Captured German and Japanese War Icons

[trexx63]

Sensational footage.

[granskare]

FE means foreign equipment

[MrJp990]

1:10 is a japanese Ohka meaning cherry blossom... it was a suicide attack aircraft

[Knut1961]

Ah ben, fallait pas laisser trainer tes jouets aussi.... dans un an et un jour, c'est à l'Oncle Sam !

[radick09]

alles kaputt xD

[dekster14LP]

I wonder how much of those planes are still left today...

[FiveCentsPlease]

@dekster14LP

Several in the video are at the National Air and Space Museum, either in storage or restored for display.

[vangestelwijnen]

@dekster14LP Almost none. I wish they had preserved these beauties. Now we have to make replicas..

[FiveCentsPlease]

@vangestelwijnen

Much of what is in the video still survives with the NASM. The Me262 and Ju388 are still with the museum. The big Ju290 was scrapped in 1946.

[vangestelwijnen]

@FiveCentsPlease OK, thanks for the information. That's good news.

[madcitymcflyer]

Regarding the JU-290, it was evaluated at Freeman Field, Indiana after being flown

by other Air Technical Intelligence Unit crews in the field after capture and repair. The 'Alles Kaputt' was painted onto the fuselage after the war and before it was put on display. Along with other WW II Axis planes it was held at Orchard Ridge Field, Illinois for inclusion into the Air Force Museum. Most of the planes were scrapped around 1950. Orchard Ridge became O'Hare Field we know today.

[Tritium5678]

verdammt, verdammt deutschen Maschinen in den Händen des Feindes...... 

[bloomantis290]

He gets to ride an ohka and I dont:(

[parzifal2]

alles kaputt = all destroyed

[pixelsilva]

At 1:07 the aerial victories recorded on the Me-262 tail reads: 1 P-47, 1 P-51, 5 B-17 and 12 Russian (??)...

...a total of 19 aircraft in the ETO. 7 on the western front and 12 on the estern front.

[93MANIAC]

What model was the aircraft seen right after the V 2 Rocket motor ?

[FiveCentsPlease]

@93MANIAC

Junkers Ju-388. One Ju-388 survives unrestored and in storage with NASM collection, and I believe this is same plane.

[Flyboy207]

The Allies won the war, and rightly so, but, man, Germany made some good stuff.

[douglasgleeson]

Amazing footage... if only that Junkers 188 and Junkers 290 were still around today :(

[FiveCentsPlease]

@douglasgleeson

That's a Ju-388 and it is still in storage at the NASM Garber facility. The Ju-290 was scrapped in Dec. 1946.

[SatorIICodex]

Ty for the info five! Its all part of the history, so its very important to preserve them so we can remember and learn from the history. Very little is preserved from the ww2 axis equippment. The Swedish airforcemusem has the only one still in existance ju 86 displayed. Very nice engineered aircraft for its time.

[SatorIICodex]

anyone knows where the 262 whent after the displayed? Is it a museum piece today??



[FiveCentsPlease]

@SatorIICodex

The aircraft was captured by American forces and shipped to the US and used for flight testing. It was then was put into storage. It is now restored and on display at the Smithsonian Museum.

[waterski1961]

@SatorIICodex saw one when stationed at marine detachment willow grove 1963 it went to florida then back to willow grove now has been restored in wings of freedom museum at willow grove pa do not know if it is same plane in video lots of info on tnternet at air museum use search engine

[FiveCentsPlease]

@waterski1961

The 262B-1a at NAS Willow Grove is a different aircraft and was a two-seat trainer. After deteriorating badly on display for many years, an agreement was made to restore it with the same team which has produced the 5 new replica examples. The restoration agreement allow them to copy the airplane for new ones. The original is back on display at Willow Grove.

[waterski1961]

@FiveCentsPlease thanks for up date it a shame when young no one really take time to check things out closer i never took a real good up close look at it. it was just being neglected glad someone had foresight to finally preserve it . keep on keeping us up to date appreciated !

[88pie88]

god knows what happened to them =(

[calibre9mm]

@88pie88 some were remodeled into US army products. Look up Hitlers stealth fighter, its almost a replica to the one built 2 decades later by America

& the Nazis who built the V-Rockets, over 400 went on to to work for NASA

[R4Akai]

stolen iron jet planes................. :<

americans never thought of that alone ! japanese 4ever!

