Being German fighter pilot in WWII doesn't mean they were NAZI.

Man survived the whole mess of a WW2 and dies standing with a car in front of railways, waiting the train to pass by...by a fallen log...that´s a bad luck

Allegedly, the remark that Bar said to Goering after being rescued from the English channel when he was asked what you were thinking of when you were in the water was "Your speech where you said England was no longer an Island."

I wrote a book, The Me-262 Stormbird (not my chosen title), where I have interviews with almost 20 262 pilots, as well as interviews with Allied pilots. I also compiled a list of all jets, claims, losses, pilots, victories, etc. The airfield is pronounced "Leckfeld". The Curtiss Hawk was a P-36, not a P-38. Heinrich's name is pronounced "BEAR". US ground forces did not hit N. Africa until Nov. 1942, not 1941, and the first US Air contingent was the 57th Fighter Squadron flying with the RAF based in Egypt in July 1942. In addition the first test unit for the fighter variant was Kommando Nowotny based at Achmer in September 1944. Galland was shot down by P-47 pilot James Finnegan, and they became friends after the war. My friend Jorg Czypionka was a 262 pilot, still alive, flew in Kommando Welter as a 262 night fighter pilot. Jorg was an instrument instructor who was pulled into an operational unit, and he shot down a Mosquito over Berlin at night, great guy. I also knew Hajo Herrmann who created the JG-300 "WIlde Sau" (Wild Boar) night fighters flying 109's and 190's, no onboard radar. I would take exception to the video title, "Most Feared", simply because none of these men were well known by their enemies, hence how would they know to fear them? Unlike well known Hans-Joachim Marseille, Adolf Galland (1940-41), and Erich Hartmann, well-known by their enemies. he should have mentioned Gerog-Peter Eder with 12 cconfirmed kills in the jet, another 12 unconfirmed, but Eder finished the war with 78 kills, of which 36 were four engine bombers. Eder was another of my interviews, see the book "Stormbird."

It's just nuts to survive all that combat to be killed by a log ...

My Grandmas brother was a Luftwaffe ace flying FW190S. Shot down around 30 bombers but died in combat.

The Luftwaffe pilots were not members of the Nazi Party. Herman Goering was a Nazi but Officers and Aces like Gallant, Roedel and Hartmann to name a few were not Nazis. Read a book called "A Higher Call". The fact is that just because you wore a German uniform didn't mean you were a Nazi, not all German's were members of the Nazi Party.

I'm glad that you highlighted Heinz Bar here - I've always considered him to be the most versatile fighter pilot ever.

Thank you for this great content. You shed light on little known facts about the Luftwaffe jet aces and their combat records eloquently.

Great job as always. I appreciate all the work you put in your videos ✅✅❤️

Fun Fact: Adolf Galland was also the first combat pilot to have a cigar holder installed in his aircraft!

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What I like about the content this guy puts out is that when he speaks the cam don't cut over to narrator or disengage the show and show maps arrows or any other visual distractions outside of the video itself, all footage no cutaways, 4 me personally that's how I prefer my history/world wars documentaries, hats off to WARS OF THE WORLD 🤘

Another quality content from underrated channel.

I prefer to say they were German pilots , not "Nazi" pilots, not all German fighters owned a card of the Nazi party.

Thanks amazing video please continue this great mission

The title notwithstanding I'm almost finished with your outstanding work on the subject and the only reason I haven't finished it quite yet is that, although it is a true page turner, I find myself re-exploring pages and chapters, such is the sheer amount of fascinating material you manage to stuff into a nevertheless exceptionally readable book, start to finish. For other potential readers out there, Colin's book covers so much more than the 262 alone and what is fascinating about his approach is that it's based on the reality that the 262's story is inevitably interwoven into a whole host of other equally fascinating offshoots. Mr. Heaton has bravely included plenty of these but expertly, he limits them so as not to be distracting. This book has to be a part of every collection on WW2 air combat. Think of it as a gateway to a hundred other amazing stories if you will, because it's not just a work of well-chosen emphases regarding the 262, which alone would make the book a must have, but it also provides so much unanticipated context and perspective, particularly from sources that matter most; and then it teases the reader with short paragraphs about those most closely involved historically. In other words, the people who flew, fought against, dreamed up, produced, fought for (most effective use), sabotaged, modified, developed the amazing Me262 and other related aircraft, were the sources Mr. Heaton has used as the bases for the rest of the work. I've read many, carefully chosen WW1 and WW2 air combat books and this one is truly on the top shelf of my collection. It breaks the mold, discards the pieces and starts over with a far more engaging strategy. Apologies for the length of this recommendation but it does not even begin to fathom the depth of captivating material Mr. Heaton skillfully weaves in. I feel humbled to endorse it and grateful to have discovered CH's masterpiece.

