How a Corsair Pilot Got a Kill with No Weapons
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This is the story of Robert Klingman and how he destroyed a Japanese Ki-45 over Okinawa in World War II. This was made using the World War II flight simulator War Thunder. Hope you enjoy! Please like, comment, and subscribe. #WW2 #WWIIHistory #WarThunder
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What’s your war thunder user
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Is everything in the game thats in the video mods or vanilla?
This was my Fathers WW2 Squadron VMF 312 . He caught heck when the planes landed as he was in charge of the 50 caliber M2 machine guns that failed to fire. He stated and they checked they were clean to specs The plane had an electronic firing solenoid that apparently failed in the cold at high altitude What they did not say is that the Japanese Pilot continued to attempt to unjam his machine gun just yards from the Marine pilot! ( Dad says he even peed on the gun! Brave men.- on both sides The F4U Corsairs would fly a few hundred miles North of Okinawa to try and intercept the kamikaze Pilots that were so effective sinking many ships and killing thousands of sailors Also video shows Corsair diving down on plane Action report shows Corsair pilot was only gaining on plane very very slowly He slowly chopped into the tail, lost airspeed, fell back and did it again all the while Japanese gunner looking right at him with the machine gun pointed in his face. The Marine pilots prop was NOT bent back but had the ends broken off allowing it to fly
Very cool!!
@PILOT DAVE: I have read accounts of the Japanese rear gunner banging on his frozen gun in an attempt to clear the jam, but never anything about urination...I guess a lot of war books sanitized everything but the killing.
Truly "The Greatest Generation"!
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''djokahh!!! 'tail gunner gone!, eravator and tair gone too!!!!
Soo cool
The Corsair was ( and still is ) a magnificent aircraft...And a fast lethal killing machine...
It was a magnificent aircraft, but not anymore.
@@Joel38672 over 30 remaining airworthy corsairs beg to differ. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Vought_F4U_Corsairs
The flying cigar!
It was extremely powerful for its era. The whole bent wing thing was to make ground clearance for the enormous engine and oversized propellers.
@@tormentorxl2732 Thank you 🙂 I always wondered what the bent wings were for...
This plane was also the star of one of my all-time favorite TV war dramas (Black Sheep Squadron) where actors Robert Conrad and others definitely sang the praises of this great plane........difficult to fly especially during landings but superior in the hands of US pilots over Zeroes in almost every way!! Jim C.
As a boy I eagerly awaited this show every week. I watched it with my father who had been a Mustang pilot in the Air Force. Dad passed away a couple of months ago, thank you for sparking this memory.
Terrific story! Unbelievable heroism of that pilot. And a great video to boot. Thanks
for uploading. 👌
So not only did he get a kill and come in for a safe, yet dangerous landing, he also inadvertantly turned his aircraft into a kamikaze plane...
Klingman was brave as hell. Well done sir.
There was a similar incident a few years before that one actually.
In November 2 of 1940 the Greek Royal Airforce pilot Marinos Mitralexis was able to take down an Italian bomber Cant Z1007 with the propeller of his PZL.
He was out of ammo and decided to hit the tail of the bomber making it unable to fly and going down in a crash.
Marinos Mitralexis landed his own damaged PZL and walked near the surviving crew that had beild out (4 out of 5) and after a salute he arrested them.
The Italian crew was brought at the Greek base where they were treated nicely and exchanged their I.D.'s with the Greek pilots.
Maybe a video about this incident would be nice.
Are you Greek?
@@panzerivausfg4062 Yes.
@@hariszark7396 Χαίρομαι που γνωρίζεις την ιστορία αυτή!
Δεν την έχουν ακούσει πολλοί παρότι είναι μια ενδιαφέρουσα πληροφορία γύρω από την Ελληνική ιστορία !
@@panzerivausfg4062 μια από τις πολλές ενδιαφέρουσες ιστορίες που γνωρίζουν ελάχιστοι ακόμα και στην Ελλάδα.
Οι Ελληνικές κυβερνήσεις κάνουν καλή δουλειά στο να κρύβουν την ιστορία μας....
@@hariszark7396 Εγώ πιστεύω ότι είναι πιο πολύ στην αδιαφορία του κόσμου να μάθει, ιδιαίτερα από την πλευρά των νέων.
