Mosquito Airfield Strike | 633 Squadron Tribute
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- The Mosquito is famous for being able to penetrate deep within enemy territory at low level and high speed and deliver precision attacks while still being capable of defending itself against fighter aircraft.
This is a tribute to the film 633 Squadron that attempts to recreate a typical sortie for a Mosquito Squadron circa 1944. Hope you enjoy it.
A lovely tribute to those of TAF who did not make it home and made the ultimate sacrifice for us today!
Gotta love them German pilots! Straight and level, they really do make it an art form!
Brilliant, Shift F1. gives nice forward view , 👌
"better than any Star Wars movie!"
Very Good Video!
Appreciate the kind words Bill
Good Video! Did You Make It With IL-2? In The Movie, '633 Squadron', They Never Bombed An Airfield Though, Only Gestapo Headquarters, The Practice Target & The Actual Target.
They bombed everything they saw, nothing was safe from 633 Squadron.
Yes made with IL-2 Great Battles. Yes I'm aware of that, unfortunately IL-2 lacks a map with the necessary terrain to reflect the type of mission flown in the film which is why I included the clip at the beginning to give context to the raid given it's the exact type of sortie Mosquito Squadrons like 633 were flying in late 44.
What would be amazing is if we could get the kind of graphics MSFS2020 has with the aircraft and physics of IL-2. Can you imagine the quality of cinematics then!
@@BlueMax109 Thanks For Your Reply, Man! 'Blue Max', Also A Great Movie. Watched 'Em Both When I Was A Kid. Seems Like I Remember Something About, '633 Squadron' Was A Tribute To All Mosquito Squadrons But A Great Video, Man! I Read Where IL-2 Won't Run On Windows 10 So I'm SOL.
@@thewatcher5271 IL-2 Most certainly runs on Windows 10 mate
I'm Gonna recommend you for a medal! And when it comes i'm gonna pin it on your tail!
Thumbs up.
Good job that the DCS version of the FW190A8 is about as much use as a chocolate teapot, or they'd have had you for breakfast :-)))
This is IL2 not DCS
Where were you able to find the original soundtrack?
It is available on TH-cam
What a brilliant concept, build. an airplane scattered across the countryside where nothing is concentrated in one place for the enemy to target, and make it out of wood in an area where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting the finest wood workers in the world, add in two of the best aircraft engine's ever made and you've got a holy terror for the Luftwaffe.
They never stood a chance, after the Battle of Britain and The Blitz turned out the way they did the Germans should have just apologized and gone home, they should have just realized they'd never defeat England, but no, they just had to do things the hard way.
Apologize? For what? You guys started bombing Freiburg and Gladbach first! And while it's true that we failed to defeat the RAF, neither could the RAF defeat the Luftwaffe. Bomber Command was mauled so badly, that they were forced to fly night missions only, which proved to be largely ineffective, unless you're considering bombing civilians as effective. Have you ever done research at how many Spitfires were shot down by Jagdgeschwader 2 und Jagdgeschwader 26 over France in 1943? Have you?
As a German I'm happy of the outcome of WW2. Nazi government was overthrown, and we made sure that you went bankcrupt and finally had to give up your criminal empire. And the Japanese kicked Britain out of Asia too. Britain didn't won WW2, U.S and Soviets did.
@@stefan9170 Ironically it was the decision of the RAF to bomb German cities (in violation of international treaties I might add) that caused their strategy to shift from airfields and radar installations to pointlessly committing war crimes of their own during the blitz campaign which only strengthened British resolve and allowed fighter command time to actually re-group from the losses they were taking that very nearly defeated the RAF.
The RAF then failed to learn the lessons from the blitz as you pointed out - and went about committing more war crimes by fire bombing civilians (which only strengthened German resolve, as it did for the British) and as you rightly pointed out, they were very nearly stopped in their tracks doing so.
