De Havilland Mosquito - The Menace In The Dark
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- Опубліковано 27 січ 2022
- The de Havilland Mosquito was a British twin-engine multi-role aircraft. It became one of the most famous of the Second World War, deserving nicknames like "Wooden Wonder" or "Mossie". Yet, it had a humble beginning. Join us for a look at this versatile machine.
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Hey there, this is a longer video of a very famous airplane. I didn't have great results in the past with this formula, but this is a celebratory video, as the channel is fast approaching an important mark. Many people requested that I cover the Mosquito. The next aircraft is going to be a German one, and hopefully I'll be able to announce a new parallel series soon. I hope you enjoyed the video, and thank you for watching!
Thank you for doing an aircraft that many have done before and still making it very interesting. 👍
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My grandad flew mossie's during the latter stages of the war amongst other planes and I remember him saying that when you let rip with all guns "cannons and machine guns" the plane would shudder for the fire power was so great and concentrated that a burst would literally dissintergrate the plane in front often leaving you having to take quick action to avoid flying through the debre field all in all a truely deverstating fighter
Fighter Command:. "I need a volunteer......"
Mosquito: "Yep, I'll do it!!"
Fighter Command: "But I haven't even told you what for yet..."
Mosquito: "I'll do it!!"
Bomber Command: "I need a volunteer......"
Mosquito: "Yep..........
Lol
The Bristol Beaufighter was another British aircraft that was adapted to perform admirably in many roles, like the DH98 'Mossie'. The one outstanding story about the 'Mossie is about the 'Tsetse', I love is the one about the Coastal Command squadron flying over the Bay of Biscay, they encountered a group of JU88's escorting a U boat from harbour/port, the Squadron Leader, Tony Philips engaged a JU88 and scored at least four hits on it, including one with it's 57mm 'QF Molins gun' that blew the JU88's port engine clean out of the port wing. The U-boat returned to port! Probably the worlds first true MRCA?
I think De Havilland surprised everybody at how versatile, fast, and maneuverable the Mosquito was, it was a marvelous plane unlike any other plane when it was introduced.
Mossie gets my vote for best plane of ww2. Thanks for the video.
I agree , the MOSQUITO looks dangerous just standing still. It also along with the Spitfire and the Avro Lancaster look absolutely right and they all had the engine ,the Rolls Royce Merlin.
Id argue the Bristol Beaufighter would be up there as well
The mossie was the best plane of ww2 full stop and when it had.4 machine guns and 4 rockets under each wing I heard a story once when it flew into a destroyer with 8 rockets and 2 20mm hispano guns and it sunk it what a plane hey
I have to quibble. B-29 and not even close. It was a full generation ahead of everything else in the air, except for the engines, and the Soviet copies were scaring the West till the mid fifties.
The other versatile aircraft coming into mind was the Beaufighter….
A passenger who enjoyed the service of the Mossie express was Danish physicist Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr's story is fascinating. He forgot to put the oxygen mask on. The pilot had to make an emergency descent and fly at a low level since Mr. Bohr wasn't answering them. In the end, he was fine, just asleep.
I believe that a one-time passenger was a brown bear named Vicki, owing to a large V painted on her front.
I Agree & Always Thought The Beaufighter Was Underrated. A-lot Of Night Fighter Kills Was Recorded By Them.
Basically, almost everything done by the Mossie was first done by the Beaufighter, just not quite so effortlessly. Anti-shipping, night fighter, heavy day fighter, ground attack (including with rockets) were all Beaufighter roles. Photo recon and bombing, especially with the 4000lb Cookie, were some of the few tasks that the Beau couldn't pioneer.
I love the mosquito it has to be my favorite aircraft of WW2
The Mosquito's low loss rate compared to other Bomber Command aircraft types was astounding.
If the British war effort to build, equip and man four-engined heavy bombers had been applied to the Mosquitoes, the war in Europe could have ended a year earlier.
The price/effort equation in construction was "1 Lancaster = 3.5 Mosquitoes" (not counting crew KILLS, which were MUCH LESS in "Wooden Wonders")
The phrase comes to mind " jack of all trades master of none", only the mossie became a jack of all trades and absolute master of all it was required to do.
The pathfinding qualities of the mossie and the crews deserves a video on its own. The ability and lessons gained from high accuracy bombing improved target concentration from the heavy bombers considerably.
The full quote is actually "A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."
Concise and well researched. I thought I knew everything about the Mossie
interesting. tho im curious what did you not know about the mosquito?
My great uncle flew the Mossie. He had said one of the tactics he used on the way back from photo shoots was to take it up to about 40 thousand feet where the German day fighters could not intercept them. For intruder missions when done it also placed them out of range of nazi flak
A Mosquito with a cookie? man I want that int WT...
One correction. The British government air ministry didn't order a prototype. DeHavilands built it as a private venture after the concept was turned down. Unusually, the prototype survives to this day, in the care of the Mosquito Aircraft Museum at Salisbury Hall in the UK.
