My apology if I am wrong but you need to give the man a chance to talk. This was probably the first time he has been given a chance to express himself in a number of years. I do not believe that the younger generation really understand.
Would love to hear an interview with this vet conducted by someone that knows a bit about WW II aircraft....so he can ask more intelligent questions.....and who will shut up and let him talk! Glad for the interview....not so much for how the interview was conducted. Example: 350 yds was the convergence setting for the guns of many .50 cal armed aircraft in WW II. This was for aerial combat. Interviewer says "Guess that would be good for ground attack maybe....." Doh!!! Let the WW II fighter pilot talk about WW II fighters young man!
my name is Eddie Perez and I happen to be Martin's driver, and I have enjoyed everything that he's shared with me. he makes me feel like a very proud american and veteran. He has a great sense of humor and a very sharp mind.
Ron Carrico I wish you could show respect and not interrupt,and not ask stupid questions! I'm surprised that Ron flew F4 would think he know he knew so much about ww2 flying.
Yeah, the kid doing the interview was killin me. Suffering through his interruptions to hear the man's story but wishing I was in the room so I could cuff the kid's ear and scold him about having some respect.
My dad also graduated in June '41 from high school in Chicago - after training as a pilot and getting something like 10 hours flight time, his entire class was sent to gunnery school. He ended up as a B-17 waist gunner with the 305th bomb group of the 8th Air Force (England/Europe). I wonder if they knew each other. Unfortunately, my father is no longer alive.
Lowell Cockel. He grew up in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. My grandmother worked at the University Of Chicago. Send me an email to bcockel@comcast.net and I'll send you a picture of him from his time with the 305th..
Marty is precious soul who admitted he was afraid, but he and his generation fought anyway, and kept us free in their day. He and buddies should be honored and remembered for their service and courage, God bless them. His personal account of the after effects of the Nagasaki A-bomb is a rare story. And every story he told was interesting too.
Wakita Sioux said verbatim what I was going to say. Give the guy a chance to answer and quit interrupting! I got to 28 minutes and had to turn it off. You were not asking him to learn anything- you were just trying to show everyone how much you know. It was amazing how much this old guy could remember. Your interview sounded more like an interrogation to try to get the guy to trip up. I'm no expert but know that turbochargers spin at outrageously high RPM's compared to actual engine speed. You might have to experience more living before you can learn anything more. Wish you all the best.
Interviewer was rude; he's asking an old man what happened 70 years ago. His 'rolodex' is pretty full and it's going to take a minute to have perfect recall to alway answer unscripted questions. The interveiwer was rude and impatient; disrespectful. Shameful....
Amazing how often the interviewee was forced to correct the interviewer so often though he was sooo many years older. Get your ducks in a row before you ask the first question.
My WWII vet grandfather was amazing to listen to. All you had to do was let him talk, and he'd open up after a while. Too bad this vet didn't get that chance, as he was always being asked uninteresting, pointless questions about insignificant details and then constantly corrected like it was a deposition.
Listening to Mr. Jackson reminds me very much of what my father went through and the stories he told me about his training and the various fields he trained at and the planes he flew. By the way, when he and his classmates flew P-40's during their trainning all of the planes they flew had patched up bullet holes from combat.
Not true, planes that had been overseas and saw combat that were shot up weren't transported back to the states, it wasn't worth doing they were scrapped on site or abandoned. You wouldn't want to train new pilots in "war weary" planes, which was the term for them, even planes that had seen combat without receiving a single bullet hole after so many hours of combat were listed as war weary, in some photos of combat planes overseas you'll see "WW" painted on the tails, after so many hours of combat time the air frames were classified as no longer fit for combat duty due to stresses on the structure, they're a candidate for the wings getting ripped off in a high G maneuver, planes classified as war weary were relegated to messenger duty and other low stress jobs, the last thing you'd want to do is put a pilot in training in an aircraft that's a prime candidate for having it's wings ripped off should the pilot trainee panic and pull a high G maneuver, they lost enough pilots in training and didn't need to increase their chances. Planes that were used for training stateside never left the states and combat stressed aircraft never returned to the states, all those B17's and P47's that were used during the war were scrapped overseas at the end of the war, with new models of aircraft in development at the end of the war and the colossal task of returning that many aircraft that had been stressed from combat anyways they were simply left overseas and scrapped. None of the WW2 era aircraft that you see flying in airshows are combat veterans, they're either training aircraft that never left the states or aircraft that saw post war service in other nations or perhaps US service but never saw the stresses of combat, despite the fact that they'll paint the name of a famous bomber on the nose of an airshow B17 it's not the actual plane from the war.
