Messerschmitt Me 323 - The Largest Land Based Transport Aircraft of WW2

[@hubertseidl93]

My grandfather was a pilot of the M323. First the version D (4 engines), later the version E (6 engines). He was spared death more than once, including the last stage, the Volkssturm, when his plane wasn't flight ready (guess, they fixed it afterwards, as this one must have been destroyed aswell). He told me a few stories about when he was flying it, and as always, war-stories aren't funny or have a happy ending. Thanks for the video, in austria, it's virtually impossible to learn about that in history (it's just not taught).

[@blindpugh12]

Your grandfather must have been a brave man, knowing the odds were almost certainly against him flying these machines.

[@hubertseidl93]

@@blindpugh12 Well, at the end the "volkssturm", the nazis opted to throw everything available at enemy, and his plane just failed. Wasn't flightworthy. So by not working, it sagen his life.

[@j.bradleyheck1589]

You are probably related to me as I have a lot of family in Bayern & western Osterreich.

[@hubertseidl93]

@@j.bradleyheck1589 in theory this could be. I know that my grandfathers family has a branch in los angeles (I never had contact with them).

[@joshuacook5280]

I would love to know more about your granddad. It's so interesting to learn the personal history from people that were there.

[@josephsolomon5873]

Shooting those down must have been like BONUS ROUND!

[@SlapthePissouttayew]

"Towed by 3 Bf-110s and assisted by rockets for take off." What could possibly go wrong???

[@williamqhite9192]

BANG. shot down, slow

[@BattleManiac7]

I mean if there ever was an accident it would be a hell of an explosion, rockets and propellers flying everywhere.

[@projectmanagement2356]

@@BattleManiac7 yeah you'd crash 4 planes and lose all the pilot and soldiers

[@mattandrews8528]

You got to give it to the Germans, they were getting that big ass bird off of the ground one way or another. They made it happen capn

[@youknowitsbosko2146]

Picturing this being attmepted with IL1946 physics SENT ME

[@andrewince8824]

Pack 100 troops or a tank or an artillery piece into a massive, slow, lumbering plane and fly it into enemy territory. Sounds foolproof.

[@phantomechelon3628]

"If we fly really casually, maybe they'll ignore us..." 😉

[@erikthorsen240]

And some munitions.

[@Josephsvideoalbum]

@@phantomechelon3628 fly casually, chewy fly casually. I don't know how you fly casually.

[@Josephsvideoalbum]

Never seen a C-130 or a C5 Galaxy?

[@Ryan-wu1oi]

We have cargo planes bigger than that, if we ever go to war with a real country they all would get destroyed. Notice how all our wars since ww2 are with nations with less than 40 million people, and we can barely handle them.

[@nob0dy27_]

fun fact: the me321 (basically the me323 but without the engines) was the largest glider ever built

[@terencebernard2337]

Yards or Meters?

[@ftffighter]

True lol it needed rocket boosters though just to get off the ground on top of the force of the planes, or plane, pulling it! However, once in the air I guess the brave pilots who flew these monsters reported that although the controls were on the stiff side, they flew pretty stable.

[@duncanmcgee13]

2:25 - 3:00 basically said the same things you both said

[@andrewince8824]

@Dolghi Stefan and BF stands for Bayerische Flugzuegwerke. Probably a good thing Willi Mescherschmitt took over the company in 1936, a lot easier to pronounce.

[@cornellkirk8946]

Not exactly a very “fun fact” is it....

[@tieck4408]

The Nazi's relation to heavy bombers is like watching a drunk man try to feed a dollar into a vending machine.

[@joshuab2437]

colorful analogy

[@PaulRudd1941]

Made me laugh more than it should have

[@nob0dy27_]

the me323 isnt a heavy bomber

[@Crashed131963]

They had the Fw-200 condor.

[@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts]

Heavy bombers weren't their style, they liked lighter faster medium bombers

[@christianege4989]

Fun fact: Because its engines were so unreliable, in the Luftwaffe there was a saying that this was the best five engine plane ever build.

