My uncle was a Luftwaffe fighter pilot in ww2 and shot down many allied aircraft, including dropping bombs on b17 aircraft as in this depiction. My uncle survived the war and had a total of 78 enemy allied aircraft shot down. He spent 6 months being a POW at the end of April 1945, and left Germany to live in Finland where he changed his name, married and went on to fly for the Finnish Airforce. My father, his brother, was younger and served in the Korean War, earning distinction flying against communist fighter aircraft. My uncle died in 2010. My father passed away in 2019.

I read "I flew for the Fuhrer" back in early 50s the first of many over the years. It's been a remarkable journey. Makes for an interesting video unlike the others. Thanks for sharing.

I read “I Flew For The Fuhrer” when I was a teenager in the 1960’s. I still have it. It left a great impression on me. I had three relatives KIA serving in the 8th Air Force in WWII. One was my mother’s cousin who was killed when his B-17 was hit by FLAK over Hamburg. Another cousin, a former B17 pilot turned scouting pilot was killed when he had apparent instrument failure and his P51 crashed during a mission over eastern France. A more distant cousin was killed when his B-24 crashed on takeoff in England. German fighter tactics kept changing as the war went on as did allied tactics and weapon advances to counter them. The ME-262 Jets were the most effective against American bombers but they were too few, too late with not enough fuel or trained pilots left.

I had a Boss back in the 70s that flew B-17s. He talked about a tactic that the Germans would hang a bomb from a break a-way cable as they flew the dangling bomb through the formations until they hit a bomber

I dont know how hard this was to achieve in DCS but that was definitely worth the effort! Perfect for story telling. Thank you that was very enjoyable.

Always thought a twin-engine bomber loaded with 20-40mm bomblets in masses could be designed to bomb bomber formations with some success from above out of .50 cal range. Never happened. Japan developed an exploding canister bomb with bomblets, but was only moderately successful with the concept.

Thanks for presenting another kind of warfare that was unheard of, at least for me. I had heard of German pilots flying kamikaze rockets against US bombers but not this one.

I have a book I used to read when I was younger. it's called "I flew for the Fuhrer." I actually remember something like this happening in his book. I need to read it again...

Since to me that the real thing was the ME109 or FW190 where armed with free fall bombs equiped with a barometric fuse and a parachute. They adjusted that fuse simply flying at the same level of the B-17s and climbing later, droping the bomb, with the parachute, over the large formation, hoping destroy any bomber with the near blast of the bomb. Sorry my bad english, i just want to contribute to the knowledge. Greetings from Santa Rosa-La Pampa-Argentina.

That's the first time I heard that BF 109s we're bombing the bombers, great video,has my eyes wide open, going to library to see if they have that book , interesting 🤔

Excellent graphics! So detailed and the best I’ve seen so far! 👍

Cool stuff, I like the grainy effect! 👍🏻🍻

Attacking the B17 bomber with bombs with a Me109 cannon fighter how ironic .

Extraordinary air war stories and videos. A very special channel. Many Thanks for this good and awesome stuff. Keep on continue!!!

Nice article,however the Messerschmitt 109 depicted is a late G version,1944 with different cockpit canopy and tail.The spiral spinner was not used until 1944. In Heinz Knoke book you may see a photo of a 109 G,and also in John Weals excellent book with its ME 109 pictures Simon Artley ,Manchester UK

gave the bombers a taste of their own medicine

Thanks a lot for show us details of air combat over Europe. Congratulations!

Great video, I appreciate the effort that went into making the video

Very well put together.

An F--14 scored an air-to-air kill in one of the Gulf campaigns by hitting a helicopter with a 2,000lb bomb, more horizontally than vertically. The kinetic energy alone probably reduced most of the machine to "window". (Aluminum confetti used in WWII as a radar confuser.)

That was something new!!!👍👍👍

I thought watching this that it would be great to see a gun camera shots but like from original fights and then i saw You did that! What a outstanding video. Great visuals and detailed story. Radio chat gives an extra realistic touch to the events showed here. 10/10, nothing more to say.

