Bombers Of World War 2 - Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Which was the 'most famous bomber' of the Second World War? This programme looks at all the legendary bombers and highlights their wartime actions throughout the global conflict. They differ widely in appearance and operational efficiency, but they all possessed some claim to fame.
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Fell asleep during the intro. Woke up some time later and intro still playing...
yes; really boring! it begins at 3:20
I just threw up all my dinner while reading your comment. Read it again afterwards and found out it still makes me sick...
Glad I'm not the only one!
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@@diyrobot9455úÿÿy,
Many thanks for including the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley among the great WWII bombers. Often overlooked, the Whitley was the first UK bomber to attack the Nazi during those dangerous dark nights very early on in the conflict. This machine and her brave crews landed the first blows, being first to "Give it to 'em back."
I had never heard of the Whitley!
@@timburke4837 then you haven't read much about RAF Bomber Command in the time before Arthur Harris took over in 1942 then have you?
Yes the Whitley has the dubious distinction of initiating the RAF Bomber Command decision to indiscriminately bomb German towns by bombing the medieaval town of Mannheim. The most significant aspect of the raid was the deaths of numerous school children. German towns were bombed for three and a half months before Germany finally retaliated. The RAF went on to implement Professor Liebemanns suggestion to Churchill to concentrate maximum incendiary and phosphorous attacks upon urban civilians to intentionally murder as many as possible. The RAF,with the later assistance of American bombing slaughtered with studied intent at least 600,000 German civilians and injured and maimed many more. The execution of this “splendid decision” did a damn sight more than “Besmirch Britain’s escutcheon” it consolidated Britain and America as perpetrators of the most horrendous, inhuman, barbaric acts of murderous atrocity in all of humanities murderous history.
Remember also, the young men who repeatedly and knowingly executed these atrocities were only following orders.
@@samrodian919 Tru dat!
@@williambennett26 Interesting to note, the first bombing of Mannheim took place on 16/17 December, 1940, a full month after the bombing of Coventry, which claimed the lives of 568 people (the exact figure was never precisely confirmed), with another 863 badly injured and 393 sustaining lesser injuries. Casualties sustained at Mannheim were 34 dead and 81 injured. Prior to the 14 November bombing of Coventry, the city had been the target of 17 previous raids. London and Liverpool, to name but two, had been under sustained attack since Aug/Sept of that year.
During the year of 1940, British forces dropped around 13,000 tons of munitions on German targets. During the very same period, Germany dropped 36,800 tons of bombs, incendiaries and anti-personnel mines on British cities.
One aircraft I cant believe did not appear was the de-Havilland Mosquito. How could they miss out the most outstanding and versatile aircraft of the Second World War ?
Could carry equal or more bombload as the B17 with more accuracy and far less losses; the DH Mosquito, half the size
Does seem beyond strange to mention the Manchester and not the Mossie.
About 1,000 Mossys were built as unarmed bombers. The most produced variant being the fighter bomber with a max bomb load of 1,500 lb.
FB. Mk VI 2,305 built Fighter bomber/intruder variant using Merlin 22, 23 or 25. 4 machine guns and 4 cannons, plus 2 x 250 lb bombs carried internally & underwing carriage of up to 2 x 500 lb bombs. Could be fitted with underwing rocket projectiles or drop tanks instead of external bomb carriage.
BAE Systems Mosquito page
www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/de-havilland-mosquito
Not to mention the Bristol Beaufighter.
@ZebsFrend FrendlessLink anything stating the Mossy was faster than the P51.
2:59
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Full documentary, as opposed to what, half or a quarter?
I'm would not be surprised to see fragments of this edited in some half hour montage accompanied by some fine loud hip hop music...as you sometimes come across here on YT.
Not sure if you actually want to learn why, or just don't understand and are trying to be sarcastic. I'm guessing your curious so...
When old documentaries were uploaded to RUclips and other sites during the time of dial up etc. You'd usually find them split into 5 min segments. Sometimes more but never half an hour plus.
It helped with buffering or allowed you to manage usage caps.
An addendum to the title would let you know how the content was split.
@@AdamMGTF It's still a stupid statement. Why bother to offer a documentary if it's not complete.
No doubt the Lancaster was a capable bomber. However, the reason they suffered fewer losses is that the RAF bombed at night. The B 17 was more heavely armored and armed. The 8th Airforce conducted daylight raids. My opinion.
The British had no long range fighter so had to fly at night and to area bomb. The US had long range fighters so could fly during the day and bomb smaller targets more accurately. You can't really compare the loss rates, as they were used in different ways.
@@rjk69 The Americans EVENTUALLY had long-range fighters.
@ZebsFrend Frendless The Mosquito wasn't used as a dedicated fighter, it was used as a light bomber, photo rec and night fighter. In what way was the Mosquito better than the P51 other than armament?
@ZebsFrend Frendless What sources are you getting your figures from? Speed, ceiling and climb rate all appear to be better for the P51. Damage survival is subjective. So the British had a long range fighter, just they never used it as such? Really? Why wouldn't they? And I'm not American.
@ZebsFrend Frendless Nope still wrong, I'm British. If you re-read my posts you will see my original post simply stated that the British had no long range fighter and therefore the Lancasters had to fly at night. The Lancaster was a good aircraft, I never said the US heavy bombers were better, they each had their strengths. It was you that stated the Mosquito was a better long range fighter than the P51, here I have to disagree. The fact that the Mosquito wasn't used exclusively as a fighter and was never designed to be one does kind of support my case.
