My grandfather flew 66 operational missions in a Lancaster Mk X. He was partway through his second tour, when he was shot down, on his 26th birthday, while supporting breakout operations from Normandy. His plane took a hit in the port wing that made a hole the size of a bathtub between the engines, and disabled both engine 1 & 2. They took a second hit in the fuselage, about 10 feet in front of the tail, disabling the tail control surfaces. Most of the crew bailed above 1500 feet, but the pilot, Howie (I don't remember his last name), and my grandfather, stayed in the bomber to try and get the tail-gunner out. He'd been trapped by the second hit, Howie kept the plane in the air as long as possible, while grandpa got the door open and the gunner out. The tail-gunner was next to bail, followed by grandpa and then Howie at about 800 feet. Everybody managed to get back to friendly lines, except the tail-gunner, who was captured and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. Howie and my grandfather, Reg Swartz, were awarded the Bar to their DFC's by King George VI, in Buckingham Palace, in March of 1946. His medals and uniform are part of the permanent collection of the Elgin Museum, in St Thomas, Ontario.
i have an interest in war history and aircraft so i stood on the beaches in normandy for a holiday , i sat in a glider that the paratroopers used to get towed by the dc3s , i said a prayer on omaha beach for brave guys like your grandfather that helped liberate europe ... sadly history is repeating itself and unless someone stops russia we might havve to do the whole lot again ...respect to the raf and the allied bomber crews that saved us ... not many people appreciate the sacrifice those guys made ..they should visit the field full of gravestones in normandy and they might understand
The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box.
Yes the Zero was a top of the line plane when it was first introduced. But, the technology was advancing so quickly at the time, two years later it wasn't so great.
@@dindodayao6238i drove a 91 mirage i got as a hand me down from my parents minimal maintainence as my dad wasn't really a car guy and money was tight growing up......300k miles and no major repairs besides a starter.......and a new 5 speed manual that came off a 2nd hand parts dealer. Would probablly still start after sitting dor 10 years if i went and pit a new battery in her.
It’s amazing to see that RUclips can actually provide us with such high-quality historical documentaries. These documentaries often disappear in the age before the Internet.
There is a saying here in holland: when the ships were made of wood and the men of steel. I have so much admiration for the ww2 allies and disgust for the current woke generation who think that a simular conflict can not happen again.
I 100% agree. I simply can't stomach a man with no pride or backbone. My mother was more manly than the average youth man today. She was all woman but tough when she needed to be.
Your presentation segment on the M-16 failure rate, leaves the impression that Colt was somehow responsible. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his cadre of collegiate whiz kids, decided that they were collectively smarter than designer/engineer Eugene Stoner. Whereas Stoner's specifications called for use of the newer conical propellant, the whiz kids changed it to ball powder that was already in supply. Stoner likewise specified chrome lined chambers and bores, that the whiz kids discarded thinking it to be an unnecessary extravagant expense. Just those two government overrides, to ball powder and non-chrome lined chambers and bores. produced carbon fouling that adhered to the interior of the weapon, thus creating a jammomatic suicide machine. AK-47s at 100yds. were far more effective over American troops armed with bayonets at the end of a M-16 stick. I would suggest that our current cultural self-destruction again sources directly back to the collegiate theoretical universe.
@@piotrd.4850, Its original configuration was 7.62 x 51. there was a change to 5.56 x 45 as thinking embraced the idea that casualties would remove more of the enemy from the field. Dead is dead, but wounded require assistance. The initial first appearance in the field was satisfactory with SOG units, who named it a "meat axe". After about 200 yds. the round would begin to keyhole or rotate end over end, due to a loss of gyro-stability, the rearmost weight of the boat-tail bullet begins to overtake the front. Producing varied results such as impacts in the thigh exiting a shoulder. 5.56 gave more firepower than 7.62 in a standard load-out by weight.
Reminds me of Alaska Airlines who wanted a more profitable door plug where the Boeing disign was orininally for an emergency exit. I prefer the emergency exit.
Bouncing Bombs in WWII?? That's gotta be The Epitome of thinking "out of the box", but to follow thru with the engineering, Manufacturing/design of custom Lancasters, pilot training, logistics etc for something that may not work is simply amazing and mind boggling to learn about it 50+ years later.....Man I love History and Kudos to the Historians and Team who produce these vids. Thanks for Preserving History with Top Notch Productions.
In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources like oil to begin with. We in America had oil, Japan and Germany didn't.....in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.
Now we a F1 race there. My message got deleted. I was saying it was political alliances with the German run Baku refinery and export that really hurt the German war machine. For lack of going into detail that's it.
