World War II: The Fighter Aces | Full Movie (feature Documentary) 

A-Mazing Shawn! I just finished reading 'A Higher Call.' (Makos, Atlantic Books) General Galland was a truly RARE & inspirational individual. I (innocently) envy your moment with that great man. Australia

Why did you shake hands with a war criminal.

@@juusohamalainen7507 Fact was he was not a war criminal. To have been a "war criminal" he would have had to have been convicted of war crimes, he was never even charged. Most people who fought for Germany in WWII were not war criminals. Grow up.

Both Galland (1) & Kerpinsky (2) admitted to the fact.. The war was lost (1) before it was started (2) was lost 1941 while flying over Moscow. Viewing the hundreds of Ruskies climbing from train 🚂 box cars.

Well expressed, John. Your father must have been a decent man.

@@82luft49 I thank you for the response and my father always said that war is very impersonable and unfortunately destroys many of the country's best people. He always told me that many of the soldiers who died under his command were very smart and excellent human beings and none of them had families.

I like the comments at the end of the video and no one wants their family to experience their suffering during WWII. I heard so many stories from soldiers who fought under my father's command and you have to be there to experience how terrible war could be. I remember hearing my aunt talk about being fire bombed in Tokyo and she was very upset even in 1981. I missed Vietnam by two years and neighbors who fought in Vietnam have many terrible stories. I am glad to not have to fight in any war and thank any veteran for their service.

@@johnwakamatsu3391 qI àààpà À

I too have a similar background and met many aces such as Bob Goebel, and Bubi Hartman who hated the Lockheed F 104.

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We need more of these aces to fight the communists

Cause there faked lol I'm dying to catch one on my s21 ultra camera, that new periscope lens is fecking crazy clear zoom for miles and miles! It's pretty creepy actually to find someone can be zoomed in on you from 2 miles away over a river bridge and watch your every move! Like I did testing I the other day to someone going to there car lol

Because obviously this ufo BS tinfoilhattery alien crap in the internet age is patheticly made up and bogus :P

lol

Because the good cameras clearly see that the “UFO” for what it is and the bad footage remains Unidentified….

And it's funny UFO's just examine a few lone aircraft while they are in flight, instead of flying around and landing at airports, busy motorway and cities to have better look at all our lovely technology! 😁

What? These arrogant a$$holes? They thought they were the superior race . They sought to and fought to and killed in order to dominate all " other" people's. How can you have admiration for someone like that?

@@rorytennes8576 they were only pilots not radical politicians

@@karaDee2363 One may appreciate the military performance of these men, but one hast to put it into context. I am interested in history but find it highly questionable to glorify war in this way. Furthermore, at least Rudel, Nowotny and to a certain degree Galland were Nazis to the core. Feel free to read about the infamous Field Marshal Schörner, who is mentioned because of Rudel. I am german by the way.

@@florianbusse8383 I would suggest you read Erich Hartmann's biography.

@@karaDee2363 I did.

Even more interesting fact: He fought in the Battle of Britain and was a horrendous bad pilot, crashing several machines and was nearly kicked out of his JG. Then he transfered, got an other boss as Kommodore and mentor - the rest is history.

@@k98_zock_tv47 that bit of info says a great deal about life doesn't it?

@@LtBrown1956 true. If I could resume : A good teacher for a good learner makes a genius.

@@JulienGardner amen

@David Vance sorry, NO ....it seems he flew ME109s (Es and Fs) his entire career ....including his last flight

Yeah Galland always talked about the dangerous four engines.

Dan Vizante was romanian pilot , or Ion Dicezare, or Horia Agarici

@@andreiiulian7140 Sorry none of those names sound familiar

@@michaeld.uchiha9084 Galland talked about the dangerous Spitfire, the fighter he most respected.

Jg 52 at the end was near Prague. They surrendered to the Americans (for obvious reasons). The Americans turned them over to the Soviets as they fought in The Stalingrad sector. The Soviets did to the pilots wives and CHILDREN that connot be discussed. Some pilots killed first their children, then their wives and then themselves.

And stayed in russian prison for 5 yrs until he was freed by the help of the german chancellor Adenauer .