Εγώ προσωπικά μελετάω πολύ φανατικά, στρατιωτική ιστορία του Β' ΠΠ και μπορώ να πω ότι ξέρω δύο πράγματα παραπάνω, αλλά αυτό είναι πάνω μου...
Βλέπω ότι οι νέοι δεν ενδιαφέρονται να μάθουν, δεν τους νοιάζει καν, λένε "τι μας νοιάζει αυτο και το άλλο, γιατί να το ξέρουμε".
Το βλέπω από τους συμμαθητές μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο...
Πάμε 2ο έτος και κάποιοι έχουν κοπεί δύο φορές Ιστορία στα προηγούμενα εξάμηνα.
Δεν λέω να ξέρεις, κάθε λεπτομέρεια, κάθε ημερομηνία, κάθε όνομα και περιοχή όπως κάνω εγώ, αλλά τα βασικά, τα πιο σημαντικά.
Αλλά βλέπω ούτε αυτά....
Αλλά η αλήθεια είναι ότι έχεις και ένα δίκιο για τον τρόπο διδασκαλίας. Δεν σε μαθαίνουν τίποτα στο σχολείο και αυτό είναι γεγονός. Όλο για πολιτικά και κοινωνικά. Και επίσης δεν σου δίνουν και κίνητρο να το ψάξεις μόνος σου.
Δεν λέω, είχα κάποιους πολύ καλούς καθηγητές στο σχολείο αλλά...
Ότι έχω μάθει καλά, το έχω μάθει μόνος μου από ενδιαφέρον και αγάπη.
I'm addicted to your videos they just way too cool also in my home town in slovakia there was a actual pilot who fought in the battle of britain dogfights!
That’s a great story, and you did a wonderful job of presenting it! I’m so glad I subscribed to your channel. You always do a great job presenting interesting stories I’ve never heard before.
hellcat, corsair and P47 jug had YUGE kill ratios
So basically a damaged Corsair that safely landed for a kill on a craft that other craft couldn't reach and which was coordinating kamikaze attacks. Seems like a win!
The German Luftwaffe had an entire squadron dedicated to that. "Commando Elbe" or "Rammflieger" .
Something similar happened to me with my JU-87 Stuka in warthunder
I really enjoy your videos and this one was no exception. But can I suggest that you change your background music and commentary mix just a little bit and lessen the music level. The mix on this particular video was very difficult for me to hear all the details. Just food for thought. Keep up the otherwise good work.
I served 18 months at USARAL ( United States ARmy ALaska). Reading this story made me wish I coulda sent information back through time.
We kept our M1 Garands functioning by using powdered graphite as a lubricant instead of oil. In as warm as -20 farenheit, oil would start to congeal. The firing pin would freeze inside its bore and would not reach the primer. This involve detail-stripping the bolt and trigger group to remove any trace of oil. Company armorer helped us here.
On their guns, the moving parts can be lubricated. The coil in the solenoid has to be sealed and electrically isolated since graphite is electrical conductor and can short everything out.
Our Garands would function at -81 farenheit.
Wow, what a story. He was awarded the Navy Cross. He also was an enlisted Marine in the 1930s, discharged and opened a burger café before WW2. Amazing normal type American guy. Retired in 1966!
A book I read about planes ¨Wings Of War¨ apparently Major Thomas Hardy part of VMF312 says that they called the Japanese surveillance plane known as ¨Nick¨
He also tells us the missions the corsairs took part in
(btw. Page for this story is at 156 and chapter in is killer corsairs)
While I was in the Marines, we had a Corsair, Blue Max, park on our flight line. It was beautiful!
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Thanks :)
True story. The movie the Great Santini which came out in 1979 used the pictures of the Corsair’s that they took out of our ready room for the movie. That was my squadron and i’am in the ready room scene when Robert Duvall is talking about the squadron and you can hack it or you can pack It. There was several aircrew that are in the movie and did the flying scenes that got killed in accidents within just two years of making that movie. The real Great Santini “Donald Conroy” got to watch the filming of the F-4s fly the missing man formation over his funeral and ten years later F-18s flew over his funeral in the missing man formation. He said that he is the only man to get to watch his own funeral.
