for a fact could carry hellfires rather quite easy

[@matthewfergusons4318]

@@eamonnclabby7067 don't you think so world war II planes with a little modifications of some modern technology could be deadly in the conflict against Russia and Ukraine you know give him some modern missile and ordinance by the way you know he made a movie discussing this with it was one of the lesser sequels to are an iron eagle poets from a air show took old fashioned world war II planes and retro set them with hellfires and they did a lot of damage to a bad guy Air Base it shot down a lot of mix I can see world war two planes kicking the butt of some of the Russian airplanes if they had guided missiles and some of the same armament that attack helicopter is carry don't want your planes could be pretty dangerously formidable if you give them up with some of the modern weapons even in their time period and even today they could be nasty I know the c for Corsair can carry I'll leave you 16 hellfires easily even more maybe I think the bearcat can even carry about 20 hellfires some crazy amount of missiles and add some modern sensor pods to them you really really would increase their lethality even ways that their original engineers and designers and p

[@M50A1]

@@matthewfergusons4318 No.

[@fishingthelist4017]

And helicopters.

[@minxythemerciless]

The Stuka was also used as a tank killer on the Eastern Front. Some models had 37mm autocannon for this task. The highest decorated German air Ace was Hans-Ulrich Rudel who destroyed nearly 500 tanks and lived to a ripe old age.

[@slome815]

Claimed 500 tank destroyed. Aces on both sides vastly overstated their kill claims, and as far as I know Rudels claims have never been properly compared to soviet records. The total tank kills claimed by the luftwaffe has been compared to soviet records though, and it is clear that german kill claimes outnumber actual tanks destroyed by air power by a factor of about 10 (i'm not taking the time here to look up the source again, but it's easy enough to find if you google it). I don't blame the aces for this, unless the tank explodes or burns, it's very hard to see if you actually destroyed a tank or just hit it, this can clearly be seen on some gun camera footage that is available on youtube. Anyway, I'm doubtfull of the 500 tanks, that would mean Rudel is responsible for destroying about 0.6% of all tanks the soviets lost on the eastern front.

[@minxythemerciless]

@@slome815 Tanks destroyed is always a propaganda figure. The range is mobility kill to explosive disassembly, and everything in-between. Israel made this clear with the admission of single-digit tank losses in the 2006 war compared to many dozens if not hundreds of tanks removed from battle. Anyway, Chris from military aviation history covers all this for the Stuka at kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpqpc6Zqhbxppqc

[@geordiedog1749]

@@slome815 I think Rudel was a egregious self promoter. He claimed to have shot down half the red army airforce and sunk the navy, too. No doubt he was decent at his job but 500 tanks…..? Nope.

[@ianmclaughlin8987]

You forgot to mention the 2000 ground targets as well. I tend to agree with the other comments on the 500 tanks that they probably disabled or knocked out but then largely repaired or salvaged. His skill and legend still should not be scoffed either, he had Stalin personally order a 100,000 rouble ransom on his head. He sank the battleship Marat and a few other lesser ships during his 2500 flights during the war. This is very well documented by many sources so I question why his record is questioned. He was a very lucky man to had survived the war and his book is well worth the read.

[@slome815]

@@ianmclaughlin8987 I don't doubt his skill, I do doubt his claims. In the case of Rudel cited sources are almost invariably Rudel himself, and sometimes his colleagues. Case in point is the 100 000 ruble bounty. This is copied so often on the internet that it is assumed to be true by most, yet the only sources for this are Rudel and Hartmann. Not a single soviet source. The soviets did have a system of rewards for pilots (Order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR No.299 of 19 August 1941), but this was all generic, not targeting specific aces. The battleship Marat was attacked by a flight of 30 stukas, at least two of which scored a hit. It does seem likely that Rudel's bomb was the one that hit the magazine and sank the ship. Not to mention all sides are well documented to have constantly overclaimed when it comes to aircraft downed, and tanks destroyed as well. Why would Rudel be an exeption? By 1943 even the german high command reduced claimed tank kills by 50% as a rule, just because overclaiming and double claimes were so common. Even then the they still estimated way to high. Just to give an example: from 5 july to 31 august 1943 (Kursk) the entire german tank kills claimed on the eastern front were 16 251. The soviet tank losses during this period were 6064 tanks.

