nice tribute... Did the Canadians fly British RAF aircraft or have Lancasters with Canadian markings? I like the painting of the lancaster skimmng the waves flying on one engine..
Bomb the Fascist NSU ( Nazi in Underground) out of Germany, bomb out the pro-fascist Helpers in Industry and "Verfassungsschutz" (German Secret Service).
Antifascists are not allowed by "Verfassungsschutz" to defend Constitution against fascists. For the "Verfassungsschutz", we, the Antifascists, are enemies, worser than Nazi!!!
Because we most don´t like capitalism too.
Who wants to talk not of capitalism, which was to say nothing of fascism.
I live in East Anglia, a p[art of England in which there were several large American USAF bases during World War Two, and also many British RAF bases as well of course, with both the British and the American airmen flying out from England on bombing missions over Nazi Germany. This song now reminds me of the Memorial plaques I see in my home area dedicated to all those American airmen serving here in my country, the UK, during those terrible times of danger which was WW2. God bless them all.
What was the poster shown at 2:19? I can't find it anywhere and i kind of like that picture. Shows the strength of the Lancaster and the determination of the crew.
Seriously. Posters want to criticize the allied forces because they were "too tough" on those who started the war? Get effing real. Are you saying we should have fought the war "nicely"? Yea, that's not how you win. Stop second guessing those who had to fight and make tough decisions. War is never nice.
Japan would have never surrendered without a land invasion by allied forces which would have cost too many lives & resources.
@groundcontrol436385 Estimates for american lives lost exceeded 1 million, that doesn't count the near genocide the US would have had to commit to pacify the Japaneese people who were being trained to fight with everything they had (including bamboo spears). Men, women and children were all ready to lay down their lives to protect Japan from an invasion. The most merciful thing the US did was drop the atomic bombs.
@TheIhealme I would never say merciful about killing....but I know things would have been worse if the Japanese hadn't surrendered. Google Unit 731 and Shiro Ishii. The militants who controlled Japan would've done terrible things to win. There isn't much honor in losing, but there's no honor in doing that. Better the war is over and we all move on.
How many are alive today, descendents of Allies and Japanese because we used the atom bomb. Yes, it was awful. I wouldn't want to see nuclear war. But what everyone has to remember it was a different time and era. If you were born in the late 1910s or early-mid 1920s you might have a different mindset to the war. Especially if it was your butt having to fight a war. Trying to put a late 20th or 21st Century thought into it just results in massive argument. Let's make sure it's not used again.
@MouseGuns I dont for we are still using purple hearts that were made for the invasion of japan. it would have been a bloodbath worst then any battle in history . And i think the only reason people hated it back then was not because of its killing power cause people were kinda ok with dresden which killed more people. it was just that it took only one bomber instead of a thousand to kill a thousand
The moral high ground is an expensive piece of real estate, it can cost thousands of lives, even more. Remember that the US tried to stay out of the war, and did until pearl harbor. Let's just all work together to make sure that the need for this weapon never surfaces again.
My uncle was a 'guest' of the Japanese during the war, he helped them build a railway. They tried hard to kill him as they did thousands of others they took captive. Japan surrendered immediately after the nuclear attacks and like thousands of other POWs he got to come home. He never would talk about what they did to him. Never ever insult those who brought the war in the far east to an end. Do some study and find out what was done to thousands of innocent people in the name of the Rising Sun.
@MrStewbe Japan was already on the brink of surrender. I wonder if you think that everybody in Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the time of the bombing were soldiers or something. Because they weren't. There is no point in trying to justify anything that happened in ww2 because it all hurt somebody, one way or another.
There was no call for the nuking of Japan.. the war was all but over, but they just had to try out that new horror weapon on someone, quick before the war ended officially.
Evil deeds such as that is what cost the States a lot of the respect the world had for them before that point in time. The begining of the end of their moral high ground
@MsSnowwalker . It is unfortunate you are so ignorant and stupid. Yes, the war was coming to an end, but the Emporer was not about to surrender. In fact, he wasn't ready even after the second bomb was dropped. Why don't you educate yourself instead of sounding like a fool?
About a mile from where I live in England is a memerial to the crew of a B17. It was shot up by FW190s on a mission over Germany. They just headed west and went miles off course. The weather closed in and they, dropped through it over a city. they tried to land in a very small park, but with seconds left they saw the kids playing football. It went into the trees and ten young men died. I say a prayer whenever I pass the spot.
Когда я был маленьким (а сейчас мне 57) в ста метрах от дома стояли на аээродроме с десяток американских самолётов Catalina. Они взлетали (с акватории канала им. Москвы), я видел это сам.
Б17 был отличной машиной. Ничего похожего тогда ни у русских ни у немцев не было, как не было вообще стратегической авиации. А то, что было по сути являлось летающей артиллерией. Впрочем, и союзников не было летающего танка Ил2, их мустанг Р52 был, конечно, хорош, только не для работы с пехотой а, главное, все советские машины были для одного боя, как и сама жизнь лётчика.