[FiveCentsPlease]

@R4Akai

But at least we thought to make them from aluminum so they would fly.

[rag5206]

Germany should be allowed to develop & export military fighter aircraft it would give the USA & Russia some competition.

[LordKatzeify]

Eine Schande.... eine Unwahrscheinliche Blamage! Scheiss Amerikaner... der pisser setzt sich ins Ohka und lacht sich einen ab... Ihr könnt sicher seine, alle diese Flugzeuge wurden danach verschrottet. Heute existieren keine Ju 290er mehr... schade alee KAPUTT

[itsibitsispiderUSMC]

in 50 to 100years from now re en actors will be acting out the middle east war's... re en actors are the history holders. its sad they scrapped much of the equipment from these periods.

[MclF01]

1 good question is where are these aircraft now?

[FiveCentsPlease]

The Me262 and the Ju388 are at the NASM. Some of the other aircraft are probably in the collection there too. The big Ju290 at the end of the clip was scrapped.

[PitbullNL]

Either scrapped, destroyed or ended up in hands of private domain and musea ;)

[megadupek]

Alles Kaputt! here we go :)

[bavarikus]

Space Age began in 1943 in Germany.

The first man-mande vehicle to enter space was a german Aggregat 4 (so called V2) that reached a maximum altitude of ca. 100 km.

It needed 14 years until the Viktor Koroljew (the russian equivalent to Wernher von Braun) was able to bring Sputnik 1 into an orbit.

[OPE08]

@bavarikus there's a difference between sending up a rocket which then crashed, and sending up a rocket designed to place a satellite in orbit. How much of that 14 years was spent on the satellite?

The interesting question is where would the US have been if they had been interested in Goddards work, and had it on the "front burner" as the Germans did. And where would they have been all along if they had the same goals?

[snorky500]

@bavarikus This is very true. The Germans were the first to put a machine into space. After WWII, the Americans would use captured V2s for tests in it's own space and weapons program. In 1942, Von Braun pleaded with Adolf Hitler for more money for space research, not weapons. Hitler refused and laughed (according to one source I read) . In 1961, he made the same proposal to John F. Kennedy to go to the moon. Kennedy said YES, lets do it! History has such ironies.

[xGODZILLAFIREFOXx]

@bavarikus That was because he was told that he was to develop ICBM design, and only about half a year before the launch of Sputnik 1 was he given the go-ahead. And the American space Program was powered by Von Braun and his team of other germans, not really American scientists.

[BrainBuggered]

And with our technology the stupid make ignorant statements on the internet!

[TornChaines]

The 4 engine plane is a Junkers Ju 290 with the production no. 0165.

[TornChaines]

The 4 engine plane is the Junkers

[furballFalcon]

The 4 engine plane looks like a modified Piaggio Italian Bomber. The axis and the allies use to put enemy equipment back into action under theier own colours.

[furballFalcon]

The 262 could have changed the war, but the allied bombing and the russians over running nthe oil fields stopped hitler getting the fuel to run them.

[zipacna1980]

bs. they used hydroget peroxide not a conventional jet fuel like modern jets.

[furballFalcon]

Wether it was jet fuel or Hydrojet Peroxide or standard aviation fuel the point is that because of a shortage of oil production of any kind of fuel was severly limited.

Limit the distrubution capab ility and you limit the power to produce anything need from Fuel to steel, Ammunition to troops to the front line.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@zipacna1980

The Jumo 004 engines in the Me 262 ran on a synthetic fuel derived from coal.

The rocket-powered Me163 used a mixture of hydrazine hydrate and methenol combined with hydrogen peroxide for the rocket motor.

[KronprinzAdam]

Which model is the last 4-motor airplane shown?

[KronprinzAdam]

Have they also exhibited Mr. Werner von Braun on the tour?

[denbou78]

it must be around 1946 1947

[updougdown]

It's a shame Gerry didn't get this far as we probably wouldn't have this irksome infestation prolem.