Mr. Jackson is, as his grandson proudly says, an amazing man. It is clear that he also has a delightful personality. And while I certainly appreciate all who are responsible for the production of this and similar videos, these heroes deserve an interviewer who has some basic skills. I recognize that not everyone has what it takes to conduct an informative and respectful interview but the guy doing this one is completely inept. Let's hope he watches this video, is embarrassed by his part in it, and uses the experience to improve. Oh, and let's also hope that whoever did the sub-titles learns how to spell; it's "corps", not "corp".
And he wasn't in the Air Corps, six months before Pearl Harbor in June of 1941 it's name was changed from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), it's a popular misconception that it was called the Air Corps in WW2 but it wasn't, it was called the Army Air Forces during the entirety of WW2. There's 2 things that lead to a lot of confusion though, first is the fact that logistical support, and I believe the training arm also, kept the title of Air Corps, so you'll see the graduation pictures of classes of pilots and navigators and the whatnot from training and at the bottom of the picture in fine print it'll say Army Air Corps, but that's only because it was the support aspect that took and printed the picture, the pilots themselves are actually in the Army Air Forces. Secondly, and this creates a lot of the misconception that it was called the Army Air Corps during the war, is that a lot of the pilots who were in it before the war and name change kept referring to it as the Air Corps despite the name change, that really leads people to believe that it was still called the Air Corps during the war because they figure if the guy was "there and done that" then it must have been called the Air Corps, but the fact is it was called the Army Air Forces during the war, just like when I was in the Army in the 80's and the field meals were changed from C-Ration's to MRE's, despite the change for a time we kept referring to the new meals as C-Ration's despite the fact that they were MRE's, just because we were saying something out of habit however doesn't mean we were still eating C-Ration's, which we wished we were because those early MRE's were unpleasant to put it mildly but that's a story of it's own. I'm really surprised that the interviewer refers to it as the Air Corps because being someone who is doing this research you'd think he would know the correct term for what is was actually called during the war.
JEEZU people ! Life ain`t perfect. Be thankful for what this amazing War Eagle has given us ! BIG SALUTE Mr. Jackson, and THANK YOU for all your SACRIFICES during your Great Adventure ! You & yourn put the "great" in The Greatest Generation , to be sure !!!
What a sweet, jollly, warrior. Thanks for sharing! BTW, next time try facing the subject on the opposite side of the light. Up against a window they become a silhouette and you can't see their face.
Immediately after U .S. entry into the war the age to enlist and be drafted was lowered to eighteen and extended to sixty-five. A provision for seventeen-year-olds to enlist was created if they had written parental permission, however, many as young as sixteen or even fifteen enlisted with fake I. D. and fake parental permission. The need for troops, etc. was so great that many recruiting Sergeants looked the other way when an obviously younger boy walked in to enlist.
Mr. Martin has good recall on an unscripted interview. Two things I found annoying were the sound of what I found to be akin to a person flipping the top on a Zippo lighter and the other the interviewer not very patient or knowledgeable./
Why the hell did the story about the Typhoon and X day get edited out? WTH!? Every time Mr. Jackson starts to reminiscence he is cut off, and then finally his story about the end of the war gets deleted! Ughh!!!