[@azisandwich]

Messerschmitt really made interesting sruff

[@boogieking6546]

If you want to see some really interesting designs you should look at what Blohm and Voss cooked up

[@williamqhite9192]

SPITFIRE?

[@michaelripperger5674]

-where is a good place to find this info ?

[@bertvdlast]

Michael Ripperger. Wiki? Google?

[@travisgartside409]

@@williamqhite9192 ya cause theres ABSOLUTELY ZERO info out there about that over rated bird. Lol

[@MrBension]

I saw it During the 1944 Alied bombings of Bukarest we were evacuated in a small village Gostinari There I saw it twice,flying over the village. Later,I was in train and I saw a Me 323 carcass near the town of Campina ,it was shot down by a Romanian fighter-IAR 80. I am 90 years old,and always an aviation fan.l

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Beautiful. Had a model of it in the early 80s. I'd love to see a fully working replica...in some distant day.

[@Ashwin-zg7rt]

To think the aircraft was invented only 35 years before these revolutionary machines were developed. The growth is exponential

[@invictusprima4437]

Nobody: Germany: t h i c c p l a n e

[@teddy.d174]

Invictus Prima .....Somewhere, Howard Hughes is saying...”hold my beer”.

[@yowaddup5649]

Hell they had everything from *T H I C C PLANES* To *T H I C C E R TANKS* (yes maus I'm looking at you) Ohh and did I mention *T H I C C AIRSHIPS?*

[@Wallyworld30]

@@yowaddup5649 Well, did they have flying Tanks???? Soviet Russia did!

[@plasticballs]

@@yowaddup5649 T-1500 Ratte gang rise up (and then fall back down and create a massive crater)

[@plasticballs]

@John Barber no u

[@carltonsargentii3956]

I noticed many comments on how "big and slow" this plane is, but please keep in mind that it was a cargo aircraft and not a front-line fighter jet meant to mix it up with the likes of a P-51 0r a P-47!

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Indeed useful for rapid movement in secure airspace

[@Za7a7aZ]

I am really amazed how fast new technologies were developed and implemented in those few years the WWII lasted.

[@GoldenArrow297]

Respect for the people who made such a magnificent machine possible. They laid the foundation for the crafts we have these days.

[@olivernorth7418]

Messerchmitt did not ‘lay the foundation for the crafts we have these days’, tf are you on?

[@magentachaos9080]

@@olivernorth7418 Wow you must either be trolling or just a dumbass and I'm goin for the later. Dumbass

[@anguskeenan4932]

Why does listening to you talk make he feel like I’m under attack? 😂

[@kiereluurs1243]

Maybe he writes better English than you though.

[@kiereluurs1243]

He always has that sort of out of breath tone which sounds acted.

[@scottmcdonald3019]

Its intense and staccato , feels like a machine gun. Maybe he should relax a little

[@jameslloyd2435]

Jacob Hultberg how the unholy fuck did you reach that? Nothing pc and globalist about it

[@KashikoiBaka]

Set play speed to .85 and you'll hear what sounds like his actual voice without it being sped up.

[@shauntehscott7816]

The aircraft that would inspire future air transport for militaries around the world

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Inspire them not to build such a useless airplane? No one rushed to build copies of this thing - they eventually built other heavy lift aircraft, but like the Spruce Goose this thing was not a practical design.

[@moritzk3004]

@@Justanotherconsumer the spruce goose and military transports have nothing in common, civilian transports have to lift medium weight in a bigger volume, military transports have to lift heavy vehicles in a small volume (a tank for instance weighs more than a truck with the same size)

[@sengwesetogile6054]

Dc3?

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Moritz K the H-4 was designed for the military as well. Not that important, though - the point is that nobody bothered with the German design the way they copied things like the Ta-183 (though no one directly copied the design). It wasn’t a good plane, it was just the Maus of the skies - a vanity project.

[@williamqhite9192]

and are you from a country that makes aircraft ?

