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- Listening to some of the most terrifying sounds of WW2, failing at pronunciations and asking questions.
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0.58 City is London. The V1 had a innovative “pulse jet” engine which made a distinctive tone. Those on the ground prayed that the engine did not “cut out “ overhead.
Right, when the engine stopped, it had reached the target area.
Ukraine are slapping a few pulse jet powered drones together today, cheap and any half decent workshop can make them. History repeating itself.
@@ebashford5334 the target was any populated area. A miss was when it came down in a field.
@@goodshipkaraboudjan Nah. It is reversed history. They use the drones against regulary troops to defend their country. And not to attack and terrrorize civilians.
My mum and dad lived through World War 2 and they said for them it was the silence when a V1's engine cut out
I hadn’t considered how that could be equally as terrifying
@@NoProtocol When the V-1 had reached its preprogrammed travel-time, it was forced into a dive. While that was originally meant to be a powered dive, in reality, the forces during the dive stopped the fuel flow and thus the engine - so as long as you heard the engine, you were safe, but if it cut out, it meant the V-1 was about to impact.
The Junkers Ju 87 had sirens on them to make that diving scream sound specifically for psychological warfare so the noise really sticks with people.
Jericho Horns
It mostly stuck with the pilots for being incredibly loud and annoying, so much so that they eventually took them off in the field.
The JU 82 was not as accurate as claimed. However, it was still terrifying and it achieved the goal of causing delay because when they were in the area, everyone stopped and hid, then had to wait a while to make sure they were gone. Delays like this were costly since units might not get where they needed to in time.
They were accurate enough though that they couldn't be disregarded.
Trumpet of Jericho - I believe.
It's the most recognizable sound from ww2 imo
The city is likely to be London, on the receiving end of the V1. It’s when it cuts out, and there’s in fact no sound at all, that you should really be scared, as it means it’s dropping and going to explode.
The German Nebelwerfer rocket launchers were nick-named "moaning minnies", while the Soviet Katyusha launchers were nick-named "Stalins organs". All armies in both world wars had machine guns, but the MG42 was one of the most fearsome, high muzzle velocity and very high rate of fire. There are stories that most of the casualties on Omaha beach were caused by one German armed with an MG42.
The successor to the Katyusha is today's Grad (the BM21 vehicle-mounted, multiple barrel rocket launcher) as seen in both Afghanistan and now Ukraine. The name means 'hail' in Russian.
Btw, when speaking about nicknames... MG-42 was known as Hitler's Buzzsaw. Sometimes as Spandau, for easier communication on the battlefield. And Germans called it Bone Saw.
Also, V-1 rockets were called Buzz Bombs, or sometimes Doodlebugs.
Completely untrue of course, most of the casualties on Omaha were caused by mortars and artillery, as the machine guns were hundreds of yards up the beach, far from the landing craft.
@@damyr Some Brits call it Spandau because of... it has nothing to do with Spandau, so who knows.
You probably mean the German soldier Heinrich Severloh
The soviet Katyusha was called Stalinorgel (Stalin organ) by the Germans. It really had a nasty sound...
My father always told me the most frightening sound for him (during WW2) was silence, because you could hear the V1 coming but when the engine stopped (ran out of fuel ) it was coming down somewhere. Your right tanks are AFV but not all AFV's are tanks .Katyusha [KUH] + [TYOO] + [SHUH] , named after a moaning woman in a song .
Engine didn't actually run out of fuel. Even though British public thought so. It was the distance meter running out and causing the bomb to turn into dive. Negative G force caused the engine not to get fuel (as fuel went to top of the tank) and stall. This was actually fixed before the end of war. So at the end the war the V1 did have engine running all the way to the ground.
also the sound of a fire storm (Dresden) was discribed as extremely horrifying
The German soldiers called them Stalin organs.
Surprised the air raid warning siren wasn't included on the list.
My mum was in the Air Raid Patrol Fire Service during WW2 and during the Blitz their patch, the London Docks, was a prime target for the Luftwaffe so it took a right hammering. Night after night they were in the thick of it and eventually their luck ran out. While on operations they would have impromptu roll calls and shout out their names from their posts to make it known they were accountable. One night their leader didn't respond and when they went looking for him he'd vanished. There wasn't even a shred of clothing. Nothing. He'd been atomised. The bomb blast had evidently hit him but no one else. How the rest of the team survived was a miracle. The relentless stress and then that gave my mum PTSD and it never left her, even sixty years after the war. Whenever she heard an air raid warning siren on the TV it all came back to her. My parents' generation fought WW2 to defend our country from foreign invaders and protect our future generations' freedoms and way of life. Look at our country today. Shame on us for allowing it to happen.
