Josef 'Pips' Priller's attack on Sword Beach at Normandy - 6th June 1944
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- On 6th June 1944, Oberstleutnant Josef ‘Pips’ Priller and his wingman Unteroffizier Hienz Wodarcyck of JG 26 flew the most famous Luftwaffe sortie on ‘D-Day’. As some of the only available fighters in Normandy on this day, the pair took off from Lille-Nord at 0800 and headed for the invasion beaches. They soon reached Sword and Juno beaches where they both made a single staffing run under intense Allied fire. Miraculously making it through the flak unscathed, Priller and Wodarcyck returned to base. This event was popularised by the book and film ‘The Longest Day’.
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Congrats well done. Their attack is depicted in The Longest Day movie, using dummy planes. Should be demoralizing for a men like Priller that amazing sight but sill they pressed on. He was a Viermmont ace shout down many heavies.
Jagdgeschwader Kommodore Josef Priller had shot down no less than 90 odd aircraft at the time of the D Day Landing's.....and would finish his career with a total of 102 Kill's
During the Battle of Britain, an incident occurred which without exaggeration can be described as one of the most curious in German air war history. On August 24, "Pips" Priller, together with another Me-109 pilot, was escorting a Heinkel He-59 used for sea rescue near the French Channel coast when his wingman, mistakenly mistaken for a British fighter by one of his own(!), overzealous fighter pilots, was attacked and was shot badly! Sergeant Delfs, who was piloting the smoking machine, was seriously wounded, but was able to regain control of his Me-109 and headed for the French hinterland. Escorted by Priller, Delfs finally managed to jump with his parachute - but as luck would have it, the now unconscious pilot landed right on the rails of a railway line! And just at that minute a train was approaching!
Priller's action was unique - he pinned his Me-109 to just a few feet off the ground and thundered at the approaching train. But when he didn't slow down and Delfs was still lying motionless on the tracks, "Pips" repeated his approach and opened fire on the locomotive from all tubes! This time with success.
The train finally stopped a few meters in front of his wounded comrade, Sergeant Delfs was taken to a hospital and survived. A really crazy but true story!
I copied it from Lexikon der Wehrmacht. Translation from Google.
Josef Priller completed 1307 missions and shot down 101 enemy aircraft. Priller was used exclusively against Western Allies throughout the war.
A stocky, strongly muscled guy. Could handle a lot of g forces.
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Wokester?
He got the record of most spitfire kills I believe.
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My father was Prillers staff telegraphist.
He had some funny stories to tell, for example, how he managed to avoid being a POW of the British.
In the film 'The Longest Day', because of the problems of getting hold of any authentic WW2 German aircraft in 1962, a pair of Me.108s were used instead.
Given the sheer size of the flotilla, they probably both realised there & then that it was GAME OVER.
Thank you for these videos. They are very well done and cinematically refined. Keep up the great work.
Nice! Thanks for another great production.
Priller after strafing the beach: “Return to base! The Luftwaffe has just had its greatest moment!” *laughs*
The Longest Day, Classic 👍
Jimmy Dolittle make sure that most of Priller’s Racist NAZI buddies were 6 feet under and could not help him on D-day. Allied fighter planes had been ordered to roam the of Europe And kill evil Nazi airman wholesale. The allied bombers were used as bait! Hence the pathetic Luftwaffe response on D-day….. like their Porky leader Hermann Goering, the little piglets could night get off the ground…. Most of them already being 6 feet under, Ha ha ha. The only bad news is that we didn’t kill every single Nazi
…I recall the movies reenactment had them flying ME-108’s….as obviously no ME-109’s or FW-190’s were available then…
Galgenhumor is the german word for Prillers comment. Genuine Galgenhumor. 😉
@@hertzair1186 that's correct, BF 108 not 109 !
Another excellent video mate 👌🏻 thanks for bringing these stories to life.
Imagine Pips thoughts after exiting cloud cover….¡¡..HOLY CRAP!!!….
Great video, as always!
Great video of this epic event. I loved it. I just recently finished building a 1/48th scale version of Pips aircraft. Thanks for sharing this. New subscriber here and looking forward to the next video.