@@Joewylie3 Oh fuck off

@@1339LARS 10 years in captivity. Released in '55.

The book "The blonde knight of Germany" (a bio of Hartmann) is quite interesting. Some of YT's posts roughly titled top 10 Luftwaffe Aces are also interesting.

Qu'ils rejoignent leur maitre le Diable !

A real class act.

The highest number of claims by any axis pilot against the Western allies, there are a number of false claims in that lot.

Marseilles, at the time of his demise, had shouted Horrido! 158 times. At that time, Hartmann had not a single victory on his tail rudder.

Marseille was notorious for overclaiming. 158 is unbelievable. I doubt if he ever shouted Carving degree which is English translation for the Japanese word Horido or the Latin word Horrido. Why would he?

@BekGrou PRIMUS His claims have been shown to be false and do not come close to matching RAF records.

That was very good wasn't it!

AWESOME BOOK

Flying a Focke-Wulfe FW190 on meth and murdering enemy planes must've felt truly great and terrible.

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well you are saying right but that time they didnt had any young men to train because america was bombing their cities and germany was desperate to keep themselves in war by any means necessary

What a cope... you’re so far behind in thought, there is no hope for you.

I for one respect your ability to grow and learn and recognise your ability to see that perhaps the war was a little more varied and colourful. Most people are unable to do what you have written here, and what's worse is the don't actually know it. They will come after you for it, just don't let em get you down.

German had over 100 aces with over 100 kills.....and hundreds more with greater than 10, not sure where the "world record is" in Finland.

@@freddenapoli3591 In Finland was about under 400 fighter pilots. According that number, 96 aces is lot. After german aces, finnish pilots are next in personal 94 and 75 victories. Aces had 1435 kills.

There were just over 2500 German aces in World War 2

@@jarikinnunen1718 dude the german were counting aces in thousands

Kudos to Finland for your ferocious fighters, both on the ground and in the air.

Your words get me crying! .......Tans for your Service Soldier! AHHHUUUUUI \o

the defend their country... yes at the end. But it was to invade all Europe before that (Im speaking about german aces).

@@JulienGardner That may be true Julien, but the decision to invade other countries was not theirs. They were just following orders, unlike the people who are invading my country now. The only difference is they're not wearing Swastikas or flying planes and dropping bombs on our cities.

@@BigKWS Who's invading "your" country?

@@BigKWS the men who murdered innocent men, women and children with bullets and gas were just following orders too i guess.. No moral spine to say " no" this is wrong...

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@@mariacornwallis1602 Britain has been owned by international bankers ever since the Rothshilds cornered the London stock market in 1810 through insider trading and manipulation. The covid lockdown was used to destroy our economies and further put the middle classes in the UK, US, France, Canada into debt slavery.

@@Citadin GB is doing ok thank you, not like the USA which is $3,000,000,000,000 in debt.

And Allies did Dresden, firebombed civilians and dropped nukes on civilians, bad apples on both sides

That music at 49:01. EPIC!

Ian Ritchie My kids won't look up to fucking Nazis.

Samfia Drangus they won’t look up to u either hopefully

Samfia Drangus if ur kids wanna be pilots at all u bet ur ass they’re gonna look up to these guys lmao

Not sure we want our kids to be Nazis.

In german he said:" You only had the chance to get either a wooden cross or an iron cross" The irony in using the word 'chance' seemed intended to me.

That epic music. Awesome!

bill war IS hell! you got it there buddy pilots on both sides had issues with the parachuting enemy situation ....keep in mind, a parachuting enemy is NOT surrendering!! not to mention the obvious fact that he may crawl into a cockpit that afternoon and shoot YOU or a close comrade down it is an ethical quagmire with no easy answer for those in combat (unlike those safe in their homes typing on a computer like you and I) you are correct about little chivalry in the Luftwaffe ....but you would be equally correct in saying the same thing about the USAAF and the RAF or the Red Airforce

@@LtBrown1956 watch a Mustang pilot talk about a man bailing out of a B-17 at about 26,000 ft . He had his parachute in his hands not strapped to his back . As soon as he got in the open air the chute was blown out of his grip . " at least he had time to say his prayers " Only thought the P-51 pilot could think that gave the man some hope I guess . 26,000 feet . My father was wounded in the war and his brother was killed in a Sherman tank . Great men and women of that generation .

