One of my best friend’s fathers was a tail gunner in Lancasters during World War II. As scary as daylight bombing was, the Brits went in at night with no belly turrets. He told me the sight of Hamburg on fire stayed with him forever.
Quand j'étais petit garçon, j'ai rencontré une fois une énorme tortue de la taille d'un ballon de football, et la bouche de la tortue puait parce qu'elle avait des morceaux de fibres textiles et des animaux morts dans ses dents. J'ai apporté la tortue à un vieil homme de notre rue qui était soldat. Il l'a aidée, mais la tortue est morte au bout de quelques jours. Je l'avais dans ma chambre, sous le lit, mais comme il sentait si mauvais, mon père m'a ordonné de le remettre dans la rue. Puis papa est mort aussi, cette tortue nous a porté malheur.
if the whole movie is as bad as the last scenes, it is time for everybody involve in making it to go back to movie school or stat watchin many good war movies to learn how to make one.
Don't understand how the Fortress gunners could hit the German fighters when they came in close and fast, nor do I understand how the Fortress gunners could avoid shootin' each other up, especially when flying in such large, tight formations.
It's pretty much a universal of depictions of air to air combat that they show the participants much, much MUCH closer together than they would ever be in real life. The formations were not that close, and the German fighters weren't either - the turrets whizzing around shooting as the fighters pass close by is all very dramatic, but that wasn't how it was.
1:41, She kind of looks like a real life Tina Belcher from "Bob's Burgers.'' Just without the prescription glasses. Cool little detail that I noticed. 8:28am, 05/20/2024.
It is ironic that the Allies nearly defeated themselves in the air war. They continually made decisions that were based on their own strengths and not German weaknesses. An example of this is the decision to bomb a German radar station (I don't remember which one). The idea was to bomb the nearby powerplant instead. The Allied planners decided against this because "Well, we (meaning the Allies) have all this power."
Enkel maar respect voor deze jongens die hun leven op het spel zetten om een einde te maken aan nazi deutsland te veel zijn niet meer terug gekeerd maar nogmaals respect forever
Ever wonder why our side used 4-engine planes when everyone else had only two?? You see allied engineers quickly figured out 4 engines were necessary to get the payload AND the crews balls off the ground.
2 points 1. a C47 <DC3> was an American aircraft NOT German. 2. the props are spinning in the wrong direction. When seen from ahead the props spin counterclockwise
You don't want to drop the ball turret iff there is Any possibility off a water ditching 6:35 kissing the earth...my dad told a similar tale about doing that after they landed in Iceland on their ferry flight across the Atlantic. They got lost in fog and found the island as they were running on fumes. As soon as they touched down all 4 engines sputtered to a stop.
I agree these brave airmen from the usaf alongside the british raf desimated the horror of germanys luffwaffa . Never forgotten always in our hearts ..over 734 men lost there lives in only 22 months. Brave brave men rip