Awesome as always 👏
Priller was reportedly an inspiring leader who was well liked by his subordinates and an excellent fighter pilot. Priller lead by example which is a trademark of many a good military commander. Another good trait is a commander who mentors his subordinates and encourages them to excel, even surpassing their own fame which is hard for hard charging military commanders, some of whom want the spotlight for themselves. He was promoted to Oberst (Colonel) at the age of 30 near the end of the war and ended his career in a staff position in the "Inspector Of Fighters" command. After the war Priller studied brewing and was successful as the general manager of a brewery but died young at the age of 45 of a heart attack in 1961. His son later became general manager of the same brewery in 1991.
Totally no effect on the troops... almost all allied landing troops interviewed afterwards didnt even know the Luftwaffe were even in the area!
Doh. There were thousands of craft even , let alone soldiers . Spread along many beaches. There were thousands of allied planes in the air ... So ya reckon??? 🤷🤦
I always wondered how these Luftwaffe pilots avoided the huge allied combat air patrols !
Thank you for this nice video 👍
Bad weather and there's so much in the air that a couple of low flying FWs scarcely get noticed.
They used cloud cover. It was a bad day when the sky was clear.
I guess after 5 years flying against the enemy, one could smell him....
Wondering if there were casualties on ground from this action.
Great content SC! Keep this up and you should explode all in good time.
Definitely. The standart armament of a FW in 1944 was 1 30mm and 4 20mm cannons. now imagine what happens when you unload this on a crowded beach.
Just, think of the insanity of ordering two aircraft to attack the largest invasion fleet in history when you really needed several hundred aircraft to make a difference.
Wonderfully done!!! Yay!
Another great video. Only suggestion I have that I've thought for a while is that the maps in the videos could really with a circle or something to indicate where I should be looking, where were the FW190 based? Where are they heading (I know you say Le Havre later, but thats not whilst the map is up). The period appropriate maps are very detailed and feel authentic, but they're also very cluttered so an indication would help.
I vaguely know this story and have been to Normandy so I know what I'm looking at, but on the last one with Marselle I was just paused looking at a map without any real indication where on the screen my eyes should be drawn to. Other than that, a great video, look forward to seeing what else you do on Normandy. Could I suggest about Paddy Finucane at some point? Top scoring Irish ace, died in 1942, interesting last words when he died after ditching in the Channel but otherwise could be an excuse to show some Fw-190/Bf-109 vs Spitfire Mk.V over northern France.
Thanks for the feedback Harv! I'll see what I can do for new videos. Paddy Finucane is on my list of aces to cover, perhaps even the next one... no promises yet though
@@sotocinematics According your channelinfo you cover air combat and historical events of ww2, right? I see your video uploads. Aces of ww2, air raids and air operations of ww2. What are your crietria to explain an ace, air raid or operations as there were hundreds or thousands of such? I ask because i have plenty of these in may head, but i am unsure if these air combat and historical events fit for your criteria in creating a video about one of this. I would like to know before i written down whats in my mind. Thank you.
@@aka99 My criteria is: 1. that it must be possible to do in IL-2 Sturmovik 2. choose relatively well known people or events if possible 3. cover interesting or incredible events. All this also depends on what I'm interested in :)
@@sotocinematics thanks for the reply. Clearyfing this, indeed most of my ideas have fallen away. Suggestion 1.) Sinking of the Marat by Hans-Ulrich Rudel 2.) Last german aird raid. Mark Felton made a video about that. 3.) Battle of the River Forth. Germany's First Air Attack on Britain of WW2. The Northern Historian did a video about that.
Fine video !
Holy shit attacking the largest invasion fleet of history with two aircrafts, that would make up a rlly nice action/history movie.
Hello SC Big fan! If there is enough history to support a VMF 214 Boyington video with your production values that would be righteous! JP
Fantastic work as always. It seems like a bit of a coincidence that at Pearl Harbor two U.S. fighters made it up to engage and that was a famous aspect of that historic battle. At least that’s the story I grew up hearing.
