Luftwaffe vs. Flying Fortress: Battle over Germany 1943 (WW2 Documentary)

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Luftwaffe vs. Flying Fortress: Battle over Germany 1943 (WW2 Documentary)


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Fall 1943, Allied bombers are ramping up their daytime raids of Nazi German cities and industry. The bomber crews of the US 8th Air Force will pay the price against the German…

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  1. 11:21 – One possible reason for the 100th Bomb Group's high loss rate was given in "Bombs Away: The World War II Bombing Campaigns over Europe" by John R. Bruning. He stated that the Group was less proficient in the tight formation flying required to maintain the 'Combat Box' the interlocking fields of fire that the bombers' defense depended on. The highly experienced Luftwaffe 'Experten' would notice the loose formation and attack it aggressively, knowing that the defenses were weaker than the tight formations.

  2. German production was always going to rise in the 1942 to 1944 bracket because it was so inefficient until then. Changes were made just as Speer took office and it became the so-called "Speer miracle". Those that use rising production to attack the bomber offensives are throwing out a red herring. German production targets were never met from mid-1943 to 1945 precisely because of the air campaigns.

  3. Woah attention to detail noted! The compass rose rotated as the map did a few minutes in, most folks wouldn't bother to keep north in the correct alignment to the map panning!

  4. I never knew that Allied bombers specifically targeted cathedrals and civilian homes. I understand that we were in it to win, but this is a bit of a shock.

  5. I have to keep reminding myself that a single B-17 loss was 10 men. So when I hear "Oh, they lost 12 planes" that's 120 men … damn near an entire rifle company.

  6. "Arnold belives…." well then, onward christian believers!. Ignore all the RAF's experience in unescorted daylight missions. Further believe in pickle barrels as test targets for your famous norden bombsight – as long as they are placed right under the bomb bay at dispersal.

  7. To sum up the zio-anglo straegy here. The british, preferred terror bombing of civilian targets of no military value. The amerikans, being somewhat more practical, preferred targeted bombing of industrial sites along with terror bombing of civilian targets of no military value.

  8. As if the civilians losing their members, houses and lives to allied bombers deliberated attacks on civilians to weaken german industry needed a reason other than simple revenge on the men perpetrating such crimes… "its only a warcrime if your country lose"…

  9. It was the belated availability of drop-tanks for P47s and P51s both along with competent leadership and a directive by General Doolittle that refocused the fighter escort mission to the destruction of the Luftwaffe that the missions began to get results that took the air superiority from the Luftwaffe and made D day possible. Insofar as the original bombing mission objectives went, they were clearly a failure by every realistic measurement.

  10. With the reputation that he would come to have commanding SAC and during the Korean war, you would think that Curtis LeMay would be giddy dropping bombs on German civilians, but apparently not. I wonder why

  11. Given the $1.5 billion development cost of the Norden bomb sight , the USAAF had no choice but to fly daytime raids , or someone would have been left with a whole lot of egg on their face for a paperweight with a price tag just 22% less than the Manhattan project's.
    The net result was a high price paid by aircrew to vindicate the high price paid for their bomb sight. Those who took to the air in daylight were lions , those who sent them there were donkeys.

  12. My grandfather was a me 109 fighter pilot who didn't talk much about the war only that he said they were under a lot of pressure and stress the bombers never stopped coming he said he got shot down once survived after recovering they put him back in a fighter

  13. Após 1944 com a introdução do P51 a história mudou significante, com os aliados podendo atacar a Luftwafe em seu território e consequentemente dizima-la no ar e em solo ainda nos aerodromos.