Death of Emil Lang - Highest scoring ace over Normandy | 173 victories - 3rd September 1944

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  • Опубликовано: 4 дек 2024
  • Hauptman Emil 'Bully' Lang was a 173-victory ace, known for being the highest scoring pilot in a day (18 victories) and the highest scoring German pilot on the Invasion Front, allegedly gaining 29 victories there after being transferred from the Eastern Front. On 3rd September 1944, Lang led a flight of JG 26 Fw 190s from Melsbroek. After overcoming difficulties with raising his landing gear, Lang and his flight were subsequently intercepted by Allied aircraft to the south-east of Brussels. Lang’s aircraft was last seen in flames as it crashed into the Belgian countryside near St. Trond.
    It has been argued that Lieutenant Darrell Cramer flying in a section of P-51 Mustangs (338th SQN 56th Fighter Group) shot down the German ace. However, in more recent studies it has been found that it was almost certainly 41 SQN Spitfire XIIs led by Flight Lieutenant Terry Spencer who shot down Emil Lang due to the time and location of the engagement.
    Historical discrepancy: As IL-2 Sturmovik does not model the Spitfire XII I have chosen to substitute them with the Spitfire XIV seen in the video, as they are practically identical.
    Visuals: IL-2 Sturmovik: Great Battles il2sturmovik.com/
    Sources:
    Don Caldwell, JG 26 Luftwaffe Fighter Wing War Diary Volume Two: 1943-1945
    Christopher Thomas and Christopher Shores, 2nd Tactical Air Force, Vol. 1: Spartan to Normandy, June 1943 to June 1944
    Andrew Thomas, Griffon Spitfire aces
    www.spitfireper...
    JG 26 skins forum.il2sturm...
    Lang skins: forum.il2sturm...
    41 SQN skins forum.il2sturm...
    Music: ‘Titan’ by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
    #sotocinematics #history #il2

Комментарии • 339

  • @airwarchronicles
    @airwarchronicles  2 года назад +62

    Historical discrepancy: As IL-2 Sturmovik does not model the Spitfire XII I have chosen to substitute them with the Spitfire XIV seen in the video, as they are practically identical.

    • @jonbridge8064
      @jonbridge8064 2 года назад +5

      41 sqdn were about to get the Mk.XIV during Sept 1944, so it's not too far off. Spencer's claim was the last victory for the Mk.XII

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 2 года назад

      The spinner is odd. What's the engine? Still a Merlin?

    • @thierryruellan6581
      @thierryruellan6581 2 года назад +8

      @@tonyennis1787
      No Tony, Mk XII were griffon equipped.
      Beautiful crate.

    • @thierryruellan6581
      @thierryruellan6581 2 года назад +3

      @@tonyennis1787 but anyway, spitfires shown here are MKXIV, the tail of MK XII are similar to late MKIX, here they are MKXIV, sure!

    • @tonyennis1787
      @tonyennis1787 2 года назад

      @@thierryruellan6581 Ha, I expected these were Griffins. *sniffs at 'obsolete' Merlins*

  • @jochenaj8513
    @jochenaj8513 2 года назад +50

    Thank you very much for this great documentation. Emil Lang was the brother of my grandma. Since I was a child, the family spoke from time to time from our Emil, how faereless he was as a young man. It's an honor to see them documenting this.

    • @melianhoover1910
      @melianhoover1910 Год назад +6

      Small world! Unbelievable! Did you know,he had 18 aerial victories in one day,surpassing even Marseille record of 17?

    • @viktoriaironpride4977
      @viktoriaironpride4977 Год назад +5

      You are very fortunate to be related to this true hero.

    • @graf-d
      @graf-d Год назад +2

      ​@@viktoriaironpride4977Какой герой? Нациста Вы называете героем? Тот, кто сражается за то, чтобы миллионы людей гибли в концентрационных лагерях не достоин этого звания.

    • @andrewfager1713
      @andrewfager1713 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@graf-d vatnik idi nahui

    • @graf-d
      @graf-d 10 месяцев назад

      @@andrewfager1713постыдись себя, нацик.

