Daylight Bombing Raids On Europe - Full Documentary
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Daylight Bombing Raids On Europe - Full Documentary
Whilst the Royal Air Force concentrated on bombing Germany at night, the United States Air Force carried out a dangerous strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany during daylight hours. On every raid, bombers suffered damage, exploded in mid-air, fell from the sky in pieces or crashed in flames. For the Flying Fortresses and Liberator Bombers of the 8th Air Force and 9th Air Force, it was a testing time high in the deadly skies over war-torn Europe.
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My great grandpa was a ball turret gunner on a B-17 during the daytime raids. His eardrums ruptured on the decent of his 24th of 25 missions and he was sent home. He passed in 2008 at 88 miss him so much he was the greatest!
Put one flover for me on his grave. This is thruly brave mans, soldiers. To one soldier(me)to other.✌👍✌
I was able to find rosters and after action reports from the bomb group my grandfather was in from a man that flew in the 8th. He was a navigator. It was absolutely insane to see how costly each bomb run was. My mother still has his bombing maps folded up in his foot locker. They're incredible
no he wasnt
@@DOwhutnow no she does not
Dam 😳I’m sorry for your loss 😓take care 🫡
This documentary was great! Couldn't have enough. Please show more docs like this one and keep up the awesome work! I couldn't take my eyes off this screen and loved every second.
What you have done is a tribute to all the men who paid the supreme price for our freedoms. May God bless each and every one of them and their loving families.
Thank you for your awesome service!
It was not really a documentary, it was made as a propaganda piece, and then it was repackaged(given the 3min intro, and similar end credits) by the Garofalo’s, and they’ve done quite a few of them..........
These propaganda puff pieces(which are obviously a bit light on the truth), are often shown on the UK’s channel 41(which has been called lots of things before, and is GREAT! Movies Action, at the moment), if you are that bored you want to look for them.........
@Jesus Silva
My town Zadar on the Adriatic coast was bombed in ww2 by liberals, super fortresses 57 times and there was no reason for that. The Italians capitulated, some Germans came. My friend Pepo and I and even the Pentagon investigated who ordered the bombing of the city so much, small in the walls, the answer was: No way!
😎🤔🤫
@@iggy9955 🐂💩
You're so incredibly lucky. My dad was in the Signal Corp. The army's telephone guys. He was caught in Battle of the Bulge. Whenever I asked him about it, all he would do is cry, so I quit asking. My grandmother told me he saw his best friend get killed.
@@iggy9955 The B-29 Superfortress bombers did not bomb Zadar/Zara, and they were not used in combat missions in the European Theater of Operations (ETO). The reason Zadar/Zara was subjected to heavy air bombardments was for the purpose of attacking the German 114th Jäger Division, Italian military units, supply depots, factories, and port facilities. The air bombardments were intended in part to impede and delay the redeployment of the 114th Jäger Division into the Italian campaigns.
Put this on, made a pot of coffee, walked the dog, came back and the intro is still on...
3 minutes exactly
What
Literally I was started to fall asleep
Damn guys spending years at war and you babes don’t have 3 minutes. Weak
@@jcmorgan7814 Sorry tough guy - didn’t mean to make you cry....
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One can move the red ball along get to the film and skip the intro.
Yes you can, but that doesn't address the issue of WHY it's so long.
@@blaynedavis9617 Victory is following men and materiale.
Fricken long entry song. Can take a quick power nap.
good you will be extra awake to watch the docu
Yo, girl
Use ur finger to move it forward
Amazing how the face of humanity shows up in the form of a blind bus 🚌 drivers son from Britain 🇬🇧. The faces of the Gi’s watching him play the piano 🎹 speaks volumes
Great video as others have commented the intro was a bit long, I wonder what happened to the little boy studying in the US? I have had the honour to fly in a Spitfire also been in a Lancaster bomber although didn’t take off all the Merlins were running we taxied and felt there power fantastic, make you think how brave all the bomber crews were.
3:02 is when the actual subject begins... half of the film switches over to Pacific theater
thanks
Intro lasts 3:03 minutes.
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Not a documentary. Just a compilation of news reels shown in movie theaters before the feature film.
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After having watched countless WW II docs, I started thinking about how it's rare that I see soldiers wearing ear protection, which seems crazy, considering the damage their hearing must have suffered. I googled it, and apparently only some divisions were issued earplugs, but often they weren't used, because of course, fear of missing the sound of enemy approach. I know coming out alive was the most important thing, but how any of these poor guys left the war with any of their hearing intact, is amazing....
It was probably more likely not used as these aircraft were not pressurized, except for the B29. But, yes, many had hearing problems.....it's unbelievable how loud these radial engines are....
I guess if you are in danger of being blown to bits at any second, you forget about your hearing
My father experienced significant hearing loss from only a year in Europe. As he got older he was effectively deaf in one ear and couldn’t hear much out of the other. Telephones were useless for him after about 55. It worked out well for us kids because we would always say, “I told you that, maybe you didn’t hear me.” Lol.