More planes than that got into the air at Pearl Harbor. Three P-36s, flown by 2nd Lt. Rasmussen, 1st Lt. Lewis M. Sanders, 2nd Lt. Gordon H. Sterling, Jr. got into the air and engaged. Four or five P-40s got into the air, Zeroes shot down two soon after takeoff. Two P-40s, flown by Second Lieutenants Kenneth Taylor and George Welch, got into the air and claimed 6 aircraft, 4 Vals, 2 Zeroes. Tora! Tora! Tora! immortalized the two P-40's. That other movie about Pearl Harbor sensationalied the P-40s.
Yes that is true. In fact, five intrepid American airmen managed to get airborne in their Curtiss P-40B fighters during the Pearl Harbour strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Two of them, close friends George Welch and Kenneth Taylor shot down 4 and 2 IJN machines respectively. Each was awarded the Distinguished Fkying Medal. Welch went on to make triple ace in the Pacific and become a celebrated test pilot for North American Aviation Co after the conflict. Tragically, he was killed in 1954 ow e? disinte F-100 Super Sabre.
Yes that it true, in fact 5 U.S. fighters made it into the air as the Imperial Japanese Navy ran riot over Pearl Harbour. Two of them, George Welch and Kenneth Taylor - each flying a Curtiss P-40B Warhawk - shot down 4 and 2 IJN aircraft respectively and were awarded the DFM for their heroic endeavours. Welch went on to make triple ace in The Pacific and later became a celebrated test pilot for North Anerican Aviation. Tragically, he was killed in 1954 owing to a design fault in the F-100 Super Sabre which went on to become the world's first operational Supersonic combat jet.
Andrew - Perth W.A.
@@andrewshenton7630 B. Gen. Chuck Yeager went into detail on the events leading up to Welch's fatal crash in "Yeager".
What a desperate rush to capture the beach at 1:30 😂
Proletariat was quite the character,, his family had a Brewery in Germany, something he know doubt ( Beer) used to further endear him to his comrades and the visiting Fighter Ace’s community after the war!!
Stupid phone Priller!!
@@ricardocorbie6803 You can correct your posts, when you discover an error.
@@herrlich1461 thanks didn’t realize I could do that!! Old gentleman with technology 😂😂😂😂
I liked the part with Priller in The Longest Day. He knew he couldn't do very much against the invasion fleet with only two planes and in the movie he's very outspoken about it to his commanders. Nevertheless, he does as he's ordered and makes the attack. It puts into perspective how desperate the Germans were for airpower at that time. One joke among the Germans went: "If you see white planes, they're the Americans. If you see black planes it's the British. If you see no planes, its the Luftwaffe."
I remember it as "If you see silver planes they're Americans, if you see camouflaged planes they're British, if you see invisible planes they're German". The Luftwaffe ran 300 Sorties on that day. They new the invasion was coming but had estimated the time by 2 weeks too late so Germans forces were not yet built up. If they had of gotten the timing right they might have repelled the allies as they almost did on Omaha (where the Germans were almost up to planed strength)
Fine videos. More in depth historical narration would command this greatly. Personal reports of what was observed and what happened.
From now on im more proud to make a model FW190 with his insignia
Go ahead!
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@@ahmet42selim65 cause i would like to see it
@@aka99 how can i post it
@@ahmet42selim65 i dont know. i had not made any tought about that haha
I read in "D Day through the German Eyes" that 2 Fock Wulfs Flew Over D Day Beaches, and 1 was shot down by P51s while the other shot down one P51 then bolted for home; its an audiobook here on youtube; testimony by the surviving pilot himself. Otherwise, dope cinematic.
I was going to say where was the Allied air cover over this beach?
I watched this several times in "The Longest Day".
Hello, I have been planning a diorama with the two Fw190 for a long time. I didn't have exact details of the wingman, though. Is the blue 9 confirmed for sure?
The colour blue I can confirm, the number is based on an artwork I found but can't confirm it
This was shown in the movie "The Longest Day."