_'In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources...'_ True. _'like oil to begin with.'_ Not true 'to begin with' . The most important resource for factories was coal. This was true for not only for Germany and Japan but also UK and US. Coal was king back then. How was coal Japan's most important resource? In 1936, it provided 51.4 per cent of Japan’s energy needs, serving both industry and households. Firewood and charcoal accounted for 18.6 per cent of Japan’s total energy consumption, mostly for household use. Electric power provided most of the rest of Japan’s energy, at 21.3 per cent. Depending on the season, hydroelectric power provided up to 78% of electricity and the remainder came from coal. (Had Japan built more reservoirs coal's use in generating electricity could have been reduced greatly.) Hydroelectric power provided 25 per cent of Japan's industries' energy whilst coal powered 71.2 per cent of Japanese industrial operations. Petroleum accounted for only 7.9 per cent of Japanese energy use, but, since this was *largely for military use* , it had disproportionate strategic importance. By 1940, coal had become even more important, supplying 66.1 per cent of Japan’s energy needs (civilian, industrial, agricultural, and military), while electric power provided 16.2 per cent, firewood and charcoal 10.7 per cent, and petroleum only 7.0 per cent. Companies like Toto, a maker of ceramic products which is energy intensive production, switched from oil to heat its kilns to coal and coal gas. Other than Japan's military, who consumed oil? The merchant and fishing fleets, though some of the merchant fleet still used coal in whole or in part. When war with the US began, much of Japan's fishing fleet had its operational range significantly reduced and many fisherman were drafted. This lack of manpower affected many other industries as well as skilled workers were inducted by a military that did not consider the consequences to industrial productivity. Coal was important to the entire economy yet during the '40s coal was mined by men too old to induct, women, children, and forced labourers from Korea as well as POWs. Certainly vehicles relied on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but Japan had only 0.5% of the vehicles the US had. Rationing began in 1938 and by 1941 almost no fuel was available for civilian vehicles except trucks, which numbered 77,000. Gasoline for civilian use fell 66% between 1938 and 1941 _before_ Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Even public buses were were converted from diesel and gasoline to coal and charcoal. Railroads were powered by coal (intercity routes) and electricity (intracity routes). Commercial airline service barely existed; Japan Air Transport carried 70,000 passengers in 1938, many of whom were military officers and government officials. Civilian aviation was a niche business sector. Coal was also the source for chemicals such as nitrates and ammonia for use as fertilisers and industrial feedstocks. This began with the Haber process and then the alternative Casale, Claude, and the Mont-Cenis processes. Hydroelectric dams also can be used for nitrogen fixation, i.e. converting into ammonia or related nitrogenous compounds. Both Japan and Germany had large deposits of coal (as did the US and UK). In Japan significant reserves were in Kyushu and in Hokkaido and smaller reserves in the Ube and Joban areas of Honshu. Japan lacked coking coal, needed for steel, in the amount needed to build all the munitions the militarists wanted, which is why it grabbed North China. By 1940 more than half of Japan's steel went to munitions. Oil replaced coal's importance in industry _after_ WWII, starting with the US (in 1949 iirc) and expanding to other industrialised countries in the '50s and '60s. _'in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.'_ I think you put the cart before the horse. Japan and Germany could have continued to buy resources just like everyone else. If we look at 'peacetime' Japan's oil imports of 1936 (before the military took over the economy), we find Japan was importing less than 30 million barrels from the US. Yet even this total was inflated due to the 1934 law requiring oil importers to maintain a 6-month stockpile in Japan. (Japan built an oil stockpile exceeding 50 million barrels, estimated to be two years' civilian consumption, before 1940.) The average price of oil in 1936 was $1.09 per barrel (and ranged from $1.02 to $1.18 per barrel from 1937 to 1941), meaning that Japan's oil bill ranged from about $32 million to $40 million. But the militarists took over and military solutions were the answers to all problems.
Exactly, we've turned into a service oriented economy. Outsourcing the majority of production to overseas factories. And the corporations here are squeezing what's left of the middle class into poverty. Wages have fallen and corporate profits have soared. Home ownership is impossible for the majority of Americans. Homelessness and drug addiction is increasing along with the amount of incarcerations
The Lancaster was undoubtedly a suburb aircraft and had capabilities that were unique at the time. However, I have always believed that it was used incorrectly. It was used to do things that could have been just as easily been done by other aircraft, using it to destroy entire cities just to make sure that SOME of the militarily significant targets in that city were hit. Britain should have diverted the majority of it's aircraft production to the plane that could hit targets, and hit them hard. The De Haviland Mosquito was cheaper, quicker to build and only need two Merlins instead of four. It's speed at all flight levels meant it could actually find and hit targets with a good chance of escaping unscathed, it only had a crew of two, needed significantly less maintenance and plane for plane could probably do more damage than a Lancaster when comparing where bombs actually landed. Harris fought the introduction and production of the Mosquito in favour of the 'heavies' when a much smaller force of Lancasters could have been used only for operations that no other aircraft could achieve, the Dam Busters Raid being one and dropping of Tallboys being the obvious other. Lancasters were also ideal as support for army land forces, providing carpet bombing of enemy defensive lines as the 8th Air Force did in Operation Cobra and the Lancaster itself did on D-Day and for Operation Plunder. Using them as city-busters was, to my mind, a waste of an exceptional aircraft. Nearly 600 heavy bombers, including over 300 Lancasters, were used in August 1943 to attack Peenemunde with mixed results where a raid by 500 Mosquitos would have been devastating. Even in 1944-45 most Lancaster raids actually relied on Mosquito pathfinders to locate and mark the targets, especially after the introduction of OBOE, due to the need for Lancasters to bomb from high altitude to avoid being shot down.
There is a saying here in holland: when the ships were made of wood and the men of steel. I have so much admiration for the ww2 allies and disgust for the current woke generation who think that a simular conflict can not happen again
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I never actually understood the Japanese Zero even being a War Veteran until i watched the show in Grand Junction Colorado about 10 yrs ago. The Zero has a nimble way to achieve speed, then turn on a dime which would firce any enemy to over shoot from almost any attack angle. Hats off to Mitsubishi, what a incredible plane. Had the pilots been better trained to fly such a fighter the war may have been different.
