Erich Hartmann the World's Greatest Flying Ace 

i can smell another sabaton song..

@@BiggestNoodle yarnhub said that sabaton and he will only do 2 songs and both of those songs have been made (no bullets fly and night wiches) sorry for bad English

Make video about pokrishkin (Покрышкин) please. Also a great ace

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@@zera5895 is there something you want to talk to me about my anime-loving friend?

Actually, not. He was grounded (crash landing) I think 7 or 8 times and he had a hell of a luck...luck is very important issue in soldier's life and there are many examples of it, some of the most famous were major Winters, Joachim Marseille (officials claimed maybe the biggest talent...whom luck abandoned), Hans Urlich Rudel (for me, the best of all the pilots of all the times), etc...its, as always in a life a matter of a luck and the cards you've been given on the start of the game (your born)

his tactic of not squeezing the trigger until the enemy plane entirely filled his gunsights was what got him so many kill but it was also why he crashed so often.... the enemy planes basically exploded and their debris hit his aircraft so he crash landed a lot. But new planes were cheap

@@mikepette4422 i agree, and as I read about his life and career, he was not engaging dogfight but jumping on the enemy from the high...his attitude was that the dogfight is for idiots who wont survive. And each time he somehow was forced to stay in a longer fight than was his tactics, he was jumped by the enemy and hit...but all these fighter aces are in my honest opinion, kindergarten comparing one hans ulrich rudel if you count all aspects of war (damage done to the enemy in manpower and techique, direct and brutal contact in a combat, etc)

Luck follows the brave.

@@cinegraphics agree, but that doesn't change the facts. There were many more brave than him but did not survive

Humility is greatness in God's eyes

In war you fight for your home country. Even if you dont agree with your leader.

Indeed, he wasn't a loudmouth. Like I mentioned in another comment, Hungarian fighter pilots who served next to his unit also remembered him fondly, as a very friendly guy who never boasted. However, once a Hungarian Bf-109 pilot asked him about his secret of success. Hartmann suggested they should go on a combat sortie together. The Hungarian should find an Il-2 and attack it. "Never mind anything, don't even look around, just stay on target, and I'll cover you", he said. They went up, and the Hungarian successfully shot down a Shturmovik. Only when they landed he learned that "Bubi" shot down not one, but three Soviet fighters from behind him! He never even saw them.

@@nematolvajkergetok5104 just to understand what a pilot he was! Not for nothing he is the highest scoring ace of all times....

@@nematolvajkergetok5104 woah!!!!! That's nuts!!! 3 fighters? Woah he really is one of the best

RIP

Rest In Peace.

Red Baron: *Am I joke to you?*

@@fluent4530 Erich have 352 victories,while Richthofen only he 80

@@fluent4530 in other words, compared to Hartmann; yes, everyone else is a joke...

Those were Starfighters I believe? Yes, they were flying pieces of junk.

@@carlevans5760 Flying coffins

@@countluke2334 I think in the bio book: The Blonde Knight of Germant by Ray Tolliver--they called them that or something else? Thank you though :D

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I'd say it's same as being called a hacker in the lobby, but just a bit higher.

And then you get vote-kicked :)

@@generalkenobi2618 Hartmann be like : "git gud m8"

I mean I can slightly understand their feelings. The Soviets were wrecked by the war with so much infrastructure and their families and friends lost so many people wanted revenge

@@syariffadilah2949 Soviets: Hartmann you mad bro.

Tell that to the japanese....

@@pixytokisaki1457 Yup

@@pixytokisaki1457 Unfortunately they didn't care.All because they were brainwashed and they look down to those who have survived and surrendered rather than dying with honor

@@Aspir3xx The fact that Japan still hasn't admitted that it's done anything wrong in WW2 is fucking disgusting.

"You think because you say nothing... You are strong?" -Imperial Japanese Army Officer, Makin Atoll, 1942

he followed the ruels like a good german does. gretings from germany. the duty ist sometimes what it saving you.

Boom and Zoom on a Cessna

@@promitchakraborty8041 haha pretty much!

Not to upbraid my current flight instructors, but as a student pilot I would've loved to be taught how to fly by someone like that. I'd probably projectile vomit my breakfast all over the dash pulling 4 Gs in training, but it'd definitely be worth it.

@@yatokami7907 100% agreed :)

@@yatokami7907 LMAO

The amount of "are" In this comment is hilarious lol

Lmao

Are

Ar- *Ara ara~*

und warum zum Teufel hast du mich erschossen? Jetzt können wir nach Hause gehen. :)

Don't forget Adolf Galland, mein freund.