Well, the air raid siren still sounds every first Monday of every month. The exposure kind of took the edge off.
All over the Netherlands, the public warning (air raid) sirens are tested at exactly 12 noon on the first Monday of every month. The sirens sound for 1 minute and 26 seconds without interruption.
The local fire brigade used the same siren well into the 1980s. Used to give my grandad bad flashbacks
German V2 Rocket had no audible warning because it flew faster than the speed of the sound it created. Survivors on the ground heard the sound of its flight through the air some time after it had exploded.
The "Screech" of the JU dive-bomber was literally put there intentionally to scare those under them. They were air-operated "Air Raid" sirens built into the wings/landing-struts of the aircraft, taht were toggled on/off by the pilots.
1) The city you asked, is indeed London. The V1 was wildly inaccurate. They fueled it up so that it would run out of fuel somewhere over London. I know spitfires could catch up to a V1 and they used their wing tips to tip over the rocket. Which would make it crash before it could reach.
2) Yes, machine guns were in WW1 but they were heavy and prone to overheating. The MG42 was by far the best machine gun. It had incredible rate of fire, reliability, and accuracy.
3) The sound the JU-87 makes was because of a siren like device called a Jericho trumpet. It's only use was to scare troops on the ground. A little bit of psychological warfare.
4) How they'd get the footage, simple a camera :p But all kidding aside there were soldiers who had cameras and there were also war correspondents that made the videos.
5) Heavy armored fighting vehicle vs tank. I don't know either but my best guess. Not all tanks were considered "heavily armoured"
Some other sounds that I feel could of been included are radar blips and depth charges. Both of these would be experienced by U-Boat crews. What I find scary about it is that you can't see the enemy, there is no escape. If you're lucky you die instantly. If you're not your U-Boat might sink to the bottom and you gotta sit there and just wait until you die.
1) Engine didn't actually run out of fuel. Even though British public thought so. It was the distance meter running out and causing the bomb to turn into dive. Negative G force caused the engine not to get fuel (as fuel went to top of the tank) and stall. This was actually fixed before the end of war. So at the end the war the V1 did have engine running all the way to the ground.
@@ValdeZ-im3jj Thank you for the correction (I wrote my comment based on memory), so I decided to look up the information. And it did use a odometer. Crafty fellows, the Germans. For anyone else interested I put the wikipedia info here aswell.
--Wikipedia--
The V-1 guidance system used a simple autopilot developed by Askania in Berlin to regulate altitude and airspeed.[15] A pair of gyroscopes-controlled yaw and pitch, while azimuth was maintained by a magnetic compass. Altitude was maintained by a barometric device.[21] Two spherical tanks contained compressed air at 6.2 megapascals (900 psi), that drove the gyros, operated the pneumatic servomotors controlling the rudder and elevator, and pressurized the fuel system.[22][23][19]
The magnetic compass was located near the front of the V1, within a wooden sphere. Shortly before launch, the V1 was suspended inside the Compass Swinging Building (Richthaus). There the compass was corrected for magnetic variance and magnetic deviation.[24][25]
The RLM at first planned to use a radio control system with the V-1 for precision attacks, but the government decided instead to use the missile against London.[26] Some flying bombs were equipped with a basic radio transmitter operating in the range of 340-450 kHz. Once over the channel, the radio would be switched on by the vane counter, and a 120-metre (400 ft) aerial deployed. A coded Morse signal, unique to each V1 site, transmitted the route, and impact zone calculated once the radio stopped transmitting.[27][28]
An odometer driven by a vane anemometer on the nose determined when the target area had been reached, accurate enough for area bombing. Before launch, it was set to count backwards from a value that would reach zero upon arrival at the target in the prevailing wind conditions. As the missile flew, the airflow turned the propeller, and every 30 rotations of the propeller counted down one number on the odometer. This odometer triggered the arming of the warhead after about 60 km (37 mi).[29] When the count reached zero, two detonating bolts were fired. Two spoilers on the elevator were released, the linkage between the elevator and servo was jammed, and a guillotine device cut off the control hoses to the rudder servo, setting the rudder in neutral. These actions put the V-1 into a steep dive.[30][31] While this was originally intended to be a power dive, in practice the dive caused the fuel flow to cease, which stopped the engine. The sudden silence after the buzzing alerted people under the flight path to the impending impact.[12][19][32][33]
Initially, V-1s landed within a circle 31 km (19 mi) in diameter, but by the end of the war, accuracy had been improved to about 11 km (7 mi), which was comparable to the V-2 rocket.[34]
The V-1s were made much less effective than they could have been because most of the Germans spy network in England had been killed or turned. The turned spies were supposed to report on where the V-1s, and V-2s, were landing. Since they were turned, they provided false information so more of the missiles landed off target.
