My dad was a 385th BG pilot in 44-45, 37 combat missions and he has nothing but respect for the Luftwaffe fliers. They fought hard & died for their country. Even when the appearance of the Mustang & barely trained pilots spelled almost certain death, the Luftwaffe still came up to fight.
I'm a Marine myself, however you slice it, war is brutal. All sides in any war will ultimately resort to whatever tactics it will take to win, or stave off defeat. Civilians will always die in wars. FACT!
@214metalero Hitler's idea's weren't bad, they were just a little late. Since Germany lost the war, everyone feels they have to discuss the "evil Nazi's" and their idea's of world slavery. Hitler didn't want a war with Britain, so he decided to stop fighting the British in 1940 and begin the defense against Soviet Russia, but because he stopped, everyone believes that Britain won. Everything Hitler did to give the allies a chance to settle peacefully was mistaken for weakness.
@NightmareGbg Well, you certainly didn't want to get in FRONT of one of them in aerial combat. Devastating forward firepower for the day. Hence the later successes as night fighters when retrofitted for nocturnal bomber destruction runs.
@TheRealSlipperman Actually they wernt that bad,they had their uses.But they used the wrong tactics. In the defence of the reich as a nightfighter it was very effective at times.
machasos son estos cabrones apagar sus vidas con la maxima intuicion humana no solo por defender su patria si no por la vida que emana en la sangre mis respetos a los combatientes de la segunda guerra mundial
Me-110 suffered heavily as a front line fighter over Britain in 1940 because it was unsuited for the role. As a night fighter and bomber interceptor it was more of a success.
@codename47ist of course they had the highest kills! Its well known their numbers were one the highest padded, and 2 they did not rotate pilots like the allies. they fought to the death, or the end of the war. the germans did not have the numbers to rotate out over x number of months, so the good ones were REALLY good.
@tomato6999 Theres a number of reasons why they lost,lack of fuel,Göring was an idoit that missmanaged the Luftwaffe, they faced large airforces on three fronts and the german aircraft producers didnt make the planes the Luftwaffe needed but rather they aricraft they liked (Messerschmitt was particulary bad at that).
The luftwaffe may have been on the wrong side, but no one can deny their bravery.Taking on England Russia and the U.S.A and only stopping when they ran out of oil.
sorry the german airforce stopped when they ran into the raf the spit was a fantastic aeroplane and the germans even with the 190 was just not good enough dont take my word for it speak to some old pilots and read the history of the aircraft
The RAF done well to hold the luftwaffa back long enough for hitler to worry about his oil. Hence the invasion of russia and N.Africa. Britain got its oil from its empire.
@jrobertsoneff ..,keep sniffing buttcracks assclown. The luftwaffe was 'cockblocked' by the RAF during the Battle of Britain in 1940' without Russia or USA or running out of oil.
@jrobertsoneff what numbers dude, Germany lost the Battle of Britain - the luftwaffe versus RAF in 1940' Russia was military alliance with Nazi Germany & Britain was not in any military alliance after fall of France.
@fluffy1931 Britain was allied with Poland, France, Russia and America well before WW2 started. Also, America was fighting Germany long before Roosevelt formally declared war. American destroyers were attacking German shipping in 1940. Germany didn't lose the Battle of Britain, Hitler was trying to find a peace with Britain so he allowed the British to evacuate Dunkirk for the same reason. Churchill admitted that Britain entered the war on her own free will, that Germany was NEVER a threat.
Look up Douglas Bazata and the book Target Patton. Eisenhower had plenty of chances to destroy the German Army in the West and let them escape. The first was the Falaise Pocket, then the Battle of the Bulge, where he pushed the bulge back slowly instead of attacking the flanks and cutting off two entire panzer armies and opening a huge gap in the German lines.
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luftwaffe brought nothing but destruction and tragedy to Europe.
The germans started an unnecessary war and got defeated [twice] and based upon how many videos are shown here on YouTube [also known as NaziTube] glorifying those bloody barbarians, one may come to the conclusion that there still are too many of them left out there ready to repeat the atrocities committed by their ancestors
"Actually, the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. it's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans." "What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole."
"There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.
The US supported international bulshevism and sided with murderous White hating mongolian communists.
The Germans were outnumbered 10 to 1 fighting a war on two fronts. Their superior technology and weaponry were no match for the numerically superior forces of international bulshevism.
Now the victorious New World Order rat bulsheviks infest all Western nations and are eating away and destroying the culture and economies of nations.
It was German that started the war by invading Poland and the Luftwaffe bombed Polish cities killing thousands of civilians. On 25 September 1939 Luftwaffe flew 1,150 sorties dropping 560 tons of high explosives and 72 tons of incendiaries over Warsaw killing more than 40,000 civilians. They bombed Rotterdam killing over 1000 civilians. Luftwaffe bombed London, Southampton, Brighton, Birmingham and Bristol, killing more than 22,000 civilians in three months. Nothing to be proud of.
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Atomic bombs on Japan was the most efficient way to finish the war quickly, which otherwise would continue for many years killing even more innocents. Japanese people learned their lesson and begun working hard for peace instead of war.
Too bad the Glorious allies didnt drop atomic bombs on Germany too, roasting most of you nazis so we could skip the smell of your bloody shit today.
@starsunlocked Thank you for saying that, when I was in Germany many years ago we wanted to go to Dresden however we were told not too since we spoke english.
@080TIGER080 It was 1991 when I was cycling around East Germany and meet up with some locals who had moved from Dresden to Bermburg and they said the destruction of Dresden was still very fresh in the hearts of most Germans.