Pardon?
@@annoyingbstard9407
What?
I keep thinking about the Eighth AF and the 100BG in particular " The Bloody One Hundred " when in 1943 on a raid to Bremen 19 Forts departed for Germany and when they returned back to Thorpe Abbotts there were only 6 left. 😔😢
I just got here, what's the score?
A bomber crewman told me he'd rather fight in the sky than on the ground, he said those guys fighting on the ground seen carnage that nobody should ever have to see.
Just about the entire U.S. 8'th air force was wiped out over Schweinfurt. We lost about 5,000 heavy bombers over Germany. Including the crews.
Gone from a failed attack on Sweinfurt to Gemrnay on its knees!
I seem to remember that Germany had to be invaded right into Berlin!
(But thats the narrator!)
Does anyone have a date for this? Is it a mixture of newsreel footage with a postwar documentary, or is this all produced during the war?
I may be late to comment here, but if you want to read a No-Shit 1st Person Account of the Air War over Europe, read "Masters of the Air" by Donald L. Miller. I was always into the ground and armor warfare of WW2 and while I knew the air war was brutal, after reading this book I was shocked at what these brave men went through. It is a great source of material from the day the USAAF and 8th Air Force was Stood up to the end of the war. Please read it, you will not regret.
Very good doc a lot of footage I've never seen, and I have seen alot!
At 5:02 " ...all 500 tons were dropped in the target area...." Records indicate that less than 25% of the bombs dropped hit within 500 yards of their target.
Source?
Wrong, records show that on average 32% of all bombs dropped by the 8th Air Force hit their target or within 1,000 ft of it, that's the best record for any bombing force of the war and they were doing it from a higher altitude than anyone else.
In comparison the RAF claimed a 36% bombs on target result but the RAF considered an entire city to be a target while the 8th Air Force was targeting factories and sometimes individual buildings, so if 32% are hitting the target or within 1,000 ft the remaining bombs are doing damage to something compared to only 36% hitting an entire city while the remaining 64% fall harmlessly in the countryside and maybe killing some cows.
When is the video going to start?????????????????????
The intro was that long that it's now Nighttime Bombing Raids On Europe
I didn't know there were helicopters flying during WW2. I know it now.
Thats what I was thinking too. Learn something new everyday
@@rlikemoney I knew they were being developed during that period, but thought they weren't used in a rescue fashion until the Korean Conflict.
Yep, as a matter of fact the first helicopter rescue in history happened in the Pacific before WW2 was over.
What’s with the extremely long intro that has popcorn fake music?
The bombers couldn't defend themselves against sustained fighter attack. I heard James Steward once say' The fighter was the real bogeyman, it had eye's and in in a great many cases a pretty competent fella at the controls, and when he latched onto you, you were in trouble lots of times''... I guess he knew what he was talking about...
Another factor was gun laying equipment controlling 88mm and 128m AA proving mostveffective from early 1944 onwards. weather could affect German fighters but flak was a constant menace.
@@normannokes9513 Yes! I think there are those who believe Flak was just shot into the sky 'willy nilly' there are plenty of films on RUclips showing how predictive gun-laying/radar systems operated As you say it got to be quite sophisticated, not to mention dangerous. an 88 could do a great deal of damage, even a near miss.
Donald Nijboer states cost in German flak per aircaft destroyed $106,000 Los of B17 $292,000 excluding crew. An accountant would say... fair return for investment... Grim days !@@brianperry
From the World at War series, and what Steward should've added was that the P-51 fighter could've been put into action long before the Spring of '43 but wasn't n cost the lives of many bomber crews . The German high command was awe struck how the U.S. sent so many bomber missions into Germany without ANY fighter escort!! Me too in retrospect!!!
amazing footage!!!
Skip to 3:00 min
3:00 actual begin of video (3:00 intro)
at appx 45 sec to 55 sec of opening credits theres incredible footage of a b-17 shot to pieces engines falling off with propellers still spinning gut feeling tells me noone got out alive from that flying fortress
No one did get out alive.
Because that was footage of a B-17 target drone moments after being hit by a Nike Hercules missile, in the early 60s if I recall.
Flying in a metal box surrounded by aviation fuel and explosive ordnance whilst being shot at over NME territory....I'll pass on that thank you. Thats why the Few were brave-asses and I'm just chicken-sweat.
Whoa!! What is that 4 engine Fighter at 36:57? It looks formidable!
B-17s were let down by their load carrying ability.
Wonder if Merlin engines would have significantly increased their bomb loads like the Lancaster.
A B17 could carry the same weight as a unmodified Lanc. A 17 had almost 2,000 lb of armour while the Lanc had little and 17's needed fuel for another three hours, the time it took to climb to 25,000 feet and form up up to 54 aircraft before crossing the coast.
@@nickdanger3802 - More B-17 failures and bomb load limitations:
ruclips.net/video/eTvX0cB2ER8/видео.html
Watch the video;
B17 vs Lancaster the truth,
from Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles.