Well, I'll have to correct you on that. De Havilland had the plans in hand but no wood was cut for it until authority for the prototype was received. After being shunned by the Air Ministry for arguing for two years against spec P.13/36, which called for a medium bomber with gun turrets and the crew to man them, the autumn of 1939 saw success for Sir Geoffrey. At a meeting in September he was again rebuffed, similarly in October then at the Air Ministry in December, his persistance paid off when he was awarded a unique specification, B.1/40/dh, and work on the Mosquito started.
Tsetse flies are the ones that can give you sleeping sickness. I suppose the naming of that model was meant to imply more lethality, which was certainly the case in terms of the cannon upgrade.
The Tsetse also shot down a JU88 over the Bay of Biscay. Shot one of its engines clean off.
One of those smaller channels I'm glad I stumbled upon. Clear way of presentation, excellent footage of the subject at hand, mixed with smaller stories and commentary in heavily (but inoffensively) accented good english. Keep it up!
Thank you! Will certainly keep at it.
It was a magnificent aircraft.
Best plane of the war. Best long range recce. Best night fighter (earned it's kills mostly hunting wolves, not cows). Best precision deep interdiction aircraft. Best Pathfinder. Best long range land-based naval striker. It's the plane that the Germans said was, by name, their biggest irritant. It was the functional model for every post war bomber. It was the first composite-construction warplane. Other than that it was just another plane.
On the other hand... the recon versions of the P-38 were built and served in larger numbers and had a lower loss rate. The Beaufighter could be claimed to be a better strike aircraft but part of that was the Mossie being given other roles. When the RAE tested the Mossie NFXVI(?) head to head against the P61 they found that the Mossie was 5-15mph faster at all altitudes. The P-61 had a better rate of climb, higher ceiling, longer endurance, better maneuverability, better takeoff and landing and stall characteristics, and greatly superior radar and avionics.
No single plane was "the best". The Mossie was excellent in many roles but the best plane of WW2 in my personal opinion is the B-29. It could carry an empty Mossie 3,000 miles and approach 350mph, in an emergency, at altitudes all but the most specialized Mossies couldn't reach. And? 10 years later the Soviet copies were still acaring the crap out of the West.
@@PeteSampson-qu7qb It's easy to find the P-61 fly-off and that the fact that the Brits sand-bagged it. And the fact that the 8th AF traded two P-51's for every Mossie they could get. Pretty sure they did not feel that way about the P-38, 61, or Beaufighter. It was also the inspiration for every speed over defense plane since: Canberra, B-58, etc. It fought nearly the whole war and was best or near best in every category it was tried in. Yes, it was the best plane of the war.
@@ElsinoreRacer I'm afraid you miss my main point. It's rather silly of us to argue about a hypothetical "best". I think people like Eric Brown and Chuck Yeager would agree. But, also, there is a bit of a "Mossie cult" that does one of the best a disservice by claiming things like "a single Mossie could sink a carrier and whip a squadron of Fw 190s and an infantry division on the way home". I am not suggesting you are in that cult but you have to have run across them and I hope you understand why I occasionally remind people it was a fantastic airplane that needs no defense but it wasn't magical or invincible.
Cheers!
@@ElsinoreRacer OH crap! I forgot something. I have studied a lot of data from a lot of sources and have a broad conclusion.
All manufacturers lie and all pilots will ignore data to say their preferred plane is better. One pilot, within a single page, describes being chased down by a 109, not being able to catch a 109, and assert his Hurricane was faster!
Official British and American sources generally agree with each other when testing their own, each other's, or foreign aircraft. The Germans consistently overstated the performance of their planes and the Japanese official stats are consistently lower than the Allies tests of the same planes because we used better fuel.
So? I have no trouble with accepting RAE stats and conclusions whether they say "despite its deck handling issues, the Seafire Mk. III is a superior interceptor to the Corsair Mk I" or "The Mustang Mk. II is superior to the Spitfire Mk. V in all respects but low speed turn and climb below 15,000 feet" or "the Mosquito Mk. VIb should not be considered in any way capable of defending itself from fighters and should employ fighter escort whenever possible".
Cheers!
A very good video thank you and well done, about one of the greatest aircraft of WW 2 and yet outside of the UK many people have never heard of the Mozzie.
The Germans held the Mozzie in very high regard, next to the immortal Spitfire and even counted the (rare) shooting down of a Mosquito as a 'double' victory.
A two man aircraft, one of the fastest of WW2 that carried the same or more 'artillery' (bombs, rockets etc) as a B 17 flying Fortress with a minimum crew of 7 and yes the Mossie was one of the rare aircraft that was good at every task it was asked to perform.
If you ever get the chance to see one fly, don't miss out.
I unforgettably saw at RAF Biggin Hill the Mozzies used for the 1963 film 633 Squadron.
A rebuild of a Mossie has been going on in Nanton, Alberta, Canada for several years. I don’t know the current status.
There is also a Lanc which should be at a run-up stage but is not destined to fly.