Brilliant documentary. Enjoyed it a lot thanks.

Another component to further the controversy of the first 262 kill is; the hatch coming off the Mossie, as you pointed out, was not used for bailing out but rather, for entry. Bailing out of the Mosquito was done by ejecting the central canopy glass. Whether the attacking pilot knew this or not is of course unknown.

3:12, The production 262's never had 20mm cannon, they were mostly armed with 4 x 30mm Mk 108 cannon, only one was fitted with 20mm, that was a single prototype, the Me 262 A-1a/U1 which had 2 x 20mm MG 151/20, 2 x 30mm Mk 103 and 2 x 30mm Mk 108 cannons.

Great info on lesser known Aces! Fantastic details on their careers!!

Thank-you for bringing forth the skills and bravery of these German fighter aces.

Congratulations on your 100th birthday, Mr. Hugo Broch! 06.01.22 . He is the best fighter Pilot alive with 81 victorys. All the best and health! Or as we aviators say „Hals und Beinbruch " ! As far as I know, you are the last living fighter pilot with a knight's cross.

They were extremely committed to their craft. To be a Luftwaffe pilot in the later stages of WW2 was indeed a testament to the gritty nature of those pilots.

Heinrich Bar is misspelled and mispronounced. His name is Heinrich “Heinz” Bär which literally means bear and is also pronounced much closer to this rather than a drinking establishment at night.

Awesome Research On Very Interesting Subject 👍 from Perth Australia 🙃

It's a very special feeling to touch a Me-262 in the museum. You can see modern marvels like Eurofighter Typhoon or Panavia Tornado - but the ME-262 brings tears to my eyes.

On the 15 August 1945 legendary pilot Captain Salomon(Pi) Pienaar of the SAAF got away from a ME 262 in a Mosquito while going on a mission over the Munich area. Pienaar crash landed after the mission as his landing gear would not deploy. Me 262 Red 8 two seater night fighter is in the National War Museum in Jhb South Africa.

Great commentary, great research on the often unknown forgotten aces who scored big in ww2. 103 german pilots scored more than 100kills, they had no 50 mission limits, they flew until they couldn't. A new series of forgotten aces beckons..

Post war misfortune caused the premature death of leading nightfighter ace Wolfgang Schnauffer colliding with a lorry.

The Narration just scores every time backed by the intensity of the backing track coupled to Topics that are spiraling to a serious or tragic outcome , Wars of the World racks up another Winner .

I think those night tactics were called Wild Boar, minor detail. The big detail is that it is reputed that Germany could had the Me 262's flying as early as 1942 but Hitler demanded the jet to be converted into a bomber, which delayed it's introduction. Having jet fighters in operation as early as 1942 would have been a frightening situation for the Allies.

Thank you for the history lesson. Well done.

Research shows that Guy Gibson VC was shot down by 2 gunners of a 61 Sqn Lancaster that was returning from the mission. (Ref: Cutler, J, Oct 2011, "Who killed the Dambuster?", Britain at War, issue 54, pp 98-104)

My dad was flying Lancasters and Halifaxes on anti U-boat operations with RAF 210 coastal defence squadron. When I was a kid he told me a captured Me262 was brought to RAF Lossiemouth where he was flying some time in late 1944 or early 1945. He and his crew had never heard of jet propulsion and couldn’t understand why this strange machine had no propellers!

4:40 That is just an allied concept. The Germans never considered someone with 5 kills an “ace”. They didn’t even use this expression. They called their aces “Experten” (sing.: ein Experte). 5 kills in a German unit would bring you probably some attention from a superior (hoping for this new lad to be a promising future Experte) but later in the war not even an Iron Cross 2nd class, except those 5 kills were 4 engine bombers. For a real Experte 5 kills were a hot afternoon on the Eastern front (Emil “Bully” Lang managed a confirmed 18 in a day there, while Hans J. Marseille shot down 17 on Sept 1st, 1942 in North Africa, though “only” 16 were confirmed).

Great video on jet experts most is focusing on prop experts. But again great video

The best description I’ve ever heard of the luftwaffe was of a too small blanket that was constantly being pulled back and forth on a cold night.

