Flak (1944)

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    Timeless classic about anti-aircraft flak. This film provides an in-depth look at the weapons and methods of German and Japanese anti-aircraft warfare, and highlight the evasive actions utilized by U.S. bomber crews.
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  • @airboyd
    @airboyd  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2951

    A little anti-aviation today... 🤔

    • @wudi911
      @wudi911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Chee I though Covid was enough, now this? lol

    • @bobbybooshay8641
      @bobbybooshay8641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's racist!

    • @MrBen527
      @MrBen527 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@bobbybooshay8641 lol

    • @LoveStoryMew
      @LoveStoryMew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I really like in the series of games "Men of War" to destroy the tanks of the Americans and the British with flak 88 guns

    • @bobbybooshay8641
      @bobbybooshay8641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@LoveStoryMew ----Of course you do champ. It's the only time any of you 3rd world mongrels get to try it though.

  • @Mubishi2015
    @Mubishi2015 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8558

    I learnt how to avoid flak. Now I need a target and a bomber. Wonderful.

    • @nicku1
      @nicku1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

      I personally need a horse, a kingdom and the subjects. Further details I will provide later.

    • @SOS-ds8gq
      @SOS-ds8gq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Great, they use missiles now.

    • @I_am_not_a_dog
      @I_am_not_a_dog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      nicku1 Pffft. Amateur. You need a kingdom? If I *had* a kingdom, I’d trade it for a mount. My hypothetical kingdom for a horse!

    • @nicku1
      @nicku1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@I_am_not_a_dog Richard, Rickie the Third? Is that you?!

    • @alexk2418
      @alexk2418 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@SOS-ds8gq . Awesome point! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂👏

  • @MrRedeyedJedi
    @MrRedeyedJedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4902

    I never realised how advanced their anti air systems actually were for the time, with that crude processing unit relaying predictive coordinates to gun positions... Cool.

    • @CommonApathy
      @CommonApathy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      There're surprisingly simple algorithms to fit trajectories and such, and making something purpose built to do that, and nothing else, is hard but not as hard as you'd think.

    • @bocahdongo7769
      @bocahdongo7769 4 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      As long as you know what the range (by using optical rangefinder) and angular speed are (by using pointer attached to tachometer) you can predict where it should land even with paper and pen.
      Heck, even US had developed sensor-based AA fuze at same era. All you need to do was just point where it should land and sensor inside will automaticaly detected where the plane was around the shell and exploded when sensor detected the plane was pretty near without any pre-setting or miscalculated like time fuze

    • @slendok4960
      @slendok4960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I thought they used tracers or something like that

    • @steveman1982
      @steveman1982 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @Joe There's videos on youtube about mechanical computers. Really interesting stuff. Also used on battelships to direct their main cannons for off shore bombardments.

    • @javiergilvidal1558
      @javiergilvidal1558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Joe You think the world started when you were born, don´t you Joe?

  • @fazole
    @fazole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3662

    This is back when Hollywood directors made training films. Now it's death by powerpoint!

    • @hatman4818
      @hatman4818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +284

      There's a reason for this. These films were expensive to make. The only reason they were made was because there was still a significant part of the US population that were at least partially illiterate, which meant written training couldn't always be relied upon. Training films meant EVERYBODY got the same level of training.
      It does suck that we've somehow gone BACKWARDS in education technology though. We should be moving on to video games and simulation now, instead students are still paying out the ass for rip off text books, and 150 person lectures to hear the same dude repeat the same information year after year, and rote memorize and regurgitate on tests year after year after year, even though cameras and audio technology have been around over a century, for god's sakes, record the guy once and be done with it.
      ... What a joke.

    • @fazole
      @fazole 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      @@hatman4818
      In college, I actually had a class that consisted of watching the most boring teacher possible on video, then taking a test. I never saw him live! I used to use a little remote to ffwd his ramblings. Then, one year, I had him for an actual class and I kept trying to point at him and ffwd! 😁

    • @keithadams812
      @keithadams812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      If you ever deployed recently you went through 12 and 15 hour powerpoint days for a week straight.... That was worse than physical exhaustion

    • @martynspeck
      @martynspeck 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@hatman4818 The real learning happens in the doing. Writing papers. Writing programs. Doing the research.

    • @robot-he6nq
      @robot-he6nq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Hat Man these videos are most likely for pilots. If these guys can make it through the academy, the rigors of pilot training and can fly bombers, I’m pretty sure they can at least read.

  • @NoQuestions4sked
    @NoQuestions4sked 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2134

    why am i getting recommended this 76 years after its upload?

    • @NGGYU
      @NGGYU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      69th like...
      NOICE👌

    • @nevadaxelizabeth
      @nevadaxelizabeth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      so you can feel educated.

    • @gregor-samsa
      @gregor-samsa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      because there are White Supremecy guys, was Trump and in Germany there is AfD. So we are doomed to stand evil again;-)

    • @gregor-samsa
      @gregor-samsa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Texas Rattlesnek today it
      is this... th-cam.com/video/hhMAt3BluAU/w-d-xo.html

    • @tezcatlipoca6336
      @tezcatlipoca6336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      xd

  • @mariusweber4990
    @mariusweber4990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +449

    This is actually fascinating, and surprisingly well made!

    • @desertedgoatgaming
      @desertedgoatgaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      These were all well made. Lots of them were made by Warner Bros and Disney.

    • @strangemanmtd8350
      @strangemanmtd8350 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      this looks flaked up. the enemy is basicly trying to flak you up.

    • @every-istand-ophobe6320
      @every-istand-ophobe6320 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@strangemanmtd8350 definitely flaked

    • @thatguystheguy4291
      @thatguystheguy4291 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So flaked.

    • @predragpavicevic216
      @predragpavicevic216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fresh, young (RIP!) US meat cca 19 yrs. old, wouldn't had agreed that this makes any sense. Enormous number of planes and young man made it , not this military office rat's bullshit!

  • @dmac2899
    @dmac2899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1573

    The fact that a lot of us watched a 17 minute educational video that hasn't been relevant in decades shows just how effective an entertaining educational video is.

    • @ferrisbueller9991
      @ferrisbueller9991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      If every teacher could educate entertainingly kids wouldn't hate school. I enjoy documentaries now on the same subjects that where painful to sit through, imagine the same goes for everyone else.

    • @rembramlastname3631
      @rembramlastname3631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@ferrisbueller9991
      Schools today train you up just to the point of not being stupid enough to not being able to operate a machine.
      Worthless waste of time. And money if you end up in a pile of debt chained on you for the rest of your life.
      - That counts for every sector by the way.

