Last Luftwaffe Dogfights 8 May 1945
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- Even on the very last day of WW2, 8 May 1945, German pilots scored kills, several while on their way to surrender! Find out the full story of the last Luftwaffe dogfights of the war.
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When the war ends at 2pm but its only 1:30pm
German pilot: I got time
*"HOLD MY BEER...."*
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@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Exactly.
Soviet pilot who's survived this long against all odds with 30 minutes of war to go, seeing futuristic Nazi jet coming in fast on his 6: "oh come ON."
@@IrishCarney Why Me???????????
@@IrishCarney Most Soviet pilots had not been fighting for very long at this point. The Soviet Air Force was hardly even operational due to German successes early on, but had rapidly expanded much like the Red Army as victory became more certain.
Who in their right mind Scraps that ME-262?? How cool would it be to see the ME-262 that got the last German kill of the war.
Canadians did.
Oftentimes its hard to tell the historical or collectors value of something until it is gone.
In 1950, it was just an outdated plante with no real value anymore that is incredibly expensive and difficult to maintain. Think of it like an ancient Greek throwing away a slightly damaged vase. It costs money, space and time to preserve an aircraft, even in a non-flightworthy state.
Yeah, what idiots, it could have been a prize exhibit in any number of the worlds museums as the plane with the last Luftwaffe kill of WW2.
The Canadian Aviation Museum does have a number of German aircraft from WW1 through to WW2, including an Me 163 and an He 162 to represent the more advanced models.
A German soldier or sailor definitely didn't want to get captured by the Soviets. Living out your days in a Soviet gulag in the far north of Siberia was a fate worse than death.
First ever jet fighters, absolutely cool. Also the Me 262 was a very beautiful and fast aircraft.
Interesting. Faßberg - the airfield where the last victorious Me-262 landed - was the location where I did my military service in the Bundeswehr from 1985-86.
Why was it scrapped, it would be worth a million today!
The Canadian Aviation Museum does have a number of German aircraft from WW1 through to WW2, including an Me 163 and an He 162 to represent the more advanced models
Easily 10s of Millions
Perhaps it was considered secret at the time so a museum display wasn't even considered
At the time they were a dime a dozen, useless militarilly, museums didn't want them because they were chronically underfunded if they existed at all, and just keeping them in storage would take up hangar space needed for other things more pressing, new aircraft then under development.
It wasn't until much later that museums and private collections started looking for WW2 relics to restore and put on display.
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About 25 years ago an old guy appeared at our gliding site and told us "The last time I flew a glider was at Arnheim." Later we learned that he' been a POW, but one day all the guards had just vanished. So they all started walking West.Pretty soon the met an American unit, who took them to an RAF base. They were asked to wait by the side of the runway, they would get the next Dakota UK bound to to take them home. Suddenly an FW190 appeared, did a circuit, landed, and taxied up to them. The pilot got out and offered his pistol to the POWs saying "I wish to surrender!" They were a bit nonplussed at this, they told him they couldn't accept his surrender. Just then the RAF police turned up and peace was restored. Griff was a lot of fun, we used to see hime nearly every week. When he died at 95, about 18 months ago, he had a grand military send off, with a helicopter fly-past. Rest in peace, Griff, we will remember you and not just at the going down of the sun and in the morning.
Your German pronunciation especially the difficult ones like Messerschmidt is really good.
Messerschmitt
This channel is amazing the effort and information you put in each video is marvelous! Bravo!👍🏽
Lesson?
Shoot any reds before finally.going home
Or a complete waste of human life in a war that was quite literally already lost. I suppose its easy to LARP as a NATSOC behind a keyboard though.
And hope they don't get captured. Stalin called captured Russians _traitors_ and sent them off to the labor camps. At least one POW repatriation train returning Russians back home had the letting "Here are the traitors", or words to that effect, written on one of the rail cars.
Aa Auliawan yup. A few less commie fkkers to worry about for the following 45 years of Cold War....
Shooting down the PE-2 is ethically legit since it was possible or even likely trying to kill civilians. The Soviet fighters, not so much.
A sign of the Cold War soon to follow. The Luftwaffe saw the writing on the wall.
The last air kill of WWII by the most advanced plane of the era, what we should don whit this unique piece of history sr ?
