Romanian Air Force in Operation Barbarossa (Part 1) 

I was very impressed with the pronunciation!

@@lexthemystic3541 I had a Romanian tutor 😁

Very interesting, didn’t know anything about the Romanian Air Force. Given the circumstances, they should have been allied forces, except for the geography doomed them. Sort of a paradox, who do you join with if you are Romanian, on the one hand there are Soviet swine, The other side, racist Nazis….. YUK!

Did you make these vids with Il2 engine? They are great!!! You may find the topic of the May-1940’s days in The Netherlands interesting to cover. A lot of JU-52’s were destroyed there by Fokkers. It’s said that this crippled the transportation capabilities of the Luftwaffe which hindered the plans for Operation Seelion.

Thanks! I would very much like to cover some more of this topic. The Romanian pilots' efforts against American attacks might make some pretty god videos for example.

No physical evidence for battle of Stalingrad

@@mustang1912 there are records stating that although romanians didn't fight in stalingrad, they protected the left flank i believe

Ausser wegrennen und zu den Russen übergelaufen hat Der Rumänische Soldat ja nicht allzuviel Geleistet!Das weiß ich von meinem Opa der mit denen zusammen Gekämpft hat.Er hat nur Schlecht von den Rumänen gesprochen.

@@peterlinz2733 our army was ill-equipped and not trained well. We entered the war in 1940 we had tanks from 1935, airforce was badly equipped due to missing parts and our entire army didn't have the necessary weaponry, since we were pretty poor because we were recovering from hundreds of years of ottoman occupation and ww1

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It was also flown by Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Your vote for the video sequel is noted!

I would like a part 2 too!

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​@@showtime112yet again another gem of a video..thank you.👍👍👍

Thanks! The Romanian liveries are quite interesting, more colorful than the most.

Thank you for the interest! I've been planning this one for a while.

Were they involved? I might be interested to hear.

@@showtime112 my grandpa who got injured on the battlefield near Targu Frumos in Spring of '44 was transported to a military hospital. The medical truck in which he and his fellow soldiers was straffed by a enemy russian aircraft.The bonnett of truck raised itself when the bullets hit it! He was unscaved but a few companions were not so lucky.He managed to escape death's claws three times that day!!My great grandpa was working on the fields with his horse carriage when suddenly an enemy aircraft started to dive in to strafe him...his long shirt had got stuck on the wagon's iron pole while he tried to release the horses. He eventually freed himself and ran for cover under the wagon carriage. He was lucky and escaped with no injuries. From what details I remember this may have been in late June or July 1944.I deduced that the aircraft being an american bomber escort from shuttle bombing mission attacking either Buzau or Zilistea-Boboc airfield in Operation Frantic.My great grandpa lived some 5 km away ftom Boboc airfield.

The last romanian ace Ioan Dobran died in September 2021 at 102 years. Other aces were Constanin "Bazu" Cantacuzino, Alexandru Serbanescu, Tudor Greceanu, Ioan Dicezare, Dan Vizanty, Ioan Milu

Also my great grandpa hosted for 3 years some Luftwaffe personnel in his house. Not sure if they were mechanics or pilots.

Thank you for the feedback! I hope to do more videos about IAR-80 and Romanian Air Force in general.

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Thank you! There is plenty of material left to cover.

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You won't be disappointed, quite a lot of interesting details there.

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Thanks again! I've been planning to cover this topic for quite some time.

Thank you for the feedback and for sharing your experience. I used to build models too when I was younger. I hope to return to that hobby someday.

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I guess its main rival was simply too good and there was no room for both.

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Thank you for the continuous positive feedback! Eastern front is something that deserves to be know a little better.

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Thank you for watching! Did you have a chance to talk to him about it?

@@showtime112 No.... unfortunately he died in 1991 at 70 years old due to illness. But my grandma is still alive and would tell me stories about him and how he got in the airforce. He was born in Constanta in 1921 and would help my grand-grandpa with work at the docks as a kid, later on he found out about aircraft and fell in love with them, trained to be a pilot, but when the germans overthrew our King in 1941, he was picked as a fighter pilot because of his "agresive" flight style, otherwise he would have been relocated as a bomber pilot. He fought through the Soviet Union all the way near Moscow. One of his most impressive stories is about how him and a friend managed to escape with a couple of pilots from an airfield as the russians overrun their positions at the airfield they were stationed and even brought tanks. After we changed sides, he flew missions in Czechoslovakia, and in his post war service, I believe he became a flight instructor untill his retirement in the 1970s. If he would have been an ace, the communist party would have berated him as a public shame and force him to either work in a scrap factory or straight up sent to jail on political stuff. Thats why aces such as Cantacuzino and Dan Vizanty left the country and died away from their families and friends after the war.

Another cool fact, is that my grandma and my mother lived in an apartment block filled with ex military men, one of our neighbors was a IAR80 pilot who fought the americans when they bombed Bucharest trying to bomb the railway station and instead they butchered 3000 civilians and injured 2500 more. He died around 2015-16, at that time I was already pasioned with air SIM games, such as IL2 and War Thunder, and would talk to him about aircraft, he was olways a cheerfull man with his hands in the air trying to gesture the maneuvering of aircraft. I miss the old generations

Thank you! Yes, those are a couple of obscure warbirds that deserve some more attention.

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Thank you! There will probably be at least one video covering the battle against American formations later in the war.

I might do that, I need to do some research to see what would make a good video.

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Thank you for the positive feedback! I will definitely cover the Romanian Air Force some more.

Thanks! I'm using some new techniques and I'm happy how they turned out.

Thank you very much for the positive feedback! Most people don't know much about this topic.

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@@showtime112 thanks a lot for the video

I'll probably cover some of that too, thank you for the suggestion!