    • @paulazemeckis7835
      @paulazemeckis7835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not sure about entertaining given that many lives were lost due to fleck but certainly educational.

    • @chrisperrien7055
      @chrisperrien7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ballistic missle detection and defence is founded upon such history. As are other modern AD systems

    • @bradnone6187
      @bradnone6187 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's pretty cool to be able to be a fly on the wall in terms of getting to see what they sat through, right before being thrown in the fire.
      They did a good job with it. The video plays off of a mans natural swagger and confidence, which was a huge part of flying during this era, or really at any point.

  • @mbrenneman0411
    @mbrenneman0411 4 ปีที่แล้ว +877

    thats pretty crazy, i didnt realize flak guns back then had that kind of computational technology

    • @maximsavage
      @maximsavage 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Well, they were mechanical calculators more than actual computers, but they did the job. If you'd like to see how complex of an equation you could make without digital tech, look up how the enigma machine worked, it's fascinating.

    • @carsons5750
      @carsons5750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Michael Brenneman wait until you find out about shipboard fire control calculators th-cam.com/video/s1i-dnAH9Y4/w-d-xo.html

    • @alexanderherckenrath7099
      @alexanderherckenrath7099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Sad to say, when it comes to killing one another, we can be quite resourceful.

    • @baneblackguard584
      @baneblackguard584 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@alexanderherckenrath7099 necessity is the mother of invention. well, it's actually the mother of utilization. the tech existed, war just put the money and effort into utilizing it.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@baneblackguard584 not really, mechanical and even later digital computers were invented for the purpose of war. They weren't in the civilian market but instead was a purposely designed machine for war. Neither were radar(which eventually led to the microwave oven) and neither were many innovation.

  • @k9tirion927
    @k9tirion927 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2734

    Im actually baffeld by how honest they are to the bomber crews with this film.

    • @ZekeMM25
      @ZekeMM25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +458

      You have to be. Cause if you're not, they'll tell you about it after the mission....if they make it back!

    • @garymingy8671
      @garymingy8671 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

      Yup , they gonna find out pretty quick either way , to waste time dodging near the target is counter intutive,,,seams safer to pour on the speed and maximize the surprise , hope to escape before they find you. Two miles to pop at 27000 feet , thats a long lead.

    • @augustovasconcellos7173
      @augustovasconcellos7173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +217

      That's because bombers are a lot less expendable than infantrymen

    • @JCU2803
      @JCU2803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Just compare with the Training Film about german automatic infantry weapons e.g. the MG42

    • @eNodeTG
      @eNodeTG 4 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      Imagine watching something like this in the 1940s knowing you will be deployed soon.. brave souls.

  • @flukislucas
    @flukislucas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    My Grandfather was the navigator-radioman on a B-17 during WW2 in the Pacific. Its crazy to think he probably watched this same film in the 40s on a projector in a smoke filled conference room on an airbase

    • @jblvxk
      @jblvxk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No he wasn’t.

    • @jacob-cs5fx
      @jacob-cs5fx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@jblvxk You are a sad person who exists. Just off yourself!

    • @jblvxk
      @jblvxk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Trust Me he’s lying idiot!

    • @jblvxk
      @jblvxk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jacob-cs5fx that doesn’t even make sense but ok simp

    • @Coolpachito
      @Coolpachito 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Trust Me Ive never seen a trash yellow like that guy on here.

  • @ikGREENY
    @ikGREENY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    Imperial Japan evasive flight video: “fly directly towards where you’re being shot from, they’ll get scared and run”

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why wouldn't the imperial Japan worry about getting shot down before the target?

    • @user-bo1ej5im9t
      @user-bo1ej5im9t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@jholotanbest2688 if japan attacker/bomber see something... its their target now

    • @desertedgoatgaming
      @desertedgoatgaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@jholotanbest2688 Because Banzai a.k.a. Japan's Allah Akbar.

    • @desertedgoatgaming
      @desertedgoatgaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@user-bo1ej5im9t How come they couldn't target the Enola or the A-bomb then?

    • @jholotanbest2688
      @jholotanbest2688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@desertedgoatgaming Your suicide attack will not do much if you get shot down before your target.

  • @11kungfu11
    @11kungfu11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1894

    "This mechanical quiz kid"... This is what im calling computers from now.
    Edit: Some of you flogs are taking my comment way too seriously.

    • @TheyCalledMeT
      @TheyCalledMeT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      if you still find a mechanical computer ;)

    • @pierreo33
      @pierreo33 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@TheyCalledMeT you mean every hard drive that isn't a SSD?

    • @TheyCalledMeT
      @TheyCalledMeT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pierreo33 if a HDD is a computer for u ^^
      well .. 10 years ago i would be with you .. now i would say the majority runs on ssd's and in 10 years there will only be HDD for what today tape backuping is

    • @SchoppeROFL
      @SchoppeROFL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheyCalledMeT Not realy. HDD will never be used for long time archives. Because it is a mechanical device with a motor.

    • @USMCArchAngel03
      @USMCArchAngel03 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Who cares if it's completely accurate? It was funny.

  • @Xeonerable
    @Xeonerable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +913

    These old training videos have that vintage charm to them. Especially the cartoon duck-hunter part for the real-word analogy, it made them entertaining and informative.

    • @LegendaryKazooMann1936
      @LegendaryKazooMann1936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      And you have to love the mid-Atlantic accent!

    • @TheRambutan2000
      @TheRambutan2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Look up Tigerfibel and Pantherfibel, basically panzer manuals in cartoon form

    • @MrSafer
      @MrSafer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      well the people they were training were kids most of the time

    • @pepiangelov401
      @pepiangelov401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Fallout series have the best vibe to it

    • @meatmissile8229
      @meatmissile8229 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Have you seen the aerial gunner training video? It used a paperboy as a real-world analogy.

  • @noneofyourbusiness9505
    @noneofyourbusiness9505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1742

    Imagine the poor cameraman when his producer told him they needed some footage of exploding FLAK grenades in the air and put him on a plane flying through the war zone.

    • @VascoCC95
      @VascoCC95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      That was made by the plane crew, not by civilians

    • @osamabinladen824
      @osamabinladen824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I would be scared to hell.

    • @osamabinladen824
      @osamabinladen824 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      @@VascoCC95 Still fucking scary.

    • @ruckus8378
      @ruckus8378 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Those scenes were most likely filmed with automatic cameras

    • @leocurious9919
      @leocurious9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      The close-up was only using overlayed images of exploding shells. You can clearly see the difference of the real war footage and the "made up" compositie footage.

  • @bobpourri9647
    @bobpourri9647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    "Somehow this doesn't make me feel better" says the ball turret gunner........