They should have thought that having a longer than three minute intro would be even far more boring.
You missed the B 26 and If you are showing earlier types, you also missed the B 18 Bolo. As for British bombers the you didn't include, the Mosquito, the Martin Maryland and Baltimore. The section on German aircraft missed the Do 17 "Flying Prncil". Why no Itslian, Japanese or Russian aircraft?
So much for being a "Full Documentary."
The Baltimore was the B26 for an obvious reasons.
Are you addressing your criticism to the people who made this documentary? Because they are probably retired now!!!
@@timburke4837 Eh? Those are two different planes.
@@timburke4837 Yeah - same company, but the Baltimore was the Martin A-30.
Great documentary, but how can the Mosquito's bombing role be ignored?
I've often wondered why, on the He-177, they didn't take the coupling gearbox one step further with coaxial propeller shafts. Maybe they did, and reverted to a single propeller??
I could 😂understand how they could build one of the first jet fighters but never a 4 engine bomber.
I do that most nights with the wife talking to me.... she seldom talks to me much the following morning!
14:09 The pilot in this scene later led the famous Jericho raid, which broke down the walls of a prison in France to allow for a mass escape of French resistance fighters scheduled for execution. He was killed on that raid.
Percy Charles Pickard.
Stars at 3:20. Friggin intro
B-17
Why does this sound like classic Final Fantasy music?
AOW: Planetfall if my guess is right.
"Fips" Phillips, a 200+ Eastern Front Ace wrote the following while in command of JG 1 defending against American Bombers over Northern Germany: "Against 20 Russians trying to shoot you down or even 20 Spitfires, it can be exciting, even fun. But curve in towards 40 fortresses and all your past sins flash before your eyes."
freepages.rootsweb.com/~josephkennedy/military/German_Pilot_Perspective.htm
german grief ( translated to english:griffin)
"Luck" and "fighting ability" used as accolades for the Lancaster? That's stretching credibility too much. It had, for its era a substantial payload abd a good range. But luck? The majority of those produced were shot down. Fighting ability? It wasn't a fighter and its defensive capabilities were woeful compared with the much mauled B 17.
It wasn't luck, the Britts bombed at night while the USA bombed during the day so they could see what they were bombing.
BBC The Pointblank Directive "Redrafted by the Air Ministry, the directive tasked the 8th US Army Air Force with attacking the aviation industry; RAF Bomber Command would work towards 'the general disorganisation of German industry', as before."
"Losses were running at the unsustainable rate of 6-7 per cent per raid, with no prospect of a German surrender. With Germany reasserting command of the air and the Normandy landings in prospect, Arthur Harris's dream of defeating Germany through bombing was slipping away."
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1135180.shtml
Lancasters were considered to be very maneuverable for their time and size. When caught in a searchlight beam the only thing was to "corkscrew" - dive and turn. Although rated as a 2G airframe, the pilots routinely just pulled on the stick for all they were worth.
Then there were all the low-level attacks, not just the 617 dams raid, but also in the Pacific war. That requires a very good-handling aircraft. They could take a LOT of damage too. It was not unusual to lose an engine, and often enough they got home on two.
So yes, the Lanc was an aircraft with fighting ability. But if you think luck did not play a part in the survival of even the best aircrews, ground forces, and Navy personnel, then I don't know what to say.
@@John.0z Luck? Sure luck can apply to individual aircraft but this documentary described the aircraft marque as lucky and - how would you rationalize that? It fails abysmally on aircrew survival rates. What criterion would you use to judge it? It was better than the Halifax and Stirling because it could fly higher - but lucky?
Fightability isn’t something I’d ascribe to an ability to get out of a searchlight beam. This was down to individual pilot skill and, importantly, later in the war, as German radar control of these (and groups of these) improved, more difficult. Fightability against night fighters relied mainly on evasion too. Easier earlier in the war. Later as German airborne radar improved and cannons were developed and tactics changed, the Lancaster was pretty defenceless. Its 4 x rear 303s were manually guided, relied on a visual contact and not particularly effective (see: Spitfire, destructive power, cannon vs 303s). No lower mid turret was developed for the aircraft so when the Nazis started attacking from below it was defenceless. It also suffered at times as the RADAR ‘war’ went through its cycle of measure and counter measure re: Flak gun-laying. Its fortune (luck is not the correct word) came in two forms: 1 (a) Germany’s depletion of available aviation fuel. (b) Germany’s depletion of well trained skilled pilots.(c) Germany’s eventual demise in industrial capacity/materials and the competition for these. 2: The accompanying of RADAR fitted Mosquito night fighters on raids - with the specific brief of attacking German night fighters. This sometimes preceded raids - attacking the night fighters as they circuited their Himmelbett zones.
The Lancaster was relatively fast and durable and had a substantial payload. But it was neither lucky nor did it have much in the way of fightability. Bomber Command’s casualty rate during WWII was 46%. All Lancaster crew were volunteers: brave men. I am not attacking the Lancaster, its crews or effectiveness. But it had poor fighting ability and was in no way particularly lucky: it was though an effective bomber - at a considerable cost in lives. He wasn’t called ‘Butcher’ Harris for no reason.
