A B29 Bombing Mission Is Interrupted by Japanese Fighters 💣 Air Warriors | Smithsonian Channel
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- Опубликовано: 14 авг 2021
- It’s the dying days of WWII, and a fleet of US B-29s have reached their target: the Japanese city of Kobe. But before they can drop their payload, a squadron of Japanese fighters appears, ready for a fight.
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My dad was down there, in Kobe. He was a British pow, 1st Middlesex captured years before in Hong Kong. He died just a few weeks before Christmas, 2020. He was 100 years old.
Salute to your dad from NZ 🇳🇿
Remarkable to hear, it must have been dreadful for him knowing just how brutal the Japanese were. The Pacific war was absolutely insane.
I salute that man.
He survived the pow camp and probably a few months in a restless india where he could be assisinated .
The ultimate survivvor
@@hellomoto2084 Some men are really brave to have survived World War 2.
Him dying at 100 is a miracle.😊
My father was doing this in WW2.. I miss him terribly. Blessed be
A story I've never recounted. Studying Mandarin in Taiwan in the early 70's my tutor was in Japan during WWII (Taiwan was a colony of Japan). When reading a newspaper article for pronunciation the B-52 bomber came up; she asked me if that bomber was bigger than a B-29. Yes, I had seen B-52s in Vietnam, and bigger to her surprise, because she had seen B-29s bombing Japan. She was slight, gentle, soft-spoken, but I then knew she had seen some things she kept deep within. I remember as if it were yesterday. She was a gentle lady.
That’s interesting honestly.
Watched Arclights in Vietnam from my battery at over 3 thousand feet, tiny dots up high so much damage below.
@@johnlott143 You could feel the arclight.
Its important to keep stories like this in mind when discussing war, it must only be waged as a last resort.
@@scottabc72 Said Winston Churchill, "Jaw, jaw, jaw is better than war, war, war."
Patching together a group of unrelated footage, including shots of German aircraft and Japanese dive-bombers, is not very responsible on the part of the Smithsonian. I see this more and more as WWII fades into history, with wrong aircraft, or wrong versions of the right aircraft, being used. Is there no fact-checking going on?
Where do you see German aircraft ? Just because you do not recognize some imperial Japanese fighter airplanes , does not make those German ..
No kidding. I was watching another WWII Navy short film about the Lexington CV3. They used pictures of the Forrestal, CV59. It even had the big ole 59 showing (very briefly) on the island. If that wasn't enough, the angled flight deck was a sure give away.
Not even close to the same thing.
I guess they figured since the footage was in black and white, no one would really notice.
@@TiborOriVonsmall At 1:41 is clearly a ME 109 under fire
@@TiborOriVonsmall There are two sequences (-.2.19 and -0.15) that clearly show a Bf 109. At -1.20 and a couple of other places there are fixed-undercarriage Japanese aircraft (possibly Val dive bombers) which in no way could have attacked B-29’s. These shots of fighters are clearly taken from gun cameras on Allied fighters, not from B29’s. See the other comments for other glitches in this before you baselessly accuse me of not recognizing Japanese fighters.
Funny how sometimes "McHale's Navy" did a better job with stock Pacific war footage than more "official" films or major movies. Then again, Ernest Borgnine was a Navy veteran and probably insisted on at least some plausibility even though it was a comedy series.
1:40 So the Luftwaffe was fighting with Me-109 a/c in Japan. I was a stock footage library librarian for 20 odd years and am,was and will be disgusted with the use of "action" shots that are incorrect for the presentation. 'Never could stand researchers, editors and directors who had an attitude of "they (the viewer) will never know the difference).
lol
relax jesus christ
Beat me to the punch. Wondered who the German pilot was, and if he got decorated by Emperor or not? Considering, that Germany was out of the war by June 1945 and Hitler was dead.
Yeah, it's sheer laziness for the most part. I have watched documentaries on the Spitfire for example, with with many scenes that showed Hurricanes instead.
Wouldn't Zeros be unlikely too? Weren't they naval fighters?
