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  • Dude, könnten sie eine frage beantworten ? Warum, wenn ein bomber hatten viele maschinengewehre, war kampfflugzeuge immer vor ihm ? Es sollte leicht sein und schnell auf alle waffen auf dem spiel zeigen und es zerstört ? Bitte ...

  • The second chorus at 3:20, 11 years after hearing this song for the first time, still gives me chills every time I hear it.

  • How could anyone dislike this?

    Oh, and if you like this, try THIS: /watch?v=uogGYmBShqQ

  • nice work. kansas is my favorite band. nice video!

  • 3 things:

    1. KANSAS ROCKS.

    2. This video rocks too and fits the song perfectly.

    3. The majority of Kansas songs fit some aspect of the film Avatar perfectly. I already did an Avatar video with Wayward Son. I think this could be my inspiration to cut the final battle in Avatar to this song.

  • Stupendous Job on the Video! I well up inside every time I see it. Steve Walsh can produce true emotion in his voice on a level that few singers can. It must be a gift from God. Kerry Livgren wrote this song for Kansas, and they deliver powerfully as only musicians who's fathers were WWII veterans can. They FEEL this song intrinsically.

  • Excellent. Every time I hear this song, I frame a video like this in my head. Great job!

  • i think i still like part 1 better but this song kicks ass! great video :)

  • yes, yes it can.

  • Excellent. I've been working on a similar project with this song for my father-in-law's birthday. I may steal an idea or two of yours! Carry on....

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  • =VERY COOL DALEFAN=

  • Excellent video, especially the centerpiece of the song, where all the distorted guitars are wailing away, to have to the all out confrontation.

  • This was magnificent. It is a true tribute to each free human who chose to face fear, and to see evil for what it is. Each one of us needs to honor the sacrifice paid by those who chose. And Kansas, who has the courage to create such a tribute except for you? Courage and musical excellence.

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  • without any doubt, the best song of that album and also one of my favorites!! good video, too!

  • The B-17 was and still is a beautiful and amazing airplane.

    I think my great-uncle, CPL Oliver Erhard (aviation mechanic, 15th Air Force, USAAF, North Africa) put it best in a picture he mailed home in 1943. It's a picture of his B-17 (he was a ground crewman) taking off. At the bottom of the picture he wrote: "The Queen of the Sky"

    Enough said.

  • It's amazing how something so horrible and damaging can bring us so close, to look back and remember who the good guys were, and the sacrifices they made for the liberty of mankind. And even now, most of us have forgotten what we have and no longer appreciate it. War is such a bad thing, but it seems that this is exactly what makes us grow, challenges.

  • Great Sound Words Deep Real Truth Change Us All. =USA= =YES WE CAN= =YOU CAN VETS=

    I KAN : )

  • Excellent Dale38. Bravo ! K Rocks !

  • A fitting song.

  • this is by far the best song on the album. I'm seeing Kansas on march 25. it will be the fourth time i see them over the period of about two years. i always feel like the only 16 year old at those concerts though.

  • it's still on my friend.

  • ok thanks, for some reason it shows it's no longer available on my end.

  • For some reason this video has been removed and I don't know why. I will be reposting it soon though.

  • my father was a waist gunner on a b-17 based in eye england, he flew 19 missions and his stories are amazing. thanks kansas for such a great tribute to all who served.

  • are you still able to view the video?????

  • asof saturday i was still able to view it, have not tried today (monday)

  • GREAT VIDEO. I had family involve in this war.

    Some in prison camps. This K Song is HEAVY on the

    Heart & Soul... MORE youth, need to hear this.

  • my frined, I am 20 years old and this is just an incredible piece of music. Great story telling and music to match it. They dont write songs like this one any more.

  • Plummeting to earth.My God! what a way to die.Did they have guts or what.Feet firmly on the ground thats me.

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  • Splendid Job! The WWII vets were the greatest generation. Please do not elect Obama/Clinton or the USA will be a memory. They will give us over wilingly to our enemies, and everything we hold scared they will sell away for power.

  • the real one is being revamped for a museum.

  • in the movie its not even the same version of B17, it was the B17G in the 1990 movie, they just removed the chin turret to make it look like a F version

  • No, cause the tail turret is also of the F type, or did they change that as well? But if it was a G then they did a good job on paint, and changing the turrets to F style.

  • The memphis Belle 1990 movie was using B17G

  • Yes I saw it on Wikipedia later that they also changed the tail-turret etc to make it look life an F :)

    I stand corrected :P

  • lol yep

  • WOW. Well done Dalefan38. The movie scenes are perfectly timed to the song. Thank you!

