Captured German and Japanese War Icons

Color footage of some Japanese and German stuff

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• german
• luftwaffe
• v2
• rocket
• messerschmitt
• bombers
• heinkel
• ww2
• color
• fighter
• bomber

[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.

[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... ;)

[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.

[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.

[itsnotfunnyHAHA]

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

[trexx63]

Sensational footage.

[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.

[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 ...

[vangestelwijnen]

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

[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.