how beautiful war can be :`( :) one of the best il2 vids ive ever seen!!! subsribed you. :) did you use mods, can someonetell me with what programm have you recordet and edit it?:))
@JaguarKinG95 He used Fraps to record the footage. He either used Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional or Adobe Premire Professional 7.0 to edit the clips and VirtualDub to compress the megabyte size of the video.
Great video editing. Have you ever played B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth? I think it's neck and neck with combat flight sim quality, maybe better graphics.
idk i didn't see the B-17's shooting back. I've played IL-2 and i know if you put any US heavy bomber above retarded ai lvl the gunners will shred you alive.
Impressive video. I liked the ominous environment at the beginning with the garbled FDR radio speech and the big band music seguing into Johnny B. Goode (admittedly incorrect era, but effective). I was most impressed with how the entire video resembled actual WWII-era film, black and white graininess and all. I was amazed to read this was accomplished with the IL-2 game. Did you make special modifications to the game or was the IL-2 game completely stock? Thanks for posting!
i was going to mention the Johnny B good (the rock song in the beginning) would be from the wrong era at first. I think it might have been a artistic choice but i think that song is from the late 50's early 60's, so it might fit more with B-52's (damn that bird's been flying a long time)
Theres 11+ men in each of the Flying Forts, they know that the air force expects them to live only 3-4 flying missions, and most of them are under 25. The bravery of soldiers in WW2 was inconcievavble. Evreyone knew the superiority of a Tiger over a Sherman, or any Allied tank, yet still they went against them. How a man, that just made it into adaulthood, probably has a girlfriend waiting at home, and knows how badly the favour is stacked in the enemies favour still goes and fights is amazing.
The Tiger tank wasn't so superior when the average odds on the battlefield were 40 Shermans to 4 Tigers. Similiarly the Bf 109 wasn't so great against the B-17 when it was 300 B-17s versus 60 Bf 109s.
The king tiger was almost to heavy for a tank easy to bomb. If you want to win a war you have to have airsupperiority! The germans have the best planes but far to less then the allies that is why germany lost good but to little.
the problem with the tiger wasnt the engine, it had a MASSIVE engine, its just that it was sooo heavy, some had massive side sheets as well as the regular armor.
Luftwaffe was a joke after America joined in, but to them it was national pride. You can't say they sucked, because they didn't. They were good at what they were supposed to do. Blitz. And blitzing relies on bombing suplies and strong spots in the front line.
Mustangs were good but they didnt beat the Luftwaffe, and the RAF played a huge role in defeating the Luftwaffe...
But both USAAF and RAF had preaty minor roles compared to the Red Air Force, and the strafing of german airfields came at overlord, probably destroying only 300 planes
I think you mean long range escorts, because they had some great Fighter planes. The spitfire, Hurricane.
The hurricane is my personal favorite. I use it often in CFS III the 4 cannons shred other planes and can easily destroy destroyers and transport craft in the English channel. It is slow and less agile than the spitfire but it can also carry larger payloads.
"Evilone5234, Nazi Germany started to giving up only in 1945, after 2 yrs of bombing!" Germany is a small country... and the US was never bombed, now was it.
Honors and remebership to the brave Pilots of the 8th US-Airforce, flying over an huge area with tousands of enemy fighter plans and flak posiotions......But.......also Honor to our brave german fighter pilots, starting again every day against an much more well equipped enemy in larger numbers to protect their home Country.....Honor to all Pilots of all Nations serving their country in WW2 !!!
to be honest both the daylight and night bombing campaigns where not as effective as people like to believe
noticed how bombing by night bombers only hardned peoples resolve to fight harder, take the battle of britian for example during the blitz it just made us fight harder and resist
day bombing was just as ineffective since by the time american bombers came most of german industry was building its war machine underground safe from bombing
Bombing proved to be not much of the threat to civilians anymore after they're used to it.
Example: Britain 1940, the city was bombed everyday and it was like a routine to the civilians because they're used to it, they know how to deal with it
So you would have approved if Germany had won, and continued their own atrocities? The Holocaust lasted but for a few years, give it 60, and the world would be in a sorry state.