  • in this style of movies, this one is the best

  • Do two wrongs make a right? It is simply wrong no matter who did it. It is not honourable or knightly or human. Why can't you admit that? Does killing women and children make you a man? Where is your honour?

  • well dinky dong no two wrongs don,t make a right!But bombing does sooner or later brings peace!

  • I never said it did. War is hell, and it's a Goddamn tragedy when it becomes necessary. My point is that Churchill and FDR were not Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and Stalin. Yes, the Allies did do some shitty things in which no pride should be taken. That does not change the fact that our side was fighting two truly evil and genocidal regimes. By the way, based on your comment about "zionists", I must ask if you're one of those morons who likes to pretend that the Holocaust didn't happen.

  • Thank you for admitting that all war criminals should have been tried. The holocaust definitely happened although the true number of deaths have been argued. Hitler warned the zionists that if they dragged Germany into another world war he would wipe out european jewery. My uncles fought for the allies and didn't kill inocent civilians. That, I am proud of.

  • Hitler was the one who dragged Europe into war. This "zionist conspiracy" you speak of is nothing but pro-nazi anti-semitic bullshit (I'm Catholic, before you try to accuse me of being part of your supposed conspiracy). My great-uncle helped to liberate one of the death camps, and my grandfather's ship brought many surviving Jews to the US after they were rescued. They were not part of any conspiracy, they were innocent victims. And how can you speak of honor when you take Hitler's side?

  • I will not disagree with your first point although it could be argued. Your second point is half true. The true zionists escaped as they had the money and power to do so. They care less about the little jew or you or I. I do not honour Hitler. World zionists declared financial war on Germany long before it all started. Search Youtube to learn the facts.

  • What about the other 6 million people murdered by the Nazis? Like Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, retards, Downe's syndrome patients, political dissidents, whole cities in Russia, Poland, and Ukraine that were massacred by the SS, or hundreds of thousands forced into slave labor. You want to make more excuses for Hitler? Nobody provoked that.

  • Once again you fail to realize that I am not making excuses for anyone. The communists also murdered millions and the allies as well. Does that make it right? What is of interest is, who pulled the strings?

  • And what you fail to realize is that your "conspiracy" is merely a concoction used by Hitler and his cronies to incite hatred against Jews. Kinda like how on August 31st, 1939 a dozen prisoners were put in Polish uniforms, then taken to a border crossing and shot so Goebbels' cameramen could claim that Poland attacked first. The only ones pulling strings were assholes with swastikas on their arms.

  • Alas, same as the Lusitania, Pearl Harbour and 9-11 just to name a few. Why not research the FED in Youtube for a start. Your are not being broad minded. I was once only educated with "blinders" on. Get the facts. It's all a hoax to make the rich, richer. No matter what who wears or states. No one hates Jews. The Zionists didn't give a damn about the poor Jews. They were warned in 1939 not to drag Europe into another world war. They didn't care about the future dead but only profits.

  • Fan-fucking-tastic, more conspiracies! You say, "They were warned," implying that the nazis were somehow provoked, justified, or not responsible for the massive obscenity that they committed. By doing that, you make excuses for them. The fact remains that you do in fact wear the "blinders" of your own prejudice. I don't blindly accept what I'm told, I dig up as much as I can from all sides. I'm done with this discussion. If you can't live without having the last word, I don't care.

  • Joseph Sobran states: "The name of this little game is keeping the goyim on the defensive at all times. If they can't be refuted, attack them personally: Insinuate that whatever they say in their own defense is actuated by the worst motives, motives which it goes without saying...."

  • @elephantdong "No one hates the jews." Um, my neighborhood has a neonazi who hates Jews. Blames the Jews for everything.

  • PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN POPULATIONS AGAINST BOMBING FROM THE AIR IN CASE OF WAR

    Unanimous resolution of the League of Nations Assembly, September 30, 1938.

    1) The intentional bombing of civilian populations is illegal;2) Objectives aimed at from the air must be legitimate military objectives and must be identifiable;3) Any attack on legitimate military objectives must be carried out in such a way that civilian populations in the neighbourhood are not bombed through negligence.

  • Among those member states who unanimously approved this (the US was not a member): Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Mussolini's Italy, who undertook massive bombing campaigns against civilian population long before the Allies began strategic bombing of Europe.

