The Most Lethal Airplane Hunting the Seas

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@obiemichaels9675 5 ай бұрын

When I was a kid my old next-door neighbour Claude Pope his name was, had been a navigator on the Bristol Beaufort during World War II. I still have the clock out of one that he gave me when I was a kid. Rest in peace hero.

@guaporeturns9472 4 ай бұрын

That’s very cool. What a great neighbor. Would be kinda cool to find his kids/grandkids and gift it to them… would probably love it

@jackywhite880 4 ай бұрын

I had an "uncle" who flew a Beaufighter in WW2. The quotes are because I'm not even sure we were related, though I hope we were. In those days you couldn't keep calling someone "Mister" forever, but as a child Christian names weren't polite either, so many people close to the family became uncles. He flew just about everything in that war, but he always preferred the Beaufighter. Not an air superiority fighter, he admitted - but 2 seconds in the sights of that impressive weaponry and - as he put it - "Adolf was buggered." He flew some kind of stripped down night fighter version. Had a special name, but I can't remember what it was. He survived the war. Not all of an older generation of my family did. What amazed me, as a young boy crazy about aircraft, I couldn't understand why he walked away and never wanted to board an aeroplane again. Or why he befriended a German POW he'd shot down (who stayed here because - Germany divided - he had nothing to go home to.) I'm 80 - and I understand now.

@aussie6910 4 ай бұрын

My uncle (mum's brother) was an 18yr old gunner in Blenheim's. As a kid I was banned from mentioning WWII around him. Taboo subject. Much later when I found out about their cas. rate I understood.

@aussie6910 4 ай бұрын

@@johnpoulter I was the lucky generation in my family. My 13yrs in Inf. was between wars. Afghanistan changed my son. Not badly, just kicked him up a notch. He has more of a thing for adrenalin now & don't piss him off.

@DavidGreenwood-nu6dd 4 ай бұрын

Hmm,what!

@jackywhite880 4 ай бұрын

@@DavidGreenwood-nu6dd ?????

@robertcamble3543 4 ай бұрын

@@johnpoulter The Beaufighter was so feared by the Japs they nicknamed it"Whispering Death" . I'm curious as to why they gave it that name ?.

@chrisreynolds7164 5 ай бұрын

There is a Beaufort being restored in Caloundra Queensland Australia. Impressive progress has been made, but still a long way to go.

@Frederick-in2rz 3 ай бұрын

Caaloundra is where I saw my first blue ringed octopus, though I went there many times in my childhood

@gattingbowledwarne Ай бұрын

@@Frederick-in2rzI live in Argentina now, but used to love the Sunshine Coast.

@elennapointer701 5 ай бұрын

By the way, in RAF parlance, the squadron numbers are prounounced "Twenty-Two Squadron" and "Forty-Two Squadron" if it's a two-digit name. If there's only one digit, it would be, for example, "Number Four Squadron". Should it be a three-number unit, the numbers are pronounced individually again, i.e. "Six One Seven Squadron" or "Two Four Two Squadron"; ditto for maintainance flights, conversion training units, etc, which often had four-digit numbers. If you ever see an RAF squadron's number, this is the rule that's applied. We're just funny like that.

@christopherrobinson66 5 ай бұрын

This is correct; British Commonwealth squadrons all use cardinal numbers when referencing their flying units. It is the Americans (USN, USMC, USAF) who use ordinal numbers for their flying units. Cheers!

@jameseadie7145 5 ай бұрын

Royal Engineers have squadron s with similar numbering eg 73 sqn would be seven three, however 12 nova scotia squadron is just twelve squadron

@longrider42 4 ай бұрын

I don't think who ever puts these video's together cares too much. I've never seen a response to any comment. Plus I think the commentary is AI based.

@adamwsaxe 3 ай бұрын

Dark SKies gets a LOT wrong.