[@ShamileII]

My favorite airplane is definitely the stuka. It's just so rugged, mechanical and purpose driven. The sirens are what I would consider It's most distinctive feature....perfect for creating confusion in It's ground support role.

[@venomkg9723]

The il2 was a better Plane in every regard. Ju87 were obsolete at the start of the war. At least when the Enemy had Planes.

[@YouTube.Algorithmic.Nonsense]

It's called the Jericho siren.

[@Johnlaplander]

3:40, I have never seen this kind of view done in a ww2 movie, yes top down is popular but the detail of this is insane! The shingles all ripping off, and the way the environment reacts to the explosions is just beautiful

[@samraam6789]

The Stuka has fallen into the same Category as the A10 in that it has become Iconic to the point its use is overrated. Great when you have an ill prepared enemy and air superiority but an easy target for a well prepared enemy.

[@MikeJBeebe]

Stuka ace Hans Rudel actually contributed to the A-10 project.

[@thespeeddemon7832]

@@MikeJBeebe tell me more of this

[@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202]

@@MikeJBeebe at the very least, the A10 can be called a spiritual successor of the Stuka. I doubt that Rudel story since he wasn't that well liked after the war.

[@TommyGlint]

@SAMRAAM You write as if the Stukas were just sent haphazardly at the enemy. Stuka doctrine and training clearly said there was to be reconnaissance and fighters escorts on a mission. You didn’t need air superiority to use Stukas, but planning and fighters that would deal with enemy counter-measures. The Luftwaffes doctrine and training of pilots, with emphasis on recon photos and planing, should also dispell this modern idea that the Stuka was a Close Air Support (despit Wikipedia) plane a lá the A-10 Warthog. I’m not saying the JU-87 wasn’t obsolete and thus incurred ever more casualties on that account, but that is not the same as saying it was useless unless there was complete German air-superiority.

[@samraam6789]

@@TommyGlint thanks, my point was more steered towards the point that Hollywood etc has made the a10 and Stuka seem like this super deadly weapon of war and they become overrated. But thanks for the information regarding planning etc

[@BHuang92]

Fun Fact: The accident at the Neuhammer training grounds near Sagen, Germany in 1939 resulted in 13 Ju 87 planes lost when all of them crashed into the ground simultaneously due to miscalculations of their diving height as the result of rolling fog obscuring the ground.

[@M50A1]

@ Well, its 13 less stukas bombing random houses in Britain or France a few years later atleast

[@geordiedog1749]

@@M50A1 Yeah. Absolutely.

[@Spade_1917]

@ The Reich needed to die

[@justinkim3235]

@@Spade_1917 rather side with nazis the commies

[@lehtokurppa7824]

You don't really know what fun means, do you?

[@yowtfputthemaskbackon9202]

the Stuka is a weird one, you'd think it was more of a gimmick of the time that never really made it anywhere, the whole idea of having a plane fly down into the target only to drop a bomb last minute, where it is at risk of impacting the ground or being picked off by enemy aircraft. you'd think that be a stupid idea. instead, it's one of the most feared aircraft of its time, the first to drop a bomb in ww2, the first to shoot down another plane in ww2, the favorite plane of the most decorated pilot in history, and its sirens are to this day used to invoke fear in the audience.

[@1994CivicGLi]

Fun fact: In the Battle of Britain (1969) film, the producers were planning to use a real surviving museum Stuka for the movie. It was too expensive to return the plane to airworthiness so they modified some Percival Proctors. They weren’t used in the film as scale models were used instead.

[@Armadacon]

When the producers got their hands on that Model-G Stuka. They said it was easy to get the engine running. It was even painted in the movie colours (I have a picture). Wooden dive brakes and underslung bomb were added. As you say. The airframe was too expensive to repair and make airworthy.

[@mikeywilkinsjr3769]

Don’t the Stuka sirens sound like Tom’s screams from Tom and Jerry?

[@adityapriyahutama5127]

LOL :-)

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

lol yes, yes they do.

[@geordiedog1749]

Ha!

[@billsilver6429]

A Stuka scream can briefly be heard added to a TIE fighter's whine in Star Wars as it chases an X Wing above the Death Star.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Absolutely. I wanted to use that but I get fearful of the copyright monsters everytime I consider using a Star Wars scene.

[@Symphinitystug_III]

But......there's no air in space....m

[@Epsilon-18]

​@@Symphinitystug_III that's Star Wars for you...