Had the Germans fired on the ports and concentration areas for the D-Day landings instead of London they probably would have had more success. Less chance for the Allies to shoot down the V-1s and they would have been better able themselves to see where they fell.
Kampfpanzer wurden im 2.Weltkrieg noch in Leicht, Mittel und Schwer eingeteilt. Die Amerikaner, Russen, Briten und Deutschen hatten die Einteilung sehr lange. Bsp. Deutschland: Leicht Pz. I und II, Mittel P III/IV/V (Panther) und Schwer VI (Tiger)/ VII (Königstiger) / Russland leicht BT-7 / Mittel T-34/KW1-2/ Schwer IS 1-3 / Amerikaner Leicht M3-Stuart / Mittel M4- Sherman / Schwer M26 - Pershing
In WW1 the French had an awful machine gun that was hated by their forces. It was called the Chauchat. Made from substandard parts, it jammed , backfired, and was called the biggest threat to the French army….by the French.
Only the modified US Chauchat was awful , the French version was simply bad .
check "forgotten weapons " site for a good review
It was not nowhere near as bad as story tells. It was the American 30-06 version that didn't work.
@@XtreeM_FaiL I never understood why the Americans adopted the Chauchat over the Lewis Gun. The Lewis Gun was technically an American design but it was used extensively by the British. I did read somewhere that the 30-06 Lewis guns also had performance issues over the rimmed .303 British guns. I guess they could have just used .303 guns as they had been perfected by the British. But that being said I would presume logistically that would have been a nightmare
@@elliott7531 @C&Rsenal has a great video on the Lewis Gun, including why the Americans didn't adopt it. Partly because one general in the acquisition chain absolutely hated Lewis.
The "silence" of the V-1, the Stuka dive-bomber and the Katyusha are the most terrifying sounds of WW2 imo
When I saw the title of this vid the first thing that came to mind was the doodlebug (v-1 flying bomb) my nan just to tell me about them when I was a kid and they terrified me.
"Better eat ya peas or the doodlebugs gonna getcha!"
A10 warthog today uses sound to bring fear to the enemy
If you hear the Brrrt of a Hog, you were not its target.... its rounds travel faster than the sound from the gun firing makes it down to the earth.
Though soldiers on the receiving end of the Hog nicknamed it the whistlin'-death due to the whistle-sound its twin engines made as it passed.
It's not intentional tho, like in Stukas. It's just how it goes - brrrrrrrrt!
@@damyr not really us uses some kind of sound amplifier for the gun
@@HyPnOsS1933 What? No, it doesn't. It's the GAU-8 natural sound, traveling through the air.
@@damyr don’t want to be rude bud i think a seen a video showing a sound amplifier to enhance the sound for the amazing gun
To be honest why wouldn’t you amplify the sound to scare the enemy for there next choices 😂
Yes, "Sound of Silence" is from the 60s. Good memory. That may have been Simon & Garfunkel's first major hit. It was an acoustic number initially, then remixed in the mid-60s and became a big hit.
....and then some lame heavy metal band dishonored it in 2015.
@@Stogie2112 Disturbed is the band's name, I think. Never heard that one all the way through, and haven't felt the need to.
@@charlesf2804 ….. Yes, the band is Disturbed. Their cover of the song is very popular, but I hate it.
Every single time I hear a V1's engine buzz or a Stuka's Jericho sirens wail in a dive I immediately gets shivers all up and down my spine
Stuka dive bomber scared my mum silly......many times.
Second to last ... "Replay" by tems.. have you ever Heard the sounds a dying star makes... Space sounds absolutely terrify me but i wish i could explore it in its entirety...
My Grandfather was a B-24J Liberator pilot in WII out of Papua New Guinea. I think I remember him talking about bombing oil refineries. He flew over 42 missions. His cousin was also a pilot, but he didn’t make it back home.
5th Bombardment Group (H) 13th A.A.F. Southwest Pacific. 1943-1945
His Grandfather fought in the Civil War.
My grandfather (mums side) was on the ground in Papua, had to control an area and enlist the aid of the local 'fuzzy wuzzys'. An airstrip needed to be created so they told the two tribes that they were going to have a feast & dance so needed the area cleared. Wonder if your grandfather landed there at all! Funny how life works, meanwhile my father was 17 and on the eastern front in the waffen ss. Somehow managed to survive and was released from soviet gulags in '53.
@@fredfinks That’s pretty cool! It is very possible that he flew out of the same airstrip. Lucky your grandfather made it out of the gulag, I bet that is an amazing story. I wish I knew more about his experience in the war, but I was always worried about dredging up painful memories, and he passed away in 2014.