Without clinging to a small details - fantastic material; lots of little-known photos!

Great video! Though actually the 262 had 30mm cannons, not 20mm. And the Curtiss Hawk was the P-36. Lastly the P-38 photo-recon variant was the F-5, don’t ask me why. Don’t mean to be pedantic; I wouldn’t mind seeing an episode about Adolf Galland. It would be cool to know the story of the P-47 in Luftwaffe livery at 11:32?

wow amazing vid and information that I did not know................very interesting

Excellent video!

Eeexelent vidio. Keep doing it!! Bravo.👍👍👍

Maybe you can do a video on some other Fighter Aces of WWII.

The pic you show of Schreiber is of an Army Knights Cross officer.

The picture of Alfred Schreiber Shows him in Wehrmacht uniform and not Luftwaffe, did he transfer over to the Luftwaffe?

There is a lot of nonsense in this video. 1.) The 262s at Lechfeld had the standard armament of 4x 30mm Mk108. You didn't have to saw through a bomber, a few hits were usually enough for a B-17 or -24. 2.) Five kills to become an ace was allied practice, not German. Five kills in the Luftwaffe didn't count for anything. 3.) Neither did the Luftwaffe use the term ace, they called their top pilots "Experte". You needed some 20 kills to be even considered not being a waste of oxygen. 4.) The title. Nice footage though !

The Me 262 was a technological marvel. Like all technologies, there are flaws. So did the Me 262. The Allies exploited the weaknesses and thus won the day. Aces cannot turn a stone into a gem.

Who is this dude in a Heer uniform anyways? Some selected photos are questionnable... Nice narrative effort. aviously a ot of reasearch went into this. Well done from that standpoint.

RIP Ace Welter. Such an Ace and then died by a freak accident. RIP

The ME-262 is such a beautiful aircraft

What about Johannes Steinhoff. Why isn't he mentioned here? The Me 262 mainly fired 30 mm Cannons; I've never hear or read about them having 20 mm cannons. Its a bit like the Poms claiming they invented the Jet Engine. Hans von Ohain had a Jet aircraft flying before World War 2, his aircraft and jet engine flew in August 1939 while Frank Whittles was still vibrating itself to bits. If you look at Whittles engine verse the Junkers 004 and BMW Jet engines they are clearly different, Hans von Ohain engine designs powered the he, 178, Me 262, and the Ar 234, to name a few!

Very nice Thank you

Whats up with the plane on 20:36. This is obviously a computer generated animation with one jet engine on one side, a propeller and no engine one the other.

I haven’t scrolled all the way through the comments to see if anyone else has mentioned this, but what is the Aircraft at 20:39 supposed to be? A prop on the nose & a jet engine on the port side, maybe something to throw off the Allies in identifying an early 262?

The photograph of Alfred Schreiber is incorrect. This officer is wearing a Heer uniform, however his name is also Alfred Schreiber who died in 1991.

Thank you for giving credit where it is due. Just a single word is enough to explain the all of Luftwaffes failures : Goering

the amout of German soldiers dyeing in "accident" after the war is mindboggling

They were no Nazis, but pilots of the German Luftwaffe.

The photo at 20:41 puzzles me. It shows an early test example (note the tailwheel) powered by a Jumo piston engine to prove the basic airframe's flying characteristics while waiting for the jet engines to catch up in development. On early jet flights, the piston engine was retained as an emergency back-up, but I always thought that the jets were installed in pairs. The photo shows only the port engine fitted, which would have made the aircraft very difficult, if not impossible, to fly! Can anyone enlighten me on this point?

Didn't matter what "wonder weapon" Germany developed. Germany lost the war because of gas - or actually lack thereof. Couldn't keep their planes in the air or tanks moving on the ground. The main reason for the failure of the Ardennes offensive was lack of fuel for their tanks. In fact, one of the main aims was to seize sufficient quantities of gasoline to keep it going. One of the last memorandums Joseph Goebbels submitted to Hitler was on the subject of aircraft production (which was particularly odd considering his job was as propaganda minister) in which he actually proposes a decrease in fighter production due to fuel supplies. Interestingly, he does propose focusing on production of the Me-262 because, as he puts it, "they can fly practically on dirty water" in reference to the low grade kerosene the jet engines burned.

Bar has 22 victories all in western and mediterenian front ... The 6 pilots with more kills above him all had fought on eastern front also.