The Third Reich could have been destroyed without incinerating the civilian population of Dresden in the closing days of the war. The "writing was on the wall" in 1945. Buring the city of Dresden was unnecessary.
actually they can look at the wings of the 109's they have 2 Mk 108 gunpods those are 30mm (configuration U5 for the Bf-109 G6 inside the game)+ 1 MG151/20 *20mm* firing trough the propeller, what you may want to check is the IA and iff all B17's are fully loaded cuz I see some of them arent firng and the 109's are getting way too close to the formation, have a nice day
22,000 pounds? That didn't happen til 1945 with the specially modified Lanc's and the grand slam bomb of which only 41 were dropped.
The 17 was 5 and a half years before the Lanc.-(still respect it, just don't like you bashing 17's) and was a forerunner to the B-29. Remember that one? It ended the damn war and proved it could carry two grand slams.
That was for the grandslam, the Tall Boy did not require modification, and two could be carried...other than that, 4000-12,000 pound Cookies could be carried...
I wouldn't say the B-29 ended the war...Japan was on its knees at the time, and the third Reich had collapsed...on top of that, the two bombs really just needed a testing ground; Nonetheless, the B-29 still didn't cause as much damage as the Lancaster, overall.
Any idea how many POW's Japan held/would have killed as food became scarce prior to the planned invasion (Op. Downfall)? These weren't just American POW's either.
Keep your Lancaster if that is your nationality/plane. The more rugged B-17 was flying over Europe with more men and ammo (figure that in damage counts)than most bombers when no other American big bomber was available. Winston welcomed a lifeline, you on the other hand enjoy pissing up a rope.
Visit France and see the ground us "mercenaries" permanently took after helping you and France push back the Germans. (hint) It's been renamed "Normandy American Cemetery." Would you like to trade those lives/your little airbase for all the bases in Northern France that Germany was using to terrorize London?
And then came the terror attacks, no? V1's and V2 rockets. What bunker never to be completed in Eperlecques, France are you now going to dismiss as an inconsequential outcome of the joint Allied invasion at Normandy that your previous countrymen seemed none to proud to spill their blood along side the American "mercenaries?"
Grr, my point is, without being sidetracked by irrelevance, is the the Lancaster was a far greater, more successful aircraft than the B-17.
The V2 was barely used and the V1 was hardly a threat, considering it could be intercepted. Britain would still hold even after further attack from Nazi Germany; the US has proven in the Vietnam war, and was further backed by Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, that a world superpower cannot occupy a small country that doesn't want it there.
Grr, my point is it sounds to me like you didn't want Americans there either. "Mercenaries?"...come on.
The Lancaster flew mostly at night and used newly pioneered radar (nice technology Britain) to hit the target. The B-17 flew during the day and brought up many fighters- more actively engaging German planes and pilots. Yeah, the Lancaster carried more, but the OLDER 17, relied on the very accurate Norden bomb sight and needed that armament if it was going to make it to/hit the target.
Not having Americans around would waste more human life, surely, even if they were payed to be there. Being paid to intervene is the role of a mercinary.
Immense accuracy, arguably from the Norden, would defeat the object of area bombing with thousend aircraft raids...for tactical bombing, we had the Mosquito, which could carry just about as much as a B-17 usually did...
Mosquito, probably a finer plane than the Lancaster. Like the B-17 (which could carry up to 17,500 pounds of bombs) or any plane for that matter stuffed with ordinance, range begins to suffer unless extra fuel is somehow added.
With that in mind, what WWII plane was capable of carrying 20,500 pounds of bombs in a 3600 mile mission- double the combat radius of the Lancaster carrying 14,000 pounds?
Ans. The B 29.
BTW Japan didn't want to be occupied either but look how well that went.
And quit with the Destroyers for Bases/mercenaries argument. I didn't expect you to have anything good to say about WWII America, but so goes the nature of one ally's arguments. 99 years lease are almost up though. Maybe by some strange twist 33 years from now one of them will end up converted to a cemetery. Have you considered cremation or burial yet?
wanna drive a jeep (b 17 XD) try b17 FF the might eight, little old and graphic not the state of art, but really complicate crew and airplane management.. realistic norden bombsight aiming and belive me a giant map (3/4 of england whole germny and france and north
italy) with a lot of targets .. you can also pilot p51,38,47; 109', 190' and the 262' if you want with, evry aircraft have the manual start up sequance (if you want) and a lot of working stuffs in cockpit ^^
I actually loved the fight scene music! Come on people, it could have been worse. He could have just through in Linkin Park like so many other videos here on YouTube.
