WW2 Dictators' Planes
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WW2 dictators all had luxurious personal planes. In this video we examine the planes used by Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Chiang Kai-shek, plus several more.
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The parachute chair sounds like a comic book villains escape vehicle:
Allied planes: **blows up Hitlers plane**
Hitler on his parachute chair: "curses! My plan has been foiled again!"
**flies away**
curse you Perry the Platypus!
That's what I was thinking, too. "Curse you, Captain America! You may have won the day, but Germany will win the war!". And he cackles like a maniac on his way down.
😂😂
"How dare they anticipate my strategy!"
that parachute chair saved Corba Commander on countless occasions where he managed to drift to safety and fight again another day... in Argentina
The man who flew Chiang out in 1947 was named Robert L Rousselot my late Great uncle ...he went on to be one of the founders of CAT ( Civil Air Transport) and flew as the chief pilot for Air America in Southeast Asia
bet he had tons of fascinating stories.
The principal founder of CAT, was General Clair Chenault, who commanded the American volunteer Force (a k.a , The Flying Tigers,) a mercenary unit serving Chaing Kai Chek's government up until Pearl Harbour, when they were absorbed into the USAAF.
Now that is a story I would like to see covered.
Mark's narrator's voice while advertising his Caldera Lab sponsor is unalloyed comedy gold.
Disappointed he's not sponsored by Manscape like many other channels. 😂
This is bad...we dont wanna hear Caldera lab for 2 minutes at the beginning
@@SirAntoniousBlock That would be comedy gold.
@@krishnabharay1235 You complain when you get to watch excellent free content?
This is what's wrong with the self-entitled infantile world nowadays.
@@krishnabharay1235 -- I skipped past that part.
How Churchill made his many crossings of the Atlantic during the war dodging U-Boats might make for an interesting video.
I second that! I’d love to see mark make more Churchill videos
He took a fast ship. U-boats couldn't chase cruisers. Only in WoWS are U-boats as fast as surface warships. Although Churchill was no coward, there wasn't much risk involved.
Fun fact: Hitler almost got caught on the Eastern front during a visit in 1943 when a Russian breakthrough nearly overran the landing strip where his Fw200 was parked.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 I think most of the time he flew, in a hodge podge of different planes at a time before there were any really good planes for Trans-Atlantic crossing.
@@RandomDudeOne IIRC he took both aircraft and (fast) ships.
@@ottovonbismarck2443 Mark has a video on your fun fact about Hitler on this channel
Good to see Chiang being among the list, China is overlooked in general when it comes to WW2.
Many Americans, brits, Aussies, Indians, and Chinese troops died fighting to feed the Burma road supplying China. It was an important and brutal Theater
Especially the Japanse crimes against humanity there
@@ethanmcfarland8240 And probably more Chinese people died than any other theater during or around WW2. Nobody knows the number I',m sure and most are not counted as WW2 in the west.
@@benbaselet2026 The figures, which who knows how accurate they are, place around 20 million Chinese and almost 17 million Soviets. Pretty hard for the average person really comprehend or appreciate.
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The Focke -Wulf FW 200 Condor has to be the most beautiful and elegant of all the Luftwaffe aircraft.
And also the most sketchy to fly on.
The coolest looking bomber of the entire war
@@official_commanderhale965 Heinkel 177 wants to send you a message
*sad HE 111 noises*
Very much so, I keep forgetting it’s not exactly sturdy.
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I agree. Educational , Interesting and Enjoyable.
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World war two is indeed a period in history.
One of the best YT channels - period!
Oh no! You have a period?
I absolutely love this.. you pick a topic no one has thought of, that people wouldn’t bother looking into.. and make it more interesting than you’d ever imagine! Top stuff!
You took the words right out of my mouth, brother!!!
Nothing gets my day going, with the exception Mark's Intro music.
It is an awesome piece of music.
Does anyone know the name of the song?
@@morchella1960 It might be some general music that people can use for their videos. I've heard Mark's music opening being used on a football highlight video.
@@morchella1960 that is a very good question. I have no idea.
Me at work: "Oh wait! The Mark Felton theme beckons...."
at
At “And a lair or two, to make your nefarious plans”, I lost it.
Well done, Mark :)
My Spanish friends father was the pilot of franco.
When I stayed at their family holiday home near Valencia back in 2000,the father had an original portrait of franco on his wall.
My friend and his father were opposite politically thankfully!
pilot of Franco => Mr. Paukner ?
@@volkerleiste6191 no not him.
I cant remember his first name,but his surname was Molina pons.