[@D3gix]

Tie Fighter have their own distinct Siren noise, Tie fighter scream is inspired by the Stuka Siren

[@growlanser5600]

​@@D3gixTrue

[@paulskowronski9509]

The diving noise from Dunkirk 2017 is an audio masterpiece that shows just how terrifying the Jericho trumpet and the Stuka was for anyone who faced it shoutout to the audio and design team of Dunkirk

[@garrisonnichols807]

I can't think of a more terrifying experience than being in the basement of your home hearing that horrible high pitched sound of a Stuka diving down somewhere next to your location. it's the stuff of nightmares.

[@infirna5333]

Most underrated channel on youtube

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

My man. 8th months subscribed too, back when I hardly had any subscribers.

[@burtonwilliams5355]

''Aiplane'' and ''Star Trek'' in this video : PURE GOLD !!

[@unternehmen_wacht_am_rhein]

Thank god I have notifications turned on, love the videos and keep up the good work man!

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks man really appreciate the feedback. I'll try and keep 'em coming for ya.

[@unternehmen_wacht_am_rhein]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq thank you! I always learn something from your videos

[@Mikedadof2]

Great sound of aircraft

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

Good to see a sense of humour. These vids include a plethora of movies that I don't remember seeing. I'm going to have to go back and look them up. The Ju.87 and Corsair had an inverted gull wing by the way and for similar reasons. That being to keep the under cart from being too long. For the Ju.87, it was to make room for the bomb, for the Corsair, to make clearance for the massive 13' 4" propeller. For a true gull wing configuration look to the Polish PZ-11, or the French Loire 46.

[@TheGreatMerman]

Gotta love the Star Trek clips you include in each of these videos when relative 😁

[@stephenmayo6184]

That is why uncle Hans seems so stoic when we ride a roller coaster and it goes on a steep dive while all are screaming there souls out.

[@KapiteinKrentebol]

So I have some movie watching to do, especially the Star Trek movie with Stuka's flying over New York. 😂

[@stevethomas760]

I saw a clip from a Vietnam movie . A US commander is getting overrun and is trying to get some air support, "what do you need, some frigging Stukas"

[@TheXtro101]

@0:08,I know that's "bloody" Michael Cane from his recognize voice tone even though he's wearing a pilot oxygen face mask and pilot head gear.

[@fus149hammer5]

Sir Michael was also the voice of the RAF ground controller in 'Dunkirk'. A nice link to Sqn/Ldr Canfield.

[@gundam5281]

Imagine if this revolutionary aircraft was fully replaced with the JU -187.

[@still_guns]

Not a single Stuka remains airworthy, very few of the type remain at all. But the one at the RAF museum in Cosford had its engine restored to running order to provide sounds for Battle of Britain.

[@GannicusMisteriosdeHonduras]

Good movies Johnny

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks man. Always good to hear from my original gangsters.

[@kurtwk]

Oh man ! Excellent vid as always, though I’m so disappointed that you didn’t use the Stuka scenes from “ Pink Floyd The Wall “. That’s a movie that managed to portray the Stuka in a very intimidating, almost scary light. You only get a “ soldier’s eye view “ of it, looking like a weird bird of prey when viewing it from the front and flashing big black crosses under its wings as it passes over…. I guess I can say that those scenes made an impression on me ! 🙂

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I know right! I realized that shortly after posting this video I did Pink Floyd wrong.

[@AlwaysHalloween000]

Lloyd Bridges jumping out of the tower made my day

[@bigblue6917]

Like the Heinkel He-111 the Junkers Ju-87 was to become obsolescent long before the war ended. Whatever its effects on ground targets it was no match against fighter aircraft. British Spitfire pilots had what they called Stuka Parties, whereby as each Stuka went into a dive a Spitfire would follow it. Sometimes all six Stikas would be shot down in the same attack. Though there was the odd occasion when a Stuka pilot got lucky and shot down the Spitfire in front of him, such as happened once at Malta. The Spitfire pilot was so intent on shooting down the Stuka in front of him he forgot about the one behind. He survived being shot down though the wrath of his commanding officer at losing a valuable aircraft, they were very much in short supply at the time, was probably worse than being shot at by the enemy. Though many of them gave excellent service they were out of date by the end of the war. The most decorated Luftwaffe pilot was Hans-Ulrich Rudel who flew the Stuka and was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds. The reputation of the Stuka was such that German S Boats, or E Boats as we called them, were referred by the Germans as the Stuka of the sea. Interestingly the British Motor Torpedo Boats which would face them were known as the Spitfire of the sea. Later in the war radar stations would be set up to detect when the S Boats went to sea and if they did so during the hours of daylight would come under attack from real Spitfires.

