As a US citizen, this movie is why I have enormous respect for the UK 🇬🇧 because they were determined to fight and never surrender to the Nazi Blitzkrieg and the British people knew what were at stake. Respect from the USA 🇺🇸
Respect returned, I lost family in the Liverpool Blitz but the ships from the US never stopped...we were on our knees and our friends came to us. It amazes me how many reference LoTR and Gondor and Rohan as allies - when reality eclipses such fantasy - from the skies above Germany, deserts of North Africa, hills of Italy, to the beaches Normandy, to the Islands of Japan.
Let's not forget, gentlemen, that it was Great Britain who DECLARED WAR on Germany, NOT vice versa. What do you expect, you declare war on a country which was trying to make peace with you, and then you complain about being attacked??? Come on, be reasonable.
I really appreciate the Luftwaffe's side of the story in this film in fine, clipped German. Excellent flyers on the German side, thrown into what they thought would be an easy pushover but who found out it would be a killing field for them too.
You have to remember this film was made in 1969, that said it’s still a great movie even if the effects are a bit on the dodgy side! If they remade it now it would be all cgi. Do love this movie, and Dambusters!
@@williampaz2092 What Bader said to motivate his pilots had little to do with the facts. The Hurricane was outdated by 1940 as a front line day fighter against the LW.
Spanish air Force planes. The 109 had merlins or Allison's at the time of this movie Germans had the inverted diamler 601 v12 at the time of this battle. heinkel also had merlins. The original heinkel had an inverted jumo v12 at the time of the battle. You can tell by where the exhaust ports exit the cowl. The inverted are at the bottom.
The 109 where Hispano Aviacion HA 1112 planes built in spain. In fact were 109's with hispano suiza engines and later models with RR merlin. Also the heinkels were built in spain under lisence, first models with jumo engines and later with merlin engine
Adlertag was originally scheduled for 10th of August but was pushed back to the 13th because of bad weather. On the 13th there was another grotty forecast so another postponement was ordered until the 15th. however the recall order didn't reach half the bomber formations (including Fink's) that were in the air, so they actually did bomb several British airfields and installations, and were hammered by the RAF as their escorts had already heard and obeyed the recall order.
I love this movie but I have just realized that at 0:21 when the general is pointing at the map of England he is pointing to the wrong place when he says, "Hawkinge." It's much closer to Dover (which he does point at correctly), he's actually pointing at Hastings. The big red line pointing from the bottom right to the coastline is pointing at Folkestone which is very close to Hawkinge.
@@Jimdixon1953 I think it's more likely the 2nd unit director was in a hurry to get the insert shot. It's probable it was noticed at some point prior to release but no one freeze framed movies in those days so they let it through.
@@SPQRTempus Also when he pinpoints "Manston, Biggin, Kenley" he is also in completely the wrong place. But I can forgive this film SO much because its one of the greatest war films made.
@@davidm3118 In the automotive division. The aerospace division that makes airplane engines is a different company. Because they make military stuff they had to break into different parts.
The real irony is that the very first prototype Bf 109 V1 flew with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12, as the planned fitment of a Jumo 210 was not available. And the very last Bf 109s to see service (as used in the film) were the Spanish built HA-1112-M1L with the Rolls-Royce Merlin fitted.
I love this film. I would like to see more of these big events from the other side though. The RAF knew how close things were coming, but the German bomber crews didn't. All they knew was half or more of them never returned from each sortie. I can't imagine how that would play on the mind.
Read about Operation Bodenplatte on New Year's Day 1945. It was the Luftwaffe's effort to "cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries during the Second World War. The goal of Bodenplatte was to gain air superiority during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge". The pilots knew it was a suicide mission, so they got rip roaring drunk on New Year's Eve. Most were hungover, or still drunk, when they took off for the mission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte?wprov=sfla1
As good this film was ,if I recall ,there are inaccuracies - though not shown in this particular clip ,the hairstyles of the women back at the bases in England are distinctly more 1960's rather than 1940's.
Divendus, those Me 109s didn't have Hispano-Suizas, they had Rolls-Royce Merlin 500s. However, earlier spanish Hispano Buchóns had Hispano-Suiza engines. Germany delivered Bf109G fuselages to Spain during war years. Lack of Daimler-Benz DB605s forged spanish engineers to find new engines. Merlin-engined Buchóns (as spanish name to licence-built 109s) was the last version in use. They were in fighter-bomber roles in Spanish Air Force, armed wit under-wing rockets.
