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I say it all of the time , this is an extremely underrated channel . TJ does an amazing job bringing us these videos . Let's help him by giving him more likes to help the channels algorithm and get it more views . It only takes a split second. 😉

My mom and her parents worked six days a week during the war at the Republic Aircraft factory in Evansville, Indiana making P-47 fighter planes. They were very proud to work for the war effort. I would like to think that they helped to build your plane. My mother installed radios and my grandparents installed the aluminum skins on the aircraft. Thanks for sharing.

Basically the 9th was tactical and the 8th was strategic. Thanks for summing it up for the vast others that do not know the difference between the two strategies.

Tj coming in to make Friday a great day! Appreciate all you do GOAT, Stay awesome!

Patton's command was 3rd Army, not the 9th.

These animations always show firing from an aircraft's wing guns coming out in parallel streams. A P-47's guns were adjusted so that their bullets would converge 300 yards in front of the aircraft. That means that any target 300 yds in front would be subjected to the concentrated impact of eight .50 cal machine guns.

My dad sailed to Europe on the Île de France! He was a B-24 bomber pilot in the 8th AAF

A New TJ3 Video What a great way to start the day and weekend . Another awesome story told by a pilot that was there. It's great to hear these Heroes tell us What it was like to be there. Thank you for all your hard work and research you put into these stories and interviews they are simply the best. Please " Keep 'em flyin we've got your six".

Thank you TJ! It’s always a joy to see what you’ve compiled into a detailed documentary. ❤

P47 had an extremely well designed wing. Allied aerodynamics & engineering doesn't get the credit it deserves compared to Germany, Allies were ahead in many ways. Hawker Tempest was similar, far better than anything the Germans had.

Best WW2 channel ever. You could make one hell of a Netflix documentary with your amazing skills and attention to detail.

My Dad was with the US 1st ID from Normandy to Cologne and he always said the Jug was the infantrymen's best friend

My father was in the 8th Airforce and his unit was assigned to bases in Belgium to provide ground support during the battle of the bulge. His base was attacked during operation Bodenplatte. We have a scrapbook with photos from the base with other 8th airforce fighters and 9th airforce fighters identifiable by the painting on the nose cowlings. I have not found much information about the 8th airforce fighters doing ground support at that time. I remember his stories about when the weather cleared and it became a "turkey shoot". I think with official WWII histories there is a lot of the USAAF recorded information that is partially incorrect or incomplete'. Unfortunately most of the guys who knew the full stories have passed on. When I was very young I remember one of my dad's friends, talking about trying to shoot tanks with rockets from his P-47 which he said he never actually able hit a tank with a rocket, but when they fired on the tanks in Belgium with 8 machine guns the Germans would get out of the tanks and run.

Another outstanding video, with incredible attention to detail.

Great interview! Loved the video, thanks!

Great stuff. The visuals looked really great as usual, liked the part with the Piper Cub at the beginning. It's close air support day for me, I just watched a quick fun bit on the A-10, a descendent of the P-47 in some ways. Anyone that's ever seen that bird doing its thing in the air knows just how lovely it is.

TREMEDOUS content! I love seeing these guys tell their stories, and added to your excellent research and animation, it's just awesome.

Truly excellent research, editing, production. Great job, TJ3! Terrific tributes. 👍

What a story and a history lesson all at the same time, thanks for sharing !

The RAF sometimes worked in tandam with the P47s the RAF Typhoon's 🌀 on low level ground attack and the Typhoon's 🌀 where first class

Thanks TJ for another great video! I look forward to watching them every time I see a new one uploaded. Always well done on the info and content.

Good stuff as always from TJ3. I’m looking forward to the follow up video. Thanks for doing what you do!

Thanks for your videos! I enjoy them!

The dimension that the story accompanies the flight is like being with it yourself. Commendable work. Looking forward to the second one👍👍👍

What a fantastic channel,thank you sir.

BADA** as usual dude. Amazing work! Thank you 🙏

Great story just one mistake General Patton was in command of the 3rd US Army not the 9th as you mention. That was commanded by General William Simpsons.

Outstanding video and presentation.

Did I hear you say "Patton's Ninth Army?" That was commanded by Lieutenant General Simpson...Patton famously commanded the Third Army. Great interview and video, anyway. edit: I see that you got the correct general later on in the video...perhaps I missunderstood you originally.