The issue of shooting pilot's while bailing out was a sensitive topic. Most pilot's did not shoot a man in a parachute. The rule was it you bailed out over your own territory you were considered fair game. If you.bailed out over enemy territory you were not.

The rule is a pilot bailing out over enemy territory is a non combatant and is not to be shot at. If you are bailing out over your own territory you are a combatant and can return to your base and fly again so you can be shot at in a chute on the ground as long as you are in your territory. That is from the head of fighter command during the battle of Britain Sir High Dowding

The Finnish ace.

@Practically Pituophis Feltons work is brilliant, never heard of Carlin yet

@Practically Pituophis I'm speechless.......that many beheaded!??

Jeff Pittel Are you talking about the v 2? Because the v 1 was not a creation og Von Braun

I’m in Vietnam!!

@John Eshleman yes it certainly was debunked. I don’t know why they are still posting dumb NASA stuff anymore

@@deoglemnaco7025 You have an IQ of 17.

@Bubby theCuck I am a smart man and I know things

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They lost the war. That makes them villians.

the real truth is well hidden ! keep digging

They were all Nazis at the time.

@@jthomas4361 *facepalm*

Agreed. They were brave, highly professional men.

They were fighting for the bad guys but they showed raw guts. Truly some of the bravest men to ever walk the earth. I would have shit my pants if i had to do what they did.

ryan case, Tim Rogers, negan rex: Imagine a time when Americans, Brits, and Russians of all walks of life, were united and working in concert to destroying fascism.

They were war criminals not great guys.

@@juusohamalainen7507 what war crime did they comit pray tell

they had none

You can't lose something that dosen't exist in the first place......it's their minds and empathy they don't want to lose

+Martin Reay The most successful German aces had already become aces in Spain and shoot down obsolete Soviet made I-15 and I^-16.

@@strikerorwell9232 And in WWII some Soviet i-16 aces, e.g. Vasilii Golubyev shoot down several Bf 109 and FW 190.

Mr. Martin Reay. Completely agree with you. WW II aces? Where are the other aces? The allies. This trend of glorifying Nazi Germans is wrong. They lost, they committed war crimes through concentration camps & all Germans knew about it. And in Spain the attacks against civilians in Guernica. Hitler & others publicly spoke about extermination & wrote about it in a book we all know.

Now turkish german Ace

You’re a special kind of ignorant, aren’t you? Not glorifying nazism, just giving credit where it’s due.

Erich Hartmann is biggest !

@@ttjuicer5916 Rudel

@David Vance epic

@@ttjuicer5916 Hartmann has most kills but thete is other pilots that deserve more recognition. Forget the name, but this pilot had like 138 kills in the west, 90 at night time, a lot of aces averaged 3 rounds per kill etc

@@toddduffy1658 I see a bit more of your fiction creeping in. Who were these aces who managed 3 rounds per kill and where is it on record?

Rudel was a hard core n*z*

L KNOW ! Uncle Joe puts a 100,000 ruble bounty on your head, you know your doing something right.!

2504 missions flown,. But it is true he overclaimed terrible with his tank scores... as all tank hunters of that time did. FOr example, the myth that the allies destroyed german tanks in france - you can reduce the number of killed german tanks by factor 50... and this would be still overclaiming. Same with these killed tanks by german or russian planes. If Rudel had destroyed 100 tanks by gunnery this would be a high number. Just to hit an enemy tank doesn´t mean it was killed. It got damaged, but most time it could be repaired and so wasn´t destroyed. Hitting it with a 500kg bomb - that make an end to it.

Hans Ulrich Rudel

Yes he did, but he was a diehard Nazi till he died.

@@charlesbowman129 their cause was just.

@@jeremykaleschenkoikov6993 If you believe murder is a just cause, that is just sad.

@@philhouck3560 you don't think the allies committed murder? I don't think you have a nuanced understanding of history as it was and not as it's propagandized.

