How Hans Ulrich Rudel Sank the Soviet Battleship Marat
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- Hans Ulrich Rudel was one of the most famous WW2 pilots. He joined the Luftwaffe already in 1936, he mostly flew the iconic Junkers Ju-87 Stuka and destroyed unbelievable quantities of enemy equipment, but his early career as a combat pilot had a rather shaky start. But in September 1941, he finally made a name for himself as his Geschwader was sent to deal with a powerful Soviet battleship that was terrorizing German land troops advancing to Leningrad.
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Hans Ulrich Rudel was actually very important in the design stage of the A-10 Thunderbolt 2 ( from this point on known as the Warthog). When Fairchild was designing their entry into the A-X project they consulted heavily with Rudel ( who in addition to his kill total had been shot down quite a few times too). Rudel had basically told Fairchild what was needed he thought for a superior tank buster. He was the one who advocated for the central mounted gun and the titanium bathtub to protect the pilot. Todays A-10 survivability is a direct result of consulting with Rudel. Sure he might have been an unrepentant Nazi but he knew more about ground attack in actual battle then any designer could have ever imagined.
A man with such an experience was certainly a valuable advisor. Thanks for the comment!
That’s awesome! I had no idea Rudel was involved in the A-10’s design. No wonder the A-10 kicks butt!
A small addition. Rudel’s autobiography Stuka Pilot was required reading for most, if not all, of the engineering and design team of the A-10. The powers that be really wanted to give those responsible for the design and manufacture of the Warthog the greatest possible idea of what was needed in a CAS aircraft… and who else to teach them than the greatest there ever was? If you are going to design an airplane intended to destroy Soviet armor, what better than to consult with the one who did it the most? 😊
I think the only source of that was Rudel and Pierre Spery, a Fighter Mafia/reformers guy. This probably is fake news as no sane USAF persobnel will give access to sensitive info to an Ex-Nazi with friends possibly in argentina.
Cool but he was definitely behind the times a bit. The gun on the A10 has been proved to be effectively pretty useless
Some people flew thousand of missions without being killed, and a lot of others perished during their first fight. Things are really strange.
They are indeed. Although, once you are pass those early missions, your chances of dying are much lower.
Napoleon had 8 horses killed under him. Some are not meant to die in battle.
Kizmet
One of Hans Rudel's fellow Stuka pilots was also a highly skilled, experienced, and capable Stuka pilot who excelled at destroying Red Army T-34 tanks with standard bombs, just as Rudel started out doing. This captain flew hundreds of successful missions and was also a tank-destroyer ace. Then the Luftwaffe introduced the Stuka G model, armed with two, 37mm Rheinmetall cannons.
Hans Rudel grew his tank tally enormously with the Stuka G cannons. As for the captain, the Luftwaffe switched out his standard Stuka D model for one of the new cannon-armed G models.
The captain and his rear gunner took off in mid-April 1944 for their first mission using the cannon-armed Stuka G. Both men were never seen or heard from again.
That is an example of the sudden twists and turns of fate interwoven with luck, good and bad.
Did people really reach 2k flying missions? According to Google the most combat flights was Erich Alfred Hartmann (19 April 1922 - 20 September 1993) was a German fighter pilot during World War II and the most successful fighter ace in the history of aerial warfare. He flew 1,404 combat missions and participated in aerial combat on 825 separate occasions.
Han Ulrich Rudel was advisor on the AT 10 Warthog Aircraft, a staunch Anti USSR Communist Nazi till the end of his life, He was also an Aces with 9 air to air victories, not bad for Ju 87 Stuka anti tank aces.
He mostly got those air to air kills while flying a 190.
I might cover some of those aerial victories in the future. Thanks for another comment!
He was not a Nazi. He was German.
@@brianwilliams3345 Those two things are not mutually exclusive 😁 And yes, he was a Nazi, unfortunately.
@@showtime112If anything, then a National-Socialist.
I had read about Rudel's expertise with the Stuka before but did not know about him sinking the Marat. Thanks !
That's what really distinguished him. Thanks for the comment!
He was awarded the Knights Cross in Gold with oakleaves, swords and diamonds, the only German Officer to ever recieve that award.
It looks like they invented that decoration especially for him.
@@showtime112: The Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds (Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Goldenem Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten) was instituted on 29 December 1944. This medal was the highest level, originally intended for the 12 most distinguished servicemen in the entire German armed forces after the war ended.