[@geordiedog1749]

B of B is one of my mostest favourite films but the Stuka scenes now take some serious willing suspension of disbelief. Brilliant video as always JJ.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

A personal favorite of my mine too. Will play a big role when I finally get around to the Spitfire!

[@geordiedog1749]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Oh gawd! That’ll be a bun fight in a cake shop with opinions flying everywhere. Battle of Britain is a corker, though. In the ‘Help yourself everybody - there’s no escort’ scene when the HE111 hits the North Sea Splat and the music kicks in I get goosebumps - every single time. I’m gonna watch it now just to prove to myself. And that’s not even my favourite scene. (Fave scene clue……….repeat please. ……)

[@kkattavega117]

Awesome content... So glad I subscribed to your channel.... Didn't know that the stuka dropped the first bombs of WW2.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks man. Glad to have you here!

[@kylew6635]

Remember watching Dunkirk in the theaters and the sound of the stuka and even the sound of gunshots was so good and loud it made you cover your ears

[@ethanboyd7843]

Great production, footage, and info! This is quintessential youtube material.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Really appreciate the kind feedback 🙏

[@sailordude2094]

Thanks for the history channel. Suggested reading is Stuka Pilot by Rudel. He has two rear seaters that shot down more then 5 planes each.

[@jeffreysommer3292]

A Stuka played an important role in Pink Floyd's "The Wall" from 1982.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Definitely regret overlooking that

[@914.Bdotty]

Another great upload, would live to see video about other great aircraft aswell. Keep it up man!

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

You got it. I'll try to add aircraft more frequently to the mix.

[@rafaelnishizumi6330]

Anyone remember that 1 Call of Duty Mission where you have to shoot down several stuka for an objective in a T34 on the Eastern Front?

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

A fellow Finest Hour fan is see.

[@ioanbugheanu6836]

The stuka was a specialised diving aircraft and excelled at this better than virtually any other aircraft of the war, even late war. As a consequence however, it had otherwise poor general flight performance (slow and heavy), though it led to several innovations to enable that its diving capabilities be reached such as the automatic pull out system and bomb cradle. It was also reliable, and was used as a platform for close air support and ground attack roles beyond pure dive bombing. One of the most prolific and successful German pilot aces of all time, Hans Ulrich Rudel, achieved his ground kill record flying stukas, primarily the G variant. Very interesting plane and the product of a completely new bombing philosophy. Essentially the first 'smart bomb' ever used.

[@rafkus78]

It would be interesting to see you talk about the shotguns of ww1 and ww2.

[@DrownedInExile]

Funny I don't recall the Stuka ever being retrofitted with plasma cannons and scrambled against a starship in low-orbit :)

[@oberstul1941]

There's a scene in the Hannibal Rising movie (of Lecter fame) in which some Stukas bomb some things (memory is foggy right now) and you actually see one with AT cannons crashing down. And the best thing is that all that is in the beginning of the movie, so you don't have to endure the whole Hannibal origins arc if you don't like it. Cheers!

[@geordiedog1749]

One of the best anti-shipping aircraft of the Second World War. Used by Fleigerkorp X initially against the East coast convoys and poor ‘Dirty British Coasters’ (with a salt caked smoke stack) taking coal to London then against (and nearly closing) the ‘Narrow Seas’ of the English Channel. These merchant marine ships only had light armament - usually Great War Lewis, Savage and Marlin MGs welded onto the rails on the poop or f’castle as the bloody RAF was hiding as usual. Many Ju87’s of FC X were earmarked for the Graf Zeppelin. Navalised Stukas would have made excellent carrier planes. Sturdy under carriage and ability to fit long range fuel tanks plus it was just a very good dive bomber against shipping. As next demonstrated against the RN around Crete and Malta (inc bending HMS’ Lusty Formidable and Indom badly out of shape) and the Med in general. Stukas Could even carry a 2200lbs bomb but had to leave the gunner at home to do it. Prior to the start of the war a demonstration of the Ju87’s efficacy went a bit wrong when low clouds caused them to dive blind and most of them went straight into the deck. So at least there was a a happy ending in that one. One Stuka pilot ended up winning the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, Diamonds, Rubies, Unicorn Horns, Dark Matter and extra Fudge. Lucky him. Extra 5 bonus points for getting the literary reference.

