Republic P-47 Thunderbolt | Fighting And Defeating The German Luftwaffe During WW2
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2023
- The story of the last battles in Germany during WWII, before the German capitulation, and the contribution of the P-47 Thunderbolt to defeat the crippled Luftwaffe.
It starts with the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge.
The video Includes Interviews with WWII veterans and brave P-47 pilots.
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The pilots' first mission was a fighter sweep of the French coast in March 1944 and from then until D-Day that June the ground supported Allied preparations for the invasion of France, taking out German military sites and equipment in northern France. The Group was awarded a DUC for quite a singular action: when supporting infantry in the St. Lo area on 11 July 1944, the pilots discovered a column of enemy tanks as yet unknown to the infantry. Despite coming under intense fire, the Group, as well as striking nearby pillboxes, the intended target of the mission, attacked this column. This put many of the German tanks out of action before they engaged the infantry. The Group carried out armed reconnaissance missions during the Battle of the Bulge (December 1944-January 1945) and escorted bombers during the assault across the Rhine River. The Group's last mission saw them attacking harbors at Kiel and Flensburg on 3 May 1945. The Group remained in Germany after the war and, as part of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), was part of the occupation force.
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt is a World War II-era fighter aircraft produced by the American aerospace company Republic Aviation from 1941 through 1945. Its primary armament was eight .50-caliber machine guns, and in the fighter-bomber ground-attack role it could carry 5-inch rockets or a bomb load of 2,500 lb (1,100 kg). When fully loaded, the P-47 weighed up to 8 tons, making it one of the heaviest fighters of the war.
The Thunderbolt was effective as a short-to-medium-range escort fighter in high-altitude air-to-air combat and ground attack in both the European and Pacific theaters. The P-47 was designed around the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp 18-cylinder radial engine, which also powered two U.S. Navy/U.S. Marine Corps fighters, the Grumman F6F Hellcat and the Vought F4U Corsair. An advanced turbosupercharger system ensured the aircraft's eventual dominance at high altitudes, while also influencing its size and design.
General characteristics
* Crew: 1
* Length: 36 ft 1.75 in (11.0173 m)
* Wingspan: 40 ft 9+5⁄16 in (12.429 m)
* Height: 14 ft 8+1⁄16 in (4.472 m)
* Airfoil: Seversky S-3
* Empty weight: 10,000 lb (4,536 kg)
* Max takeoff weight: 17,500 lb (7,938 kg)
* Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800-59 18-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engine, 2,000 hp (1,500 kW)
* Propellers: 4-bladed Curtiss Electric C542S constant-speed propeller, 13 ft 0 in (3.96 m) diameter
Performance
* Maximum speed: 426 mph (686 km/h, 370 kn) at 30,000 ft (9,100 m)
* Range: 1,030 mi (1,660 km, 900 nmi)
* Service ceiling: 42,000 ft (13,000 m)
Armament
* Eight .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns (3400 rounds)
* Up to 2,500 lb (1,100 kg) of bombs
* Ten 5 in (127 mm) HVAR unguided rockets
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My father flew F-101B in the 1960’s with famous P-47 ace Francis Gabreski. Col Gabreski was the wing commander at Suffolk County AFB, Long Island, NY. Dad said Gabby had the fantastic eye sight and saw the enemy before anyone else. I sat next to the war hero in barber seats at the base shop one time as an 8 yr old kid and he talked to me like a normal person. I always remembered that. I made him laugh. Rip Col. Rip Dad.
NICE !
Did you father see combat?
YES, too much.@@MangoTroubles-007
Bless you all.
@@MangoTroubles-007 yes, 100 mission over N Vietnam
“Even surprised President Eisenhower” getting a bit ahead of yourself, aren’t you?
My father flew the 47 in this exact time frame. He started in Pontedera, Italy and ended up in Biblas, Germany. He was part of the 27th, FG 524 which according to him, was the first allies to occupy a german base, located in Biblas. They were forced down at the end of a mission due to weather and just landed at the abandoned german air field. It would become their home base. In fact, Bob Hope was forced down due to bad weather and landed there. I still have the photo he took with the whole squadron. He had a lot of stories. Used to tell me how many times he flew around the Leaning Tower of Pisa playing follow the leader after their missions. He ended up flying 57 missions before Germany surrendered. He eventually ended up on the north shore of Germany in the summer of 45 and flew a leg of fighter escort for President Truman when he flew into Berlin.