It sets straight all the myths you guys keep throwing around about Lancaster's and how much they could carry compared to a B17.
The fact is a B17 with a full load could fly higher than an empty Lancaster could.
Your narrative about the Merlin engine is another WW2 myth, it completely ignores the fact that the Allison engine when mounted in the P51 and P40 only had half of it's intended supercharging system and that the 2 speed 2 stage supercharger version of the Merlin wasn't even fielded until mid 1942 anyways.
Every version of the Allison engine was more powerful than the equivalent version of the Merlin, it was easier to produce, only had about 2/3rds the parts, lasted longer and took less man hours to rebuild.
The "Merlin was more powerful than the Allison" myth is a bedtime story that RAF pilots like to tell their kid's at night.
One of the aims of raids on cities was to pull German fighter aircraft, soldier and ammunition from the front lines. The German people could keep their morale if they saw their cities heavily defended, but German civilians would have never tolerated undefended cities. The propaganda had to match reality at least superficially or it would work. Any evidence that Germany was inevitably losing would lead to the German people concentrating on protecting themselves and their families instead of “victory”. This is exactly what happened in 1945.
The bombing of Germany was a complete failure, as a British government report found in the 1950s.
WW2 was really deadly.
1100 airmen? came back from Romania? Or all POW's. I read about the airlift of POWs with the resistance and special forces in Checkslovakia? Well worth the read. I'm an American, eastern Europe is a little fuzzy for me. Ha
Destroyed The Murderin War Machine
Do you think that the Germans who murdered millions of Jews , Russians , and anyone else they didn't like should be worthy of sympathy . Well I don't you creep.
There's an old saying among pilots..."if it looks good, it flys good".....the B24 doesn't meet this standard.....looks like a flying box car, which crews called it, aming other things. But, she got the job done! 💪🇺🇲
7:25 never seen those before
Worst Intro Ever. Narration Starts At 3:00
Despite the heavy bombing the German production of war materials in 1943 was higher than before the war.
And they still lost.
But the quality of their equipment got progressively worse as time went on despite the numbers going up, unlike Allied made war equipment which improved over the prototypes through their production run the German equipment got progressively worse after a prototype.
Two other things, think about how much they would have produced had they not been being bombed day and night, and even though their production went up they still weren't coming anywhere close to what the Allies were producing, Ford's Willow Run plant was producing a B24 bomber every hour around the clock 7 days a week, and that's just one plant.
The bombing drained manpower and resources from the front line, the war may have gone much differently had it not been for the huge brass balls of the mighty 8th airmen
This was a little bit too much on a macro level. A more micro level look would have been more interesting. This seemed like little more than a collection of stock footage and bad narration.
Does anyone know to explain why the narrator’s voice tone in these types of videos is usually of a very strong pathos, which is so different from the nowadays narration?
Military vs civilian
Today they prefer talking heads, sometimes specialists in the military field, though more often not, usually women and ethnic minorities.
Men still had testosterone in those days.
16:07 to 16:14 does anyone else see a UFO on the left side?
5:40 ...ff "Germans lost more than 300 fighters". Actual Luftwaffe losses @ Schweinfurt: maybe 5 or 6. All the rest was over- and multiple-claiming by excited American gunners. Worse, it was -60 bombers por nada: the attack was a failure in operations analysis. Ball bearings were thought to be a key chokepoint in the German war economy....but they weren't; all local production shortfall was quickly made up by purchases from Sweden. The actual chokepoint was: oil. Ditto for the Allies, but Adolf failed to mount a serious effort to seize the Middle Eastern oilfields....this because he had no wish to bring down the Brit Empire. More fool he.
If a bomb hit a mile from what they were aiming at it was considered a good hit.
That explains the bombing of weapon industry in German cities lol
German general Adolf Galland said he knew the war was lost when P51 Mustangs began to escort the American bombers.
. . . and only after the P51s were fitted with Rolls-Royce Merlins. They couldn't get the needed speed or hight with their original Pratt and Whitneys. And that's why the P51 sounds lke a Spitfire. Makes them British really.
People fussing about the into. You're right we should get our money back. Oh wait it's a free documentary so just be quiet haha geez some people can't be pleased
this is not actually a documentary its a war time u.s. propaganda film. it is not under any historical obligation to the facts, it has a political role.as a public relations film, not always factual
After the first raid on Schweinfurt production stopped for 3 weeks. Meanwhile the factories had still balls enough to keep on productions.
After the second raid the ball production was no more located in the city but in the region. There was no more aim for a raid any more.
This is history. Anything else is propaganda.
"17, August 1942, strategic air power was born."?? That would certainly come as a surprise to the survivors of the previous 2 years.
Sounds like it's narrated by John Wayne.
You sure are right there, pilgrim
Smile when you say that pilgrim.