Great scene and mixed with stirring music. Oh if you pause at 01:22 you would notice the Spanish Air Force roundel being painted over. Got to hand it to the Spanish Air Force having the closest things possible to make the 1969 movie a reality.
I believe in earlier in the 1960's there was a German film called "Star of Africa" about Luftwaffe ace Hans-Joachim Marseilles. The Germans went to Spain to film it and used the Spanish Air Force "Messerschmitts." It was Adolf Galland who suggested to the British film-makers they do the same for "Battle of Britain."
Those WW2 Pilots are legends Than the modern pilots, The WW2 Pilots can fight without missile With legendary Aircraft meanwhile The modern pilots can't Fight without missile With Gay plane I think if WW2 plane Vs Modern plane the WW2 plane while win fighting without missile
This is actually a British film made in 1969 called "The Battle of Britain". They filmed the Luftwaffe scenes in German with subtitles which are missing from this clip.
Oh, I thought the RAF kept air superiority, and prevented Adolfs invasion of our homeland! Gosh, must have read the wrong books! Or, most likely you're deluded! Anna Withers, 😂😂
At 2:48 R.A.F. women enter the chat: There are this many (250 plus) assembling over these airfields in France. Scramble 3 squadrons of Hurries. Scramble 1 squadron of Spitfires to protect the Hurries. Actually Hurri pilot responce: "250 plus? Where do we start?" R.A.F. women: Enemy heading this direction, from this direction. Ascend to Angels 16 (16000 feet). Desend out of the sun from Angels 16 to Angels 14 (for a counter attack). You will see enemy formation ahead.
They were powered by Rolls Royce Merlin engines due to the lack of DB605s available after the War. Apart from that they were pretty much identical to the Me109G. For the film they had some cosmetic 'back-dating' to make them look more like BF109Es.
True. It soldiered on for far longer than it needed to. BUt it's replacement,l the Ju88 was never built in enough numbers to fully replace it, even by 1945. Milch, Goering's No.2, had a personal vendetta against Junkers (I think one of his friends had died in a Junkers plane crash) and made sure that their company never got the best or enough contracts.
Most aircraft were approaching obsolescence by the time they got to the airfields from the factories. There were always people working on improvements or counter measures, even as what was thought to be ‘latest’ came out with big expectations. However, the war was mostly carried on the backs of known, if dated, workhorses
@@riazhassan6570 Fortunately for the Allies, a few, like the Spitfire, could be continuously updated and improved very quickly over the course of the conflict. For others, like the Me109, they were over-developed and forced to soldier for far longer than they should have. And for a few like the Me262, a novel plane with unproven futuristic concepts and design, which made every other fighter in the world obsolete over night (at least until the rival developers caught up), were criminally overlooked at the highest level until it was far too late
@@xj900uk Nothing happens as it should during war. No weapon or system is perfect. This one is marvellous for this and that/ that one for that and this, etc. Compromise, compromise. One makes do, or gets flattened, with whatever one can lay one’s hands on. By installing bigger engines or tweaking the basic airframe, an obsolescent design could be kept competitive for a while. The 109, like the Spitfire, like other pre-war machines, went through several desperate upgrades. Considered to be the old uncle compared to some shiny new machines, it ended up with the biggest kill tally of all by far, on all sides
@@riazhassan6570 It's also true that the Me109 was built in more numbers than any other fighter aircraft, second only to the Il-2 in terms of most airframes ever. However, most military historians and aviation experts agree that development of it went on for far too long and in too many sub-types, and instead the Nazis shuold have put their faith, money and time into other types like the Me 262 jet fighter, or the Ta 152 advanced development of the Fw190, with its superlative water-methanol boosted engine which gave it a performance better than the Packard Merlin Mustang. But barely a dozen saw service by the end of hostlities even though it was available at the end of '44...