@ardaniil ну тут не соглашусь - так как детство прошло под крылом ИЛ-2 в Лиде :-) то скажу что жизнь летчика длилась дольше чем жизнь стрелка... в одной единственной части было 7 дважды героев советского союза, а просто герое это уже без счета... и большинство не посмертно... к счастью. Ил-2 был одной из самых защищенных машин...
The song is great. I'm a fan of aviation and I like flights.
But times it was written is a shame for whole aviation. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, many other german towns...
I'm from Russia and definitely respect WWII veterans who fought against nazis but still that was terrible and not acceptable. The war was already to the end.
my great uncles were in the war. two overseas one in the navy and one stayed in canada. one of the ones that went overseas was in sicily. this is one of my favorate war time songs aside from "white cliffs of dover" and "mr wu is now an air raid warden" by george formby
LOL I live it when the ruskies start screamin and hollerin about how many casualties they took in WW2!! You can chalk that up to incompetent leadership and 19th century tactics!!! Mass wave attacks and the like!! Face it Ivan your commanders fed your soldiers into the guns like sheep to the slaughter!! Now having said that I do not take away from the individual soldiers bravery and ability to survive harsh conditions!!
@Musketnpistol It wasnt limited to one country or faction sunshine, each commited their own war crimes and are as bad as one another. That being said, they are remarkable people that took part in this, whatever country they origionate from.
Вы ещё подеритесь, горячие русские парни, письками померяйтесь, у кого дед пострадал больше. Я знал по переписке стрелка с Ланкастера и лично знал стрелка с Ил-2. Начитался и наслушался. Пересказывать им вашу трепотню не посмел бы. Внуки союзников, блин. Стыдитесь.
А по поводу этого пидорка urakuz. Госпожа Олбрайт в свое время утверждала, что Россия несправедливо владеет Сибирью. Вы к нам еще не заходили. Добро пожаловать-кровью умоетесь.
Пытался выяснить вопрос об атомной бомбардировке Японии. О претензиях Японкой стороны к Корее , Китаю и России. С чьей подачи эти необоснованные претензии?
What does it matter any more... SERIOUSLY... if you can read this, and you can understand this...мы все выиграили эту войну, и мы все в выиграше... and we all lost. WAR IS WHEN OUR WOMEN LOOSE THEIR SONS.
@yrakuz Вешать негров -это не то что с лица земли уничтолжить два города! Хотя и негров тоже вешали. А горели они над европой за свои интересы. Один Дрезден чего стоит? Так что пиздота самостийная утрись своими трусами обкончаными.
I don't think you're rude. I just think that you are passionate when it comes to setting the facts straight. I do not deny the USSR's atrocities. Gang Rape in Nemmersdorf and Nrvenge at Neustettin to name two examples.
The Sacrifices made by the soldiers was enormous and I did not say anything to suggest otherwise.
And to make sure you knew, I never compared the USSR to anybody. I just assumed a historian such as you would have know that.
Britain was bombed to oblivion, I said that in my first post. Russian didn't not save Britain and the country that lost 2% was America. Actually it was actually .46511% because American at that time had a 129mil population with 600,000 soldiers as casualties. Russia lost 23.71134% because their population was 194mil with 46mil casualties(including civilians).
If you want proof, I can mail you the source because for some reason whenever I try to put the address on, it wont post the comment.
We nuked the Japs to save American..and allied lives. The Japs were fatalistic fighters and would die before surrendering..not good. I don't know how many Jap soldiers were left to 'defend the homeland' after the slaughter in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, but it was beleved that even the Jap civilians themselves would fight to the death for the emperor...not good.
@Emeraldknife hey man US the worst, even after the japs surrendered they still bomb the dangerous bomb in the world, damaging people life! its not good habit
@smtkl News flash: They didn't surrender until AFTER Nagasaki. Nothing but sheer stupidity made them delay after Hiroshima. Come to think of it, the smart thing to do would have been to surrender on Dec. 8th, 1941... or sleep in on Dec. 7th.
You can pick a fight, or call yourself a victim when you loose. NOT both.
@Pygar2 Just check what happened to Japanese Manchurian army after Soviets brought forces from Europe and attacked them. There were almost 2 million of Japanese troops. They disappeared.
@Pygar2 One veteran told me that , from technical point of view, it was humiliating for Japanese. Russian tanks, which were fighting Panthers and King Tigers in Germany, were destroying Japanese paper-thin armor in droves. Japanese hand guns were substandard. It was still very bloody because the motherfuckers didn't surrender and fought to the death.
@Emeraldknife while this interpertation has been discredited, and by no means should there be residual guilt - what needed to be done was done. But suprsingly, it was a mis-interpertation of the concept of 'mokusatsu' that lead to the bombs going down - what is certain however is that the second bomb was not nessisary.
Anyway, the war ended, and Japan and the US are BFFs now. . . so history goes.
@Emeraldknife Yeaup. its called self-preservation. They would have done the same if they were in our situation. Japan got nuked, everyone get the fuck over it.
A mainland invasion of Japan would have costed, by estimates of the United States and Japan, upwards of two million lives. Killing 300,000 to save two million is a good tradeoff.