2:47 - "Much safer" is likely less than entirely accurate, given the Condor's history of the fuselage breaking and the tail falling off, most often on landing, but occasionally during flight as well.
As it was flown unarmed, one might wonder as to why a civilian FW200 wasn't pressed into service instead.
Safer than a JU-52? Yeah, it was enough
And you are missing the most important part: presentation.
The Condor is the coolest looking bomber from WW2, if a supervillain dictator is going to fly he ought to do it on stile
Oh, well, if you're gonna make a big deal out of that
Sorry about my wôeful posting skills, I was referring to the minor annoyance of the fuselage breaking open and leaking passengers. Nice looking plane, though...
@@MrBsbotto Let me guess, you love Boeing?
"But for the truly upwardly-mobile despot..." 🤣 Fantastic line, right there.
More history that the history channel no longer teaches.
Well, a channel as big as the History channel isn't going to show content like this all the time, because they are appealing to the general public.
The History Channel teaches us valuable lessons about the Ancient Aliens and Nostradamus prophecies.
Anyone complaining about the ad in the beginning should donate to this channel so Mark doesn't have to put an ad on his videos. Some of you don't understand how much effort it actually takes to make a video like this. Even though it's simple it's very time consuming to edit, and release. How dare you, Mark.
1 or 2 ads are fine but if you want to watch a 20min video with an ad every 1-2min sry (not his)
@@mrlight0133 we aren't talking about other people's videos. What are you saying?
He gets millions of views on every video, he's in no need of donations lol. His youtube channel literally generates millions of dollars per year. I'm not saying it justifies ad-shaming; it doesn't, I'm just letting you know that he's in absolutely no need of any donations, from anybody.
@@FunFails he makes millions? Lol you obviously don't know what you are talking about. With a million views per video he wouldn't make millions a year. He would need to consistently get multi million views on every video he posts and that's if he gets monetized on every video.
@@inflixi187 All his videos are monetized hun. You're objectively wrong.
I’m so impressed by his Chinese pronunciation! he says “Chiang” like a regular speaker wow lol. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised since Mark is such a well read historian but still! Very cool.
He taught at a Chinese university for some time so that may explain it
Well that's because Mark was actually there. He knew all these guys.
Cash my check
Agreed !!
Its pronounced Cash my check.
9:23 my grandfather, when was somewhere between 25 and 30 years old , was a worker in the Leonardo Da Vinci ' s International Airport ( Also called Fiumicino Airport, near Rome ) and remembers that he seen an airplane with three motors ( he still remembers very well that particular ), that , according to the other workers rumors, was the Mussolini's private airplane . I don't know how much Is true that story and if he only mistook an old plane for the aircraft of Mussolini, but when i' ve seen this video his story came up in my mind.
As the CIA would say, “He may have been a dictator. But he was OUR dictator.”
Well, at this times in WWII was not so much space for democracy in China
@@manjelos still not the case today
Mark: “So you wanna be a dictator?!”
Real ones: “Yes!”
Absolutely, someone get Hugo Boss on the horn.
Really interesting Mark, you certainly open boxes of history that no-one else thinks of, I really love your channel, thank you.
I remember old History Channel that did the WW2 stuff, but Mark's channel Trump's that.
and boxes of fantastic men's skin care products!
@@MidniteSon Were you trying to be amusing by capitalizing trump or were you playing your trump card? 😐
Lad the opening sentence “so, you want to be a dictator?” 😂
'Yes'!
Well.... I mean.... I kinda do
How mark continues to find good topics on an almost daily basis is truly amazing.
The truth is that there's never, ever going to be a lack of a good story to tell. Each soldier in war has got at least 2 or 3 stories that are worthy of our attention.
Thanks for your unbiased showing of history Mark, god bless and wish you a merry Christmas.
It's so interesting how an aircraft is such a status symbol for leaders or the "elite". Aircraft have always had a sense of mystique and freedom. National airlines have a similar symbolic prestige, but the expense often negates the usefulness of having a national air carrier.
They are your beliefs. Watch the video again. A lot of _real_ elite didn't have any desire to fly.
Its hard to imagine Hitler sitting in a seat dangling around after parachutting out of his plane if he ever had to escape.
He would have been swearing like hell as he got caught up in it. "DU SCHWEINEHUND VON EINEM SCHEISSIGER; VERDAMMTEN FALLSCHIRM !"
Where is Hermann Fegelein?
Not to mention what would happen when he landed in god knows where.
