The Most INSANE Fighter Pilot Feats From Each Major WW2 Combatant Nation

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The stories of six extraordinary fighter pilots from World War II, each showing Medal of Honor-worthy bravery.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:52 Sir Douglas Bader (United Kingdom)
6:50 Franz von Werra (Germany)
10:02 Nikolai Gulayev (Soviet Union)
13:04 Tetsuzō Iwamoto (Japan)
16:25 Saburō Sakai (Japan)
19:55 James Howard (United States)
23:08 Knights in the Air

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@TheFront 2 ай бұрын

@beepboop204 2 ай бұрын

needs more Canadians

@USS_Grey_Ghost 2 ай бұрын

Robert S. Johnson and his flight all the way back to base which his plane having become a bullet sponge and managed to count over 200 bullet and shrapnel holes with out even moving after he got out

@sebulbableves 2 ай бұрын

I VE HAVEN T SEEN MY FAMILY SINCE I STARTED.

@wadswwwwasdw Ай бұрын

Why don't you make videos of the countless atrocities committed by America?

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Douglas Bader while in German captivity met German Ace Adolf Galland and they struck up a life long friendship. It was Galland that arranged for Bader to get his leg back. And they would stay friends after the WWII ended. In fact Galland was one of the pall bearers at Bader's Funeral. A great friendship if you ask me.

@Squirrelmind66 2 ай бұрын

And I think that when Galland was taken prisoner at war’s end, some members of the RAF sought him out and gave him a hero’s welcome.

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

@@Squirrelmind66---Nope this happened earlier in the war. Just after the Battle of Britain was over and the RAF was trying to hit targets in France.

@70baja 2 ай бұрын

@@brokenbridge6316 Galland surrendered to the Americans in May of 1945

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

@@70baja ---Well Okay. But I was still talking about earlier in the war.

@70baja 2 ай бұрын

@@brokenbridge6316 I understand. I was pointing out that Squirrelmind66 was describing a separate event that happened at the end of the war. Sorry for the confusion

@TheWarmachine375 2 ай бұрын

Usually when every surviving pilot returns from the battlefield, they get pulled out to teach the newbies how to fly like they do.

@USS_Grey_Ghost 2 ай бұрын

That was primarily in US and Britain

@unselling1822 2 ай бұрын

It wasn't only the English and the Americans Every Nation did it. it's how you train good Pilots

@USS_Grey_Ghost 2 ай бұрын

@@unselling1822 I said Primarily

@bkjeong4302 2 ай бұрын

Only the WAllies did this. The Axis and the USSR mostly didn’t, in part because they couldn’t afford to (lack of fuel for training being a big one in the case of the Axis). There’s a reason Japanese pilot quality dropped steeply from 1943 onwards.

@huntermad5668 2 ай бұрын

For USSR, i think early on they need to do that but eventually they return some veteran pilots back to teach And they didn't have to push their pilot teachers to the frontline so the quality actually improve with lessons from the front.

@michaelbatson1879 2 ай бұрын

The co-writer of "Samurai", Martain Caiden, not only was an aviation histrion, but also wrote science fiction. He wrote a book entitled "Cyborg" in which the 1970s TV series "The Six Million Dollar Man" was based on.

@benpurcell4935 Ай бұрын

Hans-Joachim Marseille deserves a shout out. The man took on an entire squadron of aces and won. Note probably not by himself but with a wingman.

@brokenbridge6316 2 ай бұрын

The idea of the Knight of the Sky is faded but not forgotten.

@RepublicThunderbolt 2 ай бұрын

everyone remembers James Howard's achievements but everyone forgets Richard Bong and David McCampbells achievements. They have stories of their own.

@johnryder1713 2 ай бұрын

My personal favorite of an insane feat was Lt Royce Priest landing his P51 and Picking up his Squadrons XO after he crash landed near Antwerp in late 1944

@donofon1014 Күн бұрын

That was SOOOOO INSANE ..... not lame ... but sooo CHILL. Never even got committed to an asylum.

@johnryder1713 14 сағат бұрын

@@donofon1014 It was one of the bravest actions in war I ever heard anyway

@michaelandreipalon359 2 ай бұрын

Would have loved becoming an ascended fanboy to these flyboys (and the rare flygirls, like those Soviet biplane Night Witches), but alas, my weak eyesight, average reflexes and maths, and the lack of a necessary global war for the time being have denied me that gloried right.