  • @andrewshenton7630
    @andrewshenton7630 2 года назад +11

    As a jounalist/broadcaster and WWII Aviation buff, I must give hearty congratulations to Soto Cinematics for the extremely high standard of their work. Clever subject selection, thorough research, quality narration .. it's all there and in neat 'bite' sized packages. Keep up the fine work crew.
    Andrew - Perth W.A.

    • @airwarchronicles
      @airwarchronicles  2 года назад +2

      Thankyou, it's a one man show so I appreciate it!

    • @andrewshenton7630
      @andrewshenton7630 2 года назад +1

      @@airwarchronicles Cheers but the quality of the work demanded the compliment. There's a veritable gulf between the best and worst in this field. If you have any pronunciations or facts you wish to check or confirm, I might be able to help. Just let me know. Thanks again..

  • @traxel14
    @traxel14 2 года назад +100

    He did his "Job" for his country as good as he could, but against a great number of foes, it is very hard to survive.

    • @Hordalending
      @Hordalending 2 года назад +21

      Regarding being hopelessly outnumbered: Luftwaffe ace Heinz Knoke described closing the canopy of his ME 109 as "closing the coffin". But he actually survived the war

    • @daviddalton9214
      @daviddalton9214 2 года назад +3

      His “job” was to invade countries and subjugate free people to German atrocities.

    • @bottcherimmobilien4864
      @bottcherimmobilien4864 2 года назад +27

      @@daviddalton9214 england invaded countries for centuries. In wwii england and france declared war on germany. France was since 1807 napoleon aera the aggressor: 1807, 1870, 1914, 1939... nevertheless all soldiers did their duty on all sides. God may bless the many young men who died as Heroes.

    • @calc1657
      @calc1657 2 года назад +2

      @BekGrou PRIMUS Millions? Lol.

    • @bluerock4456
      @bluerock4456 2 года назад

      @BekGrou PRIMUS Extermination of just who, BekGrou?

  • @moistmike4150
    @moistmike4150 2 года назад +112

    Although the areal combat of WW2 was amazingly exciting and inspiring, the deaths of so many skilled young men is tragic beyond words. The world loses so much with each war that takes place.

    • @mountainmanws
      @mountainmanws 2 года назад +5

      We could have used their skills against the Warsaw Pact forces years later.

    • @davidj4662
      @davidj4662 2 года назад +1

      Yet here we are again starting another war in a mad quest for global domination.

    • @littlehummingbird1015
      @littlehummingbird1015 2 года назад +3

      the Amercan bombers lost untold numbers.....you basically knew you were probably going to die or be mamed while flying one or being in one during a battle. I can't comprehend the bravery of the crews.

    • @DalarionLol
      @DalarionLol 2 года назад +1

      @@littlehummingbird1015 Fliegende Särge

    • @necsoiub
      @necsoiub Год назад +1

      @@littlehummingbird1015 they also killed mostly civilians instead of actual troops...

  • @michaelbatson1879
    @michaelbatson1879 2 года назад +65

    Lang was 35 years old when he was killed in action. Being over 30, one is considered an "old man", as far as fighter pilots go.

    • @moss8448
      @moss8448 2 года назад +6

      when you get to 30 do tell us all how you feel

    • @MothaLuva
      @MothaLuva 2 года назад +6

      There was an Israeli pilot who finished operationally flying F-16s at age 62. Chuck Yeager flew an F-15 (breaking the sound barrier one more time) when he was 70+. As far as age goes.

    • @johnhotz1400
      @johnhotz1400 2 года назад +4

      That's quite old for a fighter pilot in world war II!

    • @bluerock4456
      @bluerock4456 2 года назад +5

      @@MothaLuva yes, but he wasn't fighting ... bit of a difference, that.

    • @MothaLuva
      @MothaLuva 2 года назад

      @@bluerock4456 They did the fighting before that. Bit of a difference to have been fighting and living long enough to tell the story. To your grandchildren.

  • @matoucgn
    @matoucgn 2 года назад +37

    An interesting feature for me is the so called Motor-Kommando-Gerät or Engine-Control-Unit. During flight it adjusted automatically propeller-pitch, fuel-flow, mixture, ignition and super-charger settings. That freed up a lot of work for pilots. I had a chance to fly a replica some years ago and that plane seems for me the most modern of this time, despite the fact, that original BMW 801 are not available anymore.

