@ffjsb Looking at the performance of the Luftwaffe early war those are the good results, even the best fighters will lose if they find themselves in a 3v1
I could also tell from the soundless video that no one was complaining. Anytime in any service with any nation will reveal complaining, there’s often nothing else to do.
Such a NPC comment "Muh old day" Wars are not like video games, 5% of it is spent fighting, the other 50% is spent walking, and another 45% spent waiting.
@@SMGJohn Funny, your statement is what comes off as an NPC comment. It was triggered in an almost incedental way, having nothing to do with what he said.
@@Tydirium Er, mud? Yeah, it's just gotta be the "Rasputitsa" the "muddy season" in Russia, having them on would just clog up the wheels all the time, or that's what I'm guessing.
My grandpa was serving as Luftwaffe ground crew, until they put him in one of those last ditch Luftwaffe infantry units with new uniforms but no training. He was heavily wounded 80 years ago today, at the start of Operation Bagration, where his whole division was destroyed near Witebsk. Soviet troops brought him to a field hospital where a soviet doctor saved his life. He came home four years later. I'm glad there was some humanity left during those dark times.
I just found a photo of a captured Stuka in RAF livery. And so far, at least 3 desert living Ju 87s minus spats. EVERYTHING looks better with RAF roundels. I once found a picture of a plane looking like a pregnant Stuka with the description of diesel powered Ju 86. Years later a search told me no such plane, no such engine, but I know there are diesel aero engines, now. And then...tada...there was a Ju 86 (a pre-war thing), and it had two, vertically opposed diesel engines. Vertically opposed, two pistons, one higher one lower, sharing the same bore and compression stroke- six cylinders, 12 pistons. Apparently that configuration works well with diesel.
These people were made of different stuff. Who operates out of mud-surface airfields with such great results
With that much mud it's a surprise the thing could taxi let alone take off.
Uh, they lost the war... I wouldn't call that a "good result"...
@ffjsb
Looking at the performance of the Luftwaffe early war those are the good results, even the best fighters will lose if they find themselves in a 3v1
@@dsan8742 They should've crunched the numbers and seen that it would be impossible to overcome the resources and manpower of the allies.
Ma secondo te il matto (hitler) faceva questi conti? Sveglia amico….
Wow, difficult conditions to work in but no complaining. Men of that era were made of different stuff.
I could also tell from the soundless video that no one was complaining. Anytime in any service with any nation will reveal complaining, there’s often nothing else to do.
Such a NPC comment "Muh old day"
Wars are not like video games, 5% of it is spent fighting, the other 50% is spent walking, and another 45% spent waiting.
@@SMGJohn Think Gen Y or Z would put up with conditions like that? Either way we are going to find out. War with China is coming.
@@patrickhenry7099 Pilot at 0:23 had a smile on his face. What more do you want?
@@SMGJohn Funny, your statement is what comes off as an NPC comment. It was triggered in an almost incedental way, having nothing to do with what he said.
Alaskan bush pilots long before there were Alaskan bush pilots. Those are some unbelievably brutal conditions.
Rasputitsa.. I would boldly assume that's General Mud, the brother of General Winter, right?
Russia's two top General's, or so I'm told!!
Russia’s greatest defense: weather.
@Slithey7433
Well, there's only ever been one foe that Russia's two top General's couldn't beat, and that was the MONGOLS!!
Interesting, the Stuka at 0:33 doesn't have a cover around the wheels
Go figure .. why would you think they had them taken off?
@@Tydirium
Er, mud? Yeah, it's just gotta be the "Rasputitsa" the "muddy season" in Russia, having them on would just clog up the wheels all the time, or that's what I'm guessing.
Yep, that's what "Spat-less" means in the video title.
Too thick to navigate, too thin to cultivate.
Luftwaffe ground crews were mensch.
My grandpa was serving as Luftwaffe ground crew, until they put him in one of those last ditch Luftwaffe infantry units with new uniforms but no training. He was heavily wounded 80 years ago today, at the start of Operation Bagration, where his whole division was destroyed near Witebsk. Soviet troops brought him to a field hospital where a soviet doctor saved his life. He came home four years later. I'm glad there was some humanity left during those dark times.
@@MayhemicMAD your Grandpa was very fortunate to have survived both the war, and Soviet captivity.
Aaj comment vich koye kuch bol de par jina army soldier officer ne eh war vich apne apne desh laye apne jaan de bazi la te oh amar ne
Mud, mud, and more mud
Четкие сьемки..внизу горят советы
I just found a photo of a captured Stuka in RAF livery. And so far, at least 3 desert living Ju 87s minus spats.
EVERYTHING looks better with RAF roundels.
I once found a picture of a plane looking like a pregnant Stuka with the description of diesel powered Ju 86.
Years later a search told me no such plane, no such engine, but I know there are diesel aero engines, now.
And then...tada...there was a Ju 86 (a pre-war thing), and it had two, vertically opposed diesel engines.
Vertically opposed, two pistons, one higher one lower, sharing the same bore and compression stroke- six cylinders, 12 pistons.
Apparently that configuration works well with diesel.
_'My!'_ ... What a bloody flood of a sludgy muddy mess! ... Poor li'l _'Stuka-Spooken'_ gobblers!
Maybe they are 'spat-less' b/c mud would get stuck in the spats?
Слава Великой Германии!!!!
Спаржи зелёной объелся в Великой и голодной Германии, челядь !?