[deseryve]

lol the ju 290 at the end! the text "alles kaputt" means "everything destroyed"^^

he was right - for himself, what an unusual text on a german bird, crazy :D

[metalmelvin]

hehe, ironic idd

[Quittenmeister]

@metalmelvin

Im pretty sure the americans wrote that on that plane because that is a very untypical font and and writing style for the germans of that time... ;)

[freakyflow]

hmmm i'm far from greman but alles is (allied forces) and kaputt means finshed ( your finished ) meaning us

[deseryve]

i dont know what the pilot wanted to say, but i am from germany and finished means more "zuende" or "vorbei"

destroyed means more "zerstört", but "kaputt" is the same, but not so expressly

[MegaLiopleurodon]

As far as I know, this Motto was painted onto the 290 by Americans, who liked the words, which they had heard so often in Germany in Spring of 1945, when they talked with citizens, who showed them their town or city with the words: Alles Kaputt !- Alles Kaputt !

[deseryve]

lol thanks for this information, then i was right, because it really was everything "kaputt"

i guess they were happy that war was over, but not that their home was destroyed - alles kaputt

[MegaLiopleurodon]

That's true. Germans were happy, after all this almost unimaginable destruction, especially in larger cities, as Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne or Frankfurt, it's a list of pure Horror. It is said, getting your home destroyed, was - for most people - far worse, than loosing relatives.

[Kppot]

@deseryve Yeah, but actaully that text was maded by americans, after the plane's defeat

[evildeathmonkey1]

@deseryve I'm not sure but ''alles kaputt'' can also be interpited as ''destroy everything'' my German isn't that great tough

[deseryve]

@evildeathmonkey1 you mean "to destroy everything"? no, like Kppot said, this text is from Americans and someone before said that this was one of the things the Americans heared very often in that time from german people after the war...i cant imagine that they wanted to destroy everything lol it means that everything they had is destroyed :) also we would say in german "zerstöre alles" to "destroy everything", or, to use "kaputt", we would say "mach alles kaputt"

[evildeathmonkey1]

@deseryve ah ok, like I said my german isn't that good. I'm from the Netherlands:)

I tought it might shot for '' wir machen alles kaputt'' since its a bomber plane and all. sort of as a creedo or something

funny thing German and Dutch, some things are almost the same, but other things are totaly different.

[deseryve]

@evildeathmonkey1 oh, a neighbour hehe :)

that airplane is a Junkers Ju 290...a transporter like the Ju 52 or DC-3 :)

the germans had some writings on their planes, i remember a Bf 109 with the speak "Kölle allaaf" what means "Cologne alives"(its a dialect from cologne) but this one was from Americans.

[evildeathmonkey1]

@deseryve I thought it was a condor marine bomber or something, but why did the americans put that on there? just for show, or did they use captured german planes for themselfs?

[deseryve]

@evildeathmonkey1 this was a show for interested people. of course they used all captured stuff for tests an d so on :)

[SuperAncientmariner]

@deseryve Are you sure it doesn't mean"Cologne aloft" as carried on the FW 190 (Red 19) of Getr, Ernst Schroeder of ll sturm, JG 300. Schroeder was born in Cologne.

[deseryve]

@SuperAncientmariner

No, you mean "Kölle alaaf" :) thats on his Fw 190 and we say it on Carnival. Kölle means Cologne, but alaaf is from the old word "all af", what means "everything away". So maybe "Kölle alaaf" means "Cologne above all"

[SuperAncientmariner]

@deseryve So "allaaf"= alive and "alaaf"=above all. Hmm . Thanks for that, one learns everyday and my German is very,very rusty.

I have a book "Battles with the Luftwaffe" which has a section on the Reichsverteidigung, and Herr Schroeder recounts an action, and he mentions Kolle alaaf as meaning Koln aloft. If you say it means above all, and aloft also means above....makes sense to me , cheers.

[FiveCentsPlease]

@SuperAncientmariner

I believe "Alles Kaput" was painted on the aircraft by the Allies before US testing, since this was a captured aircraft that was flown trans-Atlantic to the US for flight testing. So the term is probably tongue-in-cheek and has no reference to any member of the Luftwaffe. It's unfortunate that this plane was scrapped and not preserved.

[PROstrelqn]

@deseryve

Ju 290 A-4 no. 0165, which had been equipped with attachments for FX 1400, Hs 293, and Hs 294 missiles, and fitted with FuG 203e radar, was surrendered to the US. Renamed Alles Kaputt, and numbered FE 3400, it was flown to the US by Colonel Harold E. Watson from Orly, Paris to Wright Field on 28 July 1945, via the Azores. The captured aircraft, with its Nazi insignia repainted, was a frequent performer at air shows at Freeman Field and Wright Field.