(That's actually closer to being a Gary Cooper reference but hey, it'll work)
Visual diahorreah
Ah, the good ole days when we fought wars to actually win them. Now we reluctantly go to war and when we do we fight them to stalemates. Thank God for Special Forces Operatives. Otherwise we'd never get any killing done.
Damn intro is too long. Stopped watching.
It is a rerun of a old TV documentary series .
At least the TV commercials were removed.
Got so bored during the intro I didn’t even watch the clip. 👎👎
Each B17 only carried half the bombload of the RAF's Lancaster. So, despite what is said here, the Americans sure paid a high price in the young men lost to the damage done ratio. The US should have swallowed their pride and built Lancasters.
Lancaster were lightly armed. Any Brit suggesting Americans swallow their pride for anything while defending Britain is a sad representation of the Commonwealth.
I have no personnel axe to grind against the Americans who fought well throughout the war, just fed up with the constant flow of chest beating bullshit . When B24's bombed Switzerland by mistake instead of Ludwigshaven , which was sited 175 miles to the north , is unbelievable incompetence , I have been to the BASF plant which was the target , Its enormous being 8 miles long and 1 mile wide , situated by the Rhine . its no wonder that the RAF laughed at the Americans ability to navigate .
I thought this was a music video because of the insanely long intro!
My dad was in the RAF in the war, based in the far east and he often told me about the brave boys of the American 8th. He had utmost respect for them.
@Hoa Tattisoh you are right I'm so sorry
Maybe the 20th
It should be noted that the Germans had to use significant resources to defend against the bomber attacks. These diverted resources and man power kept the Germans from resupplying other fronts adequately and thus softened these fronts. Eventually the Luftwaffe was driven from the skies but the allies has suffered many loses. A lot of good men never came home to their families.
Yes: a substantial diversion of German military resources away from other theatres of war: for instance: approx 65,000 guns, 650,000 personnel (the 'Flakwaffe') plus technical equipment and administrative support. Heavy losses is right and attrition on aircrew was appalling: some 55,573 Bomber Command aircrew (average age 22) died in raids against German targets: a death rate of 44%. USAAF losses were of a similar order.
Thats just a rumor
@@jefferystutsman6419 it's not a rumour. It's a fact
Hard to believe all this death and destruction took place.
Really hope nothing happens like this again, just to much
hardship and heartache . Those airman had guts .
It's going to happen again... Biden with will somehow manage to fuck things up and weaken our country so badly that the Chinese will attack. They may not attach the US directly, but they WILL attack Taiwan... And Biden will do nothing to stop it. Watch, wait and see.
@@thomaslloyd8306 Not sure what to think of Biden. If the Chinese do attack Taiwan I do hope the world and of course we do need the US to stand up to this menace. As well as the increasing influence this dictatorship is trying to impress on the world.
@Preet S HMMMM, seems a little extreme to put an end to earth?
I was born just after WW2 came to an end. Sure there were reminders of it, bomb sites in London bomb craters in nearby fields, ''Pill boxes'' scattered about the countryside etc! but we were never taught about it in school, my parents very rarely mentioned it. It's not that it was if it never happened, I guess those directly involved in it just returned home and got on with their lives. Hell of a thing having your life interrupted by six years of War.
@@brianperry Yep, my parents were from
Manchester area, they told me what it was like.
My Grandfather served on the western front in WW1 and he reluctantly told me a few stories that
would bring tears to you eyes. Even after 65 years
he still cried off and on over it. Think the whole
thing is barbaric.
Late to comment! The thumbnail used for this video, is of the "Square C", 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, out of Snetterton UK. This was my Dad's unit, as he did 36 missions from late 1943 to the end of the war.
He was one of the lucky ones. Most in 1943 never made it past 7 or 8 missions 😔😢
I can’t believe that it’s Ben 80 years since franz stinger and the Charlie Brown incident in December 20 1943 just watching this video makes me wonder how interesting how it would be to see this in color 🙂in color was very limited back then 😓even so the black in white it’s very interesting to see nonetheless 🙂
Intro longer than US entry to WW2
Nice one. That is funny.
The young boy playing classic piano music, absolutely fabulous. A small glimmer of hope in the midst of chaos!!!!
A freaking three minutes of intro jingle! Did they grow time on farms this era or where the heck did they get so much of it?
😆🕰️😆
The scene at 28:35 is actually a mid-air collision between 2 P-40s at a Spokane, Washington Airshow in 1945.
I didn't realize Japan was in Europe.
Knowledge is power.
I actually feel sorry for the pounding German cities got and I'm a Brit, my grandparents where having bombs dropped on them by Germany but I'm not bitter about it. The Blitz was bad but nowhere near as bad as what Germany got.