And the B-36 'Peacemaker'? It was the TRUE Nuclear Bomber, unlike that s of a b 29...
Never dropped a nuke in anger, but still by far the best bomber of the 1900's era. (Famous for itsa 1950 crash resulting in the first lost nuke of the world.)
sry but i love the music, its like a reality/what they make u think thing, the what they make u think part is the WW2 music, calmer, more in the mod, happy, then the grizzly reality of war, death, destruction, suffering, witch rock makes feal a lot better, try puting some WW2 music where u got the air battle part
muy buen video amigoo
akiles26111983 7 months ago
at 1.37 rockn'roll is absolutely wrong. it was just next decade.
jarviscockerspaniel 11 months ago
great video, i love IL-2 serie
(but "Johnny B. Goode" is anachronistic ;-)
yaglourt 1 year ago
Il2 has been out for almost 10 years now and still has the standard benchmark in ww2 flight simming.
matrox 1 year ago
excellant! Better than the Memphis Belle movie, by far!
legioXXXtraiana 1 year ago
damn this was nice!! btw if you want, you check out my squadrons new b17 movie.
w-w-w-youtube(dot)com/watch?v=icO_LukbaU4&feature=player_embedded
alelalle 1 year ago
how beautiful war can be :`( :) one of the best il2 vids ive ever seen!!! subsribed you. :) did you use mods, can someonetell me with what programm have you recordet and edit it?:))
JaguarKinG95 1 year ago
@JaguarKinG95 He used Fraps to record the footage. He either used Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional or Adobe Premire Professional 7.0 to edit the clips and VirtualDub to compress the megabyte size of the video.
Hope that helped.
upinfection 1 year ago
I got a very bad headache after watching this film.
Tomekwinxs 1 year ago
Very nice post production.
jb42682 1 year ago
Great video editing. Have you ever played B-17 Flying Fortress: The Mighty Eighth? I think it's neck and neck with combat flight sim quality, maybe better graphics.
Horn0816 1 year ago
pls name song 1:24
TheDzigi94 1 year ago
@TheDzigi94 johnny be good
carnage2681 1 year ago
@carnage2681 Thx :D
TheDzigi94 1 year ago
Better than any game intro I have ever seen!
vetitoe362 1 year ago
Man, you should do a "refit" of this great Video in Il2-1946 with the newest effect mods....this would look twice as epic as this !
carnage2681 1 year ago
really like the chuck berry ten years before it was recorded...
Putaspellonyou 1 year ago
idk i didn't see the B-17's shooting back. I've played IL-2 and i know if you put any US heavy bomber above retarded ai lvl the gunners will shred you alive.
jinto1980 1 year ago
@jinto1980 yeah its a bitch, seems like your miles away, and the gunners are already putting holes in your cannopy xD
ChaplainDMK 1 year ago
Impressive. It looks like the old newsreels!
centurion180ad 1 year ago
Klasse gemacht!
MrBeob8er 1 year ago
Bravo! Encore, encore!
Excedrine 1 year ago
Good video but after thai wantet to see targert on fire
baltuxx 1 year ago
Moin Gott, das Video ist Kunst!
I love it, I see it again and again.
hoover1945 1 year ago
johnny be good in 1943?
eloelo1984 1 year ago 2
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longhoorisch 2 years ago
@longhoorisch
TOPCAMERMAN 2 years ago
how do i fly a b-17 in an flight simulator game and be able to fight and do missions
killphilandnicky 2 years ago
wow
you fail
Which game? Some games have em default others you have to download em. And to fight and do missions? PRESS THE BUTTON THAT LETS YOU DO IT.
Arc9er 1 year ago
What an absolutely brilliant video!
FlyFreebirdYeah 2 years ago 15
@FlyFreebirdYeah Yeah - this is astoundingly good.
deino117 1 year ago
best vide out there!!!awesome!!
plavins1 2 years ago
G-R-E-A-T VIDEO!!!!!!The music goes percectly with the video,nice part at the beginning,exactly like 1943,amazing video,just amazing
bob75ify 2 years ago
Holy crap, that was amazing.
