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Equally as innovative as the Spitfire - just in an ingenious and suitable way for the imminent needs of the day.

It seems clear that it's NOT a bomb hitting the water because (a) the battle-of-Britain 109 fighters didn't normally carry any bombs as it would have further limited their range, and (b) we should be able to see the (external!) bomb in the earlier frames of this same footage

Before watching this I'm going to say Bf-109 because that's what the original designation was because the aircraft factory Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, although later ME was used.. Learnt that 50 yrs ago as a child

My dad was a nav in mossies, 605 squadron. That generation have all departed, and what do we see, the right are on the rise. It is sickening.

It's a shame that the Brits were stuck with those .303 MGs. Brave lads nonetheless.

Interesting piece, and nicely put together. But what is it with the people who come up here and say it is wrong, given the proof you have. Bizarre.

Wow...

I found a piece of aluminium structure from a ww2 plane in remarkably good condition half buried in woodland in Suffolk in 1980. After dragging it home over a mile i was informed that was actually part of a sheep enclosure.

Liked and subscribed, - Excellent content regarding this famous raid.

It depends on whom you ask (and when). Prior to W. Messerschmitt‘s buy of Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (and / or RLM) of course Bf 109. Afterwards it gets murky at least. Though the official (and correct) designation given by RLM stays / should be kept was Bf 109, Willy Messerschmitt - not the least powered by his own ego - ordered and pushed the use of Me instead of Bf, first in internal company papers, later externally as well. To get his name connected to his former (successful) designs the name Messerschmitt (and Me) was used for his planes universally.,To answer the original question I would say actually both. Though I think of it as the Me 109 (as all former Luftwaffe personell I happened to know called them) I actually prefer to call it in conversation or in writing Bf 109. It is interchangeable, but Bf 109 feels a bit more authentical / correct. In fact one can do as one likes it, no harm done. Original correct RLM designation is Bf 109.

This is what I have read about the aircraft: The Bf 109 is the proper designation, the Me 109 is the Allied designation.

Also, is it the Bf110 or the Me110. Ive always called the 109 the Bf and 110 the Me.

Nice little presentation, with brilliant footage and impressive CGI - and/or a subtle(ish) advert for the excellent Wingleader Luftwaffe Crash Archive '...oh, look what we found on page...' :) ;)

RIP the 55,000

Outstanding research and very well put together.

Unseen? Was it just newly found in wreckage or storage? Seems so for a change, thankfully. Other popular titles I like to question are those with words lost or fogotten in them when what is supposedly lost or forgotten has clearly been found or remembered by someone

... a COUNTRY OWES SO MUCH, TO SUCH A FEW !!

Great to see some genuine footage from a genuine channel, unlike all the other click bait regurgitated garbage currently swirling around. Well done. Keep up the great work.

Thankyou

🇬🇧⚘️🙏Rip Sir 🙏⚘️🇬🇧

My Grandmother was a meteorologist for the RAF stationed at (I think) Barton airport, Manchester. She used to weep while telling me about all of the young men that you would see leaving knowing the chance of them not returning home was greater than making it back alive. Hundreds of them.

The Luftwaffe personnel seem to be quite enthralled with the pilot, chatting in a friendly manner with him. Shared comradery among fellow pilots even enemy ones.

The Germans looked honourable men in those scenes.

Interesting and dramatic, but to me the rudder doesn’t look like a Spitfire’s rudder (nor a Blenheim’s). No sign at all of the trim tab and I don’t see the counter-balance portion at the top. And did anybody check whether the clear photo of the downed pilot looks like that downed Spit pilot? Needs more research, less dramatic music…

Very interesting. Rest in Peace, Gone but not forgotten.

It is interesting how the British Pilot chats away with his German Captors. If you did not know history you would think them all friends.

Seeing him chatting to enemy pilots shows the common humanity amongst fellow warriors.

My husbands uncle was a pilot during WW2. We didn’t even know until after he passed away that he twice flew in combat over the Netherlands.

My father in law flew Spits in WWII. I remember him telling me about losses in training, and when I expressed surprise that so many promising young pilots were lost in what I would have considered "controlled" conditions, he pointed out what terrific pressure they were under to get new pilots into the line.

If I didn't know better, I'd say the German officer to the right at 4:50 is Galland himself.

@Chrisgoss. There is a yt series that features the diary of a Luftwaffe pilot at one point stationed outside Calais in 1940. He had a movie camera and shot many movies,many the only footage from the cockpit of his 109. The footage you show was probably his. The series is called " Spitfire on my tail". He was shot down over England and said his movies were lost. He was a pow.

That's a nice piece of history. Did he not fly again because he escaped and that might have been problematic?

Great video sir, thanks!!

Has that blenhimn got a chin turret?

WTF IS WRONG WITH YT? I HAVENT EVEN COMMENTED AND YT TELLS ME THAT MY COMMENT HAS BEEN REMOVED???????

Excellent research chaps!

Wow, what an incredible vignette of history. Thanks to all of you who researched this and for making this story known.

20/20, thought you said they were stinkers! 🤣🤣

There was a kind of friendship and respect among the pilots,whatever side they were belonging The British airman was downed but seems to be in a good mood discussing with the germans

He was having a jolly old time with those Luftwaffe pilots lol

Brilliant piece of investigative journalism. Well done.

24 years old? Seems hard to believe these days - in the era of the Eternal Teenager - doesn't it? I rather suspect that many of these young men were Old Souls - come to rescue us (and the Germans) from a monstrous Evil.

The young fighter pilots and crews, British, German, Polish, American were all heroic - a different breed.

For me, BoB is a true deed of chivalry. Hats off and uncompomising respect from France to these men.

We lost many brave young fighter pilots in the battle of Britain, and many other Lancaster bomber crews during the attack on the German city of Drezden, Gone from sight, but never gone from our thought.

Thank you for this excellent post. 👌

GREAT!!! Thank you! Amazing find, history, and aircraft. ~ Be Safe out there folks ~ Peace & Health to Us All.

What freedom.

My old neighbour was one of the pilots in that, we never knew until he died. He didnt say a word, he was a nice man too. RIP Sir.

I can't help but notice how friendly the conversation appears between him and the German pilots. Both parties seemed to realize that the other is just a guy like him. My dad was in the Army during WWII and once said, "Most of the Germans soldiers were just scared kids like us."