Excellent research on this topic - thanks for sharing

Spectacular work - better than the History channel. Keep it up, and thank you for documenting these stories from the Greatest Generation!

Very nice video as always!

Another great researched and animated production, TJ! Cottrell is an absolute American hero!! Jim C.

This is an awesome channel, very well presented, you have a loyal friend and fan here ❤

Hey TJ!! Is that the IL-2 Great Battles?? That I waited FOREVER for? Subscribed

TJ, please include the particular models and improvements of the P-47 in these stories. The P-47 of 1944 was much improved over the 1941-42 versions.

Wow very well done great video skills so cool loved it

awesome as always

really informative and for me, very interesting

Great Video TJ, Thank You so much for showing us the stories of these Great Men of the Greatest Generation. Thank You for Giving and Showing the ones that are still with us the Great Respect that they Deserve. Thanks again for your Hard Work on these Documentaries and everything you do, It Brings such Joy to me and so many others to watch your Videos. You the Man. Thanks Again, Great Work.

😁😁👍😎 The work that goes into these stories must be emense for they are truly amazing stories! ❤

0:43 I like this picture so much!!

I have a soft spot for the P40. It was flown by the famous Flying Tigers. It was NOT a bad fighter plane. It was used all over the world because the US had it in large numbers. The Russians liked it very well fighting the Germans. As did the British in Africa fighting the Germans. It was the main fighter at Pearl Harbor and shot down a number of Japanese aircraft, about 15 or a little more that day. The Japanese lost 29 planes that day. A Older P36 that day actually shot down the Japanese Zero. But I admit my favorite is the P47 Thunderbolt.. or JUG.. Bob Johnson. read his book with the 56th fighter group. The Germans actually said the P47 had to be handled very carefully. It could take an astounding amount of lead, with seemingly no effect to its performance. This was said by German fighter pilots. I read all the books by all pilots in world war 2. :) My dad's friend flew a P47 Thunderbolt.. You can see his photo if you look him up.. Herb Boyle. He shot down a Spitfire with it. Yes a British Spitfire. My dad asked why.. Herb said he started shooting at me first, so I shot him down. Could have been a captured aircraft.

Thanks!

good video

As an aside Cambrai was the scene of the introduction of tanks into WWI

great story and well researched. one issue - Patton was in charge of the 3rd army and not the 9th.

Patton was 3rd Army, 9th Army was General Simpson.

I'm from Belgium. And I have a pretty good idea what the next video will be about... 😊

What I love about these old guys is that they remember every name, date and place. I have been to combat and can tell what happened, but not remember everything as much. Without studying it and getting with my peers, I probably couldn't point out specific dates or remember places as well due to the abundance of technology that remembers for us. On the other hand, tech doesn't remember the intimate details and the journey. Also, it is interesting that he was the "older" pilot when he got his first mission and that the senior pilots were 18. Imagine that. Nobody touches a stick in combat these days until after college. I wonder why flight training and college go hand in hand today instead of an aptitude test/practical exam? By all measure, a person that COULD have gone to college, could go to flight school, graduate and have the necessary training to be a pilot, at the same intelligence level but with thousands of more hours under their belt then a person that went to a university/college during the same time period.

For an expert such as yourself, I can't understand why you referred to the Army organization that flew the P-47 as the "US Air Force" (6:02). The USAF was formed in 1947. The US Army Air Forces were created in 1941. Its advocates wanted a separate organization such as the RAF in the UK and even the Luftwaffe in Germany. A concession was made to place the USAAF as an equal branch with the US Army ground forces, not as a subsidiary as the US Army Air Corps had been. The USAAF was fully part of the US Army throughout the US involvement in World War II.