He did bring back two 14” handmade knives with a head carved on the pommel, and I still have his old canteen as well.
I also have my great, great, great grandfather’s journal from The Civil War that was given to me by him. He was a sharpshooter in the “1st Reg’t U.S. sharpshooters Company F, 1st Vermont C.O.” He talks about camping out in a 1000 acre field of wheat which was a part of Fritz Hugh Lee’s plantation, which is the nephew of Robert E. Lee. He was part of McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign (June 1862.)
Interesting fact (I believe), the Ju dive bombers actually had sirens fixed onto them so that they would make that sound once they started their high speed dive. Designed to intimidate enemy ground forces subjected to their close air support attacks with sound!
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Hey yourself. Been watching a lot of WW1, WW2 vids lately. What a coincidence.
As for your question about cameras on site, I do remember a -recent- story _I watched recently_ where the Soviet pulled up to record the US manhandling Iran. They ended up destroying about half of Iran's navy.
(Edit: Unexpected people in unexpected places, wanting to record these events for history and stuff. It be like that)
Nice vid btw. Have a good one.
My grandma lived in London during WW2 and said the sound of the V1 was terrifying because you didn't know when it was going to drop, so if you could hear it and it suddenly went silent you knew it was dropped and had to hope it wasn't near you.
Hey, congrats on getting 100k subs! Well deserved. 🤓
A while back I attended a WW2 reenactment at a Vintage War and Car museum. Before that event, my knowledge of sustained gunfire was limited at best. After 30 minutes of the barrage my head felt like I'd slept in a concrete mixer filled with stones. It was awe-inspiring, as I never associated sounds as being a major part of war.
I believe we now provide hearing protection to our troops. It might not seem like much, and I'm sure there's gripping about being made to wear it by some, but the clarity it confers is noticeable and it's a slight edge I would appreciate.
Crazy thing is that they'd all have been firing blanks too, so it wasn't nearly as loud as the real thing was. How any of them can still hear is amazing.
Interesting video.
as you mentioned the senses that you dont think about, reminded me of my grandmother who is 105 now, but when i was a kid every hot summer day she would shut all the doors and windows, when i asked her why she said she hates the smell of BBQ,, i thought that was very odd and said to my mum why as everyone loves the smell of BBQ and mum told me why and it all became horrifyingly real, my mum said it reminded her of the blitz......that distinct smell of BBQ is the same smell of human bodies burning shes remembered from fire bombing of london.
One of the novels of wwii was combat photography, within every action combat photographers were usually along the way capturing footage, for results, propaganda, and other reasons. If interested in that at all, a good doc on Netflix called 5 came back. Another on max called cold blue, it's more about b17 air crews but all the footage is gun cameras and combat photography.
for music i would recommend "Hell March (Remastered)" from "Frank Klepacki".
"While working on Covert Operations, Frank Klepacki composed Hell March from the idea of "a rock tune to marching boots", finishing the song in one day after inventing the guitar riff.[1] Upon listening, director Brett Sperry insisted this song be used as the signature theme of Command & Conquer: Red Alert.[2]
..it features militaristic samples including marching, industrial sounds, and a commander shouting. The commander's shout was a sampled voice Klepacki discovered and found appropriate for the track."
My Granddad used to tell me stories about the war and one of them was about the V1. He said one night, in Belgium, he and some of his buddies got some beers and sat on the roof of a building and watched/listened to V1’s going overhead on their way to England.
Youre pronunciation was way better than expected... 😉
MG42 had a high cyclical rate something like 1200 round a minute. Could go through a hundred round belt of 30 cal in a few seconds. You couldn't hear individual bullets just a ripping sound like fabric being torn. Most other MG of the age ran at 400-800 round a minute and had a steady beat.
they still use these today as far as I know but they nerfed the fire rate for longer durability because these things just melted away
@@Ac3p3rgAA the Royal Danish Army finally replaced the m/62 (Danish designation for the German MG 42/59) with the American M60E6 as the standard light machine gun in 2015, though the m/62 remains mounted on many vehicles.
@@Ac3p3rgAAYou could say that the basic model in the German army is an MG42. But the rate of fire has been reduced and the barrel is turned differently. There are more modern variations such as the MG 4 and MG 5 but the basic structure is that of the MG42.
when i was young (from berlin) the allies had a yearly panzerparade. i heard them when they were hours away (loved it tho)
I played alot of a game called company of heroes.
The sound design of that game series is near flawless.
You get familiar with the Katucha and the Stuka and you get a TINY glimpse of the fear they can conjure.
I do no envy the people born in that era and who had to suffer it.