[@eamonnclabby7067]

Liked the poetic license....the new Bard of Northumbria...

[@geordiedog1749]

@@eamonnclabby7067 How is I can’t remember what I had for breakfast but can remember a poem from my English lit. O level?

[@eamonnclabby7067]

@@geordiedog1749 totally agree, off to paddle my quinquerime to Nineveh, if I can remember where I left the paddle... recommend the King in the North by Max Adam's another Geordie ,about King /Saint Oswald, who JRR Tolkein based Aragorn on...best wishes from the wirral, site of the great battle of Brunanburh/Bromborough 937AD,Wirral,namechecked albeit in Welsh in the medieval poem of sir Gawain and the green knight...E

[@eamonnclabby7067]

PS ,the Beaufighter was probably the most lethal Anti shipping plane of WW2 ,my old da RIP, guarded said planes in North Africa and Malta...

[@geordiedog1749]

@@eamonnclabby7067 I shall check that out. I haven’t heard of it. I’ll write it on my hand in case I forget!

[@ThommyofThenn]

For so long i thought the siren was just the sound a plane makes when moving fast. That's how prolific it is lol

[@DeltaDarbyLiberator]

It was great you included Flying High, being the best Airplane! doco ever, so you probably didn't need to feature anything else. Seriously though, good stuff as always.

[@ButcherBird-FW190D]

Also, note it only had one engine. Much less thirsty than the Luftwaffe's bombers, and yet it could carry almost as much in bombs.

[@SoloWing88]

I recently found your channel and I am on board. Love the edits and your selection of clips

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks so much! Welcome to the channel :)

[@twistedyogert]

The siren noise has been a dead horse trope in Hollywood. There should be a scene in a movie where a plane is diving or crashing and then the camera pans over to the co-pilot or passenger who is holding their phone up and the phone is playing a Stuka sound. Then the pilot yells at them to turn the sound off. So they do and then reply that they thought it might be fun.

[@julesbenedictcatalan4904]

I would imagine being a guy from late-1930s fishing on a pond then all of a sudden, you heard a siren from the skies.

[@marymalone-z4u]

My Moms maiden name is Junker. Had the occasion to meet a distant relative who told me luftwaffe officials wouldn't approve retractable landing gear on the Ju-87 Stuka. If they could have installed them it would have performed like the Vought F4U Corsair. Imagine the battle of Britain if that were allowed.

[@jamiereekie9342]

I dont know what is is, but hearing that siren sends chills down my spine... it's like its passed on through the generations who experienced it first-hand. My great-grandparents and grandparents lived through the Blitz.

[@MGB-learning]

Great video!

[@justacanadianguy07]

It’s amazing how people see the Stuka as vulnerable, slow, and unmaneuverable, and yet without bombs they were capable of turning with some fighters, even able to score victories against other planes like fighters and ground attack aircraft.

[@edwardvincentbriones5062]

A Stuka appeared in First Squad: The Moment of Truth (2009), a Russian-Japanese-Canadian anime. It is a D model, but has the landing gear of the early war A variant.

[@fredlandry6170]

The Germans used the Stuka like flying artillery. I thought it was funny to have the scene from Star Trek Enterprise hilarious 😂.

[@BlueHero112]

Really got your mileage out of the airplane clips for this video

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

This was a squeeeeze for my video collection forsure

[@CoolSmoovie]

I’m just saying, whose ever idea it was to slap sirens on this bad boy was a fucking genius. I read in “With the Old Breed”, apparent the US tested blaring ground based sirens towards Japanese positions to see if it prompted surrender, but of course all it did was deprive Marines of sleep. I wonder if the Stuka was the inspiration for that idea lol

[@TommyGlint]

Well, German pilots clearly disagree with you about the Sirens being a “genius” idea - starting in 1941, and certainly by ‘42, they had them removed from the planes. They impacted flight performance and gave the enemy on the ground a warning to look up. It might just be a 10-15 sec warning, but there’s absolutely no reason to give them even that. Imagine diving on artillery postions with half deaf gunners, only a 4,000 ft to see them scatter and AA traversing in your direction, because you blew a warning siren… Undoubtedly every single WW2 documentary has had them added to all Stuka scenes by producers and sound technicians, because…. well, it’s a Stuka. But no, the pilots hated them, and took them off.