They were in magazines and newsreels that they showed in movie theaters

Buffsbeard ww2

Pure courage.

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True. They fancied about the german heroes and later went with the invader. Frailty thy name is woman.

All in the East and only 2 Spitfires between them, as Gunther Rall would confirm the Battle of Britain was a disaster for JG 52

@@barrierodliffe4155 So? Finnish pilots downed russians by hundreds. Under 100 planes, mostly obsolite planes. That makes them bad?

@@edgein4808 USSR had only obsolete aircraft at the time.

@@barrierodliffe4155 Hartmann began his service in 1942 or 43 (I think), All the Soviet obsolete a/c were either destroyed or replaced by then by La5, Yak7 and Mig3

@@stevepodleski My reply was to Edge about the Finish pilots. Have you even seen what aircraft Hartmann shot down they include IL2, Boston, I 16, P 39, Mig 1 especially in 1942/43.

but its ok to glorify the people who firebombed whole cities? or dropped atomic bombs on civilians? lets not forget we, in the US, worship the founders of our country who took part in slavery and the genocide of native americans. or people in the UK who glorify their war heroes like nelson... lets not forget the british empire was pretty evil itself.

@@nothanks3590 I think you are missing the point. I for myself think that glorifying people in generel is a bad idea. Especially political or military people. Plus it was a world war. I dont understand why everyone needs winners and looser, or actors and victims in that scenario. Every country in Europe has over 2000+ years of cultural history. So everyone f*ed up at some point. Doesnt mean that its ok. For example, yes the US bombed a lot of civilians, but so did the germans in poland right after signing a treaty which declared that civilians must be protected from bombings. So noone should be glorified. It was hell on earth and destroyed entire nations and generations of people.

You should read history books not propaganda. BTW nowadays the real danger is still communism.. You let them invade eastern europe and don't like to talk about how these countries suffered after the world war. ;) You also don't know too much about germany as it is now, or you wouldn't talk these nonsense... So let's just worry about Russia,china or the USA. Not germany. Where do you live to know so little about european politics?

@@Robinjhoe1 I do agree with your views. The 20th century was a hell of a century (literally). I often wonder why in this world someone coined the expression "Belle Epóque" to refer to the last decades of the 19th century and first decades of the 20th century. In these pandemic days I always think about a European citizen (regardless of his nationality. I mean European in general) who had the very, very bad luck of being born say in 1896. That meant that in 1914 he would be 18 in the beginning of WWI. And would have to fight all through all that hell that WWI was. And in the unlikely hypothesis that he survived, immediatelly afterwards he would have to fight the Spanish Flu (which killed just as many as WWI itself had done). If he survived that ordeal, he would have to go through the economic crisis, those Great Depression years, which were so awful that it is one of the causes of WWII. And then, in 1939 he would be 43 years old and would be once more drafted to fight WWII. Going through some numbers, the Soviet Union fought the Germans from the end of June, 1941 up to May 1945. About 50 months (one should not forget though that from September 1939 up to June 1941 it was a German ally, 22 months in all). In any event, during those 50 months the Soviets lost an average of 52000 thousand people per month (26 million people divided by 50 months). The Germans fought from Sep 39 to May 1945, about 68 months, and lost something like 9 million people (meaning some 132000 people per month). So, if we put into perspective the current pandemia produced by the Covid-19, we conclude that at least for the time being WWII was much, much worse than this pandemia. And always to my surprise, there were many Europeans who survived the terrible ordeal which was the 20th century. How all that happened and why it happened probably will the a main subject to be explored by future historians. If we consider that up to now there are historians concerned with the Trojan wars...

America is dealing with this issue now in glorifying the right wing .

Either number is a huge feat in it self.

true

Also Adolf Galland was credited with 104 victories not 103 which is stated in the video.

@@xatan3318 He actually had a few more kills, but these where not registered because he was forbidden by Hitler to fly combat missions when he became the Inspektor General der Jagdflieger.

@Richard L Yeah so I’ve heard. Same also goes to Werner Mölders who also got roughly 30 above his official score. Training younger fighters in real combat after he retired from combat.

not really. Germany, Japan and Russia had true aces... allies had participations trophy style aces.