Best film I seen should make a new 1 but same way with jets this time alfa jets as fighter in Germany and the tornadoes ad bomber .the the bae hawk's as British fighter jets in them .be mint .and with same back ground 8n the film 🎥
THE GERMAN FIGHTER PILOTS At that time !!!Were the BEST in the WORLD 😮As they Had REAL COMBAT experience 😨BUT that Has a BUFFOON !!!I IN CHARGE GORING 😕g
And superior experience has a shelf life. If you are losing pilots faster than you can replace them, while your enemy is training new pilots faster than they are losing them... eventually those enemy pilots gain experience and narrow the gap. By the later stages of the Battle, Luftwaffe fighter squadrons were at about 2/3 strength flying multiple sorties a day while the RAF worried when they started to lose pilots and planes faster than they were replacing them (i.e. dropping below 100% strength). The reaction among front line Luftwaffe personnel (not Goering) was natural: look up "Channel Sickness". Similar experience in the Pacific. The Zero wasn't that much (if any) better overall than American fighters like the P-40 and F4F, but the experience developed flying in China gave the Japanese pilots an early advantage. It didn't take very long for the Americans to adjust their tactics and start developing experience themselves. The loss rates in combat between Zeros and F4Fs became about 50:50 overall with the advantage going to whoever started the battle at a higher altitude. When the US Army and Navy moved on to the next generation of fighter planes, the Zero was overmatched and it turned into a massacre (or Turkey Shoot).
There was also a serious problem with the servicibility of the Me109's. In theory this should not have been a problem, but Udet was in charge of Fighter production at the time, and his Ministry was chaotic and disorganised to say the least - thus there was a genuine shortage both of new Me109's at the time, and spare parts were virtually non-existent, German mechanics would often cannabilise one plane to keep others in the air, but look at Galland's war diaries of the time period - his JG should on paper have comprised 75 machines + a few extras for the officers, but he was hard pressed to get forty in the air for a days combat even in the middle of August, even though he had a godo surplus of pilots.
@@xj900uk The production of new planes and maintaining a supply of spare parts are interconnected. Replacement aircraft can offset the need for spare parts as you can cannibalize spare aircraft to keep squadrons operating. But when you don't have a reserve of either...
You hear a lot of talk about German efficiency and technology. It was good, certainly, but sometimes one wonders if it is not overplayed. There is a tendency to over-hype an opponent’s numbers and capabilities. This is useful in either victory or defeat. If you won, it was against a huge, efficient, well-armed enemy, a glorious achievement. If you lost, it was an inspiring, glorious resistance by a few tenacious heroes against impossible odds.
Were lucky Germany and Japan lost the war War is a terrible thing when is the time when we do finaly learn ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~***
@waimunyan7007 It's no surprise they thought they'd succeed, victory in Poland and France had left them with the belief that the German air force was invincible.
Very inaccurate german planes, because of the Merlin engines that replaced the original DB or Jumo engines. All of inline german engines were inverted.
At least they were airworthy Spanish-built copies of He 111's (17 flyable) and Me 109's (11 flyable) rather than CGI which is all the rage these days! At the time there were no airworthy German planes of that period which could be used in the movie, and even now years later I know of only one Me109E with the original Daimler Benz fuel-injection engine that can get in to the air. As a sad after note, nearly all the Spanish built German planes in this movie were scrapped. Ironically, at least three of the Casa 2's were sold to Argentina, where they saw service in the Falklands conflict as military transports - the last time the He 111 or any of its copies saw action. The last airworthy (Spanish built) He 111 was owned by the Commemorative Airforce crashed back in 2003 and was never rebuilt.
@@karlpolsterer7687 About 40 or so years ago during lunchtime at work with some colleagues I replayed Operation Sealion using the board game of that title. Not totally to our surprise Sealion was a total flop. German aircraft were useless that early in the war against enemy warships (check the air attacks during the Norwegian campaign). The invasion "fleet" was tugs towing river barges, escorted by the remnants of the Kriegsmarine after the losses inflicted during the invasions of Poland and (particularly) Norway, which "fleet" was swamped and sunk by destroyers going past at high speed. Any troops that did make it across were quickly rounded up by "Dad's Army" (many were WW1 veterans!) and the regular army, reinforced by Canadian troops! The only time Sealion succeeded was when the conditions were changed drastically to enable an invasion. No RAF, no RN and no army! ps the "smiley" is not deliberate.
