The M1911 vs AIRCRAFT: The Pistol with a CONFIRMED Air to Air Kill

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[@AnimarchyHistory]

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[@RoamingAdhocrat]

I will not install anything, but (genuinely) glad you're getting sponsored!

[@alexanderflack566]

I recall something else that should probably get an honorable mention. It was years ago, so I don't recall the source, but I remember reading an account of a group of Maquis, along with (I think) SAS soldiers and an OSS agent, shooting down a Focke-Wulf fw 190 with a Bren. I wish I could tell you the source, but it's been too long and I think that it was a library book rather than one that I own.

[@mattmopar440]

A Pig Promised me a SU-57 Video where is it !!!!

[@Autobotmatt428]

I would love your take on Masters of the Air when it comes out

[@mattmopar440]

@@Autobotmatt428 probably the first TV show I've been excited about in a decade

[@TheQuyman]

I once met a fellow who was a pilot in Vietnam. He claimed he had been stot down twice, the first was with a shotgun and the second with a rock. And it should be noted, this conversation took place inside a B17 at an air museum.

[@tobikenobi7364]

God bless America 🇺🇸

[@4EyedRocker]

Was he sharing the rock with another pilot?

[@turbotoka9426]

@@4EyedRockernice

[@digitaal_boog]

I need more context.

[@TheQuyman]

@@digitaal_boog , yeah me too, he never said how he figured out that these were the weapons that brought down him down. Or even what he was flying at the time.

[@emm4rmstrong]

Another honorable mention to the C-46 Commando, an unarmed transport plane, that is said to have shot down a KI-43 with a BAR. The pilot Cpt. Wally Gayda stuck the BAR out of his window and shot the full magazine at the fighter.

[@ComradePhoenix]

Actual gangster shit.

[@bagobones9891]

​@@ComradePhoenix a fly by? Maybe

[@John-qv5ux]

Was Cpt. Gayda from Chicago by chance?

[@arandomboot598]

I fucking rolled at “anything with wheels is ours” and the slideshow of German shit with American stars 10/10 😂

[@vaclav_fejt]

This should be a Fast&Furious prequel.

[@kizzmequik70four]

Remember friends: 9mm may kill the body, but .45 ACP kills the soul. This obviously applies whether the target is on the ground, or on an airplane beside you.

[@carlosalvendia5860]

You gotta make sure they don't come back as a lich

[@rifleman2c997]

There was a game called Mercenaries that had you stealing everything that moves. 83rd division beat them there first.

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

Mercenaries stole the idea from the 83rd Division

[@davidty2006]

Im now wondering if the 83rd took the idea of reusing civilian vehicles off the british home guard. Just skipping the extensive modifications...

[@garrisonryberg2568]

Loved mercenaries2

[@regionalearth301]

No one makes me more proud to be an American than Animarchy talking about our storied history of mad lads 😂

[@sologamer3122]

Amen my fellow America

[@CoffeeAndPaul]

You aren't really American until you go to the true American church AKA the gun range. True story, I dated a pretty Vietnamese lady for a time when we were both running track & field in college at the University of New Mexico. On a Weird Date Night arranged by UNM Student Government we went to a gun range together. She shot a small handgun, a .22, for the first time in her life. She shot WAY better than I did, & I'd been shooting since I was 8. By the end of the date she was shooting .45 ACP & she didn't want to leave 😭. Today she is an ISSF competition shooting coach in Vietnam, & she is the first woman to owner-operate a gun range & a womens' semi-professional shooting & self-defense club in Vietnam. She married a Vietnamese pentathlete after they met in Hanoi at a pentathlon. They were mutually impressed at each other's shooting abilities 😍😍.

[@garrettviewegh9028]

I’d only known the name Enterprise from Star Trek, and I’m not even a Trekkie. I’d discovered that name from the show. Imagine my shock while watching Battle: 360 that this legendary ship survived as much as she did. But Animarchy’s essay on The Grey Ghost, truly made me proud to be an American. To know the legendary Enterprise was American, and all she’d done, and sacrificed for our freedoms. How much she was loved by her crew. Probably one of the most entertaining and knowledgeable videos I’ve seen on history. Made me realize why she was/is a legend, and her being op and as badass as she is in Azur Lane and Wow, isn’t just exaggeration.