@tomref4001 3 ай бұрын

@@longrider42 The pronunciation of RAF Leuchars is a bit of a giveaway-should be 'Lookars' nor leeeuuucheeears or whatever 'he' said. 😎🤠

@urbo42 5 ай бұрын

The one in London is actually a Canadian made plane. After the war, Britain scrapped ALL of their planes for the metal. Canadian planes were also sold off, but a bunch found their way to the western prairies where they were sold off to farmers. One of the things to make them more saleable was that they could be bought with a full load of fuel. When Britain came looking for one, they retrieved some of these surplus planes (trees had been growing around them. There is one being restored at the Canadian Warplane Museum at the Mount Hope airport (Hamilton, Ontario) but they are a long way from completing it. Saw a volunteer riveting a panel for it yesterday. That airport also has an operational Lancaster for which you can purchase flights. (About $4000 cdn per person) I was there to have a flight on their Canso (Consolidated PBY). I flew on their Lancaster last year.

@FredScuttle456 3 ай бұрын

Farmers in the UK would buy warplanes in the late 1940s and sell them for scrap. A broomhandle was an essential tool. Farmers would shove the broomhandle into the fuel tanks to guess how much petrol was on board. This was during the era when petrol was strictly rationed. The value of the high-octane aviation fuel exceeded the value of the scrap metal.

@guyh9992 5 ай бұрын

Lord Beaverbrook persuaded Australia to build the Beaufort primarily because it suited British industry even though it was a terrible bombing platform. It went on to do a lot more bombing over New Guinea and surrounds than launching torpedos. Australia learned from this experience. The team subsequently tasked with selecting a fighter and heavy bomber to manufacture undertook its due diligence by touring both the USA and UK. The outcome was the decision to build the P-51 Mustang fighter and Lancaster/Lincoln bomber. Production of the Beaufort did however set Australia up to build the Beaufighter. RAAF is pronounced R-Double A-F.

@amandagordon7932 4 ай бұрын

It's an AI voice, but can probably be trained.

@captaccordion 5 ай бұрын

Very good information in this one, and much less mismatch of the images and dialogue. Very well done!

@brianmerz6070 5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that your videos never contain any click bait, and always deliver solid historical information.

@johndoe-so2ef 5 ай бұрын

Hey, you got jokes....

@LeonardMiyata 5 ай бұрын

At the same time, the video is about the Bristol Beaufort, but the video thumbnail displays the much more powerful Bristol Beaufighter....

@obiemichaels9675 5 ай бұрын

As Sheldon would say ‘sarcasm?’

@dukecraig2402 4 ай бұрын

@@obiemichaels9675 "Oh....ha!"

@sunderwood121 4 ай бұрын

I lived at 58 BeaufortvCescent, RAF Leuchars from 73 ~76. Leuchars is, by the way, pronounced Lewkars. Great programme. Thanks.

@davidmaule3266 4 ай бұрын

Or locally with ch as in loch, not k as in lock.

@jackywhite880 4 ай бұрын

Just loved those Leuchars air shows years ago. Are they still a thing? Kind of academic to me now as my travelling is limited to a trip from recliner to loo. I'm not sure if it was Leuchars or another show (memory!) but back in the day of perestroika I watched a Russian bomber and a couple of fighters fly in. Just mind-shakingly marvellous at that time. Thing is is - the show was halted at one point to scramble a couple of Phantoms to warn off a Russian bomber getting too close our shores. With an identical machine sitting on our runway! Life can get weird sometimes. I got to shake the hand of a Russian pilot - surrounded by another 100 people eager to do the same. He seemed genuinely emotional. He was married with a small boy. I handed him a boxed UK silver Crown in a case to take home to that child. Thing is - right now - I'm not sure I'd shake the hand of his successor. Why are brave people so misused?

@anthonytammer9214 Ай бұрын

My uncle by marriage, flying a Beaufort in Coastal Command, didn't make it back from a mission. His father owned a posh nightclub in London I was told, "The 400 club". I've never been able to learn much about this history of our family.