A very long while ago my father let me play with a Duralamim tube. It had been formed like blown plastic and was closed by a screwon cap. Both parts were almost like foil. But unlike foil it was rigged. Again, unlike foil if I bent it, I could not get it back. Instead it broke in this child's hands.
i love how here, it's a matter of fact that production output is vital in winning modern warfare. I guess no one in the government watched this when they passed all that ukraine war funding.
The massive drop in production by the end of January 1945 had nothing to do with the bombing campaign but with the final Soviet Winter offensive that captured, often entirely intact, most of the German heavy industry on the Eastern Front.
The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box. ..
10:14 duralumin, strong, hard, lightweight alloy of aluminum, widely used in aircraft construction, discovered in 1906 and patented in 1909 by Alfred Wilm, a German metallurgist; it was originally made only at the company Dürener Metallwerke
My grandfather was blessed with coke bottle eyesight in the time of WW 2. He worked the oilfields of Oklahoma and did his part of pumping out the oil needed to make it happen. His younger brother jumped into France and then on to Germany. Disturbing things he saw as he moved to his objective.
You can have as many factories to built the war machine but if there is no fuel, those machine will be as good as a rusty paper weight. Why the USA and USSR came up tops is because these two countries has their own fuel, resources and the means to produce large quantity of war machines and personel to operate them.
34:15 Regarding the Kamikaze Pilots, I assume it took less time to train them since they didn’t need to teach them how to land the aircraft, just how to takeoff! If you need to resort to sending your young men on suicide attacks then it’s time to say enough! Great fascinating documentary series!
As a scale modeller thwir hobby supplies and kits are way better then their american counterparts but their models are being supplanted by companies like dragon out of china. But it still has its place if i am looking for a decent kit thats not as indepth as say a dragon kit tamiya is still a solid vhoice for when i don't feel lile making 30 road wheels for a panzer that have 12 parts per wheel.....yes that is literally how many parts are in a dragon panzer 4 road wheel.
In the 1960's the term "Made in Japan" was synonymous with low quality, cheaply made junk, but that diminished steadily until by the mid- '70s, when Japanese products gained a steadily more respectable reputation, with Nikon, Honda, Seiko, Toyota, Yamaha and others leading the way. I had a friend who dropped his Mamiya Sekor 500DTL SLR 35mm camera on a ski slope, and left a request for a lost item with the lift management. 6 months later after the thaw, he was notified it had been found by some hikers. He got it back, and it STILL WORKED!!
Regarding the piece about women empowerment by working in a factory, is really nobody going to state the obvious?? Capitalism embraced the idea wholehearted. When before they paid a man the minimum, say 100, to maintain a family, now they pay each employee half that. So now, for making that minimum money, both men and women have to work and the companies have twice the manpower. That's exactly the situation we are now, as anyone born in the 50s and 60s can attest. Women joining the workforce, sold as empowerment, has been the biggest con in the history of mankind.
The scrape steel Japan was buying from the US shortly before Pearl Harbor was at its highest level , an importance to give a pondering if you are not expecting an extreme turn of events during peacetime .That was a real blunder
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography/maps enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to guest speakers making this presentation more authentic and possible. Viewing this from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida🐊🐊🐊 . wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉.
Good to see Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the U.K. (which houses thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history).
Those old fashioned machines cannot be built any longer. TSMC does it all without a pilot in the missing cockpits, safe flying VR seated on the ground even half a world away.
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When you sound incredulous that the Japanese army and navy did not share aircraft types, you forget that neither did the US forces. The British had limited crossover between RAF and FAA but, really, no nation had an army and navy using the same front line combat aircraft. And, one thing that you never mention in your heavy emphasis on the production numbers game is that all of the equipment in the world will do you no good without trained people to operate and maintain it, not to mention the supply chain to keep it in service. The Germans lost that game. They had no shortage of equipment, right to the end. They lacked for skilled operators, and logistical support.
I don’t recall them mention that AVROE also had a shadow factory in Canada as a safety guarantee & they were the best of all the Lancs, because they also armed with .50BMGs, not just .303s
1:55:47 Lord of War...Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.
My father fighting over Burma used to say that the Japanese zeros were significantly inferior to the spitfires and would dive and duct away low to escape while hurricane were quite easily overcome by zero.
Well, yes and no. There is the matter of when, where and the evolution of tactics. When the Japanese were attacking Darwin in northern Australia, Spitfires were hurriedly rushed to the area to deal with AM6 Zero escorts to the bombers. Within a relatively short time, the Spitfire formation was seriously mauled.
Mahigpit na ipinag bbawal ng dyos ang panalangin na pakunwari, mga paulit ulit. Mga aral ng mga walang alam kundi tradition. Maawa kayo sa mga kaluluwa dahil lang sa kinikita nyo.
At 2:02:58 the cost is estimated about 300-500USD. This is most likely decimal error. The gun can be produced at 30-50USD or even less in low cost countries. And there were surplus guns sold in nineties for 7USD a piece :)
What happened to the Wellington? :o I never hear of it, my understanding is it was superseded by the Lancaster. Sorry if I missed it being mentioned I'd love to know more about that plane given the little information I can find
Thanks for sharing, Adam! Wish you all the best in the future! Glad you had a bike as your foundation in life and as I say, riding is medicine for body and soul! Glad to support you and always looking forward to the next video. Btw. I get my new Ténéré Extreme tomorrow!🍾🍾 Best regards from Arendal ❄️
26:00 800 hours of flight before combat mission before the war, reduced to 350 hours during the war. And Russian pilots today have 120 hours before entering in combat over Ukraine.