[@OutsideTheTargetDemographic]

"Space Shotguns for use against Bears" is one hell of a heavy metal band name.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Space Shotguns: Bear Hunters

[@theduchyofmilanball3157]

Siberia do be rough

[@sologamer3122]

Thats tuesday in florida

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

*red alert soundtrack starts*

[@endlessbacontreats9916]

the heli gunner at the end being woods AND having a “tactically acquired ak” that he managed to hit a perfect shot with is awesome

[@ISawABear]

You missed the guy in WWI that almost downed an aircraft from his Observation balloon with a US Remington Model 8, C&Rsenal described it in their US Remington Model 8 episode.

[@PfalzD3]

Ok, no shit. That second story with the Storch. I thought it was going to be the story of my Friends dad who brought down a Fieseler with his pistol whilst in his LN-2. However, He didn't shoot it down. Rather he brandished his Big Iron and the Germans surrendered. This was in '45 and these guys were looking to surrender to any American they could. So, they surrendered to Lt. O'Leary. His son James showed me the photo of his dad accepting the Germans surrender after they landed. As a result, We recreated this pose at an air show in Reading PA. James in place of his dad.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

Neat! 😊

[@hossahunter22]

Was this featured on the history channel?

[@PfalzD3]

No. This was a first hand account.@@hossahunter22

[@anthonyhayes1267]

Fun fact: If you own an FN M-1922 with waffenamts on it, there's a good chance it spent some time in a cockpit. Most of the examples made under occupation went to the Luftwaffe.

[@timothyroush7589]

Some Anarchist Australian: (Releases Video on US Firearms in use on Aircraft) Me: "My Country, tis'th thee. Sweet land of Liberty" 🇺🇲

[@DwarfElvishDiplomacy]

Ive been watching your content for a while but seing you in the Hippie Dippy explaining the american budget to clueless americans while Adam Something and Vaush backing you up was surreal. This video is a nice Bonus. I once shot a guy in Rise of flight with a pistol. He lived on the server for 9 hour a day, booming and zooming with his Fokker. I got him while sitting in an Airco DH2 and he got so mad that he ragequitted, rejoined to flame, disconnected again , came back online ,joined my team and then tried to teamkill me for the rest if the evening. Still my proudest achivement

[@1977Yakko]

I knew I chose right when I got a 1911 for my first firearm more than 20 years ago. I still have that Kimber Custom. Good pew pew!

[@multiversepatriot3148]

0:05 Aaaaaand new desktop wallpaper, yes please.

[@briancox2721]

Ok boys and girls, open your hymn books to the Marty Robbins chapter and sing along: To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

so in Seething Pirate Brian, when Tom Hanks is shooting a tank with an M1911, it _was_ his fire that made it explode - not the P-47 that flew over seconds later?

[@tylerthompson5859]

23:25 just imagine that. You're a German aviator just doing your job, flying a plane, wondering what your next mission will be.. Then these two angry boys pull up right beside you, open their side doors, and commit a flyby on you before you even know what happened.

[@Orieni]

The most impressive thing about that Biggles movie was the delightful Francesca Gonshaw.

[@jim99west46]

My dads B25 sdn was flying over Brazil on way to West Africa. Flying low over the jungle to sight see one of the B25s was struck by a spear in the nose getting the bombadier a purple heart.

[@TheRedneckGamer1979]

You would think during ww1 you would hear more about shotguns being used by the pilots and camera spotters, but you basically never do. Double 00 buck seems like it would be a good choice.

[@richardarriaga6271]

Probably scatters off target too easily given how fast the planes are going and how little mass they have.

[@r.shanethompson7933]

They called that quad fifty caliber mount the "meat-chopper".

[@DaremoKamen]

The storch story was rendered in Air Force magazine's " There I Was" comic strip. I can still recall the end where the storch pilot says to his observer, " Und you, you dumbkopf, mit a machine gun yet!"