Ron was SO IRRITATING I finally had to just stop watching because he just wouldn't shut up so Jackson could talk! Why didn't he do the job of a good interviewer and stay in the background to let Jackson reminisce? I didn't need Ron's constant interruption just to interject his erroneous opinions and demonstrate his ignorance! ALL P-47 marks had four bladed props and they all used a turbocharger, NOT a supercharger! That's why the plane was so big and the fuselage SO DEEP! DO YOUR RESEARCH or, here's an idea, let the WW2 pilot get a few words in? Manifold pressure usually 59" with 70" tops for takeoff, prop pitch is set to RPM which is secondary to MP for actual engine POWER! Is the interviewer even a pilot? Leaning changes EGT (exhaust as temp) with slight RPM drop, you don't use CHT to lean the engine! Cyl head temp is too slow feedback to use for leaning mixture.
Why is the guy tripping up this veteran 1500 feet on jets are we talking about wwii if the guy knows the answers why ask the pilot who was there and lived it wtf
9:47 Thunderbolt had a Turbo Supercharger not a staged mechanical supercharger. Also, the RPM the Mr. Jackson is referring to is the speed of the turbine not the RPM of the engine. Aggravated me when the interviewer corrected him.
Lowell Cockel. He grew up in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. My grandmother worked at the University Of Chicago. I'll email you a picture of him to the email I just got.
+neil borodkin Without hesitation, I might say that anyone who has a flown an aircraft loaded with 8 heavy machine guns and an engine capable of 2400 horsepower would greatly miss that when it's over
@@vikinghauler3244 I've never known of an exhaust driven turbo-charger and a mechanical supercharger on any P47? I believe they are only turbo supercharged. Could you expand on your comment?
@@richardrichard5409 The r2800 has an integrated mechanically driven supercharger. It also has an exhaust driven supercharger (what we now call a turbocharger. Was called turbosupercharger then). It was dual-charged in the P47. That's what helped it run 72 inches Hg late in the war.
God bless Mr. Jackson and all the warriors who were with him. It's too bad he had to be interviewed by some smart aleck person who kept trying to make him look foolish! Mr. Jackson has probably forgotten more about flying combat than Carrico will ever know!
No he did not try and make his interviewee look foolish. He was entirely polite. He managed to illustrate his own lack of knowledge a couple of times. And his timing was off now and again. But I think the old boy enjoyed himself. He had the chance to talk about the subject which is almost everybody's favourite: himself. People of that age are always delighted when young people pay attention to them and their lives.
Yeah...it is a pity that Ron has no "interviewing experience".....but Mr. Jackson makes up for this deficiency !.........................and the photography was poor is so far as lighting !!
My apology if I am wrong but you need to give the man a chance to talk. This was probably the first time he has been given a chance to express himself in a number of years. I do not believe that the younger generation really understand.
Would love to hear an interview with this vet conducted by someone that knows a bit about WW II aircraft....so he can ask more intelligent questions.....and who will shut up and let him talk!
Glad for the interview....not so much for how the interview was conducted.
Example: 350 yds was the convergence setting for the guns of many .50 cal armed aircraft in WW II. This was for aerial combat. Interviewer says "Guess that would be good for ground attack maybe....." Doh!!! Let the WW II fighter pilot talk about WW II fighters young man!
Yes... The impatient interviewer comes off as disrespectful. I’d like to interview him🤨
my name is Eddie Perez and I happen to be Martin's driver, and I have enjoyed everything that he's shared with me. he makes me feel like a very proud american and veteran. He has a great sense of humor and a very sharp mind.
Eduardo Perez thanks for sharing
I just want you to have a great weekend
Ron Carrico I wish you could show respect and not interrupt,and not ask stupid questions! I'm surprised that Ron flew F4 would think he know he knew so much about ww2 flying.
An amazing gentleman... I liked his sense of humor and his stories. Thanks, sir for sharing your experiences. The interviewer was annoying.
Wow, let this guy telll his story and quit interrupting him!
