When Aces Raced to be the Best Ever

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[@MilkTruck1210]

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[@inquisitorbacon8170]

Why does the one P-38 have the D-Day stripes months before D-Day? I didn't think any planes had them before D-Day.

[@chi-rhohousefayetteville7104]

What is happening?

[@termiusprime]

I love the detail on Bong at 11:50, showing his excitement in scoring another victory, but then the sad realization that he no longer has his friend to celebrate with.

[@connorlambfurlotte]

He even looked to the side to see if his wingman seen the kill

[@tham6805]

true

[@minhhoangpham2944]

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[@Archivial]

There's this feeling of slight goosebumps when i realized that Colonel Kearby also appeared in a separate Yarnhub video 3 years ago about his wingman, Bill Dunham, who gave his life jacket to a stricken Japanese airmen. There's also something poetic with how Bong lost his wingman, while Dunham lost his leader. Both men lost someone close to them, yet they continued fighting and ended up earning a spot in History for different deeds.

[@symphinitystugiii3476]

Oh wow! So that's why his name sounds familiar lol

[@stevemc01]

@@symphinitystugiii3476it all comes back together in the end

[@vanja2565]

What's the name of the video?

[@just4music888]

@@vanja2565 When a P-47 Pilot Aided a Japanese Aviator

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

A Japanese fighter ace named Takeo Tanimizu had great respect for his US adversaries, even flying low to throw a life preserver to Cpt. Harvey Carter after shooting his plane down

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[@SerialDesignationN-0X00]

"great kid, don't get cocky" "They're all clear kid, now lets blow this thing and go home!" Han solo moments

[@jiyuhong5853]

be careful not to choke on your aspirations director

[@joge2]

Xd

[@mr6johnclark]

"its a Trap"

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[@Captainrexofthe501st1]

Be careful not to choke on your aspirations director Darth Vader

[@louislopez55]

As an old guy I’m excited that many younger viewers may just be learning about Dick Bong, and even about the P-38 Lightning . I’m lucky to have seen one fly several years ago.

[@kevinlutz5994]

👍

[@centamangila1217]

I bet that P-38 is "Glacier Girl", that early model Lightning that crash-landed in Iceland and recovered and restored to flight condition.

[@PoochAndBoo]

There are actually more P-38's flying than just Glaciar Girl. I was at Oshkosk and there were two late model P-38L's at the show.@@centamangila1217

[@yankees29]

I’m 46 and I eat,breathe and sleep WW2 content. Man vs man not computer targeting system vs man.

[@heirofaniu]

Wisconsonites keep his memory alive.

[@Curtis7391-t8q]

Thank you for doing a show on Richard Bong….in my home town and his Superior Wisconsin…there’s a huge bridge named after him…growing up I always thought it funny to name a bridge Bong until I learned the history behind the name…now I couldn’t be more proud of the man it’s named after

[@ashipcrafter2440]

And a airport, we also have his airplane in the museum

[@kevinlutz5994]

He died young. Check out the Bong WWII Heritage Center there in Superior.

[@MWILSON7]

I remember there was a memorial of him on the side of the road between Duluth and Superior and I thought there was a P-38 there. Mid 80s when I saw it if I’m not mistaken.

[@patrickgriffitt6551]

​@@MWILSON7You are not mistaken. Man that's been a long time ago. I am a Wisconsinite by birth, Not Superior. Ft Atkinson.

[@mikerobinson3672]

There was going to be an Air Force Base named after him in Kenosha Wisconsin. They abandoned the project and turned the whole area into a wildlife area.

[@LancelotChan]

It's sad to see both aces died in combat.... and it's the first time I see yarnold cry.

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

And Bong himself died as a test pilot for the P-80 Shooting star.

[@LancelotChan]

@@KyoushaPumpItUp yup. :(

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

@@LancelotChan Also, all three of Neel Kearby's children died in aircraft accidents: two in 1974, and one in 1977.

[@LancelotChan]

@@KyoushaPumpItUp Man.... so sad...

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

@mirroredvoid8394 i think so too sadly.

[@Swaggyswisscheez]

Unfortunately, Richard Bong was killed during a test flight in an F-80s. The engine failed and resulted in a fatal crash. This was an amazing animation and keep it up!

[@barrygrant2907]

Bong managed to bail out of the F-80 but was too low for his chute to open.

