Victory Through Air Power part 8

A film feature that Walt Disney himself made to send a message during World War II giving ideas on how to get directly to Japan to bomb it. Remember this is not how it all happened. This was meant to give ideas and sending a message rather than making people laugh. I think it is great.

Walt Disney Pictures and United Artist. 1942

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Film & Animation

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• power_victory

[mustang196583]

Judging by the date of this video, the attack on Tokyo had not yet happened. Global Reach, Global Power is the mantra of the USAF. Tankers help fighters and bombers achieve this. The converted B-29's proved the point. Here they were showing what having this power could,in theory,do.

[jtomally9681]

@mustang196583 Exactly. And plus it's just a movie and what's more. IT IS TRUE WALT DISNEY so it is still great.

[LuckyxNumberxSlevin]

Why didn't u make the vids 10 mins each?

[jtomally9681]

I just used a file chop program and uploaded them all the way I did here.

[jtomally9681]

@LuckyxNumberxSlevin I will be making another channel and I will upload this feature on there 10 min. long vid.

[CommanderLightning]

It's funny how they anticipated the war to end in 1948.

[AbelMcTalisker]

And so the B-36 Peacemaker was born!

Trouble was, it didn`t fly till 1945 and the War was over.

[nsengstad]

Lets whip those Japs!

[mongorians22]

Also, I think it's weird that he said that the fact that a bomber's turret can rotate gives it an advantage over fighters. Bombers at that time had rotating turrets, the B-17 had something like seven flexible turrets, but they were clearly insufficient to defeat fighters without escorts.

[mongorians22]

I was wondering how he would disprove the island-by-island method of attack, since that was the one that actually ended up working. He was still partially right, as long-range, land-based airpower was what actually struck the death blow, but he overestimated exactly how well the Japanese could defend their island bases when their naval and air support was compromised by US carriers. In the end, it was really air power that won the war, but huge amounts of life was still lost in ground battles

[Mythteller]

@snakes3425 Yes, The Germans could defend their own airspace because the Allies' heavy bombers weren't capable of flying in the stratosphere and were too slow(over 400 mph needed to out run current fighters). They were able to strike down any bomber raids in 1939-1943 before the ME-262 in '44. But they couldn't completely stop them because of lack of replacement trained aircrew due attrition. The Allies needed more long range escort fighters and new accurate bomb delivery systems.

[gunmaniac25]

i wondered what would have happened if the turrets were automatic and radar guided?

[VersusARCH]

@AJ627 I did. An excellent if somewhat idealized cartoon about the suffering of the Japanese civillians under US bombs towards the end of the war.

[snakes3425]

@album183

There was an achilies heel to many of the German "Super Weapons" like the 262, Tiger I and Tiger IIs was that they were gas guzzlers and Germany lacked the fuel and resources to mass produce and deploy them in large numbers and in the case of the Me262 Hitler was obessed with the idea of turining it into a bomber, when it was designed to be a fighter-intercepter

[album183]

@snakes3425 Other than the ME-262, the Germans didnt have an aircraft that would reach the B-36 & still able to engage it, Nor did they have the anti aircraft batteries that could fire at that altitude had it ever come to that. The B-17 like the Sherman tanks were what they were... equipment designed to fight the enemy toe-to-tow, but were designed to be mass produced in faster replacement quantities than the Germans could replace their losses

[album183]

@Raveninety9 You are thinking of attacking bombers in a traditional view such as the 17, 24, 25. The B-36 was designed to fly at very high altitudes above flak and fighter attacks. Whatever planes the Japanese would have managed to reach the B-36 force without stalling out would have been easy tagets for the 36`s guns as figher planes of that era couldnt manuver very well at that altitude asuming first the pilot didnt black out going that high in an upressurised plane

[album183]

@AbelMcTalisker Actually, the prototype XB-36 didnt fly until 1946, and production of the B-36A didnt begin in full capacity until late 1947. The 36 could have been operational much sooner had the course of events in `42-`44 gone worse. It was the coming cold war with the Soviet Union that gave the project its lifeblood, and unlike most other prop driven craft in 1945-46 that got cut back - if not cancelled and the planes scrapped, the B-36 remained fully funded following the war