Yeah, the kid doing the interview was killin me. Suffering through his interruptions to hear the man's story but wishing I was in the room so I could cuff the kid's ear and scold him about having some respect.
my grandpa is amazing.
My dad also graduated in June '41 from high school in Chicago - after training as a pilot and getting something like 10 hours flight time, his entire class was sent to gunnery school. He ended up as a B-17 waist gunner with the 305th bomb group of the 8th Air Force (England/Europe). I wonder if they knew each other. Unfortunately, my father is no longer alive.
+Bryan Cockel I'll be seeing him Saturday. what's his name? I'll show him your response. amazing men in that era.
Lowell Cockel. He grew up in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. My grandmother worked at the University Of Chicago. Send me an email to bcockel@comcast.net and I'll send you a picture of him from his time with the 305th..
Amazing, a great generation that kept us free.
Marty is precious soul who admitted he was afraid, but he and his generation fought anyway, and kept us free in their day. He and buddies should be honored and remembered for their service and courage, God bless them.
His personal account of the after effects of the Nagasaki A-bomb is a rare story. And every story he told was interesting too.
Wow ! Is this a trial or an interview !
Wakita Sioux said verbatim what I was going to say. Give the guy a chance to answer and quit interrupting! I got to 28 minutes and had to turn it off. You were not asking him to learn anything- you were just trying to show everyone how much you know. It was amazing how much this old guy could remember. Your interview sounded more like an interrogation to try to get the guy to trip up. I'm no expert but know that turbochargers spin at outrageously high RPM's compared to actual engine speed. You might have to experience more living before you can learn anything more. Wish you all the best.
Interviewer was rude; he's asking an old man what happened 70 years ago. His 'rolodex' is pretty full and it's going to take a minute to have perfect recall to alway answer unscripted questions. The interveiwer was rude and impatient; disrespectful. Shameful....
Amazing how often the interviewee was forced to correct the interviewer so often though he was sooo many years older. Get your ducks in a row before you ask the first question.
Now this is a Great American !!! God Bless You Mr Jackson !!!
My Little boys and I Thank You for Fighting to Keep America Free.
adarch1 thank you! He is amazing
My WWII vet grandfather was amazing to listen to. All you had to do was let him talk, and he'd open up after a while. Too bad this vet didn't get that chance, as he was always being asked uninteresting, pointless questions about insignificant details and then constantly corrected like it was a deposition.
World is a better place because of these men and those who supported them throughout the war and their continued service to the US
Listening to Mr. Jackson reminds me very much of what my father went through and the stories he told me about his training and the various fields he trained at and the planes he flew. By the way, when he and his classmates flew P-40's during their trainning all of the planes they flew had patched up bullet holes from combat.
Not true, planes that had been overseas and saw combat that were shot up weren't transported back to the states, it wasn't worth doing they were scrapped on site or abandoned.
You wouldn't want to train new pilots in "war weary" planes, which was the term for them, even planes that had seen combat without receiving a single bullet hole after so many hours of combat were listed as war weary, in some photos of combat planes overseas you'll see "WW" painted on the tails, after so many hours of combat time the air frames were classified as no longer fit for combat duty due to stresses on the structure, they're a candidate for the wings getting ripped off in a high G maneuver, planes classified as war weary were relegated to messenger duty and other low stress jobs, the last thing you'd want to do is put a pilot in training in an aircraft that's a prime candidate for having it's wings ripped off should the pilot trainee panic and pull a high G maneuver, they lost enough pilots in training and didn't need to increase their chances.
Planes that were used for training stateside never left the states and combat stressed aircraft never returned to the states, all those B17's and P47's that were used during the war were scrapped overseas at the end of the war, with new models of aircraft in development at the end of the war and the colossal task of returning that many aircraft that had been stressed from combat anyways they were simply left overseas and scrapped.
None of the WW2 era aircraft that you see flying in airshows are combat veterans, they're either training aircraft that never left the states or aircraft that saw post war service in other nations or perhaps US service but never saw the stresses of combat, despite the fact that they'll paint the name of a famous bomber on the nose of an airshow B17 it's not the actual plane from the war.