@080TIGER080 I know. no one can argue that "his" nation did not killed any civilians. Think about Dresden, Cologne and so on. We bombed GB and Americans, Brits, Russia bombed our Cities. Every Nation did Warcrimes. Bombed Cities, killed civilians, raped and lootet villages and cities. Not the Germans ind Britain, but in east europe. We send you Ju-88, He-111, V1 and V2, you sendet thousands and uponthousands of bombers. We must not forget the dismay of the ww2 and all other wars in the world.
@starsunlocked Off course, both sides did horrible things. No point in denying that. It's just that your comment was pointing its finger only at the RAF/USAAF. But I guess I misunderstood you :).
As far as Dresden being a militarily insignificant industrial centre? An official 1942 guide described the German city as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich" and in 1944, the German Army High Command's Weapons Office listed 127 medium-to-large factories and workshops which supplied the army with materiel.
Among these were a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabric Goye and Company); the great Zeiss Ikon A.G.
@Lotus2102 The brits were right to pull back from france.But hitler waswrong to pull back from britain .But tyhere is a fine line between bravery and madness. And good job we had enough brave men to do the right thing.
@Lotus2102 read my post again. Post-war discussion, popular legends, historical revisionism aside, Dresden was Germany's seventh-largest city
The US Air Force Historical Division report classified until Dec 1978. This said that there were 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort at the time of the raid.According to the report, there were aircraft components factories; a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabrik Goye and Company etc.,...
@fluffy1931 so....assclown, since you are so happy about wiki quotes, here is one for you, by Churchill: It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land…
Go see the rest yourself.
Pls. get your facts straight my 14 year old assclown. The allies did use terror bombing...
Lets just make this really short, so you can understand it, the allies used terror bombing in an attempt to break civilian morale, in hope it would end the war.
Discussing specific bombing raids seems ineffecient with someone like you.
The germans were evil, but that does not make it right that the allies were evil (sometimes) too.
@starsunlocked It was the Luftwaffe that started deliberate bombing of the civilian population. The RAF and later USAAF only did to Germany what the Luftwaffe did to Coventry, Guernica, Warsaw etc. Be proud of Bomber command, they flew night after night with a chance of being shot down of 1 in 25 for every trip they flew. Would you have the stomach to do that?
The Luftwaffe became infamous mostly for targeting civilians. The Messerschmitt Bf 110 had some success in the early campaigns against the obsolete Polish planes, but it shown lack of agility in the air against the British fighters during the Battle of Britain, when some Bf 110 equipped units were withdrawn from the battle after very heavy losses and redeployed as night fighters.
i admit they were great warriors but the second waorld war they were ready for war way ahead of any one else since they had been arming themselves for years before war broke out.... they were prepared before anyone else was a big reason hitler whooped everyones ass.. eventually they got owned because of the fuhrer
I love this movie. It sounds like a bavarian guy with a feather hat and long sacks singin, and making the whole thing look like some kind of romantic story. heh
Maybe it was a Revell kit, it was over 30 years ago so maybe the memory is gettin a bit fuzzy! I know I did a Revell 109G kit, I think that was 1:32 as well.
in russia,german flyier fight against old craft or transport plane....or sturmovic,armored but slow.....infact pilots in russia have a lot of victories(hartmann and company).in africa or Europe change music....marseille,lemke,galland,Barkhorn etc but germans pilots were top.
Not confirmed at all. Pilots in the Second World War were guilty of massive overclaiming. When discussing how many aircraft a pilot shot down, it is always "he claimed", or was "credited with" X amount shot down.
The Germans' kill counts were supposed to be pretty accurate.
Let me put it this way. I'd rather have been in a German plane than a Russian one right up to the end of the war. Never mind during the Kindermord. Christ, even the Finns managed to massacre them on the ground and in the air and they didn't have much but antique Fokkers.
The Finns lost the war- and they were equipped with all sorts, including 109s. And loss ratios of German-Soviet aircraft went from 21:1 in the German favour (1941) to only 2:1 in 1944-45. I'd rather be on the side with the most shit. Its "stuff" and sound strategy-operations (Soviet deep operations) that win wars, not flash, good at tactics Germans, who are shit at operations and strategy.
Is that so? Were most of these combat-ready, not grounded through lack of fuel etc?
Not that it matters, 2:1 is still an appalling record in the circumstances, and even if the Luftwaffe did reach maximum size in the final years of the war the Allies were outbuilding them by a staggering margin.
No they were not. German production reached its height in 1944, matching the production of the americans. And don't forget, losses count POWs. The Allies were, mostly, fighting over enemy territory, were a downed airmen is lost regardless of whether he survives. The Germans did not have that problem.
Wikipedia seems to agree with every other source I've seen that the Americans were outbuilding the Germans by a margin of roughly 3 to 1 at that date.
There's also that the Germans were fighting other countries besides the USA in '44.
Oh jeez! I don't think I need to tell you that wikipedia aint' the most reliable source.
And you are right: the USSR's production on top of that would have more than tipped the balance. But if I am going to be really objective here, I could say we are both missing the point - air power's impact was limited by this date in the war to the operational and tactical levels. Strategic targets had been dismantled by the Germans and moved underground or spread out making it difficult to hit targets.
I know Wikipedia's shortcomings only too well. But in this case it seems well sourced and listed in intricate detail. Moreover I have seen similar figures in print.
'Underground factories' housed a small fraction of Germany's industry, usually the ultra-skilled stuff they couldn't afford to lose. Such disruptive and labour-intensive projects as those, plus dispersal forced by the threat of bombing, are measures of German resolve, but Allied success.
I didn't say it didn't, and I am not saying bombing did not have an effect. I have Buckley's airpower in total war which is far more academic than the Britannica - with respect.
