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.... a bit of name dropping .... my uncle put Molders through his basic training in Allenstein East Prussia ... and kept up a correspondence with him until his death.

To Sailor Malan's credit, one must mention a document he released during his career : Sailor Malan's 10 Rules of Air Fighting, which has been a life-saving reminder for many RAF pilots throughout the war.

Great, fantastic and immortal Werner Möders!!! Respect forever!!! 👍👍👍

Thanks for the video , always enjoyable. The first time I heard about Sailor was while reading a book called “ Tucks Luck” About Stanford R. Tuck . Incredible story, great read . I highly recommend it

It should have been mentioned that Sailor Malan was born in South Africa, and did not just go live on a sheep farm in S.A after the war. He was one of 25 South Africans who flew for the RAF in the Battle of Britain.

It is always difficult to judge such fights. The fighting time for the BF 109 was extrem limited over Britain. And the Strategie of low flying over the channel set the BF 109 in a bad position. Because height is an advantage. People forgett, the RAF pilotes where albe to play for time. When the enemy run out of Gas, it was easy to chase them on their way home. So I guess this fight was not the dramatic Hollywood-like duell between 2 aces we all expect.

This encounter was one of the missions in Lucas Art “Battle of Britain” PC game… how graphics have improved since… awesome work… bravo 👏🏼

As a born South African I am so proud to say that Sailor Malan was also a born South African. Malan was born in in 1910 and then served in the Merchant Navy and Royal Navy Reserve, which later earned him the nickname 'Sailor Malan'. He joined the RAF in 1935 and by 1939 was acting flight lieutenant of 74 Squadron.

Man could you imagine living in Southern England or Wales at the time and watching this stuff go down right over your head day after day? You might even end up capturing a Luftwaffe airman!

This dogfight probably never happened. From Wikipedia: “Legend has it that on 28 July he (Malan) met Werner Mölders in combat, damaging his plane and wounding him, but failing to bring him down. Recent research has suggested however that Mölders was wounded in a fight with No. 41 Squadron RAF.”

Outstanding! i´m loving wour content. As a long time WW2 freak this is bold to watch. Malan was that kind of guy any pilot should beware before challeging him. He actually performed an electrical troubleshoot in his plane control gauges while in the middle of a dogfight! Remarkable... Molders was lucky a few inches up of his leg and for certain he wound´t survive that encounter. How the heck a man of this skill became a sheep rancher?! Salute from Portugal.

This account is misleading. Sailor Malan provides an account of this action in the book, 'Sky Tiger.' This action lasted seconds, and didn't involve extensive air combat manoeuvring. Molders had just shot down one of Malan's Sqn members, and Malan was in a position to deliver a quick deflection snap shot at Molder's aircraft. Being a superlative marksman- on par with both Johnny Johnson, and RCAF pilot George Beurling, Malan scored a hit on both the aircraft, and Molder's himself, he sustained a bullet through the thigh. Malan was South African, and earned the soubriquet, 'Sailor,' due to his time in the merchant navy prior to joining the RAF. He was arguably the finest RAF fighter leader of WW2- alongside Johnny Johnson- the highest scoring allied ace.

The Museum of Flight in Seattle at Boeing field has a pretty good plaque/monument on Sailor Malan. I have a good friend from South Africa who I sent the pictures to.

I love love LOVE it that you show us the battle on il2 with a mix of real videos, just amazing editing and content

In all these years I never realised it was Malan that wounded Molders. Good video 👍

Thanks for your great job, TJ3. It's a pleasure to enjoying your videos.

Good job putting this short documentary together.

I did not know of this dogfight, thanks for showing this, just for acuracy: Sailor Malans Spitfire was marked ZP A.

The funeral Molders was on his way to was for Ernst Udet, who was the 2nd highest German fighter ace of WWI. Udet shot down 62 aircraft during WWI.

I have read a great deal of books on Aviation history and Technology of pre WW2 and post WW2 and I have never heard of Sailor Malan. Its great to learn something new!

Thanks for reminding of sailor malan.

I enjoyed it immensely! Keep it up with accurate history..the good and the bad!

Nicely done my friend, with clinical precision. nice.

This is slick reminds me of those dog fighting shows from the early 2000s on the History channel. Except way better... bravo to you.

Another great video!