Mr. Jackson is, as his grandson proudly says, an amazing man. It is clear that he also has a delightful personality. And while I certainly appreciate all who are responsible for the production of this and similar videos, these heroes deserve an interviewer who has some basic skills. I recognize that not everyone has what it takes to conduct an informative and respectful interview but the guy doing this one is completely inept. Let's hope he watches this video, is embarrassed by his part in it, and uses the experience to improve. Oh, and let's also hope that whoever did the sub-titles learns how to spell; it's "corps", not "corp".
And he wasn't in the Air Corps, six months before Pearl Harbor in June of 1941 it's name was changed from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), it's a popular misconception that it was called the Air Corps in WW2 but it wasn't, it was called the Army Air Forces during the entirety of WW2.
There's 2 things that lead to a lot of confusion though, first is the fact that logistical support, and I believe the training arm also, kept the title of Air Corps, so you'll see the graduation pictures of classes of pilots and navigators and the whatnot from training and at the bottom of the picture in fine print it'll say Army Air Corps, but that's only because it was the support aspect that took and printed the picture, the pilots themselves are actually in the Army Air Forces.
Secondly, and this creates a lot of the misconception that it was called the Army Air Corps during the war, is that a lot of the pilots who were in it before the war and name change kept referring to it as the Air Corps despite the name change, that really leads people to believe that it was still called the Air Corps during the war because they figure if the guy was "there and done that" then it must have been called the Air Corps, but the fact is it was called the Army Air Forces during the war, just like when I was in the Army in the 80's and the field meals were changed from C-Ration's to MRE's, despite the change for a time we kept referring to the new meals as C-Ration's despite the fact that they were MRE's, just because we were saying something out of habit however doesn't mean we were still eating C-Ration's, which we wished we were because those early MRE's were unpleasant to put it mildly but that's a story of it's own.
I'm really surprised that the interviewer refers to it as the Air Corps because being someone who is doing this research you'd think he would know the correct term for what is was actually called during the war.
let the man talk.my god
JEEZU people ! Life ain`t perfect. Be thankful for what this amazing War Eagle has given us ! BIG SALUTE Mr. Jackson, and THANK YOU for all your SACRIFICES during your Great Adventure ! You & yourn put the "great" in The Greatest Generation , to be sure !!!
Absolutely the Greatest Generation !
What a sweet, jollly, warrior. Thanks for sharing!
BTW, next time try facing the subject on the opposite side of the light. Up against a window they become a silhouette and you can't see their face.
Hopefully this was the last time this chump interviewed one of these guys.
Immediately after U .S. entry into the war the age to enlist and be drafted was lowered to eighteen and extended to sixty-five. A provision for seventeen-year-olds to enlist was created if they had written parental permission, however, many as young as sixteen or even fifteen enlisted with fake I. D. and fake parental permission. The need for troops, etc. was so great that many recruiting Sergeants looked the other way when an obviously younger boy walked in to enlist.
Interviewer needs to shut it! Learn some history and let Mr. Jackson tell his story the way he wants to
ron shut up and let the man tell his story
I took my USAF training at Shepherd AFB in Texas as well.
Let him tell his story, disrespectful to keep interrupting him.
Mr. Martin has good recall on an unscripted interview. Two things I found annoying were the sound of what I found to be akin to a person flipping the top on a Zippo lighter and the other the interviewer not very patient or knowledgeable./
Good interview in spite of the interviewer.
Thanks for doing this.
Why the hell did the story about the Typhoon and X day get edited out? WTH!?
Every time Mr. Jackson starts to reminiscence he is cut off, and then finally his story about the end of the war gets deleted! Ughh!!!