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My father played tenor sax in Bob Hopes band. He had a lot of stories too. Nice to hear a story that my father was remotely involved with. That must have been a heck of a time for all the young men who took part.
This is a great documentary!
With Veterans Day coming up, I salute all of our WW 2 Veterans from then to now . I know the number is getting smaller every day along with very valuable history . God Bless you brave warriors one and all that sacrificed their all for us. God Bless America and those warriors still with us .
This and the documentary "Thunderbolt" are excellent, superior to most WW2 documentaries. I appreciate the pilots' honesty about their flight experiences, their killer instincts, and their views on the death and destruction that surrounded them.
One of my uncles was a crew chief of a Thunderbolt squadron in Italy. Nothing but praise for the mighty JUG!
I watched a crew prep a P-47 for a flight in Pennsylvania, when it came time to start up, everyone put down their tools or left their desks to take in he show. The P-47 was POWER defined, a great experience.
Countless lives saved by these brave young men.
"President" Eisenhower? Damn son, you have a time machine.
At about a minute into the film you're thinking of G-suits, not pressure suits. A pressure suits is essentially the same thing as a 'space suit' and covers the entire body to provide it with atmospheric pressure. A G-suit constricts the lower body to help keep blood flowing to the brain during a high G maneuver. Two very different functions.
Good point. I think they should talk more about the effects of flying an unpressurized sircraft at lenght at those high altitudes. Gasses in the bloodstream can do strange things, not to mention the gasses in your digestive system. Pure oxygen also does a number on the lungs.
The P-47D was a superb weapon against the Luftwaffe Fighter force before the arrival of the P-51B/C. The P-47 was considered so dangerous to engage that the German fighter pilots were ordered to attack the B-17 & B-24's beyond the anticipated range of the P-47. This in effect forced the Luftwaffe to shift its fighter forces further east into Germany and essentially yielding the air superiority during daylight hours over northern France and the Low Countries to the US 8th & 9th Air Forces. Every time the P-47's used bigger drop tanks (getting longer escort range) for the first time, the German interceptors were surprised & savaged by the P-47s being where they were not expected. USAAF & Luftwaffe records indicate that the P-47 units were achieving better than 1 to 1 kill ratios against the best German fighter groups (JG's) in the west starting about July 1943. The kill ratios would continue to accelerate against the Germans as 1943 ended. This is important because in 1942-43 it was the Luftwaffe that had by far the most skilled & experienced fighter pilots in Europe (greatly surpassing the best RAF units). So in 1943, the average American fighter pilots with the P-47D (having just arrived in England) were breaking even or better than the best pilots in units of the Luftwaffe flying the Me-109G & Fw-190A. This is something that RAF fighter units were NOT doing in 1941-43 in northwest Europe (per German records). The P-47s firepower was also not just a killer or German aircraft but their pilots. Luftwaffe records clearly show that the major reason for the defeat of the Luftwaffe fighter force was the loss of their most experienced (expert) pilots in air-to-air combat. Also each of the P-47's eight .50 cal MG's carried more ammo than each of the P-51's (4-6 MG). The P-47D had superior high altitude (30,000ft+) performance over the P-51B/C/D/K, all Me-109s, and the Fw-190A's and could handle the Fw-190D at these altitudes. One can only imagine what would have happened if the long-range P-47N had made it into combat in Europe in 1944-45!!!
Sounds like you've ingested Greg's propaganda about the P-47.
@@bobsakamanos4469 No, I have read the numerous accounts from the Allied and German perspectives. I have examined the subject for decades. The P-47D was deadly, but lacked the range to win air superiority over Germany. It did win air superiority over Northern France by forcing the Germans to defend the Reich outside of the P-47's range. My earlier post was fairly comprehensive and not conjecture or guessing. What part of my post comes from Greg?
@@dans.5745 when comments on an aircraft and show all pros and no cons (which are common knowledge) we are left with the impression that there is excessive bias. When did tactics improve? When did paddle blades become common? How did 47's cope with compressibility? When did they receive dive flaps? When was range first extended with more internal fuel (D-25) and what were the problems with larger drop tanks? How susceptible to damage was the exposed turbocharging sytem behind the pilot and how did that affect high altitude combat?