Soviet contribution to the war effort is largely overlooked by westerners you are correct. The amount of men and material they committed to the fight far exceeds that of any of the other allied nations, but it has to be said none of that would have been possible without American finance. This is also true of Britain who as you say, ended the war bankrupt, and only survived the Battle Of Britain because of American finance and materials.
Other factors that lead to the failure of the Luftwaffe to defeat the RAF include the nepotism of the Nazi hierarchy, failure to listen to the advice of men like Galland and Molders and lack of political will to even attack Britain to begin with. People forget, Germany did not wish to attack Britain, Hitler considered the British their natural cousins, and made two separate peace offers before operations even begun in what would have been more opportune timing to attack, Lord Halifax rejected both those peace offers and even then the Luftwaffe only opened up with limited maritime strikes in the channel.
These same factors, nepotism, cronyism and general lack of political will, is also what saved Britain at Dunkirk where had the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht been used more effectively they could have annihilated what was left of the British expeditionary force and then finished off what was left of the RAF.
All of that aside though, the Mosquito was an inspired design that was so admired by the Luftwaffe that they tried to copy it with the FockeWulf TA-154 Moskito, but like so many other Luftwaffe aircraft it never made an impact on the war largely because it was used poorly / incorrectly for the aforementioned reasons of cronyism in the hierarchy and a failure to listen to frontline veterans.
One of the most controversial / contentious videos on my channel is a comparison of the Bf110 and P38 Lightning where the results upset people because it doesn't reflect the war record of either aircraft, failing to consider that the scenario simulated is simply one airframe and pilot against another with no other external factors able to influence the outcome such as morale, fatigue, availability of fuel and material, loiter capability and a myriad of other factors that lead to the overall outcome.
@@stefan9170
Woooooaa Stefan, easy, I'm not English I'm American, and the key point of my saying Germany should just have apologized at that point is something you mentioned yourself, the Nazi regime was running Germany at that time.
You yourself said your glad they were ousted in the end, and I'm glad to hear you say that because not only am I an American I was one of the Americans who was stationed in Germany back in the 80's during the Cold War, back then it was the consensus of opinion with the German people that everything turned out for the better like you said, I don't know if it's because it's been 40 years since I was there or if it's the anonymity that's a luxury people enjoy that's a product of things like the comments section of TH-cam and has so many people over there nowadays that are saying that the Nazi's should have won, but everytime I read something like that that someone in Germany writes it breaks my heart, I had the time of my life in Germany and consider my time over there to be the high water mark of my 57 years on this planet, from the first day I returned I've done nothing but tell people how wonderful the German people were, how they'd take us GI's that couldn't make it home for the holidays into their own homes so we wouldn't have to sit around the barracks all depressed because we couldn't be with our families, that includes Easter weekend of 1984 when I spent it with a German family who the father happened to be a tank crewman in the war, he was tickled pink when he found out that I was a crewman on an armored vehicle, you'd have thought we were fraternity brothers the way he lit up, I still have a hangover from him breaking out the Schnapps, he himself expressed his happiness at how the war ended.
As I said it breaks my heart whenever I read some of the things that some of the people over there are saying nowadays, not only does it break my heart I find it alarming because I assume that it's a younger generation that's saying it, not simply because the generations I got to know when I was there wouldn't say those things and it's been almost 40 years since I was there which means there's several generations I wouldn't know but because of little clues in what they write lead me to believe it's a younger generation, and like I said I find it not just heart breaking but also alarming because I don't want to see the future people over there go down that road, that's not the people I got to know over there.
As far as the bombing of cities between Germany and England just last week I had to explain to a guy from England who has the impression that Americans look down their noses at the British for indiscriminately bombing German cities, he seemed to think we look down at them because our daylight bombing campaign tried it's best to target only military targets which included factories that were for war production, and you may want to think about this but he started saying basically the same kinds of things you just were when it comes to that, I had to assure him that we don't look down our noses at them for doing it because basically that was something that was between your two countries and really none of our business, our cities weren't getting bombed by anyone so it's not our place to criticize either one of you.