Why the best watches of the USSR, Kozhedub and Pokryshkin have only about 60 victories, with a little. For each downed enemy, the pilot was entitled to a cash bonus. And at that time, the country was in a state of war and people were starving and in poverty. Many had relatives in the rear who had nothing to eat. And Pokryshkin, knowing this, recorded his victories in the names of his comrades, other pilots. So that they can get money for the downed enemy, and send them to needy relatives in the rear.

Yeah literally everyone met hartmann, is ok...

@@leroter5941 Everyone who met him and commented got his comment shot up by the youtube algorithm, as such often all top comments are them meeting hartmann, also a famous person is of course going to be met by tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 He's just jealous and a troll.

@@leroter5941 He even offered his assistance during the building of the Zurich airport. A lot of people knew him.

@@leroter5941 lol you poor dude

The virgin Bolshevik vs the Chad Aryan

And yelling "report erick"

@@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 Fascist?

@@sovietheart3883 Yes

@@sovietheart3883 Candice got your mom?

interesting!! how many years of that?

That is a hilarious disparity! But hey, hot tubs are great to have! 😂

@@NS-pr9kn Late 60s early 70s we were in high school together.

Pure bs!!! Hartmann lost Günther Capito, who was his wingman. Hartmann's legends are full of fiction and fairy tales. He did not shoot down a Yak-9 over Brno on May 8, 1945 since the Soviets lost no fighters in the entire area that day and so on. Reading the comments here makes it obvious that most people here are not military researchers/historians, only 'fans' of Hartmann who just repeat the old propaganda about him.

Any sources to prove what you're saying? Because you can't find anything for capito on the internet except for him still serving in the air force in the 60s so it looks like you're the one writing bs.

@@Brandon0406 Theres a book about him, i only know the german title since i am german but its called „Holt Hartmann vom Himmel“ (roughly translated Shoot Hartmann off the sky) and i recall reading this quote

@@moeemmanuel9395 that's fine, I meant the other guy

In fact, he did lose a wingman. It was a fomer bomber pilot, called Gunther Capito.

How is that coming along for you during COVID-19? Ready to become a taxi driver in the near future I hope!

Bro, what are you waiting for? Get them on video and let them talk about their exploits or the exploits of there friends in arms. Dont matter the cost...you're lucky to be with them but these heroes are a dying breed and we need to document their lives for the future.

By any chance did any of your teachers know of or were acquainted to F. Stigler?

@@zeitscar1486 bro you need to be specific...what was his rank, is he army, navy or airman etc.

@@benimmortal5858 Franz Stigler is the German luftwaffe fighter pilot in WW2, most famous for his encounter with the 'Ye Olde Pub' B-17 where he spared their whole crew and even escorting them, pretty sure Yarnhub also has a video on it. Sabaton's 'No Bullets Fly' is about that, too.

>Rather than who they fought for Who were real people too. You piss on the legacy of your ancestors and it disgusts me.

@@Aqueox He's drawing a line between honorable German soldiers, like Hartmann, and villainous, criminal scum, like Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Goebbels... etc. etc. etc. I can respect that.

@@Moshe_Dayan44 Pretty hard to stutter on the internet, bud.

Noah ,i'm german just like you ,and i would like to know who the real people are ? Your not proud on Erich ?

@@samkangal8428 I'm pretty sure he's talking about how people often call any German from ww2 "nazi", or depict them as the higher ups in the nazi regime. Even though they were just random people who had nothing to do with hitler.

@@douglasparkinson4123 Not all of the axis forces were Nazis

@@javengabriellarboleda2864 Ja

@@douglasparkinson4123 found a tankie.

@@josephstalin364 hello comrade

@@douglasparkinson4123 not everybody in the Nazi Germany's military actually agrees with Hitler, and hitlers plan of genocide wasn't listed in the campaign promise afaik, so many who voted for hitler didn't expect his all out war, and many in the military doesn't necesarrily agree with the genocide thing

Agreed!

I agree 100%

Minuses: accent in 'Russian tanker who avenged her husband' movie-like guns (that make 'gun sounds' when aimed, and perhaps fire more rounds than what's in the magazine, although I haven't checked)

I mean it's a good plane but I wouldn't go that far

@@thefolder69 this guy is a literal neo nazi, check his comment history

@@glimmino7304 Because his profile picture and channel banner doesn't already give it away?

@@thefolder69 It's quite the plane still.

which is why the 109 produced legends like Hartmann and Marseille but punished countless rookies who were sent into battle with barely any flying experience late in the war

takes a good pilot to convert those opportunities and to capitalise on em

Yes but he is an 70 fold ace...