@damienmaynard8892 5 ай бұрын

RAAF Beauforts in the Pacific? Did a lot of damage to the Japanese merchant shipping! Wildebeest in RNZAF service were sacrificed pointlessly at Singapore. RAAF is said "R double-A F" or "Raff" We're bloody picky too! ;)

@MaxwellMoore-d1u 5 ай бұрын

Hoo Pedantic we Are .

@TomLaios 4 ай бұрын

It is an AI voice.The verbal fuck ups are pretty spectacular

@healthandsafetyoptimizatio2697 Ай бұрын

My father was flight commander Beauforts No 7 squadron out of Townsville against the Japanese his favourite plane was A9-241 but he also flew A9-118, A9-493 and A9-330 He loved the Beaufort and never had a reliability issue

@davidstewart8796 23 күн бұрын

On our local war memorial, Donald Robert Tillin navigator 42 Squadron was flying in a Beaufort torpaedo bomber over Norway on 10 May 1941 when it was hit by flak and he wa killed. The aircraft brought Donald home and crash landed in Yorklshire England. The rest of the crew survived. As always a Great Vide0, thanks

@richardhindman1855 4 ай бұрын

As someone interested in WW2 aircraft for the majority of my life, I enjoy the effort taken to provide interesting and factual information. However, I don’t know if the narration is computer generated or actual ‘human’ narration, but it is annoying as hell. The rapid, near whisper doesn’t really work for me.

@docersatz5228 5 ай бұрын

Somehow doesn't seem to merit the title "The Most Lethal Flying Hunter of the Seas"

@tobyrobson2939 5 ай бұрын

Because it wasn't. But KZbinrs wanting to monetise clicks put hyperbole before accuracy...

@gumpyoldbugger6944 5 ай бұрын

That title could arguable be given to either the Bristol Beaufighter or the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, both of which were used in there maritime attack role very successfully. That being said, the Bristol Beaufort was no slouch, though she did quickly become horrible obsolete.

@gumpyoldbugger6944 5 ай бұрын

@@tobyrobson2939 Especially the Dark team......they were good back in the begining with Dark 5, but now.....meh at best.

@outinthesticks1035 5 ай бұрын

Lots of different planes could carry the title , sbd after midway , b-25 at Bismarck sea , hellcat , beaufighter , even the string bag for its role in sinking the Bismarck

@longrider42 4 ай бұрын

The old Swordfish, now there was a lethal aircraft. Obsolete from the beginning of the way. But served all the way through to the end.

@robertcamble3543 5 ай бұрын

Beaufighters dont get the respect it deserves . Its overshadowed by the mossie .

@carrickrichards2457 4 ай бұрын

'Beaufighters' are another aircraft altogether. The Japanese confusing the two in the Bismark Sea (1943) was an important error!

@UncleJoeLITE 4 ай бұрын

Not in Australian history really. We flew Beaufighters in the Pacific to make stuff go away.

@robertcamble3543 2 ай бұрын

@@UncleJoeLITE The Armament on the Beaufighter is the same as the Mossie. I love that domineering look the beaufighter 's had .

@jackywhite880 Ай бұрын

@@robertcamble3543 Beaufighters, Mosquitoes, whatever. The eye-watering part is that - with hopefully enough pilots - the differences weren't mutually exclusive. They ALL went up. They all came down. Sadly, some came down harder than others. "We shall never forget!" God - so many have forgotten already!

@Wideoval73 4 ай бұрын

Great video, as usual. Very informative as is the norm. Thanks

@fedupgamer9075 5 ай бұрын

That's a Bristol "Beaufighter" in the thumbnail mate.

@darrenwilson8042 5 ай бұрын

all references to Beauforts seem to be supported by images of Beaufighters ......

@Chris-mh3vf 5 ай бұрын

You are lucky it’s not a flying fortress

@IntrospectorGeneral 5 ай бұрын

Swapping images is a 'Dark Skies' tradition. It's done at least once every episode to keep us on our toes.