The Luftwaffe flew their "experten" to death. The Allies emphasized good average pilots by pulling super-aces off the flight line and put them into training outfits to pass along what they knew to rookies. By the end of the end the Luftwaffe had less than a hundred good pilots and most of the rest couldn't be trusted to put the landing gear down on final. The US did not allow aces like Boyington and Gabreski back into combat squadrons until they had passed on what they learned as Flying Tigers.

The picture of Schriber you show is a early war highly decorated infantry officer….. intensional?

- Why was Alfred Schreiber wearing an ARMY ( Wehrmacht ) Uniform .. ? ... and ... - NOT an Air Force ( Luftwaffe ) Uniform .. ?

What was the plane at 20:36.

Its problem was the engine lasted 10 hours and the allies had 50 prop fighters to every Me-262.

What's Looftvaffer?

Georg Peter Eder scored also more than 20 with Me 262, Hermann Buchner 12.

Russian pilots fled when they saw the black tulip painted on the nose of the BF-109 belonging to Eric Hartmann. Hans Jochiem Marseille scored over 150 victories against British and American pilots on north Africa before dying bailing out of a damaged BF109.

German sky warriors! Outgunned and outnumbered but resolute! Discipline and duty, come what may.

Poor Bugger, went through all of WW2, to be killed by a Log Falling from a Train. No Matter What or Who he Flew for, that is a Sad End for a Brave man..!! 😢

20:41 Something very wrong with this picture and where did you get it? I will question the authenticity of this photo.

After all that killed by a log randomly falling off a train. How insane is that?

Adolf Galland managed to escape post war Germany's hectic accident-prone atmosphere that also killed Patton by going to Argentina and writing a nice book that I have s copy of.

Great wartime pictures

Germany had the greatest pilots, and tank commanders, of the war, quite an achievement. But their own government and many senior commanders were actually their greatest enemy.

In the headline you call these german pilots "nazis" - is there reliable information regarding their membership in the NSAP?

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Is this really a photo of Schreiber at the beginning? If so, why is he in ARMY uniform rather than that of the Luftwaffe?

there was never more than 50x Me-262 in fighter spec. Grofaz didn't allow it. It was suppose to be a bomber 😀

That first mosquito was a kill as the plane never flew again. It doesn’t matter if the mission was completed and crew survived. What about Bombers shot down after dropping their bombs and the crew surviving by bailout. Still a kill.

Love this report others don't tell about the other side

Germany needs more men like this.🇩🇪

Me 262, too few too late in the war. Your title & introduction are incongruous to the video.

Excellence in video!!!

Why is Schreiber pictured in army uniform?

Why is the picture of the first jet ace in the wrong uniform?

jv 44 the galland circus: the best of the best!

Nazi Thunderbolt at 11:28. A captured P-47 in Luftwaffe markings.

Thank you for your interesting Video. I would like to correct you on one name: Heinrich BAER (in German Bär (which is pronounced the same way as in English: Bear, and the meaning is the same too).

Good and interesting documentation. As far as I could find out, none of the three pilots was a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party. I could also not find any facts or statements proving that they had shared the Nationalsocialist ideology or were convinced followers. That's why I am of the opinion that calling them "Nazi Fighter Pilots" is incorrect. The official name of the country they fought for was Germany or "Deutsches Reich." You would't call an Italian pilot of WWII ""Fascist Fighter Pilot" nor would you call a Sovjet pilot "Communist Fighter Pilot", would you?

They were the best. Bless them. RIP

1. the ME 262 was armed with 4 Mk 108 and that was a. 30 mm Cannon not 20 mm, 2. the deHavilland "Mosquito" was not unarmed it has various armaments but usally for reconaissance missions it was armed with for HS [Hispano suiza] 20 mm machine cannons. Make sure you have your documentary right, i only saw 3:15 min./sec. and already 2 big mistakes...i hope it comes better, otherwise i must write again or end the doc.

How come this Lieutenant (who is supposed to be Luftwaffe), wears an Army infantry officers uniform?

I have studied ww2 all of my life since puberty. For many years it was claimed that the ME 262 never saw combat duty. It wasn't until the mid 80s that the truth started to appear. I'm 65. I've read extensively about goering and didn't know he was so petty.

Imagine being the greatest jet ace of world war 2 only to get killed by log that fell off a train.

Why is Alfred Schreiber in an army uniform and not a Luftwaffe uniform???

It's not 20 mm fire from a ME262. The ME 262 had 4 x 30 mm cannon (sledgehammer) ...