[@CoolSmoovie]

Well, I was just saying how scary the sirens were. They were undoubtedly effective at negatively impacting enemy morale. I didn’t mean they were “genius” performance wise, but thx for the extra info A-hole

[@chip599XX_VGRLeader]

Best Scene from Airplane! 5:31

[@kimleechristensen2679]

One thing that hampered the Stuka in antishipping strikes in the early war 1939-1940 period. Was the lack of armour piercing anti ship bombs, during the Norwegian campaign 1940 the low stock piles of them meant that they always ran out of these bombs and therefore had to use more conventional bombs if an airstrike against ships was needed to be done. The Stuka is one of those aircraft in history that when given a chance to operate in a environment with little to no aerial opposition, it could excel beyond its written stats. The British Fairy Swordfish falls somewhat into the same category as the Stuka, it too excelled as a naval aircraft, mostly due to that the environment it operated in had mostly no aerial opposition, but once it faced it, like during the famous "Channel Dash", it to like the Stuka suffered severe casualties. The American TBD Devastator could also have been viewed as an excellent strike aircraft. But it is seen as a complete failure, as it mostly operated in a highly hostile aerial environment, with little to no protection from friendly fighters, it was also let down by very poor performing torpedoes. Which meant a high casualty rate with almost little to no return for its effort. The Japanese Kate or Val in contrast are not really seen as failures. The above mentioned aircraft is roughly from the same mid 1930's generation of strike aircraft, most of them are concidered as "successes" for their given time, but given a completely different environment to operate in, they too could have had a different reputation, than they historically got. 🤔🤔🤔

[@andrewcomerford264]

To be fair, a Stuka was also the first German aircraft to be shot down in WW2 - the Stuka that shot down a Polish PZL P11c, was in turn shot down by the Pole's wing-man. This happened early on September 1st 1939.

[@chumleyk]

The A10 is the modern Stuka: out of date, slow, but always useful and instils fear with its sound. Brrrrp

[@wkamhengkit2644]

HNY Johnny✌ greeting from Thailand🇹🇭

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Hey man glad to have anyone from Thailand on the channel!

[@edi9892]

My grandfather told me a bit of a weird story involving probably a Stuka: The German command sent a bunch of tanks to cross a river and engage the enemy, but one by one, they got shot to pieces on the bridge. Then Air support was apparently requested and a Stuka appeared. It flew over the bridge in a circle and in the distance AA cannons were fired, but they were too far away to pose a threat. The plane flew a few more rounds without attacking the enemy, but then dropped its bombs and flew back. Apparently, the plane did spot the enemy cannons but found them not worth his time and thus radioed HQ to confirm, that there are no tanks to hunt. Attacking the cannon position would have required the Stuka to get closer to the enemy AAs and all that for a few cannons infantry soldiers could do short work of (though with considerable losses). So, it seems they were arguing over wasting precious ammunition and risking a plane vs sacrificing a bunch of soldiers! Then, my grandfather crossed the river along with the other soldiers. He spotted one of the cannons quite a bit afar from the original position. It had been flipped over, but it seemed to be still functional (and wasn't visibly warped). However, they couldn't find a single trace of enemy soldiers at the position. It was probably almost abandoned, except for the artillery crew and a few soldiers as support to delay the Germans. I guess the most probable scenario is that they all ran off when they saw the single plane circle the sky like an eagle. However, they didn't find any soldiers in proximity and had no further enemy contact for quite a while. What they found however were some of their own soldiers who had been unlucky enough to not make it across the bridge in time when the Soviets pushed the Wehrmacht back... (earlier). A few of them were still alive when they found them, but all they could do was to put them out of their misery!

[@j.w.matney8390]

Thanks for posting this. There is a Stuka and many other famous planes at the RAF Museum near London (you can get there by train) and I recommend anyone that loves aviation history check it out. Also, the British War Museum and the Churchill War Rooms are great too. All in London.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Great recommendations! Don't forget the Belfast :)

[@j.w.matney8390]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I forgot to mention that-The Belfast was great and there is a very good restaurant/Bistro almost next door-great burgers and other pub food with a view of the river.

[@erikmann3640]

I was fortunate to talk to a former Luftwaffe pilot that flew stukas during the early part of WW2. After the battle of Britain, his unit was reformed and retrained he flew 109s & later 190s. He gave me his uniform insignia. I got to talk to him many times about the planes he flew.