Six sets of Golden Oak Leaves were manufactured, each consisting of an A-piece, made of 18-carat gold with 58 real diamonds, and a B-piece, made of 14-carat gold with 68 real sapphires.
One of these sets was presented to Hans-Ulrich Rudel on 1 January 1945; the remaining five sets were taken to the palace of Schloss Klessheim in Austria, where they were captured by US forces at the end of the war.
And he was a 1st Class Nazi swine.
@@timonsolus Do they know Rudel's is?
Who’s “they”? And do they Rudel’s is what?
Great video! This features two of my favourite WW2 aircraft: First, the Stuka... which, despite its weaknesses, is for me the most sinister-looking, gnarly aircraft. Second, the I-16... which I find to be one of the cutest WW2 aircraft for its stubby body (along with the Brewster Buffalo). Also, this video gives me more information of the exploit of Rudel, one of the most famous German WW2 pilots of which I admitedly know very little. Keep up the good work!
Not many people consider I-16 their favorite 😁 But it is certainly iconic. I should do a video which focuses on this plane someday. Maybe something from the Spanish Civil War.
@@showtime112That would be interesting… air combat in that period is certainly a topic that would benefit from deeper coverage
I also have a soft spot for the I-16. It just looks like the most unlikely fighter, as if it almost shouldn't fly, but in its day it was advanced. Too bad that day was several years before Barbarossa.
@iwansetyawan8678 Rudel was the most decorated German soldier of WW2.
In military history I-16 case is actually a textbook example of "rest on one's laurels" action driven by politics. Sad story ngl.
Outstandig. Not all aerial warfare stories are dogfight related. Great chapter
Thanks! I certainly agree about non-dogfight stories. You know that saying about which pilots make movies and which make history 😁
He instructed my father how to fly air to ground misiones in the Argentinian Air Force
Thanks for sharing!
that might explain the Argentine AFs successes in low level Bombing of British ships during the Falklands war.
@@MrSGL21 Probably not the same generation because Rudel lived in Argentina in the late 40s, most probably falkland-era argentinian pilots were trained by israel (Giora Epstein and some others)
Rudel, Galland, Baumbach were some of the most decorated Luftwaffe pilots who emigrated to Argentina in the late'40s and early '50s. When West Germany grew stronger around 1960, most of these war aces returned to their fatherland.
Incredible story! Big thanks to you for this reenactment.
Agreed! Thank you for watching!
The Luftwaffe shipped out a special load of very heavy bombs, 2,000-lbs, to be precise. That is how the Germans managed to sink the Soviet battleship, Marat. The Luftwaffe used a ginormous bomb and employed a Stuka pilot of exceptional talent, skill, and nerves of steel, Hans Rudel.
Yes, that bomb was about as big as a Stuka could carry.
@jeffyoung60 The bomb was a 1000 kilograms bomb. That's exactly 2200 pounds, to be precise.
Открою тайну ,там где стоял Марат нельзя утонуть.Там нет больших глубин.Он встал на дно и стрелял по немцам из оставшихся орудий.
This is the same weapon they issued to X Fliegerkorps to destroy the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious in the Mediterranean. The carrier survived this weapon, although badly mauled of course. The battleship? Didn't quite. Except, it did. It survived this bomb and a main magazine explosion?
Remarkable. Very remarkable.
Speaking of gonormous bombs.it was a 1200lbtallboy which capsizedthe german battleship tirpitz
Hans Rudel was a legend. Stuka Pilot is a classic of wartime aviation literature.
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Nazi literature
@@FELIPEFODAOBR12 Naah. Just a tale of a man in combat.
@@PaulFurber a man who never rejected the sick nazi ideology and who openly was butthurt for his military defeat to the point not only he was openly defending german warcrimes well into the 1970's but he also called JFK a "manlet" and a "coward" for not been willing to "kill the sub-human slavs" during the cuban missile crysis... yea... quite a nice guy...
PropagandaStaffeln.
Bester und erfolgreichster Soldat aller Zeiten. R.I.P.
Awesome video , Thank you !
I appreciate the positive feedback!
Another masterpiece! Congratulations Showtime 112. Very excellent quality upload. Expecting more in the coming months.
Thanks Julian! More content is certainly coming.
Excellent recreation using the Il2, excellent video, at minute 10:26 in the background you can also see Adolf Joseph Ferdinand Galland, another excellent pilot and AS from the second war, what a beautiful photo, great video, greetings from Argentina.
