My grandfather was 17 when he has to join the Luftwaffe technical corps in Braunschweig to become a technician for the Me 109 and 110. He was on the war from 1940 on until 1945..he died a few years ago at the age of 94. I was a few jears earlier in an technical museum where these planes were... He still knew every part of it how it works etc. It was fascinating... I can tell you a very nice story, when the war was over he was in a train to get shipped to the US as a pow.. The train stopped in Mannheim where a big railway-cross was. However, my grandfather told the guards in the train (as a Luftwaffe technician he was probably not seen as a very bad guy) well, he told the Americans when the train stood there in Mannheim that he lived in Heidelberg 10 km away and there is is home and family... The Americans opened the door and said "good luck, buddy" and let him out and he walked home..as I live in Heidelberg too, he showed me the exact track and place where the train was waiting and where he was let out... He loved the Americans his whole life and when went many times to the german - American friendship market every year in Heidelberg ate Burgers thrown American style footballs etc... OK, that was the story of my grandpa Robert... I miss him
Love to see these production films. It's always interesting to see how things were built manually, before the age of computers. Just amazed by the amount of wires running through the Ju88, seen at 0:18. That looks like an electricians nightmare. Incredible skill levels these guys had, putting so many together at once. These appear to be Ju88 A-4's (twin rear facing MG's at the back of the cockpit), rolling out of the factory. The aircraft seen from 1:49 onwards are from Kampfgeschwader 51. Awesome footage as always!
@@boxhawk5070 The 88 was a fighter, night fighter, interceptor, ground attack, bomber, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, and even a flying bomb. Just a bit more versatile than the Havoc
@@Flippernuts-hi1bp out of necessity to keep the production lines running without interruption for refitting them to a different design, mostly. Jack of all trades, master of none.
@Flippernuts-hi1bp Why would the Allies need one plane to do all of those things when they had specialized planes for the job? Why would they have the A-26 do night fighting when there was the P-61 Black Widow which was specifically designed for the role? Making medium and heavy bombers capable of (shallow) dive bombing which was rarely used in practice greatly compromised German designs and was the direct cause of the failure of the HE-177 heavy bomber. The A-26 had a career that spanned into the 90s which also included counter insurgency, aerial mapping, and aerial firefighting.
@@calvinnickel9995 The P 61 was a late war design that soldiered on into Korea. The only dive bomber the US really had was the Dauntless, which aside from the Battle of Midway where Zeroes could not scramble in time and get enough altitude to intercept them, was just as vulnerable as the Stuka. The Allies had no real night fighter. The P 38 night fighter was a crude concept. They Americans certainly had no effective torpedo plane in Europe.
And they fought happily together. It was noticed that the fact that the crew was all kept close together instead of isolated along the plane increased their moral and boldness accordingly. (and their vulnerability too) If only, no one wanted to chicken out in front of the others... 😃
If you compare this operation to film of B-24 production line at Willow Run, it's like a joke. Willow Run brings each plane to the workers, many of whom are women. (Ju-88 video is ALL male, most of whom could have gone to the front to fight instead of passing wiring harnesses through tight spots.) Willow Run used the world's largest jig to pump out airplane wings like they were Model T body panels. Willow Run was built for speed and precision assembly of mass produced parts. There are no grinders or lathes for fitting parts in Willow Run films. Also, in the Ju-88 film, we see the workers line up, then approach the aircraft. Willow Run ran continuously, no pause of the lines for anything and no bombing attacks to disrupt production. Germany had little chance after Hitler declared war on the USA.
I own both at 1/72 Scale and yes, the JU-88 is not that big and the Stuka is quite large for a single engine aircraft. The Bf-109 is very small too. A P-47 is huge!
@@jameslongstreet9259 That's the only one that I'm aware. Her crew defected to Britain, made a perfect landing and to make things worse for the Germans the aircraft was equipped with a SN-2 Airborne Radar, the first one the Allies were able to examine.