@@bryandavies6074 In the brutal mathematics of war, 100 men in Lancasters would deliver significantly more explosives to German targets than would 100 men in B-17s, and without the additional dozens of American pilots providing fighter escort. If Britain had followed the American model, the RAF would likely have had much less than half the offensive punch it did. Would the probability of a given crewman surviving a given mission have been higher? Probably. Would bringing the war to an end have taken more men flying on more missions, each one representing an additional risk? Almost certainly.
Grieff was not a twin engine bomber, it had four engines coupled in the same cowling. At least get the facts correct.
One being coupled to the other then
So a twin engined plane
The coupled engines were considered a single powerplant, first the DB 606 and later the DB 610.
Looks a bit like a Lancaster "Rip off" but not quite as good. IMHO
The americans overrated its ability to deal with the german fighter's initially.
B24 first flight 1939. Lanc 1941.
They don't look similar to me.
2,140 B24's Lend Leased to British Empire plus 88 to Canada. page 2
ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/LL-Ship/LL-Ship-7.html
Your intros are way to long.
I guess the Japanese weren't important enough hmm
B17was April good aircraft aswell
As welltherwerelotsof good bombers
Yes, it was. It was capable of the same payload as the Lancaster, but over a much shorter range at high altitude and it couldn't be as a single bomb.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 not even close standard bomb load of a B17 was 4.000lbs. Vs 14.500lbs for a lancaster. Maximum of 8.000 for a B17. And 22.000 for a lancaster. . . The B17 was an excellent aircraft but was restricted by its small bomb bay and limited carrying capacity. The lancaster was far more versatile. . . But each played their part.
@@animaltvi9515 go and look at the handbook on www.jasonblair.net/WP-content/uploads/2015/06/Pilots-Manual-for-Boeing-B-17-Flying-Forteess.pdf and you will find that a B-17 could lift 16,000lb of which 4,000lb would be carried externally. But the drawback was a reduction in range to 790 statute miles if they flew at 25,000ft. They could, however, fly as far as 1,170 statute miles if they accepted a ceiling of 6,000ft.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 could carry. . But they never used the external racks in combat. And its still way short of the lancaster.
Excessively long introduction with music - unnecessary padding-out.
This was my first thought, too. Three minute opening?!
Was about to say the same thing!
Yes. The makers who produced this 20-30 years ago should have realised that when the internet was invented. It would mean their product would get a down vote.
How silly of them
Adam Bainbridge It could be truncated now though, surely!
Impatient much?
Let's be real. The night bombing raids didn't do anything but kill civilians. They didn't serve any tactical purpose, just like the V-weapons.
War in your mind must be very neat and tidy.
@@ronjon7942 No. But to inflict mayhem just for the sake of mayhem is cruelty without purpose. And there's lengthy documentation to the fact that the British knew their tactic was bad. That's why the Americans stopped doing night raids.
If it weren't for the women working in England and America on the war effort, things would be quite different. They made an enormous contribution for freedom.
It has always seemed to be that the wartime generation of women were, or grew to be, a tough lot. And they handed most of it down to their children. But over subsequent generations it's been watered down - to the point where we are now.
@ZebsFrend Frendless Well for "exactly" you'd need to know which woman you were talking about, know the woman and know her ancestry. Surely you have examples of your own. From my side my mother had a literally unspeakably bad childhood which only started to get better when a policeman found her sleeping in a cowshed. She fought her way up to a decent job and there were no detectable mental scars. I don't have a sister but I'm damn sure our daughters, good women that they are, could not have survived my mother's childhood. Too much information?
@ZebsFrend Frendless Even if it is an insult it doesn't make it untrue. I'll be guilty of an "ism" next.
@ZebsFrend Frendless Mother was from the East End, father from South Wales and I was born in Swindon. Just over 100,000 US servicemen were killed, in Europe, in WW and four times as many injured. For the second time in 30 years they were getting Europeans out of the mess they'd got themselves into.
@ZebsFrend Frendless I apologies to any Americans reading this for the sentiments expressed by this guy. The lack of gratitude for the 100,000 that died in WW2 Europe and, for that matter, the Marshall aid that put Europe on its feet after the war.
Wrong about the Ju-87 after the Battle of Britain. This aircraft has another good 2 years in Russia and the Mediterranean theater. HMS Greyhound, HMS Gloucester, HMS Kelly, HMS Kashmir, HMS Kingston, the Marat and Besposhchadny were all victims of this airplane
This thing is wrong about many things...
Lancaster as the greatest? Get off your high horses
If so how come it had to stick to night missions and give the day job to the American B-17? Because it was not capable of defending it's self as well as the B-17.The Brits tried it and had severe losses that they had to switch to night missions.
It isn't any wonder the casualty rate was also far less in it,it flew night missions...
The bigger bomb load was also due to not needing as much firepower and ammunition stuffed onboard because they had to stick to night missions...
Notice the common denominator here? Night missions....
Without the Brit bias, I'd say the B-17 was the better bomber compared to the Lancaster.It was more capable during the day and could also do night missions.The B-24 Liberator was also a more capable bomber
As was the B-26 Marauder compared to "Wimpy"
17:40 The 1939 raid on Wilhelmshaven with such high losses included one KIA by the name of Lightoller. He was a son of Charles Lightoller, the senior surviving officer of the Titanic. In 1940, Lightoller evacuated 127 soldiers from Dunkirk on a boat built to hold 21.