Thank you for the positive feedback! Yes, that is Galland on the photo.
Worth Mentioning That He Was The Most Decorated German Pilot Of The War. Thank You.
Thank you for contributing info!
I liked your Prokoviev "Firebird" music selection.
That piece was just waiting for a proper video :) Thanks for the feedback!
_Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes mit Goldenem Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillanten_
*The Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds*
They were not handing them out to little boys sitting in their parent's house, playing on the computer.
U R SOOOO Wrong!!!! I pulled one out of my Weakies breakfast cereal just this morning!!!! Mine is made out of genuine imitation plastic and has glass diamonds and rubies with gold painted swords. I wear it proudly while playing F-19 Stealth Fighter. 😁😜
Ihr Untergang wird gemeinhin dem Stuka-Piloten Oberleutnant Hans-Ulrich Rudel von III./StG 2 zugeschrieben, aber Rudel warf nur eine der beiden Bomben ab
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marat_(Schiff)
Yes, but have you checked the book that Wikipedia quotes as the source? I did and there absolutely no mention in it of another bomb that hit Marat or any other pilot names. Which doesn't mean that it's not true, other bombs might have hit as well. But I didn't mention it as there don't seem to be any details about it.
Ас ест ас! Рудель был профессионалом!
The Stuka Was The BEST Dive
Bomber Of WW-2...
Certainly the most famous one
GREAT - GREAT - GREAT- Just on target...100 % aviation history. I strongly recomend the book "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Ulrich Rudel. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for your constant support!
Finde es sehr heftig das wir in deutschland davon nichts erfahren und erst auf englisch sprachige seiten müssen
Does anybody know where a museum might be located , that has a Stuka? I would like to see one up close.
I believe there are only two complete Stukas in museums. One is in the RAF museum in London, the other is in Chicago in the Museum of Science.
Hey thanks. My daughter lives in Chicago so I go up there three or four times a year. It's on my list now. Thanks again.@@showtime112
Nice video 👍!
Thanks once again!
Rudel goat ♥
Well done Work!!! Brilliant Details and explanation...............
Thank you very much for your positive comment!
Hans Ulrich Rudel...
He drinks only spruddel. ..
😁
And after it, he eats strudel ;)
Imagine the balls those pilots had to dive vertically towards the ground and pull out at the last minute, the amount of Gs and ground fire.
Yes, and that poor guy in the back, imagine what he must have felt. You have no idea if you are going to pull out of a dive and you can't see anything.
The Stuka did have an auto-pullout, since most pilots would black out momentarily at close to 90 degrees. Not a bad tech for the 1930s design. I think the closest diver to the Stuka was the Dauntless, which was a ~70 degree diver and so didn't require an auto-pullout.
My german shepherd see's thumbnail- *blank stare as stukalied plays with flashbacks of Jericho sirens blaring 😂
What a crazy and extreme experience to be part of....
It was a pretty intense combat, that's for sure.
Might be worth mentioning that the "sunk" battleship didn't quite sink. Marat became a floating battery and continued lobbing 305mm shells at the enemy until summer of '44.
When looking at Rudel's unbelievable score, you may ask "how did they count?" and "how does it stack up against Soviet combat logs?". The answers are "rather loosely" and "when an attacked unit can be identified and its Journal of Combat Actions can be checked, Rudel's claims are spectacularly inflated". Dr. Goebels needed his superhuman heroes.
Some sources say it did sink but as the water was very shallow, it was made floating again.
@@showtime112 Yup. Put another way, she lost enough floatation to touch bottom. Damage control managed to keep her on even keel with a number of compartments not flooded, making the subsequent refloating relatively easy.
He was probably very lucky that he missed out on the early war in the West and particularly the Battle of Britain because the RAF fighters took a huge toll on Stukas.
You would be interested to read a book by a Luftwaffe "Stuka" Pilot, who flew in the "Battle of Britain".
"Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot", by Helmut Mahlke
@@Thorr-kl6jl I was surprised how good Mahlke's book was.
Excellent work!
I'm glad you think so, thank you!
I have never heard about that battle before. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
The Russkies have done their best for 80 years to keep hush-hush this story, not only for the sinking of their battleship but because it was another feat of that hated and feared enemy Rudel, for whose head they had put a bounty to be awarded to whoever got him down and out ! Just imagine: this guy alone busted 530 Soviet tanks during that 4 year war !