Its not nazi propagand its the history, I recommend you try learn more about the history... maybe u need to be introduced to the books. You kwons nothing about the war that your onw country was envolved. Without american and england suport in material and war machines, the things would be diferent in the estern front. The russian pilots were brave but not trainned enought, to face the germans. The germans killed a lot of russian pilots. A pilot with 50 kills was normal. U relative was lucky!
Great footage. I'm not so sure about the music, but at least it's contemporary and traditonally German and so well done that one can sing along. Thanks.
My close reletive was an Luftwaffe ace. Walter Nowotny 258 victories. 253 on the Russian front, 3 on the Eastern front before he was shot while trying to land his plane.
Your close relative was a big layer. If only one Nazi ace had 258 victories how come that my grandfather who was a pilot in Red Army finished WWII in Berlin? So your relative a story teller! :)
That guy blastinhg the Russian bi plane looks like Horst Petzschler, 27 victories, shot down by Walter Konantz USAAF, 50 years later found out the lived 3 miles apart in Wichita Kansas!
but then again he probably never flew 110s, as someone will point out, got his card here somewhere, says 'Me 109 pilot' and gives his Wichita address and phone number, what a hoot
Half the reason I stopped flying after 40 years was from being tired of the old retired boys sitting on the bench at my FBO. Bla,bla bla about airplanes, performance and judging everyones landing. Fact was 98% of the old farts had about 8 to zero hours flying time.
Talk about armchair flying on youtube! Everyone is an expert! lol!!
that is actually strange, because the lightning has a very fast roll rate, and was also faster, the 110 seems to me also a much heavier bird, but the Luftwaffe fighter planes had indeed a better gun platform.
No, the p-38L had a top speed of 390MPH,Weights: Empty: 14,100 lb,Operational: 19,500 lb. climb rate: 2770 a min. Messerschmitt Bf 110G Maximum Speed: 388 mph, climb rate 2,960 a min, Empty: 12,350lb's Max Gross: 15,750 lb.the P-38 was much heavier bird.and the 110 had a faster dive speed than the p-38, and could out trun the P-38 at all speed's.
As a long range escort fighter the 110 was hopelessly outclasses by single engine fighters to the point of when the bombers were attacked they would form luffberry circles to protect themselves. they were just too big and unmanouverable to be an effective fighter. As a night fighter/ bomber destroyer they faired much better.
Many are thinking that russian pilots were not skillfull. But that's not quite true. Most of them could handle the aircraft very well. But their problem was that they couldn't use the guns of the aircraft in right well. Their tactic was not the best. That's why they lost airbattles against Finish Air Force by 1:18.
yes and all the P 51, P 47 and Spits and Mosicitos only engaged BF 109 and FW 190 ???
And they strafed only armoured military vehicles? Wake up. That war was hell and made deviles out of any soldier on any side. Lets be lucky that it´s over 60 years ago.
I guess after a quick look some of the planes attacked include a Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, couple of Sukhoi Su-2, either a Petlyakov Pe-2 or Ilyushin DB-3F (Il-4) and perhaps a couple of I-16s.
Well after another look, I think I got many wrong actually , the first biplane appearing is most surely to be an I-153 (no landing gear as opposed to I-15bis and Po-2) ; some LaGG-3 appearing, two Il-2M, possibly a Su-2 and probably a twin-engined Tupolev Sb-2 (althought it can always be an Ilyushin DB-3). These are all early VVS aircraft so footage should be dated around middle of 1942.
A biplane at 0:40?!
initvesa 2 months ago
@initvesa I-153's, nasty little buggers.
SimpleKillTheBatman 2 weeks ago
Luftwaffe - The Battle Begins
mightyskywalker87 5 months ago
My dad was a 385th BG pilot in 44-45, 37 combat missions and he has nothing but respect for the Luftwaffe fliers. They fought hard & died for their country. Even when the appearance of the Mustang & barely trained pilots spelled almost certain death, the Luftwaffe still came up to fight.
I'm a Marine myself, however you slice it, war is brutal. All sides in any war will ultimately resort to whatever tactics it will take to win, or stave off defeat. Civilians will always die in wars. FACT!
GeddyBre 7 months ago 4
GERMANY bombed the fuck out of Europe BEFORE Churchill gave any orders. But they cried when the Allies gave them some of their own medicine.
Fuckwits.
skittification 8 months ago
Music reminds me of ... "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are gray." Guess I'm getting old.
dinoflagz 9 months ago
luftwaffe curse? only one name, adolf Hitler with his bad ideas like back me 262 for example.
214metalero 11 months ago
@214metalero Hitler's idea's weren't bad, they were just a little late. Since Germany lost the war, everyone feels they have to discuss the "evil Nazi's" and their idea's of world slavery. Hitler didn't want a war with Britain, so he decided to stop fighting the British in 1940 and begin the defense against Soviet Russia, but because he stopped, everyone believes that Britain won. Everything Hitler did to give the allies a chance to settle peacefully was mistaken for weakness.
DeutscheRitter1 10 months ago
luftwaffe curse? only one name, adolf Hitler with his bad ideas like back me 262 for example.
214metalero 11 months ago
@NightmareGbg Well, you certainly didn't want to get in FRONT of one of them in aerial combat. Devastating forward firepower for the day. Hence the later successes as night fighters when retrofitted for nocturnal bomber destruction runs.
TheRealSlipperman 1 year ago
Flying coffins the 110's. Slow and cumbersome to fly. Especially later in the war.
TheRealSlipperman 1 year ago
@TheRealSlipperman Actually they wernt that bad,they had their uses.But they used the wrong tactics. In the defence of the reich as a nightfighter it was very effective at times.
NightmareGbg 1 year ago
greatest airforce of all time
saurav0110 1 year ago
I-16, an I-153.... IL-2 single-seater.... rare footage indeed.