Are you telling me a guy who was kia in ‘39 saved 127 souls in ‘40? Or do you mean his dad?
@@Ricksie Well, being dead the year before, that son wasn't available, was he? Actually I read the personal account of Charles Lightoller's part in the Dunkirk evacuation in a collection of such things by people who were in that war. It might have been one of the Oxford books.
Wellington as a must respected as a Night Submarine Hunter Coastal Command
Thank you. Great analytical view of second world war bombers and development.
all those people stood watching ?.,,,get em working
Aircraft porn!
The longest intro ever... The show starts at 3:00.
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One can learn from English documentary films, how to admire yourselves... you will never find such people in world who only praise and paster themselves so much that any worst thing also one would start believing otherwise... all world knows Germans bit British and killed there stiff attitude,...
"Listen, don’t mention the war! I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it all right.
So! It’s all forgotten now, and let’s hear no more about it. So, that’s two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads." - Basil Fawlty.
37:00 that man doesn't look too happy to be called to fly this aircraft. he looks like a man walking to his execution!
They pretty much were walking to their execution back then
Let's face it the B17 Flying Fortress is more famous than the B24 Liberator simply because it looks so much more impressive. People don't go much beyond looks when comparing these two great aeroplanes.
Plus the name is iconic
Avro Lancaster
Flying Fortress
King Tiger
Soviet Union
Flying Tigers
The names just stand out
No DeHavilland Mosquito makes this a product of Documentary bias, not base,
Particularly with some of the turkeys they choose to include instead.
How much do you think it helped the Lancaster causality rate vs American allied bombers since it flew at night as compared to the daytime.
i think the americans did the daytime raids cause they where higher and faster then the british raids
"Of the total of 7,377 Lancasters built (430 of them in Canada), 3,932 were lost in action."
www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/aircraft/the-lancaster-bomber/
Hard to say. Don’t forget that quite a large percentage of aircraft were lost due to accidents and malfunctions, and night flying was inherently riskier in that regard.
TheRAF in bomber command of 125,000 men lost 56,000 !!! The USAAF with over 200,000 in theater lost 26,000 men.....almost 4 times the men with 1/2 the losses !!!! What doe that tell you about the survivability of a Lancaster ???? It was BAD !!! Very difficult to get out of one small door and worse yet few pilots survived bailing out of a lanc !! !
Very little actual technical information about the planes themselves. Rather disappointing really.
Think of it as the video equivalent of a Wikipedia article. It gives you an easy entry into the subject.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I have seen far more technical info on Wiki pages about Bombers than displayed here. This is more like "A brief (very) introduction to WW2 bombers"
@@freddieclark and that's what I'm meaning. Some Wikipedia articles are vague when it comes to details and little more than an entry into a topic.
@@neiloflongbeck5705 I believe the Wiki's for most WW2 bombers are quite detailed, particularly the British ones.
@@freddieclark you are being too literal. As for accuracy, the Wikipedia article on the Lancaster omits why the ventral turret was little used. The FN64 turrets were removed as they were found to be difficult to use as the field of view from the periscope made it difficult to pick up an attacking fighter.
a 3 minute intro? Jesus
This documentary was made 20 years ago. It's worrying how many people in these comments don't seem to have grasped this.
You worry too much!
Really doesn't matter these planes are least 65 to 70 years old
The Weekend Worker was great, made even moreso that their wages for their 30hrs was donated to the Russian Red Cross.
This was a great intro to WWII bombers, and very helpful to those of us who are studying the many British types.
Rommel and the Afrika Corps never fought Greece.
J Wellington Wimpy was a character in the Popeye cartoons. He liked his hamburgers.
No nationalist subjectivity here... 🙄 I call bullshit. The B-29 carried the heaviest bomb loads, and over the greatest range. The low casualty rate was because the Lancaster was a night time bomber. Had they flown the missions of the 8th airforce, they would have been dropping like flies. With no waist gunners or ball turret, the Luftwaffe would have chewed them up during daylight raids, and they did.... A neat bomber, but of limited value.
Somehow Palpatine became the Narrator
24hrs for the record n they only made 1? The Ford company put out 1 b-24 with 4 engines every 18 hrs for 3or4 years every day constantly! That’s insane it’s crazy how important logistics are for warfare it’s literally the most important thing not even close!! But that is badass! They stitched on the fabric by hand it looked like, honestly the wimpy is a mad underrated bomber
#wellington_RAF
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#BigWeek - those dudes were sim badass brave SOBs hat off
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I think the point was to recognize the efforts of a team that worked on their weekend off to produce another asset, donating their wages to the Russian Red Cross. And yes, I'm sure Britain thanks us for our manufacturing expertise. This shouldn't diminish this team's (or all English teams) special efforts to accomplish this task, while being a major staging area for the war. Last time I checked, Michigan didn't have to constantly worry about being invaded, Willow Run never got bombed, and America didn't have to worry that our food supply would be cut off and that my parents and grandparents didn't live under threat of siege and starvation. In short, we'd had better been able to produce more and make it faster than our British sisters and brothers.
Not Knocking The Wellington Bomber It Was A Great Plane ✈️ However The Missions It Flew Were Mostly At Night So They Didn’t Have To Face The German Fighters Like The ME 109 And The ME 262 Like The American Bombers Had To Deal With As The American Raids Were In The Daytime ! MUCH, MUCH More Dangerous !