  • @JohnDoe-bw3tz
    @JohnDoe-bw3tz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +369

    Since noone mentioned it... "Flak", German, short for "Flugabwehrkanone" = aircraft defence cannon

    • @RobWhittlestone
      @RobWhittlestone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was going to write that, until I saw your entry!

    • @cameronbooker445
      @cameronbooker445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not entirely correct but glad you both can read a paragraph from wikipedia. Cheers.

    • @JohnDoe-bw3tz
      @JohnDoe-bw3tz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@cameronbooker445 Glad you had something enlightening to add here. I'm German by the way and happen to be a qualified flak operator at the Bundeswehr, former Heeresflugabwehrtruppe, now Luftwaffe. So feel free to educate me on my mistakes, always happy to learn something new. Cheers.

    • @sweetyd
      @sweetyd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@cameronbooker445 Don't be so negative. You added nothing to this conversation.

    • @warpatato
      @warpatato 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@cameronbooker445 Love people who takes time out of their day to sarcastically point out someone's "mistake" but doesn't take the extra minute to actually enlighten the crowd.

  • @GurniHallek
    @GurniHallek 4 ปีที่แล้ว +759

    You will not remember 99% of what you've learned in school or uni a year after graduation, but the knowledge of the difference between the continuously pointed fire and predicted concentration will stay vivid and clear up until the moment of your passing. Such is the nature of random YT videos.

    • @hay7501
      @hay7501 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      That’s because the schooling system is broken and leaves kids with zero interest or passion to learn

    • @jonasderidder8707
      @jonasderidder8707 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      school should just be a list of youtube videos that we all have to see

    • @italiangarbageposting
      @italiangarbageposting 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is the nature of interesting instructional videos

    • @arawtgabi
      @arawtgabi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Every time there is a barrage, go through it as fast as possible.

    • @petermower5708
      @petermower5708 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you... dead?

  • @timealchemist7508
    @timealchemist7508 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1967

    The original source of “Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A, Start.”

    • @TheExplosiveGuy
      @TheExplosiveGuy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Lmao

    • @whatfreedom7
      @whatfreedom7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Good now the bombers have 100 lives. Maybe they can complete their mission.

    • @tolga1cool
      @tolga1cool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My favorite always was: triangle, triangle, square, circle, X, L1, L1, down, up

    • @yamahsghost
      @yamahsghost 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right then Square unlocks god mode. Trust me

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      B A B A up down B A left right B A start. 20 lives in TMNT 2 on NES. Made it once into the Technodrome without the code, then only used the code every time after. Oh the days, when games were actualy hard and tried to stop you...

  • @hurricanemeridian8712
    @hurricanemeridian8712 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1955

    This 20min video single handedly beat the current school system

    • @pinhe1350
      @pinhe1350 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Cringe

    • @Mandorle21
      @Mandorle21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It obviously doesn't. And your comment is unoriginal.

    • @lukassyrovy9081
      @lukassyrovy9081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@Mandorle21 itwasajokebutok

    • @edible0pig
      @edible0pig 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I think that says more about your ability as a student, than whatever school system you're a part of. You goddamn melon.

    • @xordus
      @xordus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Im amazed at how thorough this was. They didn't just tell pilots what to do and to 'trust their commanding officer', they showed them exactly why they're doing it. I'm sure this gave the pilots a lot more confidence.

  • @fontunetheteller410
    @fontunetheteller410 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    What really got was this...
    They start out telling you what your goal should be if you were the AA gunner. Then the rest of the situation is telling you how to avoid it.
    They train you in your enemy's perspective so you already know what needs to be avoided.

  • @7000fps
    @7000fps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    When my brothers and I were very young we would hear from our dad "NOW I DONT WANT ANY FLAK FROM YOU KIDS! YOU HEAR ME. Now that I know what flak is, I had NO idea we were so tough on him. But after watching this film, I think he must have seen it too , cause he knew how to do pre-evasive maneuvers when encountering a battery of Jr. boys.

    • @slewter9041
      @slewter9041 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same..my father didn't want any flak from me..lol..guess I must a bombarded him with bullshit😊

    • @flak6487
      @flak6487 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He has

  • @budspaulding7121
    @budspaulding7121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    My Dad was a 381st BG navigator during WW2. He told me you could see a reddish-pink explosion in the center of the black cloud of shrapnel coming at you when it went off. I have the chunk it it that came up through his plotting desk, on his second mission. It hit the ceiling of the plane and klanged down on the floor. Dad picked it up an stuffed it in his pocket, thinking "Oh boy, a souvenir!" Then he realized "They're shooting at us..."

    • @ggaggagga4
      @ggaggagga4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I think a lot of the guys sat on their helmets rather than wear them. The idea of having your uh...credentials... blown off from something underneath you must have been damned unnerving.

    • @homefront3162
      @homefront3162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      COOL!

    • @NapFloridian
      @NapFloridian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ggaggagga4 Those Germans knew how to make your bomb runs a hell on earth...

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@NapFloridian Because the Germans also knew that the bomb runs were hell on Earth for them as well. See the bombing of Dresden, feb 1945.

    • @slipstream9368
      @slipstream9368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@jonathanallard2128 Dresden was a war crime by our side.

  • @kakungulu
    @kakungulu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    It boggles my mind that this was produced when heavier-than-air aviation wasn't even 40 years old and twenty something years after that there was a man on the moon, all in a human lifetime.

    • @bangscutter
      @bangscutter 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Warfare does tend to accelerate technological advancement.

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      We'll take any wonderful advancement, and fuck it up with war.

    • @rustaholic2546
      @rustaholic2546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@andybaldman true, but I don't believe planes would have advanced nearly as quickly without war.

    • @andybaldman
      @andybaldman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@rustaholic2546 I'd be ok with that. We'd have gotten there eventually. Capitalism pushes development second hardest, after war. And with fewer dead bodies.

    • @walterbrunswick
      @walterbrunswick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@andybaldman Hi, I got news for you: war IS capitalism!! Look up "War Is a Racket" by USMC Major General Smedley D. Butler
      Good luck in your journey for the truth

  • @K877
    @K877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    These animations are incredible for the time they were made.

    • @BoleDaPole
      @BoleDaPole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wartime military budget baby 🤑🤑🤑

  • @larryblack2981
    @larryblack2981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Clear, direct, fairly easy to understand and not needlessly complicated or lengthy. That's what I like about these old training films.