I've been shot at while being an EMT and it was terryfing. Can't imagine what both civilians and military must have endured during ww2.
The V1 buzzbombs had such an ominous sound.
Heavy armored vehicles I would assume, are anything over 45 tons like the Tiger, Panther, Pershing, just to name a few.
A couple of war related songs, P J Harvey : Words That Maketh Murder
Chelsea Wolfe : Static Hum
two terrific artists, great lyricists
agreed
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake. An album written about war that moved me to tears, incredibly moving lyrics.
My mum was an auxiliary nurse on the outskirts of London and she and her friends used to watch the RAF trying to shoot down the V1 bombs
The Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham is one of those books that transforms your understanding of a subject that you thought you knew pretty well.
The scariest sound of an air raid is not just the sound of the bombs, in fact, quite often it was the sound of the siren that sounded BEFORE the air raid. It was the sound that something inevitably bad was about to happen.
The scary part of the V1 was when the engine stopped. That was when it was only a few seconds from hitting it's target.
Also, the Ju 87 Stuka dive siren (developed purely as a psychological warfare tactic) made my hair stand on end.
Any artillery you watch going off from behind or beside is not a scary sound. The actual scary sound is the whistle of rounds going past or about to land.
I see someone else has already mentioned the intentional use of sirens on the dive bomber. A more modern example of sounds affecting people might be areas under surveillance by armed drones. In one theater they flew high enough not to be seen, but low enough that the distant lawnmower drone became almost omnipresent in the soundscape. Stats showed a significant increase in prescribed anti-depressant and anti-anxiety medications to the locals living there. Chronic reminders of danger can have health impacts; extended and elevated stress hormones swimming in the blood stream. Potential for psychological impacts too. Being in a particular state of mind too long and too often eventually create mental habits.
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Without context the sounds are very terrifying. I found the one you said was most terrifying kind of comforting. But knowing what the sound means and what's to come is absolutely terrifying. Don't know why exactly but today's vid made me think of the song Flying Teapot by Emily Bindiger it's from the Cowboy Bebop Anime.
About the tank question.
All tanks are armored fighting vehicles (AFVs). But not all AFVs are tanks. AFV is a broader term that encompasses the different types of tanks from light to super heavy tanks, armored personnel carriers (APCs), infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), assault guns, armored cars, etc. I think self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SPAAGs) and self-propelled guns (SPGs) could be also considered under the term AFV too, I could be wrong though.
Heavy IFVs are troop carriers with lighter auto-cannon(s) or heavy machine gun(s). They're used to take troops to the front line whilst providing heavy (often devastating) suppressing fire.
"Heavy" AFV as the German's so wonderfully showed us can mean a mobile armored mortar gun, to MBT, to support carriers and so on. Tanks have various subclasses and types in WWII; Infantry tanks (basically a light tank that can directly accompany infantry groups and often used in city block combat or closer quarters as their main guns couldn't be too large for the chassis), cruiser tanks (basically a light-medium tank designed as a flanker. high mobility, lighter armor, and typically fashioned with a smaller to medium main gun), flame tanks (self explanitory), Tank Destroyers (often slow, large, box shaped, with heavy armor values on the front side mainly the upper glassis and "cheeks" of the tank, featuring very large main guns often fixed to the forward position with a small cone of targeting, these were inteded to be back line long range high damage ordinance delivery systems), and of course MBTs like the Tiger II and Sherman M4A3E2 variant. WWII war vehicle design is a fascinating rabbit whole to dive into especially in regards to all types; ground, air, and naval
The"Sound of silence" cover version by the band "Disturbed" is definitely worth checking out.
If you need a recommendation for a war related song check out "Jinjer" and their song "Home Back" the original music video. They are a metal band from Ukraine and had to leave their home town after the start of the invasion in 2014. The drums in that song always remind me of gun fire and the vocal abilities of the lead singer are just insane….
6:50 I would recommend the acoustic version.
I would recommend Armaments and War Production Minister Albert Speer's published memoirs/journal titled "Inside the Third Reich". It offers a rare glimpse into the perspective of high ranking Party officials that I haven't seen anywhere else.
My great grandfather used a katyusha during the war. i highly recommend listening to the song katyusha also. its very beautiful
If you want to read some great and very factual books on WWII I highly recommend 3 by Cornelius Ryan, "The Longest Day", "A Bridge to Far", and "The Last Battle". The first two are also incredible movies. He wrote these close enough after the war that he could question and interview the participants in person. Also they tell the stories from not only the soldiers perspectives but from civilians caught up in the battles. Currently I am reading "The First and the Last" which I find fascinating.