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox 2 года назад +1

      In general American pilots didn't like the FW-190 because of this feature. Many other accounts think it is the best aircraft of the war.

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 2 года назад +8

    So detailed , even fire coming out of the exhaust . Great graphics.

  • @arslongavitabrevis5136
    @arslongavitabrevis5136 2 года назад +5

    This is the third video of yours that I watched and I want to congratulate you on the effort you put into the production, the research is meticulous and the visuals stunning. Great work!

  • @gerardusch
    @gerardusch Год назад +6

    More information : Marcel Henot, mayor of Overhespen from july 29, 1943 until december 31, 1946 was eyewitness to this battle. He saw Chattin's plane making circles in the sky whilst dogfighting, getting shot down and crashing. Pilot Peter Chattin was mortally wounded on the head and probably died on impact. His body was wrapped in his parachute and buried at Overhespen. He was 23 years old and married with two kids : Michael (born in 1940) and Elizabeth (born in 1943). His body was later exhumed and he now rests at the CWG-begraafplaats (cemetary) in Geel, Belgium.
    Chattin's Spitfire crashed in a field in Overhepsen, owned by Marcel Henot. The field is located next to the Sint-Truidensesteenweg. Some of the wreckage was removed by Marcel and stored in a barn behind his farm at the Walsbergenstraat in Overhespen. Marcel's son Guido Henot donated a flap of the wing of Chattin's Spitfire XII EN622EB to the museum 'Derde Regiment Lansiers' in the village of Orsmaal where it is currently on display.

  • @hugoaken2604
    @hugoaken2604 2 года назад +11

    Terry Spencer , DFC (RAFVR) was famous for originating the anti V1 flying bomb trick involving placing his wing tip under the V1's wing tip then tipping it up to topple its navigation gyro causing it to fly into the ground. He destroyed 7 in total by this method with an 8th , his first V1 kill , being exploded using his guns after which we vowed never to do that again when the debris caused much damage to his Spitfire ! He was nicknamed "Tip 'em up Terry". Emil Lang was his only credited dogfight kill of the war although destroyed a JU88 on a ground strafe. He was shot down twice , escaping from prison camp after the first , making it back to allied lines and rejoining his squadron. Bailed out during his second shoot down with his parachute fully opening at an estimated 30 feet above ground - once credited in Guiness Book of Records as the lowest authenticated survived bail out. Died 2009 aged 90.

    • @lapin46
      @lapin46 2 года назад +1

      the V1 had a huge 850kg warhead. You do not want to be anywhere near when it goes off.

  • @raymondlowry8564
    @raymondlowry8564 2 года назад +10

    Great video.I just discovered your channel and I have subscribed. My Father flew F6F Hellcats in the WWII and F9F Banshees in Korea. He would NEVER talk about his exploits. All he really said was he was called “Grandpa” by his fellow pilots (he was born in 1915 and learned to fly long before WWII) and would tell me if I wanted to hear stories from “real heroes,” go talk to bomber pilots, or battlefield medics. Fortunately two of his buddies he flew with in the Pacific came to his funeral. I was regaled with stories about his exploits. Wish I could have heard them directly from him, but most of those guys just wouldn’t talk about what they did.

    • @airwarchronicles
      @airwarchronicles  2 года назад +4

      Thanks for sharing, what has always struck me is the humbleness or quietness your father's generation in regards to their extraordinary experiences. Extremely brave people.

    • @arslongavitabrevis5136
      @arslongavitabrevis5136 2 года назад

      Very moving story Raymond. Usually, all true/decent war veterans are like that, regardless of their nationality.

  • @rotorheadv8
    @rotorheadv8 2 года назад +17

    “Fly until you die” seemed to be the motto of too many air forces.

  • @rudel451
    @rudel451 2 года назад +29

    Thanks for posting this....all these men who served so bravely deserve some recognition...

  • @jayc3110
    @jayc3110 2 года назад +6

    Beautiful animations and a well-made film. Thank you and best wishes

  • @linuschan39
    @linuschan39 2 года назад +12

    Superb job, nevermind the Mk.XIV substitute for the Mk.XII, I really like the way you did with the skins, accurate and authentic markings.

  • @eduardobrettas1745
    @eduardobrettas1745 2 года назад +6

    Some reports say that Lang was last seen diving vertically with the landing gear extended. Great job!!