I am a fan of the P-47 and Zemke et al, but just don't like half the story. It's too Hollywood.
My dad flew P-47s in Europe for the 8th Air Force. He never talked much about it, except to say once they installed the Hamilton standard paddle bladed prop, it became a monster, and he loved the fact that it was tougher than anything the Nazis could put up. And he told me, one time, he counted over 50 holes in his plane after a particularly difficult ground attack mission.
Thank you for this video, which illustrates via veteran interviews the short life expectancy of the P-47 pilots. It is historically accurate and splashes cold water on the mesmerized followers of Greg's propaganda.
A 50 percent death rate can you just imagine the How brave these guys when I think about their age and how naive and what a youngster I was at that age is just it's just fantastic
In 2 1/2 years P47's flew 545,575 missions with a loss rate of just 0.7%
Wow. That was Excellent. Very educational and interesting. Thank You So Much & Best Regards.
Great Footage, Great Airplanes, Brave young men, the greatest generation!
Am amazed the Luftwaffe were airborn at this time! The Thunderbolt was was affectionately known as the 'Jug'.A fantastic aircraft that made a massive difference to the closing months of WW2.
Whilst there's little doubt about the contribution and abilities of the P-47 they weren't quite as invulnerable as this video would have you believe. Later variants of the Focke-Wulf Fw190 could catch the Jug and occasionally come out on top. Fortunately these variants and most importantly the Luftwaffe pilots with the necessary skill and experience were few and far between . Even when both coincided another factor came into play....lack of fuel. Once all of that was brought to bear then the writing was on the wall. Had those later variants been available in January 1944 then things might have been different.
When I was younger l thought how exciting this had to be now that I'm old l see how terrible war is how wasteful it was and what good could have been accomplished if used in a different way but l salute these brave men and all veterans thank you all for your service
I never knew that you could hear on your headset when a radar guided flak gun was pointing at you. (21:52) That's akin a primitive missile lock warning.
Yes, they had microwave for radar acquisition and definition, but there were carrier waves in the RF and HF range that could be heard on fighter radios.
We had the same headset warning in the Phantoms when we flew strikes in North Vietnam. Of course, the alert to a SAM missile that was launched to blow us to pieces didn't tell where the damned thing was coming from. However, it was a big help, once we saw the rocket exhaust smoke or flame, we would then turn into it and pull high "G" evasive turns. That worked fine, they would try to follow and break up trying to follow us in tight diving turns.
Lots of fun, I think I'll write a book "The Six 'G' SAM Reducing Diet, or How to Live Longer and Look more Youthful, While Sheading Those Nasty SAMs".
That peppermint shake did hit the spot. I hung out until 17:45 before I headed for home. A great day trackside and being with a close friend. Thank you Kyle for a wonderful day.
Dad was a ball turret gunner in B-24. Amazing contribution of the POLISH pilots, Dad was Czech, gotta hand it to the Slav Pilots of fighters and bombers, natural aviators!
BRASS BALLS! MY DAD COMMANDED ONTUS UNIT IN NAM.
Great video. I remember my uncle in the Royal Canadian Air Force telling me about the Typhoon missions they flew during the battle of the bulge.
He talked about rocketing German tanks and artillery. he also said their 4 20 mm cannons were deadly on strafing runs.
He lamented about the high loss rate of the fighter bombers.
Apparently the P47s and Typhoons could absorb a lot more battle damage than the P51's which he described as flying gas tanks.
You gotta love a guy like G.
The P47 Thunderbolt's absolutely critical role in Allied victory after D-Day is sadly overlooked. The P51B/C may have been the main reason the Luftwaffe was neutralized prior to D-Day, although the P47 also had a large role in Luftwaffe neutralization too. Post D-Day landings, the P47 is the major reason the Allied armies could move so rapidly to push the German Army back to total containment. When P47 Thunderbolt's were in the air, the German Army could not move! The P47 utterly destroyed the transportation and supply chains of the German Army, and stopped the movement of tanks and artillery units. P47's protected Patton's flanks during his aggressive movements. The rapid Allied victory by May, 1945 could not have happened without the aggressive seek-and-destroy missions, close air support, and the utter containment of the German Army, and the destruction and ceasing of their supply chains by the P47 Thunderbolt. The Thunderbolt's record of destruction of tens of thousands of trucks, locomotives, rail cars, vehicles, etc stands unchallenged even today. Based on the incredible post D-Day record of the P47, a good argument can be made that the P47, may well have been the most critically important USAAF fighter in the European Theater.