The "scream" of the Ju 87 dive bomber came from a siren device, called a "Jericho Trumpet", attached to the landing gear. The pilots hated it, because it could not be turned off, and they sounded while in level flight as well as in a dive.
As soon as they showed the nebwerfer I knew they would have to have the katyusha! The V1 (Vengeance weapon 1, there was also a V2, which was a semi-ballistic rocket), also called the 'doodlebug' by the English had it's range dictated by fuel load so when the distinctive pulse of the engine cut out, you knew it was going to come down - so in many ways it was not the sound of the engine that was bad so much as it's sudden stopping!
Correct about the AFVs - not all AFVs are tanks, but all tanks are AFVs - it has something, I believe, to do with the type of (secondary) weaponary, so an AFV designated as a 'tank-killer' is not necessarily, strictly, a tank itself despite very much looking like one. The Ju 87 (Stuka) had air-driven sirens (called Jericho trumpets) that caused that awful wail as they dived.
Any form of mass artillery (naval gun support, etc.,) would be terrifying on the receiving end (though the pressure waves and sound of a mass firing of multiple 15" naval guns would be devastating) - and there was a reason that during WW1 they used the term 'shell shock' as part of the psychological issues troops faced as mass barrages would often be used before an attempt at an advance - the sheer amount of munitions fired itself is frightening!
Music: Jimmi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner - amazing guitarist. You can hear the rounds incoming and explosions recreated with his guitar.
These shots were either made during combat by war reporters or during testing of the weapons/vehicles.
Also, the German dive bomber plane Ju 87, or Stuka, was equipped with the Jericho trumpet siren, which gives it it's distinct sound. Meant to strike fear in those about to get bombed. However, it had the side effect of giving the allies more time to get into hiding as they could hear the bombers diving much earlier.
@@TheZavraq Also, German pilots hated them, because they couldn't control them. Sometimes they'd start to go off in the middle of a mission, which meant they'd listen that sound through the entire flight. So later in war they invented some additional controls for the siren to not go off whenever it feels like.
The machine gun was one of the most devastating parts of WW1. Used to mow down enemies charging from one trench to another.
Regarding then Junkers Ju-87... it actually had a device attached that would make that sound when the bombers dive-bombed, meant to instill panick in their targets. Nice piece of paychological warfare they came up with.
According to post war reports it didn't do the JU-87's crew many favours in the psychological department either 😉
The pilots hated it, and some tried to disable it, it actually gave people warning of their attack.
It may surprise you but cameramen was how they got those shots lol
700 hours into hell let loose and im getting PTSD from this video
In WW2 machine guns became a lot more portable than WW1. Weapons that were once used more in static defences and planes became squad weapons. The dive bombers had sirens mounted on their tails for psychological effects. The V1 flying bombs were used against towns and cities in England. They were called doodlebugs and replaced later in the war by V2's which were the precursors of the rockets that were used in the space program.
The V1 Flying Bombs were unguided missiles launched against Britain. Some British fighter pilots were adept at tipping them over with their wingtips. The MG42 machine gun fired over 1,000 rounds per minute, twice the rate of allied guns. Multiple rocket launchers were often called "Screaming Mimis". The Junkers "Stuka" dive bombers had sirens on them, just for fun.
Yes, like @DropdudeJohn said, the V1 “Doodlebugs” did terrible damage to the major cities in England - the Blitz. They flew, ran out of fuel, then just fell silently and exploded.
AFAIK, they didn't actually run out of fuel. They had a counter which basically preprogrammed their travel time to their intended destination. When that was reached, they were forced into a dive. That WAS meant to be a powered dive, but the force of the dive stopped the fuel flow, so the engine simply didn't get any more fuel and thus cut out.
Friend sent me the other day a video of close combat in Ukraine. The sounds of bombs in the distance, the gray suroundings, the breathing of a soldier who had a go-pro on his helmet, the bullets being shot, crazy. But that scary sound of bombs being dropped in distance and the sound getting closer and closer, it was like I was there and all those sounds in my headphones really struck with me how scary all that is, especially those bombs getting closer and bullets whizzing. I wonder how a person operates in those situations, pure instinct or training kicks in, do they feel fear or its survival mode on. I know you like books, but regarding war, there is an Bosnian movie called “no mans land”. Its about a guy that wakes up on a land mine and thats all I will tell. I strongly recommend it.
The stooker dive bomber was the only weapon Sean that was designed to make a terrifying noise while diving. A wind-driven siren was utilised.
World war 1 machine guns will water cooled therefore too heavy to easily move around the battlefield.
Multiple rocket launchers me a lot of noise when were fired, not when they landed other than multiple banges.
Book,A Bridge Too Far and The Tin Drum.