Thank you very much for your compassion and your condolence! From a german man whose Grandmother and her sister died in the burning city of my Hometown under british bombardment. But I feel no bitterness or resentements against any british or american airmen or soldiers. They have done their duty like the german soldiers did their duty to defend the german Vaterland. But we have to consider and imagine that the german people in 1939 thought the Britains are the attackers, because they declared the war on Germany on Sept.3. 1939. Not vice versa! A world war!?Because of Danzig?! No one of the normal people in Germany wished to fight against british or american people! But when Churchill became Primeminister in Great-Britain, there was no way back! Churchill wanted and even needed a world war to win the war against Germany. (You can read this also in the Tyler-Kent-Protocols, they contain secret telegrams between Churchill and Roosevelt). Did you know that the Government of the Deutsche Reich sent more than 20 peace proposals between the Sept, 2. 1939 and May 1940? The german government asked the Pope, the spanish King, the swedish King and a lot of well-known persons from neutral states like Sven Hedin or Birger Dahlerus to mediate between the german and the british government to stop the war! But Churchill wanted the USA to engage in the war so that Great-Britain can win the war without making peace - even if that means that the european war becomes a world war! Maybe you know the Book "Germany must perish!" published 1941 by Theodore Kaufman? The german people had no choice but to fight until the bitter end. There was no way to peace before Germany was totally destroyed! Fuck Hitler! You know that Graf Stauffenberg and other Generals tried to kill Hitler, but unfortunately they failed and Hitler, this damn f*cking asshole survived! (But: Fuck Churchill and Stalin too! Especially Stalin! Did you know that Stalin himself planned an attack on Europe in 1942 to advance the world revolution of communism?! And that he killed millions of people in Russia, in the Ukraine and the Baltic states before Hitler came to power in 1933! Stalin was a mass murderer and he planed to invade Europe - but Hitler knew that from his Intelligence Service and was faster. That´s all! Therefore the Barbarossa Campaign in the summer of 1941, although the germans had to fight also on the western front! You can read this in new books by russian Historians like Victor Suworow and others.... From my studies I know that Hitler planned a war against the Soviet Union - because he already knew that Stalin would attack Europe - not only Germany (!), an attack on whole Europe - in the late summer of 1941 or in spring 1942 - but Hitler never wanted to wage war against England or the USA. This fact also confirms the british Historian Prof. A.J.P. Taylor in his book "The origins of the second world war"! But it is all history now... I hope that such a terrible war will never happen again and that all humans can live in peace in future times! God bless you!
@@thetruthcompany5635
Just stop it, stop acting like if it wasn't for Churchill there wouldn't have been a war, and stop with the theories and conjecture about what Russia "might" have done.
If if if, if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle, but she doesn't so she's my aunt.
Try sticking with facts and not theories, the fact is it wasn't just Adolf Hitler himself that rolled into each town in the Baltic states and shot old women and little kids in the head on the edge of a ditch row after row, the fact is the SS and even worse their branch the Einstazgruppen had plenty of volunteers that thoroughly enjoyed their work, after they'd spend the morning executing old women and kids they'd go into the local eateries for lunch and sit there displaying the gold and other jewelry they'd taken off their victims and brag.
The fact is the only people who "wanted war" in Europe was Germany, stop with the "Germany was defending itself" narrative, Churchill knew that total and all out war was necessary to stop the evil that was spreading from Herr Hitler and the mentality of the German people as a whole at that time and that nothing but the complete and total destruction of his regime was the only answer to it, you try to make it sound like if it wasn't for Churchill there wouldn't have been a war, well here's a little education for you, Neville Chamberlain knew exactly what Churchill did but he was buying time, he knew that if Britain would have declared war when Germany annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia that Britain would have lost, he was buying time for Britain to build up it's forces, behind the scenes he was pushing for the manufacturing of more Spitfires and the other modern and essential war machines needed to fight the Third Reich, then he took the fall for not declaring war earlier on Germany knowing his name would be drug through the mud till the end of time.
"I'm not bitter", well that's a good thing because nobody in Germany has the right to be, dead grandparents or not, it wasn't England that was rolling into other countries and rounding up people according to their ethnicity or religion and executing them wholesale, there's nothing more loathsome than someone wearing their country's uniform who'll line up old women holding babies and shooting them in the head, and then taking the baby by the legs and smashing it's head off a rock, the old women and children being shot weren't part of some resistance group or underground terrorists, they were just old women and little kids trying to scratch an existence out of the earth and make it through their miserable lives like everyone else.
And stop with the "If Von Stauffenberg would have succeeded..." theories because it wouldn't have changed anything, there were plenty of goons that were more than willing to step up and take Hitler's place, all of those men knew that defeat would lead to them being put on trial, all the loss of German lives and destruction of Germany was nothing more than them trying to postpone their inevitable trial for their crimes, they didn't care how many German civilians were killed at that point as long as it bought them one more day before they were captured and punished for their crimes.
Winston Churchill is one of the great leaders in history, the only thing he's guilty of is seeing what needed to be done and going about doing it while having to maneuver through a political minefield while doing it.
The war in Europe is 100% on Germany and no one else, any "might have" theories about Stalin and what would have happened are for Hollywood script writers and not history.
@@thetruthcompany5635 Unfortunately a lot of what we read in our "history books" is only superficially "true" or "logical".