Probably they thought they were doing great because they had no idea of the American and Soviet output. If they did, they'd probably shrug and go home. 😐
At beginning of invadion of USSR German Industrybwas ordered to focus on existing tech.... a horrible miscalculation... they could have had all jet powered aircraft a couple years earlier and totally changed the course of the war...
Not sure if the jets would have won the war even when the Germans would have had enough ressources to produce them in big numbers. I more over think they would have stretched the war in lenght at most since Uncle Sam and Ivan had basically unlimited ressources unlike Hans I could be wrong though, I'm not educated in the topic ressources or anything related to that, I think, or maybe I haven't understood the comment due my lack of English knowledge.
Нет это бы не повлияло ни как, разведка Германии врала гитлеру про военный потенциал СССР. Разведка Германии да же не представляла промышленный потенциал СССР
a few months later and germany, Austria and other places would gotten NUKED.. so, nope.. you are wrong. They couldnt win, even with that propulsion engines. Its a sheer numbers game.. with this advantages in EVERYTHING, you cant survive.. not talking about winning.
The US and UK didn't switch to jets because they were too short-ranged and more expensive, and they didn't need to. If Germany had produced jets sooner, so would the US and UK.
@@Nitroat-xo4tj Germans had radar and air defense. Nukes are only good against civilians of an already defeated enemy. And you better not have any troops or citizens anywhere near where you do it or their bodies will be paraded through the streets. If you think Americans are hated now, that would have only multiplied it.
A myth. There are lots af reasons why it wasn't practical for the Germans to have a heavy bomber fleet. In any case, strategic bombing has limitations; intelligence (which the Wehrmacht was notoriously bad at) and logistics. One type of weapon doesn't win a war either. It was far more complicated than that
@@DannyBoy777777 I believe the Luftwaffe lost the war of their human failure like Goring and Udets due of mismanagement. They've got no strategic ability like Walter Wever. The end for the Luftwaffe chances for winning a strategic air war.
The Ural Bomber project was DOA. The B-29 could barely fly a mission from Kyiv to the Urals and back with any measurable payload. Soviets would have futher dispersed production and added lots more AA guns and fighter interceptors. Tell me, German strategic bombing advocates, what do you cut from German war industry to allow the Ural Bomber to go through? The B-29 project was the single most expensive American military expense of the war, 1.5X the Manhattan Project.
@@amerigo88 The early campaign of Barbarrossa has great element suprise achieve to the Soviet wiping out the most Soviet airfields in only 2 weeks. Like the Japanese did on Pearl Harbor the US completely offguard. Deploying Limited 4 engine bomber fleets toward the Soviet war resources at far range in the rear could have major significant blow to their war economy. There will be no time to transfer to the Ural mountain
My grandfather was 17 when he has to join the Luftwaffe technical corps in Braunschweig to become a technician for the Me 109 and 110. He was on the war from 1940 on until 1945..he died a few years ago at the age of 94. I was a few jears earlier in an technical museum where these planes were... He still knew every part of it how it works etc. It was fascinating...
I can tell you a very nice story, when the war was over he was in a train to get shipped to the US as a pow.. The train stopped in Mannheim where a big railway-cross was. However, my grandfather told the guards in the train (as a Luftwaffe technician he was probably not seen as a very bad guy) well, he told the Americans when the train stood there in Mannheim that he lived in Heidelberg 10 km away and there is is home and family... The Americans opened the door and said "good luck, buddy" and let him out and he walked home..as I live in Heidelberg too, he showed me the exact track and place where the train was waiting and where he was let out... He loved the Americans his whole life and when went many times to the german - American friendship market every year in Heidelberg ate Burgers thrown American style footballs etc... OK, that was the story of my grandpa Robert... I miss him
bro apne grandpa te proud kar jis ne apne desh laye kina kuch kita
0:17 What your grandparents see when you switch from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2:
Love to see these production films. It's always interesting to see how things were built manually, before the age of computers. Just amazed by the amount of wires running through the Ju88, seen at 0:18. That looks like an electricians nightmare. Incredible skill levels these guys had, putting so many together at once. These appear to be Ju88 A-4's (twin rear facing MG's at the back of the cockpit), rolling out of the factory. The aircraft seen from 1:49 onwards are from Kampfgeschwader 51. Awesome footage as always!