And yet with over 80% casualty rate night bomber raids not much safer.
@@sigeberhtmercia767 You’re Right, But It Was Much More Dangerous In The Daytime ! Our Bomber And Pilot Losses Were Staggering 🥴 !
@@Christopher-nz8ir No denying it and it was worse still for the daylight bomber crews when their target was beyond escort fighter range. The pre-war doctrine that bombers didn't need escorts didn't help. The P-38s and the P-51s were lifesavers. (P-47s less so but only because of range, it was still an awesome aircraft).
The night bombers on the other hand had to contend with Bf110s, Ju88s, Me410s, Do217s, and a small number of He219s and Ta152s. Up against Schräge Musik those bomber crews wouldn't know what hit them. There was even a Me262 night fighter variant but I don't think that progressed beyond prototype.
All in all, I take my hat off to all the bomber crews who served.
bombing germany was hell , bombing germany at night was like dining with the devil himself in hell . My uncle was a tail end charlie in the Mighty Lanc , 33 missions RCAF 1939-46.
@@fredjohnson7497 “Awesome” !!! Godbless Your Uncle !
I read of the Lancaster- first they designed a bomb bay, then they built a plane around it.
"The casualty rate was consistently lower than the others".
That's because of two factors mainly.
1. The Lancaster was withdrawn from the extremely dangerus role of a daylight bomber over enemy territory.
2. it had a much smaller crew complement that either the B17 or the B24.
In addition, it wasn't pressurized for high altitude performance like the B29, so it's entire bomb bay could be used to accomodate large bombs without much modification. Let's face it, outside of it's night bombing missions which didn't require long range escort fighters - which the RAF didn't have anyway - the Lancaster's main call to fame rests on two missions; the attacks on the German Ruhr valley dams, and the sinking of the Tirpitz.
Even it's endurance range was not significantly better than those of it's peers; the range usually being acieved by stripping it of wight by the removal of defensive armament and armor protection.
The video gets one thing right though; the Lancaster is a lovely aircraft to look at.
Performance wise though, it was not really as spectacular as it's fans and promoters would like other people to believe. Even if it had had long range fighter escorts in WW@, the Lancaster would not have been able to survive daylight raids into enemy territory due to it's lack of defensive armament. If anything, the severe losses the lancasters suffered even during night raids shows this since it had to contend only with a few german night fighters aside from the usual flack barrages.
Or to put it another way, if the lancaster was so wonderful, why was other aircraft like the Sutherland and the B24 used for convoy/coastal protection instead of the Lancaster? True, the lancaster's ability to carry extreme loads of bombs made it more effective as a night bomber over germany, but if facts are to be believed, the lancasters had to have a very large bomb load because it was used as an area bomber rather than a precision bomber most of the time. Even the prickly 'Bomber' Harris would not have willingly allowed his Lancasters to exchangr places with the B17s, even if provided with long range fighter escorts Harris was proud of his Lancasters.
But he wasn't stupid.
@ZebsFrend Frendless Why 3 reasons? There only has to be 1 good reason. Daylight bombing allows for much greater accuracy, you simply cannot bomb a target you can't see. Dropping bombs on a city is pretty much all that can be achieved at night.
@ZebsFrend Frendless Tactical bombing shortens wars, you can't tactical bomb at night. It has been proved many times over that bombing cities does nothing to shorten wars. The cities the British bombers were destroying had no manufacturing facilities and were purely residential. If the Lancasters had been able to fly at night they would have done, they didn't choose to fly at night, they had to.
@ZebsFrend Frendless The daylight bombing by the RAF didn't use Lancasters.
@ZebsFrend Frendless I daresay Lancs were used in limited daylight strikes in areas where air superiority had been established. The facts remain, the Lancaster was used as a night bomber due to the lack of long range fighter support. You seem to have an issue with this, fine, we don't agree. Do you know I really couldn't give a fuck what your dad did in Africa and Europe.
@@rjk69 Speer said 6 more Hamburgs and the war would have been over for Germany.
By the way, the RAF Lancs etc were the ONLY planes bombing deep inside Germany in winter 1943/44 while the USAAF had to lick its wounds for a few months after the disasters of Regensberg/Schweinfurt.
Get those hands out of your pockets !!!!
The 80’s music was a little misplaced on this era of documentary.
Ah , where are the Japanese planes ? Italian ? French ?
Flaming Japanese city concept
People are complaining about this long intro, but I love it! Watched the intro 5 times in a row.
The Mitchell Bomber was awesome.
Uh, so the Japanese and Italians didn't field bombers in WW2 since absolutely no mention was made of them in this video? I guess the Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by figments of the imagination then lol?
Why entitle a whole chapter "Axis Bombers" but only mention one of the Axis powers?
Just wonderful seeing that Wellington built in 24hrs!! If only today that we had that level of production AND employment!!
True but, speaking as a retired stress engineer and designer, the structure of the Wellington was a national disgrace. When I said that to my pal while we were walking round the Cosford museum he said, "keep your voice down, you'd be safer saying Jimmy Savile was a decent guy in here".