Canadians: Lets scrap it !
It always blows my mind that a lot of these guys have autographed 8 x 10’s floating around out there. It’s almost like they were actors and comic book artists signing at a con. Very interesting
Rommel did a lot of these. I imagine they would fetch a ransom by now.
There were a lot of books written by pilots on all sides after both wars; they became stars.
Ace of Aces to the very end of hostilities!
My grandfather scored the second kill of a 262 on record. By then he'd had 6 kills already since the war began but he recalled the 262 largely because of how hard it was to chase them.
Amazing. If only the gun cameras were rolling
All things considered would you want to have that evidence if you were the pilot.
@@bigblue6917 All things considered I would be more concerned about getting the hell out of there before the Reds arrive If I were the pilot.
I got to see an ME262 fly at the Wings Over Houston airshow.
Congratulation on getting 100k subscribers.
Well deserved Mark!
I love this channel so much! I always watch Potential History’s vids but somehow I like yours more! I love to see your channel grow, and I hope you keep growing.
Excellent video, as always! I especially like your late-war and aircraft content, and here they are together!
Actually, maybe you could do a video on Sonderkommando Elbe sometime in the future? Just food for thought... 😉
Every day at 3am my family hears this intro music
Thanks for your hard work. Finding all that old footage must be quite difficult. Also, the voice narration is very good.
Erich 'Bubi' Hartmann. Was only just reading about him in Flypast magazines April edition. Truly the Ace of Aces
For some very interesting insights into Bubi try the book "The Blond Knight Of Germany" by Raymond F. Toliver & Trevor J. Constable, ISBN 0-8306-8189-2
Nice video. Insane how both sides continued to fight up to very last minute. Even in WWI many allied armies continued to senselessly through their men at German lines.
From what I understand with the last minutes of WW1 the last guy to die was some dumbass who tried to take a german MG nest to make up for being demoted.
This is how to do an historical aviation video. Clear narration and correct aircraft film. Very well done.
To me, the ME262 head on reminds me of a Great White shark coming at me....with a grin...
Excellent content. keep those videos coming, never gets boring.
I met Thybens son in Honesdale as he was an exchange student from Argentina!!
Mark, your videos are uniformly interesting and educational- keep up the great work. I’m happy to be a Patreon supporter and I encourage everyone else who enjoys these to kick in a few bucks too. There’s so much crap on RUclips, it’s refreshing to see great content like this.
No nonsense just facts this makes your channel a must watch.
Out of 450 first ranking pilots, the Germans Occupy 427 posts, the Soviets 9, the Japanese and Finnish 5 each, Romanians 3 and Croatians 1. One can see the vast individual superiority of German pilots.
This is such a fantastic channel. Your insights and research into WW2 produces some truly gripping content. Well done Sir!
Thank you, Mark. Yet more information I had no knowledge of. By the way, I much appreciate your ability to pronounce German words and names properly.
Mark, your videos and narration are top shelf. Thank you!
the FW190 is imho the most beautiful plane of WW2
Intresting way to spell Spitfire.
Me 262 is also up there whit the later bf109s and griffon spits
Anton or Dora? I prefer the slender fuselage of the latter, but my true love is the Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6. It's what comes to mind whenever somebody mentions the word "aircraft".
Spitfire.
For me either the bf109 g-k or the me262
Mrs.O' Uncle Doug was in an RCAF bomber shot down by an Me 262. He and his crew were able to bail out safely and were captured by German farmers who wanted to kill them. Ironically they were saved by German military and spent the end of the war in a POW camp. He just passed away last year.
Sehr gutes Video. Vielen Dank.
The world's first operational jet fighter squadron was the RAF's 616 Sqn, flying Gloster Meteors out of Manston and becoming operational on 27th July 1944. The Me262 first saw combat earlier, but this was with a test and evaluation squadron. JG 7 was formed 6 months later at the turn of the year, only becoming operational several weeks into 1945.
Very informative. Thank you.
German legends...Thanks for authentic history.
1944 and especially '45 were really interesting times in the war. Im liking all the content about the last few months/days of the war. It seems so futile but nonetheless the Germans still fought like hell in certain pockets of resistance. What a frightening enemy to have.