What’s your point? Do you propose we have a dictatorship instead? Democracy may not be perfect but it sure beats every other alternative. Democracy by its nature is imperfect as it ensures we always have a new person, without previous experience, running the show. Preventing demagogues from seizing power is one of the most important aspects of democracy. More important than all the terrible decisions they may make while in office.
@@IcelanderUSerI think what was meant is that Macnamara cut costs, and changed the original specifications for the M16. Those changes made the weapon unreliable. When the original, more costly specifications were adhered to, it worked perfectly well. Many US soldiers were found dead alongside weapons that had malfunctioned.
Heavy emphasis on the shocking statistic that Japanese pilots were entering combat with 300 hours flight time...in WW1, at the worst stage, British pilots were sent to the front after 10 hours, yes 10! At that stage a trainee can barely take off, do a circuit, and land, even in a modern enclosed, smooth, easily controlled, stable, reliable plane...let alone fly one of those misbehaved wood & canvas contraptions well enough to aim, fire guns, and do aerobatics without pulling the wings off, to evade experienced German experts. They were slaughtered, with an average life expectancy of 11 days. Not really relevant to this video, but an interesting contrast.
My grandfather flew 66 operational missions in a Lancaster Mk X. He was partway through his second tour, when he was shot down, on his 26th birthday, while supporting breakout operations from Normandy. His plane took a hit in the port wing that made a hole the size of a bathtub between the engines, and disabled both engine 1 & 2. They took a second hit in the fuselage, about 10 feet in front of the tail, disabling the tail control surfaces. Most of the crew bailed above 1500 feet, but the pilot, Howie (I don't remember his last name), and my grandfather, stayed in the bomber to try and get the tail-gunner out. He'd been trapped by the second hit, Howie kept the plane in the air as long as possible, while grandpa got the door open and the gunner out. The tail-gunner was next to bail, followed by grandpa and then Howie at about 800 feet. Everybody managed to get back to friendly lines, except the tail-gunner, who was captured and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp. Howie and my grandfather, Reg Swartz, were awarded the Bar to their DFC's by King George VI, in Buckingham Palace, in March of 1946.
His medals and uniform are part of the permanent collection of the Elgin Museum, in St Thomas, Ontario.
Can't imagine what was going through his mind those last few minutes trying to get the gunner out...The Greatest Generation...❤
i have an interest in war history and aircraft so i stood on the beaches in normandy for a holiday , i sat in a glider that the paratroopers used to get towed by the dc3s , i said a prayer on omaha beach for brave guys like your grandfather that helped liberate europe ... sadly history is repeating itself and unless someone stops russia we might havve to do the whole lot again ...respect to the raf and the allied bomber crews that saved us ... not many people appreciate the sacrifice those guys made ..they should visit the field full of gravestones in normandy and they might understand
@@colinobrien3806i want to go to normandy soooo baddd
Try to honor his memory. I try to be a good man because I was raised by the best.
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The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box.
Did you write that with a crayon ?
Yes the Zero was a top of the line plane when it was first introduced. But, the technology was advancing so quickly at the time, two years later it wasn't so great.
if they had self-sealing fuel tanks they would have been better!
It was at the acme of its development with little room for further improvement
Yes Mitsubishi engines are superb I own an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4G32 chain type w/side drop Webber's still roars like a monster!!
@@dindodayao6238i drove a 91 mirage i got as a hand me down from my parents minimal maintainence as my dad wasn't really a car guy and money was tight growing up......300k miles and no major repairs besides a starter.......and a new 5 speed manual that came off a 2nd hand parts dealer. Would probablly still start after sitting dor 10 years if i went and pit a new battery in her.
@@dindodayao6238I believe the engine for the Zero was designed and produced by Nakajima.
It’s amazing to see that RUclips can actually provide us with such high-quality historical documentaries. These documentaries often disappear in the age before the Internet.
I assure you YT had nothing to do with it
Back in the pre-internet times, you would buy the VHS set of the documentaries you liked.
There is a saying here in holland: when the ships were made of wood and the men of steel. I have so much admiration for the ww2 allies and disgust for the current woke generation who think that a simular conflict can not happen again.
I 100% agree. I simply can't stomach a man with no pride or backbone. My mother was more manly than the average youth man today. She was all woman but tough when she needed to be.
Your presentation segment on the M-16 failure rate, leaves the impression that Colt was somehow responsible.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his cadre of collegiate whiz kids, decided that they were collectively smarter than designer/engineer Eugene Stoner.
Whereas Stoner's specifications called for use of the newer conical propellant, the whiz kids changed it to ball powder that was already in supply.
Stoner likewise specified chrome lined chambers and bores, that the whiz kids discarded thinking it to be an unnecessary extravagant expense.
Just those two government overrides, to ball powder and non-chrome lined chambers and bores. produced carbon fouling that adhered to the
interior of the weapon, thus creating a jammomatic suicide machine. AK-47s at 100yds. were far more effective over American troops armed with
bayonets at the end of a M-16 stick. I would suggest that our current cultural self-destruction again sources directly back to the collegiate theoretical universe.
Also remember, that Army was like "yeah, nice.... can we make it stronger buullet?" ?
Great comment about McNamara and his whiz kids!