Plus the Hawker Typhoon..
@@macmccreadie8541And Mosquitoes carrying rockets that delivered the impact of a naval broadside.
The US bomber generals refused to use drop tanks on their aircraft. Thunderbolts had the facility because the British demanded them and it wasn’t worth making two versions. Ditto the Mustang though the latter had horrible handling until the rear fuselage tank was emptied. If drop tanks had to be jettisoned early, their range suffered badly.
Mustang gave these narrow minded generals the excuse to use wing tanks on every fighter.
Ppppp❤😮
@@davidelliott5843 There has recently been a lot of inaccurate misinformation in comments, blaming the "Bomber Mafia" for not using wing tanks earlier on P47's / P38's. The "Bomber Mafia" theory has been put forward by modern historians, who actually were not alive in 1944 to see first-hand the real technical and tactical reasons preventing the external tank use. "Presentism" is the fatal thinking flaw where a modern historian looks at 20th Century events with a 21st Century perspective, which prevents the historian from seeing what was actually happening in the time frame he is looking at.
The P38/P47/P51 capabilities circa the critical time frame from June 1943 to June 1944 were a major factor in why the P51 emerged as the only plane to do the job in the critical first 6 months of 1944. The final tactical/strategic planning for D-Day was just coming into focus by late 1943. The technical issues of using external fuel tanks were not really solved until mid-to-late 1943. External tanks were to be made of a laminated epoxy paper, as dropping aluminum tanks would aid German war supplies. The laminated paper tanks were strong enough to survive cruising speeds of around 300 mph, but not much above, so had to be dropped as soon as air combat was eminent.
General Ira Eaker was the 8th Air Force Commanding General who was "promoted up" in order to move him out of the way so that General James Dolittle could take command of the 8th Air Force in January 1944. Although Gen Eaker had performed brilliantly in getting the 8th AF bombing operation up and running from 1942-43, it was apparent from his focus on bombing, that he wasn't comprehending the memo from General Eisenhower about the critical necessity of neutralizing the Luftwaffe in the first half of 1944 in preparation for the D-Day landings by mid-1944. Gen Dolittle understood the necessity of Luftwaffe neutralization by USAAF fighters and that was the reason Eaker was promoted up and out of the way.
The Mustang balance problem with the fuselage tank was easily solved by using the fuselage tank fuel first, and burning off 1/2 the tank before switching to the external wing tanks.
Although the P38 had the range to escort bombers deep into Germany, the P38's Allison engines were unreliable in coping with the colder European climate, so the P38 was too unreliable.
The P47, as it existed in June 1943 to June 1944, even with range extended by wing tanks, did not have the internal fuel supply to have enough loiter time over Germany to be as effective as the P51B/C. This is why the P51B/C became the major player in Lufwaffe neutralization in the first 6 months of 1944. Later models of the P47 (M & N models) would have the internal fuel supply for a longer loiter time, but those models did not appear until 1945.
Great pics thanks!
This was a pleasure to listen too being an English man. 58 minutes of not hearing a single BUNCH, no bunch of bombs, no bunch of bullets.
So you didn't hear that a whole bunch?
I didn’t understand it either.
respect, sir, thank you
Glad I found this channel 🙏
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Welcome aboard!
Achtung! Jabos! Loved the old P-47 Thunderbolts! Made by Republic Aircraft. Tough fast packing a lot of firepower.
A joke is not a joke without a butt and there is no butt like Rump!
It was a flying tank, you couldn't shoot it down and they would land with pistons flopping out of the engine. Toughest airplane made.
I've flown in several planes powered by the P&W R-2800, including a P-47. The liquid-colled Packard-Merlin that powered the P-51 gets a lot of the credit, but the air-cooled R2800 had a much better chance of getting the pilot home alive.
