German Kamikazes - The Leonidas Squadron 

Tabubil the job came with dental and 401k

Hard to have any kind of human resources when you're sending people into a war.

Underrated!

Well, it's pretty plain and descriptive, don't you think ? They all knew what was at stake; no need to beat about the bush !

Hey, a fellow airsofter!

There is a Dogfights documentary on it. Mostly on the German perspective, but I believe it mentions that specific B17 and there is an interview with a crew emmebrr is I remember correctly.

Read up on the story of B17 bomber "Ye Olde Pub" and see how badly damaged it was.

Or plainly the luckiest yank alive

Must've been adjusting the throttles like a madman to maintain a stable heading, let alone land.

one of the reasons the B-17 was favoured over the B-24. It was incredibly durable and could take a lot of damage, yet still make it back home.

They feel that they lose something of their soul if they show gratitude and will always find a reason not to be.

Information I had states they were designed and tested but never employed because Hitler personally decreed that suicide missions were a violation of German ethos. Maybe he did, maybe that was later overturned or units ignored or never heard the decree and did it anyway. Or maybe like American pilots at times pilots with aircraft too damaged to make it home decided to deliberately crash into a high value target instead rather than die pointlessly crashing into some random spot.

americans dont know about honour

@bob bobo Some guy named Ho Chi Minh would like to disagree

@@soundofeighthooves You know nothing about Americans.

@@soundofeighthooves There is no honor in war.

@@soundofeighthooves honour gives u nothing if u die and loose

Wes has kaughts deum beu seurpirze!

Climb Mount Feldberg!

Tora!Tora!Tora!

Hmmm... Japan: TORA TORA TORA (tiger x3) Germans: TEUFEL TEUFEL TEUFEL (devil x3) Japan: Nani de fak

Was? Deushtland isst uber neuntausand !

Holy Christ

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Dr. Felton, Joey wants to stay after class and clean the chalkboard too....

YEeah, but nooo. A technical superior weapon mass produced does not compare to a suicide squad of a handful badly trained novices against an overwhelming skilfull enemy...

No, they held out for as long because of that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany_Must_Perish%21

*_OOF_*

Bolt action?

It was a bit more complicated than that. The Establishment of the German Empire united 26 different countries. The one institution that bound them all together was the army, and the army was the symbol of German success and unity and excellence. Defeat in the Great War caused a profound psychological shock to this reputation and to the centrality of the German army in Germany. The German army was determined to NEVER let the country down again. In addition most German officers affected to eschew all politics - the army abstained from the dirty business of politics (despite most becoming ardent Nazis - I think want they really meant was the eschewed engagement in civil political society) - this is important when combined with the myth of the dolchstoßlegende, which the Nazi elevated to a truth. The Nazi political leadership was determined that there would be no dolchstoßlegende, and the army was determined to make sure there would be no room to doubt it's loyalty to the party and to Germany and it was totally politically subservient to the Nazis. So the generals would keep focusing on how to win today instead of offering the frank advice - that the war was unwinnable and catastrophe awaited - any more rational and normally functioning government would get from it's army commanders.

Thanks - I'm enjoying making them.

Oh sure Franz!

RC stands for ReichControlled?

Sure thing Fritz!!

is that a COD:MW 2019 references?

@@markperacullo7541 ohhhhh shit, I just realized that

And islamic nations.

the dog thing didnt work because they were trained on T34 and rather ran towards their own tanks instead of german ones

Soviets never ended up using kamikaze dogs because they were unreliable and apparently words got to Stalin and he was not all that fond of it, regardless to say the people who thought of the idea ended up doing some extra labour in Siberia.

Haha funny meme dog bomb haha, we've all heard the story a million fucking times and how it turned out to be a waste of resources, time, and dogs.

@@wolfsoldner9029 Which Islamic nation? In what way exactly?

Problem is chances are you are correct lol

That was then. Now they don't even fight. They willingly let their country get invaded.

ThatRandomGojiFam Really? Merkel gave the country away to the Muslims and the EU without any fight.

ThatRandomGojiFam they were on meth

That's exactly what happened.

