My great Aunt's fiancee was a Polish Flight Engineer, he was lost after his 300 Sqdn Lancaster was shot down by the Luftwaffe Ace, Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer (The Ghost of St Trond), in 1944, flying a BF110 Nightfighter. I discovered this after I saw the Tailplane from Schnaufer's plane in the Imperial War Museum in London, with the kill dates from 25-04-44 painted on it. Sent a shiver up my spine!
At ca 01:21 hrs on the night of 24/25 May, Bf-110 night-fighter pilot Karl-Heinz Scherfling (32 kills), a very interesting person (look him up - I kinda have grown to like him) was flying round a pylon, together with Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (122 kills), when he was vectored on to Halifax III LV905 'W' for 'Willie and shot it down at 01:29 hrs moments after he shot down another Halifax who's navigator watched 'Wille' go down. My uncle F/Sgt Lloyd LeBlanc was the crew's MUG with 22 'harrowing' Ops behind him from the hardest campaign of the entire bomber airwar (Have all his very descriptive operational-combat letters home - scared but willing to carry on regardless). All the crew were killed but only two bodies were recovered at the time. In 2005 the bomber was finally recovered (took three directed efforts with increasing Dutch National support succeeding at last) and the human findings reinterred in 2006 along side their companions while materials became part of three different war monuments. Old lives and old ghosts are well worth visiting.It's a life long haunting experience that is well worth while. An excellent lesson in humanity. Scherfling was killed when a British NIght-Fighter took him out, 21 July 1944, while he was trying to land at his airfield, near Moll/Belgium leaving a new wife and young child behind. Back in the mid-'90's while attending a 'Commonwealth Aircrew reunion in Toronto, as I did most of all of that decade 'sniffing vets', I happened on to a young fellow who was bowled over when I happened to mentioned my family connection to Scherfling. He had just returned from recovering Scherfling's Bf110 a week before. Two weeks later, the 'buckle' from Sherfling's paractute (or seat belt?) arrived in the mail - proof ghosts working with fate, will arrange occasional meetings for those they may believe deserve it. Ghosts are friendly. Prove me wrong if you can.
Mention is made of the loss of over 300 Bf 110s in the Battle of Britain. As usual, NO mention is made of the loss of over 500 Bf 109s in the Battle...
@@voldenrudvek9661 Mozzie is one of the Best Planes ever made, Should I be lucky enough to win the Euromillions, I would have a Modernised Mosquito built as my Private Plane, Almost as fast as a Jet and far more Economical.
this video shows mainly combat sequences between german fighters and bombers of the 8th USAAF from the beginning when it was spoken about the Blitzkrieg and battle of Britain.
The upward firing cannon installation was called "Schraege Musik".. Literally "Oblique Musik", Somebody had a musical flair and a dark sense of humour. "Schraege Musik" was an early colloquial term for Jazz. which, compared to Bach and Beethoven, was pretty "oblique".
Tha armament is called. "schräge Musik" is roughly translated as "slant music" not strange...although the german word: schräge can mean strange in this case it doesn't. The two cannons were placed in a slant configuration behind the Cockpit in a 70 degree angel backwards. The Destroyer could fire while be in a blind Spot from the Bomber. The aiming device was on the top of the canopy and they shoot at the engines rather than the belly because of being in danger if the bomb payload explodes. They also used no tracers to prevent the Bomber Crews spotting the Attacker...no criticism, i find your Doc very good with minimal false explanations❤🙌👏🙏
My uncle F.O Edward Joseph Andrews was with the 428 Ghost Squadron R.C.A.F. Aboard Handley Page Halifax EB274 coded NH-A left Middleton St George on the night of August 2nd or 3rd on a bombing mission into Germany but had run into foul weather and had subsequently been shot down by an Me110 night fighter over the Dutch coast and went down into the sea all crew perished and were never recovered they have no known grave.
