Even Franklin Roosevelt didn't visit Jesse Owens after he won his gold medal at the Berlin Olympics, Remember although it's not nice to look at racism was the norm during the World War II era and into the post war years following

Geez thanks USAF

The genie nuclear air to air missile was 1.5 kilotons in yield, hiroshima was 15 kilotons. The blast radius was 1000 feet hence its use with bomber fleets. If you can't be bothered to present correct information then please shut the fuck up

Oppenheimer did not say "I am become death" during the trinity test, he only said it years later in a bbc interview. Right after the trinity detonation he said "well that worked"

CLICKBAIT

I was on the USS Forrestal in 1979. It had a fire on it everyday, I watched a lot of Pilots die. People don't realize that every military man risk his life for his country

Wouldn't it be great if everyone could live in peace and prosperity.

*Plane Guard*

Sounds like a real happy cheerful show, but I think I'll pass.

I don't feel too secure with biden in the White House. He just pooped his pants on camera the other day.😔

Jane Gulliford-Lowes description of fear, trauma, anxiety etc is a tad overdone. Whilst true of many aircrew, it is by no means universal. Whilst all aircrew had moments of fear, many were generally unfazed. My late father, a veteran of 56 operations, kept a contemporary diary of his life from volunteering until the end of his second 'tour'. On only a couple of occasions does he mention feeling badly frightened when the aircraft sustained flak damage. In conversation with him, he said 'I was eighteen years old, invincible, and enjoyed every minute of the greatest adventure of my life'. At a reunion at RAF Wyton, I spent time chatting with Dad's mid upper gunner. He was genuinely puzzled at being considered a hero. He explained... Born on a small croft in the highlands of Scotland, Alan had to share shoes and a bed with his siblings. It was a hard life and when not in school, he worked hard helping his parent farm. As a young lad, he saw an aeroplane fly over and was fascinated by it. Obviously flying was an impossibility for someone like him. Then came the war. He volunteered as a means of escape. He was given a uniform, his very own pair of shoes, slept in his own freshly sheeted bed, was fed three meals a day and flew in an aeroplane. On top of all that, they paid him! As far as Alan was concerned, a bit of danger was worth it. So content was he that he was known to doze off in his turret when returning from a trip. So, not all aircrew were scared witless or ended up with PTSD! Incidentally, after demob, Alan trained as and had a successful career as a civil engineer. For some, the war brought excitement, challenge and opportunity.

Aircraft weren't 'nicknamed' (for example) R - Roger. It was their radio callsign. All squadron aircraft bore a two letter of letter number squadron code, followed by the individual aircraft identity letter. These were called out by the wireless operator using the phonetic alphabet of the time or a derivation thereof.

The RAF practice of assembling various 'trades' in a hangar and allowing them to form crews through choice was a good one. It allowed for mutual assessment. In my late Father's case, he immediately liked the tall American pilot in an RCAF uniform who, spotting my father's 'Brazil' shoulder badges, approached him as a fellow 'across the pond' type. During the same gathering, they 'acquired ' Canadians as Navigator and Bomb Aimer and a rear gunner from London. With this basic five, they trained on Wellingtons at 20 OTU, Lossiemouth. When they were posted to HCU at Rufforth, they were allocated two more, both Scots, as Flight Engineer and Mid Upper gunner

Interesting film but an absolutely ghastly choice of music. I had to watch with the sound off and subtitles on.

I'm learning more from the comments than the actual vid 😭

Awful 'music'.

Music's pretty ordinary for such a dramatic story...otherwise a very interesting video.