Well done mark.
For those commenting about how the Germans wanted to surrender to Western allies, it should be noted that the Soviet Union had not signed the Geneva Convention.
Did the Germans? If they did the nazis definitely didn't give a rat's a*s about it. Listen, neither the Americans nor the British were invaded during WWII so their civilian population never experienced the brutal nazi regime. The USA had minimal civilian casualties (most at Pearl Harbor) and the country was completely intact at the end of the war having never been attacked. Great Britain was bombed but was never invaded by the dreaded Wehrmacht and experienced 60,000 civilian casualties.
The Soviet Union however was brutally invaded by the largest force history had seen until that point. Not only that, this was to be a war of extermination. Read up the nazi Generalplan Ost, which was to deport, imprison and exterminate the locals.No country experienced the horrors of nazi occupation more than the USSR. 2,5 million Jews living there were rounded up and sent to the death camps. 7,7 million civilians in total (!) died in the USSR. Either due to the brutality of the nazi occupation, starvation brought about by the war and the axis invaders taking whatever they found for themselves and the ruthless war.
"For those commenting". 90% of them are clearly either ignorant or idiots. No shortage of them on youtube. Fortunately most either are kids, socially inept nerds or people who never once saw tertiary education and haven't read a book about history *once* . Basically they lack scope, see the surface but never the underlying structures, treat everything totally interchangeably.
Geneva convention? You're completely missing the plot. With 7,7 million civilian dead and being subjected to the most unimaginable brutality by the occupying nazi forces you can bet the Soviets weren't too keen to be courteous of them and forgive them everything. The Americans and British had this luxury, they had never been invaded and certainly didn't have 7,7 million civilians die. Had this happened during the war?? Oh, you can bet they wouldn't have been very nice back either.
Who are you going to surrender to? The guy who you burned down his entire house who lost many of his family members in it, or the guy who you cut down his tree, threw rocks at the window wrecking them, while pi*sing in his pool? OR, will you even surrender to this guy from the far end of the neighborhood whose house was completely unaffected who only came in the middle of the fight and join the victors?
Circumstances. Destruction under occupation. Civilians deaths. Factors to consider perhaps before you start pointing fingers and talking about some "geneva convention" ??
And what Geneva convention did the nazis follow pray tell?
Thanks. Your short video are excellent.
Fanstastic video, and very good audio, as always...
excellent video,thanks again,Mark! long live the Luftwaffe.
If only the Canadians knew what they destroyed. Such a shame.
Incredible jet.
Well put together this documentary.
Amazing video
Oh , so your telling me I have 18 minutes left but my tank is 3 quarters full .
Brilliant, thanks Mark.
The Messerschmitt Me 262 is an impressive plane. Incredible that Germany was able to field such an advanced plane.
Why would you scrap a perfectly intact ME-262 ?? Didn't those Canucks have enough foresight to see the value as a museum piece ? Just saving the two engines ?! Yuck !
I agree. But when you formulated your reaction, you didn't just live through 6 years of war and have 15-20% of the population of 11 million directly involved with killing Germans. Canadian troops, amongst others, killed SS outright, no prisoners if they were SS. The hate was overwhelming...and the disgust took awhile to dissipate.
Just a quick note, Jagdgeschwader 7 wasn’t a squadron. It was a group (geschwader) of 9 or 12 squadrons (staffeln) organised into 3 or 4 wings (gruppen).
Another amazing bit of history, thanks!
1:55 see that ?? it is our SEAHAWKS symbol/logo
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great film footage and narration.... thank-you....
Another great short documentary!
Hartmann:„ Was sind das für Flugzeuge? (what are those Planes)
Wingman:„Yaks"
Hartman:„Atacke!"
5 minutes later
Hartman:„Was sind das für Flugzeuge?"
Wingman:„Mustangs"
Hartman: Scheiße, nichts wie weg hier!(Shit lets get the f*** out of here)
It's just a joke. I know that the Mustangs where above him and that they had the energy advantage over him because of that. Especialy because he was probably dogfighting the Yaks he bleed much Energy and altitute. Getting out was the best option for him.
great work another excellent video
mark as always, this was another insightful video. have you though about doing one on the dachau massacre or the british free coprs? cheers govna!