Mainly because of what the authors omit by choice, or choose *not* to tell us (aka "lying by omission".)
A sort of "narrative" then evolves, by constant repetition.
See "rote learning" in schools.
In case you interested, I've written a longer essay which I'll post down here, re. The Big Picture.
*Unfortunately London did not understand how "balance of power" works.*
Most debates are a completely pointless waste of time, same as 99% of all "history books".
Ancillary details being regurgitated again and again, in efforts to distract from what really happened.
Ever since the establishment of "Empire", London aimed to protect it, by (as a matter policy), making the *strongest continental power/alliance* the rival in peace/enemy in war.
*London's "fatal mistake", was "snuggling up" to The American Century, thinking it would save the "Empire"...*
*London was always going to oppose the strongest continental country/power/alliance, as a default setting.*
By own admission:
"The equilibrium established by such a grouping of forces is technically known as the balance of power, and it has become almost an historical truism to identify England’s secular policy with the maintenance of this balance by throwing her weight now in this scale and now in that, but ever on the side, opposed to the political dictatorship of the strongest single, State or group at any time."
[From Primary source material:Memorandum_on_the_Present_State_of_British_Relations_with_France_and_Germany]
In a nutshell, *oppose* every major diplomatic advance made by the strongest continental power in times of peace, and ally against it in times of war. Because the own policy meant that London shied away from making binding commitments with continental powers, as a matter of policy, London set off to look for "new friends"...
EPISODE 1:
"By 1901, many influential Britons advocated for a closer relationship between the two countries. W. T. Stead even proposed that year in The Americanization of the World *for both to merge to unify the English-speaking world, as doing so would help Britain "continue for all time to be an integral part of the greatest of all World-Powers, supreme on sea* and unassailable on land, permanently delivered from all fear of hostile attack, and capable of wielding irresistible influence in all parts of this planet."
[Google: The_Great_Rapprochement]
Sooooo gweat.
Everybody "speaking English" and being "best fwiends".
*What could possibly go wrong?*
EPISODE V:
"At the end of the war [WW2], Britain, physically devastated and financially bankrupt, lacked factories to produce goods for rebuilding, the materials to rebuild the factories or purchase the machines to fill them, or with the money to pay for any of it. Britain’s situation was so dire, the government sent the economist John Maynard Keynes with a delegation to the US to beg for financial assistance, claiming that Britain was facing a *"financial Dunkirk”.* The Americans were willing to do so, on one condition: They would supply Britain with the financing, goods and materials to rebuild itself, but dictated that Britain must first eliminate those Sterling Balances by repudiating all its debts to its colonies. The alternative was to receive neither assistance nor credit from the US. *Britain, impoverished and in debt, with no natural resources and no credit or ability to pay, had little choice but to capitulate.* And of course with all receivables cancelled and since the US could produce today, those colonial nations had no further reason for refusing manufactured goods from the US. The strategy was successful. *By the time Britain rebuilt itself, the US had more or less captured all of Britain’s former colonial markets, and for some time after the war’s end the US was manufacturing more than 50% of everything produced in the world. And that was the end of the British Empire, and the beginning of the last stage of America’s rise."*
[globalresearch(dot)ca/save-queen/5693500]
Brits being squeezed like a lemon by US banks, having their Pound crushed by the US dominated IMF, being refused the mutually developed nukes to act as a deterrent against the SU's expansion, munching on war rations till way into the 1950s, losing the Suez Canal in a final attempt at "acting tough" and imposing hegemony over a vital sphere of interest...and going under...lol, "third fiddle" in the "Concerto de Cold War"...
Maybe they should have informed themselves *how "empires" tick,* because there was another "ring".
A "ring which ruled them all".
*The American Century.*
So they woke up one morning, only to discover that their "best fwiends forever" had stolen all their markets.
Now, fill in the blanks yourself.
EPISODES II THRU IV...
Fake "narratives" of a supposed "Anglo-German Naval Arms Race" by "nasty Wilhelm" (reality = it was an international naval arms race, which included the USA/The American Century®).
Fake "narratives" like "the USA was on our side in WW1, and an ally" = total bs. (Reality? By own acknowledgement, they were "an associated power", and they fought for the American Century®)
*Fill in the gaps.*
See "the handwriting" of London's Policy of Balance of Power: at Versailles, at Saint-Germaine...everywhere.
Then there was another war. A result of the failed peace of the 1st: the totally flawed decision to concentrate most resources in an attempt to "flatten Germany". Reality? A large Strategic Air Force is one of the most expensive forms of warfare ever devised. "Flattening Germany" as a matter of policy, as flawed as trying to "snuggle up" to a faraway "empire", in order to try and save the own...
Well said. My family grew up in Berlin during the war. I was the only one that was born here, Chicago.
@@dukecraig2402 ----------------------- Your text is entirely based on a point of view of Jewish historiography. And the rhetoric is identical.