@@Wombat1916 Yes. Experts from Britain and Germany wargamed this out at Sandhurst in the 1970s. Among the umpires for how the aerial part of the battle would go was Adolph Galland (as I said, experts). The result was a defeat for the Germans within one week of landing in Britain with most German soldiers not making it back to France. Those who imagine that Sealion might work should consider the battle where the two operational German battleships went up against a single Royal Navy battlecruiser and drew on their superior speed to run away after feeling what 15" guns can do. They should then imagine the Kriegsmarine sending out its entire force of about 8 destroyers to escort the flotilla of slow moving barges in efforts to reinforce and resupply the invasion force... coming under attack from the 67 destroyers the Royal Navy held back for the defense of Britain. Or what torpedo boats and motor gunboats would be doing to those barges as well. And if those two German battleships (Scharnhorst and Gniesenau) were sent in to protect the flotilla, they would face the might of multiple Royal Navy battleships. The German navy had to be careful not to lose ships because while there was limited shipbuilding capacity in Germany there was not the budget to finance the building of new capital ships once war began. Meanwhile the Royal Navy operated on the principle: Attack! Attack! Attack! The ships were there to be used, and expended if necessary to achieve objectives, because they could always build more.
@@sztypettto I beleive in neither the benevolence of regimes that systematically murdered millions (either nazism OR communism) or strangely for that matter "hollow earth" theories.
I have watched this movie since I was a kid and I never get tired of it.
It's actually beautiful to watch.
The battle was won by stunning teamwork but the Germans perhaps got the respect they deserved. They fought very well. What a great film.
As a US citizen, this movie is why I have enormous respect for the UK 🇬🇧 because they were determined to fight and never surrender to the Nazi Blitzkrieg and the British people knew what were at stake. Respect from the USA 🇺🇸
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Respect returned, I lost family in the Liverpool Blitz but the ships from the US never stopped...we were on our knees and our friends came to us. It amazes me how many reference LoTR and Gondor and Rohan as allies - when reality eclipses such fantasy - from the skies above Germany, deserts of North Africa, hills of Italy, to the beaches Normandy, to the Islands of Japan.
As a Dutch citicen, i thank the Brits and Americans for our liberty.
Let's not forget, gentlemen, that it was Great Britain who DECLARED WAR on Germany, NOT vice versa.
What do you expect, you declare war on a country which was trying to make peace with you, and then you complain about being attacked??? Come on, be reasonable.
Just love how the briefing scene switches from the bomber crews to the fighter jocks mid-sentence. Such a well composed scene...
It is amazing how understandable these scenes are to people that do not understand German. Then when he says "Manston, Biggin, Kenley," its chilling.
'-und der folgende fleigerhorste' = '-and the following flying bases'.
Some years ago during the cold war I saw a Russian military map of the UK... Very thought provoking at the time.
@@stevetheduck1425 What's that, Duckgerman? Welch‘ ein Geschnatter. Der folgende Fleigerhorste... 😂
@@stevetheduck1425 Fleigerhorste, jau. 😂🤣
And Hawkinge, just up the road from my home town Folkestone
„Meine Herren, Adlertag!“ Alles klar. 👌🏻 jeder weiß was zu tun. Marsch Marsch 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Takich filmów się już nie robi ..❤
I really appreciate the Luftwaffe's side of the story in this film in fine, clipped German. Excellent flyers on the German side, thrown into what they thought would be an easy pushover but who found out it would be a killing field for them too.
You have to remember this film was made in 1969, that said it’s still a great movie even if the effects are a bit on the dodgy side! If they remade it now it would be all cgi. Do love this movie, and Dambusters!
Keep the CGI, I'll take this one.
The effects are great and they used real planes. So there. Any idiot can make a movie with CGI.
What a tribute and so poignant God bless them all on both sides who lost there lives
Dont forget there were more Hurricans than Spitfires. Ive been in one ( on the ground, i get air sick!) lovely little planes
Jane Kirk Douglas Bader thought and said the Hurricane was the better fighter between the two.
Hurricanes. The bomber killer. A Idea by Douglas Bader.
@@williampaz2092 What Bader said to motivate his pilots had little to do with the facts. The Hurricane was outdated by 1940 as a front line day fighter against the LW.
THANK YOU!!
The German 109 pilots were cool characters in this film.
Perfectly played by the actors , you can feel the premature confidence they must have had during the early stages of the battle
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..and in real life.
Cooler than the other side of the pillow.
Pity they weren't flying Bf 109s...
Best aviation movie ever
Spanish air Force planes. The 109 had merlins or Allison's at the time of this movie Germans had the inverted diamler 601 v12 at the time of this battle. heinkel also had merlins. The original heinkel had an inverted jumo v12 at the time of the battle. You can tell by where the exhaust ports exit the cowl. The inverted are at the bottom.