@ketra666 i am thinking of the same thing too! nice to see how you see 'japs' as people, like us too. Some people just branded that 'japs' and 'Nazis' are the 'bad' ones. there is no good or bad. wanna blame anyone for the war? blame the politicians! some people are just brainwashed by how their country is 'protecting human rights', that they are 'the just cause' and so on. they bleed, cry and hurt as much as we did.
look at what KittyRokher below said! good tradeoff? killing people? wtf?
I'm saying that 300,000 dead was better than two million dead. At that point, the war had already cost 55 million lives, both civilian and soldier. Why throw away another two million lives? And for what, another one or two months added to the war? The same result would have came, just with more dead. Killing people should never be necessary, but if the dickheads who lead the wars believe it is, then kill as few as possible.
@KittyRokher I know, i researched some days later and i find the casualty would be catastrophic for a mainland assault. I am sincerely sorry. I just don't like the tone Emeraldknife is giving.'We nuked the japs' my ass.
nobody denies crimes committed by soviets, but what are you implying? that the usa did not nuke civilians in order to prevent the ussr from taking too much credit, or did not test chemical weapons on their own soldiers? absolutely saintly, aren't you?
all trash deserves to die. german, russian, american. that does not change the fact that there are good people in all those places who try to do the right thing.
as for historical facts, russia did contribute FAR more to the downfall of the axis.
I wouldn't say that Russia contributed FAR more in the war because the British and the American also did a great part in the downfall of the Axis power. Britain refused to be invaded and continued to fight despite the fact that their country was being bombed to oblivion. And since they were still fighting, the Americans were able to launch the larges amphibious assault on Normandy. Because of that, the Germans were fighting in two fronts.
if there is one thing i don't like, it's misinformed, arrogant idiots.
get your historical facts straight outside of the realm of your dumb patriotism and poor yet unilaterally biased historical knowledge. britain got its ass bombed into oblivion and was saved by the ussr, and the usa did not lose 2% of the people the soviet union did. that is the BARE BASIC, i don't even want to get into the details with someone who obviously doesn't know jack about what they are talking about.
think i'm rude? i don't give a damn. so many people dying in order to protect something important, only for some half-assed retard expert like you to come in and dwarf their sacrifice.
want a real anecdote? my stepfather's grandfather once ran into an american regiment while on a captured german apc. the "badass" soldiers were drying their fucking underwear on a tank and didn't even bother to pick up their weapons, because all they were used to was accepting the surrender of retreating germans.
i don't suppose you'd care to get into the details of the harshness of the battles the ussr conducted and the civilian casualties they suffered. a bit more extreme than the "selfless" sacrifice of trinkets for the war effort by the american women.
so don't even try to compare what the ussr did and experienced to the rest of the world. there is no shame in fighting for a just cause, but i don't want to hear the facts perverted into crap by idiots without a clue.
Yeah, we shall remember how those lads razed Drezden, Hamburg and other cities to the ground killing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children in burning inferno.
German soldiers killed Russian women and kids. German nation should be grateful that it wasn't erased from the surface of Earth altogether for its crimes.
There speaks the voice that enjoys freedom other people paid for,You forgot to mention Warsaw,Rotterdam,Belgrade,London ,Coventry not to mention millions who were executed and murdered in gas chambers,he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind!
This comment is not coming from a Russian is it?,Soviet union arm in arm with Nazis destroyed Poland,Latvia Lithuania Estonia,attacked Finland,then cried for arms and aid when It got what it dished out,anyway the Gulag and purges probably outdid the gas chambers for numbers killed!
So Finland wasnt attacked,Poland wasnt divided between the Soviet Union and Germany,the baltic states were not annexed,The Nazi soviet pact didnt happen,Well Stalin obviously taught you all you know!
Germany Soviet friendship pact signed August 1939,Poland attacked by Germany and Soviets September 1939,Finland attacked 30 november 1939,Baltic states annexed by soviet union 1940,Soviet union attacked by Germany June 1941.You might have read a kind of book once,Here in the West they've been freely published for some time!
Lets not forget the treaty of Rappallo,The German and Russian military trained together,without this help Germany would not have been able to expand her military so quickly.Who needs strategic bombing offensive anyway,When the Russian army comes to Town Youre either Fucked literaly or You'll need a new town! Look what happened to poor Grozny andthat was just fighting rebels!
As Churchill said 'Air power will teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph' Of course no Woman or child ,non combatant deserves death.Stalin was evil and certainly sent millions to their deaths but Nazism promised a new efficiency of evil,racial and systematized by science it represented a far longer lasting corrosive tyranny that communism ,which as we see collapsed under its own weight.
Goering said when talking about America that a country that was good at making cars and fridges would be no good at making Bombers and fighters!.The Nazi believed themselves to be the new world masters and the only way to show them otherwise was to defeat and destroy them!
Of no other plane was this more true than the B-17. It had a stellar track record of bringing the crews home even after losing engines, parts of the fuselage and even large chunks of their wings.
