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Seeing videos such as this, I wind up wishing that you could have been able to start your work 30 years ago. Still, what you are creating is historic treasures for future generations.

Ed McNeff is a true American hero. Hearing and watching his story has been truly inspiring. I'm very glad that I found this channel.

20 yr old, poor soul. It is difficult to comprehend, look around at your modern day 20 yr olds or recall what you were doing when you were 20? Imagine having to dish out death and destruction or receive it. What a generation, I'm eternally grateful.

Dad flew his first combat mission on D-Day - and one of the 354FS pilots that found and shot down a Ju 87 inbound to the beach. The 354th and 357th scored 12 destroyed of the 15 Ju 87s. He was flying 'tail end charlie' as #4 in Blue Flight, and became 354FS Operations officer just after he shot down 2 109s near Rugen Island two weeks later. Then 354FS CO and Fighter Ace 7 weeks later.

It took a lot of intestinal fortitude to brave German flak. It must have been pretty frightening being in a single engine fighter. Unlike those on the ground, you had nowhere to hide when the shit started flying. You just had to hunker down and pray for luck. My hat goes off to those guys. What they did was truly heroic.

Sadly, 10 years ago we lost the last veteran I knew of WWII. He served with the Army Air Force as well but so much of his career was classified he never really told any war stories. Being a history buff, though, he was always glad to put the broader events into historical context. In loving memory to him and his family.

There were 1 or 2 pilots flying Dauntless dive bombers in the Pacific who had a little bit of experience for that job.

My name sake was also killed on D-Day. He was staffing the enemy as our troops were coming in. His plane was hit and he jumped out but was to close to the ground for the parachute to open fully. His name was Jack Winchael. Another hero of the day.

Let’s go another video of Ed Mcneff! I’m glad to see another video, the videos are getting better and better.

21:38: Just a strange detail: Foster died on June 7th in "Rhone, Draguignan, France" according to the document showed in the video. Well, I'm French: Rhone is a "Departement" (an administrative area around a main city, to make it simple). The "département of Rhone" (Rhone being the name of a river) is located around Lyon, let's say more or less in the middle of the country while Draguignan is a city located in South-East France, 800 km south from Paris, 80 km north of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, nothing to do with Rhone, neither the département nor the river itself. Moreover nobody was flying overthere on D-Day so that the document displayed in the video doesn't make any sense. It's rather curious. However being buried in "Département du Calvados" is the only thing consistent since it's indeed the area around the landing beaches. Just for information

I think there are one gun cam footage where an P 51 are caught in the explosion during an strafe run of a train in France. The explosion cause the plane to roll to the left away from the lenght of the train, and crashing in a field nose down and maybe upside down. This footage is used often in documentaries.

IMPORTANT: If you know a living veteran of the air war, please fill out the form HERE so we can tell their story! forms.gle/ZVH1X5wqPZMMeWeT6 Historical notes: In this video, you might catch a few inaccurate skins and A-36s playing the role of P-51s. These are because of limitations of my flight sim. Also, because of these limitations, Thomas Foster is shown in a D model. I believe he was KIA in a B model. Also, a big thanks to the Commemorative Air Force Airbase Georgia for helping provide commentary! Check them out here! facebook.com/CAFAirbaseGeorgia

As a nation we stand on the shoulders of giants!

Great to see ed again with his story TJ you're a master 😎👍

A memorable sentence from one of the D-Day histories: "The largest sea force ever assembled. Anyone who looked out and saw it was dead by noon."

Great video. Thank you for your time and research to make this video.

Fantastic simulator content for this film, exactly choreographed for the story. The cockpit pilots faces lit up in the foggy dawn take offs did it for me, that's detail 😉

You are doing fantastic work!

This was a real treat, thanks TJ!

thank God for such brave heroes!

Another amazing video from the GOAT. It's gonna be a good day

Nicely done. Thank you 🙏

Thanks for bringing these Hero's stories to us, lest we forget the brutality of war, and the high price we paid to crush evil

Amazing videos and historical research, what a great channel. Thank you!