  • @stephenbailey1931
    @stephenbailey1931 2 года назад +19

    What a sad loss of life. Respect to those pilots of both sides. You are sorely missed.

    • @andycap1223
      @andycap1223 2 года назад +1

      So well said, Stephen!

    • @nazibulumar1980
      @nazibulumar1980 2 года назад +2

      You are kind hearted man.Loss of so many young and talented men is extremely unfortunate.From india.

  • @Crashed131963
    @Crashed131963 2 года назад +43

    I always felt bad for the people who died just months before the war ended.

    • @moistmike4150
      @moistmike4150 2 года назад

      The last year of the war saw more German deaths than during all the previous 5 years.

    • @Citadin
      @Citadin 2 года назад +5

      this is especially true with wars that were extended for political reasons, like WW1, which ended on 11/11/18 at 11:11am, or the Vietnam War and many others which should have been stopped much earlier. I would also put the Ukraine war in that category of avoidable wars.

  • @jeroenboekhoorn
    @jeroenboekhoorn 2 года назад +3

    Anything documented about Heinz Mohr, a former late 109 and FW pilot? I spoke to him 3 years ago in Germany but I heard he’s in a bad shape now and 96 years old

  • @moss8448
    @moss8448 2 года назад +24

    always have thought the FW-190 (all versions btw) was one of the most 'ahead' war birds in it's day. saw a cockpit (where did that word come from?) and it looked modern that says a lot.

    • @garyteague4480
      @garyteague4480 2 года назад

      It was

    • @arslongavitabrevis5136
      @arslongavitabrevis5136 2 года назад +1

      You are right, according to many experts in the field of aeronautical design and several German fighter pilots, the FW-190 was a wonderful plane and perhaps the best fighter of WW2

    • @seanmmcelwain
      @seanmmcelwain 2 года назад

      Cockpit referred to the pit you put two roosters or “cocks” in for cockfighting hundreds of years before aviation, so I assume it was a play on that.

    • @moss8448
      @moss8448 2 года назад

      @@seanmmcelwain that's a good one. asked an airline pilot that use to fly F4s off carriers that question and he just shrugged.

  • @MothaLuva
    @MothaLuva 2 года назад +12

    Germanys highest scoring ace on the Western front was Hans Joachim Marseille. Emil „Bully“ Lang had the most confirmed kills in one day (18).

    • @airwarchronicles
      @airwarchronicles  2 года назад +5

      Yes this is is meant to say Invasion Front, edited

    • @WALTERBROADDUS
      @WALTERBROADDUS 2 года назад +6

      Now we're going to get nitpicky here. Since when do we call North Africa the Western Front?

    • @TheDidgerideuces
      @TheDidgerideuces 2 года назад +4

      @@WALTERBROADDUS in general terms you don't, North Africa Campaign, everything attributed to Italian possessions in the war is covered in the MTO (Mediterranean Theatre of Operations) or East Africa. Only thing close to being part of both MTO and Western Front would be Operation Dragoon.

    • @WALTERBROADDUS
      @WALTERBROADDUS 2 года назад +2

      @@TheDidgerideuces I'm in your school of thought on this. I have nothing against Marseille. But, wrong to put him in the same theater of operations.

    • @MothaLuva
      @MothaLuva 2 года назад +6

      @@WALTERBROADDUS Since the majority of Axis opponents there were from the Western Desert Air Force (part of RAF) and USAAF. Ok, technically it’s more something of a Southern front…but fought against Western people.

  • @Tam0de
    @Tam0de 2 года назад +7

    His skill got him his 'kills'. His record brought him notoriety. Notoriety brought him unwanted attention from his enemy - each one of them trying to bring him down. It's a hopeless situation, especially with the Luftwaffe's sorry state towards the end of the war. It was inevitable - he might as well have put up a big bulls-eye behind his back.
    Then again, Erich Hartmann (the greatest ace in history, not only WW2) survived the war & died of old age.

  • @Rowarst
    @Rowarst 2 года назад +2

    Very well done, thanks.

  • @alanmoffat4454
    @alanmoffat4454 2 года назад +4

    THESE ARE GOOD STORYS THANK FOR THE HISTORY.