  • @Cypher791
    @Cypher791 4 ปีที่แล้ว +470

    "3 quarters of our planes are being shot down.... maybe its time to make an educational cartoon >_>"

    • @jamil3286
      @jamil3286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@charlesdarwin4146 helmets also caused a lot more head injuries

    • @Phobos_Anomaly
      @Phobos_Anomaly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      @@jamil3286 That is a common myth. The reason head injury numbers increased when soldiers wore helmets is because there were more head injuries to report. Previously, those men would simply be dead.

    • @SimpleBanana
      @SimpleBanana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@Phobos_Anomaly Yep. That is indeed the joke.

    • @MarkJacksonGaming
      @MarkJacksonGaming 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      -- Actually, it was closer to 1/3rd, but that's still plenty. 8th AAF went through hell particularly.

    • @DanielMcInnis
      @DanielMcInnis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MarkJacksonGaming thank god my grandfather flew a b17 late war... 1944. You can see the inside of a b-17 in my profile pic

  • @warflowers5639
    @warflowers5639 4 ปีที่แล้ว +706

    "I'm not scared of little black clouds"

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hrmmm.....

    • @DespaceMan
      @DespaceMan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      It's not the black clouds it's the bits you don't see that get you.

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@DespaceMan those exploding black cloud send tiny bit of metal at high speed......don't wanna get hit by that.....

    • @ditsokar4168
      @ditsokar4168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Mr-Ad-196 r/whoooooooooosh

    • @richmond3090
      @richmond3090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@ditsokar4168 thats not how r/whoosh works

  • @cypher9000
    @cypher9000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just imagine that it was real people going out in those planes, learning how not to get killed. It's unimaginable in these times. We should be grateful for the life we have nowadays.

  • @Ashley-1917
    @Ashley-1917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    These training videos are always really effective at explaining concepts.

    • @ABC-dw7pe
      @ABC-dw7pe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      True but even following this … it’s hard not to think that it’s almost impossible to dodge flak . No wonder allied bombers paid such a heavy price during the war over Europe. Courageous as hell the lot of them.

  • @lotusdemon9293
    @lotusdemon9293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +297

    I have to go on a bombing run tomorrow against the germans, this video probably saved my life. God bless you kind sir.

    • @cancerman3990
      @cancerman3990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Shit man did you make it or are you a pow now

    • @cancerman3990
      @cancerman3990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Deus Vult. naa shit I thought I could dodge a patriot missile by doing a slight turn every 30 seconds. Nvm the fact it can hit a target at over 30 miles

    • @rjmax3311
      @rjmax3311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This isn't a joke, op is a time traveler.

    • @ew7926
      @ew7926 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dont be to sure

    • @fb6264
      @fb6264 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      didn‘t listen close enough, we got him

  • @lorenzo6mm
    @lorenzo6mm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +470

    My Father flew a Martin B-26 Marauder over 150 times over Nazi Germany
    between May 1942 and May 1945. The Marauder was an incredibly
    tough, fast an deadly fighter/bomber. The first of its kind.
    He was a raid leader dozens of times with hundreds of planes behind him.
    They relied on his skills evading flak. Most of his missions we're well under
    20,000 ft and lots of missions around 10,000 feet.
    German 88 Flak Batteries at this altitude we're incredibly dangerous
    and unforgiving as their velocity and power we're optimized at these altitudes.
    The Marauder had two Pratt and Whitney 2,800 HP and
    could fly very fast with even 2,000 pounds of bombs.
    It could fly even faster without bombs. It also had 12 -50 Caliber machine guns.
    It had the best records for bombing accuracy and flak and fighter defenses.
    German fighter pilots gave the Marauder crews total respect coming and going
    to their targets, they frequently only had a few chances at bringing them down
    due to the unloaded speed and and 12 -50's barking back at them in their
    well arranged cross fire sorties.
    It was not a strategic bomber, it was tactical medium altitude war bird
    that directly supported ground offenses and defenses especially railroad supply lines and
    enemy depots of ammunition, fuel and troop concentrations.
    Fathers skills evading flak we're of the highest skill and he described this to me exactly
    as this film does. He survived the war but said the last Mission over Nazi Germany
    was exactly the same a same as the first.
    Between the 88 flak batteries and Messerschmitts and Focke Wulfs
    and ME 262 jet fighters the German flak & fighters we're as good as could be
    deadly and unforgiving. After the war stationed in Europe he had a chance
    to talk to many German fighter and flak battery soldiers and pilots.
    They had a deep respect for each others skills and shared something in common
    namely many thousands of useless deaths of fine young men fighting for their
    Countries and families right or wrong without guile or prejudice but simply
    to survive the insanity of all out war.
    I always relate my Fathers WW2 experiences as best I can. And, relate them to
    the videos that share his experiences as I understand, to honor him and
    all the soldiers who died in WW2.

    • @lorenzo6mm
      @lorenzo6mm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      correction between "May 1943 and May 1945"

    • @AmericasChoice
      @AmericasChoice 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@lorenzo6mm The B-26 was a hot plane, but a medium altitude bomber. Which meant it was in the sweet spot of German AAA. Respect for your Dad.

    • @mig7287
      @mig7287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Thank You for sharing with us.

    • @iandawson7723
      @iandawson7723 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks for sharing your Dads history I found it touching and fascinating.

    • @GrzegorzDurda
      @GrzegorzDurda 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      did he bomb Dresden?

  • @Bystroushaak
    @Bystroushaak 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Theese are some prety badass visualisations for its time.

  • @vast634
    @vast634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The graphic visualizations are pretty well made, and high detail. They took their documentations serious back then.

    • @NostalgicGamerRickOShay
      @NostalgicGamerRickOShay 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The clearer version of this video is here, th-cam.com/video/H8zPNMqVi2E/w-d-xo.html

  • @ssorbob1364
    @ssorbob1364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    most people get this recommended but i'm so good at procrastinating i searched for this myself

  • @ischase1958
    @ischase1958 4 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    I hope getting recommended this wasn't Google trying to prepare me for next month

    • @semi.g
      @semi.g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😆😆😆 Underrated comment !!!

    • @rhabeldibabeldi6812
      @rhabeldibabeldi6812 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well son, I got good news and bad news for you. The good ones being you got a new job, the bad ones being your hopes not coming true

    • @patrickr2601
      @patrickr2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thumbs up

    • @eng3d
      @eng3d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Biden already started bombarding.

  • @thederogativeworld
    @thederogativeworld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    Made in 1944 and recommended in 2020? Man, youtube really needs to step up their game

    • @paulluce2557
      @paulluce2557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Learnt more from this than the average bollox from Tik Tok..

  • @bryzeng
    @bryzeng 4 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    I'd love to watch a documentary on how these beautiful, clear, smoothly animated training films were made almost 80 years ago.