@gregmacdonald7710 5 ай бұрын

Beaufort is correct!...

@steverichardson6920 5 ай бұрын

The thumbnail definitely a Beaufort not a Beaufighter….

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 5 ай бұрын

Just wanted to say that I’ve been watching your videos since right near the beginning & your voiceover work has substantially improved. Great work, sir🫡

@jagsdomain203 5 ай бұрын

Find saw Beaufort at the United States Air Force museum in Ohio that thing was a lot larger than I had expected

@richardreynolds6398 5 ай бұрын

The Dauntless SBD sank 6 carriers, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers, and several other ships. The A-20's in Soviet hands sank over 100,00 tons of Axis shipping and the B-25 gunships in the New Guinea campaign rained hell down on the Japanese coastal and merchant shipping. Appreciate the Beaufort launched torpedoes and was very effective but it may not have been the "...most lethal...".

@daleirvine7548 4 ай бұрын

You need to look into and be surprised by the tonnage sunk by th3 Fairy Swordfish. Supposedly > 1 million.

@richardreynolds6398 4 ай бұрын

@@daleirvine7548 Yes - surprising, indeed. Much more than the Beaufort, though, and simply makes my point. I was just grabbing a few examples but it is surprising. Thank you.

@AndrewGivens 3 ай бұрын

@@richardreynolds6398 Different mission profiles though. The RAF Beauforts in Home waters had very slim pickings as far as targets went - mostly coastal convoys moving under cover of darkness where possible. Few and far between for mounting strikes. And then the other stuff was the inevitably heavily-defended occasional battleship or cruiser. This is why set-piece raids and mine-laying were much more successful tactics in the Channel and North Sea. The Med was a bit different; a better theatre for it, with constant crossings by Axis convoys.

@seanlander9321 5 ай бұрын

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was the pinnacle of the Australian made version of the Bristol’s, a defeat for the Japanese in the most one sided battle of WWII.

@GIobeCentral 4 ай бұрын

I'm glad you used subtitles; needless to say why...

@androidemulator6952 5 ай бұрын

So the Aussies fitted American Pratt & Witney Double Wasp radials , in place of the unreliable and underpowered ?? Bristol Taurus ? - would be interesting to see the performance change of the Aussie Beauforts ! :)

@simprove Ай бұрын

Probably not a lot of difference. The Taurus and Twin Wasp, as fitted to the Beaufort, had similar power output.

@bryanwheeler1608 25 күн бұрын

@@simprove I think Australia fitted the PW engines to the Beauforts to free up the supply of the Taurus for Beaufighters.

@BrassLock 16 күн бұрын

After watching this, I feel breathless. 😮

@drmarkintexas-400 5 ай бұрын

🏆⭐🎖️🙏 Thank you for sharing this

@COLINJELY 4 ай бұрын

At the Airfield just out of Bacchus Marsh in Victoria, Australia was located the Beaufort Gliding Club. I said to one of the members, you're along way from the town of Beaufort. He said, no you fool, we're not from the town. The club was started in WWII by people from the Government Aircraft Factory who worked on the Beaufort Bomber line

@adamwsaxe 3 ай бұрын

The "most lethal airplane hunting the seas" was . . . the PBY Catalina.

@Walter-wo5sz 5 ай бұрын

I love the gardening term.

@johndoe-so2ef 5 ай бұрын

Except it's totally inaccurate. Gardening was a term Harris used for random terror bombing on land.

@bighamster2 4 ай бұрын

@@johndoe-so2efWhere did you hear that? I've often heard minelaying referred to as "gardening". Harris was generally supportive of it, especially since it was something that could be done during bad weather (which prohibited most conventional bombing).

@redtale6527 3 ай бұрын

Definitely lethal. The Australian built Beaufort's had a problem with the control rod to the elevator trim tab falling off. 90 aircraft were lost before they found the problem.