Your wrong Patten's 3rd army not the 9th army

*I know this wasn’t the main topic of this video and was only briefly mentioned at the very end of the video* HOWEVER My old pastor when I was growing up in Georgia as a kid was a veteran of World War II and was at the battle of the bulge. During the battle there was troop photographer that had been with Preacher Kitchens unit for a few months and had befriended my old Pastor where they was “good pals” as my preacher said. And during the battle that day they heard incoming enemy planes and of course the snow was thick so moving quickly was almost impossible bunt the man looked up and snapped a picture of the plane which had dropped a bomb directly above the photographer and he snapped a picture really quick and yelled for Bro. Kitchens to catch and he threw his camera as hard as he could bc they was a good distance away and the man had managed to take a picture of the bomb that inevitably took his life as it was coming straight down at him….upon arrival back home in the USA he got all of the film developed and the Camera took the picture clear as day of the bomb and the group of planes that had dropped it. So he was able to snap a picture of the thing that killed him and preacher kitchens kept that photo and the camera on a shelf on display in his office at the church and later after retiring from the ministry due to health reasons in his living room. Everytime he would show them to anyone who asked what it was you could tell that in his mind seeing it and talking about it took him right back to that snowy cold battlefield. Those kinda men are hero’s not what the media claims are hero’s now days from the drag queens reading to pre k and primary school students to the professional athletes making millions of dollars a year playin a sport. But now this country and our education system is teaching in schools as I seen in a high schoolers history book not all that long ago how Hitler was a great leader who should be praised. When yes I understand that he did bring his country out of a dark time making the economy flourish with a war time economy but in the process having thousands of men, women and children put to death in awful ways simply because of their religion or ethnicity or if they had disabilities. WW2 has always fascinated me to learn about and I try to teach my kids already at ages 3&5 that if it wasn’t for the brave men and women of our military both in the past and present that many of them fought and died to allow us to have the freedoms and the lifestyle the we are fortunate to have today! Sorry for the long comment but that story deserves in my opinion the lengthy typing and reading. Thanks to all our Vets both in the past and those serving now!! We owe literally everything we have in life here in the USA to them!!! And it greatly saddens me that all of the rights and liberties that these men and women have fought and died for are slowly being taken away in the name political correctness and In blaming certain people or any group for any issues we have today, everyone is riding on this PC train and want our nation to become like other nations that have had to live and survive under tyrannical governments and government officials who stripped away the public’s rights and when you stop and look at what’s happening today in our nation we are skiing on a very slippery slope that once you go down there is no possibility of getting back up to the top where you started!

No notice but let's check it out.

i still think focusing on 4 engine heavy bombers was a mistake, instead of producing and utilizing gground attack and support aircraft like the P-47. Maybe an A-1 Skyraider aircraft would have been made earlier in the war and used to great effect. More focus on ground support could have allowed an Allied blitzkrieg push deep into Germany much earlier after D-Day.

it was right to name the A-10 Warthog the next Thunderbold, because never knew that they been shot "a lot" until land and check their warplane's damage.

Curiosity about flying under bridges: I have heard several stories of it being done, I have heard that it was banned as being dangerous, but did anyone ever try it and not make it?

Salt Lake City Bridge?

when video about coral sea

TJ as much as I like your videos and look forward to them . There a few things you get wrong and on this on its Patton's 3rd Army not the ninth there's no such animal . You really need to fix this as the son of a third army tanker I'm more then a little bit irked .

These guys were flying fighter aircrafts, putting their lives on the line defending the free world, at 18 yrs old. I couldn't even change a flat tire when i was that age 😂

How did those planes even take off with those huge balls they were dragging that can also be dangerous for those on the ground

That ain't a Piper Cub.

That’s not a Piper Cub.

The jug

I was one of those Panzer IVs in the intro! Fun time!

WAR THUNDER!!!!

much better than the P-51

@ 2:15 what the heck is that trainer??

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Utilize=Use. One Syllable versus three syllables and means the same thing

So german small arms fire is no mach against a p47 thunderbolt

18 year old boy flying this ✈️

Love having the air force above me dominating the sky's. The Army is rough but not as rough as a bomber crew.

JABOs as the Germans knew them.

21 years old they ingage in war while me wondering what life a head

wait a minute i am in this

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It wasn't the flak that the Thunderbolts battled against in the Ardennes Offensive. It was the fookin' weather. Once the clouds cleared, they helped a lot, but there was no Luftwaffe by that point. Who writes these scripts?

across the Reich - bravo except for one thing. To say it right, say the English word keys, then say it slowly - it's not a k sound

Wasn't referred to as the Air Force but the Air corps

U.S. Army Air Force. =1

Get your facts straight. Patton led the 3rd Army.

Another one . Its like the only 2 battles in ww2 were Omaha beach and Battle of the Bulge. Can Americans do something else instead of boring bat shit same crap all the time

This story is pretty weak and boring, compared to other missions. that i've studied and read ""