An informative video. I appricate it. I had notk considered that a staggering number of the highly trained Japnese pilots and airmen died in their planes on the four burning flight decks. The prime objective of the Japanese was the destruction of the 2 (3) American carriers. Yamamoto lost sight of this objective by not using an overwelling force of eight carriers that were at his disposal. Instead he chose to have two diversions using threeTo quote Admiral Nimitz, "Even with the most complete warning, it is inconceivable that the three United States carriers could by any combination of luck and skill have defeated and turned back the 8 carriers, 11 battleships and an immense number of supporting vessels...". Attack the Aleutions, really, even without knowing the Yamamoto's plans would any American Admiral rush north with the 2 function
Yamamoto had little regard for the abilities of his superiors, and he was well aware that they were intimidated by his standing and his track record???
It fascinates me how they are able to get all sorts of video of so many different events! Like how did they get a video of the Japanese commander talking to the pilots or all those planes getting shot down. And all the video of the planes getting shot down! We have some of the bravest men and women in the world. The dive-bomber pilots are nothing short of totally amazing. We won because of the smarts and bravery of our attacking servicemen and the unrelenting work of the millions of workers in the USA. Amazing!! We owe these men and women a lot!!
Japan seemed to have very complicated plans. They like their axis allies seemed to suffer from “victory” disease. The US had the advantage of knowing much of the Japanese code
"In a single day, Japan had lost the war in the Pacific." God's grace on the USA. Just like D Day, the events favored victory to the Allies over the dictators and aggressors.
Ditto! Most of the first two seasons can be found out there on RU-vid. It gets a little harder to find after that. This is probably the best single episode of them all!
Late reply but have you seen this playlist? It has most of them and the few it doesn't can be found with a non-RU-vid or Google search. Try using Startpage or DuckDuckGo, which don't block episodes for copyright reasons. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wbKYbLUkIpk.html
"Since the early 1930s, Japanese conquests in china had caused ever increasing friction with the United States." How soon the Chinese forget that we saved their bacon.
Wayne Mierzwa Around 50 to enemy aircraft. Not many. Mainly because of the nature of operations - virtually all losses came against single engine fighters in daylight. Very few were lost to German night fighters.
When the man talked about the purr of a Merlin I know exactly what he means. When I was a small boy the Harmsworth trophy races were held off my Great Grandfather's farm on the Bay of Quinte in Ontario Canada. The Canadian boat used Rolls Royce engines from WWII. I ran into them again in my 20s in the Alberta oilpatch working for a fracking company that used Merlins to power their pumps. The sound makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up and gives me goose pimples.
Interesting to see the manufacturing processes used. Most folks tend to think they were made of plywood, but in actuality the fuselage and wings, and any other parts with compound curves were built over forms using individual veneers laid up over the forms, as you can't form flat plywood sheets into compound curves. This process , called cold molding, is commonly used even today in boatbuilding, and results in a very strong lightweight structure. Another thing. lets get past this nonsense about the Mossie carrying the same bomb load as a B17. The B17G had a combat radius of 788 miles carrying a 9600lb bomb load on a mission at 25000 feet, which is a fairly typical for the time. Its 579 miles from London to Berlin. B17 bomb loads of 4000 lbs were used on long range missions out in the pacific, and were hardly typical of operations in the ETO.
Yeah. "Individual veneers stacked" is pretty much "plywood". Of course you can't form FLAT AND GLUED AND DRIED SHEETS OF DRIED WOOD INTO "COMPOUND CURVES". YOU CAN"T FOR FLAT SHEETS OF STACKED DRIED AND GLUED VENEERS INTO COMPOUND CURVES EITHER NUMBNUTS. And by the way, a VENEER is a PROCESS OR FINISHED PRODUCT. NOT THE LAYERS THAT MAKE THEM UP. AND ITS TYPICALLY ONE LAYER OF A THIN SHEET OF "PRETTY" WOOD OVER PULP WOOD PLANKS OR PLYWOOD UNDERNEATH.
DEEREMEYER1 LOL, it's a lead pipe cinch that you know zip about cold molding or the use of ply veneers in it. You probably can't be convinced that a Mossie would roll around the earth before getting off the runway with a B17's bomb load either. Try to keep up with the adults.
The British Air Ministry asked the British aircraft manufacturers to produce designs using timber instead of using aluminium alloys. There were 2, IIRC, the Mosquito and less successful AW Albermarle. There's a lot of rubbish talked about de Havilland being a maverick wanting to use wood. Also there were other, George Volkert of Handley Page, who also suggested aerodynamically clean medium bombers to meet the P13/36 specification of 3000lb payload and a range of 3000 miles. Volkerts design was estimated to be able to reach 300mph, Capt Liptrot estimated that it would be faster than the Spitfire. Yet many said it may be faster now, but will it always be faster? So take a lot of what they say about the genesis of this aircraft with a fist full of salt, a pinch ain't going to be enough.
