A British Hurricane pursues a stricken German Messerschmitt Bf 110 through the icy wilderness, its cannons blazing as the enemy plane, trailing black smoke, desperately twists and turns to evade destruction.
The Hurricane changes tactics. With a sudden burst of speed, it launches itself directly at the ME110, ramming the German aircraft into a violent collision. Shards of metal fly up in the air as both planes spiral out of control, crashing into the frozen earth below. This is no conventional approach for a British pilot.
The ME110 is obliterated on impact. The Hurricane fares no better, crumpled and broken amidst the snow. But a figure emerges from the wreckage.
Instead of a British airman, Soviet aviator Zakhar Sorokin checks himself for wounds and scans his surroundings. A vast Arctic void stretches in every direction. The bitter cold claws at his flight suit as the realization sets in: he’s miles away from his allies, stranded on a frozen tundra with the enemy lurking behind every turn. Surviving a plane crash suddenly doesn’t feel like a miracle anymore, and the real test lies ahead…
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I know that WW2 images are limited but a disclaimer that not images are directly linked to this video might be appoipriate. Too many peope will learn that A merlin V12 looks very similar to a double row radial engine. Just saying.
It's a shame you can't find enough actual footage for subjects you discuss, instead using footage of p40's or radial engines…
By using incorrect images (a naval seaman received the telegram while the voice over says fighter pilot) the channel compromises its own authenticity. It does this constantly. It p's me off so much that I'm giving it the thumbs down.
So why do you show a radial engine being fitted while simultaneously talking about the RR Merlin??
As you usually do, you're mixing up airplanes. At 9:07 you show British Kittyhawks. And a B-17 being shot down? And a Sturmovik!
Yes, Merlins were inline squid cooled engines, not air cooled radials. There never was a version of a Hurricane with a radial.
Merlin are V’s not Radial engines. You make great vid’s but there is plenty of film to show British troops vs US troops. Give the Brits their due, don’t sub US for them. To me a U.S. Marine, it dishonors a damn fine Fighting Force. Give them their proper Honor.
Oh yeah stop showing B-17’s as German Bombers as well.
Towards minute 9:00, you have an awful lot of P-51 Mustangs subbing for Hurricanes.
Complimentary algorithm enhancement comment for your channel!😊
Unsubscribed, the severe lack of historically correct and accurate videos is disgusting.
Using a B17 as a German bomber?
American troops as British?
How come the wheels were down on the Hurricane?
Again a video spoiled by totally irrelevant film clips were an RAF pilot is seen as a matlow rating, then as a GI joe, then a Navy pilot so many errors, dark skies never learns or even cares
-40ºF = -40ºC.
The military term for doing this is " Dip Shit " no pilot thinks he is worth more than his aircraft.
Without Russia, where around 90% of equipment and manpower sent in by Germany never returned, WW2 would have been won by the Nazis. Stalin was reluctant to publicly acknowledge aid from the west, but when will the west acknowledge the huge cost (about 26,000,000 citizens) paid by Russia in the Alied victory?
The old just slap any WW2 film clip into the story
What a load of rubbish!
Did Hurricanes have cannons??
Some of this footage shows a fighter attacking another single engine fighter.
I call bullshit. Poor quality and questionable.
"U-boots INFESTED waters"? No, waters of the planet was INFESTED with british EMPIRE ships, the biggest INVADER FORCE OF THE PLANET led by some zionist forces and a j€vvi5h murderer puppett.
The biggest mistake us brits made was giving Rolls Royce engines and later selling the Russians the jet engine. They were lagging behind massively until then and were reliant on limited backward engineering.
British empire NEVER stay in own yard, always get involved in anything where people are murdered, as they did now in ukrain. They are the slaves/"armed hand" of zionists financial powers from america and bruxelles.
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The Spits did not suit the Russians. The landing gear was not suitable for the rough Russian landing strips.