While the P-47 was a great high altitude fighter, a great ground attack platform it was not, lacking dive brakes and being so heavy, when put in a dive the speed built up so quickly it left it's pilots little time to pick out targets on the ground and once in a dive it was reluctant to pull out forcing it's pilots to start/stop their bomb/strafe attacks from higher attitudes least they hit the ground which accounts for their high losses in that role. It was capable of carrying a variety of bombs and rocket's and was renowned for being extremely rugged with many reports of them still flying after taking damage that would have downed most other aircraft.That they did so well in the ground attack role is a testament to the skill and daring of its pilots.!
Awesome video
Excelente información Histórica Norteamericana.
Felicitaciones a este Nuestro Excelente Aviador.
A movie could be made about Francis Gabreski's life.
P-47's can fire 100 rounds a second??? Amazing!!!! Patton never knew President Eisenhower. He knew General Eisenhower though.
With the arrival of the P-51, most P-47s were switched to ground attack, were at low level the speed was considerably lower. But it had a good reputation for getting its crews home.
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That pendulum swung back a bit late in the war as late model P-47D and then the M model proved more than capable of doing any job assigned including high altitude escort. P-51's were deemed to be more necessary at that point in the Pacific war and impending invasion of Japan due to their range.
@@edwardpate6128 Most RAF P-47Ds served in the Far East SEAC in the fighter -bomber role, were it was greatly appreciated. The P-47 got a bad rap for range because drop tanks were generally not available when it entered service. Something about bombers not needing fighter escort. It took time to get them rewired and kitted out with drop tanks. Were as the P-51 had them from the start. The late P-47s were awesome. but so too was the P-51H. But the future was the jet, the P-80 was almost ready and the P-84 not far behind.
The P47's were faster and much tougher
@@billballbuster7186the drop tanks were available, they weren't used at first because high commands theory was that the bombers could do it alone and they tried to prove it unfortunately.
Hell these young men were so brave
Great Footage and very interesting 👍
God bless the greatest generation
My Grandfather was part of a Bofors 40mm AA team protecting southern England. He always wanted to get a German plane and last week, he finally got a BF-109 at an Air Show!!!
What??!! You Granddad shot down a BF109 at an airshow last week???!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
What does this mean? He bought an BF-109? There’s like three in the world; what’s a 95 year-old going to do with a WW2 fighter plane?
What I’m trying to say is I DON’T BELIEVE YOU.
My father was a master Sargent in a squadron for armaments, he told the same story as this, more or less
Wiadomo Franciszek uczył się od najlepszych 😎💪
And to think, there were fighter aircraft that started World War II with only two 30 caliber machine guns. The P-47 had 6 .50 caliber machine guns. Three in each wing. No wonder they were able to blow apart locomotives during ground attack missions
The jug had 4 guns per wing....p40e and p51 had 3 per wing ....
Wrong sir: all P-47’s had EIGHT.50 machine guns, not six.
@@andersonlong7709 correct
PRESIDENT Eusenhower?! At that time he was a general!
You misspelled his last name, so you made a mistake while pointing out a mistake, how ironic!
By the way, the mistake has been pointed out many times before your comment, but it seems you did not read any of them.
On D-day there were 14,600 allied sorties
Everyone should read the book Thunderbolt about Robert S Johnson a very eye opening biography about a P47 pilot who made it home and who had either 27 or 28 victories. A very good read and a testament to the durability of the P47
Reading is always welcome, thanks for sharing
Fabulous.
Well I was going to argue for the typhoon, but sadly it couldn’t even hold a candle to the P47’s record - oh well…….
26:31 poor horses 😭
É uma aeronave muito robusta, comparando ao P-47 só o F6F Hellcat🌟
12:50. President Eisenhower?
PRESIDENT Eisenhower?!?
Every pilot had a convertible Mercedes.🇺🇲😉👍
I always felt it very hard to match up to my father who was also in World War II he was on an LST converted over to a gunboat smallest boat allowed to cross the Pacific they were equipped with the new Stalin's organ type Rockets Plastering Iwo Jima Etc the the gunboat could literally go all the way up into the sand on the beach which they did play decimated the Japanese when they came in in numbers
The rocket firing LST’s were awesome shore bombardment boats. Not just rockets but they also had 4.2 inch mortars, 40mm bofors, and some had 5” naval guns.
No one takes the outstanding bravery of the pilots but the p47 did not win the war single handed, Patton did not take Germany on his own, he may have thought of himself as Caesar but he was not, America did jump in to sort out Europes problems for them, America was happy selling arms and ammunition to Europe until Japan and then Germany declared war on them.