[@hughgpauwels]

5:33 "He's coming right at us" guy looks like British PM Boris Johnson

[@kevinconjelko1309]

I named my first German Shepherd Stuka. People often thought I was calling her Stupid😂

[@benjaminbuchanan7151]

Its probably the tail gunner screaming XD

[@tizanikandothers]

Fun fact: you can hear the sirens of the stuka only when he goes at 400 km for hour

[@patriotenfield3276]

Izetta the Last Witch is one of My favorite Anime of all time.........except for that magical shoujo bullshet .

[@borderhopper3296]

The scene from 2:51 looked like a gag from the old time kiddy comic; a man clinging to the flying plane. Looks so unreal. And the pilot 2:53 looked as if he is Mr. Bean in his show LOL.

[@MikeJBeebe]

There's a great Stuka scene in "Pink Floyd: The Wall" in which Roger Waters's father is killed by one at the Anzio Bridgehead. The scene is short because both Stuka models almost instantly crashed as soon as they were airborne.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

As a Pink Floyd fan I do regret overlooking that.

[@badbotchdown9845]

I've have seen that movie when he goes out at the London's empire theater Piccadilly circus I have taked a slap in my face with that movie

[@nextbest]

The Stuka operated at Stalingrad at the limit of its endurance.It was used to bomb supplys crossing the Volga.Not sure if it bombed targets on the east side of the Volga.But Soviet fighters were taking a toll.

[@michaelneuwirth3414]

From a ballistic point of view, the Ju 87 was truly the pinnacle of power projection, comparable at the time only to the naval guns of battleships. Being able to use a 500 kg bomb against a target with an accuracy of 10-20 metres meant that point targets could be destroyed with unprecedented reliability. In conjunction with the Me109, the Ju 87 was the guarantor of the early successes of the Wehrmacht, even if the army or navy as a whole were only mediocre.

[@WarhammerLamenter]

Gotta love the Stuka siren for its fear tactics

[@nicholaswoof88]

Hope to see P51 mustang, the creation, the effectiveness during the war, myth and others

[@dragons123ism]

You’re very regular with your uploads. I hope you keep it up even when you run out of WWII weapons

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

I'll probably dip into other eras. I wouldn't even mind tackling some sword and shield stuff. Thanks for the feedback 🙏👍

[@dragons123ism]

@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Sword and shield is welcome as far as I'm concerned 👍🏻

[@MrJayuk88]

Great video as always !!!!

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Theres a good Stuka scene in the Original Dunkirk film ( Richard Attenborough and John Mills) from 1958. Its blackcand white but uses actual stuka footage.

[@DocLeQuack]

Love Johnny’s work only thing I would change for this video is that the Stuka had many variants and the main offensive armament of two 7.92 machine guns was eventually changed in favour of 20mm cannons or in one specific variant the 37mm underwing cannons which only carried 6 rounds for each gun.

[@melissapalaganas95]

Stuka go brrrrrrrrrrr

[@mosty87]

like these .... keep it up a fun fact you didn't mention is the use of ju87 as glider tug in 1940

[@renegaderonin1247]

When you think about it the stuka was kind of a German A10 thunderbolt during ww2

[@TotallyNotAFox]

That would have been the HS 129 though

[@sudetenrider-pili6637]

5:54 Czech movie. Glad you know it. :)

[@arttulehtinen5527]

Ju 87 Stuka, literally only good when going down

[@HarborLockRoad]

I have the siren as my ring tone, im kind of hard of hearing, so its kinda loud. Once it went off as we were eating in a kosher deli, and once, at work, next to a guy whose father fled poland in 1939, he jumped under the table.... Must be carried in the genes???? 😉😁

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

The thing that happened in 1943 - was the American 8th Air Force had begun to seriously attack German cities. Because of that - the German fighter planes that would have maintained German Air Superiority, allowing the Luftwaffe to devastate their enemies on the ground - were now back in Germany trying to protect their cities. The Luftwaffe - which had been designed to support the Heer (the German Army) - had not in 1940 - been up to conducting strategic bombing against another first rate air force. It was then also unable to protect Germany from a first rate air force. As the numbers of Soviet Aircraft grew - the Luftwaffe was also unable to protect German Ground Forces from Soviet Aviation. In 1940 the Germans were still winning the war despite Strategic Bombing Campaigns not being as easy as the Air Power Advocates had thought things like that would be in the '30's. In 1941 though, they went to war with the Soviet Union and the United States - after which they were doomed. If they did things right - they could prolong the war. If they did things wrong - they could shorten it but they were doomed to losing the war and ultimately, no matter what they did - that was what was going to happen. .