Great video, yes, I've bought it :D
Awesome video, would of been nice to know what happen to both those pilots
Yes, Priller survived the war while Wodarczyk was killed during Operation Bodenplatte
Priller died in 1961 in Bayern, of a heart attack. Heinz Wodarczyk died January 1st 1945 in Holland, when his airplane crashed. Probably shot down by AAA.
@@sotocinematics Jap, Unternehmen Bodenplatte, a pyrrhic victory that killed the Luftwaffe finally. The allied lost a lot planes, the Luftwaffe a lot experienced pilots. The operation was so secretly, that the own german air defence shot down german planes, because they didn't know about the attack...
Thank you for the excellent video. I caution, however, that Cornelius Ryan's dated trilogy--The Longest Day; A Bridge Too Far; and The Last Battle--relied more on human memory and less on the written record in the form of war diaries, after-action reports, etc. These books contain numerous errors that more recent historians have attempted to correct since then. Ryan began the myth that Priller and his wingman conducted the only Luftwaffe attacks over the beachhead on D-day. Other lesser historians perpetuated this myth for decades until more serious scholarship dug into the actual combat reports and discovered otherwise. For example, there were several aerial skirmishes over the beachhead on D Day. 3. / JG 2 FW 190s conducted antishipping strikes off the British beaches using rockets. Leutnant Fisher is credited with hitting one ship. Several landing craft were claimed too. Numerous dogfights occurred vic Caen too. The vastly outnumbered Luftwaffe fighters nonetheless scored several victories over RAF Spitfires and USAAF P-51s. 8th AF fighter groups claimed 13 victories but they lost 25 P-51 and P-47 fighters. FLAK probably accounted for most of these losses but a complete section of four P-51s, for example, from the 4th Fighter Group was jumped and shotdown near the beachhead on 6 June. RAF 164 Squadron lost three Typhoons vic Caen, Bayeux, and Lisieux to Bf109s. RAF Nos 349 and 485 Squadron Spitfires intercepted 12 Ju88s over the beachhead in the early afternoon, shotdown four, and lost one Spitfire to probable return fire. While admittedly in comparison to the massive Allied air effort, the Luftwaffe reaction was small and mostly ineffectual, Pips Priller's Rotte wasn't the only Luftwaffe effort over Normandy on D-Day.
Thanks for the detailed information. I am well aware of this though. Correct me if wrong but Prillers attack remains the the only direct attack on the beaches which is stated in the video, rather than the only Luftwaffe sortie that day. I considered covering these aerial engagements and rocket attack near or over the beaches but I found it hard to find much information on them. Which sources do you recommend?
Though you'll certainly interpret this incorrectly, Ryan displayed the value of original research and first person witness narrative vs. merely aping the works of others or compiling official documents.
A real historian understands the human side of official records compilation, i.e. don't necessarily believe everything a unit diarist writes...
So basically, if all your knowledge is based something from Google, Wikipedia, etc. you actually don't know anything, you just hold an orthodox belief.
I wonder if "Pips" had as fiery a personality as shown in the "Longest Day" and whether that exchange with his superior really occurred?
There is a nice character of Pips
In the movie The longest day 😎
The problem with not shooting them down is they got a bird's eye view of the activity in that sector and a guess at a rough number of support vessels, landing craft, and a glimpse of the men and material being unloaded and return to base intact. Lucky the Wehrmacht was preoccupied with chasing Tito a few weeks earlier in Yugoslavia.
Did they create any. Casualties or destructions of vehicles?
Pips died young, I don't know if he ever saw himself portrayed in the movie.
So Priller's strafing attack was actually flying from east to west rather than the way it was shown in Longest Day?
Wow how brave were they
I bet when they got back, they told their commanders that Normandy was NOT a feint because they could see there were thousands of ships out there.
Ein Tapfere und Mutiger Angriff, wenn auch sehr Verzweifelt! Mit 2 gegen 10.000 Flugzeuge, was letzendlich durch die Verschuldung des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht war, genau so wie die Panzer Divisionen, zu weit hinter der Front zu Stationieren und nur mit spezial Befehl frei zugeben.