Yamamoto declared that Guadalcanal is the graveyard 🪦 of the Japanese 🇯🇵 Army if I am correct. Strategically, Japan wanted Guadalcanal for an eventual invasion and occupation of Pearl Harbor. Once Pearl was in their hands, then offensive operations were to begin at San Diego Naval Base and other selected targets 🎯 on the western coast of the U.S. Never seen anything like 👍 this video and just how expansive this undertaking was. thanks 🇺🇸 🎌 🚩 🧑‍🎤 🏁 👩‍💼

So what is Henderson field used for now

I totally understand that the overall casualty rate for bomber crews was 51%, but that wasn’t the rate for the crews flying their first mission, I’m sure it was still high but not the 51% (or nearly 50% quoted @ 3:50+), unfortunately I can’t find a rate for first mission losses but if it was the near fifty percentage point then bomber command would have been completely ineffective within weeks of the war (Bomber Command operations) commencing, not just due to lack of pilots but lack of aircraft. I remember a film starring Gordon Jackson as an RAF Nav serving in a crew of RCAF Airmen as the sole RAF crew member and one RCAF crewman who was born in the United States, I’m not sure but I think the title was “Millions Like Us” alongside Eric Portman, and the character G Jackson played was selected by the Crew Captain after the rest had been together for a while, a bit like the crew of this tragic event. A very interesting and informative piece of history, thanks for sharing it with us all. Per Ardua Ad Astra, Lest We Forget. P.S The 51% I quoted is taken from the Imperial War Museum archives.

SO AMERICA IS THE FIRST AND OLNEY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD SURROUNDED BY ITS OWN BOMB 💣. 😂😊

What a great way to tell their story and remember them. This video randomly came up in my feed today, by coincidence my Fathers older brother was shot down the night of 20/21 Feb 45 on a raid to Monheim in a/c NP942. He survived fortunately but spent the rest of the war as a POW.

I would enjoy this, I believe, if not for the overbearing music

what a piece of garbage. more propaganda than informative. very disappointing. it's almost an insult to the men who suffered and died at alligator creek and bloody ridge. if you really want to know about what happened read the book "Guadalcanal".

politicians as corrupt then as they are now congressmen "essential emergency workers' get unlimited gas. what a graft

Let me begin by stating that my father and grandparents were bombed out of their central Berlin home during a November 1943 Allied air raid. War is f**cking hell, and the carpet bombing of any city is horrendous and should have no place in modern warfare. This documentary begins by detailing the admittedly awful bombing raid on Cologne, without mentioning the nagging little fact that this war was started by Nazi Germany. As someone of German descent, that fact gives me immense sadness. It's also incredible how that sense of guilt always seems to be there, as though it were embedded in one's DNA, even though I(and my father, who was a child at the time) had no part in it. In February 1945, Germany was already essentially a nation in defeat, and in just a little over two months, Hitler would be dead. The Soviets were quickly closing in on its eastern flank and in the west, by October 1944, Aachen had already fallen to the western Allies. So yes, I get it that the firebombing of Dresden was an unnecessary and senseless act, particularly so near the end of the war. But also remember that British cities like Coventry, Liverpool and London had felt the wrath of the Luftwaffe, as had Warsaw and Rotterdam on the continent, so senseless acts abounded on all sides. Going back even further to 1937, the Luftwaffe Condor Legion had already experimented with the concept of carpet bombing when it devastated the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, thus foreshadowing what was to come. So the precedent for Dresden had already been well established long before February 1945. I bemoan the loss of all innocent civilians in WWII, particularly the victims of the Holocaust, but the Third Reich was never going to be defeated with insults, sanctions and 'raspberries'(though I do give Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' an 'A' for effort!). On a much brighter note, over the last several decades, the city of Dresden has been meticulously rebuilding and restoring its devastated old town centre, including a faithful reconstruction of the destroyed Frauenkirche, and it is once again reclaiming its nickname of 'Florence on the Elbe'! It's a beautiful city and you really should see it!

Choose your leaders wisely, or find out.

