The Luftwaffe's desperate jet attack to destroy the bridges at Remagan - 14th March 1945
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- During the afternoon of March 14th 1945, 11 Arados from III./KG 76, 6./KG76 attacked the newly constructed pontoon bridge adjacent to the Ludendorff bridge at Remagen. Heavy flak and fighter defenses were encountered, and four Arados were lost.
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Historical discrepancy: paintschemes for the Ar 234s are not accurate to the individual aircraft of each pilot but they are an accurate representation of KG 76.
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I was visiting the Air and Space Museums Garber restoration facility in Md thirty plus years ago, when they brought out a newly restored Arado. It was smaller than I had thought but was very cool...
On that same day, two Arado 234's were shot down by P-47M Thunderbolts from the 62nd fighter squadron (part of Zemke's Wolfpack). Maximum speed of the M variant was 473 mph which was actually faster than the Ar-234, and arguably the fastest piston fighter for the Allies (in WWII). With War Emergency Power, some pilots claimed 500 mph in level flight.
Also of note; the 56th Fighter Group was given the experimental T-48 incendiary .50 caliber rounds, which was specifically designed to ignite jet fuel.
The Arado 234A was the strategic reconnaissance version, It took of on a trolley and landed on a skid. The Ar234B was an adaption for the bomber role. In order to accommodate a retractable landing gear the fuselage was widened about 4cm to make up the fuel lost. This slowed the aircraft from about 484 to 466mph.
The Ar 234B maximum speed was at 20,000ft while the P-47M achieved maximum speed at around 30,000ft. The lower the aircraft went the more advantage to the Ar 234. A property of jets so below 20,000ft the Ar 234 had increasing speed advantage. It was undersood that the Ar 234b speed was not stellar and improved versions were developed.
The Luftwaffe had received 4 deliveries of the Ar 234C0 with 4 x BMW 003 engines replacing the 2 x Jumo 004. It was the fastest aircraft of the war at low altitude. Its maximum speed. Well over 526 mph. The Ar 234C5 version with improved BMW 003D engines was expected to be able to haul 3300lbs of bombs at 540mph.
My friend Leutnant Hans Busch of III/KG 51 was in the attack, in his Me 262. He missed the bridge. A "Kette" is three aircraft, not two.
If true, amazing! But how are we to believe that? Of course he missed the bridge. Everyone did. On the internet, words have no distinct meaning. It's an idiot's playground. So bardingle your birdfrack. Words that DO NOT MEAN what the internet "thinks": meme, karma, literal, hack, quantum, proof, christian, race, liberal, and the list goes on and on.....
Another great piece, notwithstanding the AR234 colours, your attention to details is outstanding.
Radar control of a slaved AA battery and proximity fused shells made significant AA improvements from late 1943. I am unsure when those techs were put in place to protect the Rhine crossings as there was fear it might be captured. The british 3.7" AA used both of these innovations.
Would an effective hit on the pontoons really have achieved much more that a half day delay on crossing times?
Surely the allies would have had 4/5 spare pontoons and equipment to hand for precisely such a hit?
Yep. Hence the word "desperate" in the title.
Neat vid! I'm surprised the Arados didn't have some kind of fighter escort.
Well made video.👍
It is a wonder if none of the pilots bailed directly into their own jet intakes.
WellDone!👍👍👍
Awesome 👍
The army filmed the attack I've seen the film the bomb did hit the river but not close to the bridge.
I still wish the Germans won.
Wow, besides Arado-234, Luftwaffe had also jet fighter Messerschmitt Me-262 and Me-163
@@welcome3933 plus the He 162
Well done mate.
I’m really enjoying your vids and the channel as a whole.
Please, by all means…keep it up!
Thank You!
I shared a cubicle with a man who made it across the Remagan bridge. His platoon was supporting a tank destroyer. I recall him saying the jets were trying to bomb the bridge but kept missing. However we couldn't hit the jets either.
My father was there at the same time. He had never seen a jet before. This story was one of only two he would tell about the war. His platoon later came upon a camouflaged airfield in the woods that had ME-262s in hardened hangars. Each one had been destroyed by the retreating Germans. Satchel charges in the cockpits did the job.
This is what pushed my Dad into postwar aeronautics and aerospace. He spent time with X planes at Edwards and managed Thor launches for 20 years. His ‘Starfish Prime’ launch and detonation during ‘Operation Fishbowl’ at Johnston Island put out the lights in Hawaii and, as he said, “made the Sun rise in the West”.