Tabby266 2 years ago
man that is so boring awsome!!!!! by that i meant good
blackcat48910 2 years ago 2
AWESOME!
captainnickface 2 years ago
greatest il 2 vid ive ever seen
HeroeofVio 2 years ago
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very nice! 5/5
finnboy95 2 years ago 4
That was so impressively realistic looking. Great job making it the way you did.
SpaceAgeDiaper 2 years ago
Impressive video. I liked the ominous environment at the beginning with the garbled FDR radio speech and the big band music seguing into Johnny B. Goode (admittedly incorrect era, but effective). I was most impressed with how the entire video resembled actual WWII-era film, black and white graininess and all. I was amazed to read this was accomplished with the IL-2 game. Did you make special modifications to the game or was the IL-2 game completely stock? Thanks for posting!
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please anyon3e can tell me wherecan get FREE this amazing game???
FabianMarzluf 2 years ago
Dunno, but it's cheap now........just buy it
helimeal 2 years ago
Great vid, good work!
AsC257 2 years ago
Beautiful, lol, but it is.
TheMusicRockstar 2 years ago
Where can I find this flight simulator? I want to fly the B-17.
petey52488 2 years ago
I hate to ruin your hopes, but the B-17 isn't a flyable model in the game.
WolfKiessel 2 years ago
You must download a patch than is flyable. =)
AMIRE360 2 years ago
Which patch? Wolfkiessel says it is not flyable? A link would help. :)
petey52488 2 years ago
Ehm you can buy Il-2 1946 than is fly able or IL2-FB patch (1.22).
AMIRE360 2 years ago
Hey, thanks. Can't wait to try it out!
petey52488 2 years ago
but how then did he make this vid?
Latvietis96 2 years ago
you can fly the b17 if you install mods from allaircraftarcade(.)com
RebelliousLeader1995 2 years ago
Sorry fail plane its not the B-17 i mean B-25.
Sorry =)
AMIRE360 2 years ago
That sucks. The B-25 has two engines, not four like the B-17. How was this video made then with a B-17?
petey52488 2 years ago
Those are AI planes, the game is controlling them.
If you get the AAA mod it is flyable, I think it is great.
colodiamondback 2 years ago
Tolles Video!!!!!!!!!
derfronk1984 2 years ago
WOW It´s a beautiful Video
W4T3RCR4C3R 2 years ago
hey i know the sounds in the beginning (roosevelt...) they are from the Game "Fighter squadron -screaming demons over europe"...cool vid 5 stars
YipYipo 2 years ago
Seriously, is that computer graphics. Excellent video.......good game, never bought IL2
Anglashock 2 years ago
no its not it edited but the game look great to
Aaidas2 2 years ago
almost video!!! om so good
tabbyjones78 2 years ago
Fantastic video!
la5squadron 2 years ago
Hey wow, what program did you use for recording?
RomanticGothderechte 2 years ago
It's an ongoing argument...0_0
colodiamondback 2 years ago
I'm SOOOOOOOOO glad I moved on from CFS3 to IL-2. unbeleivable improvement.
colodiamondback 2 years ago
Outstanding editing. Well done.
pearzzz 2 years ago
that was amazing,
very well put together
i want this game now
Stickman550 2 years ago
.... Just beautiful work, great job... the filters, the clipping, I just can't imagine how much time you spent on this... keep it up
alecservoski 2 years ago
One of the best vids on youtube great work
Harry521 2 years ago
are you using a mod?
immortal4942 2 years ago
Great video
sometimes it looks like real ww2 footage.
mcFURIOUS1 2 years ago
Künstlerisch wertvoll !
Ibinausminga 2 years ago
you make like real history.
blackmaskboy 2 years ago
Nice Work! excellent movie.
what's the song called at 3:43
Timmie1000 2 years ago
Oh, wait
it's in the credits
Timmie1000 2 years ago
Apocalyptica - Hope
highlander3500 2 years ago
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Timmie1000 2 years ago
nice job 10/10
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shutup735 3 years ago
i cant find B-17 in IL-2 Sturmovik 1946, Help?
StrongOneX 3 years ago
I wish there would be a movie made half as good as this on, it would then be twice as good as any WWII air combat movie ever made, hehe
HardIce69 3 years ago
n i c e
xtomx321 3 years ago
in witch il2 it gives B17
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(please watch my video and rate it)
19mumus89 3 years ago
Impressive movie there, i enjoyed all of it.
