Can YOU Survive this Deadly Job in World War II? 

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I lost the will to live with your long draw- out, narcissistic, ambling, boring, slow, pretentious bullshit....

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I remember watching the interview several years ago. 👍

The last question is wrong.. Any German pilot in active combat, would surely have found a at least one French girlfriend by August 1940.. Most French soldiers would, at this point, be in a pow-camp or in Britain, leaving a surplus of French women unattended 😂😂😂 What is the point of invading France, if you don’t enjoy the spoils of victory, and you can’t expect young men to be into French wine and food alone..😂😂

Rudel's book is pretty clear, the way to survive is to turn your flight of Stukas into a swarm of angry bees, and clean each other's tails of unfriendly visitors.

The other was dropping to the deck and going as fast (fast?) as you could while dodging streams of bullets so you could watch them auger in when they misjudged their speed and altitude.

@@zaphodbreeblebrox9542 chances are that’s what I would have done while trying to get back over the channel. The closer you are to home the better your chances a flight of BF-109s will hear you and come to help

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Yes !!! Correct !!!!! Also one of the Greatest German Air Aces was a Stuka Pilot fighting the Russians !!!!

@@spaceted3977 Rudel !

I am about to start the video but I bet I get that answer right.

Dammit, tea kettle wasn't an option.

exactly. Kill 1 pilot is always more beneficial than destroy 1 plane

Im not convinced that would make much of a difference in a Stuka. The inverted gull wing design would like produce the same result fixed landing gear would, a digging in and a flipping over.

[ From Mr. Jim Peters, former B-17 flight engineer serving in 99th BG: ] Yes ,there was a Fire Cut-off Cam on both the upper and lower ball turrets. The upper turret fire cut-off cam prevented the top turret from firing when passing the tail vertical stabilizer and rudder. If traversing from the right to left, the RIGHT gun would cut out, and then the LEFT gun would cut out,,,and then as the Right gun passed the limit of the fire cut-off cam, the RIGHT gun would start firing again...Ditto the left gun as soon as it also cleared the Vertical stabilizer and rudder. The ball turret worked in a similar manner to prevent firing into the aircraft propellors. Again, if you were traversing from LEFT to Right, when the fire cut-off cam was encountered, the ball turret guns would stop firing, passing N1 Propeller and commence again after clearing No 4. This would not work if the gun barrels were overheated due to prolonged firing, as the rounds would "Cookoff" due to the overheated barrel (s). For this reason, we were taught to only fire in bursts of 20 rounds or so. so as to not overheat the barrels. If the rifling in the barrel was worn, due to prolonged firing without a break, the bullet accuracy was affected, with no telling where the bullets were going.

Keen eye. Haha

However a four plane unit that had lost a comrade would be returning home in some sort of three plane formation also. Depending on what they’re flying over, I might watch for ground fire near/under them. There’d be no muzzle flashes or tracer rounds anywhere near/under them if they’re British aircraft.

Thanks!

I also guessed the first one correctly from the height and direction, but the "correct" explanation was very interesting and convincing.

Yes, especially when you consider that, in a Stuka, the 0 to 10.000 ft doesn't require a clock to be measured. But a calendar instead. 😁 However, more seriously, if you don't stay in formation, you're basically dead meat. One MG-15 vs eight Brownings... nuff' said. Plus, teamwork is a thing: it gives your enemy several targets instead of a single one. 😉

@@razorback20 mig-15? a Russian jet fighter interceptor . I believe those were from the early 50s and used during the Korean War. They had 2 20mm cannons and a 37 mm cannon. But yeah, when I said split up and head for home, I seriously overlooked the fact that the stickers had a tail gunner. I hope I have a know it all that you would definitely want to stay together as a B-17 formation stay tightly together and not just vertical formation, but horizontal as well like stacked on top of each other and I believe I heard that German guy say it we heard it from the horses mouth pretty cool how he had that and that was a great video Man I wish the Nazis would’ve kept the focus on the airfield. They would’ve overwhelmed the British, but they change the tactics and put about 50% of their Air Force targeting cities instead. The Germans bombing the cities that gave the RAF some breathing room and time to build a few more planes last a few more months whatever was.

@@Reggiestreet Sorry, but you missed the point. I said MG, not MiG. The rear defensive machine gun of the Stuka - at least the Ju-87 B version - is a Rheinmetall MG-15 😜

SBD... Scout Bomber Douglas SB2C Scout Bomber Curtiss Grumman’s alphabetical nomenclature was an F

Ditch your landing gear! (Most JU 87 had the capability to do that I understand)

Turf runways are easier to repair

The formation is also not a good indicator.. because one plane could be lagging or dropped out of formation. I’d guess that fighters that low down must have just taken off, no reason why the 109s would be that low.

@@minot.8931 true

Couldn't agree more. I'm fascinated by the Luftwaffe's achievements regardless the evil cause they served - wich was indeed perhaps the biggest threat to civilization on the 20th century.

The SB Douglas had plenty over the Stuka, including flight characteristics and trim more in line with fighters when the brakes were tucked flat, 70 mph higher speed, a much better rate of climb and much smaller target profile. Also twin forward facing MGs in it’s cowling on top of the single or double rearward facing guns it’s gunner/radioman operated. More than a few A6Ms were lost to Dauntlesses in aerial combat.

@@davidkoloc1313 Was the Douglas made dive bomber the one that took out the Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway?

Yes, they came into fleet service in 1940 and did a lions share of the damage during the Battle of Midway. Douglas Devastator torpedo planes were also involved but as I understand it, they took quite a beating from both AA fire and Japanese fighters. Dont get me wrong, the Dauntless was not a great dogfighter as they were not designed as such but they did manage to down over 120 enemy aircraft over the course of the war and a number of these were victims of the static, forward facing .50s, not those of the defensive tub guns, which covered it's rear. This leads me to conclude it could perform if need be in something of an offensive role at times if need be. Athough I've not verified it, I'm sure this far exceeds the numbers downed by Stukas or Val's. The Navy and Marine Corps we're reluctant to award aerial kills to aviators which were not recorded by gun cameras and there were none synched to the defensive gun stations on the SBD, TBM/F or Devastators so it's difficult to know with accuracy if the number I cited is reliable but many air victories we're witnessed by other fliers and surface personnel.

Thank you. What is with this rabid need to compare a divebombing Stuka to a fighter/interceptor Hurricane. Shall we compare the Hurricane to a FW190? Me262? That would at least have both planes in the same role. Don't get me wrong - Hurricanes shot down more bombers than Spitfires did, but they were easy prey for german fighters.

@@zaphodbreeblebrox9542 it's the British myth that Stuka were driven away from Europe because of the losses they sustained when that's far from the truth. Stuka groups were withdrawn and transferred to the Mediterranean Theatre in preparation for the invasions of Greece,Crete and later the Malta and North Africa campaign, also groups were transferred to the East of Germany in preparation for the invasion of Russia along with the Bf110 groups which didn't have as many losses as the RAF claimed either. Wartime propaganda that is taken as truth for morale purposes. Nothing more. Unit histories and historical analysis are key which people seem not to do and just parrot the myths.