    • @fivemeomedia
      @fivemeomedia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dr.zeus got his start making these he made the bazooka training video you can probably find on TH-cam

    • @lapoissonnerie3891
      @lapoissonnerie3891 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      There's maybe a training film about making training films.

    • @RemiStardust
      @RemiStardust 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Some of them were made by Disney! They didn't pay well, but it kept the studio alive and were needed.

    • @neurofiedyamato8763
      @neurofiedyamato8763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Fman1292 Yes a lot were but also many were made by the US army signal corp. In fact some of my favorite films were by the Signal corp, and not necessarily hollywood or disney, although the latter two made plenty of films too.

    • @julianfreier2297
      @julianfreier2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lapoissonnerie3891 hopefully another training film

  • @dominatorandwhocaresanyway9617
    @dominatorandwhocaresanyway9617 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    *Finally, i can bomb the airfield in warthunder without getting shot*

  • @1220b
    @1220b 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Still find loads of flak just sitting on the ground. Southern England is covered in fragments...

    • @BayLeafff
      @BayLeafff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You're kidding, really?

    • @BayLeafff
      @BayLeafff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @G E T R E K T 905 That's amazing. Makes me wish I lived in the place with poignant reminders of history like that

    • @Yawnpawn1
      @Yawnpawn1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @G E T R E K T 905 They can't be all defused. Every now and then there is major damage from American and British bombs, like this one in Munich that was found 2012 th-cam.com/video/NRccXqD5KsY/w-d-xo.html , but could not be defused.
      It's estimated that in Munich alone there are probably still 500 bombs of WW2 n the ground. Defusing them becomes harder every year because of corrosion. A little less than one bomb per year explodes while attempting to defuse them in Germany, very often killing those trying.
      Excavators hit bombs every now and then, too.

    • @admiralcraddock464
      @admiralcraddock464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My old dad used to go out after a bombing raid on London's east end and collect pieces of shrapnel as a boy. We've still got them. He said you were at more danger of being killed by falling shrapnel if you were outside a shelter than by a bomb. There have been several cases of tree surgeon's chain saws being damaged when working on old trees in South England due to them being damaged buy bullets buried in them during dog fights in WW2

    • @Zipbass
      @Zipbass 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@admiralcraddock464 yes loads of shrapnel up in London plane trees , have found loads over my time when I did trees

  • @choughed3072
    @choughed3072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    1:30. That's a bad day to be a nose Gunner.

    • @KillaArmadilla
      @KillaArmadilla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
      And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
      Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
      I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
      When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
      POEM BY RANDALL JARRELL

    • @satina1169
      @satina1169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@KillaArmadilla gay

    • @KillaArmadilla
      @KillaArmadilla 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@satina1169 bro...

    • @TheGuyThatsNotFunny
      @TheGuyThatsNotFunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@satina1169 bruh what are you on

    • @satina1169
      @satina1169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheGuyThatsNotFunny I unironically smoked some crack

  • @MrTrees
    @MrTrees 4 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Why was this so entertaining?
    I feel like I need to take notes.
    I don't even know how to fly a plane

    • @coloradostrong
      @coloradostrong 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Neither did the "hijackers" that supposedly flew planes into buildings in New York. But don't let that stop you.

    • @elongated_musket6353
      @elongated_musket6353 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@coloradostrong oh boy

    • @Jester4460
      @Jester4460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@coloradostrong this joke hit harder than the towers

    • @Chicken_Wing91
      @Chicken_Wing91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@coloradostrong i mean they got pilot’s license’s so... you kind of of don’t make sense

    • @JayKayKay7
      @JayKayKay7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@coloradostrong They had Microsoft Flight Simulator.

  • @mr.mikeyg.5282
    @mr.mikeyg.5282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    My father, a B24 Tailgunner, was awarded a Purple Heart after being wounded by Flak!

    • @nicku1
      @nicku1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      And my father was wounded by a Flak on the ground! He was working as a Polish forced laborer in a German ammunition factory near Leipzig. Some day in the spring of 1945 he enjoyed the sight of American bombers (actually they were silvery dots high in the sky, leaving condensation trails) destroying nearby industrial installations. He stood there with his hand resting on a tree. Suddenly a splinter of a flak projectile embedded itself into the trunk of the tree right next to his hand and injured at the same time seriously his index finger. He had a slighly bent index finger with a sizable scar as a souvenir of this incident.

    • @thepatriot8514
      @thepatriot8514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mr. Mikey G. G-D Bless the #GreatestGenerationEver. We can all learn from those guys & gals.

    • @mr.mikeyg.5282
      @mr.mikeyg.5282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My sisters and I took him back to Manduria Italy in 2005 where he was stationed with the 450th bomb group for the first time in 60 years. Needless to say it was pretty emotional. The people of Manduria are so ingratiating and hospitable.

    • @Knebebelmeyer
      @Knebebelmeyer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      all of these mens are heros...no matter which side they fought! the people today are only victims of mcdonalds food and brainwashed media!

    • @aalexjohna
      @aalexjohna 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A dirty murdering piece of fucking SHIT!

  • @SamRichardson1990
    @SamRichardson1990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    They Need to BRING BACK Those OLD HAND DRAWN ANIMES and CARTOONs.

  • @vladsnape6408
    @vladsnape6408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    1:15 "Nevertheless, we have got a higher percentage of our planes coming back now", he didn't mention what the typical percentage was. I guess he did not want to make the viewers get worried even more than they are already.

  • @kelly0101
    @kelly0101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I don't know why I clicked on this video.
    I don't know why I sat around watching it intensely for 17 minutes.
    I don't know when I might ever need this information.
    But dang it, it was so worth it.

  • @darkshadowsx5949
    @darkshadowsx5949 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    alright the trainings over wheres my bomber? i'm hyped and ready.

    • @bartdr5146
      @bartdr5146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hi I'm your ball turret gunner worst Job in US army

  • @Napoleon_Blownapart
    @Napoleon_Blownapart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I always wondered how the gunners aimed with that much precision.
    I never tought that radar and electronic gun control were so advanced at that time.

    • @szaki
      @szaki 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's why bombers dropped aluminum foil strips to confuse the enemy radar!

    • @umbrellashotgunman
      @umbrellashotgunman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Wait till you hear about proximity fuses, which were AA shells developed by the Brits and Americans that used radar to determine when they were close enough to a plane to explode (previous heavy caliber shells had to be preset to explode at certain heights).

  • @StrikeTheRoot
    @StrikeTheRoot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm now ready to fly sorties over occupied Europe in a B-29. when do we go?

