When 3 Aces Fought Germany's Super Pilot



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  1. Speaking about Marseille, can you do another video about him and his relationship with Mattias? A South African POW which he respected and treated him as his best friend and survived the war with the help of Marseilles buddies. Or just a long biography of Marseille even!

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  2. Althought germany lost the war later on in the future it took to have almost the entire world againts them and their allies to be defeated proving how strong them and their engineering was. Not only that but how prepared and how skilled their fighters were. Applaud to them.

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  3. Poor Marseille. Died when his new plane filled with smoke due to some kind of failure and he botched his attempt to bail out. Wasn't even shot down.

    Fun fact: He wasn't a nazi, either. And was a vocal opponent and whistle blower of what the nazis were doing.

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  4. 5:43 wrong: it was not the day he had luck, he was known as an extraordinary pilot, precise targeting and short bursts…but when we talk about luck, than Joachime had not one only couple weeks later

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  5. Just as an aside, as it doesn't really affect the story, but the Curtiss P40 Tomahawk was known in RAF / Desert Air Force service as the 'Kittihawk' although it was essentially the same aircraft with the various design improvements introduced throughout its career.
    There were a few problems, particularly for young pilots more used to fixed undercarriage biplanes or Hurricanes, which had a wider track but the biggest issue was the reliability of the Allinson engines. In Desert Air Force service they had a nasty habit of getting through the big end bearings rather unexpectedly, leading to a reference in a parody of Lili Marlene:
    "Goldfish in the filter, kunos in the sump, You come down clunk, curse the Allinson junk. Though they send a Bristol Bombay, you swear to them that one day you will find a kite whose engine isn't punk…….." 'Goldfish' and 'kunos' were nicknames for the bits of brass that stripped off the bearings and floated around until they clogged the lubrication system up, bringing the aircraft down.

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