@@nothanks3590 your point is valid but even russia did not have one ace who even came close to galland and he was not close to hartman

Most of these guys were not nazi party members, and disliked nazi doctrine. They were thrill seekers And only wanted to fly

@@nothanks3590 such a cuck you are

KatatonicGoat the junk messershit

you are the junk. fucktard

I N ha ha ha ha ha messershit pile

KatatonicGoat the US mustang shot the piss out of the messershit and so did the P47

All you guys talking about how shit the German plane were. Here is a list of the top Aces during the war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces. Keep scrolling for the American and British Aces. Nobody can be that good in a shit plane. Oh an notice the Finnish airmen who were also flying German equipment same with the Romanian guy too.

Spain built Bf 109's under licence using Hispano Suiza V 12 and later Rolls Royce Merlin engines. It is rather ironic that the first Bf 109 had a Rolls Royce engine as did the last.

Yes he was

He was only a murderer, no more. He attacked his neighbours in a war of German aggression.

if Poland and France and the other pussy countries would of put up some kind of a fight and even all of the countries keep a fight going then Hitler would not of thought he can do the same to Russia and England and then USA had to come fight these pussy countries fights for them even when USA had to deal with Japan and been defending pussy Korea over 60 years Russia give them what they deserved

Poland? Pussy country? You have to learn a little bit more about polish resistance. You do now that they where attacked by Sovjetunion AND Germany in september 1939? Not easy to fight in a two front war. Have you ever heard of polish home army?

@@nisse7399 I Agree when you take in consideration Germany had about 3 million men or better against tiny Poland As France and Great Britain knew they were next . Poland is to be commended for their courage and will to fight against Nazisism.Lukily Adolph got so big headed he attacked the Soviets which aided us in and gave us time to supply the rest of the world with weapons as well asallowing the Great Generation time to gear up.Remember Poland was being attacked by the Soviets at the begining also.

@@nisse7399 poland DID fight well ....but they were betrayed by the allies twice during one war ....the german army learned a lot of lessons at the expense of the poles ....the west NEEDS poland strong and united to stand as a road block to russia

@@johnanders3440 actually their standing armies were about the same size (germany's was slightly larger) but germany mobilized first and were able to put more men in the field MORE BELOW Poland was squeezed between 2 hostile neighbors and HAD (russia had already invaded once since the end of ww1) to keep a large standing army ...they failed to mobilize more men because the western allies convinced them not to. Poland was hardly tiny ....they had a population of 39 million (about half of germany) .....of course germany had to keep a force in the west

@JZ's Best Friend Nope.

@@inominate2024 Yeah, read it. It's Awful. What's that have to do with the boys fighting?

Lol…. I think you meant “protective” instead of defensive.

At first the Luftwaffe was on the offensive, then with their Reich being pushed back on all fronts and massively out numbered by allied aricraft they were defensive. Your grasp of history, even of logic seems tenuous to be honest as the video you just watched explained all that to anyone who didn't already know it.

Same time was smaller airforce who manage better like Ilmavoimat. Luftwaffe just drop enemys and loose war. Succesfull war didn't play numbers.

No the best pilots go to RaF ot Americans

Yet they couldn't beat the RAF even in 1940. Luftwaffe aces were deployed by a nation that lacked the capacity for waging war; by fanatics who failed to understand that casualties were an important factor in any stratagem; and by dilettantes who failed to see their own very considerable limitations.

@@yourtrappedinmygenjutsu - Yeah the raf was the best and alot of those German victories came against the Poles , who's planes were already relics when the war started.

Oh bullshit

Hartmann's book is a great read

There's some controversy on that count. On one occasion he was forced to bail out after a fight due to loss of fuel. The corresponding American testimony claimed a kill. I'm willing to argue that if he was struck in the fuel tank and the leak was due to enemy action him bailing is "getting shot down" though there isn't anything conclusive either way.

@@iBleedStarsAndBars Was it an auto biography or THE BLONDE KNIGHT OF GERMANY?

@@wirelessone2986Blonde knight