Amazing video TJ! Keep em coming!

Awesome video. Thankyou! One of the pilots on June 7th who went missing was flying Leonard Fullers OS-E which he had flown on June 6th. Harwood Harral took it up and the plane went down in the French countryside. I have pictures of the plane. Found them on an French evasion site. Pretty crazy for me to see.

After D-Day, the Forward Air Control (FAC) doctrine was very efficient for dedicated Fighter Ground Attack (FGA) squadrons eg Typhoons/ Tempests. FAC parties were attached to forward battalions (like Artillery Foward Observation Officers (FOO) were attached to companies). Flights of aircraft from squadrons loitering over rear areas, were called forward individually by the FAC for specific targets.

I'm new to this channel, but am already a fan. Glad this channel popped up in my feed.

Thank you for your effort!

My dad served in the 361st FG (The Yellowjackets) during this time. One of his stories that I recall him telling regarded the invasion stripes. The application of the stripes was attempted secretly but many of the German planes to their surprise arrived with the same stripes!

Those men are the roots of this time. They'll never forget!!!

Great vid as always!

Great information, thanks

Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job making it easier for viewers to better understand what the orator was describing. Class A research project special thanks to the veteran guest speakers for sharing their personal combat experiences/log books 📚/diaries. Making this documentary more authentic and possible. Fighting/perishing/surviving knowing certain death/debilitating wounds were often possible. That's true grit style determination to succeed.

You are very but very well educated on WWII history especially the air war. Please keep this very good work up. I’m subscribed and will continue following you. Just to say this I educated my so on things WWII so the legacy will live on. He is only 30 and in many ways has surpassed my knowledge of WWII. That was not an easy thing to do.

Thank you so much for this, & moreso, for helping our next generations appreciate what our "Greatest Generation" did for us. My Dad & 4 of 5 uncles served in WWII (the 5th in Korea), & their mothers, fathers, & sisters served & sacrificed so much at home. I chose a career to teach history to honor of them & all our generous ancestors who deserve so much of our humble gratitude.

The Mustangs painted in the black and white look absolutely wicked in the strictest sense of the word. Both beautiful and utterly lethal.

Wow. I didn't expect your pursuit of history as this. Bravo Zulu in US Navy parlance because getting to this family tree sacrifice is wonderful and respectful.

The P 51D simply the most beautiful flying machine ever!Ethernal Glory to those who fighted the evil of those times!

Now are you not glad a game like war thunder exists? Videos like this would have been impossible without a brilliant special effects team. Now they’re a piece of cake thanks to game platforms like this! Bravo!!!👏 👏👏👏

After they secured all the beach heads. Some Spitfires where modified to carry Beer kegs in their underwing pylons normally carrying bombs or had external fuel tanks converted into holding beer. These were dropped then for the soldiers to enjoy.

Another great story!

The B and C model P-51's were actually 9 mph faster than the D model due to the drag produced by the bubble canopy.

SUPER Awesome story

Reminds me of the Spifire 944 story. Well done, very interesting.

If you ever need some background infofmation for the 100th BG when "Masters of the Air" comes out. I can share Cpt Fred Schaffhausen's diary entires he recorded from July 17 - Oct 30 1944. He recorded exact times he resched each objective, payload, target, and brief summary of what he went though on 33 missions.