[@Swaggyswisscheez]

@@barrygrant2907i think this was one of the reasons why ejection seats were made and implemented

[@barrygrant2907]

@@Swaggyswisscheez I believe it had a "catapult" seat, an early version of ejection seats. Even much later than the F-80, the successful ejection envelope was very limited, unlike the zero/zero versions available today. He was simply too low for the times.

[@Justin_0241]

Also his death occured on the same day as Little Boy being dropped on Hiroshima

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Was Just About To Comment This

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[@MordedaoraBR]

When Col. Kearby was mentioned i got goosebumps because i remembered his plane gets shot-down (When a P-47 Pilot Aided a Japanese Aviator) and even knowing how that story would end i still got sad seeing it happen again. Seeing these different stories intersect is truly an amazing thing, love the work you guys do honoring the memory of the fallen. Keep up the good work!

[@michaelbatson1879]

When Bong was sent home to do a bond tour, the pilot who was with him who also been sent home was Robert Johnson, who was the first 8th Air Force pilot to exceed 26 kills. Bong didn't survive the war. After being sent home for good, the AAF had him test flying the new P-80 Shooting Star Jet aircraft. On August 6, 1945, the day the A-Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Bong was killed test flying a P-80.

[@jmfa57]

Chuck Yeager wrote about that in his book. Bong, for all his ferocity and prowess as a fighter pilot, was not the best technician, and didn't take as much time as he might have to understand the various systems in the planes he flew the way that Yeager did. Dick Bong's loss was tragic.

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[@UntamedAngel]

0:36 i love the star wars reference

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Me too😂

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Same 😂😂

[@1thefallen]

There were several

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I don get it

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@@eancloud3529The tie fighter noise

[@drewnamic]

P-38 really gives some weird chills. A very majestic airplane indeed. 😮salute to all the heroes. 🫡

[@intelati49]

I honestly didn't realize it was produced in such great numbers. I must have been thinking of the double Mustang

[@johncartwright8154]

One of those beautiful aircraft of the period that confirm the adage "if it looks right, it is right".

[@rishz7857]

My late father's favorite plane.

[@pokefan-ix7sh]

Richard "Dick" Ira Bong was a United States Army Air Forces major and Medal of Honor recipient in World War II. He was one of the most decorated American fighter pilots and the country's top flying ace in the war, credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft, all with the Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter. He died in California while testing a Lockheed P-80 jet fighter shortly before the war ended. Bong was posthumously inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1986 and has several commemorative monuments named in his honor around the world, including an airport, two bridges, a theater, a veterans historical center, a recreation area, a neighborhood terrace, and several avenues and streets, including the street leading to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio

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[@RogueAce93]

YESSS! The Race of Aces gets an adaptation!! Thnx Yarnhub & great job including the Star Wars dialogue!

[@spacenoob10]

Another great video Yarnhub! My great grandpa also flew p38s, many missions were solo missions so unfortunately there were many unconfirmed kills, according to my grandma he had around 7-8 kills (can’t fully remember) but unfortunately never earned the ace title as they were again unconfirmed! Great covering of the race!

[@Briselance]

Say... what were his full names, rank, and unit, pray tell?

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[@z3r0_35]

Unfortunately, Richard Bong would not survive the war. My grandfather was a witness to the crash that killed Bong in 1945. He was test flying a YP-80 Shooting Star out of Lockheed's plant in Burbank when the engine stalled due to a failure of the primary fuel pump and Bong failing to switch to the auxiliary. He managed to eject, but on these early ejection seats you had to be at a certain altitude for your parachute to deploy, and he was too low. His death shared the headlines with the nuclear attack on Hiroshima, which happened the same day.

[@mitchconner403]

That is one of the best digital models of the p-38 I have seen yet! Good job team!

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Yarnhub, once again you outdid yourself with everything from voice acting to action to explanation and most importantly animation. I really love how you've kept better and better with quality and i really loved those clever Star Wars references from A New Hope to Rogue One in the voicelines, once again you made proud and excelled🎉❤.

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These stories just keep getting better and better, great work on this one! Also love the little st at wars references you put into this one, the force is truly with you…

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The way the planes fly, turn, speed up and crash has improved so much. In the earlier videos it looked like world of warplanes, but now it looks very realistic

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[@lopaka76]

I was at Pearl Harbor little over a week ago, I picked up a deck of cards that has WW2 plane silhouettes on them. the P-38 is shown on the back, I told my son that the P-38 was like the warthog before the warthog existed. Great video.