Kagetora2010 1 year ago
machasos son estos cabrones apagar sus vidas con la maxima intuicion humana no solo por defender su patria si no por la vida que emana en la sangre mis respetos a los combatientes de la segunda guerra mundial
chochito78 1 year ago
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tolainhandan 1 year ago
They had the best pilots in WW1 and WW2.
tolainhandan 1 year ago
Nothing like good tuba music to make slaughter so enjoyable..
bellcord 1 year ago 2
P-51 MUSTANG, DO YOU REMEMBER
maxisolina 1 year ago
Our time will come again and soon
nadur29 1 year ago
Fantástico documento! Mas, convenhamos, põe covardia nisso!.. :O
Godsinwar 1 year ago
Me-110 suffered heavily as a front line fighter over Britain in 1940 because it was unsuited for the role. As a night fighter and bomber interceptor it was more of a success.
IanHunedoara8 1 year ago
nice footage, check out our channel !
arditichannel 1 year ago
Truly one of the greatest and most powerful air force of all time
ImperialJapan15 1 year ago
if im hitler I will destroy Russia not UK...in the war in europe it was the russian who won the war..not usa or uk...
slazzer145 1 year ago
Killer Music
jakazza 1 year ago
they got the hammering they deserved.
stratocaster539 1 year ago
even though luftwaffe was immobilised they had the highest kills in ww2
codename47ist 1 year ago
@codename47ist of course they had the highest kills! Its well known their numbers were one the highest padded, and 2 they did not rotate pilots like the allies. they fought to the death, or the end of the war. the germans did not have the numbers to rotate out over x number of months, so the good ones were REALLY good.
69CRUZR 1 year ago
to zaui
whey german lufwaffa losses were so high during the battle of britain. i dont know why
people are so pro german when they lost a war they should have won why? if they are so good how and why did they lose?
tomato6999 1 year ago
@tomato6999
Because there are many factors that play into why they lost, it's not all just black and white.
zauii89 1 year ago
@tomato6999 Theres a number of reasons why they lost,lack of fuel,Göring was an idoit that missmanaged the Luftwaffe, they faced large airforces on three fronts and the german aircraft producers didnt make the planes the Luftwaffe needed but rather they aricraft they liked (Messerschmitt was particulary bad at that).
NightmareGbg 1 year ago
send kids into war, before they know what war means
BASSAROVER 1 year ago
So basically with all the bickering comments back and forth aside...I just want to say...great footage!
skot66 1 year ago
The luftwaffe may have been on the wrong side, but no one can deny their bravery.Taking on England Russia and the U.S.A and only stopping when they ran out of oil.
jrobertsoneff 2 years ago 22
sorry the german airforce stopped when they ran into the raf the spit was a fantastic aeroplane and the germans even with the 190 was just not good enough dont take my word for it speak to some old pilots and read the history of the aircraft
tomato6999 1 year ago
The RAF done well to hold the luftwaffa back long enough for hitler to worry about his oil. Hence the invasion of russia and N.Africa. Britain got its oil from its empire.
jrobertsoneff 1 year ago
Im pretty sure they could've made it sooner o later, counting their size, training etc they were much more in favor for a victory than the british.
Especially if they'd manage to land troops.
zauii89 1 year ago
@jrobertsoneff
fluffy1931 1 year ago
@jrobertsoneff ..,keep sniffing buttcracks assclown. The luftwaffe was 'cockblocked' by the RAF during the Battle of Britain in 1940' without Russia or USA or running out of oil.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 A lot of silly names but no numbers ,give me some numbers?
jrobertsoneff 8 months ago
@jrobertsoneff what numbers dude, Germany lost the Battle of Britain - the luftwaffe versus RAF in 1940' Russia was military alliance with Nazi Germany & Britain was not in any military alliance after fall of France.
The US did not enter WW2 until Dec.1941'.
gtfoh
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 Britain was allied with Poland, France, Russia and America well before WW2 started. Also, America was fighting Germany long before Roosevelt formally declared war. American destroyers were attacking German shipping in 1940. Germany didn't lose the Battle of Britain, Hitler was trying to find a peace with Britain so he allowed the British to evacuate Dunkirk for the same reason. Churchill admitted that Britain entered the war on her own free will, that Germany was NEVER a threat.
DeutscheRitter1 8 months ago
@DeutscheRitter1 No. Britain was in a military alliance with France, Poland assclown.
In 1939' Nazi Germany & Russia entered into a military alliance called Molotov-Ribbentropp-Pact. Do the math.
Nazi Germany & Russia invaded Poland together in 1939'.
No. Britain and America were not in a military alliance prior to Dec. 11,1941' when Nazi Germany unilaterally declared war on America.
Britain recieved lend-lease aid and paid cash for military asistance.
No. Germany lost the Battle of Britain.
fluffy1931 7 months ago
@jrobertsoneff that has nothing to do with bravery, they had no choice.
Lotus2102 7 months ago
patton was murdered? i need to be let in on this
dntlss 2 years ago
Read some excerpts from Pattons diary on the Rense web site.
General Patton was very outspoken and had misgivings over the outcome of the war and the reasons it was fought.
He also made some very politically incorrect comments regarding the pampered princes of persecution over which this war was fought.
His comments earned him a lot of enemies among the ruling elite.
Officially his death was an accident, although the circumstances were suspicious.
ChilesGreen 2 years ago
yes thats a fact. he got wise to wjat was the great betrayal
xtiml 2 years ago
Look up Douglas Bazata and the book Target Patton. Eisenhower had plenty of chances to destroy the German Army in the West and let them escape. The first was the Falaise Pocket, then the Battle of the Bulge, where he pushed the bulge back slowly instead of attacking the flanks and cutting off two entire panzer armies and opening a huge gap in the German lines.
jackzero99 1 year ago
Why don't you google (Kaganovich and Yagoda) and learn some history before you go calling the Germans barbarians.