[@pauls.3400]

That sucker could carry a lot of Schmitt. My son is a Master sergeant loadmaster on a C5 Galaxy. Thanks to Dark docs for showing this excellent informative video....

[@henryatkinson1479]

This isnt even half as crazy as some of the stuff Blohm and Voss would build.

[@JustJohn505]

If only the war would have lasted 2 more years imagine where would we be right now

[@henryatkinson1479]

@@JustJohn505 I'm quite glad that the soviets ended the war as quickly as they did. Although continued development of german projects would have been cool.

[@kris8742]

@@JustJohn505 Lucky for them I would say else they would have nuked.

[@kris8742]

@@henryatkinson1479 We weren't sitting on our don't forget.

[@appa609]

Henry Atkinson the german engineers largely kept working in America and Russia

[@genericuser9653]

Loved the video!

[@carmium]

Re: 9:56 "...downed by a British Browfighter..." Could this be a Beaufighter?

[@GnuReligion]

Maybe Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter? A night fighter. The subs say "British Brown Fighter" which makes no sense. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Beaufighter

[@adamhebert5365]

i believe you are correct, Beaufighter fits the bill much more appropriately

[@carmium]

@@adamhebert5365 Considering there never was a brow- or brown-fighter... 8-D

[@jacknoble2050]

Shooting those down must have been like BONUS ROUND!

[@phantomechelon3628]

Surely you mean a Bew-fighter? 😁

[@blasterelforg7276]

Impressive by WW2 standards in size and lifting capacity, yet held reputation as slow, underpowered, and extremely vulnerable to enemy fire.

[@Idahoguy10157]

The happiest group about the cancellation of operation Sea Lion was the German navy. They knew attempting an invasion it would be a disaster

[@dunruden9720]

Sea Lion (name)

[@JSG003]

Nah according to analysts they would have beaten Britain

[@Shadowfax-1980]

JSG 030 Australien What analysts?

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

@@JSG003 Who was beating the Royal Navy and the RAF in the 1940's?

[@wekapeka3493]

The most happy were the Nazi soldiers who didn’t know how to swim!

[@FoulOwl2112]

I built a polystyrene model of one these when l was younger. Great kit 👍. But even just building a kit, it was impossible not to come to the conclusion, "This thing is really insane"!

[@jasonkillbourn]

That's interesting, as this might have cleared up a mystery from years ago. A close friend of the family, who'd been in the RAF himself, once told me the story of one of his golfing friends, who'd flown mosquitoes in the Mediterranean theatre, and he had a photograph taken at the time, of himself and his navigator standing in what was left of the fuselage from a gigantic troop transporter that they'd shot down. I recall him saying that the wrecked air frame completely dwarfed them, so I'd been wondering for years what plane could possibly have been that big...

[@thecraziestcanuck]

What a beast, while at the same time what a beautiful craft. Great upload thank you for your efforts. Keep them coming....✈

[@dutchbachelor]

Beauty is not coming up in my mind when I see this thing. Not even when I try REALLY hard. But then, the saying "Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder." has to have some foundation, doesn't it? A Spitfire, a Mustang or a Corsair for me please.

[@maxsmodels]

If the Luftwaffe had been able to obtain air superiority then this would have been a very important design.

[@emmano6340]

Exactly

[@Platanis2008]

If... But, that was not an option, with Goering in the middle...

[@jcurbin305]

Göring himself was bigger than one of these aircraft.

[@simonacuthbert1]

Each of the videos you've produced and posted have been fascinating viewing. Your research and commitment to engaging documentaries is obvious. Thanks for sharing your work, and please keep up the good work.

[@geoffreyhufford]

Definitely inspired the Tolmekian airships from Miyazaki's Valley of the Wind

[@EricTheBody]

I was thinking the same thing. Spitting image!

[@sportsfamily77]

Watched a couple of your videos just now, you've earned my subscription! Genuinely surprised you're content hadn't been curated in my recommendations earlier.

[@multitoolish]

Thought I knew every German airplane from WW2! Great job!! Amazing what that little country was capable of.