@@piotrd.4850, Its original configuration was 7.62 x 51. there was a change to 5.56 x 45 as thinking
embraced the idea that casualties would remove more of the enemy from the field. Dead is dead,
but wounded require assistance. The initial first appearance in the field was satisfactory with SOG
units, who named it a "meat axe". After about 200 yds. the round would begin to keyhole or rotate
end over end, due to a loss of gyro-stability, the rearmost weight of the boat-tail bullet begins to
overtake the front. Producing varied results such as impacts in the thigh exiting a shoulder.
5.56 gave more firepower than 7.62 in a standard load-out by weight.
Current self destruction is the fault of DJT 100%. Wake the fk up.
Reminds me of Alaska Airlines who wanted a more profitable door plug where the Boeing disign was orininally for an emergency exit. I prefer the emergency exit.
Man I love this doc series ! Almost 3 hours ? What’s not to love !?
Yeah,the full series was first aired on uk telly about 5 years ago.I agree they're quality documentaries 👍
There's 3 series' (22 episodes).
Because it truly beats what is on TV in the networks, all they can produce is garbage
Bouncing Bombs in WWII?? That's gotta be The Epitome of thinking "out of the box", but to follow thru with the engineering, Manufacturing/design of custom Lancasters, pilot training, logistics etc for something that may not work is simply amazing and mind boggling to learn about it 50+ years later.....Man I love History and Kudos to the Historians and Team who produce these vids. Thanks for Preserving History with Top Notch Productions.
In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources like oil to begin with.
We in America had oil, Japan and Germany didn't.....in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.
Now we a F1 race there. My message got deleted. I was saying it was political alliances with the German run Baku refinery and export that really hurt the German war machine. For lack of going into detail that's it.
_'In all fairness you can't have factories without access to natural resources...'_ True.
_'like oil to begin with.'_ Not true 'to begin with' . The most important resource for factories was coal. This was true for not only for Germany and Japan but also UK and US. Coal was king back then. How was coal Japan's most important resource? In 1936, it provided 51.4 per cent of Japan’s energy needs, serving both industry and households. Firewood and charcoal accounted for 18.6 per cent of Japan’s total energy consumption, mostly for household use. Electric power provided most of the rest of Japan’s energy, at 21.3 per cent. Depending on the season, hydroelectric power provided up to 78% of electricity and the remainder came from coal. (Had Japan built more reservoirs coal's use in generating electricity could have been reduced greatly.) Hydroelectric power provided 25 per cent of Japan's industries' energy whilst coal powered 71.2 per cent of Japanese industrial operations. Petroleum accounted for only 7.9 per cent of Japanese energy use, but, since this was *largely for military use* , it had disproportionate strategic importance. By 1940, coal had become even more important, supplying 66.1 per cent of Japan’s energy needs (civilian, industrial, agricultural, and military), while electric power provided 16.2 per cent, firewood and charcoal 10.7 per cent, and petroleum only 7.0 per cent. Companies like Toto, a maker of ceramic products which is energy intensive production, switched from oil to heat its kilns to coal and coal gas. Other than Japan's military, who consumed oil? The merchant and fishing fleets, though some of the merchant fleet still used coal in whole or in part. When war with the US began, much of Japan's fishing fleet had its operational range significantly reduced and many fisherman were drafted. This lack of manpower affected many other industries as well as skilled workers were inducted by a military that did not consider the consequences to industrial productivity. Coal was important to the entire economy yet during the '40s coal was mined by men too old to induct, women, children, and forced labourers from Korea as well as POWs. Certainly vehicles relied on petroleum products such as gasoline and diesel, but Japan had only 0.5% of the vehicles the US had. Rationing began in 1938 and by 1941 almost no fuel was available for civilian vehicles except trucks, which numbered 77,000. Gasoline for civilian use fell 66% between 1938 and 1941 _before_ Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Even public buses were were converted from diesel and gasoline to coal and charcoal. Railroads were powered by coal (intercity routes) and electricity (intracity routes). Commercial airline service barely existed; Japan Air Transport carried 70,000 passengers in 1938, many of whom were military officers and government officials. Civilian aviation was a niche business sector.
Coal was also the source for chemicals such as nitrates and ammonia for use as fertilisers and industrial feedstocks. This began with the Haber process and then the alternative Casale, Claude, and the Mont-Cenis processes. Hydroelectric dams also can be used for nitrogen fixation, i.e. converting into ammonia or related nitrogenous compounds.
Both Japan and Germany had large deposits of coal (as did the US and UK). In Japan significant reserves were in Kyushu and in Hokkaido and smaller reserves in the Ube and Joban areas of Honshu. Japan lacked coking coal, needed for steel, in the amount needed to build all the munitions the militarists wanted, which is why it grabbed North China. By 1940 more than half of Japan's steel went to munitions.
Oil replaced coal's importance in industry _after_ WWII, starting with the US (in 1949 iirc) and expanding to other industrialised countries in the '50s and '60s.
_'in fact, that's why the war started to begin with.'_ I think you put the cart before the horse. Japan and Germany could have continued to buy resources just like everyone else. If we look at 'peacetime' Japan's oil imports of 1936 (before the military took over the economy), we find Japan was importing less than 30 million barrels from the US. Yet even this total was inflated due to the 1934 law requiring oil importers to maintain a 6-month stockpile in Japan. (Japan built an oil stockpile exceeding 50 million barrels, estimated to be two years' civilian consumption, before 1940.) The average price of oil in 1936 was $1.09 per barrel (and ranged from $1.02 to $1.18 per barrel from 1937 to 1941), meaning that Japan's oil bill ranged from about $32 million to $40 million. But the militarists took over and military solutions were the answers to all problems.