As kids, we never knew what Dad was doing. It was 30 years later when he finally was able to talk about it once it was declassified.
@@tomwilker2861 WOW!
@@tomwilker2861 that's a really great story,and what a great man your father is.
@@tomwilker2861 Yes, the 262's came far too late for the Germans. So did a lot of things.
Unguided munitions almost always miss. That’s why bomber formations usually consisted of dozens, if not hundreds of aircraft. If only one in a hundred bombs hit the target, that’s fine if you send enough of them.
-The Germans did have guided munitions: the Hs 293 and the Fritz-X. The latter was extremely accurate, with only a little training the operators were consistently getting hits within 5 meters on static targets. There were plans to use it on the Arado 234C version which had the second crew member to guide it.
-I have to disagree with you about unguided weapons always missing somewhat. The Computing bomb sights such as the German Lotfe 7, US Norden and UK SABS-II could be extremely accurate. When bombing over Germany at 25,000ft or Japan at 30,000ft it was too much but the sights worked well at 15,000ft. In one case 3 Focke Wulf Fw 200 attacked "Convoy Faith" and hit 3 ships (two troops ships and one frieghter) in 5 attack runs. The two runs that were misses were against warships that used their maneuverability and speed to escape. So long as their was visibility and the crews were drilled and disciplined to use the sight properly it cloud work. The British attack on Tirpitz scored 2 hits and 1 near miss admitedly on a much larger and stationary target with 30 aircraft.
@@williamzk9083 Norden huh?
Uh, hate to be that guy, but they never miss. They always hit the ground.
If you will ever bother to do a video about an Italian pilot(I know we don't have super aces) I suggest the story of Giuseppe Cenni (Valzer!) or the Life on Ennio "Banana" Tarantola. They both had interesting lives.
Every story gives us better insight into the whole story.
For without all the pieces of a jigsaw then you never enjoy the complete picture.
Greetings from Australia 👍🏻🇦🇺
@@stewartdalton3298 true mate, are u related to Helen Dalton the pollie in NSW .?
I dunno if this would represent well in a presentation like this,but Hurricane pilots facing Italian pilots during the battles around Malta had immense respect for the Italian fighter pilots. They stated on several occasions that it was a bad idea to fight them on the horizontal. Especially the sergeant pilots were incredibly experienced,and would frequently make monkeys of the English pilots.
The raid on Bahrain and Dhahran in 1940 is an interesting story and a remarkable bit of flying over 3 continents.
The Macchi 202 Folgore was in fact one of the best fighter aircraft of the war and with right engine and fuel tanks would have done well
Hell of a name with one of those German pilots - Werner Croissant. A handy guy to go for a coffee with and maybe be given a free snack !
Fabulous work. The detail of the cockpit interior is impressive. I used to have a Luftwaffe clock and it looked exactly like the one on the steering yoke. I was really looking forward to this one since I love the Arado. Someday I want to see the one on display at the Smithsonian.
I can’t wait to see an Arado on display !
Thanks guys, if you weren't aware this is a flight simulator called IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Bodenplatte and the Arado is from the upcoming Normandy expansion
@@sotocinematics Ar-234 is part of the upcoming Battle of Normandy though
@@sodkijezu8748 Thanks I corrected my comment
On March 18th, 1945, 37 Me 262s of JG7 intercepted a force of 1,221 bombers and 632 escorting fighters. They managed to shoot down 12 bombers and one fighter for the loss of three Me -262s. That would be great mission for you but heavy bombers are not available.
Super video.
One has to doff hats to the Arado pilots , who knew they were fulfilling a near - suicide mission.
Thank you for sharing.
By that time near suicide missions were accepted by the Germans. Adolf Gallant told (decades later) how it "nothing" to loose one's life in the war by that time.
If I remember correctly, the Main bridge was restricted to foot traffic and light vehicles. No Tanks. Becouse of all the attempts to distroy it had weakened it. That's what made the pontoon bridge so important to take out. The main bridge did fall weeks later almost on it's own , speculation is the Army Corp Engineers removed to much damaged structural support to clear it for use.
I think quite a few American soldiers died when the bridge collapsed...
@@joeschlotthauer840 correct
Thank you for not using the Normandy markings on the allied aircraft.
Some people seem to think that every aircraft in WW2 had black and white stripes on the wings.