You must think General Patton is a Nazi.
ChilesGreen 2 years ago
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luftwaffe brought nothing but destruction and tragedy to Europe.
The germans started an unnecessary war and got defeated [twice] and based upon how many videos are shown here on YouTube [also known as NaziTube] glorifying those bloody barbarians, one may come to the conclusion that there still are too many of them left out there ready to repeat the atrocities committed by their ancestors
bumpa25 2 years ago
Are you including admiral Nimitze , Admiral Mountbatton General EisenhowerThe royal family to name just a few people of German descent.
jrobertsoneff 2 years ago
prince phillip the Queen'
terryjohn 2 years ago
Quotes from Patton:
"Actually, the Germans are the only decent people left in Europe. it's a choice between them and the Russians. I prefer the Germans." "What we are doing is to destroy the only semi-modern state in Europe, so that Russia can swallow the whole."
"There is a very apparent Semitic influence in the press. They are trying to do two things: first, implement communism, and second, see that all businessmen of German ancestry and non-Jewish antecedents are thrown out of their jobs.
ChilesGreen 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
There's an interesting read on the Rense web site featuring quotes out of General Patton's diary.
Before Patton was murdered he wrote some profound and provocative statements about the real reasons this war was fought..
ChilesGreen 2 years ago
The US supported international bulshevism and sided with murderous White hating mongolian communists.
The Germans were outnumbered 10 to 1 fighting a war on two fronts. Their superior technology and weaponry were no match for the numerically superior forces of international bulshevism.
Now the victorious New World Order rat bulsheviks infest all Western nations and are eating away and destroying the culture and economies of nations.
Future generations may wind up speaking Ebonics.
ChilesGreen 2 years ago
It was German that started the war by invading Poland and the Luftwaffe bombed Polish cities killing thousands of civilians. On 25 September 1939 Luftwaffe flew 1,150 sorties dropping 560 tons of high explosives and 72 tons of incendiaries over Warsaw killing more than 40,000 civilians. They bombed Rotterdam killing over 1000 civilians. Luftwaffe bombed London, Southampton, Brighton, Birmingham and Bristol, killing more than 22,000 civilians in three months. Nothing to be proud of.
bumpa25 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
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Atomic bombs on Japan was the most efficient way to finish the war quickly, which otherwise would continue for many years killing even more innocents. Japanese people learned their lesson and begun working hard for peace instead of war.
Too bad the Glorious allies didnt drop atomic bombs on Germany too, roasting most of you nazis so we could skip the smell of your bloody shit today.
bumpa25 2 years ago
you call me a Nazi ugh! typical..
terryjohn 2 years ago
Racist- too.
terryjohn 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
But it was Luftwaffe who started to attack non-military targets - Warsaw, Rotterdam, Coventry.
Tollrander 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
The RAF und the USAAF attacked civilans, too. Much harder then the Luftwaffe think about Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne and some other Cities.
starsunlocked 2 years ago 12
yes pretty horrific.but takin no sides japan too..we are all the same...and today.
terryjohn 2 years ago
@starsunlocked Thank you for saying that, when I was in Germany many years ago we wanted to go to Dresden however we were told not too since we spoke english.
christl301 1 year ago
@christl301 And how many years ago was that? 50, 60?
080TIGER080 1 year ago
@080TIGER080 It was 1991 when I was cycling around East Germany and meet up with some locals who had moved from Dresden to Bermburg and they said the destruction of Dresden was still very fresh in the hearts of most Germans.
christl301 1 year ago
@christl301 Still, I don't think you would be in any real danger going there...
080TIGER080 1 year ago
@080TIGER080 I agree there wouldn't be a case of danger however there wouldn't be many open arms.
christl301 1 year ago
@starsunlocked Okay, as if the Germans didn't
Think about, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Sunderland and Southampton
And not to forget London...
080TIGER080 1 year ago
@080TIGER080 I know. no one can argue that "his" nation did not killed any civilians. Think about Dresden, Cologne and so on. We bombed GB and Americans, Brits, Russia bombed our Cities. Every Nation did Warcrimes. Bombed Cities, killed civilians, raped and lootet villages and cities. Not the Germans ind Britain, but in east europe. We send you Ju-88, He-111, V1 and V2, you sendet thousands and uponthousands of bombers. We must not forget the dismay of the ww2 and all other wars in the world.
starsunlocked 1 year ago
@starsunlocked Off course, both sides did horrible things. No point in denying that. It's just that your comment was pointing its finger only at the RAF/USAAF. But I guess I misunderstood you :).
080TIGER080 1 year ago
@080TIGER080 Like you said:"both sides did horrible things." I wont defend any Nation.
starsunlocked 1 year ago
@starsunlocked
Exactly, Hitler didn't want to attack civilians and was only forced to when German cities were being blasted to bits under the orders of Churchill.
OrthodoxDarwinist 9 months ago
@starsunlocked ...,total 'bs' dude.
As far as Dresden being a militarily insignificant industrial centre? An official 1942 guide described the German city as "one of the foremost industrial locations of the Reich" and in 1944, the German Army High Command's Weapons Office listed 127 medium-to-large factories and workshops which supplied the army with materiel.