Excellent documentary! Well done Brits
That gentleman loves his country and his dad. I can’t imagine what it would cost to build that airplane
this is an outstanding documentary! thank so so much made available for everyone 🙏
And now we produce nothing.....
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@@cordelllitus2630from the other side?
You do know semiconductor production is popping off right now, look at Texas and California.
Exactly, we've turned into a service oriented economy. Outsourcing the majority of production to overseas factories. And the corporations here are squeezing what's left of the middle class into poverty. Wages have fallen and corporate profits have soared. Home ownership is impossible for the majority of Americans. Homelessness and drug addiction is increasing along with the amount of incarcerations
we produce homes for those lovely people, which we are now not allowed to talk about, with getting arrested!
The Lancaster was undoubtedly a suburb aircraft and had capabilities that were unique at the time.
However, I have always believed that it was used incorrectly. It was used to do things that could have been just as easily been done by other aircraft, using it to destroy entire cities just to make sure that SOME of the militarily significant targets in that city were hit.
Britain should have diverted the majority of it's aircraft production to the plane that could hit targets, and hit them hard. The De Haviland Mosquito was cheaper, quicker to build and only need two Merlins instead of four. It's speed at all flight levels meant it could actually find and hit targets with a good chance of escaping unscathed, it only had a crew of two, needed significantly less maintenance and plane for plane could probably do more damage than a Lancaster when comparing where bombs actually landed.
Harris fought the introduction and production of the Mosquito in favour of the 'heavies' when a much smaller force of Lancasters could have been used only for operations that no other aircraft could achieve, the Dam Busters Raid being one and dropping of Tallboys being the obvious other. Lancasters were also ideal as support for army land forces, providing carpet bombing of enemy defensive lines as the 8th Air Force did in Operation Cobra and the Lancaster itself did on D-Day and for Operation Plunder. Using them as city-busters was, to my mind, a waste of an exceptional aircraft. Nearly 600 heavy bombers, including over 300 Lancasters, were used in August 1943 to attack Peenemunde with mixed results where a raid by 500 Mosquitos would have been devastating.
Even in 1944-45 most Lancaster raids actually relied on Mosquito pathfinders to locate and mark the targets, especially after the introduction of OBOE, due to the need for Lancasters to bomb from high altitude to avoid being shot down.
superb
This was probably the most interesting production I've ever seen. Absolutely amazing.
EUROPE BETTER BE STEPPING IT UP!
TOO LATE!
There is a saying here in holland: when the ships were made of wood and the men of steel. I have so much admiration for the ww2 allies and disgust for the current woke generation who think that a simular conflict can not happen again
Shoigu reminded the west yesterday of the kalisnikov
Which was interesting
Brilliant Video thanks for the Upload !!!!!!
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Loved every second of this documentary
I have an old car that have a Mitsubishi SATURN 4D32 engine chain type w/ sidedrop Webber's and still roars like a monster!!!
The 4D32 engine was a diesel ,therefore no Webers!!!
My buddy found some webers and put them on an old school Ford Ranger that gave the truck a stronger top end and it had the suspension for the curves.
I really enjoyed this video! Taught me not just about Chinese e-vehicles, but also Chinese railroads, food, hotels, factories and nice people! Great job 😁👍
Arguably browning should be up there with colt and kolashnikov
maxim first
Not arguably but top, a war changing inventor.
WE SHOULD BE HUMBLED BY SUCH EFFORTS
Yes
ALL CAPS FTW WOOT
VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL... CHARMING DOCUMENTARY
This was a great video !
Fine documentary
I never actually understood the Japanese Zero even being a War Veteran until i watched the show in Grand Junction Colorado about 10 yrs ago.
The Zero has a nimble way to achieve speed, then turn on a dime which would firce any enemy to over shoot from almost any attack angle.
Hats off to Mitsubishi, what a incredible plane. Had the pilots been better trained to fly such a fighter the war may have been different.
A very long while ago my father let me play with a Duralamim tube. It had been formed like blown plastic and was closed by a screwon cap. Both parts were almost like foil.
But unlike foil it was rigged. Again, unlike foil if I bent it, I could not get it back. Instead it broke in this child's hands.
In fairness, midway was hard on Japan. They lost not only carriers but most of their trained and experienced pilots. Never could replace them.
i love how here, it's a matter of fact that production output is vital in winning modern warfare. I guess no one in the government watched this when they passed all that ukraine war funding.
good work
Would it be in bad taste for Mitsubishi to build a sports car and name it Zero??
The massive drop in production by the end of January 1945 had nothing to do with the bombing campaign but with the final Soviet Winter offensive that captured, often entirely intact, most of the German heavy industry on the Eastern Front.
Not true. The heavy industry was concentrated in the Ruhr basin.
Great work!
The real limitation is experienced Pilots who understand tactics. U.S. Pilots flew as teams and learned to kill enemy aircraft regardless of their performance. The tactics changed with experience and advancements in Aircraft. I flew the F4E Phantom II. Taught by an Instructor who instructed me to think outside the box. ..
Manufacturing scholars completely ignoring W. Edwards Deming’s influence on Japanese quality control? How did they skip that?
I understand that the Japanese erected a statue of him.
Brilliant Documentary!
Great documentary
10:14 duralumin, strong, hard, lightweight alloy of aluminum, widely used in aircraft construction, discovered in 1906 and patented in 1909 by Alfred Wilm, a German metallurgist; it was originally made only at the company Dürener Metallwerke
Thanks, you saved me a Google search.