Air Marshall Hugh Dowding and Keith Parks are the true unsung heroes of the Battle of Britain. Dowding, nicknamed "Stuffy" for his reserved personality, instituted the first modern air defense combining radar, spotters, and plotting room to command and control his squadrons to intercept the Luftwaffe. Dowding kept Churchill from throwing away more of his Spitfire squadrons into the losing battle of France, thus saving them for use in the Battle of Britain.Dowding also advocated for his pilots, demanding things like bullet-proof windshields to protect them in combat. Dowding understood that not only was the RAF outnumbered, it didn't have enough fighter pilots to replace losses and give relief to his active ones. He also recognized the limited time Radar gave him, to allow enough fighters to get to attitude and meet the German aircraft. So he deftly used small numbers of fighters to break up the German bomber formations so they would drop their bombs and run. Doing so allowed him to have enough aircraft to meet new attacks and allow others to refuel and rearm. But unfortunately, some in the RAF like Leigh Mallory criticized Dowding for not forming huge wings to knock down lots of German aircraft, and won the ear of Churchill. Never mind that the time it took to form a big group could result in being too late to intercept the bombers before they reached their target, and leave other parts of Britain defenseless without air cover. After the Battle was over, Dowding was relieved and Mallory put in his place. Dowding was shuffled off into obscurity, deserving better. I think much of it was he didn't have the engaging personality to hit it off with his peers and superiors, but his pilots admired him for watching out for them.

These videos are incredible! Wow.

Next video: Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Lol. Great video, as usual!

This is so good ,i love those animations .

Outstanding video and presentation

Thanks for the video

Excellent stuff bro

GREAT WORK bro

“Werner Mölders vs Sailor Moon” Surely I can’t be the only one…

You could hang out by the coast and watch dogfights over the Channel….amazing

amazing quality!

Great video!

The codes on Sailor Malan's Spitfire were ZP-A when he was with 74 Squadron in the Summer of 1940.

Enjoyed that story , kept me engaged the whole time 🤟

Noone wrote this so far? I will do it then. Although I read the titel right, I instantly rephrased it to. "The famous dogfight of Werner Molders and Sailor Moon" On a more serious note, you are doing some really nice videos.

I like your work and realise how much goes into it . One small criticism. The the German numerical number is always quoted but that was combined bombers and fighters the fighter number were always very close the British figher production was getting into full swing but the shortage of pilots was a factor and the Germans always had the psychological dissatisfied of being over enemy territory low fuel and getting over the Channel . However still great stuff from you 👍

you did an excellent Job

Beautiful graphics

I love this channel... the ilustration, sounde,voice is good..🥰😍

Historic and very interesting video

Excellent production value as always, I do feel this video could have used a bit more on the Battle of Britain, but I really enjoyed just the same. I do know that Japanese planes in the game are just reskins of others, but maybe Saburo Sakai. I am currently reading his book. Cheers as always.

The Hurricane is the first plane I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old. Everytime I see one, it gives me a shot in the past.

Thanks for giving credit to a South African in WW2-sailor Malan! Molders was brilliant but do not forget Erich Hartman and others!

HEY GREAT CONTENT!

Werner Mölders was one of the best Luftwaffe aces all time along with Adolph Galland, Erich Hartmann, Hermann Graf, Gerhard Barkhorn, Hans-Joachim Marseille, Günther Rall, Josef Priller, Walter Nowotny, Johannes Steinhoff ( Johannes Steinhoff suffered burn, but survived, and became West Germany's Luftwaffe general, and NATO officer after WW2), Wilhelm Batz, Heinrich Ehrler, Emil Lang, Peter Düttmann, Franz Schall, Walter Krupenski, and Junkers Ju87, also known as Sturzkampfflugzeug pilot, Hans-Ulrich Rudel (Germany has had too many German aces therefore can't list every aces)

Thanks for taking the time to tell this story. You might like to note that at 4:33 you mention "the English pilots" - there were many nationalities involved flying with the British forces....and that England is not the same as Great Britain.

Nice video

Well done

Great work, sorry that everyone thinks they know something, but you took the time to put it together..

Good job!!!

Great animation

Enjoyable video and great effects. Just one point to mention is that Molders may have actually been hit by Flt/Lt Terry Webster of 41 Squadron.

Great video and well explained...Just let me make a small correction in your pronunciation of the Mölders name..it sounds like Melders instead of Molders.