When I was stationed in Japan in the late 1990's I had a Japanese national working in the base kitchen. Very nice guy, worked for the Americans since 1948. He remembers the B29's flying over and bombing Yokohama. He had no anger towards them or Americans. "The USA saved us from total destruction by our government and military" he once told me. Great guy.
I had heard Asians have the longest life expectancy by far. No doubt about it !
Just think if their government hadn’t tried to brain wash its citizens into WW2! Most Japanese were hard working loyal people.working with instead of trying to murder the rest of the World they could have lifted their society,and became a World leader and innovators of Asian prosperity instead of the Destroyer !
One of those "Zeros," that shows up I think five or six times in what looks like gun-camera footage, has fixed landing gear-probably a Val.
More likely a Ki-27 over a Val....
Interesting but file footage does not fit with commentary
Yeah, that Bf 109 was a dead giveaway.
They were at war. They didn't have a camera crew along filming a documentary.
@@NealB123 - well, they probably did on occasion - after all, they had footage from over Europe - but it was probably less exciting from inside a B29 than a B17. The footage choice does seem slightly random though (and there's a B24 in there too, clouded in dust). The interviews are always worth watching/listening.
Iwo Jima was invaded not to build a fighter base or emergency landings for B29s. It was invaded to stop Japan from using it to send bombers that attacked Tinian. Once Iwo was secure B29s could safely use Tinian as an airfield.
The B-29's were beautiful birds!
Unless they were flying over you as the target
@@bman6065 that would be very unfortunate lol
best looker of the war........ after the french bombers obviously
Laughs in P-40WARHAWK
I was fortunate enough to witness the last two flying B-29s start their engines and taking off from a regional airport last year. I also met the real life Rosie the Riveter who was there as well. Once in lifetime experience!
The greatest generation.... I have nothing but the deepest respect and highest regard for everyone who served during World War 2
Respect for murderers?
@@furorteutonicus1197 stupid men and their stupid wars. And people congratulate certain sides for killing many innocent lives. So so so stupid
@@furorteutonicus1197 Cope
My father was the tail gunner on one of those B-29s flying from Tinian. Their crew flew 40+ missions over Japan. He retired from the Air Force as a Colonel & lived to the age of 94. We owe our lives & our freedom to the brave & courageous members of the Greatest Generation. 🇺🇸
My stepdad, Robert (Bob) Mather Weeks Lt. Cmmdr USN, was on Tinian. He was out in the Pacific in spring of 1942 for 18 months then went back again for almost 2 years. That's a very long time. He was 26 years old in 1942 and that made him seem like 40 compared to the young boys. Although he wasn't a grunt on the ground, he saw a lot of action in the sky. He somehow survived dozens of sorties, always bringing back his B-29, and all or most of his crew. I should add that he was a B-29 bomber pilot from the get go and was highly decorated. Have a great pic pic of him receiving the Silver Star from Admiral Halsey on carrier deck.
A big massive Salute to your Stepdad.
A War Hero and as time passes WW2 seems like a ancient period in human history.😊
3+ iocales simultaneously? Greatest generation indeed!
I read that the B-29s were faster than some of the Japanese fighters so these fighters only got one opportunity to attack.
Horsepower of Japanese engines were not powerful enough to catch up with B-29s because Japanese designers put priority on maneuverability rather than maxim velocity and Japanese industrial backwardness compared with the United States.
That is a myth. B-29 cruise speed was 220 mph. The problem with Japanese fighters was that they had too few of them and most just could not get up to the B-29's around 30,000 feet in time to intercept and fight effectively they were too lightly armed. Of course the US bombers started having so many issues (excessive winds over Japan, mechanical stress) in bombing at that altitude that they came down much lower which gave the Japanese a chance to intercept them more readily, hence the need for P-51 escorts.
@@hoodoo2001 B29 had a top speed of 365.. 220 was it's cruising speed.
Japanese airplanes were obsolete and the new ones were badly made due to a lack of quality parts due to the bombings.