@@joellema9879 Like Churchill´s bath at 10 Downing Street while Churchill was using it
It would've been like Escape From New York. German version of Snake Pliskin would have to go and rescue him.
Back in 1999 in Frederick, Maryland I had a chance to climb into Franco from Spain's personal airplane. It was the Spanish copy of the HE111. She crashed and was a total loss in 2003.
What a shame
Some of my dreams have been narrated by Mark Felton.
Mark, I wish you can see this. a few corrections to Chiang's personal planes:
- the C-47 presented as a gift to Chiang was given the name "May-ling (美龄)", after Madame Chiang. It did not serve long as Chiang's personal plane. It was retired from service as Presidential transport right after WWII. But it continued to serve as VIP transport and decommissioned in 1990s. Currently on display in an Air Force Base in Taiwan.
- After WWII, the ROC government purchased a DC-4 as Chiang's personal plane and the plane was given the name “Chung-May (中美)”, it was a combination of middle characters of Chiang couple's names （蔣中正、宋美齡）, and was also interpreted as abbreviation of "China-America" (中國-美國). The plane was retired from Presidential service after Chiang's defeat in mainland. The plane was later assigned to China Airline and was destroyed while performing a clandestine operation in Southeast Asia sponsored by CIA. But the name “Chung-May” became the name of ROC presidential transport until the 1990s.
- 2nd generation of “Chung-May” was a DC-6 and served Chiang the longest. It was purchased after Chiang's defeat in mainland and served Chiang into the 1970s. It continued service as VIP transport until 1980s. This is the one on display in Taoyuan Airport.
- 3rd generation of “Chung-May” was a Boeing 720. It was purchased in 1971. Chiang passed away soon after the plane was assigned to his transport. It served as ROC's presidential transport until 1990s. Afterwards, the name “Chung-May” was not used as ROC's presidential transport. The 720 is currently on display in ROC Air Force Museum.
10:41 Chiang's first personal C-47 is likely still around, preserved in Yichang, China as a monument.
@@petershen6924 Thank you!
I wonder which aircraft(s) were designated to airlift all the Chinese gold bullion to Taiwan at the conclusion of Chaing’s reign in 1947? How much do you suspect the CCP wants their national gold treasure back in Bejing? Enough to invade Taiwan and reclaim it all? You bet…!
@@dickdaley9059 as far as I know, all the gold bullions from mainland had been spent to maintain the value of New Taiwan Yuan and in military spending in the first 3-5 years since 1949.
I love the way that the Doc can take what could be such a bland subject, and turn it into a fascinating story you can't resist watching.
I attended the memorial service for Werner Seitz and Francos He-111 did a just above rooftop level flyover at the end. It was quite a sight to see and hear.
My two grandads... one was artillery wermacht colonel. He chose this, the other way was concentration camp. Before war, he was Yugoslav kingdom Major. Ended up in Argentina, twice wounded. Boss at Siemens fabrik in Buenos Aires. Yes.
My other grandad, was first blood Tito's partisan. He looked like Harrison Ford, but times 2 good looking.
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband Yes, Bari Weiss... the legendarry pile of crap
And now the weekend can truly begin. Cheers all from Speybay Scotland. Cheers Mark for another cracking production, I shall raise aglass of Glenlivet 15 yr old. Tks again.
Cheers my friend from Detroit.
A wonderful series of well researched documentaries, presented so very well.
Decided to go into work this Saturday for a few hours. I get home and see a new Mark Felton video, a great reward!
I love that nobody in the intro shot gives a single crap about the brakes being on fire.
i saw, i had to rewatch to make sure, lol
@@Panzer-535 A clip from an older of Mark's videos...
Thank you Professor Felton and keep up the excellent historical work!!!!! I do so look forward to your videos as they bring to light sometimes forgotten but still quite relevant and important historical facts.
These are my favorite episodes. The content that gives you a glimpse into their everyday lives. And this is also why this is in my favorite top 3 TH-cam history channel's. Its not just the events and dates like the 99% of the rest of TH-cam's historical content.
"So you want to be a dictator?" haha best opening line i've ever heard from you. Also i wonder if Hirohito didn't want to fly after hearing what happened to Yamamoto.
Hideki Tojo would be more apropos.
"None of us Chaps are getting younger.But there is something we can do about it."
Well everyone but Goebbels that is. Otherwise everyone else can do something about it.
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband Really what's the article about?
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband Wow i didn't know she had any relatives left. Congrats on the news btw.
@Eva Braun’s New Jewish Husband you're spamming it all over the comments, please stop.