Very good…
My grandfather was blessed with coke bottle eyesight in the time of WW 2. He worked the oilfields of Oklahoma and did his part of pumping out the oil needed to make it happen. His younger brother jumped into France and then on to Germany. Disturbing things he saw as he moved to his objective.
You can have as many factories to built the war machine but if there is no fuel, those machine will be as good as a rusty paper weight.
Why the USA and USSR came up tops is because these two countries has their own fuel, resources and the means to produce large quantity of war machines and personel to operate them.
That these historians actually believe that the US Navy threw away 3 squadrons of torpedo planes on purpose is beyond the absurd.
Take a look at Afghanistan. Haha
They couldn't have planned it as they almost could not even locate them. Fog of war.
Very cool documentary, thanks for sharing this. 👍
Too bad it's completely fake 🤣.
That woman’s great uncle 43:49 would be proud of her.
AND to top it off the Japanese ZERO was the best looking fighter plane of WW2.
34:15 Regarding the Kamikaze Pilots, I assume it took less time to train them since they didn’t need to teach them how to land the aircraft, just how to takeoff! If you need to resort to sending your young men on suicide attacks then it’s time to say enough!
Great fascinating documentary series!
I absolutely love stuff made in Japan..from hobby stuff to cars ...yes Biuld a zero 😮
As a scale modeller thwir hobby supplies and kits are way better then their american counterparts but their models are being supplanted by companies like dragon out of china. But it still has its place if i am looking for a decent kit thats not as indepth as say a dragon kit tamiya is still a solid vhoice for when i don't feel lile making 30 road wheels for a panzer that have 12 parts per wheel.....yes that is literally how many parts are in a dragon panzer 4 road wheel.
Learning punctuation and spelling is a great hobby too. 😂
In the 1960's the term "Made in Japan" was synonymous with low quality, cheaply made junk, but that diminished steadily until by the mid- '70s, when Japanese products gained a steadily more respectable reputation, with Nikon, Honda, Seiko, Toyota, Yamaha and others leading the way. I had a friend who dropped his Mamiya Sekor 500DTL SLR 35mm camera on a ski slope, and left a request for a lost item with the lift management. 6 months later after the thaw, he was notified it had been found by some hikers. He got it back, and it STILL WORKED!!
Regarding the piece about women empowerment by working in a factory, is really nobody going to state the obvious??
Capitalism embraced the idea wholehearted. When before they paid a man the minimum, say 100, to maintain a family, now they pay each employee half that. So now, for making that minimum money, both men and women have to work and the companies have twice the manpower. That's exactly the situation we are now, as anyone born in the 50s and 60s can attest.
Women joining the workforce, sold as empowerment, has been the biggest con in the history of mankind.
Who is Capitalism and how do i have a word with him??
To a large extent, the gunpowder is what makes, (or breaks), the gun.
@1:42:57 Colt did work his employees HARD but look what they got in return! Because we all understood reality.
There is a fully restored and flying Lancaster in Alberta Canada.
The scrape steel Japan was buying from the US shortly before Pearl Harbor was at its highest level , an importance to give a pondering if you are not expecting an extreme turn of events during peacetime .That was a real blunder
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still-motion photography/maps enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to guest speakers making this presentation more authentic and possible. Viewing this from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida🐊🐊🐊 . wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉.
Can you see rocket launches from your house?
Good to see Jonathan Ferguson, Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the U.K. (which houses thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history).
Now you know why Mitsubishi is the only Non-US company allowed to build F-Fighters under license...
Pretty sad we still need to do this.
Sad we still need to do what?!?
Indeed. Sadly, war is big business today. Biggest business in the free world is weapons manufacturers.
I'd rather live my life without any war
@@WarnockRaffertymaking ammunition for war .... Kinda what this is about. Where did you go to school?
How? GM has gone all electric
colt making 1500 firearms a day "cheap" "reliable" ..? my guy COLT AINT CHEAP !!
Those old fashioned machines cannot be built any longer. TSMC does it all without a pilot in the missing cockpits, safe flying VR seated on the ground even half a world away.
With jam on it.
Thumbnail looked like a bunch of penguins. Or maybe that's just me
i see it to😂😂😂
nah man u arent alone lmao
YOU'RE A PENGUIN
I’ve been watching your channel for just a couple months. I absolutely love it! I’m going to subscribe to RUclips premium because of your channel,, and in turn subscribe and support your content.
This documentary had 190 ads, be ready for them in this 2hours and 50 minutes. The normal RUclips ads that you can scip after 5 seconds. However some you can't scip which were like 13 seconds.
Give em the beans Joe.
Can U please keep uploading more documentarys like this please
I love how they talk about the way Japan production contracts as if it's not EXACTLY HOW THE US GOVERNMENT contracts their designs😂😂😂
When you sound incredulous that the Japanese army and navy did not share aircraft types, you forget that neither did the US forces. The British had limited crossover between RAF and FAA but, really, no nation had an army and navy using the same front line combat aircraft.
And, one thing that you never mention in your heavy emphasis on the production numbers game is that all of the equipment in the world will do you no good without trained people to operate and maintain it, not to mention the supply chain to keep it in service. The Germans lost that game. They had no shortage of equipment, right to the end. They lacked for skilled operators, and logistical support.
It will Always in All Ways Be Sad... Go Lancaster!!!