[@IndependentObserver]

0:15 A landwhale on a mobility scooter, eating fried chicken by the buckets?

[@chasecash1363]

The worlds first ariel drive by shooting lmao

[@garrettviewegh9028]

*Big Iron starts to play* German pilots: *sweats nervously*

[@ComfortsSpecter]

16:25 “Or had He.” Your Honor I Don’t Care

[@sr7129]

Oh Falcon’s gonna love this one.

[@CrispyPratt]

I can only imagne the exchange the german observer plane crew had with the Americans after they got captured

[@garrettviewegh9028]

It’s actually kind of interesting. Weaboos romanticize Samurai and Ninja, while Westaboos romanticize Cowboys/Gunslingers, and Gangsters from the roaring 20s. But when you get down to it, the history of these figures is much deeper. Including the weapons they both use. The Thompson, M1911, katana, ninja stars, Colt pistols, all have many stories that define their history. It’s really interesting how much Japan and America borrow from each other. Inspiring each other, while that curiosity inspires both to visit each other’s country. Some foreign tourists, I’ve seen from videos, are even shocked with American guns. With how different they can be.

[@bobolobocus333]

"Yes, they stole a BF-109"

[@robinpage2730]

That second story is the most American GTA shit ever 😂

[@Dat-Mudkip]

I found Flyboy to be an entertaining movie, even if it had moments that were... _less than plausible..._ "Yes. We shall have an aircraft somehow crash land into No Man's Land in such a way that leaves the pilot pinned but mostly uninjured. Then have ANOTHER pilot come out of f--king nowhere to help him, only he can't move wood and cloth (for some reason?). We then have a French soldier cross into No Man's Land to help them, only for that Frenchman to _immediately die_ so that we can give the character access to a shovel to amputate his buddy's hand to save him. Oh, and then have the plane f--king explode afterwards, just for good measure!"

[@Full_Otto_Bismarck]

God damn do I love the 1911, my all time favorite pistol.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Too late! Already seen flyboys, sorry!

[@BullDeerAryu_]

In the words of TheScottishKoala: “Shot of the century, right there.”

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

My wife is an American born Czech/Irish girl, so when we went to the Czech Republic to visit her family there after we got married, they nicknamed me "Cowboy" since I wear my ropers everywhere (as they keep my feet dry when it rains) and was born and raised in Texas, as was my wife. They really went far and above to make me feel welcomed and part of the family, especially catering to my dietary needs as I have Crohn's Disease. We married in 2016 and visited in 2018, and to this day they call me "Cowboy" rather than my first name.

[@stephenpatrick5802]

Of course two Americans cross Drive-bys and flight. 😂

[@sean270wn3]

I was playing new vegas while watching this and got so confused

[@awesomehpt8938]

There are bears in space?! Wow!!!

[@clc2328]

no but there are bears in Siberia where they might land.....

[@adamminichino5731]

While it didn’t have any effect beyond bewildering the fuck out of Japanese sailors, during the Battle Off Samar, some American pilots flew by the bridges of various warships, opened their canopy, and took shots at them with their sidearm.

[@blazelightzero595]

When the Battlefield theme kicks in

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

And the Arizona ranger with a big iron on hiiiiiiiiip....

[@Killerean]

In case you really wonder what I want from a mobile game, I want it to be not present on my phone. It has enough distractions as is, it doesn't need another attention seeker.

[@PfalzD3]

Flyboys is the worst. Now I'm with you on all your , well warranted, Criticisms. However, The Lafayette Escadrille did fly Nieuports (11 to17) almost exclusively. We didn't get Spads until the U.S. officially declared war and sent over 'Proper' American squadrons. Remember, I said Almost exclusively.

[@lynx8779]

Nailed the into I have to say

[@JS-qk4jp]

Nice video whats that song that starts around 8:45

[@Mrtroop-bd3xu]

2:10 nooo nooo why not again not raid get out of my head

[@ariffetorlase9783]

4:14 if i remember correctly this wasn't a bad gun.

[@zoeyamin3516]

9:38 God grant everyone the confidence to pronounce things like a Brit.