Germany was excessively demonized in teaching history, Stalin's Russia was "cleansed" by the United States, and Churchill and Harris were more criminal than many soldiers in the Werhmacht and often even in the ss. There are written sources (archived and some secret), we are not talking about fictions or approximations / assumptions / speculations.
For the German story read, 'The First and the Last' by Adolf Galland.....
@ Jiyu Shugi memoirs are never reliable
Come for the content, stay for the intro
The Schweinfurt-Regensburg Raid is the one at the climax of the movie Twelve O'Clock High. 60 B-17s were shot down and another 95 were damaged, many so heavily they were written off. Five escorting fighters were also lost. However, the estimate of 300 or more German fighters shot down in return was at best wild overestimation and more probably morale-boosting propaganda. Best estimates are that perhaps two dozen German fighters were lost in that fight, actually not that bad an exchange rate for unescorted bombers vs. fighters but hardly comforting for the crews who had to fly these missions.
Twelve O'Clock High one of my favorite war films , but as Hollywood likes to do stretch the truth to breaking point. Starts off in the Autumn of 1942 and the main players take part in the August 1943 air battles. They done the same with Memphis Belle , not the first to complete 25 missions , but who cares its a good story.
There is a collection called
The great battles. There's one called. Wings over Europe they talk alot about schweinfurt and it's losses...
@Hoa Tattis A detail I didn't know about. The number-one priority of what was the US *Army* Air Force was independence from the US Army, and that meant pushing the idea that bombers could win the war. So disasters like the two Schweinfurt raids and the low-level raid on Ploesti were soft-pedaled, and continued to be for decades after. About one in ten American killed in action in WWII was an air crewman in the Eighth Air Force! It's also why the B-29 was rushed into operation resulting in horrible losses due to engine fires--and why more was spent on the B-29 program than the Manhattan Project.
I grew up hearing USAF propaganda like "Sleep soundly tonight; your Air Force is awake and alert!" In reality, our Air Force wasn't doing very much to defend the United States from any attack at the time, spending as little as possible on anything that couldn't drop a nuclear weapon. When JFK asked General Curtis Lemay how many aircraft he had to deliver conventional weapons to support an invasion of Cuba, Lemay answered "none." Now, we could have bombed the Soviet Union into extinction many times over, but only if we hit them first--which was what Lemay's war plan always was.
Anyway, the real contribution of the USAAF to the war with Germany was probably soaking up Luftwaffe planes and antiaircraft guns that could have been used against the Soviet Union. Japan had really lost the war a year before B-29s started burning down about half its urban areas. The real reason they surrendered when they did was that Hirohito knew the Russians would be in Japan soon enough if he didn't let in the Americans first.
@@oldgringo2001 The Allies were very lucky that the Germans never developed the proximity fuse for its Flak . The effectiveness of the PF was seen in Britains defense against the V1 flying bomb , destroying hundreds. Another example was on New Years day 1945 , when 200 German fighter bombers attacked allied airfields in Belgium , losing half of their number , the majority to ground fire.
When I heard of 350 fighters lost by the Germans, I knew that this whole documentary must be taken with a grain of salt .
That was cool. Thanks for actual footage. You did a good job.
the uploader didnt actually make the film, chadwick.......
"On February 23, 1944, Milch visited me in my sickroom. He informed me that the American Eighth and Fifteenth (Italy) Air Forces were concentrating their bombing on the German aircraft industry (Pointblank Directive), with the result that our aircraft production would be reduced to a third of what it had been, at least for the month to come. Milch brought with him a proposal in writing: Inasmuch as the Ruhr Staff had successfully dealt with the bomb damage in the Ruhr area, we needed a 'Fighter Aircraft Staff' which would pool the talents of the two ministries (Air Ministry and Ministry of Armaments) in order to overcome the crisis in aircraft production." page 332
Inside The Third Reich Speer
Something is so fascinating about WWII to me, that I wish I could've been there and helped America and the allies win. Wether I would've been killed or not. Something about it
WW2 is something we'll never see again, if it ever gets into this kind of quagmire today you know somebody will start chucking Nukes.
I said those same things when I was young. My Grandfather was there in the Army Air Corps and later USAF. He just used to smile at me when I said those things. When I asked him what it was like he told me he prayed I would never find out.
@@Ronbo710 I could only imagine it was pure hell on earth. And I know that I'd I been there, I would've only wanted to go home.
Those men were just children on those lines, fighting for our freedom from the hatred that was the nazis and Japanese, at the time.
I can sit here today, because of men like your grandfather. And I can sit here and wish I could've helped because of what I've read.
I know it wasn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination.
I watch videos of the war and it makes me cry. I watch Saving Private Ryan and it makes me cry.
I'm watching 1917 for the first time and it's making me cry. I have the pride in my heart for all who served and I have the sadness of how young and brave they all were, and for some... still are!
@@Ronbo710 oh yeah!! Go 8th Army Air Force!!!!