Great work as usual! Love the subject matter of these vids. Extremely impressive for a one man show! 👍
The complete detail with personal names of both combatants.
they also tried, V2 rockets and frogmen
Great video! Amazing work. :)
Germany was a leader in technology and science in the 1930s and 1940s.
lmao whatever became of Werner Croissant 🥐
Truly excellent graphics! The aircraft look really realistic… the only caveat was the lack of the allied black and white stripes on the fighters.
Paint schemes for invasion stripes do exist in game by default, some of them are modelled after planes flown by specific pilots though, and so include their personal customisations, perhaps why the maker of this video opted not to use them. With third party mods, you can get plain invasion stripes on all allied planes who wore them though. The creator of the video did have at least one mod installed though to restore the hakenkreuz on the tails of the German planes, in the default game these are modified so they aren't recognisable as hakenkreuz. Possibly for legal reasons as the development team is based in Russia (although other Russian games I've played have featured the symbol, so I don't know), more likely perhaps just to avoid controversy, with the understanding that players will be able to very easily add historically accurate markings themselves if they care to. The game is IL2 Sturmovik, specifically the latest installment in the franchise which has been running for over 2 decades now. I grew up playing these games. They're great flight simulators, no other WWII flight sim ever came close imo.
Thanks! However by March 1945 D-Day stripes were not being applied to Allied aircraft. I sourced them or created them all with historical reference so they are all accurate.
Remarkable history, of which I was ignorant till recently-this bomber construction and this mission. The ME 262 I was well aware of, but this bomber not. And they actually still had pilots left capable of testing, and then capable of flying, is also a surprise to me. Fabulous telling Soto. That War always produces new weapons, and the Reich was so far ahead it seems is weapon construction across the board-no wonder the Allies and Russians were so keen to get hold of all technicians of War production-the Russians completely stripping all factories and staffs wholesale back to the Soviet Union, the Allies doing well to hunt down the likes of Von Braun.
Two of the main test pilots were women, Hanna Reitsch and Melitta Von Stauffenberg
@@CollectorChronicles Fabulous.
A couple of more quiet years of preparation before war outbreak and German would be the One World Language.
@@charleswesley9907 there is that Charles. But murdering bucket loads of innocent unarmed civilians, while on the rampage to conquer, even with Hitler's miracle weapons-in my opinion doomed the Reich immediately-by the close of 42. To much arrogance, too much hatred-fabulous war machine, but the USA was also only getting warmed up by Wars end.
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,y dear friend & mentor, TV director & WW2 LIFE magazine photographer, John Florea, made it across thebridge to get head-onshots of the troops & tanks crossing. He told me the sound of the jet engine were so loud, for the first & only time, he was too overwhelmed to take pictures. (You've seen his work from FLIPPER to BONANZA & McGIVER)
I've always thought the Ar-234 was true successor of the Mosquito but it came too late and production quality control was poor.
The lean of the Arado in the back at 0:29 is making me physically uncomfortable, did they not have outrigger wheels?
Marseille... Croissant... Several German pilots really had extremely un-German names...
If they had made bomb runs along the length of the bridge they probably could have taken both out .
Maybe but always easier said than done. That flight path would have undoubtedly brought them into line with even more AA and ground fire.
@@tempestfury8324 I have to believe that the flack guns could reach no matter how they flew .
@@charleswesley9907 : It has nothing to do with "reach" of flak guns. These planes were on low level bombing approaches. So it became a matter of line of fire and concentration (as well as typical ground fire). By following the river, they severely reduced their chances of being hit.
@@tempestfury8324 I suppose thats the idea. A 600 ft wide river wouldnt afford them to much difference of fire power .. I suppose they could have been at 5000 ft and actually gain an advantage . Windage wouldnt have hurt them either .I have seen where dive bombers tried to hit a ship at a right angle attack and fall short or too long . But when bombing ships along its length they hit it .
That’s what I was thinking….
Wouldn't you attack a bridge down the length of the bridge rather than from the side, which presents the smallest and least likely target?
Beautifully done video. Bravo sir.
Seeing the Arado it makes Hitlers incessant butting into the ME262 program to make it a bomber seems even more insane.
Excellent documentary video, please make More!!!!
I don't think I'll ever get used to seeing jet aircraft attacked by propeller planes.
Even if the Ardis had hit the pontoon bridge it would have been quickly replaced
Just sheer desperation late in the war Germany had no air superiority left to put bomber escorts in the air.