[@jerryjeromehawkins1712]

Agree... considering prewar Germany was roughly the size of the state of Montana... going up against the world's largest countries, fighting on multiple fronts, relentless day and night bombing raids, fuel shortages, material shortages, etc. Absolutely amazing. 🍻

[@fabior6025]

It's important to remember the german contribution to history even if the Allies won and they caused barbaric atrocities. What a fascinating aircraft.

[@sergiogarcia9714]

Yeah German scientists and engineers were on some next level shit

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Sergio Garcia given that the B-36 was under development at the same time, so it’s more just that the Nazis pushed things into service out of desperation rather than having superior tech. The V-2 was an exception, but it proved to be more of a psychological tool than as a weapon.

[@CHIL2903]

@@Justanotherconsumer I saw the one at the Deutsch Museum in Munich and the accompanying information reckoned that more people died in the V2's construction/production, (slave labour) than were killed in its application. Like you say, psychological.

[@Internetbutthurt]

Well the US would have taken much much longer to get into space thats for sure

[@spingebill8551]

Winston Smith - Ministry of Truth Germany maybe could have done it by 1959

[@CaptHollister]

This was a very efficient design from the allies' point of view: it allowed for the destruction of more German stuff and soldiers by packing them all into a conveniently slow and easily shot down flying coffin.

[@luisgonzagaosollo7970]

Yeah, just like the American Shermans. Motorized coffin targets for the German Tiger tanks. Thousands of American sitting ducks.

[@artificernathaniel3287]

@@luisgonzagaosollo7970 many tankers disagree with you about that but okay.

[@greg1156]

@Luis Gonzaga Osollo The Shermans had an incredible survival rate among its crew, it was quite possibly the safest tank of the war

[@NH2112]

Build more, lose more. And sometimes you just have to throw troops at the enemy and hope he runs out of ammo before you run out of troops.

[@wolfsoldner9029]

The 323 actually had a pretty low number of losses and was a well liked machine during the war.

[@robinwells8879]

Another wonderful insight into a subject unknown to me. Many thanks.

[@stevetwede9901]

The German naval losses were minimal at Norway, it had nothing to do with Battle of Britain & a channel crossing, otherwise, they wouldn't have tried it or even planned for it. They lost 10 Destroyers, & gained 4 modern Norwegian ones. Blucher could've been replaced by Seydlitz. They also had smaller ships the exact size as small Britiush destroyers, perfectly suited for channel ops.

[@WilliamJones-Halibut-vq1fs]

The Me 323 used French Gnome Rhone radials since these were available and spared the BMW 323 radials for Fw 200. When the Me 323 was given BMW 801 radials the payload doubled to 25 tons. The British had cracked Luftwaffe codes so they were able intercept Me 323. Had the Luftwaffe codes not been cracked the Me 323 would not have been intercepted very often and would seldom have been shot down.

[@thelonelypigeon9554]

*Sees German Plane* My brain: "Nausicaa: Valley of The Wind". Bruh.

[@micksmith5123]

Yes!

[@honeybadger8010]

Same...

[@janeappleseed2154]

It's a Tolmekian Bumblecrow.

[@kkoz_]

All of your channels are great, this one is the best. Excellent work.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

That was very interesting pity we don’t have one to look at What an amazing machine and so far ahead of its time

[@condor4679123]

Wife's father credited with 2 x kills on Me 323 over the med flying a Curtiss Warhawk see. minute 8:30

[@Kellethorn]

Huh, interesting! It always fascinates me that there are living, breathing people still today that DID the things we see now watch documentaries. Really something to think about.

[@tomh6183]

I remember reading about that in one of my WW 2 books,Godbless him and all veterans

[@JoeOvercoat]

1:56 One cannot overstate the loads placed on the airframe by the employment of crew-served weapons.

[@nathanchildress5596]

Seriously? In the 20s stunt pilots would walk around the wings of their planes as a gag.

[@山霧りょう]

Holy. This is so cool. I’m thankful to have such gifted people like this living in the same planet as I am.