According to records from both sides, The Luftwaffe and The RAF, this alleged fight never took place between the two. Yes Mölders was nearly shot down as the story tells, but it wasn't by Sailor Malan, but somebody else in the same Squadron.

Helmut Wick, the commander of Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen", was the leading ace in 1940. Wick was shot down and killed in november 1940.

Here in S. A. In a little Dunnottar we had the Central flying school SAAF which is now no more there bomber crews from the U. K. were trained I was very young at the time but I remember we entertained some of them in our home

good job

Nice work on the video TJ. Perhaps you could research the career of Robert Stanford Tuck, one of England's greatest aces. He certainly led the life and times of the gentleman fighter pilot of England's RAF during WW2.

Thank you for the video and animation. My apologies for the length of the post, it is longer than I would like. Respect to both pilots, one a South African of Huguenot descent and the other a devout Catholic who served previously in the Spanish Civil War for the Nationalists earning 15 credited kills. A comparison between the bf 109 E-3 and the Spitfire I might provide some perspective on this encounter. While the debate still continues as to which was better (often judgment here is clouded by prejudice), I understand that it's somewhat situational and very often that outcome depended on the quality of the pilot rather than the plane. Messerschmitt bf 109 E-3: Performance: Maximum speed: 354 mph at 19,700 ft Range: 410 miles Ceiling: 36,000 ft Rate of climb: 3,280 ft/min Armament: 2 x 7.92mm MG 17 machine guns (in cowling) 2 x 20mm MG FF cannon (in wings) 1 x 20mm MG FF cannon (in nose). These cannon had a low velocity and rate of fire compared to the upgrade in the F + series. Advantages: better climb rate, dive rate and overall vertical manoeuvring than the Spitfire (early Merlin design prevented negative G force manoeuvres). Poor escort fighter but excellent in hunter packs. (note contrast between strategies of Goering and Galland). High climb rate means better able to gain height advantage when not tied to escort duties. Better recovery of height advantage when lost. Which side had the advantage often depended on which strategy was employed. Spitfire I: Performance: Maximum speed: 362 mph at 18,500 ft Combat Range: 395 miles Ceiling: 31,900 Rate of climb: 2,530 ft/min Armament: 8 x .303 in Browning machine guns (in wings) (experimental variants had 20 mm cannons but were prone to jamming and hence unpopular. The difficulty in introducing cannons was the RAF doctrine that said cannons were only of any use against bombers.) Advantages: Good in an horizontal dogfight. Better horizontal manoeuvrability than the bf 109 E-3. Better suited to an escort role though range would negate that advantage. While it had shorter range it's intercept role negated the disadvantage, while the bf 109 had expended much of its fuel crossing the channel. (hence the comment Spitfire comment made by Galland when responding to Goering's request. It had more to do with the strategy enforced by Goering than any comparison between the planes.) Interesting trials were done between the Hurricane and bf 109 E during the war and concluded that the Hurricane was better able to when it was on the tail of its opponent than the other way round (the pilot knew he could maintain his position without stalling in that situation). I presume would be true to some degree of the Spitfire.

Hochgerechnet 30 Abschüsse, siebzehn beschädigte feindliche Flugzeuge. Eine beachtliche Leistung für allierte Piloten. Ein guter Durchschnitt für einen mittelmäßig erfolgreichen Luftwaffenpilot.

Thank you for that interesting slice of fighter ace history....especially the German side. Well done except for one thing: it's the wrong prop spinner on the 109 for that year of the Bf-109.

The irony of a fighter ace dying on a non combat flight while as a passenger......unlucky

Good graphics and pacing, but disappointing in other areas, the most glaring of which is this: "Fueled by skill and instinct, he jerked his Spit into a tight turn and, through some skilled maneuvering, he was able to not only evade the fighter on his tale, but actually place himself behind the German aircraft." In this one sentence, you summarize the most important part of the story. Big letdown, that. I'd like to see the aforementioned skilled maneuvering, and understand how Molders attempted to counter.

Very INTERESTING story.😁😎

Excellent video. Would you do a feature on the career of Hans Joachim Marseille? He was an extraordinary character and had no respect for the nazis, plus the fact of being a superb fighter pilot. His gunnery skills bordered on the supernatural. Thanks for all your videos ✌️😎👍

"Nevah in the field of human confli..." Grammarly commercial.

what would happen if the E model 109 had belly drop tanks for greater flight endurance? good vid never knew of this...