  • @dragoneye0979
    @dragoneye0979 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Good to know that the actual recommendation for dealing with a flak barrage was to just keep flying straight

    • @joostdriesens3984
      @joostdriesens3984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Getting the tactics right was a real challenge. In hindsight the flying straight sounds stupid, but it does mean less time over target, more accurate bombing and better formation which helps with defense agains enemy fighters. If flying straight and fast means you don't have to do it again over the same target next week, there is some advantage to it.

    • @sjonnieplayfull5859
      @sjonnieplayfull5859 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Its like being in an open field at night, with machineguns firing randomly. Alternating between head height, nut shots and ankle biters, you can zig-zag all you want to try and dodge the bullets, but get the hell out of dodge works best. Since the enemy can not see you, nor does he care about your moves, and since you can not predict where he is aiming for next, best is just to get out of the area ASAP!

    • @baddiematty5289
      @baddiematty5289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's also important to note that if you've flown straight enough to be caught in a barage, you've already made a mistake. Best to push through and complete the mission. Just get it over with so you can focus of the return flight.

    • @bobknechter2265
      @bobknechter2265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@baddiematty5289 barrage is used when they dont fly straight

    • @sidhantjasrotia220
      @sidhantjasrotia220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baddiematty5289 barrage is last resort of enemy when they cannot predict you, so you did not make a mistake

  • @cheydinal5401
    @cheydinal5401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I didn't expect that duck to have a parachute, wtf lol

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      oh, that's actually the advanced duck model D-43.1, sadly the whole population froze to death the winter after they were developed.

  • @cola98765
    @cola98765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    9:03 suddenly I'm playing Bomber Crew.

    • @TheGuyThatsNotFunny
      @TheGuyThatsNotFunny 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This tutorial is perfect for my badass Lancaster crew

  • @VideoNOLA
    @VideoNOLA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    tl;dr Don't fly in a straight line for more than 30 seconds at a time.

  • @tonk2629
    @tonk2629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hollywood war films then: we make historically accurate film explaining the mechanics and strategies of war.
    Hollywood war films now: T I G E R T A N K.

  • @definitelynotanimposter1670
    @definitelynotanimposter1670 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    *YOU GOT A HOLE IN YOUR LEFT WING*

    • @chuckaule6292
      @chuckaule6292 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lmao, I remember someone shouting that over and over again and my plane had no wings at all. i was like YEAH I GET IT IM SCREWED.

    • @impostrous
      @impostrous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *oil leakage*

    • @semi.g
      @semi.g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "B*tch I ain't got no left wing anymore !!!"

    • @outtimegd5683
      @outtimegd5683 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Attack the D point!

    • @definitelynotanimposter1670
      @definitelynotanimposter1670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@outtimegd5683 Gramercy!

  • @hereLiesThisTroper
    @hereLiesThisTroper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I wonder if there are still some World War 2 veterans watching clips like this in TH-cam.

    • @MrRedeyedJedi
      @MrRedeyedJedi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I'd hazard a guess and say most of them don't want reminding too often about that time in their history, not to mention most are half blind/deaf and not exactly savvy with modern tech like TH-cam. No disrespect to them intended of course, I think they were an incredible generation

    • @kennylast2565
      @kennylast2565 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MrRedeyedJedi I respect the German, Soviet and Japanese veterans the most cause they had it extremely hard and knowing it was battle to death cause their country depends on it.

    • @Justinian506
      @Justinian506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MrRedeyedJedi while many veterans suffer because of there time in the military many also enjoyed fighting weirdly enough it depends on the person

  • @Justin_Kipper
    @Justin_Kipper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I appreciate that you didn't put a time code in the middle of the screen to claim that you "own" it!

    • @homefront3162
      @homefront3162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah like that "other" gay channel

    • @Justin_Kipper
      @Justin_Kipper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@homefront3162 You mean that channel that takes public-domain videos originally made and paid for by other people, and proclaims to be saving them for us while ruining them by inserting a pointless time-code across the screen?

    • @homefront3162
      @homefront3162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      justin kipper 👍🏻😎👍🏻

  • @AmphiStuG
    @AmphiStuG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    5:51 Pretty impressive SFX for the day, Especially for a training film by my guess.

  • @michaelengel3407
    @michaelengel3407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The "eight-eight" needed more than 10000 shells to bring down an heavy allied bomber. Not very efficient. Well, it was figured out it was a much better anti tank gun.

  • @ince55ant
    @ince55ant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    humans are both really good at killing and avoiding being killed

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The game of war is important enough that many a genius has given it time for thought and innovation, clearly.

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      if they were equally good (or more like getting equally fund distribution) in helping others the world would be a better place.

    • @ince55ant
      @ince55ant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moos5221 several countries have enough nuclear arms to destroy the entire planet many times. Yet every day we avoid nuclear armageddon

    • @jonathanallard2128
      @jonathanallard2128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@moos5221 If ifs and buts were candy and nuts...

    • @moos5221
      @moos5221 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonathanallard2128 do you think that's a smart thing to say that helps more then ifs and buts?

  • @swamihernandez5408
    @swamihernandez5408 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Ok, now I need bomber formations, AA batteries, and tons of shells.

    • @helmaksi
      @helmaksi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Soon

    • @jty9631
      @jty9631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My lego battles bout to get a whole lot more advanced.

  • @AceCmbatguy25
    @AceCmbatguy25 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    As a motion designer this blew me away. Holy shit the motion graphics ! 1944 !! Respect to the creatives of those times and the arimen they sought to teach.

  • @timrohrbach1801
    @timrohrbach1801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This should be taught in schools today! Kids need to know how to avoid flak!

    • @Arborpress
      @Arborpress 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That would be insane. Just pop the video in, don't even tell the kids what they're about to watch. "THERE WILL BE A QUIZ AT THE END OF THE VIDEO!!"

    • @reallyhappenings5597
      @reallyhappenings5597 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      kids need calculus which is all this is

    • @coolloafofbread6462
      @coolloafofbread6462 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@reallyhappenings5597 if calculus was taught like this I would be a lot more interested, could be alone with that opinion though :D

  • @tomvanlin2356
    @tomvanlin2356 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this vid needs an update, how do i dodge a missle?

    • @FatGouf
      @FatGouf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Depends, if its radar guided, use chaff, if heat seaking, use flares

  • @TheLaXandro
    @TheLaXandro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Would be interesting to see how they made the diagrams.