  • @larryking7
    @larryking7 2 года назад +5

    Motto of German pilots :” The iron cross or wooden cross”. There was no rotation for pilots in the German Luftwaffe.

  • @ramakrishnasuresh4703
    @ramakrishnasuresh4703 2 года назад +5

    I thought Lang's maximum tally in a day was 17 equal to that of Hans Joachim Marseille ! RIP brave warrior !!

  • @HotSpace2007DaveB
    @HotSpace2007DaveB 2 года назад +2

    Another excellent video 👍
    Thank you 👌

  • @wildcolonialman
    @wildcolonialman 2 года назад

    Thank you. Invaluable picture.

  • @bugnut82
    @bugnut82 2 года назад +5

    Dogfights seems so confusing. Once you get focused on one enemy and chase him down, It seems so easy to lose track of the other enemies and get shot down so easily.

    • @cheezyrider1111
      @cheezyrider1111 2 года назад

      Keep your head on a swivel

    • @gerogemichaels7580
      @gerogemichaels7580 2 года назад +6

      Thats why there are so many pilots who get shot down without any kills. Only a small percentage of pilots have the foresight, spatial and tactical awareness to become aces with hundreds of victories.

    • @bluerock4456
      @bluerock4456 2 года назад +1

      That's what radios are for.

  • @cornelkittell9926
    @cornelkittell9926 2 года назад +7

    One wonders if fly till you die accounts for the loss of so many experienced German pilots. It seems especially so in the case of Kittel.

    • @minot.8931
      @minot.8931 2 года назад

      They didn’t have any others..

    • @cornelkittell9926
      @cornelkittell9926 2 года назад +1

      @@minot.8931 True at least in part. It clearly gave the survivors a huge edge in experience.

  • @watchthetriple8224
    @watchthetriple8224 2 года назад +6

    Sad really. In another life they all might have been friends.

  • @johnmckenna3937
    @johnmckenna3937 2 года назад +2

    maybe already asked but would the RAF not still have Invasion Markings on planes in Sept 44?

  • @dr.kroenen2425
    @dr.kroenen2425 9 месяцев назад

    Impressing videos. Thank you😮

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 года назад +1

    Fantastic animation film!

  • @theidahotraveler
    @theidahotraveler Год назад

    thank you again

  • @blitzblutz
    @blitzblutz 2 года назад +3

    Imagine having a whole bunch of pilots that shot down over 100 enemy airplanes, and some over 200! That still isn't enough to vanquish your enemies!

    • @clintonreisig
      @clintonreisig 2 года назад +1

      Over 100 Luftwaffe pilots shot down at least 100 aircraft each, about 14,000 total by them

    • @scottw5315
      @scottw5315 2 года назад +1

      USA plane production peaked about 1944 with 90,000 planes built...

  • @smellyfella5077
    @smellyfella5077 2 года назад +2

    Excellent production as always, I get excited like a kid on Christmas morning when I see I have a notification that you've uploaded a new one. I have a question; why was the video about Lang's demise---which seems to have been a typical one that many Luftwaffe fighter pilots met, nothing really out of the ordinary----instead of focusing on what Lang is known best to history for; 18 kills in one day........lack of historical records?

    • @airwarchronicles
      @airwarchronicles  2 года назад +2

      Revised comment: It's because I'm covering the deaths of well-known WWII aces, he just happens to be one which I can cover in the IL-2 sim

  • @stefanmuller4665
    @stefanmuller4665 2 года назад +9

    Ruhe in Frieden Emil!

  • @robertsr.249
    @robertsr.249 2 года назад +8

    My favorite fighter of WW2 , FW 190 .. The butcher bird .

    • @303Pinker
      @303Pinker 2 года назад

      When it showed up it was butcher bird. From 1943 it was cannon fodder for Spitfires, Mustangs etc.

  • @neilrobinson3085
    @neilrobinson3085 2 года назад +1

    I believe that the 338th FS was part of the 55th FG, Not the 56th. The 56th proudly retained their P-47s through the end of the war and refused to convert to P-51s.

  • @VoyaPilot
    @VoyaPilot 2 года назад

    How do you manage to put custom skins on enemy player aircraft ?

  • @xfa33lupisrex52
    @xfa33lupisrex52 2 года назад +4

    ever thought about doing a Erich Hartmann series?