your videos are amazing

The Greatest Generation. Many of my College Engineering instructors were WWII vets. And they had the scars or missing li:bs to show for it. Their legacy and the men they raised to follow in their footsteps for this great country lasted until 1992. They included my Father. A SAC Pilot from the 1950s until 1967. Until he took a detour, due to Robert McNamara's debacle in the skies over South East Asia. He survived 104 missions and came back to SAC HQ in Omaha as a Strategic Nuclear Planner for the Bomber Wing of the Nuclear Triad. He left ASAP in 1973 after one year in DC. He apologized to me because it would be my third High School. But, he said he would have a heart attack if he stayed there any longer. The Military was trying to dump people as the Vietnam pullout began in 1973. As did the first OPEC gasoline price crisis. The first year of forced racial integration bussing in DC. And, don't forget, the Watergate Hearings and Nixon's resignation soon after in 1974. It's been a steady downhill path since. Our country's leadership has been slowly infiltrated for a long time...~110 years. In 2008, we went into a Neo-Marxist free fall. We had a temporary "drogue chute" slowing things down from 2016-2020. Our Main Chute and Reserve chute were disabled by our own government. We hit the ground at terminal velocity in 2020. Since then we've only seen PsyOp theater, Gas Lighting, Bread and Circuses. Misinfo, Disinfo and other Propaganda up the Wazoo. Wanna' be self-proclaimed "chosen ones" and their useful idiot Criminal Abettors (PTOCs - Psychopathic Traitorous Organized Criminals). Are rapidly trying to consolidate their power over the whole world. As I write this. Their long term Strategic Plan to Divide and Conquer is nearly complete. Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder could "see" what has happened, and is continuing to occur. Unfortunately, ~50% of Americans are "blind" to this. I watched a short video by John Lovell who is a founder and leader of the Warrior Poet Society Network. I agree 100% with what he said. There are almost no "blue states". Only large dysfunctional "blue cities" inside those Red States. Most will not be shocked to find that these "blue cities" are controlled by the same PTOCs I described above. Organized Criminals. It's almost a 100% correlation. These are the people that take turns with their hands stuck up JBs puppet ass, to put it bluntly. Almost exactly like the 1989 Movie, "Weekend at Bernie's". Check out "Wag the Dog" if you haven't seen it for awhile. Both movies made by these same PTOCs. As if anybody doesn't know who JB really is. Unfortunately for him and the USA, a demented old man...and a major criminal. The PTOCs "puppeteers" have ~19 months to crash the economic system (the economy is NOT the effing stock market) and/or start WWIII. With the Nuclear "Sword of Damocles" held over the head of humanity. Never forget. They Do Not Care about you...or humanity. As George Carlin said so eloquently. They only care about themselves.

As much as I love the mustang; i would have rather flown the p47 for these missions! Excellent history video! So well done!

And did you know that the dday invasion stripes caused a shortage of black and white paint in the uk?

I love p 51 and tj3 history videos they are sooooo good!

True heros, real men. Thank you.

One of the things creators of the flight sim videos that are out there do not get correct is the D Day black and white stripes. They always make them crisp and perfectly aligned. This was never the case. The stripes were always crooked and sloppy looking because they were added in haste and applied with simple paint brushes and not masked and sprayed on. A pet peeve of mine, LOL! 😉

Buen vídeo!❤

Fantastic

Great job on this Siri's a videos! WOW that was awesome 👌! 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I can't support you financially but you got a sub. Every bit helps with the algorithm.

Great storytelling of brave people and stunning acts to beat the Nazis. These stories must be kept alive! Thank You!

Nice vid

Hey TJ, you should do a video on the legend of y-29 at the battle of the bulge which was a massive air battle which the Americans overcame overwhelming odds

2:23, I saw that P51 in person at the Houston airshow

Damn ❕️❗️❕️ 😢 *Foster's* family line coming to an end. Opening thoughts i've never had before. 📚📚📚

My father was a RNZAF pilot in the Pacific flying fu4 and p40 he has since died of old age he love the fu4 and told all about flying them but not so much about the war I still have his log books and have been to where he was stationed too miss him

A WW2 log book is priceless.

These were the famous "Steeple Morden Strafers." The 355th Fighter Group based at Steeple Morden England. Try reading: "The Last Dragon of Steeple Morden."

Thanks!

You can tell that the possibility of it being his bombs that sent his wingman down weighs heavy upon him to this day. I hope he finds his peace, and if the afterlife is real, I hope he gets to have a long overdue chat with his friend.