Moulders was on his way to the funeral of Ernst Udet who had committed suicide. I never knew of this encounter, thanks for posting

Both pilots should be considered as "Dragons Teeth". Worthy adversaries.

It would be nice to see another episode about the pilot Antoni Głowacki, who shot down 5 planes in the Battle of Britain in one day. Antoni Głowacki - the Polish Ace in a Day !

Wow this looks amazing what game is the footage from? I want to play ASAP! lol.

God bless' em all. Thanks.

I adore both planes the mk 5 and the me109

Hoa Tattis-----You are correct but Hartman's achieved scores were +-325 according German stats. Russia imprisoned him for +- 4 years for a ‘Destructor of a Soviet Industry and they and some of his squadron’s stats stated his tally was 456. After the war he flew Star Fighter jets with very little training! Exceptional & Brilliant fighter pilot!

The Heinkel He 111 in which Mölders lost his life lost the left engine a few miles before Breslau. Unfortunately the right engine also quit during final approach , after the landing gear had been extended. The pilot, Oberleutnant (First Lieutenant) Georg Kolbe had no chance to keep the plane level. Kolbe also died in the crash.

It’s interesting how the Germans didn’t get the message of how a battle of attrition would become their problem as they continued to accumulate enemies throughout the war, stretching the Luftwaffe beyond the breaking point.

If there is any interest here, the 2008 movie The Red Baron has some of the best aerial dogfight footage. As for accuracy, 🤷‍♂️ but as for entertainment value it was worth the time.

a little correction. The unfortunate Heinkel came into a evening storm and brushed against a power line on approach. That was the end of the ace

What is the name of the music at the end of the video, when Mölders' grave is shown?

Skip ahead to 4:50 to get to the battle. BTW, 25% of the fighter pilots flying for Britain were from other countries. Without them, Britain would not have made it.

Good video ...but, please get your facts correct. The Bf 109 was an "E" model - Emil.. and British fighters, Hurricanes and Spitfire had NO cannons in the BOB - 8 x 303 machine guns only.

He was more probably hit by F/Lt Johna Terrance Webstera of 41 Squadron and crash-landed at Saint-Inglever with 80% damaged machine (W/O). One bullet in thigh, one inthe knee cap and the third in the foot. He came back on 7.8.41 and on 26.8.40 finally shot down his 27th victim. On 28.7.40 at 15.30 he shot down Spitfire.

On the way to the funeral of Udet the pilot hit a chimney when landing at Breslaw airport (now Wroclaw in Poland)killing Mölders.

wow 27 victories !!!!! ....chapeau Mr Malan ..... where would you be placed in a world wide rank list of air victories? I did not found you there !!!

If I’m correct Malian was stationed at Biggen Hill

At 3:32 is that Werner Moulders on the left and Adolf Galland on the right?

Malan 🇿🇦🇬🇧 Pattle South Africans with hearts of Iions. They shall not grow old as we grow old.

So nice to have some genuine US interest in this critical air battle fought by a handful of RAF pilots against all the odds of being outnumbered 3-1 by the mighty Luftwaffe.It is also interesting to note that this battle wasn’t without American support in the air.

All OK exept paint scheme: yellow was East Front only.. Those was never seen in Europe :)

The Luftwaffe were beginning to feel the stress of the air war too, suffering "Channel Sickness"; en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanalkrankheit "our briefings were always held outside in the open air. Immediately after it finished and before we went to our planes, we all ran to the latrines and sat on the toilet. At first we thought it was sabotage but in fact it was fear"

Moulders was Germany’s greatest race in the air and a master of combat no one would want to face! Man it’s horrendous on war and wars mess that the civilians suffer the most harm from!

Thanks for the video, great stuff. Also congrats on being one of the very few non-South Africans who can actually pronounce the name Malan, correctly. Further, as Molders was actually forced to crash land his fighter, I would notch this one down, as a kill for Malan.

The transport pilot needed to feather the prop on the bad engine, while also diverting all fuel to the good engine, and use more peddle to counter the torque of the one engine trying to naturally turn the aircraft. All this is normal multi engine flight training, but in the 40s these procedures were still being refined.

Nice video, just for the record, Malan was a South African on loan to the RAF, one of several