[@emilioi.valdez6680]

Hey Animarchy, if you have the time, could you tell the story of how a steam train "shot" down a German fighter plane during WW2? It's kinda funny how it happens.

[@michaelimbesi2314]

This was good enough to earn a like, even if you did confuse the desert for the prairie.

[@warrenfoster8535]

Bruh, the fastest aircraft of ww1 had a top speed of 135mph. 150mph is a massive exaggeration, most planes hit 90mph

[@AnimarchyHistory]

Not if you factor in True Airspeed at 10,000 feet :)

[@clc2328]

average closing speed dummy.......

[@Darren4352]

You should have included the story of the A1 skyraider (Spad) that shot down a MIG.

[@Nmille98]

The A1 skyraider and the Spad are two very different planes. Plus, the A1 used 20mm cannon, not a .45

[@KristianKumpula]

What I want out of a mobile game is no scummy monetisation, which definitely rules out Raid and probably all the others as well. This is a very disgusting choice of sponsor.

[@thatoneoshawott5826]

Boys bust out the Marty Robins memes.

[@hossahunter22]

What about the .44 magnum p-51 kill?

[@cadefreeman1112]

Did you really put big iron in the background 😂

[@vaclav_fejt]

Flyboys is a very entertaining adventure film. In Czech it has a very naive sounding dub and the title "Knights of the Sky". The Red Baron film from the same era is boring, but at least a bit more accurate. It's a shame that for a hood WWI air combat film you have to go far into 20th century. With all their technical limitations.

[@elricofmelnibone425]

RIP GONZO BOZO!!!

[@93MANIAC]

Nice video I was already familiar with the first two stories because I have been watching allot of WW2 videos on KZbin specially the once by Mark Felton who was recommended to me by my dad who is a massive WW2 history buff but the third story was something that I did not know about and yeah a helicopter shooting down a biplane is metal as fuck and I'm very excited to see your next aviation warfare video and I also hope that you can make a video about the Soviet Space Shotgun because that is one of the most nuts things that I have hard about for a good while also I'm very excited to hear more about your book about the 83rd Infantry Division

[@dimitrijensk2845]

So who won the race to Berlin? The 83rd or the 5th?

[@markalbert9011]

(sigh) All the German aircraft were red in Flyboys because all the Germans flying Tri-Planes didn't make for easy enough identification for the American audience. (sigh) Don't you know anything? I'll bet you didn't know that pilots who shot down Japanese planes at at Pearl Harbor also went on the "Doolittle Raid". Well you would if you watched the right movies.

[@michaellewis1545]

We Americans may not have invented the fighter plane and guns but we d@mn near perfect them. Yes fight me

[@Ggb129]

The .45 colt is the best pistol ever made. Nothin but steel on mah hip boay! I carry one every day gobbless

[@dougiedrever7168]

150 mph in first war?

[@clc2328]

closing speeds

[@dougiedrever7168]

@@clc2328 be lucky at that

[@Maddoktor2]

BEARS IN SPACE!! 0.0

[@BuckarooBoya]

The ragtag circus is very American

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

Ah the ole soviet trick.

[@mecadragoon]

do it no ballz XD

[@razorka1293]

cool

[@dun0790]

Probably a story out there somewhere of a russian throwing his handgun at a fighter 😅

[@clc2328]

don't you mean binoculars?😆

[@John-qv5ux]

@@clc2328 Admiral Rozhetvensky standing on top of a Pe-8 throwing binoculars at a Bf-109 while calling the Tu-2 flying next to them 'the lecherous sl*t'

[@mercenarygundam1487]

Soooo a real life Battlefield moment?

[@treeshakertucker5840]

How the hell does Dwayne Francis not have a Wikipedia page?

[@NutjobGTO]

We need to correct one very important error at the end. This ends the story of the Americans and their handguns... _For now._

[@DomyTheMad420]

man i SURE hope this isn't about that ONE mythical dude that is the only one in recorded history with this claim to fame. y'kno since it's been debated ever since that "nah he didn't, other factors were at play. I'd bet anything that pistol did not down that plane." I've seen both sides of the argument; it is very likely just a good myth.