Thank you Sir for the wonderful story 🙏
Just for those curious which Ki-45 was used that is the Ki-45 Tei which in game is armed with 1 nose mounted 37mm cannon and 2 angled 20mm cannons.
Reason why because this variant is ment for bomber hunting.
That almost was like to make Japan taste its own medicine
All the time you hear these stories about the allies and how they pulled such situations off. I want to know if the axis had such stories.
the corsair were not able to fly at 35000 feet
Guy would take on impossible odds to save others lives ,Out standing man.
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I’m good at flying games but I can’t fly War Thunder 👎
Literally the best pilot ever. Even survivng korean war, rip❤
The most marine thing I've ever heard. Innovative and stupid. Amazing
I can’t believe it’s finally out I’ve been so excited for this episode your awesome TJ thank you for all the great videos
Thanks!
What a great true story!! Well done clankman inclinement! The point thanks for sharing this with us.
Great video but you got his name wrong, it's actually Robert "Balls of Steel" Klingman. ;)
Nice!!!!
Great Upload, Excellent viewing
Thaaaaaaaaaaaaankyou 👍🤪
The corsair wasnt successfull in carrier landings tho
Corsair is a really bizarre WW2 aircraft!
is ki-45 the original u-2?
As a child in my motherland, mes amis, I read the memoirs of a chap who was a combat pilote of one of these in WWII. He claimed that the Flight Manual stated that the glide-characteristics were SO poor, that if the engine stopped, you should bail-out (if high enough) ... OR 'Whistle A Happy Tune and Kiss Your Ass Goodbye '! ... because a 'dead-stick’ landing was very iffy.
Pretty much had the same thing happen to me to in some indie ww2 plane simulator, i already got a shot on the first engine of the bomber, but it was still keeping up with the rest of the bomber formation so i came closer and shot up his engine, being greedy i tried shooting more but instead hitting the bomber and both going in an uncontrollable dive, i managed to recover and convienently was near a friendly airfield and succesfully landed despite losing the prop, the bomber recovered too and tried to catch up with his formation but he has 2 smoking engines but was too focused on landing my plane to see whether it went down and by the time i landed my spitfire he was too far to be seen.
There are so many stories like this from WW II. A lot of them from the enemy as well who did some honorable things for the good guys. It's to bad WE THE PEOPLE(S) of our individual countries can't keep the criminals that put us into these wars out of power.
Not me replicating this in a corsair on WT, one of my favorite stories
Kind of an american Kamikaze .Very brave .
Great story, thanks for sharing!
I remember one time I had a bomber running trying to run the timer down and win. We found him, but he quickly started shooting down our teammates. With time running out I swooped in with one goal in mind. Kill him even if I had to ram him to do it. With my aircraft on fire I rammed his tail and knocked it off. We won the match with seconds to spare.
HEROISM like this is alive today in today's Military Pilots and Ground Crews.
Thanks for your service one and all who serve to Protect the Freedoms we ALL enjoy to this day.....NOW VOTE to keep it this way.
JUST SAYIN'
Wow! Awesome story. Thank you TJ.
Early gang!
All partners of US fleets their progressive level were acted in excellent balances statement & complementary amongst themselves
Outstanding !. The World's Finest US Marine Aviation. Swing with the Wing.
Semper Fi
Each pilot fired off 2,000 rounds? B/S! You were maybe going to have a few hundred per gun
This type fighter patrol became the basis of what the USN will develop as the Big Blue Blanket.
That's not a kill without a weapon, as that's not actually possible. That is using the propeller as a weapon. Your premise is simply faulty.
I thought the KI-45 have a rear machine gun? Surprised to see the Japanese gunner did nothing while the Corsair slowly caught up to it.
did u watched the whole video? the rear gunner fired but the mg jammed soon after the first shots
I get the impression the Japanese didn't bother equipping any of their pilots with parachutes.
A brave man. RIP
Wow, great video. Thank you TJ.
Did the Japanese recon plane not already radio in the fleet's location? Why risk your life and airplane? Just wondering please explain
Russian pilots rammed bombers on a regular basis. American pilots did not. Do a story on the Russians for some excellent demonstrations of air ramming.