[@herrbananhjarnasmith7598]

Sssoooo how did the Stuka sound without the siren? You said that after 1941 the siren was a rare option when the customers baught there very own Stuka Junker 87, were there any seatbelts, chrome interior, whitewall tires, coni kit, autronic eye, fenderskirts, and what colors could the customer choose from?

[@4thmonitorion731]

The first starting scene with pilot: calm The second scene with the infantry: Oh god its the end of the world

[@TapeMeasure1]

I’ve been waiting on the found they still haven’t dropped the bomb

[@michaelneuwirth3414]

In 1941, Karl Ritter's propaganda film "Stukas" was made with the support of the Luftwaffe and was released in cinemas on 27 June of the same year, five days after the start of the Russian campaign. The film's ambition was to show as many uses as possible of the Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber and included original footage of attacks on British ships off Dunkirk, as well as on a Belgian fortification. This gave the film an authenticity unknown at the time. Distribution of this film is prohibited in today's Germany, but it can occasionally be found on KZbin.

[@halidfadhila6904]

nice video can you make a spitfire with footage from Strike witches

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

saving spitfire for a bit further down the road but absolutely yes

[@christopherbentley7289]

In my 'other life', when I'm not commenting on your KZbin videos, I run a couple of Blogs on female Seventies Pop from the satellite nations of the former Soviet Bloc, the general one, 'Girls Of The Golden East' and the Fan Blog for Valérie Čižmárová, 'Bananas For Breakfast' (found via the Gravatar link in my KZbin profile) and I once, at 'Bananas For Breakfast', contrasted the angular, singularly unlovely Ju 87 with its Japanese counterpart 'named after' Valérie by the Americans, the gorgeous Aichi D3A 'Val' - as curvaceous in all the right places as was Valérie. For one, like me, with an interest in Czechoslovakia (and we tend to overlook this here in the UK, with the Czech pilots that served in the RAF) it is extremely interesting that one of the most notable WWII airmen to have been born in the then just under one-year-old nation of Czechoslovakia was the Ju 87 pilot, Egbert Jaeckel (Raspenau/Raspenava near Reichenberg/Liberec), who I understand was quite an idol of the teenage girls in Germany for his boyish good looks, who was famous for not making for home as quickly as his Ju 87 could take him after pressing home his attacks on the Eastern Front but hanging around to 'mix it' with the Soviet fighters, in one encounter becoming one of the few Ju 87 pilots to have claimed a 'kill' against a (Soviet) Spitfire. Eventually, Egbert Jaeckel's bravado told for him at the young age of just Twenty-Three, much to the intense grief of his teenaged admirers.

[@TheHomeMaker1]

Seriously an early war Stuka dive siren on an early 1960’s beech 18 twin engine passenger plane in that old movie shown lmao!!!!

[@locutus155]

There's one movie you've missed that had Ju87 in it. Pink Floyd the wall.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Tragic oversight on my part it's true

[@NJPurling]

I don't know how many airworthy Stukas are left now. I always wondered what angle of dive/ airspeed it would take to bring the siren to life.

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Not much appreciatedly the first versions whistled just flying around

[@Emtbtoday]

The siren on the D was built into the landing gear and was finally linked to a switch inside fornthe pilot's to shut off as it was not popular with the pilot's atoll! The first ones were a field mod that would come loose and fly off into the tail or or other parts damaging the stuka and most times crashing! The sirens were traumatic fornthe pilot's aswell they would never use them according to new information from ex luftwaffe pilot's in that new Stuka book

[@rolfagten857]

Excellent video Johnny, too bad you forgot the scene from "Burnt by the sun 2: Exodus" (2010) and the Nigel Davenport Stuka quote from the beginning of "Play Dirty" (1969).

[@JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Damn. Where were you when I was making this video lol

[@marguskiis7711]

None of the surviving Stukas have the sirens, so the myth is a way bigger than reality. The Hollywood siren sound is made with some old roof siren.

[@mrllamaton1873]

G-2: You forgor me?