[@isaac6077]

Great video

[@mjfan653]

Honestly, flyboys was a good story. If you think of it as fiction, like star wars and clockwork orange. A good story not to be confused with real life.

[@RoFKillaBacon]

Lazerpig snitched on ya su57 vid, cough it up

[@dougiedrever7168]

go do a vid on the d day dodgers

[@LostShipMate]

Lafayette Escadrille used Nieuports, primarily. Nieuport 11's at the start, then some Spad Vll's, then more Nieuport 17's. Oddly enough that's one of the few accurate parts of that movie(Flyboys). Could have done without the worthless romance plot and kamikaze zeppelin shenanigans though.

[@falcorusticolus4360]

I thought you were going to mention an incident I saw on another documentary. The story starts at 13:10. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnWYi6eOgKukn7M

[@casematecardinal]

The ineffectiveness of pistols in areial combat had far less to do with their size and the inherent shitiness of their aircraft especially in the case of something like the 1911 and far more to do with things like the fact that they used conical bullets which were already more affected by things like wind and gravity compounded by the low pressure and velocity nature of pistols meant the range was terrible, accuracy abysmal. Essentially there were to many forces acting on the bullet so even if you shot it perpendicular to yourself at a target going parallel to you at the same speed there were far too many forces acting on that bullet to achieve much of anything and thats ignoring the pitiful capacity and rate of fire. So while I agree they were poor for arriel combat the reasons why are different.

[@heroeacemoon1672]

I swear to fucking god if I had a dime for how many times a American army or Marine did a drive by I would have two dimes ya I have it but it fucking happened two times not once two even cops do it the drive by is the American way

[@DTinkerer]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@Ph03nix1]

Sigh… as if the Fudds needed more fodder to ride the Lord’s caliber bandwagon…

[@pigeon.and.pigeon]

When soviet aircraft video?

[@abrandenburg10]

Real missed opportunity to not play Proud to be an American when telling the story of the air to air drive by shooting. Only proper use of that song ever

[@chrisamon4551]

I mean, I’m sure it’s been tried…

[@McNubbys]

...."The best Westerns ever made..." I am genuinely asking this and I don't mean this as offense, other countries make westerns?!?!

[@AnimarchyHistory]

The best westerns were made in Italy! Spaghetti Westerns. Many of Clint Eastwoods greatest movies were directed by an Italian director Sergio Leone. The most famous being “The Good the Bad and The Ugly”

[@JimmyTwitcher]

Flyboys took place in a time before the US entered the war when the Americans in the Lafayette Escadrille were flying Nieuport 11. Its a crap movie, but them not flying Spads isn't one of the reasons.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

The Lafayette Escadrille flew the SPAD VII

[@JimmyTwitcher]

@AnimarchyHistory Yes they did, but later. I believe the movie takes place at the very start of American volunteer engagement. This is off the top of my head, though. I'm willing to be instructed if I got it wrong.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

@@JimmyTwitcher At the end of the movie the US joins the war. So I am 99% sure it starts in the latter half of 1916. Which means they definitely had Spad VII's available to them.

[@ThePumpkinRot]

An airborne driveby.

[@joshuabryant9845]

Ngl, Flyboys is a guilty pleasure. Not an accurate movie and super cheesy. I love dogfights tho and cant help it

[@gabe61willys]

Doesnt get more american than a 1911

[@JBowman-ps2ri]

God Bless 🇺🇸 & our 2nd Amendment! 😂

[@dun0790]

I think I've watched too much of your content 😅 watching sisu its a good movie but i keep getting distracted by the soviet t-5/60? Marked up in german stuff

[@DaYemenball]

Not to burst any raid fans bubble, but Warthunder Mobile has much better graphics. The tanks are incredibly good and so is the terain and props. Just don’t coment about the map size.

[@nufy08]

Be honest your waiting for the azur lane sponsorship.

[@isaacklein533]

As an American, I thank you for telling me (and everyone else) what happens when America decides to do gangster shit.