Hartmann flew in the Red Baron JG 71 Richthoven" squadron

snoopy is objectively a better fighter pilot than charlie brown

No matter what, legends in military air forces will always earn my respect, any side.

Every Video is amazing

@@schweinkreis6054 Yeah

though you'd be interested to know that the man sitting at 2nd place, Gerd Barkhorn, was a master dogfighter and came close to overtaking Hartmann's score at one point were it not for his injuries in mid-1944.

amazing how the comment after yours was that Hartmann was the greatest fighter pilot ever

@@MarvinT0606 ...it if were not for his getting shot while dogfighting.... this is a stupid thread...he just followed Boelckes' rules

@@MarvinT0606 Well, I'm not saying Hartmann wasn't a great dogfighter. He was. Just that he avoided dogfights. So did Barkhorn. Barksorn was once shot down by a a Soviet fighter he didn't see. He saw a formation of Soviet bombers and didn't see the escorting fighters. He went after the bombers and one of the fighters he didn't see got him. He didn't loose a dogfight, he lost Situational Awareness.

The reason why they didn't dogfight is one They were outnumbered Two when dogfighting your slow so it's easy for the other fighter to get you

Some probably though he was the Red Baron reincarnated.

If red baron survived, I think he would do something like that.

his ghost watches over Hartmann

@@marseldagistani1989 red baron got isekai'ed

Hartmann already had the gift just like Manny did.

He did fly over 1,000 combat missions.

He is not facing P51, so can become Ace.

@@user-bj1id4tp3i The me 109 had the highest power to weight ratio of any fighter . It wasn't that the p-51 was a better fighter plane, it was the fact that they had a long range and there were so many of them .

@@paulboegel8009 Do you know what you are talking about?! During world war2. That nearly 34000 Me109s were produced. For the P-51, about 15000 were produced. OK?! The Me109s was unable to engage in close combat with the Spitfire.The speed is not as fast as the P51. This is why the Luftwaffe is losing in air combat. OK?! Me109's high kill rate is all in dogfights with stupid Soviet pilots with their crap warbirds. OK? But against Spitfire and P51, Me109s it will become garbage. OK?! Otherwise, why do you think the Luftwaffe failed in the Battle of Britain? And why do you think there are very few Me109s?? It’s because they were all shot down by Spitfire and P51! Wake up! OK?!

@@user-bj1id4tp3i wrong, ok. 🤣 The me109 didn't have the range to fly back and forth across the English channel and engage for more than a few minutes(weaknesses was no drop tanks, which p 51 mustangs had, BTW.). Spitfires were great for shooting down stukas and twin engine German bombers. By the time the p51 entered the air war , the luftwaffe was spread so thin that they couldn't match the numbers on any front. The me 109 was first in service in 1935, the p51 first service was 1942, so of course more me109s were produced. Fact remains, the greatest (kills) fighter pilots flew the me109. A plane that had the best power to weight ratio of any aircraft produced in ww 2, and Eric Hartmann will always be the highest scoring ace in military history.

Why the best watches of the USSR, Kozhedub and Pokryshkin have only about 60 victories, with a little. For each downed enemy, the pilot was entitled to a cash bonus. And at that time, the country was in a state of war and people were starving and in poverty. Many had relatives in the rear who had nothing to eat. And Pokryshkin, knowing this, recorded his victories in the names of his comrades, other pilots. So that they can get money for the downed enemy, and send them to needy relatives in the rear. I do not know of a single case of Germans doing this.

A security measure caused by the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on 20 July 1944. Hartmann refused and threatened to decline the Diamonds if he were not trusted to carry his pistol. After consulting Oberst Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant, Hartmann was allowed to keep his side arm and accepted the Diamonds.

Very true story!

I know very well this story but I don't remember he was mentioning Marseille as a better pilot but I do know that he highly regarded Gerhard "Gerd" Barkhorn, Günther Rall and other great pilots that knew each other well...

Bro, also, a video on Erich Rudorffer, who killed 18 in one day, the highest ever

Is that the pilot who was killed bailing out when his new model 109 malfunctioned ? If so he was a brilliant pilot.

Honorable, yes. But he did shot down those planes. If Erwin Rommel still alive in the end of WW2, he too will be court martialed by the Hague. Maybe not death sentence but years imprisonment.

There is no honour when you are part of an genocidal war against (Slavic and Jewish) people. No honour.

@@kos2919 you defend your home country no matter what

@@kos2919 Rommel did live till the end of WW2, he didn't commit suicide.

@@battlefield_hackers_exposed there is no honor if you bombe civilians as well.