I read his book “I flew for the fuhrer “ Many years ago…. Great read. His escape from enemy fighters was to go into a corkscrew climb .😎

Really good animation. I gave this video a like. KZfaq is teaching us just how fast planes flew past each other in air combat in ww2

"I Flew for the Fuhrer" Is an amazing book, highly recommended....!!!!

Sometime in the past I read of one of the protagonists dropping a form of mine suspended from a small parachute on a thin cable intended to snag the wing of an opposing aircraft formation and the explosive was drawn onto the wing by the drag of the 'chute. 🙃

Me 109 Tpe K (Kurfuerst) did not exist in 1943. B 17 s with Chin turrets also appeared later (in 1944) this was the B 17 G replacing the F model.

I read I "flew for the fuhrer" and as soon as I saw the tile I remembered it, its really a remarkable account of the war.

Well done graphics, impressive.

thanks for the video ! I recently read the book by Heinz Knocke, title in French "the great hunt". Historical facts, thank you very much, very well told and very beautiful images!

Hungary tried the concept with time-fused fragmentation bombs dropped by Me 210s. I have few related videos on my channel (also published a paper about the officer who created the bombs).

The Royal Hungarian Air Force took this idea to a next level. They fitted a large artillery rocket, the 44M "mace projectile" (buzogánylövedék) on a Me-410. The rocket was fired in the general direction of a bomber formation. An acoustic detector in the warhead listened to the deep, humming noise of the bombers' engines, and when it reached a certain level of gain, it initiated the explosive. The weapon was very successful, it was basically a fire and forget missile, but as Hungary quickly lost the war, it never saw widespread use.

Wow... What a beautiful way to explain.... Great video. Liked n Subscribed 😁🤣

Hey, are you ever going to do the story of E. Royce Williams? I'm really looking forward to that if it can be done. Thanks for all your hard work.

Can’t even imagine the untold destruction that literal tons of explosives dropped from those planes did on the ground usually in populated areas makes Ukraine look minuscule in comparison.

Those airmen had balls of steel

I knew about this attack as I had read Henze Knoke's autobiography many years ago. In the spring of 1943 it was decided to cancel much of the research into defencive weapons which included surface to air missiles. One of these missiles called Enzian, which was in effect a scaled down version of the Me 163 minus the pilot. It had a 1000 pound warhead and it was to be used on the big USAAF bomber formations. You can imagine the devastation something like that could have done exploding in the middle of all them bombers.

Great presentation and explanation of this defensive tactics used by Germany. The innovation no matter how effective or ineffective it was was simply use what you have and make do with it. 🎩🎱♠️🇺🇲🏁🎯🏁🔱🇺🇦🌻💮🌼🌼🌸🍀🔫

With proximity fuses, aerial bombing would have been impossible. This video shows, that big explosions can wipe out several bombers with one hit.

Great stuff Once again 👍

Sadly the Germans did not develop V1s able to home in on the engine noise of the bombers.

I was born on the 22nd anniversary of the opening scene in this video.

I've built a model of the same exact 109K-4 few months ago, lol

In the first Gulf war 1991 an F15E bombed an Iraqi helicopter when it was in hover. It disintegrated.

Wow bro this was something unexpected 😁

Each destroyed bomber is a good work for the citizens down

Obviously another great video! But I have an unrelated question I hope maybe you could help me with? :D I recently got access to Tom Cooper's book on the Ogaden war, which you used to make your own videos. My problem is this: what did Ethiopian F-5A roundels look like during the Ogaden war? In Cooper's book he has some colour illustration profiles of some F-5A and F-5E types but he uses the old 3 pointed star imperial era insignia for both types, yet in your video you used the 6 pointed star for the F-5E that is consistent with colour photographs of some undelivered planes. My theory is that the F-5E had the 6 point star, whilst other aircraft like the Canberra bombers had the old roundels still, but I still don't know where the F-5A fits in. Perhaps a 5 pointed star? I've seen a photo of a derelict F-5A in Asmara with the 5 pointed star but no idea if that was applied after the Ogaden conflict and return to service against the Eritrean guerrillas. Anyways, best regards!