  • @VoyaPilot
    @VoyaPilot 2 года назад

    Where do you get the music ?

  • @simulatedpilot3441
    @simulatedpilot3441 Год назад

    The 190 A8 is a flying cannon, I wonder how many pounds per second a burst from it was

  • @wakeywakey6388
    @wakeywakey6388 2 года назад +13

    RIP Hauptman Lang. Your Nation's sacrifices will never be forgotten. Hopefully the day will come when all Nations will fight together against the international money powers.

    • @TheNocebo
      @TheNocebo 2 года назад

      btw boening sponsored by ford, ibm, and coca cola, and making greatest genocide in human history, Lang was skilled, but not a hero, he fought above Aushwitz - Birkenau with IBM technology to counting crime..

    • @wakeywakey6388
      @wakeywakey6388 2 года назад

      @@TheNocebo Greatest genocide in human history? Not hardly...even if you believe what you're expected to believe.

    • @migmadmarine
      @migmadmarine Год назад

      Another victim of that twisted philosphy known as national socialism

    • @wakeywakey6388
      @wakeywakey6388 Год назад

      @@migmadmarine What makes you think it's a twisted philosophy?

  • @WALTERBROADDUS
    @WALTERBROADDUS 2 года назад +2

    Okay I'm a little lost here. Where are P-51 entering the mix to make a claim?

    • @mohabatkhanmalak1161
      @mohabatkhanmalak1161 2 года назад +2

      I am guessing they had a flight in the neigboring sector, so the two sorties sort of overlapped in the fog of war.

    • @WALTERBROADDUS
      @WALTERBROADDUS 2 года назад +1

      @@mohabatkhanmalak1161 Could be? 🤔

  • @deandoucette7206
    @deandoucette7206 Год назад

    Was hoping to learn from the video what tactics or pilot error led to his defeat. There is a suggestion that you make that he was having problems with his landing gear, but no firm conclusion is said.

  • @AlbertAnastasia-p1f
    @AlbertAnastasia-p1f 8 месяцев назад +1

    Nice video!10x!please tell us egon mayer great ace

  • @SergioRamirez-zv6po
    @SergioRamirez-zv6po 2 года назад

    Muy bien elaborados los videos... Me gustaría ver uno de Erich Hartmman no hay uno con esta calidad

  • @leroyholm9075
    @leroyholm9075 2 года назад +1

    Excellent!

  • @robgrune3284
    @robgrune3284 2 года назад

    excellent animation.

  • @dannysdailys
    @dannysdailys Год назад

    How did you do this?

  • @showze21
    @showze21 2 года назад +2

    excellent dramatization. ww2 fighter pilots were under tremendous stress due to their high mortality rate

  • @jarosawsoroczynski477
    @jarosawsoroczynski477 Год назад

    18 aerial victories in a single day? I just wonder how many times did he land to rearm his plane.

  • @jourwalis-8875
    @jourwalis-8875 2 года назад +3

    A very exciting film, but I think the aeroplane sounds (motor, guns, explosions, etc) are far to weak!

  • @strawwalker8177
    @strawwalker8177 2 года назад +1

    10 was the 24 hr record scored by a German in the eastern front

  • @Citadin
    @Citadin 2 года назад

    no special victory markings on Lang's FW190's tail??

  • @Rhino1277HotRails
    @Rhino1277HotRails 2 года назад +10

    Hartmann. Period. He survived plus 8 years in gulag. 352

  • @RaulBailey
    @RaulBailey 2 года назад

    Wasn't the Luftwaffe largely absent in the sky over Normandy by June 1944? The Luftwaffe was "bled white" by that time in WWII. They had TWO fighter planes to oppose the Allies in early June 1944.

    • @1maico1
      @1maico1 Год назад

      No, the Luftwaffe flew over a thousand sorties in the 7 days on and after June 5th in Normandy

  • @Rhino1277HotRails
    @Rhino1277HotRails 2 года назад

    So what next you are going to show the final missions of George Preddy..

  • @thamesmedical1364
    @thamesmedical1364 2 года назад

    Thank you for making this, Pat Colman was my father in law, can we have a conversation?