@@sideshowbob5237 I'll take your word regarding it's engineering, but my comment was more satirical regarding how it was great seeing everyone working back then - as opposed to today's continual massive unemployment, due principally, to the never-ending global Technological Revolution we've now dropped ourselves into. 👍
@@idleonlooker1078 And in that respect I agree with you wholeheartedly. Maybe the single word "true" rather undersold that point!
@@sideshowbob5237 I thought as much, mate - but wanted to reinforce the point to raise awareness in others, who may read our posts.
Btw, we have a Spitfire Mk.22 in our local aviation museum, and whenever I visit, I ALWAYS walk up to the rear fuselage and cuddle it in thanks for those who went before to ensure my freedoms! 😊👍
@@idleonlooker1078 My obsession is Bomber Command. When I advertise model aeroplane engines on eBay and "foreigners" ask for a postage cost I tell Europeans the actual cost but if it's NZ, Australia or Canada I tell them it's free for services rendered '39 to '45. Nearly 50% died, 16% chance of surviving a 30 mission tour, all volunteers and the colonials who came could have stayed safely at home.
I wonder if they bombers had the gau-2 type Gatling guns and mini guns if they could've better defended themselves. And how many actually friendly fired other bombers while chasing enemy planes with their guns.
Just after the blitz started in sept 1940 my home home town of Coventry sustained heavy damage from a German raid which was estimated
to have been 500 bombers. It lasted all night and killed over 1600 civilians.. they bombed again in April in 1941.
The Germans carpet bombed before the U.K. Did. They were not to know that Dresden fire storm would happen.
The glow form the Coventry fires could be seen over 75 miles away.
Say thanks to Mr.Churchill who didn't want Germans to know they cracked the Enigma codes.
@@Maloy7800 Not really. Although Ultra had provided information that a large raid was to be conducted, the information received provided no clues as to the intended target. At that time, the most likely target for a large scale raid would have been London.
@@bolivar2153 Okay, let's imagine for one second that it was true. How was London prepared? People evacuated? Warned? Additional bomb shelters organized? Nope.
Cmon man! Churchill was a heartless narcissistic coward. He spent his entire life trying to prove otherwise at the cost of tens if not hundreds of millions of lives. He even wrote a book of lies for which he bullied a Nobel Prize out of Swedes in exchange for American help (thank you President Truman). He failed in everything he ever attemtped, an old pathetic fool, but the human price remained unchanged.
@@Maloy7800 "Okay, let's imagine for one second that it was true." You don't have to imagine, you can read it for yourself, if you have the inclination, it's well documented.
"How was London prepared? People evacuated? Warned? Additional bomb shelters organized?" London, and Britain as a whole, was prepared for bombing raids even prior to the onset of the blitz. In fact, the government had been looking at the problem since 1924, with the Air Raid Precautions Committee. Children were evacuated where possible. Public shelters were organised and Anderson Shelters, and steel beams for reinforcing suitable basements, were issued free of charge to poorer families without easy access to public shelters. Gas masks were issued to all citizens and drills were conducted. Such systems, and others, were put in place and operated throughout the war. Britain was about as prepared for the German onslaught as it was possible to be. Don't forget, had the raid struck London instead of Coventry, it would have just been another normal night in London for that time.
@@bolivar2153 Judging by "the Blitz", you are well-read on British post-war propaganda. All very well-versed and acquitting the Dunkirk Winston of any fault for millions of lives lost both in Britain and in Germany. If you want to believe "the official version" of events, far be it for me to stand in your way. But SO many new documents have become available with the advent of the Internet. Interesting reading, too.
P.S. The music is not needed.
The guy in charge of it is listed in the credits. Probably retired now. But least you can find his name and send him a letter 🤣
Horrible introduction and music ends at 3:10
This information is NOT objective.
So make your own video.
yeah, and in the documentary the only city to have been bombed during WW II was London....
That dam is by where I live where they tested the bouncing bombs
Where, do you have the AppleMaps coordinates? I stumbled on a test site for the Grand Slam (Ashley Park, I think?), but I don't recall a body of water, save a nearby river....
@@ronjon7942 I'm sure I could get you them if that's what u want but it's a lil dam well largish dam in mid Wales Ellan valley dam it's beautiful
The "Poms" vs Yanks" nature of the comments on this site is appalling. How many of the commenters know that General Eaker (who came to England to start the American daylight bombing effort) lived for quite a while in Sir Arthur Harris's house, and they worked closely together. Harris also worked closely with Doolittle and Eisenhower, and they became lifelong friends. If you want to get any sort of accurate picture of the real situation, you need to read Dudley Saward's official biography of Harris (ISBN 0-385-11258-0); it sets out the whole story, in detail, with accurate data. Harris and Eaker set out to do "round the clock" bombing, because the respective strengths of their equipment made this possible. RAF Bomber Command lost a total of 47,268 aircrew on active service, and dropped a total of 955,044 tons of bombs, and 33,237 tons of mines, in 389,809 sorties, with a total loss rate of just over 2.2%. Their biggest problem was probably the "Scrage Musik" upward-pointing guns on the German night-fighters. I do not have figures for the American daylight offensive, which did not reach full strength until late 1944. The British did a great deal to limit German production in 1943 and 1944, and by 1945 were able to bomb precisely by night.
@ZebsFrend Frendless BBC Pointblank "Redrafted by the Air Ministry, the directive tasked the 8th US Army Air Force with attacking the aviation industry; RAF Bomber Command would work towards 'the general disorganisation of German industry', as before."