    • @hardlogic3046
      @hardlogic3046 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's the same technique used in animation; which isn't a term limited to cartoons but a lot of people who made cartoons worked on these and propaganda cartoons, because it was the only things they could produce with their skills given the circumstances.
      the 30's and 40's were when animation began to boom to eventually reach its silver age around 42~47, and had its golden age in the 60's to then decline in the late 70's.

    • @spencegame
      @spencegame 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simply put, Walt Disney

  • @frontlinegamesseries
    @frontlinegamesseries 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The art-style of this presentation is absolutely fantastic!

  • @bobbybooshay8641
    @bobbybooshay8641 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    AIRBOYD videos are so much better than the periscope filch guy. That rectangle with the counter is unbelievable. He claims he does it so nobody can copyright his videos. As far as I know, they're all publicly available since I've seen every one about a million times on other channels. Thank you AIRBOYD and I hope periscope filch guy isn't your dad.

  • @micronick304
    @micronick304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I used this in a war game and it worked.

  • @Best4Gaming
    @Best4Gaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why should I want to know how to avoid a German Flak? I'm German

  • @alancrandall3863
    @alancrandall3863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My father flew 29 combat missions as the lead pilot in B24s out of Seely Airfield in East Anglia with the 448th bomb group. He said the flak was worse than fighters. You could fight back against fighters but had to endure the flak. He said you could walk on the flak over Berlin.

  • @thatguyinthecorner1533
    @thatguyinthecorner1533 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    You didn't search for this. But you watched it all the way through.

    • @mjelves
      @mjelves 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stay where you are

  • @TheLondonCyclist
    @TheLondonCyclist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Christ, imagine flying through that knowing it's purely luck not to get hit.

    • @gaijinfishing
      @gaijinfishing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The whole point of this video is to show that it isn't just luck.

    • @TheLondonCyclist
      @TheLondonCyclist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gaijinfishing it sure bloody is mate. These flak shots are randomly shot into the air back in those days if they felt they couldn't target.

    • @gaijinfishing
      @gaijinfishing 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@TheLondonCyclist Well, obviously there is randomness in everything. I just thought your original comment was rather ironic given the nature of the video. Nothing to get worked up over. It's just comments on the internet. You can go to bed knowing you were technically correct. ;)

    • @TheLondonCyclist
      @TheLondonCyclist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gaijinfishing Not getting worked up mate, it's just how we English talk 😂

    • @gaijinfishing
      @gaijinfishing 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheLondonCyclist Good thing mate. If not for you guys, the best country in the world wouldn't exist. Hit us up the next time Germany gets too big for their britches.

  • @notthecia4486
    @notthecia4486 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, now I can accurately train my pilots to avoid flak for all my future mass air raid endeavors

  • @nuttynuts4601
    @nuttynuts4601 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1052

    The dislikes are from people who didn't maneuver fast enough.

    • @mlgmounted9599
      @mlgmounted9599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Dislikes from Flak AA crews

    • @MaxMustermann-ze1iv
      @MaxMustermann-ze1iv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mlgmounted9599 xD

    • @thespicywolf8818
      @thespicywolf8818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Wing* *Falls* *Off*

    • @3rm1n91
      @3rm1n91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You got 244 likes and video got 244 dislikes...hmmmm

    • @GrrrRu
      @GrrrRu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Those people can't dislike cause they're dead

  • @lw216316
    @lw216316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    With all those bullets and shells exploding in the air I wonder how much damage was done to objects or people on the ground as they fell to earth ?

  • @dr.a006
    @dr.a006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    “...and KNOWING is half the battle”
    -G.I. Joe

  • @CULatte
    @CULatte 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Awesome video, just had the pleasure of seeing a full German AA setup at the American Heritage Museum in Massachusetts. It had an acoustic rangefinder, and massive spotlight, all synchronized, fascinating stuff

  • @ftargr
    @ftargr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is amazing. Even amateur historians need to see this level of detail to understand the conflict.
    Edit- The motivational wrap up at the end got me ready to man a ball turret (ok waist gun).

    • @drwlpwasright5132
      @drwlpwasright5132 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Check out Historian MS (Mike) King, author of the 2015 banned book,
      "The Bad War"
      tomatobubble.com

  • @rabidpogoista4510
    @rabidpogoista4510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So basically, "new strategy: Turn."

    • @shannonrhoads7099
      @shannonrhoads7099 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      To everything (turn, turn, turn)
      There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
      And a time to every purpose, under heaven
      A time to be born, a time to die…

  • @reneharkamp4309
    @reneharkamp4309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    FROM AMSTERDAM
    NOW 71 AND STILL VERY GREATFULL
    TO THOSE YOUNG MEN
    FOR MY FREEDOM

  • @LowtechLLC
    @LowtechLLC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    Or close the wall up with our English dead.
    In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility:
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger;
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
    Let pry through the portage of the head
    Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
    As fearfully as doth a galled rock
    O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
    Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
    Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
    Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
    To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
    Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
    Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
    Have in these parts from morn till even fought
    And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
    Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
    That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
    Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
    And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
    Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
    The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
    That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
    For there is none of you so mean and base,
    That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
    I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
    Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
    Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
    Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!

    • @lorenzo6mm
      @lorenzo6mm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen. UK, USA and ANZACS forever. The saviors of Democracy and the Peace.
      May God shine his light on them the few who did so much for so many
      for the world as we know it.

  • @charlescouch511
    @charlescouch511 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    No matter any negative comments we owe SOOOOO MUCH to the vets of WWII . Knowing this they still flew day after day night after night close to 44000 I believe never made it back MUCH RESPECT AND ADMIRATION!!!!!

  • @Fede_uyz
    @Fede_uyz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Me: cant remember much from wyat i learned 6 years ago in high school chem.
    Also me, after finding this gem for a second time after many many years: Ah yes, i still remember: never hold your course for more than 10 seconds of every 10s of thousands of feet, course variations of at least 20degrees and 500 feet elevation for heavy flak. Fly straight through barrage, and for small flak inscrease the speed, get low to the ground and make as many changes as possible.

  • @gabrielh7517
    @gabrielh7517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I went to the ww2 museum in New Orleans last summer. There was a bomber pilot there talking to people and he had a picture of a bomber that had been hit by an 88 missing a wing and crashing and he had a picture after his last mission with a hole in his wing from an 88 shell that did not go off. He was a lucky man. It's crazy that the AA gunners where able to send a shell up 4 miles and actually hit something so small.

  • @TechnikMeister2
    @TechnikMeister2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    70% of all B17 losses in Europe in WW2 were to flak. The Luftwaffe deliberately did not attack formations as a general rule. They flew above them and radioed in the formations course, height and speed. Then the flak batteries, which were radar controlled, put up a box of flak through which the formations had to fly. It was carnage. Whereas the British chose to fly at night. They crossed the coast at 100' and followed an irregular course to the target to give the Germans as little advance warning as possible and to approach under the radar.