@nopelindoputraperkasa5869 5 ай бұрын

Nice sharing Vidio.. very inspiring and informative.. great 🇮🇩😮❤

@richard392 4 ай бұрын

when i watch these videos it reminds me of the quote "Never in the field of human conflict was so much been owed by so many to so few' Winston Churchill. That pilot was 22 guys 22! Kid out of high school.

@richard392 4 ай бұрын

@Turnipstalk We can only be in awe of such men of character and hope to live up to their legacy now and in time of need. Your father is a hero dude you tell him that for me pls and thank him for his service.

@louisavondart9178 3 ай бұрын

In those days, high school finished at 16.

@stephenbesley3177 4 ай бұрын

I was born in Filton. Family worked on various planes during the war and I witnessed Concords maiden flight.

@Dackah 4 ай бұрын

Good video, but I was perplexed with your pronunciation of the airfiefd in Fife , Scotland that the Beauforts took off from-then I realised you were talking about RAF Leuchars-it's pronounced "Lookers" not Looshars😀

@Violincase 3 ай бұрын

4:40 - "Despite the Beaufort's flaws, the specter (!) of war was now looming large on the horizon.." Huh?? What's the connection? Who writes this stuff?

@bryanwheeler1608 25 күн бұрын

AI?

@Sonofdonald2024 5 ай бұрын

Great video always had a soft spot for the Beaufort

@sailordude2094 4 ай бұрын

Lol, @1:07, the pilot required nerves of steel, showing a pilot franticly puffing on a smoke. Thanks for the video, interesting footage!

@geordiedog1749 3 ай бұрын

There’s a very interesting biography about a Beaufort pilot called ‘Torpedo Leader’ (not very imaginative) I actually grew to quite dislike the guy and wasn’t surprised when I spoke with a relative of a gunner in his squadron who described him very unfavourably as a glory seeking careerist madman. He made a big thing about going in first but it was actually safer being first.

@glennsimpson7659 4 ай бұрын

The shot of the Prinz Eugen at 10:56 is her in US Navy service post war, on her way to the atomic bomb test sites in the Pacific. You can tell by the US Army radar van welded on top of the conning tower to give her some navigational radar capacity.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 5 ай бұрын

A wonderful historical coverage video about the brustl boffer royal navy and a royal navy airforce

@chaslane7517 3 ай бұрын

The thumbnail is a Bristol Beaufort. Check them out on Wikipedia. The Japanese referred to the Beaufighter as “Whispering Death”, or so my mother told me (Air evac nurse New Guinea 1944-45).

@RemusKingOfRome 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Wonder if the rear gunner was effective ?

@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 5 ай бұрын

So, not "The Most Lethal Flying Hunter of the Seas" A bit of a disappointment, really. The Beaufighter had a much greater success rate.

@philipkay8116 16 күн бұрын

The Malta ones certainly were.

@kennethsayce8645 4 ай бұрын

My Father George Sayce was a mechanic in the RAAF 100 squadron in Milne bay New Guinea he told me that Australia had built 700 Beaufort's, in Queensland Aust. they are rebuilding a Beaufort to flying condition, it will be the only one flying.

@hsbrink 26 күн бұрын

In several pictures the text is about a Beaufort but a Blenheim is shown.

@kevanhubbard9673 5 ай бұрын

The Beaufort is very much in the shadow of the Beaufighter and you don't hear as much about its successes as you do it's closely related sibling.

@0ldb1ll 4 ай бұрын

The 'gardening' operations were often tied in with the Bletchley code breaking operations as they would be reported by Germany using the enigma code.

@slammerf16 4 ай бұрын

For an excellent history of RAF Coastal Command during WW2 I recommend reading "The Cinderella Boys" by Leo McKinstry. It was a long hard fight, both against the German and the Air Ministry.

@senianns9522 4 ай бұрын

This was certainly lethal this Beaufort! Lethal for the flying crews!