    • @airwarchronicles
      @airwarchronicles  2 года назад

      No problem, we definitely can. Please find my email in the business enquiries section at the bottom of my about pages.

  • @marioneto2662
    @marioneto2662 2 года назад +1

    É um dia ruim quando se está num FW-190 A-8 e engaja inimigos com Spitfires MK XII acreditando que são Thunderbolts.

  • @kaushikganguli1091
    @kaushikganguli1091 2 года назад +2

    The FW 190 was one of the best aircraft of WW2. Always felt it was ahead of time. Post war, Kurt Tank helped to develop Indias first indigenous jet fighter in 1968.

  • @tristanexists1806
    @tristanexists1806 2 года назад +1

    "18th kill of the day" bro was carrying the team

  • @fabiohenriqueelorza7095
    @fabiohenriqueelorza7095 2 года назад

    Why didn't they give an FW-190D-9 for this ace? This model, much more capable for dogfighting between piston fighters than the A-8 version, was already available in September 1944... The Luftwaffe and its bad management killed this pilot...

  • @BlackMasakari
    @BlackMasakari 2 года назад +1

    History is written by the victors.
    No learning comes of it.

  • @at1970
    @at1970 8 месяцев назад

    Like a Luftwaffe general said after the war. “We had to fight until the war was over or we were killed”. Not a recipe for longevity.

    • @christx3326
      @christx3326 23 дня назад

      Funny that right after Patton said "we have fought the wrong enemy" his longevity came to an end. Many Germans were hoping for the possibility of USA and/or England finally joining their crusade against Bolshevism/communism...Rudolf Hess sacrificed his life to make Peace with the UK...the Prisoner of Peace unfortunately had 46+ years of longevity in the "Allied" victors solitary confinement. Anyway, a channel called 'different version of history' has a ton of interviews from pro-German point of view, very fascinating indeed.

  • @mikebrase5161
    @mikebrase5161 2 года назад +1

    JG-26 Top Guns of the Luftwaffe is an excellent read.

  • @robertomeneghetti6215
    @robertomeneghetti6215 2 года назад

    When will we have the pleasure
    to see videos on the other armies' many Aces?!

  • @explorer1968
    @explorer1968 Год назад

    Lang went down fighting like a warrior do!

  • @erichpro2159
    @erichpro2159 Год назад +1

    8 Spitfires vs 3 FW 190 Tremendous courage of the German pilots, they fought with tremendous numerical inferiority, until the last projectile.

  • @828enigma6
    @828enigma6 2 года назад

    Not meaning to disparage Lane or his advisories, but it seems the Soviets didn't have very good pilots, given he could shoot down 18 of them in one day.

  • @victorydaydeepstate
    @victorydaydeepstate 2 года назад

    What about Eric Hartmann?

    • @jeanneguderian6651
      @jeanneguderian6651 2 года назад

      Flew exclusively on the eastern front. Hit n run and don’t stick around to dogfight. It was a long war in the east.

  • @billschmidt4192
    @billschmidt4192 2 года назад

    I think that after a tremendous amount of Sorties-- Sleep Deprivation and a Complacency sets in. The Best make Rookie mistakes and are shot down .

  • @rickkatz2214
    @rickkatz2214 2 года назад

    I bet that wiped the smile off his face.

  • @trumpie5399
    @trumpie5399 2 года назад

    Big difference in skills and aircraft of the Spitfire of the Russian aircraft .

  • @tuncozbora2244
    @tuncozbora2244 2 года назад

    When Lang looked at the name of his remplacant during his days off ,he saw the name Lang ...
    Death was waiting for germans pilotes because they were so littles ...

  • @davidbell1619
    @davidbell1619 2 года назад +1

    Last comment made by someone who has not served in Military. We did what we had to do. It goes with the Job.

  • @garyraines7511
    @garyraines7511 Год назад

    Bully Lang got 18, but they were grossly inferior Petlakovs---Marseilles shot down 17 P-40s in one sortie.

  • @jolujo5842
    @jolujo5842 2 года назад +2

    Lang over extended his credit. And the toll master punched his ticket.
    Thus is the game of life.

  • @rotorheadv8
    @rotorheadv8 2 года назад

    When the fox goes hunting, sometimes he gets chicken, sometimes chicken feathers.
    And sometimes the farmer blows him out of his socks.