Qué bueno, el vídeo,la música,la ambientación,la documentación. ¡ gracias!
Thank you very much for the positive feedback!
Muy interesante, no conocia esta historia de la destrucción del Marat y de Ulrich Rudel. 👏👏👏👏👍
Thank you very much for the feedback!
Bravo sehr gute Verfilmung 👍🤗👏
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Dear friend, i knew only the biography of Rudel, but the attack story over Marat...no.
I dont know hé was involved in A10 design.✌️ Sûre hé was an "experten" about tank attack and survivability over battlefield. Rudel's advices were certainly well listened.....now we knew all the fate of A10 although Pentagon watts to👎this warthog😢
That's where he first distinguished himself. The A-10 story of his involvement is really interesting. It seems that battle experience doesn't get old even after several decades.
@@showtime112 this is to say : ground battle with tanks never change since décades. Just tactics and new weapons improved by lessons of former battles
Rudel's book is excellent and well worth reading. Sad that it'll never be made into a movie.
One hardly knowed battle in Gulf of Finland was Finnish and Germans attack to escaped Russian fleet, were sunken nearly 60 vessels. Naval mines, artillery and stuka`s was weapons.
Thank you for sharing! I might investigate that and perhaps cover it someday.
Evacuation of Tallinn
The most destructive pilot ever seen on any war
Nice vídeo ! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you very much!
After ww2 he was advisor with A Galand of the Argentine Air Forcr e during several years he lived in Argentine
Yes.
And he use to ski in Bariloche, and took part in races of the Club Andino Bariloche.
Thank you for adding info!
I've tried looking..is he using iL2 sturmovik or war thunder for the video? I've never seen battleships in iL2.
It's War Thunder. Marat was introduced a couple of months ago so it was a chance to cover the topic. IL-2 has nothing larger than a destroyer I think.
Great content as usual, but i wonder what was the kd ratio for the stuka in air combat.
Thanks for the comment! You mean how many enemy fighters were downed by their gunners? I can't remember seeing that statistics anywhere.
I read somewhere that the rear gunner was mostly for"moral" 😅!
@@aaroncourchene4384 If you try playing the rear gunner in War Thunder, it becomes painfully obvious how limited coverage the rear gun actually provides.
Read his book, he and his unit won against several fighters several times in Stukas - they can fly very tight circles and the later version had cannons.
Imagine being the rear gunner in a dive 😱
Yeah, you have no idea what the hell is happening. Good thing is that you probably don't realize something is wrong if your plane doesn't make it from the dive.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It's Stukaman!
I'm not sure if there were comics about him during the war but had he been an American, there would have been comics with a similar title 😁
At 10:26 we can see the general Galland another mythomaniac who wrote a book after the war. Anyway thanks for the video and the historical facts.
I suppose you could call them that :)
10:25 another legend Adolf Galland is backside of Hans Rudell.
Yes, that's him on the photo.
What game is the video on Ju-87 from ?
You mean 'Five Things About Ju-87'? That one was done in IL-2 Great Battles. If you mean this one, it's War Thunder.
@@showtime112 in this video where the Ju-87 drops a bomb on a ship
Hans Rudel was possibly the best German Stuka pilot, incredibly lucky and fearless. It is curious that after the war he was consultant for the creation of the A-10 Warthog...
Why is that "curious"?
True, thank you for commenting!
He wasn't consultant.He never went in the usa
@@pierre5473 I read his autobiography and there is no reference to a consultancy contract in the United States. He was in South America for a while as an advisor for an aircraft development project and later returned to Germany.
@@pierre5473This what I know: In 1976, Rudel attended a conference in the United States with various members of the United States military and defense industry as part of the development of the A-10 Thunderbolt II; Rudel's status as a highly decorated attack aircraft pilot and particularly his experience at destroying Soviet tanks from the air was considered relevant to a potential conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
StukaFlugger Titan.
Ahhhh, "Notwurf" = "Emergency Jettison".
Mon père féru d'histoire m'avait parlé de ce pilote qui avait coulé un navire de guerre en mettant la bombe dans la cheminée. Amputé d'une jambe il pilotait un avion aménagé avec des canons. Il avait traversé une rivière en plein hiver à la nage. Son premier formateur avant la guerre avait dit de lui qu'il ne ferait jamais rien Hitler voulait qu'il forme des pilotes i lui a dit non (fallait oser le faire) .