@richintalent A very brave man . If you get the chance I can recommend a visit to Aldeburgh Uk . There is a disused 8th airfield nearby as a museum and a memorial to those men /boys so many never came back.
@epmorris The Nazi airforce outnumbered the RAF four to one, its remarkable how well Britain did and how much they achieved given those numbers. RAF Pilots had such a short life expectancy it was unbelievable.
Fun fact: Witold Urbanowicz was one of the first Polish pilots posted as reinforcements to the RAF fighter squadrons.
This was recored by either Kay Kyser, or Sammy Kaye....I can't remember which one...The other WWII song by these bands was "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
Only Russinas and Americans can still remember this song. Americans, because it is a part of the folk lore. Russians, because one of the Russian singers re-singed it in Russian.
nice tribute... Did the Canadians fly British RAF aircraft or have Lancasters with Canadian markings? I like the painting of the lancaster skimmng the waves flying on one engine..
irish89055 4 days ago
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Please do it again!!!
Bomb the Fascist NSU ( Nazi in Underground) out of Germany, bomb out the pro-fascist Helpers in Industry and "Verfassungsschutz" (German Secret Service).
Antifascists are not allowed by "Verfassungsschutz" to defend Constitution against fascists. For the "Verfassungsschutz", we, the Antifascists, are enemies, worser than Nazi!!!
Because we most don´t like capitalism too.
Who wants to talk not of capitalism, which was to say nothing of fascism.
Pilsvergiftung 1 month ago
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Pilsvergiftung 1 month ago
LOVE this song!!!! Thank you for posting!
GMYellowstone 1 month ago
Five nazis dislike this :(
GlavchevDmitry 2 months ago 2
I live in East Anglia, a p[art of England in which there were several large American USAF bases during World War Two, and also many British RAF bases as well of course, with both the British and the American airmen flying out from England on bombing missions over Nazi Germany. This song now reminds me of the Memorial plaques I see in my home area dedicated to all those American airmen serving here in my country, the UK, during those terrible times of danger which was WW2. God bless them all.
Verderer 2 months ago
What was the poster shown at 2:19? I can't find it anywhere and i kind of like that picture. Shows the strength of the Lancaster and the determination of the crew.
BravoAlphaZero 3 months ago
Seriously. Posters want to criticize the allied forces because they were "too tough" on those who started the war? Get effing real. Are you saying we should have fought the war "nicely"? Yea, that's not how you win. Stop second guessing those who had to fight and make tough decisions. War is never nice.
Japan would have never surrendered without a land invasion by allied forces which would have cost too many lives & resources.
groundcontrol436385 3 months ago 7
@groundcontrol436385
Well said. I couldn't agree more.
Corrie121 3 months ago
@groundcontrol436385 Estimates for american lives lost exceeded 1 million, that doesn't count the near genocide the US would have had to commit to pacify the Japaneese people who were being trained to fight with everything they had (including bamboo spears). Men, women and children were all ready to lay down their lives to protect Japan from an invasion. The most merciful thing the US did was drop the atomic bombs.
TheIhealme 2 months ago
@TheIhealme I would never say merciful about killing....but I know things would have been worse if the Japanese hadn't surrendered. Google Unit 731 and Shiro Ishii. The militants who controlled Japan would've done terrible things to win. There isn't much honor in losing, but there's no honor in doing that. Better the war is over and we all move on.
Lamashtar 2 months ago
Wonder how those Canadian bomber crews felt about incinerating all the women and babies at Hamburg and Dresden?
victor5812 3 months ago
How many are alive today, descendents of Allies and Japanese because we used the atom bomb. Yes, it was awful. I wouldn't want to see nuclear war. But what everyone has to remember it was a different time and era. If you were born in the late 1910s or early-mid 1920s you might have a different mindset to the war. Especially if it was your butt having to fight a war. Trying to put a late 20th or 21st Century thought into it just results in massive argument. Let's make sure it's not used again.
MouseGuns 4 months ago
@MouseGuns I dont for we are still using purple hearts that were made for the invasion of japan. it would have been a bloodbath worst then any battle in history . And i think the only reason people hated it back then was not because of its killing power cause people were kinda ok with dresden which killed more people. it was just that it took only one bomber instead of a thousand to kill a thousand
minecraft19wins 3 months ago
The moral high ground is an expensive piece of real estate, it can cost thousands of lives, even more. Remember that the US tried to stay out of the war, and did until pearl harbor. Let's just all work together to make sure that the need for this weapon never surfaces again.
littlesisXOXO1 4 months ago in playlist momma's
My uncle was a 'guest' of the Japanese during the war, he helped them build a railway. They tried hard to kill him as they did thousands of others they took captive. Japan surrendered immediately after the nuclear attacks and like thousands of other POWs he got to come home. He never would talk about what they did to him. Never ever insult those who brought the war in the far east to an end. Do some study and find out what was done to thousands of innocent people in the name of the Rising Sun.
MrStewbe 5 months ago
@MrStewbe Japan was already on the brink of surrender. I wonder if you think that everybody in Nagasaki and Hiroshima at the time of the bombing were soldiers or something. Because they weren't. There is no point in trying to justify anything that happened in ww2 because it all hurt somebody, one way or another.