Bs, you can't see the exactly paintings of planes in air combat, especially for his flight style its untypical to even see him. Moreover it was a bounty on his head so no one avoided him, they would be even happy to murder him + giving the plane to a newbie meanwhile u have a bounty on your head is pretty gruesome. It's just some bullshit myth story from a pseudo book written by a hartmann fanboy who spoke a bit with him(nope it was not a close friend). The typical propaganda crap is similiar to Pokryshkins story when they radioed into all frequency that "the 100" is hunting again so the germans were too scared to take off. Therefore don't believe idol making stuff, especially fighter pilots have that struggle that ppl make them into untouchable killing machines who do super cobra maneuvers in their animations and outmaneuver everyone with broken physic there, the truth is that he mostly shot them from low 6 at close range down and then zoomed way without being able to tell if he really shot them down(even if its quite possible with that range)

@@ariannescharfi9366 the bounty was 10000 rubbles ,his plane was given to a newbie but not for a long time,then he later had symbol erased because Soviets get reluctant to engage when they see the black tulip design in his squadron, and about the bounty a soviet flying ace called major valdmir semenishin tried to cash in but got added to hartmen kill collection and yes most Soviets refrained attacking him eventhough he had a bounty on his head ,this mostly happend in between 1943 or 1944 when he made a name for himself and he was called the black devil by soviets (cherniy chort) .i do apologize, the only mistake I made earlier is stating the design was in the propeller but as I looked it up it said engine cowling (to be honest I don't know what that means)also I got the info from the wiki 👍

@@ariannescharfi9366 also I watched a video of erichartmen from a channel called tooky history it also said the same

@@maduwinsteam9319 Because it is taken from the samae "source" which is not a reliable source at all. And only by multiplying that and repeating it the whole time doesn't make it more true.

@@ariannescharfi9366 then give me a reliable source which yourself took information from so I can confirm it

Rudel never served as a fighter pilot... He flew a ground attack aircraft such as the ju87 and the up armored ground attack version of the bf109. Btw rudel was very much indoctrinated... Blueprint of a nazi at that time

Рудель тоже дутый пузырь😂😂😂😂😂

Thank you Joseph, please don't kill me

please don’t send me to gulag

Good to know you respect good rivals, comrade stalin, you are the big boss after all.

and i am a jet from ur country stalin

Real talk why'd you leave him in prison for 10 years?

I second the wanting to hear more about history from the other guys point of view.

Especially when it comes to aces… aces with most victories are all Germans… like we are speaking top 100 aces with most kills all being German luftwaffe pilots.

tf u mean, german ace tank commander, general, field marshall, ace pilot, commander are all famous

So by losing thrust from the engine the plane also immediately loses all lift. You clearly know what you’re talking about.

The F-104 was not a bad airplane, just the wrong choice for the West Germans. They used the thing as a ground attack aircraft and that was where the problems were. He was very vocal about it and well he was invited to retire. The F-104 was designed to climb fast, fly fast, and intercept in commoning Soviet Bombers, it could do that well, anything else it was a dog. The F-16's would come along soon after. This was all done at the time when Robert Mcnamara was the Sec. of Defense. Most incompetent guy ever to hold the position. But that was not enough, LBJ sent him over to the World Bank to screw things up there too.

@@GeorgeSemel Well, it also did have a controls locking up issue and did have terrible maintenance rates

lol

Funfact: Hartmann himself opted for the Mirage III, was very outspoken about buying the F-104 being a mistake for its intended purpose and, ultimately, was forced out of the air force for being too much of a nonconformist. He could have (or should have) made General easily. Yet it wasn't his way.

Hartmann hat den Starfighter F-104 abgelehnt, deshalb wurde er als Kommodore des Luftwaffengeschwader 71 „Richthofen“ abgesetzt und nach Köln versetzt

True however by the G6 varient I'm pretty sure they had a quick release canopy that came off altogether for when the pilot needed to bail out.

@@ThermicLight it also jettisons

Didn’t he fly a late bf 109 g6/ g10 in 1944 with the updated canopy. The one depicted looks like a early one.

I’m pretty sure that JG52 flu K4s in late 1945

@@ThermicLight I think every 109 has

Children killers?

Woah funny seeing you here Smigol :DDD

Not all of them

@@kirankhan7789 I know not all, but about 346 kills were done against the soviets so xd

OMG Smigol time it,s you huge fan !

Hello Sir, Have a nice day!

the funny thing about those charges is the Soviets claimed that whenever he missed a plane, the bullets would fall to the ground and hit someone or something, that's why they charged him for strafing ground targets

He would be the villain of the song, because Sabaton does not honor the Nazis.