Fastbikkel 3 years ago
nice
Kupferstecher2007 3 years ago
Genial when i first time watch this movie it have only 5000 views :P
smiglo22 3 years ago
i was going to mention the Johnny B good (the rock song in the beginning) would be from the wrong era at first. I think it might have been a artistic choice but i think that song is from the late 50's early 60's, so it might fit more with B-52's (damn that bird's been flying a long time)
DEFkon001 3 years ago
Hi DrPlankton
OMG that was epic,just like watching a real film.
How do you get those amazing camera angles?
5*****
Respect:D
Keith..
CheckMySix 3 years ago
nice job
Tsambo67 3 years ago
Theres 11+ men in each of the Flying Forts, they know that the air force expects them to live only 3-4 flying missions, and most of them are under 25. The bravery of soldiers in WW2 was inconcievavble. Evreyone knew the superiority of a Tiger over a Sherman, or any Allied tank, yet still they went against them. How a man, that just made it into adaulthood, probably has a girlfriend waiting at home, and knows how badly the favour is stacked in the enemies favour still goes and fights is amazing.
ChaplainDMK 3 years ago 3
The Tiger tank wasn't so superior when the average odds on the battlefield were 40 Shermans to 4 Tigers. Similiarly the Bf 109 wasn't so great against the B-17 when it was 300 B-17s versus 60 Bf 109s.
timonsolus 3 years ago 4
Thats the idea of numbers...
1 tiger vs 4 shermans
only 1 sherman will get out alive
ChaplainDMK 3 years ago 9
more than 1 if they move and shoot tiger didn't aiming sight 4 a moveing target like sherman
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
The tiger had 1,4 kilometers to hit the sherman, the tiger was usualy hiding on a vantage point crewed by the most crack SS tank crews...
Shermans gyro-stabilizors dont make them harder to hit -_-
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
@ChaplainDMK 40.000 Shermans built, 1000 Tiger 1 built = fair deal.
GendPzTrSchmidt 1 year ago
@GendPzTrSchmidt 50,000 were built
sciencefreak2402 1 year ago
@ChaplainDMK depends on where they fight
1987jkilla 1 year ago
yes only big distance the tiger was the best.
The king tiger was almost to heavy for a tank easy to bomb. If you want to win a war you have to have airsupperiority! The germans have the best planes but far to less then the allies that is why germany lost good but to little.
Kalenichtenneuker 3 years ago
Allies won by mass production. Germans had air superiority until the rest of the world joined in on dday.
King tiger used an too weak engine.
Tactics during dday were to hide from planes using camo. With some succes. But it sucks. You can't beat spam.
samipso 3 years ago
the problem with the tiger wasnt the engine, it had a MASSIVE engine, its just that it was sooo heavy, some had massive side sheets as well as the regular armor.
mckseal 3 years ago
tiger engine just fine it the transmission that was ment 4 lighter tanks that sucked
DAKOTA56777 2 years ago
Where did you hear that?
Germans didnt have air superiority against the western allies since late 42', and the luftwaffa was decimated on the russian front.
And many german planes were inferior to the allied Mustangs and Jugs, altough the Me262 was preaty good altough mostly used in anti bomber missions.
German bombers were a disgrace... Totaly specialised for blitzkrieg, very ineffective for anything more then bombing enemy formations
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
Hear what?
Luftwaffe was a joke after America joined in, but to them it was national pride. You can't say they sucked, because they didn't. They were good at what they were supposed to do. Blitz. And blitzing relies on bombing suplies and strong spots in the front line.
samipso 2 years ago
America had little to do with destroying the luftwaffe, most of the credit (like most things in WW2) goes to the russians, alot to the brits too.
By the time US joined the war the Lufftwaffe was limping badly...
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
You said it yourself. The mustangs just murdered them.
Before the mustangs they were not out matched alot. Just out numbered.
Plus, the only real blow came when allies decided to strafe german airfields, destroying planes before they could take off.
RAF had not much to do with air combat before america gave them the mustangs and other heavy fighters.
samipso 2 years ago
Mustangs were good but they didnt beat the Luftwaffe, and the RAF played a huge role in defeating the Luftwaffe...
But both USAAF and RAF had preaty minor roles compared to the Red Air Force, and the strafing of german airfields came at overlord, probably destroying only 300 planes
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
300 planes is not just a few. And not just planes were lost. They disabled complete airfields.