They did. Initially the Fraiser Nash FN64 turrent was fitted to many bombers, primarily Lancasters, but due to a limited field of view it was difficult to use in the daytime let alone at night. These turrets were removed and replaced by H2S radar sets in many aircraft, those with bulged bomb bay doors couldn't fit the radar. Many crews didn't want the loss of the FN64 from their aircraft so had a single machine gun (0.303 or 0.5 calibre) and retained the extra gunner (there are rumours of a 20mm cannon being used but I can't find an evidence for that). On those aircraft not fitted with the radar the FN64 turrets were refitted once the losses to Schrage Muzik were confirmed, this system didn't use tracer rounds so evidence was scant until one bomber got back after such an attack.
They reason they didn’t is, simply because they didn’t know about it. A British mechanic was the first on the allied side to discover the Schrage musik. It was a captured German mechanic, along with a BF-110G, that described the system and how they were utilized, to the British.
why do you call everyone in Germany at that time a Nazi? This was the Luftwaffe a military branch of the German armedforces. Nazis where a political party . Do you call the Britisch army the Torrey Army or the Labor army ? Really?
This is probably the worst butcering of the german language I have ever heard... There are so many ways for getting it right using the web, that this is appauling. Otherwise quite good video, only a few errors.
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The 110... first model kit I built as a child. Absolutely beautiful aircraft. 👍🏽
My great Aunt's fiancee was a Polish Flight Engineer, he was lost after his 300 Sqdn Lancaster was shot down by the Luftwaffe Ace, Heinz Wolfgang Schnaufer (The Ghost of St Trond), in 1944, flying a BF110 Nightfighter.
I discovered this after I saw the Tailplane from Schnaufer's plane in the Imperial War Museum in London, with the kill dates from 25-04-44 painted on it.
Sent a shiver up my spine!
Sorry for your loss. RIP - from Germany
At ca 01:21 hrs on the night of 24/25 May, Bf-110 night-fighter pilot Karl-Heinz Scherfling (32 kills), a very interesting person (look him up - I kinda have grown to like him) was flying round a pylon, together with Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (122 kills), when he was vectored on to Halifax III LV905 'W' for 'Willie and shot it down at 01:29 hrs moments after he shot down another Halifax who's navigator watched 'Wille' go down.
My uncle F/Sgt Lloyd LeBlanc was the crew's MUG with 22 'harrowing' Ops behind him from the hardest campaign of the entire bomber airwar (Have all his very descriptive operational-combat letters home - scared but willing to carry on regardless). All the crew were killed but only two bodies were recovered at the time. In 2005 the bomber was finally recovered (took three directed efforts with increasing Dutch National support succeeding at last) and the human findings reinterred in 2006 along side their companions while materials became part of three different war monuments.
Old lives and old ghosts are well worth visiting.It's a life long haunting experience that is well worth while. An excellent lesson in humanity.
Scherfling was killed when a British NIght-Fighter took him out, 21 July 1944, while he was trying to land at his airfield, near Moll/Belgium leaving a new wife and young child behind. Back in the mid-'90's while attending a 'Commonwealth Aircrew reunion in Toronto, as I did most of all of that decade 'sniffing vets', I happened on to a young fellow who was bowled over when I happened to mentioned my family connection to Scherfling. He had just returned from recovering Scherfling's Bf110 a week before. Two weeks later, the 'buckle' from Sherfling's paractute (or seat belt?) arrived in the mail - proof ghosts working with fate, will arrange occasional meetings for those they may believe deserve it.
Ghosts are friendly. Prove me wrong if you can.
Thanks for this very interesting insight and no, I will not prove you wrong as you deserve my respect. War is terrible with much suffering.....
Mention is made of the loss of over 300 Bf 110s in the Battle of Britain. As usual, NO mention is made of the loss of over 500 Bf 109s in the Battle...
Don't forget that there were RAF Fighter Command Mossies looking for these Me 110's and others!
A BF110 from Jeager 5 ,Mendig airfield took out my father-in-laws Halifax BB214, this lays in the Lacher see near Andernach.
The model in England was I think from a defector that Dr. Felton made a video about.
Hell yeah the Bf110 is an absolutely awesome aircraft.
Indeed, Not as good as a Beaufighter though ;-)
@@bremnersghost948 Or the mosquito for that matter
@@voldenrudvek9661 Mozzie is one of the Best Planes ever made, Should I be lucky enough to win the Euromillions, I would have a Modernised Mosquito built as my Private Plane, Almost as fast as a Jet and far more Economical.