@@Dejaelvicio0emiliomelendez5072 Japan`s war against the United States was unrealistic from thhe beginning judging from huge disrepancy of economic sizes and industrial standards between the two countries. As soon as US-Japan war broke out, Japan could overwhelm the United States temporarily thanks to her Zero fighters and talented pilots. But as the time went by, the US economic muscle could produce superior fighter planes in both qualitative and quantitative terms. It was manifest that Japan`s defeat was a matter of time from the beginning of war.
This old man is a legend. Thank you got your service and story!
C'mon. Stock footage from every theater of the war. Couple times 109 being shot down by fighters not bombers. Makes folks lose interest in the story.
Thank you for your service good sir. My grandfather served on the Arizona in the 1930s and on a suicide ship during the war. "Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
US had beef with Kobe
Ho ho, very good
Ugh!
Ok, I will give you that one. Ordinarily I hate humor associated with such a serious subject but that was good.
@@hoodoo2001 Serious subject? You're on RUclips, hal fa brain.
He shot down a Bf109 over Japan! How cool is that?
lol
Dads last mission was a weather recon of Nagasaki 2 hours before it was A-bombed. Single plane passages over Japanese cities seldom drew any AA fire or fighters. He said in his multi plane bombing missions the fighters would not enter a formation of B-29 bombers except to kamikaze the lead plane. They would stand off and try and lob 20 mm rounds but their aim at distance was very poor and they were not very experienced pilots in his opinion.
My grandma escaped from bombing attack by B29 at the Aomori City.
One problem the Japanese had was that the altitude at which the B29s flew. The fighters could not sustain enough speed at that altitude and the B29s were about as fast as the Japanese fighters. Their engines were not built for the very high altitudes and by that stage of the war Japanese industry was struggling.
When it became obvious that they couldn't hit anything from altitude General LeMay brought em down to 7,000 ft. They could be hit by everything at that altitude and the only saving grace was that Japanese AA was nowhere as good as was German AA.
Thank you
This video was very usefull for information on my videos thank you Smithsonian, now i know more about the b-29
When I arrived in Kobe harbor back in the mid-50s aboard the DD-845, the shipyards was STILL a pile of rusted steel girders and junk.
No wonder that ZERO got shot down so easily, with the under carriage down, it slows it down somewhat!
I had the privilege to go onboard a B-29 (Hawg Wild) I remember thinking it felt more like being in a submarine than an aircraft, for such a big plane it was pretty claustrophobic in there, same when I went in a Vulcan bomber. I also had a poke around inside a B-17 (Sally B) which seemed comparatively spacious inside. Also I noticed all the stations in the B-29 had dosimeters built in to the consoles, scary stuff.
very informative on b-29 i dont normally see videos on this topic
2:12 "japanese fighter headed right for them"
*shows one flying away*
My grand pa was a pilot B29.salute to them...
Take - off Was the most Critical time for the
B - 2 9 🛫, Crews and Pilots prayed that all 4 engines performed flawlessly 👍
A lot didn't make it up. The bomb on Enola gay wasn't armed until well out over the Pacific, for that reason . . .
Random footage even showing Bf 109E... Hmmm
Yeah, I guess the pilot couldn't navigate, but how he had enough juice to get to Japan remains a mystery.
Looks more like a C. 202 fighter
Kawasaki Ki-61
Oh yeah! could definitely be
@@TiborOriVonsmall Nope.
The bombing looks soo painful
That’s basically their entire point of existence
Ted Nugent: 'You Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you'.
@@ianwalton284 Shame on you!
Duh, it's bombing. Incredibly violent. It's supposed to be.
@@bluebear6570 cry about it and they deserved worse
Thank you👍🇳🇿
Nice video
Didn't know that BF109s and ME262s took part in the pacific.
Google Goin Jessie, that B-29 pilot passed away just three years ago. Great story 03:58
Thanks.
That's alot'a damage
Video was spliced together, and not particularly accurate for this raid. However, my uncles plane P9 is shown dropping bombs at 3:58
Brave men, greatest generation... Thank you gentleman.
Good Video/Info.
I thought North Field was exclusively the 419th bomb squadron. You know, atomic bombs and all that.
That's clearly an Me-109 at the 1.41 mark. Come on, Smith.