"Losses were running at the unsustainable rate of 6-7 per cent per raid, with no prospect of a German surrender. With Germany reasserting command of the air and the Normandy landings in prospect, Arthur Harris's dream of defeating Germany through bombing was slipping away."
www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1135180.shtml
@ZebsFrend Frendless Butt Report "His report, published in August 1941, revealed that, over Germany, only one in four crews dropped bombs at night within 5 miles of their target. For targets in the heavily defended Ruhr, the proportion was one in ten. To make these statistics worse was the fact that these figures only referred to those crews who claimed to have reached the target. If the number of bombers actually dispatched on a raid is used then the number of bombs within 5 miles of a target has been quoted as low as 5%."
www.militaryhistories.co.uk/york/butt#:~:text=The%20Butt%20report%20was%20ordered%20by%20Lord%20Cherwell,WW2%2C%20joined%20the%20Statistical%20Section%20of%20the%20Admiralty.
"... the war could largely been decided in 1943 if instead of vast but pointless area bombing the planes had concentrated on the centres of armaments production." Minister of Armaments Speer page 280 Inside The Third Reich
@ZebsFrend Frendless The RAF bombed France as well, did they manage to miss the civilians?
The bombing of the Bezuidenhout took place on 3 March 1945, when the Royal Air Force mistakenly bombed the Bezuidenhout neighbourhood in the Dutch city of The Hague. At the time, the neighbourhood was more densely populated than usual with evacuees from The Hague and Wassenaar; tens of thousands were left homeless and had to be quartered in the Eastern and Central Netherlands. The British bomber crews had intended to bomb the Haagse Bos ("Forest of the Hague") district where the Germans had installed V-2 launching facilities that had been used to attack English cities. However the pilots were issued with the wrong coordinates so the navigational instruments of the bombers had been set incorrectly, and combined with fog and clouds which obscured their vision, the bombs were instead dropped on the Bezuidenhout residential neighbourhood.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_the_Bezuidenhout
@ZebsFrend Frendless Owning books does not make one capable of understanding what is written in them.
How do the bailout without getting hit by the tail wing?
Out the bottom hatch or bomb bay.
The Amiot 143 was the best bomber of WW2
Keyboard soundtrack forsever.
Bragg Bragg Bragg
How many planes in a Squadron ? Just Googled 12. A Flight and B Flight 6 in each.
Actually it varied massivly. Depending on which air force, the role of the squadron and losses/replacements.
There is no actual single answer. Much as division/regiment/company/section/squad sizes had huge variations
That 24hr build of the Lancaster is radical. I would have loved to have worked on those bombers.
It was a Wellington that they built in 24hrs
B24
@@nickdanger3802 Henry Ford was turning out one B24 every hour at peak production, Ford built over 1/2 of all B24's plus many parts for other factories !! !
Very interesting documentary. And these piston engined warplanes reach their technical pinnacle in WW2 and suddenly become obsolete.
Did I miss the B26?
Wasn't listed as was the A26 not listed !!!
At about 11 min 30, the burning oil lamps as runway markings are shown, but it seems to be daytime. Anyone know why they would be in use?
Smoke for wind direction maybe?
@@gunvideorichmond7550 Maybe. doubt that it would be visible from the air, but maybe useful for an indicator for takeoff in addition to the usual windsock.
It was for fog. There were several such systems. For heavy fog there were airfields what had huge pipework systems that sprayed petrol on fire along the sides of the runways to burn off fog. It wasn't widely used. But it did exist
@@AdamMGTF That makes sense! Thanks.
@@AdamMGTF I learned something new today.
The Lancaster was not the best bomber. And they received the least casualties because they mostly bombed at night. It was a good bomber, no doubt, but not the best🙂
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This a man’s world
Women won WW2
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My God man! ....trim that long boring intro!
I disagree with the presenter the Stuka dive bomber represented a new 'ground attack' system, similar to the modern warthog or helicopter gun ship, highly effective.
No one cares
@@markmitchell450 oh well.