@Olleetheowl 5 ай бұрын

Not only is the thumbnail a Beau Fighter, but It’s Two two and Four Two squadron …not Twenty second and Fourty second. They were R.A.F. squadrons. NOT U.S.A.A.F. R.A.F. LOOSHORE is actually Lucas’s

@paulkendall6069 5 ай бұрын

I Read it was also a very good Night Fighter, the pub near me was named after an ace who flow the Beaufighter it was called The Cunningham I beleive it had his portrait with the Fighter in the background. Sadly the one thing honoring a local born hero was purchased by Lidll and after many failed planning applications mysteriously caught fire and had to be knocked down for a new Lidll store.

@aussie6910 5 ай бұрын

Cunningham scored 20 victories at night, the top German night fighter ace, Schnaufer, had 121. But the Germans flew until they died & had a much more target rich environment.

@swanseajaffa 5 ай бұрын

I take it he was the famous "Cat eyes Cunningham" who was said to eat carrots to improve his night vision where in reality Britain had just started to fit airborne radar to our night fighters but wanted to keep in secret from the Germans.

@harryricochet8134 4 ай бұрын

'Cats Eyes Cunningham'

@paulkendall6069 4 ай бұрын

@aussie6910 read John Cunningham was promoted to non flying role may have been to protect him, there is a History of British aces being withdrawn from opps to protect them 1st ww two of air cors top aces were with drawn from front line action to train new pilots but both were then killed in accidents. As you say Germans flew till dead or war over.

@cumberl4nd 21 күн бұрын

I'd quite like to watch this, however, KZbin expect me to first sit through a 3.18 unskippable ad for a raincoat. KZbin is practically unwatchable these days

@defender1006 5 ай бұрын

Just imagine a bigger and more powerful Beaufort or even an upscaled Beaufighter with Centaurus engines, a 'Mossie' contender to be sure, The 'whispering death', to be sure!

@Twirlyhead 4 ай бұрын

Reliability issues and attacks on merchant shipping aside the main problem with the Beaufort as a torpedo bomber was much the same as all torpedo bombers. They were required to fly low, level and steady into defending warships' withering anti-aircraft fire. The commanders must have expected great results indeed to send good men on such very dangerous missions; where they right to? Some fine and very important results were achieved certainly but does that justify such a very dangerous method.

@louisavondart9178 3 ай бұрын

They were expendable. Results would have been nice but weren't expected.

@keithdrower9120 5 ай бұрын

The Australian Beaufighters were named 'the whispering death' by Japanese forces in the Pacific theatre.

@louisavondart9178 3 ай бұрын

So were Cosairs. But I've never seen any Japanese people commenting on this....

@MarkkuKoljonenwTinja 3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@devilsadvocate1597 16 күн бұрын

Next up... why the De Havilland Mosquito or "wooden wonder" was a low/medium altitude daytime tactical bomber, high-altitude night bomber, pathfinder, day or night fighter, fighter-bomber, intruder, maritime strike aircraft!

@14rnr 4 ай бұрын

Some great old footage there

@YenkoSC67 Ай бұрын

They are restoring an Aussie Beaufort in Queensland here in Oz to airworthiness. So stay tuned to the warbird restoration news.

@manonthemoon2912 Ай бұрын

Production began in Ernest is this place in Bristol

@johnforrester9120 5 ай бұрын

We built them at chullora railway workshops in nsw which we used them against the japs to great effect

@brianniegemann4788 3 ай бұрын

The PBY Catalina and Avro Shackleton performed crucial antisubmarine ops protecting the convoys. They didn't sink a lot of tonnage, rather they saved tonnage that was essential to the survival of Britain. Various British bombers were used to escort Allied convoys during WW2, and German sub commanders quickly learned to fear them.

@Mossop13 3 ай бұрын

Ummm . . . . Shackleton didn't fly until 1949 . . . . . just sayin'.

@brianniegemann4788 3 ай бұрын

@@Mossop13 oops, l need one of those plane ID charts.