Something I did point out to him though is that wherein it's true what some people point out, that starting in January of 1945 American bombers did start hitting civilian areas, first of all it was at the objections of the crews and their commander's who'd been promised all along that they'd never be ordered to intentionally target civilian areas, letters of objection were even written to Gen Doolittle from unit commander's but he replied to them that the order to do it came straight from Washington, one of the objections they had was that victory in Europe at that point was inevitable and bombing civilians seemed pointless, Gen Doolittle explained to them that Washington was running a war in the Pacific also and even though war in Europe was inevitable it wasn't in the Pacific, FDR wanted as much pressure applied to Germany as could be to get things wrapped up in Europe so all future equipment and the newly trained men for that equipment could be sent to the Pacific to deal with the Japanese who at that point were giving no indication of surrendering, don't forget only a hand full of people knew about the development of the Atomic Bomb and they didn't even know if it was going to actually work, so the plan was to get things wrapped up in Europe so all efforts could be concentrated on the Japanese who were becoming more and more savage the more islands they lost, they started to resort to killing Allied POW's in unspeakable ways like herding them into pits and dousing them with gasoline and burning them to death instead of seeing them returned to their militaries.
And it wasn't the US and the Soviet Union who won the war, it was everyone who enjoyed living in a free world in the years afterwards, including myself, you, the British who didn't have bombs falling on their cities anymore, the old man who's house I stayed at during Easter of 1984 and everyone who got to spray paint something on the side of the Berlin Wall that you could do that on without getting shot, we were the real winners.
@@BlueMax109
I've never overlooked the Russian contributions to WW2, as far as I'm concerned they deserve every body bag that got sent back home, the biggest problem with WW2 is that not enough Russian's got killed in it.
Everyone's real quick to forget that WW2 started with the Russian's teamed up with Germany, I don't care what anyone says about Russian losses in WW2, I'm not stupid, I know enough about Joseph Stalin to know that after the Russian's and Germany conquered Europe he was gonna back stab Der Fuhrer and take it all for himself, and Hitler knew that he just beat Stalin to the back stabbing, yea right, "The Great Patriotic War", what were they going to call it under their original agreement with Hitler? Probably the same thing.
Since things didn't work out with his little agreement he had with Der Fuhrer he just turned around and let the rest of the Allies help him with his plan, unlike the rest of the Allies who saw to it that not only every work of art and even personal possessions get back to their rightful owners but more importantly those same people got their countries back, unlike Stalin who kept every bit of stolen Nazi plunder but also kept the countries they came from, the post WW2 map of what Europe looked like is proof of Joseph Stalin's intentions, and if it wasn't for the US, England, West Germany and every other country in NATO along with the free countries of Europe that didn't join NATO standing up to Joseph Stalin then the post WW2 map of Europe would have looked much differently by the time Stalin died.
Further proof of Russia's intentions during that period is what's happening right now with that sawed off little Joseph Stalin wannabe Vladimir Putin, he's nothing more than an extention of Stalin and his policies and someone who needs taken out back behind the wood shed and covered in rotten food so the hogs can have their way with him, if there's any justice in the world he'll wind up a pile of hog excrement before the weeks over.
In 1992 the Russian people were given the most precious thing there is in the world, freedom, but since then they've chosen to piss it away by allowing a despot take over their country, they're probably going to wind up calling what they're doing to Ukraine "The Great Patriotic War 2".
Just like during WW2 right now they deserve every body bag that goes home to Mother Russia.
@@dukecraig2402 I would like to read and reply to your comments mate but can you take the time when you get a chance to put it into proper paragraphs? A wall of text is just too hard to consume. Cheers.
It´s difficult to shoot down Mosquito Fighter Bombers with a PAK ( Panzer Abwehr Kanone ) ! translated in english Anti TANK gun.
What's with that stupid "music"!? ... very irritating ... cut that crap and put in engine and machinegun noise!.
That's the original score for the film 633 Squadron.....of which the video is a tribute too....as per the title.