He killed 600,000? only 600,000? ... Here in the UK, Tories have killed circa 350,000 of their own people via economic austerity over the last 14yrs and another 100,000 died from Covid due to their utter incompetence over handling the situation by consistently putting capitalism before science and society at every turn until the bodies piled too high to ignore. The right wing Tories with devoutly centrist labour filling in the gaps over the last 40 years, combined with the joint operations undertaken with the USA, have killed circa 6 million people over the last 25 years via their illegal bombing campaigns and invasions and coups across a half dozen nations, for nothing more than the profit of the capitalist minority of the west who own centrists and the right and the media simultaneously across most western nations. According to figures provided by Brown University. In 2011, two pieces of information were declassified, they proved that 1. Thatcher negotiated with terrorists and indeed with the IRA directly. 2. In 1988 UK tax payers money paid for the construction of chlorine manufacturing plants in Iraq to help Saddam build chemical weapons to kill Iranians with, he was our friend at the time so it was fine yeah. I am not suggesting the deaths of 600,000 people in Dresden was anything other than a needless tragedy, I am born and bread of Coventry. But it is to say that Bomber Harris looks like a bloody saint compared to our politicians today and they have no excuse of being existentially threatened to have warranted soaking nations in blood.

The Ribbentrop Pact was as much a secret from Americans then as it is for Russians today.

You mean 32 nuclear bombs are lost around in the whole 🌎🌍😢😮

I like the music.

John McCain ruined more planes than the 9-11 terrorists

30:42 "Dresden has been removed from the map of Europe" literally

F-4 pilots must be pretty damn good. Didn't see many of them losing their aircraft.

ROBERT SMALLS WAS ALSO A REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN FROM SOUTH CAROLINA IN FACT EVERY BLACK IN COGRESS WAS A REPUBLICAN UNTIL 1936 JUST FACTS ALSO Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat

Balls as big as church bells. From the cook to the hook.

English war crime

A lot of Bolshevik Jews in here condoning this lmao

Hey Germany Hey Dresdon, then & now.., "Want some get some. Don't start nothing won't be nothing." Zero empathy for Nazi Germany. A. Patino Los Angeles CA USA

fing music soundtrack

I find these rationing/victory gardens/neighbors help neighbors ideas very interesting. Who knows...we could use the info to cut some corners and/or become more frugal on some things. (not talking about putting Commerce out of business, just being more careful with money. The way things are going lately...)

Not sure ,how America ever reconciled on the one hand espousing themselves as the greatest Democracy in the world back then and yet tolerating an approved segregation system against their black citizens 🙄

I was back in 62. We had a fire on the deck. It was terrible. I was just an AB striker then I can’t imagine what the fire was like on the forest. I can’t believe all those guys that died. It made me sick. I had a lot of time, I never saw one of those that I was in there.

Germany called down the thunder, when you wanna dance, you gotta pay the band..

Rommel was a genius on the battlefield and off, respected on both sides.. He got the shit end deal on the attempts on killing AH, he was innocent of. AH made him a offer for him ☠️ from, firing squad or himself he chosed to ☠️ him self...

I am sure the people of Rotterdam felt the same way when the Nazis bombed the city, after they had surrendered. Or Warsaw, Or Thessaloniki, or London, or Manchester and many other cities of Europe. The German people had to be punished and they did. They also started WW1 before this. Look at them now. De-nazified and leading Europe economically.

Gobbels cried uncontrollably when he heard of the destruction of Hamburg. I wonder what he did when he heard of Dresdens demise.

The Dresden bombing has not caused 25 000 dead - today the official number of victims - but 253 000 dead men, women and children, the official number of 1945. A close relative of mine has been in charge to eliminate the victims of the Dresden bombing. For the life he spoke of 300 000 dead. Remember: In February 1945 the town of Dresden had 630 000 inhabitants, further at this time the city of Dresden was overcrowded with about 500 000 refugees coming from the east. So during the night of the Dresden bombing far more than a million people were present in this town, living together in a very confined space. The official number for 1945 of 253 000 dead is distributed in the following manner: 35 000 completely identified, 50 000 partly identified, 168 000 not identified.

This might as well be from an other galaxy. America is dying by a thousand cuts of Marxism.

One of the worst sound tracks I’ve ever been exposed to on a UKposts video.