Schön Blöd bist du Idiot aber auch für dich hätten wir, one shot and you kiss our holy Ground👍
Civilians are a military target
Jews are civilians.
Not US Air-force; but US Army Air Corp..USAF began in 1949 sadly..
This was a fantastic documentary, using USAAF archive film really made it feel like I was watching this at a theater during the war. Keep up the great work! USAF, RAF Lakenheath, 1980-1982
Glad to see that one crew that collided with another B-24's tail landed safely but what about the other B-24?
I'm a proud Britisher, a British Army Veteran & I love & respect ALL Americans, so please don't slate me for this....
Why do American historians strongly believe that America invented or thought of almost everything before anyone else?
I'll give you an example. At the beginning of this documentary, the narrator clearly says that strategic bombing was born in 1942 when the Americans started their daylight bombing campaign.
NOOOO. Strategic bombing was first put into practice, 'born' if you prefer, by the R.A.F during WW1.
It was invented by Germany in 1914.
Little Jimmy Osbourne, the pianist, would go on to form one of the first heavy metal bands in the late 60's. You might know him by his stage name, Ozzy Osbourne.
Are you serious? a 3:00 intro!
These were of the Greatest Generation! Far too many commenters here are complaining about the long intro, which simply illustrates just how lazy and dumb they show themselves to be, being they can't get themselves to fast forward past it!
Sign me, proud to be called a "boomer" by the present time Worst, Whiniest, Laziest, Ungrateful Generation!
Did that Generation really think Germany could sail across the Atlantic and D-Day New York and push across to LA?
Germany had 2/3rd the population and 1/3rd the manufacturing capacity of the US.
If you want to Conquer this idiot New Generation, just show them a 3 min intro. The War is over just like that.
Who think to the mecanics who spent their nights to make the planes avaibles on the next dawn?
Did the blind pianist. Kid ever get famous????
3 minutes of intro??
Considering the massive losses of allied bomber forces, along with the examples of successes made with Nazi Stuka tactic, it remains mystifying that the U.S. did not establish Wild Weasel mission tactics until Vietnam. (i.e. Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang, even Lightning, with rockets... and/or B-25G... with 75MM M4 Cannon... B-25H being the ideal weapons platform)
They couldnt , the Luftwaffe owned the skies over Europe until late 1944.
20:41 rip b17G
Daylight bombing, in hindsight, not the greatest plan, but did the job, at a very high cost.
Compared to?
Bombing at night.........
Yes it was a good idea.
The bombers of the 8th Air Force had a hit rate of 32% with the remaining 68% of their bombs hitting within 1,000 ft of the target, and their targets were factories and sometimes individual buildings.
The RAF bombing at night had a hit rate of 38% but their targets were entire cities with the remaining 62% of their bombs falling in the countryside.
Furthermore the RAF on their night bombing missions lost around 5,000 more men from their bomber crews than the 8th Air Force did.
So you see, yea, daylight precision bombing was not only a good idea but it was effective despite all the incorrect information you'll hear about it from sources that aren't credible because they don't examine and take into account all the information.
@@845SiM there was night bombing raids in addition to the daylight. UK did a lot of the night bombing and the U.S. bombed during the days I believe…? Between the U.S. and U.K. AirPower, German armaments and transportation infrastructure were obliterated.
I like these old films made at the time, just wish they had not used as much glorified music, nothing glorious in war, just jobs that must be done to end it.
Nice historical video...
Yes the intro is too long!
800 bomber.... as i know, not very long ago, one bomb of ww2 was found in Germany, they have to move thousand people miles away before detonated.. what a war
Weird. The music and sound effects from this little vid. We’re totally the same as SSI PANZER COMMANDER ., SSI. ALLIED COMMANDER. . They stole the music. I shouldn’t laugh. But. The most terrible war. Music / sound effects stolen by. SSI. LOL. Good luck to you. And my favourite Strategy turn based play stn one game. SS GENERAL take America. Loved it. You cannot get that game unless you pay £200. Funny. But true
P-38's with drop tanks had the range to escort. Criminal that they weren't used. Also weirdly neglected as THE primary target was electrical generation plants. Needed to produce anything.
Along w P-47s. The cover-up/whitewash was even more disgusting.
@@ronjon7942 the lie about not drop tank ready? The Brits would have made custom non-metallic drop tanks for all of them in theater.
The British told the Americans that daylight bombing would be a disaster, and it was - the U.S. lost 5,000 B-17's alone. What the British didn't account for is that it didn't make a damn because the U.S. simply built 12,000 B-17's.
If the germans had the jet plane working a bit earlier these guys would have been destroyed
Oh you mean the one the Frank Whittle invented.
Wow the intro lasted the same time as the war!
Yes ball bering or deutsch kugllager is dengeres like bullet. Tanks, plain, cars truck no one is not moving without kugllager🤣🤣🤣
No it's not for smile. Dangerous mission for dangerous target, most dangerous in bombing germany in few years
It's not documentary it is propagand material.
Wish we could have heard more about piano boy after he reached the states