Gary Tarr . Dear mr tarr, i think you sent me a message that was intended for soaring tractor. I love the sound of merlin full stop. Be it one, two or four, but not three cos that means one of the merlins is dead, either through battle damage,bird strike or coolant leak. I dont spout xenphobic crap, just admiration for the combination of art and engineering. See s.t for that sort of rubbish. Blue skys sir.
+soaringtractor nope! The RAF were the first to use the Mustang but because of its poor performance at high altitude it was used as a ground attack fighters and a reconnaissance plane. Not until the Merlin engine was fitted was it good enough to face German fighters. The Mustang is not the pure US thoroughbred flown by US pilots you daydream it is mate. Fucking excellent fighter once it was upgraded. Calling the Spitfire a Shitfire just shows how thick you are. Other than the Mustang, what other US fighters compared to any European fighters???
Meh, Hedgehog was not a depth charge, it was a modified spigot mortar that fired contact fused munitions. Two primary advantages were it could be fired while the ship still had sonar contact, and that if Hedgehog exploded the UBoat had *definately* been hit. Hence if Hedgehog detonated (and the pattern was precisely calculated so that if one hit multiple others also would), then at the very least the UBoat would have sustained serious damage. Generally speaking, they sank!
None of these movies tell you why the Germans sank so much shipping. The real reason was that Admiral Ernest King was an Anglophobe and had no intention of having the U.S. Navy help Britain
"....built ENTIRELY of wood. " that's quite an achievement, it must have been difficult to design the engines, armaments, landing gear, hydrolics, radios, etc out of plywood.... Surely they wooden work, no?
My late uncle was a navigator in unarmed mosquitos which flew from leuchars to Sweden and back. They would go up to almost 30,000 feet before diving over Norway. The aircraft would have Swedish ball bearings inside the Bombay for the return flight. The german's stationed FW190 fighters in Norway and succeeded in shooting some down. They wore BEA markings and not RAF roundals but he and his pilot were in the RAF.
If anyone has the chance, do visit the De Havilland museum at Salisbury Hall its well worth a visit. Lots on the Mosquito there of course, plus 3 Mosquitoes one of which is the prototype. But it's more than just the Mosquito, the amazing number of brilliant planes that De Havilland developed and built from the by-plane era to the jet era. De Havillands were real pioneers in aviation.
B-17: Long range missions (≈800 mi): 4,500 lb (2,000 kg) the rest of the payload was taken up with crew and machine guns. B-25: Bombs: 3,000 lb (1,360 kg) Avro Lancaster: Bombs: Maximum normal bomb load of 14,000 lb (6,350 kg) or 22,000 lb (9,979 kg) Grand Slam with modifications to bomb bay.[81] This was the largest payload of any bomber in the war.
The B29 was NEVER USED against Germany, where it would have encountered ME109s, ME110s and FW190s, and even Ju88s too, and the FORMIDABLE ME262 JET FIGHTER, plus the ME263 rocket powered Komet, THESE German aircraft, would have FORCED those B29s "to their maximum ceiling height" thus making their Norden (I can put that bomb into a pickle barrel BS) Bomb Sights 100% INACCURATE, ME262s in numbers would have "wiped Allied bombers out of the skies above Germany NO PROBLEM" as a lumbering 4 engine turbo prop bomber, has got NO CHANCE in Ariel Combat against a Jet Fighter, in EQUAL NUMBERS, ME262s would have also CLEARED THE SKIES of P51 Mustangs too, using FW190s to escort these ME262s on landing, as that is ONLY when P51 Mustangs had an advantage over ME262s.
adam goodman I DO NOT agree with you!!! Asking: IF the germans could wipe off those B-29s out of the sky, WHY they have NOT done that to lesser types??????
There is a video on U-tube about a DH Mosquitoe's restoration in New Zealand narrated by a exBritish pilot crippled in a car crash and they talked about the engines cutting off during certain manuvears because of carbs.
Jonathan Priebefiddler the early Merlins would cut out mometarily due to fuel starvation when going inverted and then get an over rich mixture when coming out. This was initially solved by Beatrice Shilling who designed a circular disk with a hole in it, to be inserted into the carbs to catch fuel at the mid point of the chamber, reducing the power losses when going inverted.
2:28- Courtesy of Detriot and The Arsenal of Democracy , Detriots Factory's ran 24hrs a day it was said that a pall of smog from the spray paint and various other industrial processes Hung over Detriot . . . .