The v1 was aimed at London - it fell when the engine stopped
Dive bombers are the scariest in my opinion that scream when they dive down is something else
Tanks used to be described by weight by country. With the new craze for "Unification", they now are called Main Battle Tanks or Armored Fighting Viehicles to avoid terms like Light, Medium or Heavy tanks.
Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) include tanks, tank destroyers, and assault guns. All are fully armored and fully tracked. Tanks have turrets with a 360-degree traverse. Tank destroyers and assault guns have limited traverse, meaning the driver points the AFV where they want to shoot, and the gunner makes small adjustments; in a head-to-head fight, a tank has a real advantage versus a TD or AG. Tank destroyers have high-velocity guns designed to destroy tanks and other vehicles from a great distance; Assault guns have low-velocity, massive cannons and target infantry, fortifications, buildings, and are best suited for close-in, urban battles.
Things like armored cars (fully armored, aren't tracked but have road wheels), half-tracks (carry infantrymen, mix of two front wheels for steering plus tracks in the back) might be lumped in with AFVs. There are more: German "Flakpanzers," tank chassis but mounting multiple antiaircraft guns for protecting other vehicles; the Soviets copied these after the war.
WWII was amazing for the range of creative ways people thought up to destroy each another and their equipment.
After WWII the Soviets introduced Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs), fully armored, fully tracked, and carried infantry into battle. Eventually APCs in all armies mounted anti-tank guided missiles and other weapons, and these are now considered AFVs.
The simplified explanation: An armoured fighting vehicle is used for transporting infantry soldiers to, from and around the frontline. When the infantry is unloaded, the vehicle usually only has a crew of two soldiers. A driver and a commander/gunner.
A tank is basically an mobile cannon that's armoured to protect the crew. The crew is usually 4 people; a driver, a commander, a gunner and a loader.
Machineguns as we know them, came of age around 1880 with the Maxin water cooled design and the Colt's air cooled model. The Maxim became widely used world wide with large numbers of export sales .However, was it was HEAVy and hard to carry, usully between 40-60 pounds, requiring a gun crew between 3-6 men. By 1911 new lighter machine guns such as the Hotchkiss and Lewis models came about. By 1938 newer light machine guns like the Bar, Bren , Mg 34 and Mg 42 were comming into service with weights of about 20 pounds, and much easier for a single man to use.
The V1 is probably the most terrifying sound for the british people because of the way it stopped before going down and impact.
The Nebelwerfer (fog thrower) is for me the most terrifying sound because I heard a few being fired for real.
The Junkers dive bomber had air siren to make the sound, but the plane itself was not so impactful if look at the bigger picture, it was slow and out of date fast after British air superiority.
As far as what to watch or read, documentaries are best, the movies are not always very correct.
Where did you hear a Nebelwerfer being fired?
My nan lived through the blitz and was only a little kid at the time but she would tell me about the terrifying sound of the air raid sirens and the sounds of anit aircraft guns shooting up at the bombers as they dropped their bombs, she saw many bodies from where people sadly died from the bombs but she eventually got sent to the countryside and after German air force was was defeated by the British air force in the battle of Britain and the bombing had cesead she returned home and when the Germans started launching their V-1 rockets she told me the most terrifying thing was hearing them fly over and praying it wouldn't cut out above you, to this day i couldn't imagine the fear she felt during them times.
Machine guns were in wide use during WW1, the big changes to single man weapons were the idea of the Assault rifle and the SMG. A more mobile, less defensive force.
Aerial reconnaissance cameras were carried by any number of different airplanes... Some of those cameras were pointed out the side of the plane.
Speaking of sounds.. been wondering what the LP on your wall is. Perhaps you've mentioned it in a previous video. The Red Columbia label makes me guess Miles Davis? - for "WW2" related books consider broadening your definition of WW2 to include the Spanish Civil War which was definitely the prologue. Hemingway was there driving an ambulance and Orwell was there fighting in a communist militia. Hemingway wrote For Whom The Bell Tolls about his experiences and Orwell wrote Homage to Catalonia. For music check out The Clash "Spanish Bombs"...
The germans called katyusha stalins organ,if im not mistaken and indeed its considered one of the most terryfying sounds of ww2,along with the stukas,german airplanes. For sure those 2 i would say are the most famous also.
I loved the Jamie xx song, and the story behind it. I have a deaf sibling, and like me they would rather do anything other than dance, but they have deaf friends who listen to music and dance to music and compose music by way of vibrations.
As for Simon and Garfunkel, the song 'America' is one I would recommend, and so brilliantly written you don't notice that none of the lines rhyme. Lyrical prose, in a sense.
Also: 'Song For the Asking,' 'The Only Living Boy in New York,' 'Wednesday Morning, 3am,' they've never missed.
