Luftwaffe Night Fighters in Action January 1944 (HD Restored)

Exclusive Edition! The Luftwaffe and the RAF were locked in fierce combat in the night skies over Europe throughout the Second World War. Both sides were continually innovating to get the upper hand over their opponents in aircraft design, ground and airborne radar and signals jamming & more. The bulk of this film is taken from an episode of Die Deutsche Wochenschau (The German Weekly Review) news series filmed in January 1944. It features daily life on a Luftwaffe base with cameos showing famous aces including Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, commander of NJ2, with 82 victories.
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[@daniel_lucio]

"Your Revell model depicts the Ju-88C-6c flown by Major Prinz Heinrich zu Sayn Wittgenstein, possibly the most successful night fighter pilot to fly the Ju-88. He had scored 83 kills and had been awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords before he was finally shot down on January 21, 1944" - Excerpt from the Revell plastic model instruction manual. I built this kit in 1/72 scale in the 80's when I was still a kid and I would play with the assembled kit imagining I was the major

[@ZenosWarbirds]

The Prinz was shot down literally while this film was being shot for the German Weekly News. He was a phenomenally successful Night Fighter pilot, but you have to question the wisdom of him to continue to fly regularly after he had just been made the CO of NJG 2, with all the responsibilities that entailed. The Allies often retired top aces so they could train new pilots and assume leadership roles on the ground.

[@paoloviti6156]

​@@ZenosWarbirds seems absurd but it is good to remember that among the Axis pilots it was almost really strange to go on leave, but this is also true with the Russian pilots. That said initially the German pilots could afford a degree of rotation, often relegated to training units but with the ever increasing loss of veteran pilots increasingly they couldn't let them rest very much. One of the consequences was that experts like Joachim Marseille and Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn suffered from serious nervous breakdowns because of continuous fighting. Hope I didn't bore you....

[@rabbitramen]

Many people don't realize that the Ju-88 got it's design by an American chief engineer Alfred Gassner working with Junkers engineer Wilhelm Heinrich Evers in the 1930s. There are some clues of American influence especially in the design of the tail group and fuselage which somewhat resemble a Boeing 247 airliner from the same era.

[@daniel_lucio]

@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe "Excerpt from the Revell plastic model instruction manual" hold on cowboy, There is a lot of information before the emergence of the internet that is lost out there and that can be shared with millennials like you, knowledge is never too much, even for your generation.

[@daniel_lucio]

@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Sad people need to seek specialized treatment before it becomes a more serious illness

[@garymckee8857]

Outstanding film 🎥

[@SteveBrownRocks2023]

This film is GREAT! 💥👏🏼😎💥

[@joeguzman3558]

My stepfather was a pilot during WW2 and he used to tell me if he ever was to get captured he would prefer by the Germans instead of the Japanese army

[@tjwindsor9638]

It was definitely a lot better to get captured by Germans, but the death rate for pilots was much higher over Germany than Japan because they had better pilots, AA guns and radar system.

[@lifesahobby]

Thank you

[@nealfairbanks5340]

It's all cool till the Mosquitos and Black Widows show up.

[@juanmanuelpenafielbeltran5727]

Estos jóvenes ya no estan aquí, lo dieron todo por su patria; merecen ser recordados con tranquilidad. Descansen en paz.

[@zorro_Z]

Это не люди,это- животные,которые бомбили мирных людей.А сейчас горят в аду😅

[@briankorbelik2873]

Good film. Funny though, the first part should be called, "Nachtjagers doing goofy shit". 8-)

[@bobo1694]

The background marching sound so great, I just wondering what’s the name of it 1:40

[@jamesross1799]

I wonder how many of them have mosquito fever???,

[@steveaustin6467]

[@flutter8712]

English traduction please

[@ronhudson3730]

They must have known their cause was lost and their deaths were very likely. Yet they went. Many must not have believed in their cause and yet the pressure, under pain of court-marshal and execution, would have been fairly compelling. The fanatics are to be blamed but the average citizen who got caught up in the over-wheling pressure to conform and do their part is to be pitied if not forgiven.

[@OneSingleBreath]

I can‘t remember in which book it was, but one german nightfighter ace said, that towards the end of the war, they were tired. And only fools an die-hard Nazis believed in a possible victory. He said, the main reason for him and his friends amongst the other pilots to go up every night was the fact, that every downed Bomber won‘t be able to bomb the cities.

[@ronhudson3730]

@@OneSingleBreath Some many motivating reasons for their participation. Some who were conscripted or volunteered early on were ardent supporters of fascist ideology. I suspect most just went along to get along. Later on there as you state more important motivating factors, not conquest but defence of their homes and loved ones must have been the primary factors. All to no avail. Millions killed on both sides, cities levelled, and whole societies rent apart due to an evil ideology and a demented leader. Sound familiar? History really does repeat itself, over and over.

[@wanderer7755]

You can see the bags under their eyes in the pictures, they look exhausted

[@ZenosWarbirds]

There’s a contrast between staged scenes of “happy go lucky fun” & the ones where the pilots & crew are going about their serious business.

[@theonlymadmac4771]

@@ZenosWarbirds the movie doesn’t show the real problems like blind flying in bad weather, severe icing, blind landings on unknown airfields, technical malfunctions, which killed more crews than enemy action