Did Hurricanes supplied to USSR have cannons ? Hmmm …
Apart from pictures of
Wrong planes
Wrong engined
Wrong nationality
Wrong uniforms
Interesting video
So why were most of the troops shown in the film american? Or did they win more than one world war?
Clickbait title.
As always with this channel.
Did the Soviets have to pay for the planes, tanks & supplies Britain sent, in the same way that Britain had to pay for American support?
The Brits didn’t fly in snowstorms but they didn’t realize that if the Russians didn’t fly in snowstorms, they might never fly until Spring. I don’t know what you mean about support not being acknowledged until 1994. Right after Barbarossa was launched, Churchill made a speech stating they would help the USSR with Lend-Lease immediately and Roosevelt confirmed it. The USSR used US jeeps, trucks, tanks along with British tanks and aircraft from both countries. Stalin May not have formally said thank you but that wasnt his style EVER! And then the Cold War started almost immediately
AI along with random photos of all manner of different shit which maybe fine for imbeciles, but learned people can see this for what it is. BOOOO HISSSS.
Utter Rubbish video, "Carter" the pilot is a navy rating !!
Can we drop this stupid agreement drawn up in the war that American troops were to be mentioned as basically winning the war on their own, without any other allies involvement! I keep expecting Tom Cruise to appear at any moment. Because of the slow breakout from the beachhead at Normandy as usual Patton was the hero while Montgomery was accused of being too slow. Look at the number of SS Panzer units facing each direction of allied attack! The same at the Bulge. Any mention of Montgomery having to take control of the American units in the north to save Patton were suppressed. North Africa, Sicily, Crossing the Rhine and others, all suppressed! Only the yanks/Patton gets the glory. Truth please the yanks surely are grown up by now and can be told that although they did so much in the war, THEY DID NOT DO IT ALL.
Still now putin negates the fact that russia recieved help from the US and GB. They recieved pistols, rifles subguns, trucks, tanks, planed etc…..
Spot the deliberate mistakes….
Hundred and fifty first wing?
Radial Merlin?
American troops?
Mustang?
German B17?
Did I win?
While the Yeltsin regime may have grudgingly recognized British contributions to Russian survival, neither Russia nor China has ever thanked the United States for saving their asses.
" Dark Skies " keeps everyone in the Dark.
Does anyone proof read / watch these vids ?
Was there any New or even True information included in this video ?
Still, it makes money for the up-loader and that's all that counts these days …
So many mistakes in this video. Round engine instead of a long one. Wrong helmet, wrong aircraft wrong airforce. Come on man, you can do better than this.
Too many people JUST filling up YouTube with incorrect data & facts 😢😮… should be BANNED😮
Rubbish
As always, your vids are well done and very informative. Thanks for sharing.
I had to report this video as misleadingand false. The mud island claiming they rescued the USSR a country spanning 11 time zones. You cannot wish away the truth about Victory day for Russia.
Jimmy Handley in a sailor`s suit makes a strange RAF pilot.
just imagine how surprised the german pilots were, when they saw the hurricanes. NOT AGAIN
A new low for selection of video, even for the 'Dark' channels. Was the secret shadow killer that Zakhar Sorokin was flying in fact a P-40, because that's what he crawls out of?
The RAF aircraft consignment did include P-40s, but neither they nor the Hurricane had a radial engine.
If you have so, so, so much video of P-40s, why not make the video about them too?
I wouldn't have been too proud about shooting down a B-17 (12:40 etc). Weren't they on our side?
Minor point, but in the sortie in Oct 41 that led Capt Zakhar Sorokin to lose his feet to frostbite he was flying a Mig-3, not a Hurricane. In fact the picture you repeatedly show is of Hero of SU Sorokin in front of what is plainly a Mig-3 (72 SAP VVS-SF). Savonov's unit did indeed operate both types.
I guess the channel operates on clicks regardless of content, but it's a sad reflection.
A sadly little remembered operation, thank you for taking the time to retell the story 🙏
I wonder if the Russian people are, or have ever made been made aware of this part of WWII?