  • "Churchill ordered a series of night raids on Berlin for the specific

    purpose of diverting German attacks from the airfields of London. After

    Berlin was attacked six times, the German air force was ordered to attack

    London, and, as Churchill anticipated, the pressure on the airfields was

    relieved. Thus began the blitz." (Benjamin Colby, Twas a Famous Victory,

    p.173, emphasis supplied).

  • The Italian Air Force repeatedly bombed tribal villages in Ethiopia in '38. Japan carpet-bombed dozens of Chinese cities in the 30s topped it off with the Rape of Nanking. The Luftwaffe bombed Polish neighborhoods in '39. In Feb'40, a stray Kraut bomber released his load over Aachen, then the Luftwaffe "retaliated" by bombing several Dutch and Belgian towns.

  • Very nice job on this video.

  • I get upset when foreigners have bad opinions of Americans. Most of them should thank our country to this day, for pretty much saving there asses in world war two. Even though the Soviet Union probably would have beat Germany eventually.

  • This comment shows some pretty naive thinking.

    1. WWII ended sixty years ago. Most people weren't born yet, so the "most [foreigners]" crowd that you speak of have no need to thank us.

  • Except that they'd all be speaking German, and they had all better be blond-haired, blue-eyed, right-handed, and not Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals, liberals, or disabled if they knew what was good for them. Yeah, except for that minor little detail, no reason to thank us, or the Canadian, or the ANZACs who fought, bled, and died for Europe's freedom.

  • Search Youtube for "Who Are The Rothschilds - Zionists.." to find out why any of these wars were fought and countless numbers of human beings died for no other purpose than to make a select group of individuals very wealthy.

  • This war was fought because a bunch of assholes followed an evil megalomaniac with delusions of world domination.

  • 2. If countries really played the sort of gratitude game that you take so much for granted (and they don't; nobody does), then, by your logic, the USA should be thanking France to this day, for helping us win independence from Britain. We should be thanking the UK, whose navy helped enforce the Monroe Doctrine, protecting our continent from European empires.

  • Nations just don't act that way. Today's Europe owes us nothing for WWII. We owe Britain and France nothing for helping us get on our feet when our republic was young. If we did, millions of people would be indebted to one another forever. It's also unrealistic for a nation to plan its foreign policy based on an event that took place half a century ago.

  • If you study the Eastern Front, you'd know that only Allied supplies and intervention saved the Soviets. Most of their planes, trucks, and tanks were American-made. Despite Stalin's claims, even with all of the foreign aid recieved, the Red Army very nearly collapsed under his war of attrition. Hundreds of thousands of brave Soviet soldiers' lives were thrown away on half-ass attacks in which many hadn't even been issued weapons, even as late as 1944.

  • KAN GRADS KV on 4,000 views. What's next Bro ? Feel 100% feel to use any K photos of mine, or cut paste any parts. Thanks. Best K video, so far Bro. rb

     K Photos : wmw ICARUSpix4U com

  • brilliant song, best one on the 'comeback' disc. Yeah, Steve Walsh can't sing like he used to, but the tone of his voice now suits this song to a tee. Great use of film and stock footage to bring the lyrics to life.

  • Age is hell on vocals sadly. But it gives more of a 'grit' to the song.

  • nice

  • sorry but i dont know who kansas are....but i loved the vid and have the utmost respect and appreciation for the brave men & women who did their part 1939-45

  • Kansas is the band famous for "Carry on Wayward Son," and "Dust in the Wind."

  • nice! long life to America XD

  • We must think alike! This is EXACTLY what I thought a video based on this song would look like. (By the way, I've heard one reviewer of that Kansas album characterize "Icarus II" as an "antiwar" song. I couldn't disagree more.) Thank you, thank you for being willing to share your vision with other like souls. Please continue to develop this gift.

  • What a wonderful job on this. My kansas and one of my favorite songs....so well done. The song, the lyrics, the questions apply in todays war as well.

  • A great Kansas song that was perfect for this treatment. I love how you interpreted the lyrics. "Friends going down in flames" and "Dodging all the tracers" was especially well done.

  • Great song ,great band, great tribute. Thanks for posting this.

  • Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm rather proud of this one in particular. This song is very under rated.

  • Awesome song by KANSAS! One of my favorites from that cd! You did an absolutely Fabulous job on this video and timing in the song! This cd came out on my birthday 7-11 and in the new centennial 2000!

  • Post up any comments you may have please.

  • This song is a wonderful tribute to the WWII generation. The video compilation is fanastic. I had always hoped that KANSAS and this song would generate some airplay around the time of the WWII memorial dedication. But we all know how fickle radio stations are.

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