Dr. Skeletor. The half dead monster
I thought is was going to be a "male enhancement" ad!
Beginning at 0:04. you can see that the brakes are on fire in one of the Condor's wheels. In other clips (not in this video), a serviceman can be seen running up to the wheels with a fire extinguisher.
When mentioning Baur being a general in the SS instead of the Luftwaffe made me wonder: did the SS have its own airforce or was it reliant on the Luftwaffe?
No one was reliant on the Luftwaffe after 1943.
Considering the luftwaffe was run by Goring I think it's safe to consider the luftwaffe as the SS air division.
Bauer was the exception rather than the rule. He'd been a pilot in WW1 and flew for Lufthansa when that airline was established. When he joined the Nazi Party he became an SS member so it was a small jump from being one of Hitler's guards to Hitler's pilot.
One SS officer I know of was also was a reserve major in the Luftwafffe, Reinhard Heydrich.
Anyway, the SS didn't have it's own airforce.
I think it's similar to the navy and the marines, you need one to get to another.
The SS and SA had a small air transport unit in the early 1930s. They used private aircraft belonging to NSDAP supporters and the SS/SA pilots were mostly WW1 veterans.
When larger aircraft were needed they were hired from Lufthansa complete with crews. Including Bauer, who was already a Nazi Party member.
After 1933 the Nazi government contracted out VIP air transport to Lufthansa and the Flieger SS/SA was disbanded.
Awesome Work Mark, 👍👍👍Thanks and Winter Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮
WW2 lasted for under 6 years but Dr. Felton has enough material for a 100 years! Great vlog as always 👍.
The only channel in youtube where I actually enjoy listening to the adverts.
12:17 lmao, reminds me of my late grandmother's living room. It was only ever used when important guests visited, otherwise you risked life & limb going in there.
This is easily my favorite channel. Great content!
It's a great day when Dr. Felton uploads
General "Cash My Check."
I wonder if that is George Marshall greeting him @10:48. Marshall and Madame Chiang were good buddies.
10:31 the character on the side of the plane is 郵 (yo2), which means "mail" or "postage". This probably means the planes also carried mail for the military.
There's me thinking Mussolini's preferred plane was a Fieseler Storch, especially off of the Gran Sasso.
12:59 The Hawker Siddeley Trident supposedly for Mao's service ended up being used for his deputy, Lin Biao, to escape his rule, during an attempt to defect to Soviet Union. But the plane crashed on the way.
My grandfather, an army officer in the Nationalist Army, knew Chiang personally. I don’t know a whole lot more, he passed on when I was really young. My dad however has a lot of stories when he was in the army during the cold war, and my mom has a lot of stories from that era too. They moved to Florida back in the 70’s and I was eventually born in Orlando in 1991. But we’ve made a few trips to Taiwan, including to the island of Kinmen (or Jinmen), which saw heavy combat in the immediate years after the end of the Civl War. I always try to pay my respects at some point whenever I’m over there (more so for my grandparents and those that fought beside them).
Your grandfather must have been Chiang's cadets in the 1920s.
@@petershen6924 Maybe? I don’t think he was quite that old. He definitely did fight prior to, during, and after WWII (as far as I remember).
@@fuzzyhead878 If he fought before WW2, then he was more than likely one of Chiang's cadets of Whampoo Academy, where Chiang was the commander.
@@petershen6924 When I said before, I meant the Sino-Japanese war before, not warlords era before. My folks may know.
Edit: Just talked to my Dad. Grandpa was a student there, but he was in a much later class.
@@fuzzyhead878 That makes sense.
Wouldn't be surprised if you get hired to narrate a nature/history documentary, keep up the awesome work mark!
Mark should have his own plane, broadcasting his brilliant information to us all!
You should do one on Churchill and Roosevelt's private planes.
00:00 When the principal calls you to his office over the loudspeaker...
Brakes burning ( at 0:04 ) is just such an amazing clip.
-All in all...great video...-...thanks !
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Great story Mark, excellent narration as always. Thanks for uploading
I saw you on an a tv show on History Uk called Hitler’s steel beast. A documentary tracing the story of Adolf Hitler’s armoured private train. FYI I’ve been subscribed way before 1 million. Keep up the great work Mark!
Thank you Mark! Another morning history video with my cup of joe, couldn’t ask for more. Keep it up
Another BRILLIANT and INFORMATIVE program from Mark Felton. THANK YOU.
Mark Felton you are a national treasure.
Always very informative!
Thanks for the very interesting history lesson Mark.
Time index 4:32 the first steward on the left bears a remarkable resemblance to Actor Daniel Craig!!