Une croix de fer à été créée spécialement pour lui. Mon père a sa biographie dans un livre ancien de la collection J'AI LU
Good book 👍
Agreed
Interesting. I'd heard of the Oktober Revolution but not this ship. I've always felt the Eastern Front could have given us 10 "Patton" or "Saving Private Ryan" movies. (if USA had been a part of it). So much there to learn about. However, I will say, no matter how good this guy was, no way he survives 2500 missions if he'd been assigned in the West flying over England battling the RAF.
Eastern Front is absolutely fascinating but generally, people are less interested in that aspect of WW2. I recently released a video about Ivan Kozhedub, the Allied ace with the highest number of confirmed victories and it was a flop. But it is true that German aces in the East were far more successful and those who were transferred to the West at some point, usually didn't do too well.
Well, the USA did Stalingrad with 'Enemy at the Gates'...
Interesante ... Hans Rudel perdió una pierna ... luego de 6 meses exigió volver al combate ... se lo negaron ... luego amenazó con robarse un Stuka ... lo autorizaron !!! 😂
Por supuesto los nazis habian perdido tantos soldados que se fueron a buscar minusvalidos y enfermos incluyendo mitómano como Rudel.
Legend!
Based Rudel knew the truth and who were the good guys.
Stukas best roll was in anti shipping.
What did he end up with? Iron cross with oak leaves, diamonds gold bullion, Scalet Johanson and Swords with lasers.
Just read Chris Shores two books on Malta. Great primary source references. The allies over claimed but the axis over claims were astonishing! Makes me wonder what any of their experts actually achieved.
Thanks for commenting!
@@showtime112 I know it helps the algorithm etc. :)
So that is how he survive the atuka slaughter during the battle of Britain
Die Luftschlacht um England war da schon lange vorbei.
Yes, he wasn't there :)
1941 was the year of large battlewagon vessels get one hit and sunk
HMS Hood critical hit by Bismarck's shell
Marat despite her head or bow The Russians didn't give up and her design of unusual and sometimes silly looking ship her magazines and turrets separate instead of standard type turret position.
USS Arizona similar to Marat but it was devastating one bomb from the Japanese bomber penetrated decks and blow up the ships magazine destroying forward section of the ship
Thank you for adding info!
After 13 months, Marat’s combat effectiveness was partially restored, the battleship again opened fire on the enemy and continued to provide fire support to the Red Army until January 1944.
A fine example of how good doesn't always win; they never caught and killed him.
Yeah, the good guys did not win ww2
5 mi liters of fuel during his career on a Stuka...
That's a lot of dinosaurs 😁
Which game is this ???
War Thunder
LUCK never a factor...hmmm
im related to him hes my great uncle
Have you met him personally?
@@showtime112 no because he died before i was born sadly
Marat was soon back in action shelling Nazi troops and survived until being stricken in 1953.
It was raised to surface, true.
One battle does not win a war. But Western war "analysts" will never understand this!
Who said it does?
@@showtime112 You just said that.
@@helicoidsniffer1303 Exactly where?
soviet batteships were ancient and simple never got a heavy modernization. its like a indefense stone on the water.
Underestimated
Oh!? So Petropavlovsk (1911) = state of the art battle-something in 1941?
Job twaje m#/(%
Rudel was unique and an incredible pilot... and ace ! Often forgotten is that he was credited to have shot down 6 airplanes as well !
However his 519 tanks claimed destroyed... are just that : claims ! He was no doubt an expert in that field but take that number with a grain of salt.
War is not a basketball game where scores are precisely verified and counted.
Kills in battle must be confirmed - either in dogfights or hits on the ground - by other eyewitnesses ! That is so in all Armed Forces all over the world. No one will give you an award just relying solely on your claims, and Rudel not only had other fellow pilots as witnesses for every tank destroyed, but in many cases the Soviet themselves referred to Rudel as the responsible for the continuous losses they suffered in the zones where Rudel's squad was operating, and as his kills began to become stunning they put out a reward for anyone who managed to take him out. Nobody ever got to cash the reward.