The 109 where Hispano Aviacion HA 1112 planes built in spain. In fact were 109's with hispano suiza engines and later models with RR merlin. Also the heinkels were built in spain under lisence, first models with jumo engines and later with merlin engine
Such well spoken German. Incredibly easy to understand.
In the film, it stated Adlertag as
10th August 1940.
It was of course,
Tuesday 13th August 1940.
On this very day, 79 years ago.
Well eagle day was between Tuesday 13th August 1940 to Saturday August 15th 1940
it’s now 81 yesrs.
Adlertag was originally scheduled for 10th of August but was pushed back to the 13th because of bad weather. On the 13th there was another grotty forecast so another postponement was ordered until the 15th. however the recall order didn't reach half the bomber formations (including Fink's) that were in the air, so they actually did bomb several British airfields and installations, and were hammered by the RAF as their escorts had already heard and obeyed the recall order.
CGで無い本物は映像に迫力がある 👍
1969年の夏はイギリスで濡れていました。撮影は両国で行われました。
I love this movie but I have just realized that at 0:21 when the general is pointing at the map of England he is pointing to the wrong place when he says, "Hawkinge." It's much closer to Dover (which he does point at correctly), he's actually pointing at Hastings. The big red line pointing from the bottom right to the coastline is pointing at Folkestone which is very close to Hawkinge.
Maybe it’s a deliberate error showing how the Luftwaffe’s knowledge of southern English place names was a bit hazy? Or maybe not!
@@Jimdixon1953 I think it's more likely the 2nd unit director was in a hurry to get the insert shot. It's probable it was noticed at some point prior to release but no one freeze framed movies in those days so they let it through.
@@SPQRTempus Also when he pinpoints "Manston, Biggin, Kenley" he is also in completely the wrong place. But I can forgive this film SO much because its one of the greatest war films made.
The ironies of the ironies. The Henkels (Spanish made from CASA ) have RR Merlin engines
and today the two largest shareholders in Rolls Royce are BMW and Siemens - irony on irony.
@@davidm3118 In the automotive division. The aerospace division that makes airplane engines is a different company. Because they make military stuff they had to break into different parts.
So do the Spanish-built Me109's in this movie as well!
@@davidm3118 The German car industry would be nothing without British investment in there vehicles
The real irony is that the very first prototype Bf 109 V1 flew with a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12, as the planned fitment of a Jumo 210 was not available. And the very last Bf 109s to see service (as used in the film) were the Spanish built HA-1112-M1L with the Rolls-Royce Merlin fitted.
I love this film.
I would like to see more of these big events from the other side though. The RAF knew how close things were coming, but the German bomber crews didn't. All they knew was half or more of them never returned from each sortie. I can't imagine how that would play on the mind.
Read about Operation Bodenplatte on New Year's Day 1945. It was the Luftwaffe's effort to "cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries during the Second World War. The goal of Bodenplatte was to gain air superiority during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge". The pilots knew it was a suicide mission, so they got rip roaring drunk on New Year's Eve. Most were hungover, or still drunk, when they took off for the mission. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bodenplatte?wprov=sfla1
@@dartmaster501 Many thanks for that; I will look it up.
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この映画を観るたびにスペイン製とは言え本物は本物,良く集めたと感心する
Made in Spain my arse
At 2:02 an Unimog :-) Was designed shortly after the war ... seem that nobody cared in 1969 :-)
As good this film was ,if I recall ,there are inaccuracies - though not shown in this particular clip ,the hairstyles of the women back at the bases in England are distinctly more 1960's rather than 1940's.
And the Me 109s are Spanish version with Hispano Suiza engines istead of DB605
Divendus, those Me 109s didn't have Hispano-Suizas, they had Rolls-Royce Merlin 500s. However, earlier spanish Hispano Buchóns had Hispano-Suiza engines. Germany delivered Bf109G fuselages to Spain during war years. Lack of Daimler-Benz DB605s forged spanish engineers to find new engines.
Merlin-engined Buchóns (as spanish name to licence-built 109s) was the last version in use. They were in fighter-bomber roles in Spanish Air Force, armed wit under-wing rockets.
@@divendus5766 Well the overall general public won't know that will they?, just the aviation buffs.
Sack the hairdressers.
We're are the sub titles so we understand what they are saying
When the Germans say 'Totalär Vernichtung' in a movie, you know it's got something
Totalische Vernichtung?
My favorite movie
Great scene and mixed with stirring music. Oh if you pause at 01:22 you would notice the Spanish Air Force roundel being painted over.