Your the best person to watch plane crash
At about 3:34 - 3:355, that's NOT a B29. It's only in the video for a second or so, but it looks more like an Avro Lancaster bomber, a great plane built by the Brits. The Lancaster was planned for possible use in the Pacific during summer 1945 (and maybe even as an alternative to the B29 for the atomic bombing missions, if the B29 wasn't able to handle the modifications to carry Little Boy and Fat Man), but in the end, it wasn't.
It's clearly a B-24. Only similarity to a Lancaster is 4 engines. But that said, there is a lot, I mean a lot visual inconsistencies in this.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。
It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.
it’s not even close to a lancaster
Dang that Japanese pilot was skilled for that late in the war .4 shots knocking out 2 engines
1:40 just pretend it's a Tony, not a Bf-109.
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。
It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.
Random German Bf-109 there at the 01:38 mark. Long way from the European Theatre of Operations so I suspect he's lost.
B-29s intercepted by Zeros that magically transform into Me-109s. I knew the Nazis had some high-tech stuff, but geez...
3:34 the crate that B-17s come in.
Sayonara, Kobe.
From what I read most Japanese fighters didn’t have guns powerful enough to bring down a B29. They could only stare at their cities burn and from their cockpit and they could do nothing.
That is not the case.
Aircraft are very thin skinned and even fighters with the relatively light (by late war standards) armament of most IJA or IJN air frames could cause enough damage to shoot down a B-29.
The primary issue for the areal defense of the Home Islands was detection. The IJA lacked any kind of centralized coordination of its air assets (by 1945 Japanese air assets were of minimal value as trained fighter pilots had become functionally extinct and the vast majority of air assets were dedicated to Kamikaze missions) and had view ways to detect incoming raids beyond one of the few fighter patrols running into the lead formations of a raid or ground observers using the MK 1 eyeball.
Japan failed on every level to protect it's cities from air attack, even as cities are being burned to ash the Imperial Government refused to begin evacuations of non-essential inhabitants, refused to even attempt to move industry, and refused to establish any kind of coordinated defense.
Absolute rubbish.
I just made a special stop in ABQ again to see the B-29 on display at the Nuclear Technology Museum. I'm completely in awe of the machine itself, and the tens of thousands on Americans who designed, built and used it to such decisive effect against the Empire of Japan. I read in a slim volume about the plane that each unit cost us 3.5 man years, but destroyed 50 man-years of Japanese infrastructure, giving the United States the best ROI of any weapons program of the war.
Sadly all of the WWII and Korean war vets in my family have died,all that I have left is the memory of the stories they told
It is said, mes amis, that sometime after the first B-29 aeroplatform did a low level recon-mission o'er Tokyo, mes amis, the Empress Nagako (the wife of Emperor Hirohito), wrote in a letter:
“Every day from morning to night, B-29's fly freely over the palace making an enormous noise. As I sit at my desk writing and look up at the sky, countless numbers are passing over. Unfortunately... the B-29 is a splendid plane.”
My father was in the Kobe raid.
I have a question: how many B29 bombers had been shot down?
Just right on the spot. I wonder did U.S. Navy ever react to their ships having been dive-bombed by their own Douglas Dauntless-bombers?
Visited Kobe in October last year. There are still shrapnel and bullet holes in some buildings.
My great uncle died about a year ago. He was in his late 90s until a few days before he died. He would still wake my aunt up. (His wife)screaming in his sleep about kazakamis, he was a tin tin all through the war.
Everybody carries scars from that damn war.
Too much confusion...ME-109, ME 262 and B-24 Liberators feature at various points...
I had Absolutely No idea that BF109 Messerschmitt’s operated in the Pacific theatre, let alone in defence of Major Japanese cities!!! Thank you Smithsonian Channel for Once again Teaching me something new!👍👍👍
I’m sure some snot nose 20 something put the video together. Probably has no idea what WWII was about or probably even cares. I noticed what is obviously a Messerschmitt and questioned if I was seeing things. I wasn’t
Wonder if there any bomber aces?
So this B-29 got on the six o'clock of a Bf 109 and shot it down over Japan. Sloppy.
