I served with the 1/16 inf regt in 1983-1985 at Panzer Kaserne former W Germany. Id like to know if anyone knows the percent of casualties this regiment suffered during D-Day. I was told 80% and 20%. I could understand 80% after serving with them. I would just like some clarification on these losses. God Bless them all and may them all rest in peace.NO MISSION TOO DIFFICULT,NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT !
It's a pity that the video is only in 480p. Btw. I was at the Hahnweide in about 1989 and 1999, ten and twenty years earlier, but at that time of course there was no Fw 190 to see, only the Bf 109 and Spitfire. I would have loved to see the Fw 190, which is much more fascinating to me.
My Grandfather was such a pilot. He would race motercycles. His military career ended by the time the third Reich got underway. My mother never spoke of "the war". I met oma n opa in '76. Thank God my mom got out. Absolutely wonderful people.
Instead of wood, the US made quick airstrips on islands in the Pacific Theater using steel plates with gratings to let the rainwater drain. The aircraft carriers, however, had wood landing strips that could easily be repaired.
1:58 "Swing it, Magistern, swing it" was swedish... The song comes from a movie with the same name in 1940. I thought jazz and swing was forbidden in Germany at the time, still their pilots was all over it. 😁
The ace Walter Schuck and I sung it together when I did put on one of my mothers old records, they were teenagers and as a teenager you love new music...
The idiot laughs about his youth and "best years" as he calls them just like if it were regular teenage tomfoolery like teasing girls and getting drunk. The part that he was a member of an army that occupied and enslaved almost the entire European continent killing millions of people in the process doesn't seem to have bothered him very much.
This video should be led to Mark Felton and museums of flight-history. It`s a source of first order. Thank you, Mr. Johansson... I never heard of wooden lanes.
Mark Felton would call this video 'HITLER'S airplanes and their secret NAZI wooden airfields super weapon that could have changed WW2" or something stupid
My uncle was a pilot with 605 sqn on D Day , his aircraft and two others were tasked with attacking the battery at 0010 hrs, they were to bomb the search lights..he writes of heavy light AA fire, which severely damaged one of his elevators...his logbook entry for D Day, tells of the 100 Lancs plastering the area, and the Glider Train going in, he watched it all while circling the area, at which time he and the other two aircraft of 605 left the area, at 0039 hrs. His aircraft dropped the first bomb on the 2nd Front....he writes of being very proud of that ...:)
Hiya where are these documentaries available to watch? I wanted to rent Airborne in Normandy on Vimeo but it's no longer there and I can't find it anywhere