Mark Felton; I must once again thank you for all your hard research and attention to detail. I don’t care for this topic alone however; you always seem to teach me something new regarding many topics I myself felt “well read” on. Bravo Mr. Felton. From all of us to you!
Mark, great episode one of my favorites. Perhaps you could cover their private trains next ?
Excellent video Mark. Thank you.
Can you feature Bruno Gesher. Survived Stalingrad in the Derlinwager Battalion after leading Hitlers private security. His drinking habit saved his life. Hitler loves him and Himler despised him. Boot camp and military training as an older man. Exceptional story.
Geshe
My favorite youtube channel. Thanks Mark!
Going to watch the video, looks awesome so far!
Greetings from 🇬🇷 ... Congratulations for your excellent job
Great content as always Mark! Thanks!!
Best documentary channel ever. Thank you for your work.
Hi Mark...as a student of WW2 history, special emphasis Eastern Front, I appreciate and value your uploads.
The very high quality of your narration, editing, factual content, truly brilliant insights and your obvious passion on the subject make this an easy choice for me!
Shiela, Mark is the best of WW2 channel , my dad was a P O W for 5 years captured near Dunkirk he would have loved Marks u-tube channel. Glad your a WW2 student best wishes.
@@mmm091000 *you're. Learn Basic English, fella!
Fascinating as always Mark, much appreciated.
Thank you for your amazing videos, Mark!
Absolutely awsome, like everthing from Dr Mark Felton!
Wow your Italian pronunciation of "pipistrello" was amazing, you're the first i heard actually trying (and this case also managing) to pronounce correctly Italian words, usually English speakers just pronunce them in an English way (ending up butchering the word) nice job🏅
judging from the comments, his Mandarin and German are excellent too. His Polish pronunciation is bloody atrocious though! (Sorry Mark).
Interesting! Thanks for your presentation Dr. Felton!❤️🇨🇦
Dr. Mark knows so much about WW2 that his brain might explode!!!
Fascinating. Germans led the way on politicians using air travel. Wonder who came up with the parachute chair idea. Maybe a German 007?
Germans led the way in almost everything
Funny to hear Dr. Felton's voice endorsing a product. I think he could read me just about any ridiculous April Fools Day story and I'd believe it.
Thank you for this interesting and enjoyable video...I especially enjoyed the segments on the Condor and the IL14M...good job!
Thank you for another informative and very well done video.
Hey, Dr. Felton...Do you do all the prep work yourself or do you employ research assistants? In either case, much respect. When one of your videos is posted, everything else in my life comes to a halt until I watch it.
This is my favorite channel on TH-cam. And I am including my own in that!
I've seen your channel , i wouldn't brag about it ..........
0:05 Plane wheel is on fire.
Great video as always!
Was in hospital and just watched tons of Mark's videos, great info that iv not got from all the books and documentaries iv seen love his stuff brilliant info ,keep up the great work mark.
Though it’s damage was paramount for ending the war, it’s a shame the allied bombing raids destroyed so many interesting pieces of technology that existed in Nazi Germany.
Another excellent video, you never disappoint Dr. Felton.
Amazing content as always Dr. Felton.
Mr. Felton's version of Plane's Train's & Automobiles. Personally, I found this one more entertaining than the film lol.
It's my lifetime ambition to be an "upwardly mobile despot" 😂 at the moment I'm a mere minion! 😔
I would like to point out, that emperor Hirohito don't wanted any planes, because he thought that they were to superfluous and extravagant for the Imperial court...
I would like to point out that Hirohito was not a dictator.
@@larryzigler6812 well, if you properly listen to the video he actually says that!
@@marcoflumino Did not have to listen for that. It's rather common knowledge. The real reason he did not fly was due to his beloved horse Shirayuki, happy to point out.
@@larryzigler6812 yet you commented about dictators, on the video he specified that Hirohito was not a dictator, but you assumed that he did... I just point out the facts.
@@marcoflumino You assumed wrong not I. Happy to point that out.
The small preview window for this video is hilarious. "WW2 Dictators' Planes" first image that pops up: modern day US President and Airforce One.
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Thanks Mark - fascinating. I still haven't decided which plane to use when I conquer the world, but you video has inspired me.
Nice. You always pick the topics that haven't been done 1000 times on TH-cam. A real historian who can do short simple presentations that will interest the history buff & novice alike.
This mans a legend
Hi Mark
Always Enjoy Your Videos
Thanks for your Expertise !!
Thank you for another informative and interesting post.