[@justat1149]

“Towed by 3 Bf-110’s” *Coughs in He-111Z*

[@darthrevan88]

well as you see both is correct :)

[@justat1149]

Darth Revan Of course I know. The He-111Z was more common than the Bf-110’s. They also used Ju-290’s

[@suma4m]

2:24 There is even a drawing of the Zwilling.

[@justat1149]

Marek Suma There is, but they only mentioned the Bf-110 method of towing the Me-321. There were a total of three; the Bf-110 method being the less widely used

[@suma4m]

It's the only one mentioned because it's the craziest one.

[@tigertank88m]

Fantastic footage, thank you.

[@wt1370]

I really enjoy your channels bro. The tone and cadence of your voice is great for the topics you cover. I always feel like I’m being told a secret by someone who has to tell me quickly .Because we’ve gotta get out of there quickly before anyone becomes suspicious lol . Thanks for your hard work and keep’em coming , your content is always appreciated 👍

[@r.blakehole932]

I had never heard of this plane before. Thanks.

[@jakobc.2558]

I feel like the nazis had to compensate for something - ME 323 - Bismark - Panther (with 44 tons it was 3 tons heavyer then the M26 Pershing which had a better gun and better front and side armor) - Tiger 2 - Jagdtiger (because the Tiger 2 didnt break down enough I guess) - Sturmtiger - *Schwärer Gustav* And best of all almost none of them actualy achived something during world war 2.

[@alexwest2573]

The Gustav was successfully used in the seige of Sevastopol I believe

[@jakobc.2558]

@@alexwest2573 but was it worth it? Could the recources have been better spent? How many dive bombers could have been build for the same price? Keep in mind that the fire rate was extremely slow, the barrel had to be switched out after a couple of shots and was from then on useless scrap and the rounds fired were realy not all that much more powerfull then a normal bomb.

[@alexwest2573]

Jakob C. Yes and no obviously they should have used the resources for something more useful but these large scale cannons were used in the Great War too like the Paris gun for example, and if you don’t have air support Available and if you did there’s always a chance for your Bombers to be shot down and not even make to the target where as with the gustav or Paris gun they can sit comfortably behind the front lines and shell the area/ target how ever long they want to with out loosing valuable Luftwaffe planes so honestly idk which one is better

[@tedsmith6137]

To clarify, it did not have counter-rotating propellers. That term refers to one engine having 2 propellers on a coaxial shaft, rotating in opposite directions. The Me 323 had 3 engines of clockwise rotation on one wing and 3 of anti clockwise rotation on the other. The engines were Gnome le Rhone, pronounced with a silent 'G', like in garden gnome.

[@sstolt64]

Counter rotating props is the description for multi engine aircraft that have the props on one wing spinning clockwise and the other side counter clockwise, it has been referred as such since the first one. Your description of one engine is also correct, look it up.

[@shopaccount6446]

What a sad end for a wonderful machine... would love to see one flying...

[@m.sydneyvern2260]

I just like the background music it fits the strange nature of the Gigant

[@sgt50mae]

It's a military transport aircraft modeled on "BAKAGARASU" that appears in Hayao Miyazaki's animation.

[@daveogarf]

It's pronounced "BOW-fighter", like ribbons and bows, not "BOW", like the front of a ship. (From Beaufort and fighter)

[@soundknight]

Funny isn't it... It's just basic English that's as old as 1066 yet the Yankees don't learn properly.

[@guppiapfeljustleopardthing8756]

Funny the first people to settle on the Land that whould later bekome the UK came from the Land that is today Germany and were germanic terretorys. Still none of you can pronounce words from the germanic language wich still are in use today. Or even better most people cant even understand the scottish dialect even though IT is the step between German and english of wich your language originated from.

[@devthethird2644]

@@guppiapfeljustleopardthing8756 .........and also told as a stereotype in the UK, Germans have no sense of humour. Thanks for the clarification, trigger.

[@guppiapfeljustleopardthing8756]

@@devthethird2644 oh actually WE have humor. I mean i physics prof who makes standup in my freetime. Some say that after Angela Merkel im the 2nd German pysicist working as a comedian.