O Yes!!! ❤ Awesome work
My father was with the anti aircraft unit defending the bridge.
This is not a film'movie. It is a computer game no more. YUK.
finally American AA gunners got to do what they were paid to do.
Can you talk about a allied attack on German airfield? I hear the allies had a successful bombing attack with p47s
アラド２３４ブリッツって、戦略爆撃機でしたっけ？😳
Hi. In your film there is a scene with Lieutenant Barhart's Mustang and his report that he only flew up to Arado without opening fire and the pilot jumped out of the plane, but I found a guncamera video of this episode and it clearly shows that Barnhard opened fire and hit German plane multiple times . Enter "1945, captured german jet" in the YT search engine, where it is visible in the first seconds of the video.
Wow I had no idea this footage existed thankyou
I thought the Arado 234 pilot's position was laid out in a prone?
A very interesting series of videos. Thanks for making them.
Yes fabulous work. I had no idea they used jets on remagen. Also why didn't they attack it straight like parallel with the bridge? You'd think they'd have a better chance at hitting it
Because of flak concentrations, probably
Epic video!
I’ve seen one of these Arados at the Smithsonian in DC
The german technical stuff was so far away from the allies.
👏 CONGRATULATIONS ... EXELENT VIDEO !!!
Nice animation and story, and take no offense, but the audio is not so hot
Lol voir si l'avion pourrais rattraper le jet c beau être con
Era muy tarde para planear cualquier cosa para la defensa...
I wonder if in this case the bombers were too fast. That seems like quite a difficult task. Ya, you’re hard to hit for the AA gunners but try dropping a bomb with that short of time to line it up. You would think they would at least fly in at a different angle instead of perpendicular.
Cuz there's no significant AA coming from the river. just from an angle and I suppose that would provide substantially less stress for the pilot? just guessing and trying to imagine it and I think most pilots would prefer that strategy. At that point in the war, it wouldn't shock me if most of those pilots were like "okay, bombs dropped, duty done, did my best now let's get the ficken out of here!".
@@coppulor6500 good point! It may have had a psychological effect on the enemy to show off those bombers up close.
@@CollectorChronicles I would imagine it's more that none straight ahead of you is shooting at your face (directly at you)
Bridges? Plural? Wasnt there only one?
Nice work!
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why why this computer animation edit video program put 2 blackline bars top - bottom on the video...
not good...
must be full HDMI1080p on TV without 2 blackbars
Absolutely excellent! Well done and beautiful CGI
The footage was taken from a game look in the description
The Ar-234 was much more successful as a high-altitude reconnaissance ship than as a bomber. Steep-angle dive bombing tactics like those used by dedicated attack aircraft like the Ju-87 Douglas SBD involved far too much strain than the Arado's airframe could tolerate, and shallow-angle tactics like those used in this raid on the Ludendorff bridge required the Blitz to approach at no more than medium speed for accuracy and the ability to safely pull out. However, because of the sluggish throttle of the JUMO 004B-1 it took a long time for the Blitz to regain its top speed, leaving it vulnerable to interception by Allied fighters.
The Arado 234A was the strategic reconnaissance version, It took of on a trolley and landed on a skid. The Ar234B was an adaption for the bomber role. In order to accommodate a retractable landing gear the fuselage was widened about 4cm to make up the fuel lost. This slowed the aircraft from about 484 to 466mph. The Bridge at Remagen was eventually destroyed but it took a while. The Ar 234B had a number of ways to aim bombs. The first was with the BZA (Bomb Ziel Automat) or "Bomb Aiming Computer". This is normally associated with the StuVi 5B used on the Ju 88. It was very advanced. The pilot entered a shallow dive (about 22 degrees on a Ju 88) and the BZA computed a continuous impact point and move the reflector recticle on the SuVi 5B, the pilot then adjusted the aircraft till he had the cross hairs on target and released. In the Ju 88 there was also a computing level bombing sight called the Lotfe 7 operated by the bomb aimer. Experienced crews would use the Lotfe to measure head and cross winds and set up the shallow dive. A good crew could inititate dive at say 8000ft pull up by 5000ft at 400mph , dive angle 22 degrees and get the bombs to within 5m.
On the Arado 234B the Lofte 7 had also been tested linked to the Patin Autopilot. I'm not sure of if the crews attacking Remagen had this. Either way without the second crew member bombing was difficult due to pilot workload and it would have been hard using both. Hence the Ar 234C was to incorporate a two seat cabin.
