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

[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]

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

[Julian Pope]

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]

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.

[Robert Sneddon]

And so the B-36 Peacemaker was born!

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

[장한 최]

B36??

[Akirameerkat]

I guess this was before the B-29 was even designed..

[Oswards306]

Nope they were wrong; when the Americans concered the little islands that were held by Japan they dicided to launch 2 massive boms in 2 Japaness cities so that the war will end early after Germany and Italy surrendered in 1945.

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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