@kennithchapman9689 2 ай бұрын

Out of all these pilots only one flew with no legs. Douglas Bader👍

@PSPaaskynen 2 ай бұрын

The most remarkable feat by a Dutch fighter pilot during the short battle of the Netherlands occurred when a Fokker D.XXI pilot attacked a pair of Me110s and allegedly managed to shoot one down, but his aircraft was subsequently shot up so badly by the other Me110 that the Dutch pilot decided to bail out. However, when he jettisoned his cockpit canopy it crashed into the pursuing Me110, bringing it down too (as far as I know, he only got credit for the first one). No longer under immediate threat, the Dutch pilot decided to try and return to base, only to be shot down by Dutch ground fire on the way there. He survived the crash, but was severely wounded.

@TheWarmachine375 2 ай бұрын

0:01 War Thunder - infamous for having classified military documents of their combat vehicles and aircraft.

@IantheKid125 2 ай бұрын

Thats crazy how Von Werra escaped and made it to the US. Badass

@Tenzinglion Ай бұрын

I found this channel separaty to geetsly, only realised after i watched one after another.

@grimassassin9722 Ай бұрын

You sound exactly like Star Wars KZbinr. Their name is Geetsly. Is weird as I didn’t expect to find a ww2 channel who’s narrator sounds exactly like Geetsly

@Wc4guys 2 ай бұрын

make one vid on hans ulrich rudel

@jaydeister9305 2 ай бұрын

Those of us whose dads went to ww2, read paperback books(in high school) of these noteworthy fighter pilots.

@TheWarmachine375 2 ай бұрын

Maintaining Air Superiority is important on the battlefield after all.

@Jason-fm4my 2 ай бұрын

I admit I only watched this because it sounded like the Italians would be featured and I couldn't think of any Notable Italian fighters. Shame.

@rodneypayne4827 2 ай бұрын

Visconti -26 kills Niclot-7.5 kills over Malta Tarantola- 10+1 in Spain Drago-11 kills

@jaysonchilvers8271 2 ай бұрын

Yes do a part 2? French, italian, finnish, czech, polish, nz, australian, chinese, etc?

@vanjat2850 2 ай бұрын

What is the source for the story of James Howard? Story I know is completely different to the one in video. From what i know bombers were returning from a run and he leading 43 planes was going to shake off the pursuing fighters. Spotting an approaching group all of his squadron went to attack without order, he magaed to signal to 2-3 of them and they aborted, then the fray happened wiht those pilots falling behind because of dogfights they were involved in leaving Howard to fend the attackers alone. Also, his MGs jammed all at once after he pulled a high G manouver to shake a bf109 off and he did not exactly fight on, for there were not many planes after that, i know that he did take pot shots from that one MGs to scare a bf110 (or ju 88) away.

@nick4754 2 ай бұрын

The snail comes for us all

@douglasrice8201 2 ай бұрын

I was named after Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader and my middle name Mitchell came from R J Mitchell the designer of the Spitfire

@FatAgnus03 Ай бұрын

So sad you don't speak about French pilot who have joined the FAFL (Force Aérienne Francaise Libre) like Pierre Clostermann (He wrote "le grand cirque" a nice book about is life in the RAF) who fighted for the RAF or the Normandie-Niemen squadron who have fought in USSR.

@Hosscoller 2 ай бұрын

That was a P-47N

@SeanDahle 2 ай бұрын

The real top guns

@castironskilletgranny 2 ай бұрын

Jay Zeamer.

@warmonger8799 Ай бұрын

@paigeireland3731 2 ай бұрын

algarithm

@paigeireland3731 2 ай бұрын

re releas this with title goat piloits of ww2 .this was brilint u diserv more .

@paigeireland3731 2 ай бұрын

recomend aaa+

@amadeusamwater 2 ай бұрын

Sakai's book is on KZbin as a video series. The AI voice they use is terrible, but the story is interesting, especially the part about his flight back after he got hurt.

@TyroneSayWTF 2 ай бұрын

Tetsuzō Iwamoto's (Japan) *alleged* 202 victories seem highly dubious - especially since 87 of this total were supposedly against vastly superior F4U Corsairs (48 count) and F6F Hellcats (39 count) fighters. All sides during the war tended to exaggerate combat victories and results with the enemy - and I suspect this is a particularly egregious example.

@rodneypayne4827 2 ай бұрын

Says an American. The artists of inflated ego.

@TyroneSayWTF 2 ай бұрын

@@rodneypayne4827 Actually shit-for-brains (@rodneypayne4827), I'm Canadian

@MichaelGentry-le9nj 2 ай бұрын

Iwamoto “ could” have gotten those high counts cause: 1) there were a LOT of inexperienced US pilots going into combat 2) large numbers of US and allied fighters in the air… TEARING APART Japanese air assets ( far more US and Australian and New Zealand and British aces in the PTO than Japanese for a REASON)