The history that is documented isnt the history that bothers me. There are hidden histories that have been going for centuries which cannot be targetted therefor cannot be stopped. Like security might have an office and a phone number and staff which are listed etc the illegal activities dont have a paper trail, any office, any set routine etc. These are bigger than anyone can imagine even those in the game. That Matrics that you can feel something isnt right but there is nothing you can pin it on. They bury their evidence leave a path of death. dead men tell no tales, dont ask dont tell... Mutinies and claiming roles taking down entire networks and then hiring unwitting staff to work as though nothing happened but a new management is in control. Hate on the witness, truth dies for sins, thanking the dead guy for the bounty etc .... Roman catholic, then others do it, but some do it better. Fruit ripe for the harvest, co vid pandemic, Doctors and Lawers highest paid but it isnt a wage. trust me on that. Hiring everyone to be a doctor and nurse to then dilute the trail. But who is going to address it? You with a video? The defence force who have been "Trained"to think some cave dweller is the worlds problems and Islam? these guys dont have a uniform and ranks and weapons factories. They only use IED's because its westerners own weapons which didnt explode. but I am wrong because democracy is trained to hate evidence. TRAINED and covid for those who arent TRAINED. Thats the pandemic. Thats the sickness. Evidence which some will fight to the death to hide out of fear of exposure. That is the war. Some guy a thousand years ago killed someone and has been fighting to hide the truth ever since. so kill the witness, then kill those questioning where these people are and then kill those who are looking for answers and then start a group to combat the growing army that is killing everyone and those killing everyone become comfortable getting rich off everyone elses spoils and then defend doing that. How convenient, we dont have to work and collect recourses and process them and learn and build and sell we can just take it. Medical.. Helping people to death. St Johns Hospitaliers, Maltese Jewish established 1070 The year 1070 ad nearly 1000 years ago. Control weaken, divide, seperate, iscolate no competiton, central core, underworld, the hive, unalocated, hiring human shields, take from one blame another, Media TRAINING. OBEY Pandemic Lockdown. Even the army and courts cannot breach. USELESS. ACT, PUPPETS. The killers and the live stock. Everyone in deficit or acting as though they are. Diverting blame. Causing riots to destablise solid leads and evidence. Will fight becuase they are scared of consequinces. FEAR of being turned on and ripped apart as they should be. Hitler knew. He had a work force, I bet there were a lot of people who he made look stupid. The Church reject who the church couldnt let succeed because they would then look bad because the herd was feeding out of their hand so turned on the jewish. advisors, misinformation, saving face. Still going on today. Selling drugs and chaos, because it break everything down easy to pick off one by one when in the core in the central group with everyone elses resources. financial crisis, industrial collapse... notfor everyone I bet those who e=were collecting were broadcasting that in order for everyone not to feel so bad and retaliate but then aim the hatred at Islam or China or anyone else and the Greeks seemed to use the media to cry victim back then where they run tax offices and realestate and concrete along with the italians all over the place. Wont hit you head on but ill spread rumors and lies and breed people into that lie and raise them into that lie so it isnt believed even with evidence and it goes against their pampering and training. New people taught fresh blank brains to program.. here watch some memes and smoke your drugs. thats as far as you are going. US and Russia super power my ass. BOTH Nuke programs run by medical legal core.. probably St Johns Catholic. Japan Germany Islam Russia are the enemies. Turn everyone against them becuase it is easier to blame someone across the other side of the world but not when they are in the same room. Catholics. Saints in public but demons behind closed doors. but no evidence. Where is the proof. How the laws change overnight. at their will. as they see fit. not democracy. Communism is a threat, people grouping and sharing information and sorting things out is a threat. I am a threat, someone speaking more sence than they have been is a threat. Weak presidential selections, selected presidential candidates. We are trying to win a vote, here is a trick, here is a treat, please vote for me. USELESS. ACT. PUPPET.
...what are you on?
No kidding. Stop drinking.
30 hours? Not the best time making a bomber. The USA was spitting a B17 Fortress out EVERY TWO HOURS at just one plant
They included some mediocre yank medium bombers in this video but neglected the De Havilland Mosquito, which could carry a 25% heavier bomb load to Berlin than the B-17 at much higher speed with just a 2-man crew???
Voted down.
FB. Mk VI 2,305 built. Fighter bomber/intruder variant using Merlin 22, 23 or 25. 4 (Browning) machine guns and 4 (Hispano) cannons, plus 2 x 250 lb bombs carried internally & underwing carriage of up to 2 x 500 lb bombs. Could be fitted with underwing rocket projectiles or drop tanks instead of external bomb carriage.
BAE Systems
www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/de-havilland-mosquito
Should have teen titled "british try to defend their party line". No Americans in the first 20 min? I'm sure the 8th Air force who DID manage daylight raids - even often hitting the correct town, would have something to say about all this "only nighttime raids are practical" - The Brits just left us the dangerous parts. One of their services has the motto "through strength and guile" - this must be the guile part.
@@DCFusor Really? You are getting butt hurt because "No Americans in the first 20 min?" Are you not smart enough to work out the aircraft are sorted into nations, Britain first then US then German. As for the daylight raids, the Brits didn't leave you to do the dangerous parts, they decided that they couldn't do it practically, however, and to their credit, the US decided that they could i.e. it was a US decision for the US to carry on daylight raids and not the British.
If it wasn't for the tanks and there determination you limies
Would be speaking German lol
Morethananything it was the bravementhat traveledinthem
"Travelled". Also, the big key at the bottom of your keyboard is a space bar.
Wow, all these ppl are as dead as we're once gonna be
What about the Do-17 and the Sally?
Fo allthe aircraft that were flyinginthesecondworlwar theflyingfortrasswasmyfavourite!theonlyproblemwith it was thammountof men thatitook down with it.
Do you talk fast or have you just not learned to use the Space Bar ?
Uh...where did you go to grammar school, Jason?
Dragon Meddler unfortunatly ihad aStroke 2yearsago, and now everything is fucked up includingmy gramher but iam learning but it’s very slow imevenblindinmylefteye.
@@jasonwills1116 Keep up the good work. Your opinion is as much valued as that of anyone else, even if you have a little difficulty in expressing it.
"documentary"?!😂😂 this is pure british EMPIRE propaganda for own actions of IMPERIALISM over others.
A chapter before that huge amount of lies and fabricated scenes which were used to build a story named later "history" and very useful for post war anglo-american imperialism propaganda😂
So please enlighten us with your version of WW2.
If only one could simply cease watching content one does not like.
*PROPAGANDA ;(*
this 4 min intro sux