Got to hand it to the Spanish Air Force having the closest things possible to make the 1969 movie a reality.
The film wouldn't have happened without them. There was just nothing else available to play the part.
I believe in earlier in the 1960's there was a German film called "Star of Africa" about Luftwaffe ace Hans-Joachim Marseilles. The Germans went to Spain to film it and used the Spanish Air Force "Messerschmitts."
It was Adolf Galland who suggested to the British film-makers they do the same for "Battle of Britain."
Good Catch!
0:49 sitting far right - a young Bing Crosby 'Dreaming of a firefight Christmas.'
Those World War 2 planes actually saw more 🐕 fights and combat than today jet fighters. They are the best true heroes not today?
Wouldnt that be because there was a world war happening?
@@vanpallandt5799 No mention the 5+yrs that WW2 lasted.
Those WW2 Pilots are legends Than the modern pilots, The WW2 Pilots can fight without missile With legendary Aircraft meanwhile The modern pilots can't Fight without missile With Gay plane I think if WW2 plane Vs Modern plane the WW2 plane while win fighting without missile
I hear a bit of Hans Zimmer's Gladiator soundtrack in this....or Hans heard something to uses in his Gladiator Soundtrack.
There were two Eagle Days. The first was 13 August.
Well, the Luftwaffe did not know where Manston is on the briefing map...mind you they must have got lost, as they heavily bombed it on Eagle Day.💥
The scene where the three heinkels take off with one side slipping to the left? The next shot is exactly the same one but turned into a mirror image.🙄
Ha ha! I thought so too. I thought even the third trio might be the same, then somehow spliced together with the first two to make it seen nine
The uniforms would fit in today!
Does anyone know a English version please? Of course just being from The Battle Of Britain makes this scene cool in it's own right.
This is actually a British film made in 1969 called "The Battle of Britain". They filmed the Luftwaffe scenes in German with subtitles which are missing from this clip.
the luftwaffe are the best 😊
+Richard Joganah It's a pity they had such an incompetent leader like Goering.
If anybody ever had unholy causes it was the British...
Well lt.col Jan Zumbach could disagree with you !
Is that why Britain ended up being defeated?
Oh wait.....
Oh, I thought the RAF kept air superiority, and prevented Adolfs invasion of our homeland! Gosh, must have read the wrong books! Or, most likely you're deluded! Anna Withers, 😂😂
At 2:48
R.A.F. women enter the chat:
There are this many (250 plus) assembling over these airfields in France. Scramble 3 squadrons of Hurries.
Scramble 1 squadron of Spitfires to protect the Hurries.
Actually Hurri pilot responce:
"250 plus? Where do we start?"
R.A.F. women:
Enemy heading this direction, from this direction. Ascend to Angels 16 (16000 feet). Desend out of the sun from Angels 16 to Angels 14 (for a counter attack). You will see enemy formation ahead.
those are not BF-109 at the end, what are they? Spits? i cant tell
+pan tau They are Hispano Buchons, ie the Spanish made versions of the Me 109.
@@michaelclentworth1283 Correct Type is "HA-1112-M1L Buchón"
They were powered by Rolls Royce Merlin engines due to the lack of DB605s available after the War. Apart from that they were pretty much identical to the Me109G. For the film they had some cosmetic 'back-dating' to make them look more like BF109Es.
looks a little bit like P-40E
Even by the Battle of Britain the German HE-111 bomber was approaching obsolescence.
True. It soldiered on for far longer than it needed to. BUt it's replacement,l the Ju88 was never built in enough numbers to fully replace it, even by 1945. Milch, Goering's No.2, had a personal vendetta against Junkers (I think one of his friends had died in a Junkers plane crash) and made sure that their company never got the best or enough contracts.