*cough* ghost division

@@moblinmajorgeneral ghost division,no bullets fly,bismarck:are we a joke to you

@@u.nforcesalx9892 don't forget Hearts of Iron

@@moblinmajorgeneral Sabaton makes songs about all sides of war. Ghost Division, Bismarck, No bullets fly, etc. are stories about what happened on the German side of WWII. Edit: Here’s Ghost Division: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ICfzQVh3lvs.html Here’s Bismarck: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oVWEb-At8yc.html Here’s No Bullets Fly: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x02g4-XT_VU.html

Would be cool to get WW2 themed Ace Combat They done it for some AC games adding WW2 planes such as ACX and AC Infinity Wonder how deadly Hartmann would be if he had F22 Bet he'll be as scary as Cipher or Mobius 1

Wasn't it Hans Joachim-Marseille? The German ace who inspired Yellow 13?

@@Leadblast Yes, he is also another real life ace who inspired Yellow 13, hence I used the word 'one of the aces'. Both Hans Joachim-Marseille and Erich Hartmann are inspirations for Yellow 13. In Marseille's case, the inspiraions are the callsign Yellow, his love for music, and experiencing the loss of a close friend in combat (though this could easily applies to most of WW2 pilots, really). In Hartmann's case, there's the 'yellow and grey' livery, the claim of never losing a wingman, and being the top ace of the war. Also, there is a special ace named 'Erich Klinsmann' who appears in Ace Combat Zero and flies an Su-37 with Yellow 13's livery. There's a rather popular theory that suggests that Erich Klinsmann is actually Yellow 13, who after being shot down during the Belkan War, fled to Erusea and assumed a new identity. He also only appeared on the Knight route of 'Mayhem', the same mission that features cameos of Grabacr, Ofnir, Huckebein the Raven, and Heartbreak 1 in other routes. Since Yellow 13 is noted to be a pretty noble pilot, him appearing on the Knight route fits this nicely. This comes back to the name itself: if Erich Klinsmann is indeed Yellow 13, then his real name is really similar to Erich Hartmann as well, with the only difference being one word in his surname.

@@guts-141 An Ace Combat game set during the golden era of aviation would be awesome, yeah :). I would buy it in a heartbeat. And though there is technically The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, personally I would prefer it more if there's an actual Ace Combat game that took place in the past and we get to fly classic planes.

He probably is sadly lol

Wor Tondere momente

Sir David Attenborough*

How dare u

ITS SIR

@@APersonOnRU-vidX There I changed it

@@blustu290 sos bruh

So, if there was a Australian machine gunner Hartman would’ve gotten clapped? 🤣🤌🏻

@@kinocorner976 Hartmann was lucky he ain't over Tobruk, else he would've been 6 feet down under.

Cringe. Don't say "myself", it's disrespectful.

The worst part is you lost to a beagle flying on top of his doghouse

Oh nice meeting u

It's a great book and the author Adam Makos is a friend of the channel

Franz Stigler and American B17 pilot Charlie Brown , A beautiful story of Chivalry and doing what's right.

*German aluminum

thats the power of german engineering

deutsche qualitat

Just watch both

What ya takling about simple history is good i think there both good

Both good to be honest it’s in his name he only simply goes over stuff and not really into detail

Simple History's tough guy voice is cringe

@L Rommel was far from a Nazi, so much so, the conspirators behind Operation Valkyrie planned to put him in charge after Hitler was couped

Wait I thought the devil of rabual was.

the russians called him "black devil".

Hartmann tried to surprise his enemy, 80% of the pilots he killed didn´t notice him at all.

Why the best watches of the USSR, Kozhedub and Pokryshkin have only about 60 victories, with a little. For each downed enemy, the pilot was entitled to a cash bonus. And at that time, the country was in a state of war and people were starving and in poverty. Many had relatives in the rear who had nothing to eat. And Pokryshkin, knowing this, recorded his victories in the names of his comrades, other pilots. So that they can get money for the downed enemy, and send them to needy relatives in the rear. I do not know of a single case of Germans doing this.

@@user-tj3cy8kd7l There is one case I can think of, although that is a matter of debate. Franz Stigler, who had 27 victories to his name on 20th december 1943, scored no more after the famous incident on that day where he spared ye Olde Pub, a badly damaged B17. Given his skill and experience, this is odd. It is not clear whether he conceded his own victories to other pilots or limited himself to supporting them so they could in fact shoot down enemies themselves. It is however clear that he still did his duty, flying in the end with Galland's jet fighter unit, but was no longer interested in raising his own tally.