Before the mustang RAF didn't have long distance fighters. Just bombers.
samipso 2 years ago
Before the Rolls Royce Merlin the P51 was crap...
And 300 is very little considering the allies had 10000 planes
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
The Germans didn't have 10000 planes. Especially not at that time. Strafing delivered the final blow to the luftwaffe.
samipso 2 years ago
The allies had 10000 planes...
300 vs 10.000...
Figure out the odds yourself
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
Do you ever read before posting a comment?
I didn't even mention a 300 against 10000 odd.
You're mixing up made-up destroyed planes with made-up allied planes.
samipso 2 years ago
"The Germans didn't have 10000 planes. Especially not at that time. Strafing delivered the final blow to the luftwaffe. "
2 posts down
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
If you'd actually read it then you'd know i didn't compare the two.
samipso 2 years ago
I said germans had 300 planes and allies had 10000 planes, you said germans didnt have 10000 planes...
Whats wrong in this picture?
ChaplainDMK 2 years ago
@samipso
I think you mean long range escorts, because they had some great Fighter planes. The spitfire, Hurricane.
The hurricane is my personal favorite. I use it often in CFS III the 4 cannons shred other planes and can easily destroy destroyers and transport craft in the English channel. It is slow and less agile than the spitfire but it can also carry larger payloads.
jinto1980 1 year ago
Accurate number is 20 shermans versus 1 tiger. But they deployed on so many.
But you can't compare tanks with bombers and fighters.
Bombers have guns all over them. It takes time to kill them. But i am stating the obvious here..
samipso 3 years ago
"Evilone5234, Nazi Germany started to giving up only in 1945, after 2 yrs of bombing!" Germany is a small country... and the US was never bombed, now was it.
TheAircobra 3 years ago 2
Honors and remebership to the brave Pilots of the 8th US-Airforce, flying over an huge area with tousands of enemy fighter plans and flak posiotions......But.......also Honor to our brave german fighter pilots, starting again every day against an much more well equipped enemy in larger numbers to protect their home Country.....Honor to all Pilots of all Nations serving their country in WW2 !!!
carnage2681 3 years ago 4
I fully support your speech!
Regards, Flight Leiutant Berrisford!
(I am a RAF Typhoon Fighter Pilot)
keithcoaches 3 years ago
Evilone5234, Nazi Germany started to giving up only in 1945, after 2 yrs of bombing!
Robby92xx 3 years ago
Very great vid
Super vidéo
RedCoka 3 years ago
I thought the video was realy good till the music started playing.the first was all low sound and eery kinda kreepie and cool
skippers96 3 years ago
to be honest both the daylight and night bombing campaigns where not as effective as people like to believe
noticed how bombing by night bombers only hardned peoples resolve to fight harder, take the battle of britian for example during the blitz it just made us fight harder and resist
day bombing was just as ineffective since by the time american bombers came most of german industry was building its war machine underground safe from bombing
bombing was really a show of hitting back
creamycurdy 3 years ago
It made the civilians want to give up...
Who wants to have a 250+ pound bomb land on their face?
Evilone5234 3 years ago
did us Brits give up when Hitler bombed us no it didnt just made us fight harder
creamycurdy 3 years ago
Bombing proved to be not much of the threat to civilians anymore after they're used to it.
Example: Britain 1940, the city was bombed everyday and it was like a routine to the civilians because they're used to it, they know how to deal with it
xyzwl000 3 years ago
a very good point, iff my house was bombed i would want to kick the person responsible up the arse
creamycurdy 3 years ago
fantastic!
sirius0931 3 years ago
Nice Video
Dinny77 3 years ago
Excuse me? I don't own any 'bragging rights', since I didn't fight in World War II.
However, the Lancaster did, undeniably, cause more damage than any other.
Ahem, Dresdon, anyone?
megamushroom07 3 years ago
That's pathetic how you brag about an atrocity like the bombing of Dresden.
Fpseth 3 years ago
Such atrocities destroyed the Third Reich.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
yeah, and the world is so much better now because of it.
The winners write the History books
Fpseth 3 years ago
So you would have approved if Germany had won, and continued their own atrocities? The Holocaust lasted but for a few years, give it 60, and the world would be in a sorry state.