[@ShAdy-oi7ym]

@@soundknight American English is a dialect of English so there for it is not from 1066

[@towedarray7217]

Another amazing one. These have been really awesome you guys. Thank you!!!

[@Don_Camillo]

The mother of all Hercules, Starlifter and Transall Transporters. And the grandma of Galaxy and Antonov.

[@CarlosGonzalez-kt5be]

THANKS YOU FOR THE VIDEO..SALUDOS, FROM : NEW YORK..

[@maxbonaccorsi7907]

hey man great content, ive been watching at least three of your videos everyday since i found out about your channels. Thank you.

[@auggith]

Messerschmitt really had some interesting designs up their sleeves...

[@Flies2FLL]

I've read pilot accounts from WWII that said that taking one of these out was almost considered unsporting by Allied pilots since it only took a short burst from a P-51's guns to send one spiraling into the sea.

[@SamSurplusSales]

If you had ever been in combat you would know war is not a sporting event. Comparing it to a sporting event on your part is plain stupidity.

[@pvt_picklestomp3014]

White Knight alert

[@Flies2FLL]

@@SamSurplusSales You can please some of the people all the time, all of the people some of the time, but you'll never please all the people all the time~

[@Steve-GM0HUU]

Although I can understand it may have seemed unsporting, choking Nazi supply lines into North Africa would have been a key strategy to defeat the Axis in that region. In a similar vein, earlier in the war, Nazi U-boats torpedoed many "sitting duck" merchants ships in the North Atlantic in an attempt to starve Britain of supplies.

[@Flies2FLL]

@@Steve-GM0HUU Good points. "SamSurplusSales" didn't notice that I said that the allied pilots thought it was "almost" not sporting to take these things down. They were soldiers in a war and they had to do what they had to do; They wanted to destroy the machine, not necessarily kill all the men on board.

[@mbeenz]

SO INTERESTING,!!!!,!, Brilliant Video!!!!, ManyThanx From Costa Mesa!!!!!

[@geppen88]

Messerschmitt Deutschland ❤️❤️❤️

[@markoneill9346]

I didn't know there was footage of the Gigant, thanks for sharing this.

[@nathanojjap6528]

Actually my grandfather flew one of these things, we still have a modle of it

[@emmano6340]

I'm glad he survived the war flying those things, Interesting

[@adamhavelock2104]

These videos are just so well done! Love this channel

[@korbell1089]

Herman Goering: "Those idiots in the wehrmacht are wasting valuable resources designing tanks like the Maus. What can we do to one up them?" Luftwaffe general: "I know, lets send our biggest transports unescorted into enemy territory!"

[@Xanthrochroid]

Cogito Ergo Something unlike aluminum, of course.

[@Twirlyhead]

Sealion was *abandoned* because the RAF fighter force had not been destroyed and a landing would be suicidal in the face of a vastly superior Royal Navy without air supremacy; and many German commanders breathed a sigh of relief as they believed, as most scholars do today, that Sealion could not have succeeded under any circumstances let alone those most unfavourable circumstances.

[@namulit]

Now I know were Miyazaki got his design from for his Torumekian planes in Nausicaa...

[@razvanrinder617]

Huh 🤔

[@fighterpilot4059]

Yeah I think were called “BumbleCrows” in the manga.

[@namulit]

@@fighterpilot4059 ..and as slow and vulnerable as the Me323. Just re-read the manga and also re-watched a few Ghibli movies lately... :)

[@squillz8310]

Awesome video!

[@kubanskiloewe]

did Howard Hughes knew about this plane when he started with his Hercules project ?

[@pmwebber22]

A thousand thanks for pronouncing "Messerschmitt" correctly, something most (non-German) people seem unable to do.

[@billyelliot4141]

Great video mate. You need to slow down a bit but this was excellent. You are up there with mark felton. Great attention to detail.

[@michaellinner7772]

You may not like the nazis but one thing that can be said about them is they were unbelievably inventive. They would literally try anything to see if it worked or not.