[apatheticempathy]

@deseryve You dumb as, the U.S. wrote/painted that on that German aircraft -AFTER- they captured it.

How dumb can you be, its called state side propoganda ...

[itsnotfunnyHAHA]

@apatheticempathy no the germans wrote it on it, because this was probably ine if the london bomber which survived the the war

[FiveCentsPlease]

@itsnotfunnyHAHA

There are photographs of this Ju-290 at München-Riem after it was surrendered on May 8, 1945. There is no "Alles Kaput" on the original Luftwaffe paint. The original Luftwaffe pilot provided orientation flights to the American aircrew and POW Luftwaffe mechanics serviced the plane and performed engine changes. A photo from July 28, 1945 shows the plane at Orly, Paris before it's departure on a trans-Atlantic flight to the US and "Alles Kaput" had been painted on by then.

[kolbpilot]

That Ju 388 is a beast.

[2pikeman]

why did hitler persist in trying to turn the 262 into a bomber,it was the perfect fighter of ww2

[beatcat22]

Rhetorical question. Combined arms won all the early battles of WW2. To admit that a bomber-killer was needed was to go on the defensive, to admit defeat, something Hitler could not do and maintain morale and discipline.

[freakyflow]

Hittlers airforce told him many times the 262 would turn the tables of the war ...he was to invold in the V2 program

[Marauder0090]

anyone notice the JU-388?

[Andrismilitary]

1:22 Imagine that this Ohka is blowing up when the guy touching it lol

[kolbpilot]

I wonder who the pilot was of the '262' at 1:03. By the way, FE stands for foreign equipment.

[BlackHeartsJG505]

A Ju290, the beast that replaced the Fw200 for navel reconisance and intradiction.

would have loved to see some Fw190D9s and 11s :(

[Borsodi90]

Yes, I see now. The good people suffered this war. No! not the the frenchys who are Vichy fans and allied supporters in one piece.

[deseryve]

you mean D12 or D13, cause the D11 wasnt realized :)

[Borsodi90]

DAMN! WHAT IS THE PLANE AT THE END?

[agentolshki]

looks like a condor but with a different nose. not really sure...

[OlliS013]

Jawoll... Alles Kaputt...das konnte man 1945 schon mal so sagen...

[Dainanashi]

alles kaputt xD

[skateguy9758]

you know what it means??.

it meant everything destroyt or dead ..... so i thingis is from the germans

[Dainanashi]

i'm german ^^ just find it funny 'cause it sounds very unscientific. usually you await something like "außer betrieb" or "funktionsuntüchtig" and this is just like "everything busted" or "completely smashed"

[usshermantank]

at 1:15 does any one know the name of that aircraft?

[trialmano7]

I think this is the OHKA japanese kamikaze plane.

[cessnaoneeightytwo]

its the ohka flying bomb

[Marauder0090]

the JU-388 @ 0:20 i believe survived also.

[apatheticempathy]

Do ANY of these aircraft survive ???

[shigenobu0]

Yes, the Me 262, a couple of Me163.

[Blackshadow1994GER]

IHR SCHEISS AMMIS!!!!!

[ceemosp]

@Blackshadow1994GER schon bei so leichten Worten wie "Amis" scheint dein Intellekt ziemlich überfordert zu sein!

[hallohallo692]

@Blackshadow1994GER

lern erstma ami zu schreiben bevoer du dich aufregst

[DifferenceInOpinion]

actually, german and English are very similar languages. A lot of the german words and phrases are very similar to their english counter parts, also, If I am not mistaken english is taught to all german students starting at kindergarten correct? You should be fluent in both english and german if you started that early. German is amoung one of the easiest languages to learn. Because it is so similar to a large number of large languages. I'm pretty good at german, started learning last week

[Teunioss]

you are not correct germans are awefull bad in speaking English, actually they suck. The current generation still sucks at it.

You confuse them with the Dutch, they learn it at the age of 8 years old, and continue to use it because allt he movies are in English with only subtitles.

And you are pretty good in speaking german, but you started a week ago... damn you must be one of gods miracles.

[isafos]

Or he evolved well.

[Teunioss]

I was sarcastic

[mfsb100]

These aircraft, as well as other war prizes ( like the Prinz Eugen) should have peen preserved, but in a country sick and tired of war, few people wanted any reminders of the conflict. Anything that survived did so only because the technology was useful or the item was simply overlooked.