Find a better place to express your Neo-Nazism.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
The Third Reich could have been destroyed without incinerating the civilian population of Dresden in the closing days of the war. The "writing was on the wall" in 1945. Buring the city of Dresden was unnecessary.
jdoernte 3 years ago 4
AWESOME CLIP ;)
REALLY GOOD!!!!!
Kann es sein der letzte Song von Subway oder ähnlichem ist?
spillerxxxxx 3 years ago
Wow!! Very good video althought I don't think yuo could have shot down a B-17 so easily
Robby92xx 3 years ago
actually they can look at the wings of the 109's they have 2 Mk 108 gunpods those are 30mm (configuration U5 for the Bf-109 G6 inside the game)+ 1 MG151/20 *20mm* firing trough the propeller, what you may want to check is the IA and iff all B17's are fully loaded cuz I see some of them arent firng and the 109's are getting way too close to the formation, have a nice day
waffmann 3 years ago
you could have with 30 MM
takes about 2 shots
xyzwl000 3 years ago
very nice job
Amazing how some of the clips looks like real life footage
EightOneGulf 3 years ago 2
Meh, Lancaster beats this any day.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
Meh, Lancaster beats this any XXX NIGHT, not day.
RSBejmls 3 years ago
The Lancaster had a payload of 22,000 pounds. The B-17 usually carried 7000.
The Lancaster caused more damage than any other aircraft.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
22,000 pounds? That didn't happen til 1945 with the specially modified Lanc's and the grand slam bomb of which only 41 were dropped.
The 17 was 5 and a half years before the Lanc.-(still respect it, just don't like you bashing 17's) and was a forerunner to the B-29. Remember that one? It ended the damn war and proved it could carry two grand slams.
RSBejmls 3 years ago
That was for the grandslam, the Tall Boy did not require modification, and two could be carried...other than that, 4000-12,000 pound Cookies could be carried...
I wouldn't say the B-29 ended the war...Japan was on its knees at the time, and the third Reich had collapsed...on top of that, the two bombs really just needed a testing ground; Nonetheless, the B-29 still didn't cause as much damage as the Lancaster, overall.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
"Just needed a testing ground"?
Any idea how many POW's Japan held/would have killed as food became scarce prior to the planned invasion (Op. Downfall)? These weren't just American POW's either.
Keep your Lancaster if that is your nationality/plane. The more rugged B-17 was flying over Europe with more men and ammo (figure that in damage counts)than most bombers when no other American big bomber was available. Winston welcomed a lifeline, you on the other hand enjoy pissing up a rope.
RSBejmls 3 years ago
More men and more ammo does not exceed the payload of the Lancaster, and a 'lifeline' cost a 99 year airbase loan.
Mercenaries, you could say.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
Only 99 years?
Visit France and see the ground us "mercenaries" permanently took after helping you and France push back the Germans. (hint) It's been renamed "Normandy American Cemetery." Would you like to trade those lives/your little airbase for all the bases in Northern France that Germany was using to terrorize London?
orcstr8d 3 years ago
The Battle of Britain had ended by the time America intervened.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
And then came the terror attacks, no? V1's and V2 rockets. What bunker never to be completed in Eperlecques, France are you now going to dismiss as an inconsequential outcome of the joint Allied invasion at Normandy that your previous countrymen seemed none to proud to spill their blood along side the American "mercenaries?"
orcstr8d 3 years ago
Grr, my point is, without being sidetracked by irrelevance, is the the Lancaster was a far greater, more successful aircraft than the B-17.
The V2 was barely used and the V1 was hardly a threat, considering it could be intercepted. Britain would still hold even after further attack from Nazi Germany; the US has proven in the Vietnam war, and was further backed by Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, that a world superpower cannot occupy a small country that doesn't want it there.
megamushroom07 3 years ago
Grr, my point is it sounds to me like you didn't want Americans there either. "Mercenaries?"...come on.
The Lancaster flew mostly at night and used newly pioneered radar (nice technology Britain) to hit the target. The B-17 flew during the day and brought up many fighters- more actively engaging German planes and pilots. Yeah, the Lancaster carried more, but the OLDER 17, relied on the very accurate Norden bomb sight and needed that armament if it was going to make it to/hit the target.
orcstr8d 3 years ago
Not having Americans around would waste more human life, surely, even if they were payed to be there. Being paid to intervene is the role of a mercinary.