Wahrscheinlich war die Abschußzahlen der Panzer noch viel höher, da Er von Hitler und Göring persönlich nach der Beförderung zum Oberst (Colonel)und Auszeichnung mit dem Goldenen Eichenlaub, am 01.01.45 Flugverbot erhielt,Er aber trotzdem noch oft geflogen ist, wobei Er nach einem 4 cm. Flaktreffer seinen Unterschenkel verloren hat. Da Er die Kameraden nicht alleine gegen die rote Flut kämpfen lassen wollte. Jedoch seine Abschüße nicht mehr Melden konnte. Außerdem hat Er 11 Luftsiege errungen.
@@rainbowseeker5930 I don't know how old you are... but you are simply talking out of your ass ! and you have never been in a combat zone !
Thanks God you can play with your computer....
For your own information, regarding the Germans, the whole process of registrering/confirming kills broke down competely from October 1944 with all Germans cities bombed day and night and the Allied armies pressing Germany both on their Western borders and the Eastern front getting closer. Show me any official record for the last 7 months of the war !
"Kills in battle must be confirmed - either in dogfights or hits on the ground - by other eyewitnesses ! That is so in all Armed Forces all over the world." blablabla
Japanese had NO system for confirming kills ! ZERO ! They were all pure claims.
As for the Italians they were not particularly admininstrative in their recording process...
Now for the Battle of England why did the RAF score 3 times the Luftwaffe actual losses ... and vice versa ? Any clue Einstein ?
@@rainbowseeker5930 his dedication, motivation and luck knows no bounds. I am even sorry that such a talent was poisoned by Nazi propaganda. Thanks to people like him, Germany made the whole world tremble.
- @@Andriy_Sklyar - Coming from a Russian, your comment must be regarded as a homage. Nice of you.
The sinking of the Bismarck and the Tirpitz German battleships, just to mention those, were a devastating blow to the Kriegsmarine.
Another replication of the legend. A thorough investigation of that battle showed that the Marat was sunk by the joint efforts of several dive bombers. But the Luftwaffe, like other types of troops, needed their decorated heroes.
It is possible (maybe even probable) that his bomb wasn't the only one. Not many details about that seem to exist. I agree that Germany needed a hero such as Rudel but then again, until this mission he was just a Leutnant nobody.
PropagandaStaffeln job.
Regarding this braggart Rudel, at the time of the raid on the Marat he was flying that modification of the U- 87 which could carry a 1000 kg bomb on board only if the gunner unloaded it (with the gunner the bomb load was 700 kg) I think that this fatal bomb was dropped from one of the U-88s that were cherished echelon aboveThere is still a suspicion that in this flight to the Marat he killed his commander. namely, rammed it during a dive. This is indirectly evidenced by the fact that upon landing, Rudel crashed his plane to hide the traces of the ram. There is also a declassified (in Russia) interrogation of his shooter, Staff Sergeant Major Henschel. who supposedly died. in fact, Rudel abandoned them. and they did not meet any Soviet soldiers; Rudel foolishly refused them. And he was also very stupid. he did not know how to analyze weather reports, as he himself says in his memoirs. Even in his memoirs, he describes how he got into a thunderstorm and lost his orientation, Damn, what kind of Ace is this who can’t fly by instruments? It is not surprising that they did not want to hire him as a pilot; the only job he could get was as an observer pilot. I do not deny his courage, but this courage comes from his stupidity. Another fact is when his comrades switched to the assault version of the Fw-190. Rudel continued to fly the Yu-87, I don’t think it’s necessary to say that the Yu-87 is much slower than the Fw-190 and the rudel slowed everyone down.
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.
Очень спорный пилот.
Да и по линкору не известно кто попал.
Есть версия что результаты приписывались ему ради пропоганды, убежденный нацист.
Сравнили его мемуары (небольшой период) с архивами советских армий, подтверждений не найдено.
A lot of claims by Rudel were dodgy
A mythomaniac
На самом деле все это сказки про Руделя. Может кто и мог попасть ,но только не он.
He also became friends with Josef Mengele ...... unforgivable
Probably the darkest spot in his biography.
Schwetz deutsch !
Thx. Rudel was so arrogant when he surrendered to the US that they should have turned him over to the Soviets. 😂
Some people can just get away with anything :)
I haven't seen anyone asking who sank the battleship Arizona or making a video about that skilled Japanese pilot or glorifying General Yamashita, Yamamoto or Nagumo but that's why RUclips is full of nazis, waffen ss and epics about their exploits
An excellent idea for a video 😁
This exciting story very poorly told, and filled with way too many silent moments. Only the illustrations show promise.
Do us both a favor and watch something 'better told' with constant chatter.