Among these were a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabric Goye and Company); the great Zeiss Ikon A.G.
fluffy1931 8 months ago
@fluffy1931 The germans never saw it as a battlle,but if you want to talk battles the luftwaffa won the battle of france on neutral territary.
jrobertsoneff 8 months ago
@jrobertsoneff the germans DID see it as a battle
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@Lotus2102 The brits were right to pull back from france.But hitler waswrong to pull back from britain .But tyhere is a fine line between bravery and madness. And good job we had enough brave men to do the right thing.
jrobertsoneff 7 months ago
@jrobertsoneff How was hitler to know that USA would send help, and later invade Europe?
as far as Hitler knew, UK was beaten, and had no ressources to fight back.
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@fluffy1931 are you calling it BS that the allies used terror bombing against german cities?
If you do, you must be 14 or so, and know nothing about WW2.
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@Lotus2102 read my post again. Post-war discussion, popular legends, historical revisionism aside, Dresden was Germany's seventh-largest city
The US Air Force Historical Division report classified until Dec 1978. This said that there were 110 factories and 50,000 workers in the city supporting the German war effort at the time of the raid.According to the report, there were aircraft components factories; a poison gas factory (Chemische Fabrik Goye and Company etc.,...
pls gtfoh assclown
fluffy1931 7 months ago
@fluffy1931 so....assclown, since you are so happy about wiki quotes, here is one for you, by Churchill: It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed. Otherwise we shall come into control of an utterly ruined land…
Go see the rest yourself.
Pls. get your facts straight my 14 year old assclown. The allies did use terror bombing...
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@Lotus2102 so...assclown, since when did Churchill enter into the USAAF chain of command, dumbfuck?
Both the RAF& USAAF bombed Dresden & Germany.
If you would like to argue about the ruined land...argue with germanys conduct towards it's own civilians during the last months of the war ,..
page 258, SPEER the final verdict author joachim fest
"if the war was lost the German nation would be lost also, and that no consideration should be given to it's "most rudimentary survival." adolf hitler
fluffy1931 7 months ago
@fluffy1931 you are really stupid.
Lets just make this really short, so you can understand it, the allies used terror bombing in an attempt to break civilian morale, in hope it would end the war.
Discussing specific bombing raids seems ineffecient with someone like you.
The germans were evil, but that does not make it right that the allies were evil (sometimes) too.
And no, im not german.
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@Lotus2102 you are a assclown.
Let just make this really short, you say the allies used terror bombing.
no sources, no facts just your opinion.
being a assclown doesn't mean your german.
fluffy1931 7 months ago
@fluffy1931 i pity you
Lotus2102 7 months ago
@Lotus2102 ..,so throw pity party assclown.
fluffy1931 7 months ago
@starsunlocked It was the Luftwaffe that started deliberate bombing of the civilian population. The RAF and later USAAF only did to Germany what the Luftwaffe did to Coventry, Guernica, Warsaw etc. Be proud of Bomber command, they flew night after night with a chance of being shot down of 1 in 25 for every trip they flew. Would you have the stomach to do that?
littleeira 7 months ago
The Luftwaffe became infamous mostly for targeting civilians. The Messerschmitt Bf 110 had some success in the early campaigns against the obsolete Polish planes, but it shown lack of agility in the air against the British fighters during the Battle of Britain, when some Bf 110 equipped units were withdrawn from the battle after very heavy losses and redeployed as night fighters.
bumpa25 2 years ago
nice video.
GermanPanzerzhreck 2 years ago
The Luftwafe was pure glory!A shame Germany lost...the world would have been a much better place.
ZLNull 2 years ago
First of all ZLNull, learn to spell Luftwaffe!!
And there my be one or two people who, unlike you, were on the receiving end of their "pure glory" and may disagree with you!
Thankfully, my nation and our friends,kicked there arse out of our air space and saved us from their "future civilisation"!
YrHen 2 years ago
Just be sure to spell "civilization" correctly too. LOL.
Kudos for the comment though, the Nazis were really, really bad and should have been knocked out of Germany much sooner.
PotatoGunsRule 2 years ago
Thanks for your agreement PotatoGunsRule, BUT you really must stop using Zees in English spelling! Pleez!!
YrHen 2 years ago
Buddy, you reallyi had me laughing out loud there! Have a nice day man, I'm off to get the oil changed and car inspected.
PotatoGunsRule 2 years ago
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terryjohn 2 years ago
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mauriciobbarros 2 years ago
they were Polikarpovs
doncoro 2 years ago
The russians still attacking with biplanes in summer '42?
mistersmith6000 2 years ago
yes!! they were used in spain 1938 .too
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
yep, .. but after that they started massive production and designing of new war-planes
Borat911 2 years ago
I thit that was Polnish planes in 39
Ismalith 2 years ago
whats the music he singin.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
1.40 good shootin......
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
2.35 Horrido.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
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not geat shooter !! :))) germans are only people lose 2 world wars!great country hahuahuaihauhauh
sardosfish 2 years ago
sardosfish you're a fucking moron.
Germany took on the USA, Russia, Britain, France and basically the rest of Europe, all at the same time.
There are no greater warriors than the Germans you complete and full blown idiot!!!
neorunt 2 years ago 3
i admit they were great warriors but the second waorld war they were ready for war way ahead of any one else since they had been arming themselves for years before war broke out.... they were prepared before anyone else was a big reason hitler whooped everyones ass.. eventually they got owned because of the fuhrer
thetriplebd101 2 years ago
I love this movie. It sounds like a bavarian guy with a feather hat and long sacks singin, and making the whole thing look like some kind of romantic story. heh
extere 2 years ago
I was thinking the same thing !! the reality was less romantic though !