Aeroperu flight 603 Please
Hastily trained and inexperienced Japanese pilots didn't have the savvy for evasive combat maneuvers. The Zero was a lot more capable of difficult maneuvers in the hands of an experienced combat pilot.
Probably wasted their good pilots in kamikaze attacks
@@Jleed989 That should definitely be considered in that equation.
Zeros? I would have guessed it would be the JAAF defending Kobe.
@@Jleed989 no they trained people to be kamikaze pilot. It was rarely experienced combat pilots since they were to valuable to throw away.
@@Jleed989 kamikaze attacks probably cost less lives per sunk ship than regular torpedo/bombing runs
shout out to the camera man
The shot at 1:45 is of a B-17's bomb bay doors! Ooops!
*B-29
@@tylerschroeder3722 nope.. B-17
Plus picture of a B-24
'...we were aiming for the Steel Mill...in the South Central part of the city.' The entire city was mercilessly bombed and burned to the ground day after day. They...got the Steel Mill.
Yea, its called war. It was time to take the gloves off by that time. America wanted to end war and were prepared to bomb the country back to the stone age. Its easy to express moral outage 70 years later, my late father fought in the Pacific during WW2. The Japanese were brutal enemies and they weren't giving up easily.
@@artistaprimus7080 same were the germans but treated in a different way. even the bombing of their cities cannot hide this. never ever would the atomic bomb have been used against the germans.
@@jeannotschumacher1024 Consider this. Some of the engineers that worked on the bomb were Germans that defected. If Hitler had got the bomb first, he most certainly would have used it. London was the most likely target because they were already sending V 2 rockets there. But, there wasn't a reason the use the bomb on Germany because it was already being bombed night and day with terrible effect. Plus, Russia had already invaded Germany and defeat was just a matter if time. On the other hand, Japan was remote and had to being bombed from a long distance. The Allies were planning an invasion and estimated a million Allied casualties to conquer Japan. Once the Allies started the Manhattan Project they were committed to creating the weapon and using it. A two billion dollar investment for a single weapon in 1945 was unheard of at that time. War is horrible and cruel and there's no way to change that. But, we weren't there in 1945 to feel the loss of loved ones. My late father served in WW2 and he suffered emotionally all his life. Should a nuclear weapon ever be used again? I pray not.
@@artistaprimus7080 everything true but not the whole truth. they would not and you know why.
I think a German ME109 snuck into the battle at 1:37.
Had they sneak them all the way over there?
1:40 does look like a Bf 109.
Edit: Other people pointed it out already. :)
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。
It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.
For the Japanese fighter attacking the B-29, the video shows two different planes - one at time 2:33 and the other at time 2:35! Then the second one bursts into a flame.
The second one shows its landing gear!! Will a Japanese fighter engaged in a fight will have its landing gear down???
Is that a Junkers Ju 87 Stuka by any chance? Never heard Stuka used by the Japanese!!!
Regardless the video seems to be royally fouled up!! Didn't expect that from a Smithsonian video!!!
@@filster1934 The Ki-27 wouldn't have been able to fly to the altitudes the B29s bombed from. It's stock footage of a Val that they just spliced in to spice things up. Just like the color footage of the green Zero or Zeke (couldn't tell which) being shot down. Don't think I've ever heard of a B-29 dogfighting a fighter and chasing it down from behind. It's just really lazy editing.
@@filster1934 That's interesting. Didn't know the Japanese had a Stuka-like aircraft. When I visited the museum at Yasukuni Shrine in 2019, don't remember seeing any pictures or any other mention of it there.
According to Wikipedia, it was built from 1937 - so it wasn't that old then. However, you may be quite right, they may have used such aircraft in desperation and it probably didn't matter much for Kamakazi attacks.
Thanks for pointing it out!
Most likely an early Nakajima or Mitsubishi with fixed landning gear or a trainer. They still used the older types with fixed landing gear 1941 and 1942 in many places because of their good in advanced maneuvers and fight well against Dutch Brewster Buffalo and US or British Curtiss P40 of early variants.
Where is the fighter escort?