Boozemastersupreme 5 months ago
There was no call for the nuking of Japan.. the war was all but over, but they just had to try out that new horror weapon on someone, quick before the war ended officially.
Evil deeds such as that is what cost the States a lot of the respect the world had for them before that point in time. The begining of the end of their moral high ground
MsSnowwalker 5 months ago
@MsSnowwalker . It is unfortunate you are so ignorant and stupid. Yes, the war was coming to an end, but the Emporer was not about to surrender. In fact, he wasn't ready even after the second bomb was dropped. Why don't you educate yourself instead of sounding like a fool?
dlrunner121 3 months ago
About a mile from where I live in England is a memerial to the crew of a B17. It was shot up by FW190s on a mission over Germany. They just headed west and went miles off course. The weather closed in and they, dropped through it over a city. they tried to land in a very small park, but with seconds left they saw the kids playing football. It went into the trees and ten young men died. I say a prayer whenever I pass the spot.
romanbrough 7 months ago
one of my grandfathers fav. songs in English.
turtleembo 7 months ago
LOVE IT!!
A fine tribute to WWII bomber crews and to the B-24 Liberator(did I get the plane right?)!!
Thanks for posting!! Loved the photos!
hatepbj94 7 months ago
Когда я был маленьким (а сейчас мне 57) в ста метрах от дома стояли на аээродроме с десяток американских самолётов Catalina. Они взлетали (с акватории канала им. Москвы), я видел это сам.
Незабываемо.
yromanyc 8 months ago
Б17 был отличной машиной. Ничего похожего тогда ни у русских ни у немцев не было, как не было вообще стратегической авиации. А то, что было по сути являлось летающей артиллерией. Впрочем, и союзников не было летающего танка Ил2, их мустанг Р52 был, конечно, хорош, только не для работы с пехотой а, главное, все советские машины были для одного боя, как и сама жизнь лётчика.
ardaniil 11 months ago
@ardaniil ну тут не соглашусь - так как детство прошло под крылом ИЛ-2 в Лиде :-) то скажу что жизнь летчика длилась дольше чем жизнь стрелка... в одной единственной части было 7 дважды героев советского союза, а просто герое это уже без счета... и большинство не посмертно... к счастью. Ил-2 был одной из самых защищенных машин...
OlegDjan77 11 months ago
very good loved it. one must remember more people were lost during the firebombing of tokyo than were killed in both atomic bombs
oldcoastie86 11 months ago
this song was made for my great great uncle bobby cochrane who saved more then 18 lives while his airplane had been shot and landed it saftley
Kimberlyxxo 1 year ago
A good Christian Song...
A good Military Song...
A good AMERICAN song!
porterbehling 1 year ago
@porterbehling A good British song*
w4rr0ckm4st3r 1 year ago
The song is great. I'm a fan of aviation and I like flights.
But times it was written is a shame for whole aviation. Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, many other german towns...
I'm from Russia and definitely respect WWII veterans who fought against nazis but still that was terrible and not acceptable. The war was already to the end.
0anonymoususerr 1 year ago
I have a question at 2.21 what is that in the sky...? It looks a bit like the barge from Return Of The Jedi
MegaGum1 1 year ago
@MegaGum1 Looks like a Supermarine Sea Otter. I think it would have trouble lifting Jabba lol
atom2009 1 year ago
we sang this at VE+60 and I have to say is one of my favourites :0)
greendaycaz 1 year ago
my great uncles were in the war. two overseas one in the navy and one stayed in canada. one of the ones that went overseas was in sicily. this is one of my favorate war time songs aside from "white cliffs of dover" and "mr wu is now an air raid warden" by george formby
TheSandsie13 1 year ago
Gog Hail the US bombers, thenether htey are the wright or whrong
motigist 1 year ago
Thank god for the RAF, the RCAF, the RAAF and the RNZAF - per ardua ad adstra.
mig25pd 1 year ago
LOL I live it when the ruskies start screamin and hollerin about how many casualties they took in WW2!! You can chalk that up to incompetent leadership and 19th century tactics!!! Mass wave attacks and the like!! Face it Ivan your commanders fed your soldiers into the guns like sheep to the slaughter!! Now having said that I do not take away from the individual soldiers bravery and ability to survive harsh conditions!!
Musketnpistol 1 year ago
@Musketnpistol It wasnt limited to one country or faction sunshine, each commited their own war crimes and are as bad as one another. That being said, they are remarkable people that took part in this, whatever country they origionate from.
kapazitor 1 year ago
Вы ещё подеритесь, горячие русские парни, письками померяйтесь, у кого дед пострадал больше. Я знал по переписке стрелка с Ланкастера и лично знал стрелка с Ил-2. Начитался и наслушался. Пересказывать им вашу трепотню не посмел бы. Внуки союзников, блин. Стыдитесь.