That guy is a true bad ass 🇺🇸
Great story
Α Greek pilot shot down an italian aircraft back in 1940 by using his propella and then landed and took the italian pilot prisoner with his pistol
I was right you do use war thunder for your videos I thought this graphics looked familiar!
Love your videos but the narration needs some work. It sounds like you're reading a book report.
That had to have been worth a DFC at minimum!
F4u Corsair is Skipper from planes 2013
This should be named "The ramm of the frozen guns"!
Absolutely great presentation: the commentary, the visuals, the editing. Many thanks!
I can't play anymore because it no longer works for me :(
Good morning to all from SE. Louisiana 30 Aug 22.
Probably not a Ki-45, NICK's didn't have the performance or altitude. The ''Soup-ed Up'' variant you speak of at frame [4:26] was more likely its descendent, a Ki-102A ''RANDY.''
OBTW Ki is pronounced ''KEE''. It's short for Hikoki = Airplane.
Or possibly a Mitsubishi Ki-46 or Dinah, a much faster twin engine plane of the same era. This beautifully streamlined plane also had a tail gunner.
@@pervertt I would be more inclined to believe it was a Ki-46 DINAH, too. That was its role, Hi Alt Recon. PiReps and After Action Reports of the period were usually inexact. Both IJAAF aircraft look a lot alike in profile -- add 300 knots and above 25 angels oxygenation... A lot of OSCARs got reported as ZEKEs. They sometimes thought the Ki-61 was an Italian job, hence the McCoy Codename TONY. For really high altitude ops, they often deleted the gunner and his gun.* DINAHs only had a single 7.7mm tail gun when they weren't slick. No forward armament in recon version.
I'd bet it was a DINAH, but WarThunder doesn't have that plane so this guy used a Ki-45 -- a heavy fighter like an Me-110 (and one with anti-B-29 SchrageMusik guns) -- instead of a Ki-46 for his simulation.
* But if a Marine Officer and Gentleman states on official paperwork that he was fired on by a tailgunner, then that happened, because those people Never Lie.
Pilot after realizing he has no weapons: oh s****, not good.
Sir TJ3 History, I have a recommendation for a video. It's the story were a brave F4F Wildcat pilot from the Cactus airforce downed a Japanese bomber with his landing gear that was attacking US ships at Guadalcanal. This was reported by the USS Helena crew who saw it, I know the story might be fake, but it's a cool stroy nonetheless.
Cudos to the brave American motto, never give up.
I know Robert Klingman's nephew. Grew up in the same county in Oklahoma as he did.
Remember "don't all good stories involve pirates (Corsair)?" The History Guy🏴☠️
War thunder be like:
But the Corsair is hard to control if u r a tanker and attack aircraft main like my brother
Great story 😎👌
This is my most favorite ww2 planes
Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
No fighters in the Pacific flew at 35,000 ft….very very few in Europe did
Wrong.
Maxium Service Ceiling is 41,500'
Why didn't the Corsair pilot use his .45 pistol? If he could hit the engines, Maybe that would have started an oil or gas leak.
Unlikely
Pilots accuracy with their planes guns was just 22%
It was probably a lot less with a handgun
man you lip smack alot
hey TJ my name is also TJ
Serious Brass Ballz !!! Semper Phi !
Great video!
its always a good day when u upload
Thanks :)
I hate when this happens
*Pappy Boyington likes this
Bravo Zulu (Well Done), sir.
You can read a good account of this encounter in Gordon Baxters' book, "Bax Seat", his collection of essays from Flying magazine.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about the Corsair cannot reach 35,000 ft this is all bull crap
Yes I'm sure I did no research at all. I probably just made it all up.
Most Corsair's were actually equipped with 20mm cannon.
Really depends
The F4U-1C and F4U-4B and F4U-4 did, but the F4U-1D and A variants did not
In this particular variant it seems he had 6 .50 cals
5:37 about you can see the map from war thunder
Saw a painting about this. Strange but true.
He learned a little thing or two by the japanese
reminiscent of ( Luftwaffe ) Sonderkommando Elbe fighters , although the ( German ) tactic of ramming an enemy (U.S ) bomber was premeditated , rather than a spontaneous act
35,000 feet above the ocean ?? LOL
Amazing and just awesome!