[@conradkenneth5216]

Greetings from the international space station!

[@AlfredoCalalang]

I only seen this on books,scale model and articles, your presentation is great, educational and interesting historical documentary ❤ thanks Sir!

[@jamesm568]

It still amazes me just how powerful the Germans were.

[@kcharles8857]

They were not powerful. They were technically innovative, militarily aggressive, intellectually insular, optimistic to a degree verging on fantasy, and led by a charismatic but myopic authoritarian. The USA was powerful, the Soviet Union was powerful. At best, the Germans in WW2, were just staring into an abyss they knew was there but as a nation simply said "Fuck it... Lets jump"

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@kcharles8857 they fought the combined might of the world's greatest powers. It took everything they had to put those tough bastards down. They were so powerful that there are still bases in their country today to keep them in check. That's power.

[@kcharles8857]

@@olliefoxx7165 By 1943 most of the German military leadership knew the war was lost. A mere two years after the US became involved, and the USSR had time to breathe out. After that, a singularly brave people whipped by fear of retribution, and spurious loyalty to a regime built of fantasy and hate, fought to the end. 2 more years of not a hope in hell. Death, destruction, rape, pillage and ultimately, total dependence on the benign gift of whatever the victors decided to grant a vanquished and utterly defeated nation. Of course they were tough. Still are I guess. But powerful?

[@olliefoxx7165]

@@kcharles8857 yes powerful. Why does the US and Britain still have bases there long after the cold war is over? Russia isn't a threat to Europe at this time. The bases are there bc the US and Britain spent an enormous amount of money, resources and men in WW 2 beating them. They were so hard to beat and the effort to beat them was so much that they can't risk them unleashed again. Today they are more an economic power than military. Even now they exert substantial power and they are constrained by guilt. The Germans are something else to be sure, not ordinary people. The guilt is put on them for different reasons but mostly to control their nature. One can't have a confident German with no guilt. That's a dangerous creature to some. A creature that might get completely out of hand. See, powerful. What other nation must be dealt with like this?

[@GHustle4]

K Charles the is was not powerful cut that shit out!!! America couldn’t beat germany or Russia by itself! Germany had smart dumb leads who put war on both fronts instead of teaming up with Russia America would have been done and over Pearl Harbor proved that now imagine them making land fall on American soil get off of your high horse America is NOT a powerhouse it is the worlds botch and China owns that as TODAY

[@brycepeterson1969]

This thing is massive

[@CT9905.]

Damn German's had everything and still lost the War!!!

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Everything except resources, an intelligent leader, manufacturing capacity, air defense... They had some goofy ideas, sure, but they rushed them into service before they were ready because they were desperate, not because they were geniuses.

[@moritzk3004]

@Kingnotail the germans had the most advanced atomic program in the begining of the war, and there were multiple prototypes for 4 engine bombers, and even some long range jetbombers

[@moritzk3004]

But tbh its good that they've lost, i don't think that i'd like to live under a nazi dictatorship

[@moritzk3004]

@Kingnotail because they got cancelled by leadership

[@jacobhultberg8596]

@@Justanotherconsumer oh shut the fuck up

[@robertspence831]

In Rudel's book he describes towing cargo gliders east with their JU-87's. No mention of them on the retreat back to Germany.

[@jx4storm838]

This must be the inspiration for the ACA-01 GAW from the anime series Gundam.

[@just_tyr273]

or the tolmekian bumblecrows of Nausica in the valley of the wind

[@kevinkek469]

Nice vid

[@AtheistOrphan]

‘British Browfighter’ 😂

[@willycanuck]

you can see C-130 heritage in this...amazing!

[@Apfelbaum187]

use the metric system

[@joeycook6526]

Great video, but hard to watch with the no less than FIVE commercials interrupting a ten minute video.

[@billchessell8213]

Current thinking on KZbin is to drive everybody back to cable.