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I quite agree, thank you for the feedback! I'm trying some new techniques to get that 'original footage' feel. You can never get it 100% right but that doesn't mean you shouldn't keep trying :)

@@showtime112 Well it certainly looks convincing.

210 I think?

I really want to do more videos. Fight against American bombers might be a particularly interesting topic. Thank you for the feedback!

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Yes, that is an obscure fighter but I like those :)

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Yes, they are definitely overlooked. Even in their own country.

Most of them were never mentioned by post war history books because romanian history was written by comunists after WW 2. So, as you can imagine, there was no place for them in the Red's historical perspective of that corner of the world, given the fact that most if not all romanian aces achieved this status shooting down bolschevik planes. In some regards, their faith was similar with that of the polish pilots after their return to the Polish People's Republic...Sad ending for such brave souls.

Thank you for the positive comment! I believe Romania regained most of the land but they definitely didn't get what the Soviets took from them. No vampires in Moldavia as far as I know :)

Thank you for the feedback, stick around to check other things as well.

Thanks for the feedback! As usually, things are much more complex than at the first glance.

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Une période peu connue de ma part. Même pour les avions fourni aux Roumains. Pour les as non plus apart le Prince Cantacuzene. Mais arrivé plus Tard. Pour les français en Syrie je connais un peu . C'était du P40 et Blenheim contre des MS 406 et des Martin Maryland. Ya eu de la casse

I agree that these 'forgotten' air forces of WW2 deserve some mention. I've read the 'Romanian Aces' for the first time more than fifteen years ago and I found it very interesting. It gets even more interesting later when they face USAAF and heavy bombers.

@@showtime112 yes mate. Luftwadffe sent to Romania captured french dewoitine 520. One of thèm succeed to shot down à B24 Liberator using all ammunition fired at point blank. Destroy one engine and fuselage

@@dominiqueroudier9401 Connais rien du tout à propos des roumains.

@@jeannezehner9450 juste le prince Cantacuzene. Après on construit le I.A.R 80.. on sait pas trop de quel côté ils étaient !!!contre les russes et après contre L usaf

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@@showtime112 I model WWII military subjects in 1/72 scale and am always looking for different markings and history of different subjects. I’m glad to get the Romanian history.

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Thank you for the feedback. You are definitely the right target audience for this channel 😁 As for your suggestions, the Chaco War is a bit problematic to cover as the airplane types used in it are not covered by any simulation. The Bay of Pigs is a different story and as far as I see it, it can be done. I just need to get the proper inspiration (which is hard to predict in my case).

You are absolutely right about the Chaco War, you constantly mention the models available in DCS. But I have another suggestion: did an Iraqi Mig-25 shoot down an F-18? Is that true or is it just an urban myth?..I really like to see that...when inspiration comes to you!!!, greetings.@@showtime112

@@hermeschavez7398 its true

Yes, Heinkel 112 is one of those obscure warbirds which should get some mention now and then. Cantacuzino was the leading Romanian ace, I'll probably do a story about him someday. As for the Hurricane, the game simply refused to let my fly it in the mission. Fortunately, there was a rather similar one :)

Thank you for the feedback! I would love to do such a video in the future and I probably will. The American aspect of this operation is well known but the other side point of view (and especially the Romanian side) is not known well enough.

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Thank you! I hope to cover some of those topics in the future too.

Thank you for watching and commenting! I introduced some new techniques and I think they look rather good.

@@showtime112 looks awesome, congrats!

I appreciate your enthusiastic interest! This video didn't start too well but it's climbing in order so part 2 is getting more certain.

During Spain civil war, Germany sent 17 Heinkel 112 and flying by spanish volunteers.( Not légion Kondor) pilots said this plane was superior against Bf 109 B and C( planes have same engine Junkers Jumo 210)

It looks like the Hungarian examples didn't see any combat but other than Romania, some saw action in the Spanish Civil War.

@@showtime112 17 Heinkel were send to spain flying by spanish volunteers. Not by légion kondor. Pilotes said it was supérior vs bf 109B C. Even same engine junkers jumo 210

i believe a Spanish he-112 shot down a p-38 which had crossed into Spanish territory perhaps in north africa cannot remember.

@@exocet1 Yes, there is a painting about it on some Squadron Signal book(let), called the "In Action" series. Was it forced to crashland in Algeria. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_112 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_112_operational_service

Thank you very much! Current statistics show less than 300 viewers on this video are from Romania, just as an illustration.

@@showtime112 Well some of us migrated to the US after the fall of communism so might not show in the statistics. My father fought at the battle of Targu Frumos, but as an infantryman, against Soviet tanks, so I could not contribute to the topic here.

Thanks! It might be possible on the long run. Perhaps it might start as a combination of some kind. For example, Rudel describes attacking some T-34s in a Soviet town which were maneuvering and hiding in the streets. It might be cool to show their point of view as well.

That would be really cool! I have a lot tanks and planes unlocked in War Thunder so if you ever need people to help out I’m sure me and many others would love to help out.

Thank you! It's still waiting to be done :) I will certainly cover some more Romanian Air Force in the future but I can't say when exactly.

Thanks for the comment! This is War Thunder, not IL-2.

oh really, the graphics were just so good. lol @@showtime112

Minor Axis powers are pretty much overlooked. But I definitely plan to explore this story some more. Hard to say when exactly.

@@showtime112 Whenever you can, thanks!

Not many were built, a hundred or so. But it's still an interesting overlooked warbird.

@@showtime112 it’s a very interesting aircraft 👍😊

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Thanks! The Pucara story in the 1982 conflict is planned. Now, DCS doesn't have Scout helicopter. War Thunder has it but there's no Pucara in it. I'll have to do some creative editing magic :)

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