Some of the attacks against the Remagen Bridge were carried out at night using the Zyclops blind bombing system. It was a beam riding system with the pilot given the bomb release command by a ground opperator who knew the down range distance from the IFF system. It needed automation. There was also EGON blind bombing and the new German IFF system Neuling had blind bombing built in.
The Jumo 004B was to receive the "Beschleuniguns vietiel" or accelerator control valve in April 1945. This was the estimated service date. The Jumo 004 fuel flow was controlled by a centrifugal governor and tended to over or underdose but the accelerator control valve worked by measuring air flows and this would have spared the engine the over heating and flame-outs.
6 staffel is in II gruppe. so why dont you say II gruppe kg 76? luftwaffe staffel, or squadron organization is as follows: first, second, third staffel comprise I gruppe. 4,5,6 staffel comprise II gruppe. 7,8,9 staffel comprise III gruppe. in some cases, 10, 11, 12 staffel comprise IV gruppe. when mentioning a staffel, the nomenclature is a number followed by a period. hence 6. is six staffel. the chart says that six staffel is in II gruppe....there you have it. official luftwaffe squadron and group organization... btw, kg stands for kampfgeschwader, or bomb wing. kg 76 is the 76th bomb wing. so, sixth bomb squadron, second bomb group, 78th bomb wing. sounds american, doesn't it?
A heck of a waste of fine looking bombers.
if they are jet powered why didnt they quickly out race the mustangs??
The Mustang was a fast aircraft. The bombers would have had much shorter range. The difference in speed was negligible (456 vs 437), enabling the Mustang pilots to maintain visual contact.
Que los arados 234 no estaban armados o que!
one of the most beautiful aircrafts.
Not suppose to attack landing aircraft
this channel should take off this year
No flak at the airfield to tickle the tempests n ponies?
Ironically, if the Germans had used obsolete Stuka dive bombers, they would have destroyed the bridge. Assuming that the Stukas survived the AA fire.
They did use Stukas against the Remagen bridge.
Why not bomb a bridge lengthwise rather than perpendicular ?
Why were the jet not flying home at 450 mph so fighters could not catch them?
The Russians entering Berlin ended the war, the bridge did not speed up the end of the war.
The capture of the Ludendorf Bridge allowed allied armour to flood across the Rhine and close the Ruhr pocket, whilst pushing deeper into the Heart of Germany
@@AB-mw8oz But the bridge did not speed the Process of the Russians taking Berlin and Hitler killing himself and the war ending .
I suppose the narrator is not a native speaker...?
Very bad acccent.
Native Australian, use the subtitles
"if there was ever wartime drama, this is it!"
I think only 76 in service. Most were never delivered.
@@williamzk9083 76, hey that's nothing in ww2 combat!
Thankfully, the Germans didn't have laser guided bombs or it certainly would have been destroyed! Even with the explosives the Germans previously installed in the bridge, they couldn't take it out. The Ludendorff Bridge was constructed with explosives built into it so any invasion attempts could be thwarted by blowing it up. Ironically, the Germans just built the bridge too strong!
I've got a original projector from the luftwaffe. 100%1942 it's in a leather box all matching # and marks. To think how many gun camera footage showed through that?
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Marc
The CGI comes from the warthunder game, really well done guys and great for anyone who wants to make similar videos
No it doesn't
It comes from IL2 Great Battles with Normandy upgrade, although Remagen is on the Rheinland map.
War Thunder is an arcade-ey game for kids. Flight model is unrealistic. IL2 is a combat flight sim, like DCS.
And... Fritz X rocket?
The RAF belatedly attack the Meuse bridges in 1940 and many Battles are shot down by well prepared AA. The Germans attack a bridge at Remagen a week after the crossing and the American AA get none.
I absolutely love these videos!
I don't remember this in the film
Sadly some fine airplanes were lost.
The exhaust fume of busters was much darker and much more intence than depicted in your video. +1, Many thanks!
FANTASTIC!!!
I am wondering why they did not use their radio guided bombs. In late 1943 they managed to sink the most important italian ship, the Roma, with a single hit.
So beautiful planes..
Did Robert Barnhart get an official kill?
Yes
You guys do a great job...now how about Clive Caldwell, Bluey, and some others? Miller?
If you can watch the movie The Bridge at Remagen. Very good ww2 movie.
Good job.
Nicely done!
Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up
Wonderful jet