I watched a video of Eric "Winkle" Brown. He'd tested the P-47 and P-38 and said they were no good at all as fighter planes. He allowed the P-38 was good at reconnaissance and the P-47 was a good ground attack plane.
Do you remember the title?
How wrong he was😂
@@Dronescapes It was/is a discussion of Mach number in a dive, from the Test Pilot series. Brown was involved in the tests that resulted in air dive brakes being fitted because of "mach tuck" issues.
He was full of crap in that instance and the raf proved it
Even the Luftwaffe test pilot who flew a captured P-47 admitted that above 20,000 feet it was a serious threat.
President Eisenhower????
There were no civilian casualties. They were an equal part of the war. Just as Sherman rolled to the sea, Patton rolled to the Rhine and beyond.
P-47 shined in its ground attack role but was a formidable fighter Nazis were afraid of it believe me
12:53 "President" Eisenhower?
The day and night bombing of the axis oil production refineries finished the Luftwaffe along with the decimated German industry and chronic lack of resources.the axis airforce produced over 2500 aces the allies didn't come anywhere near the skill set of the Luftwaffe our forces won by attrition rather than superior skills we were also fighting against poorly trained new pilots by the end of the war
Has anyone ever figured out how many cylinders were firing at any given point in WW2?
On June 6th 1944. 22,349,466 at 9 in the morning.gmt.
And Brits scoffed at the American Jug when it first arrived in England
Can anyone identify the type of tank shown at 10:53 ? My guess is M24 “Chaffee” light tank.
it's M18 hellcat
@@slumzur Thanks. They look very similar.
Yeah do what you gotta do that is beyond most peoples comprehension
Hey Max on bad areas use some plastic strips from Evergreen or who ever. Thin strips with a lot of liquid glue within reason helps it melt and can be sanded into shape. Best of luck.
They didn't think of the obvious solution to the crash landing problem?
Why do all these videos claim one type won the war? The Allies needed all types that is the P-47, P-51, p-38 AND the Spitfire to do what it did. The Spitfire had no range but the P-47 didnt start operations until April 1943, the P-38 and P-51 had more range than early P-47 but in Big Week there were 800 P-47s 100 P-38s and 100 P-51s + some Spittfires. Not one of these aircraft was designed as an "escort fighter".
We liberated a bunch of Mecedes Benz, lol.
This is the ORIGINAL beloved FAT AMY.
I read that the pilots of the P-47, called the "Flying Coffin" because the plane would go into a dive and didn't pull up in time. Slow response in dive.
It was pretty useless in Europe at higher altitude
@@paulthomas-hh2kv No it wasn't useless at high altitude, that's where it excelled the fighter role.
@@AnthonyEvelyn see Test Pilot, where US fighters failed over Europe
Yeah, there was nothing in the luftwaffe that could catch a p47 in a dive or at higher altitudes save a jet
@@paulthomas-hh2kvjust how did they fail when they destroyed the luftwaffe when british fighters couldn't even get there?
What defeated Germany was no plane or better opposing forces. They simply ran out of oil...for everything. Towards the end of the war, the Luftwaffe had 4000 fighters grounded at airfields all over Germany and Poland that they could not use. Their aircraft production reached its peak in late 1944, despite all the bombings. By early 1944, aircraft and munitions production had moved underground. It was a waste of bombs and killed 4 million German civilians for no strategic benefit.
And why do you think they ran out of oil? Some external opposing forces crippled their oil supply. Meanwhile they were moving their production underground because the allied bombing was a waste of bombs. What a joke.
@@gort8203he has a point. It's not popular to talk about, but most of German industry was fairly intact after the war. How do you think, the "Wirtschaftswunder" happened? With rubble?
@@augustiner3821 That is not the point. The point is, what cashed them to run out of oil and move production underground. If it hadn't been for strategic bombing their productive capacity and oil supply would have been even greater.
@@gort8203 but the underground production worked how the production figures confirm. Your assumption is hypothetical concerning the effect. And the lack of of oil sipply was a chronic issue from the first day of the war and one major reason for operation Barbarossa. After losing the acces to the oilfields in the east after 1942, there was no chance to maintain the war. So, think critical, the carpet bombing did have multiple effects, and one was the huge loss of innocent private lives of old men, women and children.