@csjrogerson2377 4 ай бұрын

"The most lethal", seems to be an unsupported accolade for a disaster of a plane. See the summary at 12:43. "Not particularly effective and often seen as a disappointment". Perhaps the Beaufighter should have the title which "more effective" (13:00)

@UncleJoeLITE 4 ай бұрын

Beauforts to deal with bigger things... Beaufighters to make smaller things vanish...

@StumpkillerCP 3 ай бұрын

Is this based on total tonnage sunk? I can't believe the Beaufort beat the Dauntless in this category. But then there were 5X more Dauntless built in WWII than Beaufort's.

@vbprogman 4 ай бұрын

Please is there any truth to what l have been told in that the Beaufort simply could not fly on one engine?

@GREGLUCAS-u4f 3 ай бұрын

What happened to the crew of the Wreck?

@markymark3572 4 ай бұрын

The Beaufighter was like a Beaufort on steroids, & devastating in the anti-shipping role

@amblt1 5 ай бұрын

Just to add to a previous comment - we DO NOT USE ORDINALS in Commonwealth squadron numbering. Please stop.

@fnordvelkor3386 21 күн бұрын

Thank goodness for the subtitles 'cos that voice-over is so annoying.

@Theearthtraveler 2 ай бұрын

Quite a plane!!

@robertjohnstone3706 5 ай бұрын

No that’s a Beaufort , rear turret and windows on the front .

@marioalejandromedina6127 5 ай бұрын

Great machine ¡¡¡

@ROBERTNABORNEY 3 ай бұрын

The Beaufort led to the immortal Beaufighter

@kjellg6532 4 ай бұрын

Why all that disturbing noise in the background?

@catandtheostrich 5 ай бұрын

This has probably been noted before, but Leuchars - the ch is like a k, it's not a soft ch. Try pronouncing it as "Lookars".

@charlesarmstrong5292 5 ай бұрын

Sounds like a pretty bad failure until the Beaufighter arrived.

@rwarren58 3 ай бұрын

All of these attacks by aircraft on warships and no one thought to bring an aircraft carrier? Was Yamamoto alone in his forward thinking?

@alexhayden2303 4 ай бұрын

As it wasn't being flown by an Officer and a Gentleman, it really didn't count.

@Ah01 Ай бұрын

Watched this for 16 seconds to get a new groundbreaking information that the mentioned cruiser Lützow carried also a supefiring triple turret on front of the ship. 🤦😂 That 3x3x11inch main battery made it look deceivingly much as Scharnhorst or Gneisenau.

@jameslimewater9398 4 ай бұрын

The Beuafighter was certainly dangerous to it's own crew.

@rwm2986 4 ай бұрын

RAF Squadron numbers are ordinal, 22 and 42 in this video, not cardinal, 22nd and 42nd, as you used in the commentary.

@gregmacdonald7710 5 ай бұрын

Named after the Duke of Beaufort 🧐👍

@jacquespineault8197 4 ай бұрын

What? The Bristol Beaufort the most lethal airplane hunting the sea! No way. The most lethal was the B-25 Mitchel equipped with a 75mm canon. One hit and bye-bye U-boat.

@LeonAust 23 күн бұрын

Aussie Beaufighters was one of the pacific's most lethal anti ship aircraft 4 x 20mm cannons and 6 x 50 cal

@sheilah4525 4 ай бұрын

MY DEARS…. IF the Beaufort, which is now a great Corgi model, BTW, WAS THE ANSWER, why EVER would they have replaced it with the Beaufighter?

@rickbear7249 Ай бұрын

Twenty-Two or Two-Two Squadron. The term 22nd Squadron would NEVER be used in the Royal Air Force (RAF)

@markharvey6172 5 ай бұрын

Thought this was going to be about the Beaufighter……..

@jackinabox8497 4 ай бұрын

Whispering death is what the Japanese called them. They were very well armed and extremely tough and effective. My favourite behind the mosquito. .LEST WE FORGET. Bob. Australia.

@LeonAust 23 күн бұрын

Beaufighter