Great video 👌🏻

The Luftwaffe try the same in the Mediterranean front, but was a complete faliure, there the bombers lines were wide open. The Knoke bomb raid is in Osprey book "Bf 109 Defence of the Reich Aces" from John Weal.

Just a note. You have a continuity issue at 3:37. There's no bomb with the 109. Very interesting, never heard about it until now.

Superb!

I had read of a tactic of bombs hanging with wires while passing in a bomber formation

There were no B=17Gs operating in the ETO in March 1943. The chin turret did not show up until the YB-40, an experimental gunship version of the B-17, arrived in May 1943. Chin turrets were added to the last run of B-17Fs after the cancellation of the YB-40 program. The B-17G did not arrive until November of 1943.

B-17s flew in tight box formations. Never seen them fly in line abreast.

What they needed, was ground-to-air missiles, able to deliver serious payload for direct hits or at least proximity damage. This would would discourage formations. On the other hand, the raising air dominance by allied fighters like the P-51 would also limit the Luftwaffe, and without the need for tight formations, the bombers could not be damaged very effective. So, in the end only precision-systems woul have made a difference like the Wasserfall. But they spent more energy on cruise missiles then SAM systems.

Excellent video I like 👍 this video

That Bf-109 was a later model, no way it could have been in use in1943. Should have used an early G6 or at least a G3, 4 or 5. The streamlined MG bulges along with the retractable tail gear makes me think a K4!! Did not appear until late 1944 and early '45.

How did they time the bomb to go off @ the exact altitude way back then?

So sad Me 262 came two years late

I’d sub up if you did at least half wwii and modern vids,but it’s too small a ratio for me. I did love this one, though.

Hoffentlich hatten die Bomberbesatzungen mindestens halb so viel Angst wie die Zivilisten von Dresden im Februar 45.

Wrong version of Me-109 depicted. G-14s, K-2s, and K-4s didn't start flying until late '44.

Seemed cumbersome, risky and of little consequence…

Watch the video where Russian pilots basically had Handgrenades they would let go behind the aircraft when being chased

Imagine going on a coward mission which will only take lives of innocent people, and watching your bomber to be bombed by another bomber.... This is so badasssssss

Rm4. Rockets were the answer. But too late in the war

Imagine the fw190 1000 Kg bomb on those formations

Awesome

L'explosion des bombes etaient elle declenchée par une fusée de proximité ?

The Germans had schrage musik too

were those bombs has a proximity fuse?

The visuals here are based on what game?

you could make a video on the 2 syrian mig29 shot down by israeli f15

Please, make review about fighting US AIR FORCES against Italian Fascist planes

離陸時、フラップ＆エレベータが全く動いてない

Ye saare videos real strikes ki reality hai ya ese hi animation videos hai

unbroken movie

B-17 G ??? In march 1943?

Dreaful RISKS g

super si to napravio. o7

Is this il2? Bos?

What the actual F

5:46, Herr Knoche's Bf-109 has a politically correct swastika on the tail.

TERRIBLE Were Were The THUNDERBOLTS as it 43 g

Great video. I can't help feeling a little sick inside when I see those American bombers being destroyed [10 young men dying per plane]. My mother's first husband was a B-24 crew commander. 1st LT about 23 years old when he flew his missions against these Fascist's/Nazi's.

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Aircraft not accurate for the time period illustrated.

Interesting history and video. One must admit, that regardless of which side the pilots and crew fought, these men had steel spines unlike the skinny jeans wearing soy-boy types so often seen today.

Cgi is a terrible substitute for actual footage.

Zdravo, its me again 😅🤣 ja bih zeleo da se upoznamo nekad kada budem putovao u Hrvatsku, ja sam iz srbije, hvala ti na objektivnosti u svim video snimcima.... Zleleo bih da popijemo kafu i pricamo, ukoliko ne zelis, sve je cool, ne ljutim se😇

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is there any update you could do on the war in ukraine and what has happend in the air over the past 3 or so months?

Crasy plan

Actually it's Me-109 not 'Bf'.

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Flying fortress... Hahahah what a joke

American hate,,,🤣

u r showig the b 17 g the hole time wrong aircraft wrong time .

bf-109 👍👍👍