1975wasborn 1 year ago
А по поводу этого пидорка urakuz. Госпожа Олбрайт в свое время утверждала, что Россия несправедливо владеет Сибирью. Вы к нам еще не заходили. Добро пожаловать-кровью умоетесь.
dmi382 2 years ago
Пытался выяснить вопрос об атомной бомбардировке Японии. О претензиях Японкой стороны к Корее , Китаю и России. С чьей подачи эти необоснованные претензии?
dmi382 2 years ago
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dmi382 2 years ago
What does it matter any more... SERIOUSLY... if you can read this, and you can understand this...мы все выиграили эту войну, и мы все в выиграше... and we all lost. WAR IS WHEN OUR WOMEN LOOSE THEIR SONS.
tornado111279 2 years ago
Слов нет красивая песня! Мне просто интересно, господа Американцы, а не под нее вы сбрасывали бомбы на Хиросиму и Нагасаки?
dmi382 2 years ago
А если и под неё, что тогда? Всё никак не успокоимся? А ещё они негров вешали. И горели над Европой и Тихим океаном в своих самолётах.
Небось, ханжа задротная, у портрета Сталина всё поклоны бьёшь?
yrakuz 2 years ago
@yrakuz Вешать негров -это не то что с лица земли уничтолжить два города! Хотя и негров тоже вешали. А горели они над европой за свои интересы. Один Дрезден чего стоит? Так что пиздота самостийная утрись своими трусами обкончаными.
dmi382 1 year ago
I don't think you're rude. I just think that you are passionate when it comes to setting the facts straight. I do not deny the USSR's atrocities. Gang Rape in Nemmersdorf and Nrvenge at Neustettin to name two examples.
The Sacrifices made by the soldiers was enormous and I did not say anything to suggest otherwise.
And to make sure you knew, I never compared the USSR to anybody. I just assumed a historian such as you would have know that.
TheEngineer4077 2 years ago
Britain was bombed to oblivion, I said that in my first post. Russian didn't not save Britain and the country that lost 2% was America. Actually it was actually .46511% because American at that time had a 129mil population with 600,000 soldiers as casualties. Russia lost 23.71134% because their population was 194mil with 46mil casualties(including civilians).
If you want proof, I can mail you the source because for some reason whenever I try to put the address on, it wont post the comment.
TheEngineer4077 2 years ago
We nuked the Japs to save American..and allied lives. The Japs were fatalistic fighters and would die before surrendering..not good. I don't know how many Jap soldiers were left to 'defend the homeland' after the slaughter in Iwo Jima and Okinawa, but it was beleved that even the Jap civilians themselves would fight to the death for the emperor...not good.
Emeraldknife 2 years ago 2
@Emeraldknife hey man US the worst, even after the japs surrendered they still bomb the dangerous bomb in the world, damaging people life! its not good habit
smtkl 1 year ago
@smtkl News flash: They didn't surrender until AFTER Nagasaki. Nothing but sheer stupidity made them delay after Hiroshima. Come to think of it, the smart thing to do would have been to surrender on Dec. 8th, 1941... or sleep in on Dec. 7th.
You can pick a fight, or call yourself a victim when you loose. NOT both.
Pygar2 1 year ago
@Pygar2 Just check what happened to Japanese Manchurian army after Soviets brought forces from Europe and attacked them. There were almost 2 million of Japanese troops. They disappeared.
tbirdrus 1 year ago
@tbirdrus Yup. Yet another reason they shouldn't have picked a fight.
Pygar2 1 year ago
@Pygar2 One veteran told me that , from technical point of view, it was humiliating for Japanese. Russian tanks, which were fighting Panthers and King Tigers in Germany, were destroying Japanese paper-thin armor in droves. Japanese hand guns were substandard. It was still very bloody because the motherfuckers didn't surrender and fought to the death.
tbirdrus 1 year ago
@Emeraldknife please watch the movie "Barefoot Gen" hope you will understand.
maxmiztejm 1 year ago
@Emeraldknife watch?v=BfJZ6nwxD38
maxmiztejm 1 year ago
@Emeraldknife while this interpertation has been discredited, and by no means should there be residual guilt - what needed to be done was done. But suprsingly, it was a mis-interpertation of the concept of 'mokusatsu' that lead to the bombs going down - what is certain however is that the second bomb was not nessisary.
Anyway, the war ended, and Japan and the US are BFFs now. . . so history goes.
existentialvoid 1 year ago
@Emeraldknife Yeaup. its called self-preservation. They would have done the same if they were in our situation. Japan got nuked, everyone get the fuck over it.
PaintballTF12 1 year ago
@Emeraldknife
Nuked the Japs...
Why don't you cute the racism assclown and grow the fuck up..
What they did was wrong yes but what we did is a billion times worse.
Taking one up and overkill to the extreme.
Also remember where half you're modern tech comes from!
ketra666 10 months ago
@ketra666
A mainland invasion of Japan would have costed, by estimates of the United States and Japan, upwards of two million lives. Killing 300,000 to save two million is a good tradeoff.