  • @markbelmares7138
    @markbelmares7138 2 года назад

    Interesting. Both highest scoring aces of WWI and II were both German

  • @jeffreywall4818
    @jeffreywall4818 2 года назад

    After watching this video right afterwatching the video about Otto Kittel being killed, it seems as if the Germans had trouble flying as a team. Am I wrong?

  • @donlove3741
    @donlove3741 2 года назад +1

    Always thought Hartman was highest scoring.

  • @Rhino1277HotRails
    @Rhino1277HotRails 2 года назад

    Your work is good but give equal coverage.

  • @STARK-mk9ir
    @STARK-mk9ir 4 месяца назад +2

    Hallo.

  • @dropmonster5508
    @dropmonster5508 2 года назад

    Why is all the air crafts in this CGI breathing flames during flight!? Maybe on occasion during startup but in flight constantly….never. You would see them coming from miles away. That is so unrealistic.

    • @303Pinker
      @303Pinker 2 года назад

      Those planes where spitting fire all of the time but during daytime it was not so visible.
      It's an issue of CGI limitations.

  • @jamesmordovancey517
    @jamesmordovancey517 Месяц назад

    "Within a year Lang would be dead." Time and again, you ruin the suspense as to what happens by giving away the climax at the beginning! Why not just tell the story, our curiosity thusly aroused and let us discover what happens to Lang toward the end? Except for this, your videos are excellent.

  • @dou5689
    @dou5689 Год назад

    Should have listened to his landing gear that day.

  • @tuskom4677
    @tuskom4677 2 года назад

    И где этот ваш ланг?..

  • @tonyennis1787
    @tonyennis1787 2 года назад +1

    "Ranging mission" and "Spitfire" tend to be mutually exclusive. Whether they were Spitfires or Mustangs, the Germans took a drubbing.

    • @gerogemichaels7580
      @gerogemichaels7580 2 года назад +1

      Yep, good pilots on the Allied side

    • @WHJeffB
      @WHJeffB 2 года назад +2

      @@gerogemichaels7580 More like the Germans were grossly outnumbered, but that's not to take away from the skill, determination and bravery of Allied pilots. Just saying the Luftwaffe late war, were almost always outnumbered, sometimes 10:1 if not more.

    • @dupplinmuir113
      @dupplinmuir113 2 года назад +1

      Not by this time: with extra tanks in the wings and a rear-fuselage tank, Spitfires could do 1000-mile round trips - from Culmhead near Bristol as far as the Swiss border and back.

    • @jeanneguderian6651
      @jeanneguderian6651 2 года назад +1

      The longer the war went on the poorer the training of Luftwaffe replacements. Just the opposite with allies. New American pilots were trained to a much higher level than Germans. By end of war German replacement pilots might only have a dozen hours of training and could barely take off and turn to a heading whereas Americans put great value on training and having recent combat veterans train the newbies. Why? Because they could. German aircraft production rose almost throughout the war - pilot production, yeah, not so much

  • @bubiruski8067
    @bubiruski8067 2 года назад

    However it is 173 to one !

  • @brownmold
    @brownmold 2 года назад

    Just goes to show the horrible practice of throwing skilled pilots repeatedly into the air will get them killed sooner or later

  • @eze8970
    @eze8970 2 года назад

    🙏

  • @krzysztofgawe1089
    @krzysztofgawe1089 2 года назад +3

    Nobody knows who exactly killed German ace, but generally Spencer is credited... If you're British. It's common for them. "We invaded (alone) Normandy, we (alone) won the war, we (alone) decipher enigma, Spitfire was best plane ever, Monty is best Leader of WWII, and so on..." None of it is true. Alone you couldn't even won Battle of Britain.

  • @chopperking007
    @chopperking007 2 года назад +1

    Oh how the tides turn hey Adolf.

  • @andyb.1026
    @andyb.1026 2 года назад +2

    Please practice better annunciation and clarity, its difficult to understand many of your words.
    In most Air Forces its called a Sortie, not a mission.

  • @alpteknbaser7773
    @alpteknbaser7773 2 года назад

    🦅💪

  • @funbro99
    @funbro99 2 года назад +1

    I feel like some are just stupid peeps that view pilots as some barbarian warcriminal