@@augustiner3821 It's not even worth arguing with somebody who can't see the point. Goodbye.
The voice-over mis-spoke. He said, “President Eisenhower.” Eisenhower was General, not president, yet. (As everyone knows, except this poor guy…
This is RUclips, not the BBC or HBO. Mistakes are made (both the BBC and HBO make them as much). This said, yes, you are absolutely right, but it cannot be corrected once it is online.
Big networks, compared to social platforms, had the privilege, and still have it, to not have people correct them despite having 100 or 1000 times the budget of RUclipsrs.
Thanks for understanding; perhaps one day, we will have the same budget as a network and be able to hire more people to do a perfect job to please everyone.
Hopefully, despite the error, you still enjoyed the video. For fun tomorrow, you can check the New York Times and see how many errors you spot! 😉
Have a great weekend, Charlie.
Nonsense on shooting off the road into Tiger belly
Oorah
So much Negativity in this video. Followed by a handful of Patriotism.
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@@bobsakamanos4469 It is not Historically accurate
@@OdeeOz technical performance was misquoted as well. It could never hit 600 mph in a dive.
The best pilots of the world were still Luftwaffe pilots of the second world war they consider an ace only people who shut down more than 50 enemy aircraft. They were the aces among the aces. The whole world against one country is just not a fair fight so you cannot compare this and say yeah this guy shut down six German plains, so he is almost a hero. The Russians were true competitors to the German army, and Luftwaffe. That’s why more than three-quarter of the soldiers were fighting on that side to try to stop them.
If they would not be an eastern front, the D-Day had failed within one week before it really began.
No offense brothers 🫡🤔🤭
German pilots claimed way more kills than they actually had. The allies knew this by comparing actual records of what was shot down on their side with what Germany claimed at that time. Sometimes more than twice as many. Further, the Germans who invaded their neighbors shot down all sorts of obsolete aircraft trying to defend themselves in Poland, France, Belgium, Russia.
Even without Easter Front "Crusade in Europe" will be a success. The best Luftwaffe units fought in Western Front, not Eastern. But they were outnumbered even 15:1 in favor to Allied się power, do Germans fate was inevitable :DEFEAT.
Importance of Eastern Front in terms of się war is exagerrated completely, cause thru all wartime Soviet air forces wasnt able to get air dominance over Luftwaffe , cause theirs air forces werent reliable in terms of tactics and supply support.
So main air war was over West Europe and Reich defence, which both were lost practically at begining "Overlord" operation, and Reich defence against Allied heavy Bombers was exausted to limit of available german pilot, which was declining even before "Overlord".
Stop spraid Russian propaganda, without Lend Lease Russians will be still in Ukrainians steppe in 1944.
"President" Eisenhower???? At 12:51 you call General Eisenhower "president". Huh? Going to stop watching, right there. If you don't know the history of WWII, you should learn it before attempting to make a documentary about it.
All these people in this documentary are aleady dead
Pls delete the Oh My Gods. THANKS!
are you kidding? comparing patton with caesar? without the unbreakable power of the russian army - multiple outnumbering the wehrmacht in every single detail - no single american soldier would ever have been able to set his feet on german land! by the way the usaaf outnumbered the luftwaffe in most cases 25:1, had superior fuel, oil, grease, better engines anyway because the lack of essential material in germany and so on… in 1945 it was more about kicking somebody in the face who was allready lying nearly defenceless and unarmoured on the ground… the thunderbolt was without any doubt one of the greatest warplanes - and still it was the number of planes which made the difference!
Except at the beginning of the war, Germany outnumbered their opponents in airpower.
MY father flew 50 missions in the B24, which I love. However I feel the P47 was the greatest all around WWII fighter along with the Mosquito.
Bless him. We just posted a documentary about Jimmy Stewart (He also flew missions on B-24s) ruclips.net/video/IbrWSD3-BBg/видео.html
My dad completed his missions in the B24s in China. A good case can be made for the Hellcat as a top fighter. Same engine as the P47. Once they got P51s they had fighter escort for longer missions.
Bless him @dougmcoy1260
Thank you very much.@@Dronescapes
No FW190 final mark, me262
Did you see the jet in the upper left hand corner?
Yeah those POWs were bummed out, but they had to be stoked that they werent they werent being marched east to Ivan1