Most aircraft were approaching obsolescence by the time they got to the airfields from the factories. There were always people working on improvements or counter measures, even as what was thought to be ‘latest’ came out with big expectations. However, the war was mostly carried on the backs of known, if dated, workhorses
@@riazhassan6570 Fortunately for the Allies, a few, like the Spitfire, could be continuously updated and improved very quickly over the course of the conflict. For others, like the Me109, they were over-developed and forced to soldier for far longer than they should have. And for a few like the Me262, a novel plane with unproven futuristic concepts and design, which made every other fighter in the world obsolete over night (at least until the rival developers caught up), were criminally overlooked at the highest level until it was far too late
@@xj900uk Nothing happens as it should during war. No weapon or system is perfect. This one is marvellous for this and that/ that one for that and this, etc. Compromise, compromise. One makes do, or gets flattened, with whatever one can lay one’s hands on. By installing bigger engines or tweaking the basic airframe, an obsolescent design could be kept competitive for a while. The 109, like the Spitfire, like other pre-war machines, went through several desperate upgrades. Considered to be the old uncle compared to some shiny new machines, it ended up with the biggest kill tally of all by far, on all sides
@@riazhassan6570 It's also true that the Me109 was built in more numbers than any other fighter aircraft, second only to the Il-2 in terms of most airframes ever. However, most military historians and aviation experts agree that development of it went on for far too long and in too many sub-types, and instead the Nazis shuold have put their faith, money and time into other types like the Me 262 jet fighter, or the Ta 152 advanced development of the Fw190, with its superlative water-methanol boosted engine which gave it a performance better than the Packard Merlin Mustang. But barely a dozen saw service by the end of hostlities even though it was available at the end of '44...
Greatest air battle of ww2
Way better without the subtitles
A6M2タイプ11を護衛に付けてあげたかったね。もう少しHe111を守れたんじゃないかな？
Daga Daga Daga
Dodge Weapon Carrier at 0.35
All Spanish planes...both ME 109 and Heinkels...
Мне одному кажется что в конце взлетают не Мессершмитты а перекрашенные Спитфаеры?
Spanish built Bf 109 copies with british engines. (Merlins, same as Spitfire)
Best film I seen should make a new 1 but same way with jets this time alfa jets as fighter in Germany and the tornadoes ad bomber .the the bae hawk's as British fighter jets in them .be mint .and with same back ground 8n the film 🎥
THE GERMAN FIGHTER PILOTS At that time !!!Were the BEST in the WORLD 😮As they Had REAL COMBAT experience 😨BUT that Has a BUFFOON !!!I IN CHARGE GORING 😕g
And superior experience has a shelf life. If you are losing pilots faster than you can replace them, while your enemy is training new pilots faster than they are losing them... eventually those enemy pilots gain experience and narrow the gap. By the later stages of the Battle, Luftwaffe fighter squadrons were at about 2/3 strength flying multiple sorties a day while the RAF worried when they started to lose pilots and planes faster than they were replacing them (i.e. dropping below 100% strength). The reaction among front line Luftwaffe personnel (not Goering) was natural: look up "Channel Sickness".
Similar experience in the Pacific. The Zero wasn't that much (if any) better overall than American fighters like the P-40 and F4F, but the experience developed flying in China gave the Japanese pilots an early advantage. It didn't take very long for the Americans to adjust their tactics and start developing experience themselves. The loss rates in combat between Zeros and F4Fs became about 50:50 overall with the advantage going to whoever started the battle at a higher altitude. When the US Army and Navy moved on to the next generation of fighter planes, the Zero was overmatched and it turned into a massacre (or Turkey Shoot).
But as said losses cut into that
There was also a serious problem with the servicibility of the Me109's. In theory this should not have been a problem, but Udet was in charge of Fighter production at the time, and his Ministry was chaotic and disorganised to say the least - thus there was a genuine shortage both of new Me109's at the time, and spare parts were virtually non-existent, German mechanics would often cannabilise one plane to keep others in the air, but look at Galland's war diaries of the time period - his JG should on paper have comprised 75 machines + a few extras for the officers, but he was hard pressed to get forty in the air for a days combat even in the middle of August, even though he had a godo surplus of pilots.
@@xj900uk The production of new planes and maintaining a supply of spare parts are interconnected. Replacement aircraft can offset the need for spare parts as you can cannibalize spare aircraft to keep squadrons operating. But when you don't have a reserve of either...
You hear a lot of talk about German efficiency and technology. It was good, certainly, but sometimes one wonders if it is not overplayed. There is a tendency to over-hype an opponent’s numbers and capabilities. This is useful in either victory or defeat. If you won, it was against a huge, efficient, well-armed enemy, a glorious achievement. If you lost, it was an inspiring, glorious resistance by a few tenacious heroes against impossible odds.
Herrman,kommen sie auch mit uns?Nein,bleibe ich zu Hause.
Ein deutsch.🙄
What a nation shame they are gone
❤❤R A F Park and Dowding.