KittyRokher 9 months ago
@ketra666 i am thinking of the same thing too! nice to see how you see 'japs' as people, like us too. Some people just branded that 'japs' and 'Nazis' are the 'bad' ones. there is no good or bad. wanna blame anyone for the war? blame the politicians! some people are just brainwashed by how their country is 'protecting human rights', that they are 'the just cause' and so on. they bleed, cry and hurt as much as we did.
look at what KittyRokher below said! good tradeoff? killing people? wtf?
minerdalta 8 months ago
@minerdalta
I'm saying that 300,000 dead was better than two million dead. At that point, the war had already cost 55 million lives, both civilian and soldier. Why throw away another two million lives? And for what, another one or two months added to the war? The same result would have came, just with more dead. Killing people should never be necessary, but if the dickheads who lead the wars believe it is, then kill as few as possible.
KittyRokher 7 months ago
@KittyRokher I know, i researched some days later and i find the casualty would be catastrophic for a mainland assault. I am sincerely sorry. I just don't like the tone Emeraldknife is giving.'We nuked the japs' my ass.
minerdalta 7 months ago
@KittyRokher speaking that aside, is your avatar a picture of... Higgs Boson?
minerdalta 7 months ago
@minerdalta
My avatar is a picture of one of the tests by the LHC to find the Higgs BOSON, yes. :D
KittyRokher 6 months ago
@KittyRokher :D hahaha i know it was. But looks like the god particle won't be found soon :( it may never be found at all.
minerdalta 6 months ago
@minerdalta
Sadly, we may not. But we'll keep trying with our dying breath.
KittyRokher 6 months ago
It was a tragic but necessary end to a tragic war
notmack 6 months ago
It was a tragic but necessary end to a tragic war
notmack 6 months ago
the lyrics dont start till 1:23
washingtonboy09 2 years ago 7
Классная тема! From Russia wiht love!
Bujor65 2 years ago
Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer
Harold Adamson & Jimmie McHugh, 1943. БОМБАРДИРОВЩИКИ
Эдит и Леонид Утесовы, 1945.
Текст частично изменён
В те времена рассказ об американских бомбардировщиках воспринимался публикой с восторгом - не то, что сейчас.
Good song. Thanks allies.
ZuZuPEDL 2 years ago 2
Where is that Lanc at the beginning of the video? I'm in the Ottawa area, is it around here?
van1980 2 years ago
"Over the dim lit flair path
an anxios silence reinged
scanning the blue horizion
our anxios eyes were strained
the raido sets were humming
we waited for a word
then a voice came through the humming
and this is what heard
teamdec 2 years ago
Take off, eh? :)
Volkmoidruk 2 years ago
nobody denies crimes committed by soviets, but what are you implying? that the usa did not nuke civilians in order to prevent the ussr from taking too much credit, or did not test chemical weapons on their own soldiers? absolutely saintly, aren't you?
all trash deserves to die. german, russian, american. that does not change the fact that there are good people in all those places who try to do the right thing.
as for historical facts, russia did contribute FAR more to the downfall of the axis.
alexabar 3 years ago 2
I wouldn't say that Russia contributed FAR more in the war because the British and the American also did a great part in the downfall of the Axis power. Britain refused to be invaded and continued to fight despite the fact that their country was being bombed to oblivion. And since they were still fighting, the Americans were able to launch the larges amphibious assault on Normandy. Because of that, the Germans were fighting in two fronts.
All the allies did their part in the war.
TheEngineer4077 2 years ago
if there is one thing i don't like, it's misinformed, arrogant idiots.
get your historical facts straight outside of the realm of your dumb patriotism and poor yet unilaterally biased historical knowledge. britain got its ass bombed into oblivion and was saved by the ussr, and the usa did not lose 2% of the people the soviet union did. that is the BARE BASIC, i don't even want to get into the details with someone who obviously doesn't know jack about what they are talking about.
alexabar 2 years ago
think i'm rude? i don't give a damn. so many people dying in order to protect something important, only for some half-assed retard expert like you to come in and dwarf their sacrifice.
want a real anecdote? my stepfather's grandfather once ran into an american regiment while on a captured german apc. the "badass" soldiers were drying their fucking underwear on a tank and didn't even bother to pick up their weapons, because all they were used to was accepting the surrender of retreating germans.
alexabar 2 years ago
i don't suppose you'd care to get into the details of the harshness of the battles the ussr conducted and the civilian casualties they suffered. a bit more extreme than the "selfless" sacrifice of trinkets for the war effort by the american women.
so don't even try to compare what the ussr did and experienced to the rest of the world. there is no shame in fighting for a just cause, but i don't want to hear the facts perverted into crap by idiots without a clue.
alexabar 2 years ago
Yeah, we shall remember how those lads razed Drezden, Hamburg and other cities to the ground killing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children in burning inferno.
zhenziyou 3 years ago
Maybe you want to remember those who razed Leningrad, Moscow and London? Innocent my ass.
tbirdrus 3 years ago
Of course, German children, women and old people did it personally.