Borat911 2 years ago
The first model kit I built as a kid was that BF110 with the wasp painted on the nose.
paul6t4 2 years ago
Revells 1 32 scale i bet
terryjohn 2 years ago
Right scale but it was an Airfix kit.
paul6t4 2 years ago
Airfix didnt do a 1 32 scale me 110
revell did. through....unless its a 1.72 scale airfix kit i did 3 of them.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
Maybe it was a Revell kit, it was over 30 years ago so maybe the memory is gettin a bit fuzzy! I know I did a Revell 109G kit, I think that was 1:32 as well.
paul6t4 2 years ago
yeh there's one on ebay seen 1982 made
i did heinz shafners 1.32 scale kit in 1974
bf110.
tj
terryjohn 2 years ago
Damn!!!!......I should have been a Flyboy in the Airforce instead of a Radio Operator in the Army!!!
warisugly 2 years ago
Very nice song and fascinating film!
Sowka1967 2 years ago
Ta Quali
WinterVine 2 years ago
Das lied werd ich immer hören wenn ich il-2 sturmovik birds of prey spiel
NipplerZZ 2 years ago
I tell you one thing - I would not want to fight in a '110. Not by day, not by night - certainly not with those Mosquitos around
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
Mens in plane of ww2 are heroes and all soldiers of ww2
SvatyJakub 2 years ago
Thanks for such a rare piece of film:):):)
TheRealInvaderZim 2 years ago
in russia,german flyier fight against old craft or transport plane....or sturmovic,armored but slow.....infact pilots in russia have a lot of victories(hartmann and company).in africa or Europe change music....marseille,lemke,galland,Barkhorn etc but germans pilots were top.
sardosfish 2 years ago 3
Sehr schöner Flieger,nur nicht wendig genug
dkasi2 2 years ago 2
Deutschpilot, my great respects for Major Walter Nowotny, KCOIC with oak leaves, swords and diamonds holder, with 258 confirm kills!.
patico888 2 years ago
yes, he won several medals
dreddastaipas 2 years ago
Not confirmed at all. Pilots in the Second World War were guilty of massive overclaiming. When discussing how many aircraft a pilot shot down, it is always "he claimed", or was "credited with" X amount shot down.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
The Germans' kill counts were supposed to be pretty accurate.
Let me put it this way. I'd rather have been in a German plane than a Russian one right up to the end of the war. Never mind during the Kindermord. Christ, even the Finns managed to massacre them on the ground and in the air and they didn't have much but antique Fokkers.
goatshredder 2 years ago
The Finns lost the war- and they were equipped with all sorts, including 109s. And loss ratios of German-Soviet aircraft went from 21:1 in the German favour (1941) to only 2:1 in 1944-45. I'd rather be on the side with the most shit. Its "stuff" and sound strategy-operations (Soviet deep operations) that win wars, not flash, good at tactics Germans, who are shit at operations and strategy.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
Of course the Finns lost, attrition'll do that. A loss ratio of 2:1 when the enemy is suffering total strategic extinction is pitiful.
goatshredder 2 years ago
"strategic exhaustion" - show of ignorance. The Luftwaffe had more aircraft and aircews that at any other time in the last two years of the war.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
Is that so? Were most of these combat-ready, not grounded through lack of fuel etc?
Not that it matters, 2:1 is still an appalling record in the circumstances, and even if the Luftwaffe did reach maximum size in the final years of the war the Allies were outbuilding them by a staggering margin.
goatshredder 2 years ago
No they were not. German production reached its height in 1944, matching the production of the americans. And don't forget, losses count POWs. The Allies were, mostly, fighting over enemy territory, were a downed airmen is lost regardless of whether he survives. The Germans did not have that problem.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
Wikipedia seems to agree with every other source I've seen that the Americans were outbuilding the Germans by a margin of roughly 3 to 1 at that date.
There's also that the Germans were fighting other countries besides the USA in '44.
goatshredder 2 years ago
Oh jeez! I don't think I need to tell you that wikipedia aint' the most reliable source.
And you are right: the USSR's production on top of that would have more than tipped the balance. But if I am going to be really objective here, I could say we are both missing the point - air power's impact was limited by this date in the war to the operational and tactical levels. Strategic targets had been dismantled by the Germans and moved underground or spread out making it difficult to hit targets.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
I know Wikipedia's shortcomings only too well. But in this case it seems well sourced and listed in intricate detail. Moreover I have seen similar figures in print.
'Underground factories' housed a small fraction of Germany's industry, usually the ultra-skilled stuff they couldn't afford to lose. Such disruptive and labour-intensive projects as those, plus dispersal forced by the threat of bombing, are measures of German resolve, but Allied success.
goatshredder 2 years ago
I'm not sure thats accurate. Quite a few were - mostly it was spread out, which is just as difficult to get at.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
There's a reason industries don't up and move into remote caves in peacetime. If a bombing campaign forces that sort of response, it has succeeded.
For an interesting view of Allied countermeasures google Subterranea Britannica .
goatshredder 2 years ago
I didn't say it didn't, and I am not saying bombing did not have an effect. I have Buckley's airpower in total war which is far more academic than the Britannica - with respect.
DannyBoy777777 2 years ago
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Stupid Nazi propaganda. By the way Red Army pilots finished Luftwaffe before 1945.
oleksiyca 2 years ago
Its not nazi propagand its the history, I recommend you try learn more about the history... maybe u need to be introduced to the books. You kwons nothing about the war that your onw country was envolved. Without american and england suport in material and war machines, the things would be diferent in the estern front. The russian pilots were brave but not trainned enought, to face the germans. The germans killed a lot of russian pilots. A pilot with 50 kills was normal. U relative was lucky!
adrianotche 2 years ago 4
Hehe, its funny when the big unmanouvreable brute tries to roll its wings at the end, you can hardly tell if you are not looking for it.