They're still made manually. Computers do not make planes.
Mind boggling the amount of work involved… and even more so, in today’s modern aircraft. 👍🏻
The "Jack of all trades". One of the best planes of the war
A great plane in 1940, but by late in the war planes like the Douglas A-26 could fly further, faster, carry more bombs and armament.
@@boxhawk5070 The 88 was a fighter, night fighter, interceptor, ground attack, bomber, dive bomber, torpedo bomber, and even a flying bomb. Just a bit more versatile than the Havoc
@@Flippernuts-hi1bp out of necessity to keep the production lines running without interruption for refitting them to a different design, mostly. Jack of all trades, master of none.
@Flippernuts-hi1bp
Why would the Allies need one plane to do all of those things when they had specialized planes for the job? Why would they have the A-26 do night fighting when there was the P-61 Black Widow which was specifically designed for the role? Making medium and heavy bombers capable of (shallow) dive bombing which was rarely used in practice greatly compromised German designs and was the direct cause of the failure of the HE-177 heavy bomber.
The A-26 had a career that spanned into the 90s which also included counter insurgency, aerial mapping, and aerial firefighting.
@@calvinnickel9995 The P 61 was a late war design that soldiered on into Korea. The only dive bomber the US really had was the Dauntless, which aside from the Battle of Midway where Zeroes could not scramble in time and get enough altitude to intercept them, was just as vulnerable as the Stuka. The Allies had no real night fighter. The P 38 night fighter was a crude concept. They Americans certainly had no effective torpedo plane in Europe.
I've never really noticed how small and cramped the fuselage and the cockpit was.
It's amazing that four people fitted and fought in there...
And they fought happily together. It was noticed that the fact that the crew was all kept close together instead of isolated along the plane increased their moral and boldness accordingly. (and their vulnerability too)
If only, no one wanted to chicken out in front of the others... 😃
Brilliant footage of brand new Ju 88 A-5. 1:51: Very early Ju 88 A-1 of 1./KG 51 Edelweiß.
Имея столько самолетов, не бомбить заводы британии было фатальной ошибкой, как и война на два фронта одновременно.
Да у них с мелкобританией был договорнячок.
Hindsight is 20/20 👈🏻
Apesar dessas questões todas postas nos comentários é impressionante ver essa indústria toda funcionando. Foi um desperdício monstruoso a guerra .
another gem .thankyou
Thx for sharing without the pathetic sound. Hugo Junkers was pacifist and was 1933 expropriated.
The ventral gunner position shown at 1:00 looks small and uncomfortable.
yes hard to get out of also if you had to bail out
If you compare this operation to film of B-24 production line at Willow Run, it's like a joke. Willow Run brings each plane to the workers, many of whom are women. (Ju-88 video is ALL male, most of whom could have gone to the front to fight instead of passing wiring harnesses through tight spots.) Willow Run used the world's largest jig to pump out airplane wings like they were Model T body panels. Willow Run was built for speed and precision assembly of mass produced parts. There are no grinders or lathes for fitting parts in Willow Run films. Also, in the Ju-88 film, we see the workers line up, then approach the aircraft. Willow Run ran continuously, no pause of the lines for anything and no bombing attacks to disrupt production.
Germany had little chance after Hitler declared war on the USA.
I guess these forced laborers would rather like to go home in their countries and wouldn't be good soldiers in Wehrmacht.
Německo bylo bez šance po napadení SSSR.Zbabělé západní státy pracovali pro Němce do poslední chvíle,dodávaly materiál i suroviny,
Amazed by the size of the ju88, so small. Wouldn't be surprised to hear it wasn't much bigger than a p47.
I own both at 1/72 Scale and yes, the JU-88 is not that big and the Stuka is quite large for a single engine aircraft. The Bf-109 is very small too. A P-47 is huge!