Immense accuracy, arguably from the Norden, would defeat the object of area bombing with thousend aircraft raids...for tactical bombing, we had the Mosquito, which could carry just about as much as a B-17 usually did...
megamushroom07 3 years ago
Mosquito, probably a finer plane than the Lancaster. Like the B-17 (which could carry up to 17,500 pounds of bombs) or any plane for that matter stuffed with ordinance, range begins to suffer unless extra fuel is somehow added.
With that in mind, what WWII plane was capable of carrying 20,500 pounds of bombs in a 3600 mile mission- double the combat radius of the Lancaster carrying 14,000 pounds?
Ans. The B 29.
BTW Japan didn't want to be occupied either but look how well that went.
orcstr8d 3 years ago
And quit with the Destroyers for Bases/mercenaries argument. I didn't expect you to have anything good to say about WWII America, but so goes the nature of one ally's arguments. 99 years lease are almost up though. Maybe by some strange twist 33 years from now one of them will end up converted to a cemetery. Have you considered cremation or burial yet?
orcstr8d 3 years ago
Its amazing this video it has real clips but it also has animation its awsome i give 2 thumbs up!
pzz123123 3 years ago
I don't think this had any real life clips, all done in IL2.
LockMartLeo 3 years ago 2
wow! this is a really good vid! and apocaliptyca sounds really good!
enomis9393 3 years ago 2
Aww, its gone!
SnprMk7 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
video no longer available.. wtf!
Gjldo 3 years ago
what is the song in the fight scene i like it
RepublicCommando29 3 years ago
'No Education' by Apoclyptica.
BTSugrue 3 years ago
Yeah thx i found it already though
RepublicCommando29 3 years ago
Really nice video good work
RepublicCommando29 3 years ago
i have il2fb and pacific battels but l can t fly with b17.b24 and b29 plese answer why l cant
baumanfamily 3 years ago
Because they are AI only. He probably did this online after editing a .mis.
Decimator92 3 years ago
wanna drive a jeep (b 17 XD) try b17 FF the might eight, little old and graphic not the state of art, but really complicate crew and airplane management.. realistic norden bombsight aiming and belive me a giant map (3/4 of england whole germny and france and north
italy) with a lot of targets .. you can also pilot p51,38,47; 109', 190' and the 262' if you want with, evry aircraft have the manual start up sequance (if you want) and a lot of working stuffs in cockpit ^^
Gjldo 3 years ago
I actually loved the fight scene music! Come on people, it could have been worse. He could have just through in Linkin Park like so many other videos here on YouTube.
ChainGuN2 3 years ago
the b-17, b-24, b-29 and b-25 are my favorite ww2 bombers
Kulwicki 3 years ago
what about the lancaster?
skateman1994 3 years ago
And the B-36 'Peacemaker'? It was the TRUE Nuclear Bomber, unlike that s of a b 29...
Never dropped a nuke in anger, but still by far the best bomber of the 1900's era. (Famous for itsa 1950 crash resulting in the first lost nuke of the world.)
SnprMk7 3 years ago
Yeah the B-36 was one big plane
RepublicCommando29 3 years ago
i think is il2 forgotten batlles ..tho in il2 pacific fighters you can fly the b25..and other medium range bomers
PPiTTislakatamia 3 years ago
hi guys..sameone can tell me what is the version of il2 that i can fly whit heavy bomber like b-17 or b-29.....i have il2-1946 v.4!...thanks all
5INDROM3 3 years ago
u cant, unless u use a mod
sry
p.s. i love the music during the battle, it didnt matter if it wasnt ww2 era
mckseal 3 years ago
too bad you can't go inside the cockpit of the B17 or B29 on IL2 :(
alexander1485 3 years ago
Great video. Despite what everyone else says, I think the music fits.
ComradeTasker 3 years ago
Coolest and most beautifull plane ever
Johnmetall666 3 years ago
sry but i love the music, its like a reality/what they make u think thing, the what they make u think part is the WW2 music, calmer, more in the mod, happy, then the grizzly reality of war, death, destruction, suffering, witch rock makes feal a lot better, try puting some WW2 music where u got the air battle part
ChaplainDMK 3 years ago
the music isn't THAT bad....
Donny101st 3 years ago