The sudden leap in aviation technology after World War 1 and the onset of World War 2 was so dramatic that it led the Royal Air Force to believe that any future conflict would be won by air supremacy alone.
During the period known as the Phoney War, the Royal Air Force launched a daring raid on the crucial naval base at Wilhelmshaven. The objective was to cripple the Kriegsmarine and stop it from engaging Allied supply routes in the Atlantic. As such, 22 Vickers Wellington bombers were suddenly unleashed upon the sheltered German area in the North Sea in December of 1939.
The warplanes were tasked with sinking as many German ships in Wilhelmshaven and the area surrounding Heligoland Bight as possible. Emboldened by the British mantra about the bomber always being able to get through, the confident Allied pilots swept into the area believing the day would result in a decisive victory.
Soon, however, the Luftwaffe would unbridle a formidable fleet of Messerschmitt Bf 109 interceptors that would bring the British pilots to their knees and force the Royal Air Force to rewrite their aviation combat philosophy for the remainder of the war…
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0:11 well there right… after Germany lost the air space bombers just bombed the hell out of factorys and citys… as well as constant straifing runns on Support and fighting/tank collums, it just cut of backup for Germany
“The tension in the sky became overbearing.” -many clumsy phrases like this.
I am sure others have mentioned it, but recently on all of your videos the closed captioning happens ALL AT THE SAME TIME for about 5 seconds in the beginning. I am also finding out that I am no longer subscribed to all of your channels?
During the 1948 war for Independence, Israel recruited a bunch of American, Canadian and British Mercenary WW2 pilots to form what would be come the IAF. There was an arms Embargo and the only country who would sell to Israel was Czechoslovakia. Germany had build a 109 plant in Czechoslovakia and it was still functioning after the war. They started building 109's for Israel. One American pilot who was Jewish said "Irony is being Jewish and getting into a fighter that still had German insignia on it." The Arabs had Spitfires but the IAF pilots had more experience and decimated Arab air forces and ground forces.
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I hope you recover from your cold soon 😊👍🏼
As a German I disagree. Don’t ask me what about, I just disagree.
Ps: we won after all…
What happened to germany every one is a corward in that country
The BF 110 was designed as a bomber destroyer, and so it proved on that day. They were there as well as the 109s, and destroyed more per fighter than the single engined fighters.
I wish more youtube history channels would stop copying each other
Well researched, relative video, makes for a great story.
Anyone ever notice the ONLY country that america isn't racist against and loves their history of genocide is the nazi regime? No? Lmao 😂😂 pretend this was talking about Russia or China for a second, the comments would be so different which is really to look up…
Hey Holland and France, how did that appeasement and neutrality work out for you???
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Britain bombed Berlin 7 times before the Germans bombed back.
over – dramatic speaking….
This does a disservice to those brave bomber crews. Raids by Whitleys, Blenheims and Wellingtons were unescorted by a simple fact that this clip overlooks: there was no long range bomber escort fighters until the arrival of types like the P-38 and P-51, the best the RAF could do was to switch to night raids to avoid fighter interception.
I am not sure the fault lies entirely on Air Command but it was a general attitude of both RN and RAF …the RN was thinking the Trafalgar myth that they ruled the waves and this arrogance was extended to the air…..they soon found out the hard way that this was not the case …cooperation of ship/fighterbomber and fighter/bomber was the key
Being detected 30 miles out will not give you a one-hour warning.
Not Mark Felton…eh…
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The simple fact that these young men climbed into dated, aircraft, some bordering on obsolescence, speaks volumes about the quality of those folks.
Some inappropriate aeroplanes depicted here.
the british started the bombings on germany. monzhs late hitler ordered bombings of british cities