Thanks for this 👍
Toll, das einem deutsche Technik englisch gequackt erklaert wird.
hw97karbine Me -109 production line ???!!
Ju 88 el avión más producido...servía para todo.
Сколько сил и средств тратят люди , чтобы убивать и грабить !
very good airplane -- fast for its tme
So, this is what the German aluminum export industry looked like over eighty years ago.
Not even one left in flying condition, let alone in a museum 😑
There is at least one in a British Museum, either the RAF or IWM, but it's the Night Fighter version - the G, I believe - with guns in the nose.
@@duartesimoes508 Thats nice, there are some left...
@@jameslongstreet9259 That's the only one that I'm aware. Her crew defected to Britain, made a perfect landing and to make things worse for the Germans the aircraft was equipped with a SN-2 Airborne Radar, the first one the Allies were able to examine.
There is a touch of "Metropolis" to the take at 0:46.
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Probably they thought they were doing great because they had no idea of the American and Soviet output. If they did, they'd probably shrug and go home. 😐
Soviel wunderbare Technik die mit ein paar Salven aus Maschinenwaffen zu Schrott werden,traurig 😢
At beginning of invadion of USSR German Industrybwas ordered to focus on existing tech.... a horrible miscalculation... they could have had all jet powered aircraft a couple years earlier and totally changed the course of the war...
Not sure if the jets would have won the war even when the Germans would have had enough ressources to produce them in big numbers. I more over think they would have stretched the war in lenght at most since Uncle Sam and Ivan had basically unlimited ressources unlike Hans
I could be wrong though, I'm not educated in the topic ressources or anything related to that, I think, or maybe I haven't understood the comment due my lack of English knowledge.
Нет это бы не повлияло ни как, разведка Германии врала гитлеру про военный потенциал СССР. Разведка Германии да же не представляла промышленный потенциал СССР
a few months later and germany, Austria and other places would gotten NUKED.. so, nope.. you are wrong. They couldnt win, even with that propulsion engines. Its a sheer numbers game.. with this advantages in EVERYTHING, you cant survive.. not talking about winning.
The US and UK didn't switch to jets because they were too short-ranged and more expensive, and they didn't need to. If Germany had produced jets sooner, so would the US and UK.
@@Nitroat-xo4tj Germans had radar and air defense. Nukes are only good against civilians of an already defeated enemy. And you better not have any troops or citizens anywhere near where you do it or their bodies will be paraded through the streets.
If you think Americans are hated now, that would have only multiplied it.
Germany could have strategic won against the Soviet if they continue the 4 engine project instead 2 engine bomber fleet
A myth. There are lots af reasons why it wasn't practical for the Germans to have a heavy bomber fleet. In any case, strategic bombing has limitations; intelligence (which the Wehrmacht was notoriously bad at) and logistics. One type of weapon doesn't win a war either. It was far more complicated than that
@@DannyBoy777777 I believe the Luftwaffe lost the war of their human failure like Goring and Udets due of mismanagement. They've got no strategic ability like Walter Wever. The end for the Luftwaffe chances for winning a strategic air war.
Germany did not have the resources to build a 4 motor - or the fuel to fly them.
The Ural Bomber project was DOA. The B-29 could barely fly a mission from Kyiv to the Urals and back with any measurable payload. Soviets would have futher dispersed production and added lots more AA guns and fighter interceptors.
Tell me, German strategic bombing advocates, what do you cut from German war industry to allow the Ural Bomber to go through? The B-29 project was the single most expensive American military expense of the war, 1.5X the Manhattan Project.
@@amerigo88 The early campaign of Barbarrossa has great element suprise achieve to the Soviet wiping out the most Soviet airfields in only 2 weeks. Like the Japanese did on Pearl Harbor the US completely offguard.
Deploying Limited 4 engine bomber fleets toward the Soviet war resources at far range in the rear could have major significant blow to their war economy. There will be no time to transfer to the Ural mountain