Im Ergebnis wäre es alles dasselbe gewesen. Es war nie zu gewinnen und das ist auch sehr gut so
More Axis & Jagdgeschwader sorties, please.
In 44, the majority of fighter cover had been withdrawn to cover Berlin against the bombers of the allied assault...
What game this is?
Was this DCS or IL-2???
It was stated they were both pretty drunked. Since the day before they knew to be the only 2 planes in case of invasion, so they decide to get some alcool! (all other planes were moved to Russian front)
You would think the sky over D-Day would be filled with allied planes.
Not really. Fighter planes back in the time had a quite limmited range. So maybe a few minutes combat time over the beach bevore you have to return to england.
It would of been a more informative video if you could of including prillers after action report,but still good video, 👍
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It accimplished absolutely nothing. It was sheer braavery, though.
Guess they weren’t going to make a second run
Hé was not a nazy but a héro of thé aviation
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I enjoyed the Klingon music theme! Ha Ha...
Priller married after the war the heir of a brewery in Augsburg called "Riegele", existing to this day. 🍺
Jagdgeschwader Kommodore Josef Priller had at least shot down 90 odd aircraft at this time of his military career of the D Day invasion...he and his wingman, that was an Unteroffizier Heinz W.
As for the reason why that JG26 was only able to put 2 fighter's in the air that day, was because JG 26 was pulled back from their original coastal air bases for defence of the Reich duties, previously.
and this unit was still in transit on D Day ! 6th June 1944.
Leaving the Jagdgeschwader Kommodore Priller and his assistant the only remaining combatant's at the old airbase available for duty over Normandy that Day ! From JG 26.
This meant that the only Jagdflier Unit at the time to get into action that was Jagdgeschwader 2 Richthofen.....to take care of the air armada, but as per usual the Hollywood and Sherwood Movie industries ran out of celluloid film and think everyone is an idiot !
As they forget that some military buff's were not all illiterate and forget some viewer's had the education and skill to actually read book's !!
Is it true that the British troops gave a chivalrous cheer to the German pilots for their courage after the attack?
Did the attack cause any appreciable damage to allied assets on the ground?
Priller went on to shoot down a P51 and P47 over the next 24hours
JG 2 attaked US ground forces and ships
Heroic, but they must of known before they took off that it was a completely futile gesture.
Pips Priller
,,, Remarks - Prips . Flight Jacked - was an American Original US - Type US-AirForce-A-2.... reached from US-PW-Pilot...
SIGNAL INCOMING:
FROM: COMMANDING OFFICER, 1ST OBERVATION DETACHMENT
TO: SOTO CINEMATICS
MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU AND TO YOUR COMMAND. YOUR PERFORMANCE IS EXEMPLARY AND AN INSPIRATION TO AVIATION ENTHUSIASTS THE WORLD OVER. CONTINUE YOUR PROFESSIONAL WORK. WELL DONE!
MESSAGE ENDS...
Love this 😀, thanks!
It must have been due to fuel constraints that they didn't run another sortie! We practiced 'combat turns' constantly in the Airforce, and I'll bet if they had more fuel they would have run as many sorties as daylight permitted or until they were shot down!
Because war is FUN! Moron. They did what they were ordered to do, attack the beaches, and that's it. They were rational, not "cowboys."
So when those two boshes saw haw powerful forces land thay get away ASAP ! if even one P51 mustang appears would make those boshes deaths
1:34 moonwalking on D-day..
I love German Luftwaffe during WW2. Galland is my hero.
Sign up for the Luftwaffe in 1940, first two years loving it.......next three years, shitting it, reverse for the RAF
The video was quite good; right until you showed a Yankee destroyer in the British/Canadian sector. 7/10.
Yes that's all there is on the simulator I used so it is a stand in
A unenviable posting.
Not the "most famous Luftwaffe sortie of D-Day."
The most famous Luftwaffe sortie. Period.
Two pairs, solid brass. Right or wrong, must respect that.
a game show-pathetic!
So? What? Yes - so what?
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@@TheHarvHR !
Hä?
So what?
What so?
@@aka99 Exactly.
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