Landing 4 P47s between B24s each one minute separation. Yeah, they're fighter jocks
And how come you don't know the dates of the a and h bombs?
this dude is great! thanks
Ron was SO IRRITATING I finally had to just stop watching because he just wouldn't shut up so Jackson could talk! Why didn't he do the job of a good interviewer and stay in the background to let Jackson reminisce? I didn't need Ron's constant interruption just to interject his erroneous opinions and demonstrate his ignorance! ALL P-47 marks had four bladed props and they all used a turbocharger, NOT a supercharger! That's why the plane was so big and the fuselage SO DEEP! DO YOUR RESEARCH or, here's an idea, let the WW2 pilot get a few words in? Manifold pressure usually 59" with 70" tops for takeoff, prop pitch is set to RPM which is secondary to MP for actual engine POWER! Is the interviewer even a pilot? Leaning changes EGT (exhaust as temp) with slight RPM drop, you don't use CHT to lean the engine! Cyl head temp is too slow feedback to use for leaning mixture.
really don't need the subtitles?
Why is the guy tripping up this veteran 1500 feet on jets are we talking about wwii if the guy knows the answers why ask the pilot who was there and lived it wtf
9:47 Thunderbolt had a Turbo Supercharger not a staged mechanical supercharger. Also, the RPM the Mr. Jackson is referring to is the speed of the turbine not the RPM of the engine. Aggravated me when the interviewer corrected him.
It had a centrifugal mechanical supercharger and a turbocharger. A two stage system
@@flightforensics4523 Thank you. I didn't know it also had a mechanical one as well. He was still talking about the rotational speed of the turbine
Lowell Cockel. He grew up in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. My grandmother worked at the University Of Chicago. I'll email you a picture of him to the email I just got.
Interviewer is cringe inducing.
Curious: Did you miss flying at all--flying the P-47, etc?
+neil borodkin Without hesitation, I might say that anyone who has a flown an aircraft loaded with 8 heavy machine guns and an engine capable of 2400 horsepower would greatly miss that when it's over
Marty I miss you..Eddie Perez
+sdasmarchives
The P-47 had a turbo-charger (known as turbo supercharger back then), not a supercharger.
@@dukecraig2402 The engine has a mechanical supercharger also between the pressurized carb and engine,hence the intercooler and not aftercooler
@@vikinghauler3244 I've never known of an exhaust driven turbo-charger and a mechanical supercharger on any P47? I believe they are only turbo supercharged. Could you expand on your comment?
@@richardrichard5409 The r2800 has an integrated mechanically driven supercharger. It also has an exhaust driven supercharger (what we now call a turbocharger. Was called turbosupercharger then). It was dual-charged in the P47. That's what helped it run 72 inches Hg late in the war.
God bless Mr. Jackson and all the warriors who were with him. It's too bad he had to be interviewed by some smart aleck person who kept trying to make him look foolish! Mr. Jackson has probably forgotten more about flying combat than Carrico will ever know!
No he did not try and make his interviewee look foolish. He was entirely polite. He managed to illustrate his own lack of knowledge a couple of times. And his timing was off now and again. But I think the old boy enjoyed himself. He had the chance to talk about the subject which is almost everybody's favourite: himself. People of that age are always delighted when young people pay attention to them and their lives.
That would be "Cuero, Texas".
He said he 100000 hp???
Yeah this interviewer sucked
8:14 - All '47's had 4 blade props including the prototype...
No they did not! I wasn't until months after deployment to England that the new "Paddle Blade Props" were installed.
@@paratrooper7340 I wasn't referring to the paddle props, only the number of blades.
WOW, is this guy sharp!
I'm just here studying in wait for DCS:s P-47 haha
Nerves of steel.
550 headlong into the earth.
Get rid of the interviewer.
Yeah...it is a pity that Ron has no "interviewing experience".....but Mr. Jackson makes up for this deficiency !.........................and the photography was poor is so far as lighting !!
WoW!!! did not know the Mexicans was in WW II,,, in any uniform,,, ole USN vet
im flying it in a video game right now with accurate modeling and getting 57 inches MAP at 20,000ft if that helps.
A video game.