Good epilouge

Movies tend to get two things wrong, possibly because of availability issues, but still… 1. in June, 1944 the mustangs were mostly olive drab and gray with invasion stripes, B and C models, no bubble canopy. 2. Ground support planes were far more likely to be Thunderbolts rather than Mustangs. Mustangs were used for ground support, but were mostly replacing Thunderbolts for high altitude bomber escorts. In movies, such as Saving Private Ryan, when a fighter makes a strafing run, it’s often a bare aluminum P51-D, which is possible but unlikely.

Very interesting.

Best channel ever ❤

Great video! When is the can you survive series coming back?

God be with them all. 👍😎🇺🇸

In the initial run, I would think that the Jug would have been the preferred close support aircraft for the invasion on D Day.

Sign that you have complete air superiority: zebra stripes.

Thanks

with my 2 big toes 4 mega thumbs up

The P51 began it's operational history as fast recon and ground attack aircraft by the British. Tha U.S. Army Air Corps adopted the ground attack Mustang version designated A36 Apache. These were equipped with the Allison engine, which proved highly capable at low altitudes, less so higher up. When a switch was made to the Merlin, the Mustang started it's evolution to the long range, high altitude escort fighter we all know and love. Even so, our guys loved to go down on the deck to shoot up anything that moved. More P51's were lost to ground fire than to enemy aircraft.

A couple things missing from describing how difficult dive bombing is. The dive angle isn't the only factor that affects bomb trajectory. You also have to deal with speed at release, and altitude at release. If any one of those three factors deviates, your bomb will fall short or long.

Don’t forget the Royal Air Force !

Most soldier anticipated stuka with siren dive toward them while their otw to the beach which never came

Good work!

What I have never understood is why, on D-day, at least some of the planes didn't provide suppressing fire by continuously strafing the German pill boxes, machine gun nests, and whatever. Or did they but no-one talks about it ?

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I had a conversation with a P-38 pilot. His unit was told to do some bombing on the cliffs . He didn't understand why, just thought that they needed practice and did what he was told. On D Day he realized why, the forces on beaches were using the bomb craters as fox holes. His D Day mission was to fly up and down the coast at 6000 ft. Also saw a C-47 painted a funny color. Just flew right past, found out later it was a captured plane the Gremans were flying for reconnaissance.

Most popular movie's and commentary only talk about the skies over the beaches and usually state there was little to no German Air Force present. Your video's show the reality. Thank you for sharing this bit of history.

Playing these on 1.25 speed. Really helps with the. Strange fluctuating. slow speech cadence.

Mustang one of the most beautiful aircraft ever

If I had do ground attack I would much prefer to be in a P 47D than in a P 51D because the P 47 was a much tougher aircraft. Because it was powered by a radial engine, the P 47 was less vulnerable to ground fire, unlike the P 51 where one hit to the cooling system of its inline engine would bring it down. The P 47 also had more fire power, being equipped with 8 x 50 cals compared to the 6 x 50 cals of the P 51. It also carried a much heavier bomb load.

I live next door to the 8th Air Force HQ. 🤘👌

Cpt Norman Gross and his crew went MIA on D-Day due to running out of gas and likley crashing into the Enginsh Channel. Many delays caused them to expend more fuel than normal. His brother was part of Task Force Smith (notorious and doomed Quick Reaction Force sent to Korea to delay Communist forces with broken equipment). He was captured and died in captivity.

I was wondering how it could have been "of course" dark at 4:30 or 5:00 a.m. in early June. Even with DST, civil twilight should have started before 4:30, sunrise before 5:00. The answer: British Double Summer Time. Didn't know that before.

Steering up down in front or sides flaps pivot north to south

What I learned from this story is that the more important thing than flying skills is common sense.

both the RAF and USAAF were involved on supporting the Ground troops in first months off the Lands till the end of the war using everything they had

Is there any way you can make a video on Italian ace Franco Lucchini?

Weren't B & C models the same but the designation indicated mfging location? Dallas & Cali, I just don't remember which was which.

I love how you use war thunder

The writing really was on the wall for the Jerries by 1943. From that point on they had no chance of winning.