[citigreg]

the bad comments are a waste, not everyone speaks and spells perfect english, especially if it's not their first language, give the guy a break, he's helping us LEARN, and for one I really enjoy it!

[jackakaazrael]

what are you on about.your comment is total jibberish,it makes no sense when you read it.Learn some grammer (that means spelling)

[noonedude101]

You do know that the original pre war FW-200 Condors were powered by Pratt and Whitney engines.

[FiveCentsPlease]

But the film shows a Ju-290, and it was scrapped on Dec. 12, 1946.

[gotcha109]

German and Jap junk...

[egerhardcore]

very nice footage!In colour!Instead of arguing,who did what,who was right,etc.Let`s learn!These videos(except comments)are otstanding sources!

[ktc8308]

Vintage film but most aircrafts were demolished or dropped.

[jackakaazrael]

now you know why usa is a superpower because they got the german knoweldge after the war

[willilau2006]

and it will fall to the next line of superpowers, like all great powers do. Sooner, rather than later.

[hwoods01]

he knowloedge of what?? how to bite of more than you can chew?? the germans lost on simplistic terms.. dont let your bullshit ego over-step your logic.

[cessnaoneeightytwo]

wat plane at 1:59?

[trilingual]

yes - junkers 290.

[noonedude101]

Thats a modified FW-200 Condor, originaly powered by Pratt and Whitney engines(American)

[Madnessrule24]

Whats the big plane at the end

[stuart5150]

That Ohka is creepy.

[xychr0]

hahah 'we win - we have all your shit'

[willilau2006]

dumb ass comment from xcychr0. You lose, in your fight against the world, ha!

[grauadler]

its a junkers 290

[joeroma80]

Cool video, but in my opinion, the most impressive is the Me-262.

[werre2]

42 russians... served them right.

[11NSKK11]

what is the really big one at the end ?

[metalmelvin]

im not sure, but it looks like a Fw-200

[GlobeLiner84]

The FW-200 Condor had a different nose compared to the plane in the video. This one looks weird, never saw it before!

[robinoi]

I think it's a Ju 290

[cfs3000]

@metalmelvin it is a Fw-200

[megatwingo]

@cfs3000

It´s not a Fw 200. A Fw200 looks absolutely different. This here is a Junkers 290.

[cfs3000]

@megatwingo damn, you're right, how could I have missed that.....*gunshot*

[megatwingo]

@cfs3000

Yes, I´ve asked myself the same: Why is someone writing something completely wrong down here.... that could been found out with a simple google-picture research in one second.

Means: If you don´t know something for sure...don´t tell other people that you know it for sure. Don´t write something down in the internet....basically just to write anything down.

You are right: for such a childish behavior is a gunshot in the head the right solution.

[cfs3000]

@megatwingo errare humanum est, all right? I haven't seen a ju-290 in years ok, so if I make a mistake, I make a mistake

[megatwingo]

@cfs3000

Don´t tell other people that you know something about the plane in this video for sure, if you aren´t knowing anything about it.

Quick wrong replies are making you look stupid afterwords.

[megatwingo]

@metalmelvin

This is a Junkers, not a Focke Wulf 200.

[iso711]

It's a Ju 290

[teinorbak]

well that ju 290 looks awesome, i bet it had the role of a plane platform of some sort or personnel and equipment mover.. or maybe a heavyweight fortress bomber ?? anyone know any other use?

[nyarena]

The germans hadn't any heavy bombers. Only medium bombers like He 111 and the Ju 88. They used this kind of big planes, like the Fw-Kondor, to help the u-boats watch after allied convoys across the Atlantic.

[antifaschist1]

i came from dessau they were built ther but the germans had heavy bombers but they dont use them

[cerberus192]

very cool video its a 388 i belive

[aptspire]

1:57

For you that is

[ColaWhiski]

Fantastisch!!!

[texasfathead]

Also their is a JU-288G max speed 439MPH at 40,000ft, incredible.

[lape2002]

I wish they had preserved that Ju-290, most of the others did survive.

[comradeboris]

no kidding......they stupidly scrapped them instead of preserving them as historical artifacts like they should have

[Humbertusmarius]

I heard that after the war some British officers burned a brand new Horten glider right in front of the German civilians that told them where it was hidden. They were so angry about the war, they just burned it! Horten aircraft are extremely rare you know.

[SmiertSpionem]

the spoils of war!