Soldiers fight with soldiers, terrorists kill civilians - Hamburg, Drezden, Hiroshima are victims of terrorists.
zhenziyou 3 years ago
German soldiers killed Russian women and kids. German nation should be grateful that it wasn't erased from the surface of Earth altogether for its crimes.
tbirdrus 3 years ago
@tbirdrus You cant blame people for their ancestors atrocities.
kapazitor 1 year ago
@kapazitor Lets be fair. Why is that only Russian autrocities remebered then?
tbirdrus 1 year ago
@tbirdrus Would you want to remember sins long past?
kapazitor 1 year ago
There speaks the voice that enjoys freedom other people paid for,You forgot to mention Warsaw,Rotterdam,Belgrade,London ,Coventry not to mention millions who were executed and murdered in gas chambers,he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind!
russradicans 3 years ago
Right, Britishers and Americans proved that they are equal with Nazis.
zhenziyou 3 years ago
This comment is not coming from a Russian is it?,Soviet union arm in arm with Nazis destroyed Poland,Latvia Lithuania Estonia,attacked Finland,then cried for arms and aid when It got what it dished out,anyway the Gulag and purges probably outdid the gas chambers for numbers killed!
russradicans 3 years ago
Obviously you don't have the vaguest notion about chronology and history, try to read some books first before discussing events.
zhenziyou 3 years ago
So Finland wasnt attacked,Poland wasnt divided between the Soviet Union and Germany,the baltic states were not annexed,The Nazi soviet pact didnt happen,Well Stalin obviously taught you all you know!
russradicans 3 years ago
Germany Soviet friendship pact signed August 1939,Poland attacked by Germany and Soviets September 1939,Finland attacked 30 november 1939,Baltic states annexed by soviet union 1940,Soviet union attacked by Germany June 1941.You might have read a kind of book once,Here in the West they've been freely published for some time!
russradicans 3 years ago
Oh I forgot to mention the Katyn wood massacre but you probably have too!
russradicans 3 years ago
Your silence is deafening O Russian Sage!
russradicans 3 years ago
Lets not forget the treaty of Rappallo,The German and Russian military trained together,without this help Germany would not have been able to expand her military so quickly.Who needs strategic bombing offensive anyway,When the Russian army comes to Town Youre either Fucked literaly or You'll need a new town! Look what happened to poor Grozny andthat was just fighting rebels!
russradicans 3 years ago
russradicans: I don't get you posts. Do you really think that Germans didn't deserve what they got?
tbirdrus 3 years ago
As Churchill said 'Air power will teach the German homeland that war is not all loot and triumph' Of course no Woman or child ,non combatant deserves death.Stalin was evil and certainly sent millions to their deaths but Nazism promised a new efficiency of evil,racial and systematized by science it represented a far longer lasting corrosive tyranny that communism ,which as we see collapsed under its own weight.
russradicans 3 years ago
russradicans: It seals it then. Nazis deserved their fate.
tbirdrus 3 years ago
Goering said when talking about America that a country that was good at making cars and fridges would be no good at making Bombers and fighters!.The Nazi believed themselves to be the new world masters and the only way to show them otherwise was to defeat and destroy them!
russradicans 3 years ago 2
russradicans: We don't have disgrement then LOL
tbirdrus 3 years ago
Ye, grate song, grate era.
fippobak 3 years ago
Thank you and rest in peace Canada's finest, from Americans especially our WW2 vets.
t72pwner 3 years ago
Of no other plane was this more true than the B-17. It had a stellar track record of bringing the crews home even after losing engines, parts of the fuselage and even large chunks of their wings.
BigSwede7403 3 years ago 2
god bless all those brave lads
tomato6999 3 years ago 3
I get chills every time i hear this- my uncle flew B-17s over Europe- I still have and treasure his flight jacket.
richintalent 3 years ago 27
@richintalent A very brave man . If you get the chance I can recommend a visit to Aldeburgh Uk . There is a disused 8th airfield nearby as a museum and a memorial to those men /boys so many never came back.
epmorris 1 year ago 7
@epmorris The Nazi airforce outnumbered the RAF four to one, its remarkable how well Britain did and how much they achieved given those numbers. RAF Pilots had such a short life expectancy it was unbelievable.
Fun fact: Witold Urbanowicz was one of the first Polish pilots posted as reinforcements to the RAF fighter squadrons.
kapazitor 1 year ago
@richintalent your uncle was an extraordinary Human being, a hero above all others and I salute him!
PegasusViperAce75 1 year ago
@PegasusViperAce75 Here here.
kapazitor 1 year ago
@richintalent bless his soul
Monopoly907 1 year ago
This was recored by either Kay Kyser, or Sammy Kaye....I can't remember which one...The other WWII song by these bands was "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
Labaron26 4 years ago
#1 hit was by the Song Spinners
davesharon5747 3 years ago
Leonid Utyosov sang it in Russian, as a tribute to our American allies.
aleclitvinov 4 years ago
Great song, but I prefer the country style
Slemm 4 years ago
Only Russinas and Americans can still remember this song. Americans, because it is a part of the folk lore. Russians, because one of the Russian singers re-singed it in Russian.
Nevetheless, glory to the brave men!
tbirdrus 4 years ago 2