Found some film on the cutting room floor and pieced it together. So many errors in that it's not funny. Me 109 being an obvious one. And the fact the B29 can engage in dogfights...apparently.
On that day the target was not the steel mill. It was a random firebombing. So the narration is as 'accurate' as the footage used for it.
By that time Japanese pilots were inexperienced lucky for the crew
戦争なんてやるもんじゃないな…
RIP
広島・長崎人体実験でした！ 戦争が早く終わりそうだから 原子爆弾の人体実験実行したのです。 戦後広島の被爆者少女を助ける治療をする 偽りの治療で少女が被ばくで死んでいく過程を 記録して死ぬと臓器を取り出しアメリカに 持ち帰りました！ 真珠湾攻撃では、日本のパイロットは、民間人を攻撃しませんでした！ 軍事施設に限定した爆撃です。米軍は、 広島・長崎・大阪・東京など無差別民間人を狙った大殺戮である。
It was a human experiment in Hiroshima and Nagasaki! The war was about to end soon, so we conducted a human experiment on the atomic bomb. Treating a girl who helped an A-bomb survivor in Hiroshima after the war Recorded the process of a girl dying of exposure by false treatment, and when she died, she took out her organs and took them back to the United States! In pearl harbor attack, Japanese pilots did not attack civilians! It is a bombing limited to military facilities. The U.S. military is a massacre targeting indiscriminate civilians in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Osaka, Tokyo, and other areas.
America lost aboutish 500 B29's bombing Japan. Interestingly, about 150 Due to artillery and fighters, About 300 due to engine fires and mechanical failure, the rest for other reasons.
War is all crime.
I'm no expert. Never flown a B29 or any bomber. But that one plane with its bombs tumbling out... I doubt seriously they hit their target. Unless Japan was always the target, I guess they hit it.
Excited to WW3
I like how some Germans made their way to Japan to help the Japanese beat back the USAF.
Not only a shift in space, but a shift in time. Those rascally Nazi's!
(USAF wasn't created until 1947...before then it was USAAF (Army Air Forces:))
Might of been a Val dive bomber
Nate from early footage. They were replaced by Oscars by '43.
多くの非戦闘員を死に追いやった爆撃機。
紛れも無い事実。
Apparently, the Smithsonian thinks showing air-to-air hits on a Me 109 is the same as a B-29 shooting at Japanese fighters. Lousy editing.
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Most combat shots were of fighters on fighters, even some Stukas in there. Interesting story but footage not believable.
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Bro finna bring multiple suns in the japanese land
My grandfather worked in the plants building the bombers, I remember when I was 6 maybe 7 he showed me pictures of him when he was young. I worked for bell helicopters before going into law enforcement, I miss my grandpa this video got me teared up cause I don't want.to forget my grandpa ..RIP
We're there really fixed undercarriage fighters which fly at B29 altitudes?
"Were" not "We are"
@@cjwilliams8350 quite right. Were.
The video makers just used whatever stock footage of Japanese planes they had, even if it was not from a B-29 mission.
I would have expected more from getting Smith Sonia.
Rumors of the B-29, which would cruise at altitudes at which no German aircraft could comfortably operate, added impetus for a dedicated high-altitude design. Thus, Nazi Germany requested proposals of such planes. Focke-Wulf with their Ta 152, and Messerschmitt with their BF 109H.
IJAAF managed to acquire the necessaries of the Ta 152. During the impending collapse of Nazi Germany, with Japan's air power growing ever bleaker, the Germans had to give or sell the remaining aviation technology to Japan in hopes of stalling the Allied advance of the Japanese home islands.
Third grade level video splicing and narration.
Some of the footage is of German aircraft over Germany ??
Why why
Salute for Air fighters 👍.
Wikipedia is just Great!
1:40 casual bf 109...
Kawasaki Ki-61
@@TiborOriVonsmall m8 you can just make out the iron cross on the side of the plane. Also look at the shape of the fuselage, it’s distinctively a and 109
What is this hotch potch mix match of videos with someone narrating from the present whio is trying to describe some distant time.
It is now ( 2021 ) as far from 1981 as 1981 was to 1939.
“target” or civilian in other word