[@nialldoyle8206]

Got to love the French building German engines. Lol

[@marcconyard5024]

I seem to recall reading years ago that the encounter between an Me323 and Beaufighters resulted in one possibly two Beaufighters being shot down by the 323's defensive guns.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Beaufighters had the unenviable record of more being lost to accidents than hostile action during a conflict

[@billryland6199]

Get rid of the long ads & I'll watch your videos.

[@andrewmcphee8965]

Love your work, always interesting. Thank you!

[@ianlevy8765]

Thanks. Beaufighter is pronounced Bo’fighter.

[@galaxyproductions2076]

This channel has me checking to see if I have accidently left on 2x speed

[@stoneblue1795]

Polish spitfires? ~ I picture a guy trying to light his own farts.

[@thecraziestcanuck]

Bravo Sir.....🤣

[@williamqhite9192]

what you shit fire

[@dunruden9720]

@rommel Polish, not polish. They had a much higher kill rate than anyone else in the RAF.

[@thetreblerebel]

I like the Dark Skies run of docs going. I'm sure theres lots of secret secret aviation stuff I'd love to watch

[@mikewest5529]

Those pilots must have had special pants to fly those huge slow targets around!! Good luck sir! What a whale

[@JungleYT]

Would be neat to see one of these reproduced again... Like the ME 262 Jet replica...

[@Don.Eliciano.962]

I knew it that it was a Germany plane just like the Great Gustav.

[@kng_drripmd5579]

Amazing content for a new channel. Good luck 👍

[@SUPERHEAVYBOOSTER]

The Germans were so epic.

[@chrisshelswell3222]

March_Of_The_Titans Book not that epic, they lost ;)

[@SUPERHEAVYBOOSTER]

Chris Shelswell brothers turned on brothers. The loss of life is sickening.

[@GHustle4]

Just imagine if they actually won america would be worse then what it already is 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@SUPERHEAVYBOOSTER]

GHustle4 worse how?

[@GHustle4]

March_Of_The_Titans Book I mean you name it RACIsm let’s start there and they would do worse with their concentration camps 🤷🏾‍♂️ HELLO

[@sebsorsomethin]

you should do a vid on the 0-2 skymaster there is like nothing about them in the scenes of videos

[@gruenherz54]

The plane was perfect, there was nothing wrong with the plane itself and even the concept. The problem was the lack of fighters to protect it. The ME323 flying to Africa were exclusively intercepted because of Ultra (deciphering Enigma) and like any transport, they were easy prey to fighters. Remarkably, the powered version was very reliable and easy to fly. Imagine a C5 or a C17 or a Hercules intercepted by MIG15, even the old MIG15 would dispatch either of these with ease just using its cannons. Are those transports bad airplanes?

[@jimstrict-998]

Uh, word has it that the unpowered-controls were very heavy. Not easy to fly.

[@franzliszt4257]

@@jimstrict-998 Fundamentally correct. The 323 had aerodynamic control assist tabs that allowed for fairly easy control under normal circumstances. "Normal" meaning NOT violent maneuvering to avoid fighter attacks. The weapon that took down the 323 was ULTRA, there was nothing wrong with the design. The air war against the Western Allies cost Germany the war, but they had no choice, without Germany and German industry any fighting in the East was meaningless.

[@ageprodeutschland1660]

the factory wich produced the steel tubes for the fuselage, MANNESMANN, can be seen from the roof of my house. also the house was built for the technical directors of the company between the great wars.

[@shirleybalinski4535]

There was a Mannesmann tube factory in a city close to where I lived growing up in N.Michigan. I knew they were a German firm but, didn't know the history!!

[@erics3596]

WAAAAAAY too many ads for a 10 min video - take this as constructive criticism if you want more actual views

[@trueduckcommander]

Eric S I only got 1 ad. How many did you get?

[@erics3596]

@@trueduckcommander 4 intrusive 30 second ones and 4 overlays - way excessive

[@gibbo9089]

2 ads for me!

[@erics3596]

@@gibbo9089 yay for you

[@RailgunCat]

None for me, weird. Thanks for taking all of my ads!