[@PoochAndBoo]

Not really. I'd say that title would go to the P-47 Thunderbolt. The P-38 couldn't take the amount of damage that a Jug could.

[@rcplaneprojectsandmore9499]

Love the P-38. Great video Yarnhub! Your videos are always very entertaining and informative!

[@harrisonmantooth7363]

This was, IMHO, one of the best yet. My hats off to those tough and Brave pilots. RIP to all of them.

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The quality has come a long way and i think that it looks great! Keep up the good work👍🏻

[@EzraJohnson-u2z]

I just saw his p-38 in real life in oshkosh today in the museum. Never expected that coincidence!

[@Fer87PP]

Your videos keep getting better and better! Congrats on that! Greetings from Peru!

[@paulbischoff5685]

There’s a fantastic book called “Race of Aces”, about Bong and the race to be the first Air Force ace to beat Rickenbacker’s WW1 score. (By the time the race began at least one Marine, Joe Foss, had already matched Rickenbacker.)

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[@buckduane1991]

My high school history teacher’s dad was among those P-38 pilots. His name was Hanson. Flew out of Tahiti at some point. He was there in tail-end-Charlie when one of the contenders met his end in the new P-38L because he was buzzing the field trying to make the Japanese take off, until Hanson spotted fighters above them (it was a trap) and called it out. The ace was at treetop level (25 kills) and snapped himself into a turn, but still had his drop tanks on, and being the new L Model it had hydraulic boosted controls, so it snapped onto its wing in an instant and winged into the ground at 350+ mph. He brought in his family album and let me view it, lots of pictures of his dad, the ace, their planes… and very topless local Tahiti girls in their traditional topless tribal attire looking very annoyed to be having random servicemen taking their picture out of the blue as they were trying to farm, fish, or live their lives while the husband was out to sea for the day :P

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[@jonahyambui4503]

I am from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬, Lae City, Nadzab airport is now my city's commercial and international airport...to know the history of my airport and that top WW2 aces flew here is priceless❤

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[@LancelotChan]

The japanese dub are really cool! Adding submersion to the story!

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This man is like the Spielberg of military history.

[@fishjohn014]

For anyone in the Midwest, II highly suggest visiting the Richard Bong Museum in Superior, WI. (Right across the harbor from Duluth) His actual entire plane is on full display and they even let you look inside cockpit. They also have incredible war artifacts belonging to top SS officers and even some of Hermann Göring's personal items. The museum is rarely crowded. I've been 3 times and found more and more incredible items on display every time

[@matthewgiancola2316]

The Rouge One reference, “Be careful not to choke on your aspirations, Lieutenant”. Bloody brilliant .

[@rachitanand1117]

Yarnhub is in mood for some star wars references today I see "Be careful not to choke on your aspirations" "Great Kid, Don't get cocky" "They're all clear kid, now lets blow this thing and go home!" "It's a trap" "Did he land? Is he alright" (Maybe wrong, but can be "Is she safe? Is she alright?")

[@Spartan902]

The animation just keeps getting better guys! Great work once again. I am no pilot but the P-38 sounds like it was a great plane to fly. Fast and nimble with good fire power. Bong was the MAN!

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it is crazy how realistic the animation has become over the years

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This is better than any film. Any history lesson. You guys are absolutely brilliant at what you do.

[@nikolaykolev7139]

Love your videos! You should do one about the soviet aces in WW2 who had the highest scores of all the allied pilots

[@jordanfaulkner5598]

I've been watching you for a very long time now. And I love learning more and more about history. Thank you for providing me with information and the thrill of learning exciting history. You get better at this every time I see your videos! Keep up the amazing work!

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You keep getting better and better, every video is pure eye candy.

[@dadeo8957]

My Fathers cousin a veteran of WW2 in the Pacific. Told a story of making a “Mail Run” with a P-38 pilot while on R and R. He said that it was a picture in the newspapers after his return home that the “Bong” He had made that short mail run with was Richard Bong. Dad’s cousin described him as just a “Regular Joe.”

[@thomasmarren2354]

I went to the Bong museum in Superior Wisconsin when I was a kid and saw his P-38 plane there.