Rudel was probably the most efficient air to ground pilot of the luftwaffe !
Even if we divide his claims by a factor (which we very likely should), his efficiency was still impressive.
Детки играют в самолетики
A shallow person making snap judgements about things he doesn't understand
@@showtime112 Я Казах! Понимаю свой язык и Русский! Моя твоя не понимает! И на хрен мне твой понимать! Играй в самолетик и памперс одень.
I'm a Boomer and when I was a kid I wanted to be a pilot, and I did solo when I was 16 and got my Private Pilot's license when 18. I read every book I could find written by Pilots, and so of course I read "Skuka Pilot " by Rudel. He wasn't a fighter pilot, but I got the sense that this is how a Real Man goes into Combat Flying duty. .
Thank you for commenting!
You are right, he wasnt a pilot, he was just a subhuman nazi pice of crap
Stuka*
@@Altruist-ambitions Yes, "Stuka". You see the JU-87 Gal Wing Nazi German Dive Bomber had been Name Designated as being called a "Stuka". When I was a Boomer Child growing up, well, the TV Stations, to fill the time, would come up with strange Programming Ideas, and one of them was to show Combat Camera footage from WWII. They would do complete collections of JU-87 Stuka, doing bombing runs and getting shot down. It was all quite compelling, and so it was that I remembered that JU-87s were called Stukas. Also, the plastic model airplane boxes all spelled out STUKA on the front their boxes big and bold. Then there was the book "Stuka Pilot" by Hans Rudel, the most famous JU-87 to survive the War.
Rudel was "the ace's ace"! I read "Stuka Pilot." I enjoyed it immensely. Rudel was consulted by the builders of the A-10 "Warthog" ground attack aircraft. That's how much he was respected.
he has never been a consultant for USA constructors
I first read Rudel's book "Stuka Pilot" in about 1968. Dang! I was impressed. When I was a little kid, my Dad took me to the Chicago "Museum of Science and Industry", where they had an actual Junkers Ju-87 "Stuka" on display. A few other interesting books:
"Stuka Pilot-Hans Ulrich Rudel", by Gunther Just
"Suka - Ju87", by Alex Vanags-Baginskis
"Junkers Ju-87 Stukageschwader of the Russian Front", by John Weal
"Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot", by Helmut Mahlke
He was also a nazi war criminal
Incidentally, the A-10 Thunderbolt is based on the design plans of the Junkers "Schlachtflugzeug". The similarity of the aircraft is unmistakable.
Rudel was a dirty Nazi! During and after the war! There is nothing to amire!
He lost a leg and still flew.
You might want to read about Douglas Bader 😁
@@Parocha
yes and he got a new plastic leg near Baden-Baden, where he was shut down,
Rudel's rear gunner and radioman, Erwin Hentshel,drowned in the Dneiper River while they attempted to swim across to avoid captivity after they were shot down. He was the most decorated enlisted man in the luftwaffe as he was with Rudel for over 1400 missions over a span of 2 years
he did not drown in the river; he and another crew were captured by Soviet troops. from their words it became known that when they reached the river, the rudel abandoned them and swam across the river. they couldn't do it because they didn't have that kind of physical training. in Rudel's book it is written that they met Soviet soldiers and were forced to flee, but in fact they did not meet anyone on the road to the river. They stayed on the left bank of the Dniester for a day from 03/20/1944 to 03/21/1944.and this liar also describes how he met Soviet soldiers (mistaking them for Romanians) and one of the soldiers was armed with a PPSh and Rudel managed to escape, considering that they were in close contact (one of the soldiers took a revolver from Rudel and a holster) how much time do you think Do you need to throw a PPSh and make a long line? this will take 1-3 seconds. How far could a rudel run in such a time?
@@jah886jealous much little one? 😂🤣😂🤣
Correct, Hentshel died during his attempt to swim across the river.
@@FaithnGod1558 I don't think jealousy is the correct counter-'accusation' to level. Be reasonable in your retort, sir.
But, we must accept, that this inidividual is far from the only one to harbour some degree of doubt about the veracity of Rudel's accounts, be it in part or in whole and to what degree. It's hardly our place to act butthurt on behalf of a dead Nazi now, is it?
@@glennhansel9411 german top aces would never surrender willingly to the soviets, most had a bounty on their heads placed by Stalin too so they probably knew what fate awaited them. The Dnepr is one of the widest rivers in the world at certain places, it must be very very tough to swim across.