See how it waddles through the air like a pregnant dug when he tries it at 2m35s :)
Xiolablu3 3 years ago
Great footage. I'm not so sure about the music, but at least it's contemporary and traditonally German and so well done that one can sing along. Thanks.
Uhrhausen 3 years ago 2
Seit wann hat das JG 4 (Wappen rechts oben) Bf 110 geflogen? Einen Mustang-Killer haben sie gehabt (11 Mustangs, Rekord) auf einer Bf 109.
BabbelYou 3 years ago
My close reletive was an Luftwaffe ace. Walter Nowotny 258 victories. 253 on the Russian front, 3 on the Eastern front before he was shot while trying to land his plane.
Deutschpilot 3 years ago
Your close relative was a big layer. If only one Nazi ace had 258 victories how come that my grandfather who was a pilot in Red Army finished WWII in Berlin? So your relative a story teller! :)
oleksiyca 2 years ago
there is a picture of Walter Nowotny in the air and space museum in Washington DC.
I saw the picture today.
ikaros44 2 years ago
as Skipjack said another reason to give up flying...everybody is an expert (and some people cant even read)
HisMajestyOKeefe 3 years ago
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Stupid heroes.
motalli60 3 years ago
Very nice bullet tracers :)
RedikCZE 3 years ago
That guy blastinhg the Russian bi plane looks like Horst Petzschler, 27 victories, shot down by Walter Konantz USAAF, 50 years later found out the lived 3 miles apart in Wichita Kansas!
HisMajestyOKeefe 3 years ago
but then again he probably never flew 110s, as someone will point out, got his card here somewhere, says 'Me 109 pilot' and gives his Wichita address and phone number, what a hoot
HisMajestyOKeefe 3 years ago
PET DIDNT FLY A BF 110.
TJ
terryjohn 3 years ago
I said that a month ago, but I'll call him and ask him
HisMajestyOKeefe 3 years ago
I am informed that I remember this story incorrectly, informed from a good source, his son!
Walter lived in Moussouri and Horst still lives in Wichita.
Merry Christmas
HRMOKeefe 3 years ago
Half the reason I stopped flying after 40 years was from being tired of the old retired boys sitting on the bench at my FBO. Bla,bla bla about airplanes, performance and judging everyones landing. Fact was 98% of the old farts had about 8 to zero hours flying time.
Talk about armchair flying on youtube! Everyone is an expert! lol!!
skipjackbj 3 years ago 5
do you have the lyrics of the song??
panzerbrigadier 4 years ago
In 1943 The USAAF evaluated the ME-110 and found out it had better performance than the P-38's had, FYI.
texasfathead 4 years ago
that is actually strange, because the lightning has a very fast roll rate, and was also faster, the 110 seems to me also a much heavier bird, but the Luftwaffe fighter planes had indeed a better gun platform.
metalmelvin 4 years ago
No, the p-38L had a top speed of 390MPH,Weights: Empty: 14,100 lb,Operational: 19,500 lb. climb rate: 2770 a min. Messerschmitt Bf 110G Maximum Speed: 388 mph, climb rate 2,960 a min, Empty: 12,350lb's Max Gross: 15,750 lb.the P-38 was much heavier bird.and the 110 had a faster dive speed than the p-38, and could out trun the P-38 at all speed's.
texasfathead 4 years ago
Whatever book you are getting that information from...close it and throw it away. The numbers are completely wrong.
Top speed of the P-38L was 416 mph.Top speed of the Me-110G was 342 mph. The rate of climb you posted are wrong too.
Zyzbot 3 years ago
As a long range escort fighter the 110 was hopelessly outclasses by single engine fighters to the point of when the bombers were attacked they would form luffberry circles to protect themselves. they were just too big and unmanouverable to be an effective fighter. As a night fighter/ bomber destroyer they faired much better.
paul6t4 2 years ago
Many are thinking that russian pilots were not skillfull. But that's not quite true. Most of them could handle the aircraft very well. But their problem was that they couldn't use the guns of the aircraft in right well. Their tactic was not the best. That's why they lost airbattles against Finish Air Force by 1:18.
timo1595 4 years ago
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The great third reich shooting down old biplanes....yep, it was hard doing the blitz.
PS. I bet those biplanes are not german. More like Czech or Polish resistance.
skipjackbj 4 years ago
yes and all the P 51, P 47 and Spits and Mosicitos only engaged BF 109 and FW 190 ???
And they strafed only armoured military vehicles? Wake up. That war was hell and made deviles out of any soldier on any side. Lets be lucky that it´s over 60 years ago.
Fritztoons 3 years ago 2
great video..
MTX911 4 years ago
I guess after a quick look some of the planes attacked include a Polikarpov Po-2 biplane, couple of Sukhoi Su-2, either a Petlyakov Pe-2 or Ilyushin DB-3F (Il-4) and perhaps a couple of I-16s.
lape2002 4 years ago
he got one last shot.Horrido.
terryjohn 4 years ago
Well after another look, I think I got many wrong actually , the first biplane appearing is most surely to be an I-153 (no landing gear as opposed to I-15bis and Po-2) ; some LaGG-3 appearing, two Il-2M, possibly a Su-2 and probably a twin-engined Tupolev Sb-2 (althought it can always be an Ilyushin DB-3). These are all early VVS aircraft so footage should be dated around middle of 1942.
lape2002 4 years ago
To hell MONGRELS! Have destroyed more civilians, than all other armies together taken. In any case - Russian planes were better.
rusbp 4 years ago
на 2.25 фашистский отпечаток
AVAOD 4 years ago
Ahtung Ahtung!!! Pokrishkin!!!
Gitler Caput!!!!
pavelch 4 years ago
ACTHUNG BLACK DEVIL IS IN THE AIR.
terryjohn 4 years ago