I don’t recall them mention that AVROE also had a shadow factory in Canada as a safety guarantee & they were the best of all the Lancs, because they also armed with .50BMGs, not just .303s
Its almost like Blackrock
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I l9ve how many times this documentary has been re-posted lol
Just bought a new 1911 last month. 10mm for bear protection though (Montana).
As a professional cod player i can confirm this is accurate.
The company war😁
MOST OF THE TALKING HEADS WEREN'T even better horn when their grandparents got married.
1:55:47 Lord of War...Of all the weapons in the vast Soviet arsenal, nothing was more profitable than Avtomat Kalashnikova model of 1947, more commonly known as the AK-47, or Kalashnikov. It's the world's most popular assault rifle. A weapon all fighters love. An elegantly simple 9 pound amalgamation of forged steel and plywood. It doesn't break, jam, or overheat. It will shoot whether it's covered in mud or filled with sand. It's so easy, even a child can use it; and they do. The Soviets put the gun on a coin. Mozambique put it on their flag. Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.
My father fighting over Burma used to say that the Japanese zeros were significantly inferior to the spitfires and would dive and duct away low to escape while hurricane were quite easily overcome by zero.
Well, yes and no. There is the matter of when, where and the evolution of tactics. When the Japanese were attacking Darwin in northern Australia, Spitfires were hurriedly rushed to the area to deal with AM6 Zero escorts to the bombers. Within a relatively short time, the Spitfire formation was seriously mauled.
Zero was a dogfighter..
The others were scream past and fill him with lead fighters.
Mahigpit na ipinag bbawal ng dyos ang panalangin na pakunwari, mga paulit ulit. Mga aral ng mga walang alam kundi tradition. Maawa kayo sa mga kaluluwa dahil lang sa kinikita nyo.
let alone the japanese aircraft designers that went and designed super bikes, being that they also glide thru the air like fighter planes
At 2:02:58 the cost is estimated about 300-500USD. This is most likely decimal error. The gun can be produced at 30-50USD or even less in low cost countries. And there were surplus guns sold in nineties for 7USD a piece :)
So I saw the thumbnail and was like why are there so many penguins standing there............😅😮 🐧
What happened to the Wellington? :o I never hear of it, my understanding is it was superseded by the Lancaster. Sorry if I missed it being mentioned I'd love to know more about that plane given the little information I can find
If they attack we will see how accurate their ballistic missles are
AK 47, the VLC of the rifle world.
RUclips knows how to ruin a great historical documentary. An advertisement every 5 mins took away my enjoyment of watching.
Whine whine whine 🙄
Apparently they've eased up 6 months later, for I've only seen 2 ads in the entire 3 hours' duration. 2:08:23
won the war??? lost everything else..
The Blitz and Avro city ruin tactics were the same. Neither targeted civilians but critical infrastructure for the war effort.
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Thanks for sharing, Adam! Wish you all the best in the future! Glad you had a bike as your foundation in life and as I say, riding is medicine for body and soul! Glad to support you and always looking forward to the next video. Btw. I get my new Ténéré Extreme tomorrow!🍾🍾
Best regards from Arendal ❄️
26:00 800 hours of flight before combat mission before the war, reduced to 350 hours during the war. And Russian pilots today have 120 hours before entering in combat over Ukraine.
Funny that,sounds exactly like another well known country 😂😂😂?
Wondering how our military mass production facilities would look like on the inside of a facility.
So much ideas about manufacturing but indeed this revelation of how to hijack someone's technologies
I vote for a defective fuse.
20:20 The ZERO was not the best fighter because it didn't protect the pilot (the most valuable part of the plane).
It had, _zero_ armor.
Colt didn't make any real mistakes with the M16, MacNamara did, our soldiers were screwed by our Government, not Colt.
What’s your point? Do you propose we have a dictatorship instead? Democracy may not be perfect but it sure beats every other alternative. Democracy by its nature is imperfect as it ensures we always have a new person, without previous experience, running the show. Preventing demagogues from seizing power is one of the most important aspects of democracy. More important than all the terrible decisions they may make while in office.
@@IcelanderUSerI think what was meant is that Macnamara cut costs, and changed the original specifications for the M16. Those changes made the weapon unreliable. When the original, more costly specifications were adhered to, it worked perfectly well. Many US soldiers were found dead alongside weapons that had malfunctioned.
@@IcelanderUSerAmerica doesn't have "democracy," we have a representative republic.
I am A Canadian . I lived in Malton Ontario . The Avro Valcan looks to Me like the Avro Arrow Built in Malton Ontario Canada. By McDonald Douglas
Canada also built 430 Lancaster, the Avro should also have been featured
At least old timers had a balls to declare wars, not like modern days wars, wars wars but no declaration. Proxy wars especially are cowards wars
Heavy emphasis on the shocking statistic that Japanese pilots were entering combat with 300 hours flight time...in WW1, at the worst stage, British pilots were sent to the front after 10 hours, yes 10! At that stage a trainee can barely take off, do a circuit, and land, even in a modern enclosed, smooth, easily controlled, stable, reliable plane...let alone fly one of those misbehaved wood & canvas contraptions well enough to aim, fire guns, and do aerobatics without pulling the wings off, to evade experienced German experts. They were slaughtered, with an average life expectancy of 11 days.
Not really relevant to this video, but an interesting contrast.
might not be relevant to this video mate but i enjoyed reading that because i learned something new. thanks for sharing.
The BAR is really the first assault rifle
And the M1911 was still in use during the Gulf war Dessert storm.
Boy do i wish FDR was in charge today!