The Bf-110 was obsolete by the Battle of Britain.
@@johnbuchman4854 But perhaps only in its tactical use ??? . . .
this video shows mainly combat sequences between german fighters and bombers of the 8th USAAF from the beginning when it was spoken about the Blitzkrieg and battle of Britain.
Thank you for an excellent video narrated by a real human instead of a terrible computer voice.
The upward firing cannon installation was called "Schraege Musik".. Literally "Oblique Musik", Somebody had a musical flair and a dark sense of humour. "Schraege Musik" was an early colloquial term for Jazz. which, compared to Bach and Beethoven, was pretty "oblique".
I can't believe they originally wanted just a single engine. That thing would probably have sucked pretty bad compared to the 110!
Tha armament is called. "schräge Musik" is roughly translated as "slant music" not strange...although the german word: schräge can mean strange in this case it doesn't.
The two cannons were placed in a slant configuration behind the Cockpit in a 70 degree angel backwards. The Destroyer could fire while be in a blind Spot from the Bomber.
The aiming device was on the top of the canopy and they shoot at the engines rather than the belly because of being in danger if the bomb payload explodes. They also used no tracers to prevent the Bomber Crews spotting the Attacker...no criticism, i find your Doc very good with minimal false explanations❤🙌👏🙏
No new videos in three months, hope all is well and you upload some more new videos soon!
Working on it! Thank you, Austin! We had some issues, but we have plans to come back again. Hopefully, this month 🙏
My uncle F.O Edward Joseph Andrews was with the 428 Ghost Squadron R.C.A.F. Aboard Handley Page Halifax EB274 coded NH-A left Middleton St George on the night of August 2nd or 3rd on a bombing mission into Germany but had run into foul weather and had subsequently been shot down by an Me110 night fighter over the Dutch coast and went down into the sea all crew perished and were never recovered they have no known grave.
Good stuff
RAF Museum is actually at Colindale near Hendon. Using tube train get off at Colindale
- whatsthat ? Mr. Schmidt..? ...a misunderstanding ! ...🎉
Weird how they didn't do anything about the bombers defensive armament
They did. Initially the Fraiser Nash FN64 turrent was fitted to many bombers, primarily Lancasters, but due to a limited field of view it was difficult to use in the daytime let alone at night. These turrets were removed and replaced by H2S radar sets in many aircraft, those with bulged bomb bay doors couldn't fit the radar. Many crews didn't want the loss of the FN64 from their aircraft so had a single machine gun (0.303 or 0.5 calibre) and retained the extra gunner (there are rumours of a 20mm cannon being used but I can't find an evidence for that). On those aircraft not fitted with the radar the FN64 turrets were refitted once the losses to Schrage Muzik were confirmed, this system didn't use tracer rounds so evidence was scant until one bomber got back after such an attack.
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They still didn't fit downward firing guns of waist guns though
@@oxcart4172 the the FN64 was the belly turret and the adhoc machine guns that replaced it fired downwards.
They reason they didn’t is, simply because they didn’t know about it. A British mechanic was the first on the allied side to discover the Schrage musik. It was a captured German mechanic, along with a BF-110G, that described the system and how they were utilized, to the British.
u should invest in a better translation, lets start wih schräge music
Thanks very much......
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The narrator’s pronunciation (or lack there of - umlauts aren’t silent man!) is unbearable.
That's AI for you!
Hey Narrator do you proof read ?
3:58 17% rose to 7% ?
I have a corgi diecast of this
why do you call everyone in Germany at that time a Nazi? This was the Luftwaffe a military branch of the German armedforces.
Nazis where a political party . Do you call the Britisch army the Torrey Army or the Labor army ?
Really?
Tous nazis ils ont prêté serment à Adolf hitler
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This is probably the worst butcering of the german language I have ever heard... There are so many ways for getting it right using the web, that this is appauling. Otherwise quite good video, only a few errors.
The auto narrator is terrible.
...according to memories of germans pilots Ju-88 was superior to Bf-110 in everything , also in night fight
This is confusing…I gave this thumbs down.
There are a few mistakes aren't there.
I hope he keeps trying, this isn't perfect but is good