    • @ggaggagga4
      @ggaggagga4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Brits just didn't have the resources to be able to make daylight bombing work. It damned near broke US before the tide turned.

  • @raversfantasykb6304
    @raversfantasykb6304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    1:48 Hey look, I found Squire.

  • @scottw550
    @scottw550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I've got a 1942 brass steel and aluminum navel WWII pom-pom flak shell in my bedroom drawer with no explosive material inside. I GOOGLED the stamp 2PRN01 MKII LOT RLB to find out what it was.

    • @geyotepilkington2892
      @geyotepilkington2892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice, I collect 20mm rounds and have quite a few myself.

    • @mk84ldb
      @mk84ldb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@geyotepilkington2892 I have a 16" naval shell and 5 bag charges in my spare room.

    • @geyotepilkington2892
      @geyotepilkington2892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mk84ldbThats sick, I have a 16 inch practice shell from my uncles time in the Navy. Man I bet those bag charges are cool!

    • @piciu256
      @piciu256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Great idea flexing your mostly illegal collections on the internet, it's not like there are peopple looking for such individuals.

    • @geyotepilkington2892
      @geyotepilkington2892 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@piciu256 You fucking goober, aint nothing illegal about collecting inert, practice, AP or target munitions.

  • @admiralcraddock464
    @admiralcraddock464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What he doesn't mention is the fact those explosions weren't mere puffs of smoke that were harmless unless they hit you but, in the case of larger calibre shells, were filled with dozens of steel balls which flew out hundreds of feet to damage engines and kill or injure the aircrew.

  • @heinrich6294
    @heinrich6294 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I'm a German and love those American war education films

  • @B20C0
    @B20C0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'm actually super impressed by the quality of this training film. I mean, considering the time the animations are really good. Heck, they are even better than some modern stuff I've seen.
    But you see the difference between Army and Air Force.
    Army training film: "The MG42's bark is worse than its bite, just follow your Sergeant."
    Air Force training film: actual information based on newest intelligence and science, no downplaying of the dangers involved

    • @Omni910
      @Omni910 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      During WW2 there was no separate Air Force branch, wasn’t founded until 1947. They were still under army jurisdiction, that’s why the video at the start says “Army Air Forces”.

    • @B20C0
      @B20C0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Omni910 Oh is that so? Good to know. But still, the difference in training for pilots in comparison with the soldiers is significant.

    • @umbrellashotgunman
      @umbrellashotgunman 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@B20C0 Hell, you even see it in regards to how they treated experienced veterans; Allied ace pilots were generally taken off combat duty and sent to train the newbies, while veteran infantrymen were often left in the grinder until they died too.

  • @GunsNGames1
    @GunsNGames1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Cool, I hated losing my B-17s to Flak all the time, thanks for this video.

  • @ferrychrispijn4558
    @ferrychrispijn4558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Let's have a good look at this FLAK business.

    • @flak6487
      @flak6487 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right here

  • @harveywallbanger3123
    @harveywallbanger3123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't forget that the skin of the bombers were basically unarmored; it didn't take a direct hit from a shell to kill you inside, if it went off close enough it would spray shrapnel through the cabin. The B-17, in particular, was very rugged against flak and would often return to base and land after a successful mission with one dead engine & looking like a cheese grater from all the flak holes and with multiple dead & wounded crew inside. The "flak jacket" body armor that was so common in the post-war Army was first issued to bomber cabin crews to protect them from the sleet of shrapnel perforating the cabin from nearby flak detonations; it was useless against the 13 or 20mm rounds typically fired by German fighters, though.

  • @bekincai
    @bekincai 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i had a boss named Werner Schwann when i was a teen. he said his job was to run the fuses from the big mechanical computer to the guns. he said he was like 7 at the time.

    • @jblvxk
      @jblvxk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was lying, stolen valour

    • @zeljkokaravida3934
      @zeljkokaravida3934 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jblvxk Why do you think he was lying?

    • @jblvxk
      @jblvxk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@zeljkokaravida3934 this is the internet eveyone is full of it here idiot

  • @RemiStardust
    @RemiStardust 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    1:37 Just think how intense this must've been, watching these training films, knowing in a matter of weeks you'll but up there!
    Jimmy Stewart actually flew in WW2!

    • @donf3877
      @donf3877 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And during the Korean War... and in Nam as well. He was also a commander (as a General) of the Air Force Reserve in California. Many of the male stars in Hollywood fought in wars, something you will never see again... unless they fight for the other side.

  • @PatrickBaele
    @PatrickBaele 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    My grandfather did during WW II on a constant basis transmit all flak locations along his strip of Belgian and French coast. There were gaps in the flak lines called ‘couloirs’ , the Germans constantly changed their positions, he transmitted those to England. At a certain moment they tried to liquidate him and made an attempt on his life because they had suspicions. He was neutralized for 3 months but continued. He was a civil engineer and due to that he was needed at the coast and had passes in all Sperr zones. After the war he got personal thanks from Montgomery.

    • @mig7287
      @mig7287 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      👍👍👍

    • @HedgehogZone
      @HedgehogZone 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dirty traitor

    • @PatrickBaele
      @PatrickBaele 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Hedgehog Zone idiot, Belgians were occupied by Germans. My grandfather was Belgian,not German. Keep your displaced insults for yourself.

    • @PatrickBaele
      @PatrickBaele 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hedgehog Zone . Idiot my grandfather was Belgian,not German. Belgium was occupied by Germans. Learn some history before debitating nonsense

  • @imforallz1593
    @imforallz1593 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    If only my geometry teacher explained things like this....🤑

  • @mrmcmoustache9615
    @mrmcmoustache9615 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Other people: Flak means *long German name*
    Me: Flak means: “FLAK YOU”

    • @nacl7991
      @nacl7991 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      FLugAbwehrKanone
      youre welcome

    • @flak6487
      @flak6487 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Flak you too

  • @thespacecowboy420
    @thespacecowboy420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They really knew how to explain shit in the 40's

  • @Sl4yerkid
    @Sl4yerkid 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Alright, I guess I'm ready to pilot a b-17.

  • @f.6081
    @f.6081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Почему все в конце жизни,спасибо за материал,спасибо что делитесь👍👍👍👍👍👍.......🇺🇦

    • @ДмитрийАйвазов
      @ДмитрийАйвазов 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      По тому, что в начале жизни у нас другие интересы)))

    • @jobwow3616
      @jobwow3616 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ДмитрийАйвазов 러시아인!