Howdy, folks? My name is Chuck and I am a flight simulator enthusiast. I love everything that flies.
I play Cliffs of Dover, DCS, Battle of Stalingrad, FSX/Prepar3d, X-Plane and practically any flight simulator you can think of. I fly for fun, and I like to share with people how much fun flying online can be.
If you guys want me to try new sims, learn how to fly specific aircraft or just wing up with us and join the madness, you're always welcome let me know. We'll figure something out.
See you in the skies!
Cheers,
Chuck
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Bader was one of the great leaders. The right man at the right time who remotivated the despondent 242 Sqn when the chips were down. He developed / trained some excellent leaders and built a talented fighting unit(s).
A story I recently read from a Lancaster Squadrons history👇 In the mid sixties my family and I were sitting in a small cafe in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Seated at another table sitting with his family was a very distinguished looking gentleman with a big handle bar moustache. My mother remarked that he kept looking at her. As he got up to leave he came over and said to mum, your Mary Wright aren't you? Mum said she was. He then said, the last time I saw you, you were in my office on a charge. Apparently she had been in charge of the ribbons denoting the Wing Commanders aircraft which were fixed to the wings and as she was crossing the airfield, two young airmen met her and said, bet you daren't put your stockings on the wings instead of those ribbons. She did and the gentleman now stood at our table said, "I didn't notice those stockings until I was over Berlin."
This was on the night of June 6th, 1944, not with the initial morning invasion. Hicks got the recording flown to London. There, at the Blue Network office, it was broadcast that night in the United States at 11:15 p.m. Eastern War Time on the Blue Network; not long after, the recording was played over the other networks, CBS, NBC and Mutual.
This is the Britain I love! God what a bunch of Heroes, to be alive during that time must have been every feeling under the sun, excitement and adrenaline filled misery! Make the most of some positive outcomes! Love hearing these gems!
What an incredible interview. Very penetrating, and comlex questions, answered concisely, frankly, and so completely!! What a very deep thinking, quick, and decisive mind. 👍
When I was about 8 I checked out a record from the library "Sounds of WWII" and it had this on it and I adored playing it. It also have Princess Elizabeth and Margaret Rose wishing the best of luck to the people of Britain. Also the D-Day landings and of course Chamberlain's sorrowful announcement that they were at war with Germany.... it was a fantastic record. They had one from WWI as well but it wasn't as exciting. Less on the spot recordings.
Bader was an incompetent, ill-disciplined insubordinate liability. He lost his legs due to reckless stunting against orders. He never understood Dowding's strategy for the BoB and with the other incompetent, Leigh-Mallory, introduced the tactic of the big wings. A counter-productive tactic at odds with Dowding's careful strategic planning. As a direct result RAF Hornchurch was put out of action for a week as he gave the Germans an unopposed bombing run. Dowding actually asked whose side he was on. Bader was detested by his fellow pilots. He was shot down and became a POW due to friendly fire. He went off his designated patrol over France and approached British aircraft from a direction from which they would only expect enemy aircraft. He got to stay in the armed forces as he was made a propaganda hero. See the book "Dowding and the Battle of Britain" authored by the only historian to whom Dowding entrusted his diaries.
@@bobsakamanos4469Read "Dowding and the Battle of Britain" authored by the only historian to whom Dowding allowed access to his diaries. I met someone who was a friend of Stanford-Tuck. Bader was not liked or respected among his comrades. Whilst a POW in Colditz, Bader refused to let his batman, who carried him up and downstairs on his back, be repatriated in 1943 in a prisoner exchange. He stated "You came here as my skivvy and you'll finish the war as my skivvy." A couple of years after the war Bader rang that man and demanded "Have you goty legs?" When informed in the negative Bader swore and hung up. He was an arrogant, disgraceful individual and you are an ignorant troll.
@@noonsight2010 The Big Wing was the most successful psy-ops victory of the battle and put an end to the LW motivation. I was debating whether I should educate you on all of the facts, but clearly you are on a rabid smear campaign and I'd be wasting my time. Go back to your BBC desk and spew on.
The BF 109 was not the most produced aircraft of WW2 . People in the West are not aware that the Nazis fought a superpower from 1941 to 1945 that completely outprodiced the Nazis while fighting the equivelant of 5 DDays on a 2500 mile front. To include the US production is a joke when they had no Nazis panzer divisions on their soil.
Probably recorded using a wire recorder which came before tape recorders, same principle. There were cassettes of wire that could be plugged into. Recording quality was good, mostly depending on the quality of the microphone and amplifier in the recorder.
Son livre "appui feux sur oued helail" pierre closterman relate comment l'avion de guerre qu'il pilotait fut abattu par les moudjahidine ALGERIENS LORS DE LA BATAILLE MYTHIQUE DE DJEURF DANS LES AURES NEMENTCHAS...
This man was the true St. George, this man saved Britain, he gave Nazi Germany it's first taste of defeat and if it hadn't been for his foresight and determination things could have gone in a very different direction. Absolute legend and I'll hold massive respect for this man until the day I die. God bless you Stuffy!
The strength of the British was the effort at honest timely communication. This led to a much quicker, and more effective reaction. For him to concede so quickly that had the Germans continued with 'phase 3' they'd have achieved dominance over southern England really clarifies things about that. It forces me to imagine how things might've went. After all, a navy is and was, only as good as it's ability to control the airspace above.
A thoughtful man. No one has revisited his decisions as much as he. And the wonderful thing is HE made them, and we get to hear this. What a document for history!
Quel bonheur d écouter ce témoignage ! Tant d humanité simple, et comme toujours ce poids de réel qui rend tout si passionnant et touche au vrai. Merci 🌿
Dowding was not looking for a stirring crushing victory over the Luftwaffe. He knew that what was required was a backs to the wall effort that kept the 17:10 Germans at bay until the weather intervened. In other words a draw was good enough and all that was realistically achievable. It was a sound strategy.
Speaking as a Zimbabwean of British heritage/stock. These men are heroes. Men among men. God bless their souls. With best wishes, blessings and kind thoughts to my British kith and kin from Zimbabwe. 🇿🇼🍻🇬🇧 🇿🇼🤝🏻🇬🇧
J'avais 12 ans quand j'ai découvert "Le Grand Cirque" de Pierre Clostermann. Passionné d'aviation et des récits de tous ces aviateurs qui ont combattu pour défendre les couleurs de la France quand elle avait perdu les siennes. Que d'aventures, que d'émotions dans la perte d'un ailier !! Les derniers temps de la guerre, après avoir survécu à tant de missions quand arrive le moment où tout va s'arrêter, un impératif rester en vie !! Mr Clostermann vous avez enchanté mon adolescence et quel profond plaisir d'entendre cet interview !!