A ship named for a Swiss-born French Revolutionary, who was stabbed to death in his bath.
Yes, and the ship was originally called Petropavlovsk.
Renamed you mean ,
Rudel was a nazi till his death. However, he was fearless and bad to the bone. He was probably equal to an armored regiment in destructive ability.
A 'thumbs up' for this because, finally, someone on RUclips knows the difference between 'sank' and 'sunk'.
I don't believe I have ever received a thumbs up for grammar alone but I'll take it, thank you! :)
Present tense : to sink....Past: He SANK the ship...Past Participle: The ship was SUNK by a Stuka.
Great video. I've read his memoir, "Stuka Pilot."
Thanks! It is a very interesting read for fans of military aviation.
Rudel é uma lenda na aviação de combate. Por toda dedicação a seu país foi o militar mais condecorado da Alemanha. Muito interessante seria um video sobre a versão de stuka que pilotou que possuia 2 canhões pesadíssimos para o avião destinados a destruir tanques. Parece que era bem difícil pilotar esses aviões.
Thank you for the comment!
Excelente vídeo!!! Parabéns 👏👏👏👍🇧🇷
Muito obrigado!
he also refused to allow american soldiers to grab his medals as he had landed on their base out of his own volition and refused to speak to anyone under a certain rank, which was smart though potentially suicidal
You can say what you want about him but he certainly wasn't fearful.
Marat, a pre-WWI battleship, was only temporarily sunk and served on in the Soviet navy until 1953. Not a bad innings really.
WT recently introduced it and I knew I had to do this story. Thanks for commenting!
To be precise, the forward 1/3rd of Marat, from the bow to the forward funnel, was destroyed in the 'A' turret magazine explosion, and the rest of the ship flooded and sank to the bottom of the very shallow harbour. The rear 2/3rds of the sunken battleship was refloated and used as a floating gun battery during WW2, and as a stationary floating training ship after WW2.
Marat was renamed Petropavlovsk on 31 May 1943, and again to Volkhov on 28 November 1950. Plans to repair her in 1945-46 using the bow of her decommissioned sister Frunze were rejected. She never left Kronstadt Harbour again after Rudel's dive bombing attack, so his credit for sinking her is well deserved.
However, Marat certainly fared better after her forward magazine explosion than her American counterpart, USS Arizona.
Interesting post, thanks.
Great story. I couldn't help comparing the JU-87 with the SBD. Both super effective. The SBD was smaller but had nearly 3X the range and a bit heavier armament. The siren on the JU-87 had to be terrifying to people on the ground. Heard somewhere that the Stuka crews got tired of the screeching however. Very different dive brakes on the two aircraft. Both worked fine apparently.
The “ trumpets of Jericho “ on the JU-87 ate something like 15 to 30 mph off the aircraft’s top speed. When they started running into fighters like the spitfire and needed better fuel economy they started pulling the wind driving sirens off the plane. On early models you’ll see the attachment point right on the top of the landing gear leg. Later model JU-87s have it completely removed. JU-87s worked best as aerial artillery, operating at airfields close to a front they could get up, get altitude and hit tanks or stubborn points before landing to quickly rearm, refuel and do it again. The SBD Dauntless was a late prewar design for a dive bomber specifically with a navy requirement in mind ( the USAAF did operate a few but quickly stopped when they went to fighter bombers vs dive bombing ). Being built to a navy spec it was assumed the SBD would need to be rugged, simple and have long legs. The radial engine was fuel efficient and simple. The retractable undercarriage helped to clean up the plane and designers added big fuel tanks wherever possible. The SBD was meant for long range over water flying where you might be flying 400 to 800 miles to find your target. The JU-87 was built for short range tactical use on land ( though they did build a Navalized version for operation on the unbuilt German Aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin which ended up reconverted for land operation when the carrier was abandoned after being 3/4 completed)
Thanks! SBD (and Pacific Theater generally) which will probably get some attention from me in the future. The siren sure had a powerful effect early in the war but I guess, it wore off after a while. And I can understand how it annoyed the pilots too 😁
Below: "Oh God!"
In plane: "oh Goooood (eyeroll)"
I've heard from former Stuka pilots that many of them removed the jericho sirens from their planes because the screeching noise was too loud and obnoxious for the crew.
All the later model Jericho Sirens could actually be turned On or Off as the pilots deemed necessary!!! 🤠👍