I’m not familiar with America… at least not in name. I’ll look it up.
So glad you liked the Jamie XX song, I thought the video was very powerful.
the early junkers 87 dive bombers had sirens attached to them to instill fear, that's what that wailing noise is.
With the V-1, it was the stopping of the sound, which meant the engine shut of, and the bomb was going to fall. That city was probably London
If there’s one thing the most nations remember as one of the most fear noises fighting against the German’s during World War 2? Was the sound of the MG42. The gun itself had a distinct sound that all who fought the Germans knew by heart and feared.
The sounds are probably more terrifying to the soldiers involved as they make the association between the sound and the level of danger.
Somebody below suggested reconstructed "sounds" from space. Pulsars in particular sound creepy.
With the V1 flying Bomb, my grandmother said hearing the noise of the engine was not really the scary part because that meant it was just passing over you, but what was scary was when the engine sound stopped because that meant the bomb was already falling, and they were aimed towards civilian targets. She lived in Kent in the countryside as a child during the war. She also told me a story about one time a Mitcershmit BF.109 (I think she said this off the top of my head without asking her, yes she is still alive.) was shot down in a dog fight over the village she lived in and crashed into the news-agent's shop.
How do they get these shots? Look up "shooting the war". It's about the guys that filmed the war that were in with the service personal etc.
Aerial photography was quite common in WWII, as was ground photography. We'd have better photos of Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion, but the photographers assistant damage all bu nine out of 118 shots in the darkroom.
Music: Metallica - One
I’d add the sound of flamethrowers, either handheld or vehicle mounted. That sound must have been utterly terrifying.
Machine guns actually go back to the civil war with the Gatling Gun. City was London and the Katyusha was colloquially known as Stalins organ. The sound of the MG42 was often likened to a zipper from its high rate of fire and was feared by many soldiers. The First World War was known as an “artillery war” and the high explosions going on for many hours led to a debilitating illness known as “shell shock” likely from sensory overload. The worst hit could not even stand or communicate.
"what city you think that is?" Looks like Nijmegen Netherlands. Think this shot was in a docu about the bombing of '44. My town :)
We had a few doodlebugs (V1) explode in my town. At least you could here them, unlike the first ballistic missile the V2
Book "The SS State - The System of German Concentration Camps"" is a very early Book 1946 about the Holocaust and is kind of a Standart Work that many well known Historians refer to. Written by Eugen Kogon!
Not to discount the horrors of warfare in the past, but I suspect the extreme noise of the battlefield from artillery and other, modern weaponry only amplified the trauma of the soldiers. Noise can be one a hell of a shock to the system.
High level of intelligence. Great channel.
Heavy armoured fighting vehicles is far more wide category than tanks. Tanks are the part of it, but it also includes IFVs (infantry fighting vehicles. This type of vehicles didn't exist in WW2 tho), SPGs (self-propelled guns), armoured assault guns (which don't exist nowadays but were widespread in WW2), APCs (armoured personal carriers). Basically almost every type of armoured combat vehicle could be considered as armoured fighting vehicle, even wheeled armoured cars and MRAPs (stands for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected). But heavy armoured fighting vehicles are mostly tracked
That screaming/droning sound of the rocket launchers is pretty haunting... P.S. 3:13 I have never heard an American use the word "daft" before! Very unusual!
The MG-42 was a feared weapon because of its rate of fire. It did tend to overheat to it was designed to quickly and easily change barrels. It also meant that most of the soldiers in the squad had to carry ammo for it. It came into wider use later in the war as an attempt to make up for the declining quality of troops and lack of training. The MG42 could do a lot more damage than poorly trained riflemen could.
Machine gun had been in use before WWI. They were used in the Spanish American War such as in Cuba. Several types were used, some good, some not so much. One not so much was the "potato digger", can't think of the real name offhand. It used some bled off gas to throw a lever on the outside of the gun, the spoonlike end near the muzzle and it swung down toward the ground to work the action and then spring back up to battery. It had a slow rate of fire and a tendency for the lever to hit the ground and get stuck, even when fired from a tripod likemit was supposed to. Machine guns were also used in the Boer Wars and the Sudan "River War". The US Civil War saw the use of Gatlin guns toward the end. If not for a blinkered supply service command they could have been used earlier. There were also various ealier examples of multibarreled guns where the barrels could be fired all at once or in various patterns, with the whole block either being replaced or reloaded one by one.
A scary sound is the whistling of incoming enemy fire
An explosion creates a wave of compressed air, which can literally toss you like a ragdoll, depending on the size of explosion, distance to epicenter and intervening terrain. Imagine the feeling of that.