Great video thank you for sharing!
Small correction on this incredible video. FreiBERG is in Saxony, and FreiBURG is in Baden-Württemberg. It's wrong on the video.
MY grandpa was Fallschirmjäger in ww2
Hartmann marched w his squadron personnel w women and children to avoid the Russians, surrendered to to the Americans only to be turned over to the Russians. I will not elaborate but Hartmann was in a Soviet prison for 10 years. A man of honor.
Outstanding piece of information!
Impressive documentary. M.
just because the war's over doesn't mean you can't spear a few more ivans.
Nice 100k subs congrats
I love how they were happy surrendering to the British and refused to shoot down any allied aircraft during the closing period of the war but were more than happy to shoot down the Soviets. Just goes to show the true mindsets of the people fighting the war. Shame such a terrific generation had to go to waste...
Great video.
5:07 min.
Nice!
I live approx. 28 km as the crow flies, from Faßberg away!
Thank you for posting this interesting video,
This dude has some good stories
So when German planes landed in allied airfields, did they contact them on radio before landing? Or did they just land and hope they wouldn’t shoot them?
German soldier at 0:26 smokes massive spliff "I'm so glad fucking war is over. Now I can smoke weed and listen to jass music like in Berlin, '36 !"
mark, thanks for your labour for all the videos that enlighting us...In the meantime I wonder, how such a small country as germany compared to USSR had the encouragement to invade them. Unbelivable. The german generals often felt the feeling of loosing theirselfs in the open stepps. Greetings from Ankara.
Excellent stuff sir
What a terrible waste in destroying that ME- 262! It was a piece of history, important in so many ways. At least the engines were spared.
Very interesting. I didn’t know this. The following isn’t the least bit profound but war results in so much needless waste.
Notification squad
Back in the good old days wars had a beginning and an end. These days they just go on forever.
*Hey. This was actually a brilliant documentary. And also surprisingly unbiased towards the Germans.*
excellent video
How about a video on the last Allied kills of the war?
Can you do a similar video about the Pacific theatre? I think one of the aircraft involved was the rare B-32 Dominator.
Thank God the luftwaffe did not have time to mass produce the me 262 jet fighter after somewhat perfecting the technology. That could have changed the entire outcome of the war, and definitely would have made a change in air superiority.
Wars aren't won in the sky.
As always; Great Work Mark, on a fascinating subject!
It's interesting, but understandable, that an Me262, scored the last kill of the war, and that the last few targets were all Russian aircraft.
I wonder just how many Me262s were actually salvageable.
I heard that Me262 with p,out and crew chief plus tools flew to surrender at Ned of war to the western allies. When they landed they said we are here to join you in the fight against the communists based on Nazi propaganda that the allies would splinter and join Germany in the fight against the USSR. Given subsequent developments this was prophetic. I would live more info on this.
Btw guys like Hartmann didn't escape the Soviets and were given to them by the western allies. He refused to collaborate with NKVD and spent 10 years in Siberia before returning home.
Very interesting, thanks!
Another good topic Mark. Shame Hartmann's plane was lost.
Should’ve mention that Eric Hartmann spent years in a Soviet gulag because they were so pissed he shot down so many of their aircraft. Was shitty that Allies would hand over surrendering forces to the Soviets if they’d previously been fighting on the Eastern Front.
Try 10 years. Think about that. The damn Korean war and French war in Vietnam are over and they still hold you POW? Yeah, that is pissed........😏
Why would anyone have scrapped such a work of art???
Make a video about Hans-Ulrich Rudel! While watching your vid, I remmembered how he surrendered to the americans on VE-Day
How about a video on the last battle in Europe? Also how about a video on the last tank battle in Europe? Also about a video on large German formations that surrendered after VE Day?
I wonder how true these stories are
RCAF base Aylmer is now (since 1962) the Ontario Police College.
Once again a great video, Mark... Now, I know this video had the last combat actions of the Luftwaffe, but is there any way to determine the last operational flight...? I know it would have been, I guess, just after the war, but some units and their aircraft must have been used to transport troops to POW camps and move occupation forces around
If anyone can find out, its you
Interesting. As always!
Luftwaffe are the best pilots of wwii