I love the Spanish ms109's....🤦♂️🇬🇧💪🦬
Great Film for its time with nit picking bits but Casa111's still look great , the 60's plastic Doorbell at Shaw's front door is a cringer ..
The whole glass door in the cottage is a bit anacronistic.
Das sind spanische Lizensbauten von der 109 und der Heinkel 111
Were lucky Germany and Japan lost the war
War is a terrible thing when is the time when we do finaly learn ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~*** ***~~~***
The current situation in Ukraine suggests the Human race has learned nothing.
Made in germany finished in England.
Die deutschen Piloten waren die besten aller Zeiten
What WAS at stake.
All these young men, sent on a mission which they thought they will win, but regrettably, didn't.
@waimunyan7007 It's no surprise they thought they'd succeed, victory in Poland and France had left them with the belief that the German air force was invincible.
Very inaccurate german planes, because of the Merlin engines that replaced the original DB or Jumo engines. All of inline german engines were inverted.
At least they were airworthy Spanish-built copies of He 111's (17 flyable) and Me 109's (11 flyable) rather than CGI which is all the rage these days! At the time there were no airworthy German planes of that period which could be used in the movie, and even now years later I know of only one Me109E with the original Daimler Benz fuel-injection engine that can get in to the air.
As a sad after note, nearly all the Spanish built German planes in this movie were scrapped. Ironically, at least three of the Casa 2's were sold to Argentina, where they saw service in the Falklands conflict as military transports - the last time the He 111 or any of its copies saw action. The last airworthy (Spanish built) He 111 was owned by the Commemorative Airforce crashed back in 2003 and was never rebuilt.
GLORIOUS!!! Let Operation Sealion commence!!!!!!
Elaborate? English please?
@@Alaninbroomfield let the invasion of the United Kingdom begin
@@karlpolsterer7687 About 40 or so years ago during lunchtime at work with some colleagues I replayed Operation Sealion using the board game of that title. Not totally to our surprise Sealion was a total flop. German aircraft were useless that early in the war against enemy warships (check the air attacks during the Norwegian campaign). The invasion "fleet" was tugs towing river barges, escorted by the remnants of the Kriegsmarine after the losses inflicted during the invasions of Poland and (particularly) Norway, which "fleet" was swamped and sunk by destroyers going past at high speed. Any troops that did make it across were quickly rounded up by "Dad's Army" (many were WW1 veterans!) and the regular army, reinforced by Canadian troops! The only time Sealion succeeded was when the conditions were changed drastically to enable an invasion. No RAF, no RN and no army!
ps the "smiley" is not deliberate.
@@Wombat1916 Yes. Experts from Britain and Germany wargamed this out at Sandhurst in the 1970s. Among the umpires for how the aerial part of the battle would go was Adolph Galland (as I said, experts). The result was a defeat for the Germans within one week of landing in Britain with most German soldiers not making it back to France.
Those who imagine that Sealion might work should consider the battle where the two operational German battleships went up against a single Royal Navy battlecruiser and drew on their superior speed to run away after feeling what 15" guns can do.
They should then imagine the Kriegsmarine sending out its entire force of about 8 destroyers to escort the flotilla of slow moving barges in efforts to reinforce and resupply the invasion force... coming under attack from the 67 destroyers the Royal Navy held back for the defense of Britain. Or what torpedo boats and motor gunboats would be doing to those barges as well. And if those two German battleships (Scharnhorst and Gniesenau) were sent in to protect the flotilla, they would face the might of multiple Royal Navy battleships.
The German navy had to be careful not to lose ships because while there was limited shipbuilding capacity in Germany there was not the budget to finance the building of new capital ships once war began. Meanwhile the Royal Navy operated on the principle: Attack! Attack! Attack! The ships were there to be used, and expended if necessary to achieve objectives, because they could always build more.
Spoilt by the Swiss ME109´s , otherwise great.
Try Spanish HA-1112s.
The Master Race
Judging on the basis of your account photo Zein, they wouldn't have thought much of you. Keep that in mind.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 , tell me more brother. Do you also believe in hollow earth by any chance?
@@sztypettto I beleive in neither the benevolence of regimes that systematically murdered millions (either nazism OR communism) or strangely for that matter "hollow earth" theories.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 , it's past bed time for you. Monday's coming up for you tomorrow.
@@sztypettto I'm retired sonny.... take ALL the time you need to convince me of the goodness of your nazi idols.
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