“Zakalwe, in all human societies we have ever reviewed, in every age and every state, there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots.”

While also working for Mossad!

@Ron Lewenberg So they say!I would take everything about this bigmouth with a very large grain of salt!

@Ron Lewenbergwww.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/hitlers-commando-otto-skorzeny.html

1% success rate ...impressive !

@@jiyushugi1085 You mean pulling it, not kicking it!?

Kamikaze wasn't very popular under german pilots, so the high rank nazis made that up to convince more pilots to participate in the program.

The ram jet engine is so noisy I presume the pilot would be deaf even if he survived

Bradley C is this channel legitimately being demonetized?

@@SaintPH25 yes all history channels have troubles, especially ww2 content is censored.

But "My Dogs Trying on Different Halloween Costumes" is such an important video to watch!

RU-vid is a legit censoring platform

for real?. not seriously

I posted a similar comment about, "Mark, please do a video about the Italian air Force during the Battle of Britain" and - BOOM! - A few days later it arrived. Maybe Mark reads our comments.

@@raypurchase801 Or maybe it's just a case of great minds thinking alike :)

MrMattumbo good for you. Keep thinking for yourself. Your professor is ignoring many examples from history to push his/her own ideology.

MrMattumbo oh yeah, because women always get along with each other. Right.

Introduce him to Boudica: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica

he's just trying to be feminist so your female classmates might sleep with him, pay it no mind

100 % right on ! The female of the species is more deadly than the male !

These comments are getting so annoying.

Imerial Navy : Lets bult submarine aircraft carrier... 🤣

*Kraut Space Magic* Einfach wunderbar.

@FuLLeFFekT1 : No the Germans did it first with Zeppelins. Pretty sure that Mark even did a video on that very subject a few months ago.

Same here.

lmao

Germany's parents (Prussia, Bavaria): Oh Grampa HRE.. what has happened to our son?

Actualy it's the other way around if you talk about the designs copy, not the tactic...not sure what you meant...

The Germans

Wanking will win.

True

+Ben Bellamy If he could find any footage of them, a video on the Kamikaze frogmen unit named Fukuryu would be fascinating.

yah..the joke being, there was no british pacific fleet in 1944. More like an indian ocean fleet...and sailing up the chinese sea AFTER the end of the war with japan was announced...

ps..joking aside..the VERY LATE entry to "support" the actions around okinawa just few months before the end of the war, does NOT justify it to be called a "proper" pacific (the WHOLE pacific ??) fleet. It is like the entry of Brazil or god knows what puny pacific island in the cause of the Allies to "fight the fascists"..at the very END of the war. Now that is the real joke.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_dHdGHP8hCg.html this might be more than you asked for

Yes, the kamikaze attacks on US were far deadlier than let on. Official secret

Indeed. How many of these guys who suggest suicide missions step up to be the first volunteers .....

Big Boy Blue Otto had a note from his doctor, he wasn't well enough to kill himself that day.

Hey, he is the ideas man. Someone else has the 'honor' of the flight.

MEIN LEBEN!!!

I doubt the German pilots were any less pressured than Japanese ones. For starters, the pressure on Japanese Kamakazi's were varied, from actual pressure from above to simple pressure of not wanting to be the one to back out when your comrades volunteered. Many of those same types of pressure would have been present for German volunteers. Plus Germany in 1945 was already hanging its own soldiers along the sides of streets with post cards around their necks saying "I was a coward" to coerce their soldiers into keep fighting: www.executedtoday.com/2012/04/27/1945-german-soldiers-for-cowardice/comment-page-1/ Not exactly a big leap to go from that to pressuring young draftees into suicide attacks against US bombers.

Terry Lynn I think some did volunteer in japan

Nope they where as much volunteers as any other. The reasoning however was diffrent.

Terry Lynn as far as I know Japanese kamikazes where fully volunteers aswell

Japanese ones were volunteers

Probably time fused for a few seconds delay.

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Frank Bishop Adolf Hitler was a caporal in WW1 and served in the army’s postal service, he was basically a letter-boy not a “war veteran”....never shot a single round in battle.