[@Willyasan48]

15:19 Balikpapan City is a city in the province of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Balikpapan is the second largest city in East Kalimantan, after Samarinda City, with a total population of 733,396 people in mid-2023, the way you say "BALIKPAPAN" was so clear and nice. thanks from Indonesia🇮🇩

[@jamezzz0035]

this feels like a Topgun prequel bros

[@flytopusa]

Unfortunately, Richard Bong tragically lost his life during a test flight in an F-80 when the engine failed, resulting in a fatal crash. This was a truly amazing animation-thank you for honoring such a legendary war story. Keep up the incredible work!

[@Backrumor]

These videos just keep on getting better!

[@JustAnotherGlockGuy]

Very good video. Cant believe that i did not watch this when it came out. Very satisfied to see Bong finally acknowledged, as well as the other amazing pilots. I am a still a rather young Wisconsonite, obsessed with history. I do hope the remaints of Bong's aircraft will come back to Wisconsin.

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I love the Star Wars lines you guys sneak in to the videos. May the Force be with you, always.

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The animations just get better and better❤

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Guys your quality made quantum leaps and you became so incredibly good. Thank you. Please never stop!

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Your animators really deserve a pay raise

[@sultanofsauce9816]

2:20 a bit of a lapse in detail. Bong was never known to be annoyed about missing out on kills. In fact, he was so good that he would routinely give away a kill per every two kills he made himself because he was precisely the opposite of a glory hound, and anyone that knew him said so. The only kill he ever got annoyed about was because he was doubted about it happening even though he was already the ace of aces at the time and he was annoyed that they didn’t take his word for it, after seeing his previous record.

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The faces look so good now! Can you do a video on how you increased the quality of your videos as a 1 million special?

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I will say this again! Better animation than many big media production houses!

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The content you make is remarkable and looks amazing

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I recently found this channel and am in love. I know they mostly cover WWI and WWII, but I would also love to see rather modern topics like Operation Nimrod

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I showed my history teacher your account and now every Friday we watch a video of yours

[@budgie_io3897]

2:34 holy crap, the animation of Bong’s mouth is insane

[@adamtschmidt4303]

Fun fact: the term "the full nine yards." refers to the total length of .50 caliber bullet belts carried by the P-38.

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Thanks for making uncountable great stories, you are just great man, i can‘t even tell how you managed to evolve from a funny 2d paper channel to an absolute unit of stories, i just think you should add the funny character again.

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Excellent work, including the very realistic Japanese voices.

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We always try to use native speakers even if we have them speak English lines

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The chef’s kiss of authenticity

[@Thatoneguy0007]

The amount of Star Wars references packed into this video is absolutely amazing

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These are getting better every video, truly mind boggling to see where you were back then and now!

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I would love it if Yarnhub did a video on the Monchy 9 of Newfoundland. 9 men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment positioned at Monchy-le-Preux during the Battle of Arras in 1917 hid behind shrubbery and defended the town from a German force anywhere from 200 - 300 men strong for 11 hours to prevent a German break through. I think it is a very cool and very underrated battle that sounds like the plot of a movie.

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Man it’s crazy how high quality y’all’s videos have gotten

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The graphics. The p38 the pilot . The maker.💀 The whole video.💀

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Im actually a relative of Thomas lynch so im super happy to see any videos and history on him amazing work!

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Bro looks exactly like the picture each video the graphics get better and better

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Graphics are getting really good these days. Keep up the history lessons. Love it

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Holy shit your character accuracy is leagues above what I remember it being. Dial in the vocal audio synchronization a bit and you've got that perfected.

[@JustinPlaysTV]

It's also featured as a nice and unique aircraft in War Thunder, fun to play :D

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[@glitchy_weasel]

Damn these animations are getting unbelievable good - the facial expressions and voice acting really makes the animation much more live-like. Impeccable job to everyone involve in making this!

[@jiyuhong5853]

I loved this video! I also like all the references in it as well

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Bruh I came here just 1 minute after post and almost 100 likes already???

[@DarthNih1lus57]

What’s sad about this story is he was sent to test some p-80 shooting stars where he was tragically killed in an accident. He was only 24 at the time

[@SGusky]

“Ive got a bad feeling about this” … meaning how many more Star wars lines…. Well done…

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