Source for "carried the same or more 'artillery' (bombs, rockets etc) as a B 17 flying Fortress" ?
@@nickdanger3802 I think in certain circumstances the bomb loads were very similar. The first bomber Mozzies, had a bomb load( from my memory) of 4000 lb and I've read that the early B17's were around the same due to the heavy armament armour and crew numbers which I think was seven at the minimum and up to 10? I stand to be corrected on that though.
@@samrodian919 Correct on B17 crew at 10. Almost 2,000 lb armor. "Typical bombload" 6,000 lb.
DH98 Mosquito B. Mk IX
54 built
1,680 hp Merlin 72 engines - otherwise as B. Mk IV. 54 built. Could carry 2,000 lb internally, plus one 500 lb bomb or a drop tank under each wing. Some modified with bulged bomb bay doors for 4,000 lb bomb.
BAE Mosquito page
4,000 lb bomb
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If the British war effort to build, equip and man four-engined heavy bombers had been applied to the Mosquitoes, the war in Europe could have ended a year earlier.
The price/effort equation in construction was "1 Lancaster = 3.5 Mosquitoes" (not counting crew KILLS, which were MUCH LESS in "Wooden Wonders")
19:14 What a coincidence that they all happen to be twin-engine aircraft.
I have an uncle who flew the recon/bomber version. He always remarked that he could get around 40,000 ft with it. TheGermans had nothing that could touch them at that altitude and speed. I often wonder how it would have performed with the Griffin engines later in the war.
my old Headmaster was a former Mossie pilot in ww2 who earned the DFC and DSO ( this was when i was at grammar school in the 1970's - a few of the staff were former officers who'd served in ww2 ) .. a fine old gentleman from generation who have almost all passed on now... he'd risen to Squadron Leader by 1945
“It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminum better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building….They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops.”
Herman Goering
The Fokker D.VII was NOT an ALL WOOD Plane, Hermann G*..
..and the Ta 154 was scheiße vs He 219!
*Ya fat lazy bastard!
You asked for suggestions of other aircraft which could be comparable. The Bristol Beaufighter excelled in many similar roles, particularly in anti-submarine and ground attack, and in both the European and Pacific theatres, yet has not had the recognition it deserves.
As a kid the Mossy was one of my favorite planes and my older brother had moved on to jets. While serving in the Corps I watch the Army’s warrant program fly the OV-1 and man I wanted a Mohawk for myself.
Thank you for so many excellent images with caption on each one!
Thank you!
I believe you have an excellent channel. I look forward to your "longer" videos. I am sure they are harder to do, but I hope you do more of them.
Thank you!
This is best UA-cam short I have seen on the general history of Mosquito!
Thank you!
Thanks!
One of the best computer games ca.1990 was flying a Mosquito fighter. The only reason I quit playing it was that when I got the hang of it, the German planes wouldn't engage or even show up on radar, even starting from scratch.
Very well presented. And, very well researched. Lots of new information. Great job altogether.
Thank you!
Very good video! Thanks for posting.
My favourite aircraft of all time.
Mosquito & Tomcat
DH Albatross "In fact, crash landings became a common fate for the DH91 Albatross as the 4th example (G-AFDL ‘Fingal’ had previously been destroyed on arrival at Pucklechurch in 1940 whilst the 3rd (G-AFDK ‘Fortuna’) was later destroyed in a crash landing accident at Shannon Airport in 1943."
BAE Albatross page
All the right and interesting information in one short video.
Your videos have got me hooked. AllthingsWW2 reaches my top three progs. to watch. Peace be unto you.
Thank you very much. That is a big compliment!
U R the best! I am extremely interested in the capabilities and lack there OF, relative to aircraft that fought on ALL sides of the Ww2 conflict. U r seriously adept at mining the detailed information of their capabilites. I ❤ seriously look forward to your work relative to the lesser known air wars of the Korean conflict,7/50 to Chinese vs Taiwan, India vs China, Pakistan vs India, Iran vs Iraq, UK vs Argentina.......etc.
Thank you!
It outlasted its wonderful successor, the Hornet, and being built post-war, it went on into the 1960s.
DH98 Mosquito FB. Mk VI 2,305 built. Fighter bomber / intruder variant using Merlin 22, 23 or 25. 4 (Browning) machine guns and 4 (Hispano) cannons, plus 2 x 250 lb bombs carried internally & underwing carriage of up to 2 x 500 lb bombs. Could be fitted with underwing rocket projectiles or drop tanks instead of external bomb carriage.
BAE Mosquito page
Correction : @14:37, that should be one loss per 280 sorties, not 2,800. Still a remarkably low figure. That meant if you flew 30 sorties you had a 90% chance of surviving.
It is nice that there are now some in flying condition.
Superb,beautiful warplane most enjoyable, well presented video, thank you
Very complet!!!. Saludos desde España!. Thanks
Gracias!
Not glamorous but very versatile the pby! Scouting, search and rescue, anti submarine, transport.
Thank you. A well balanced and accurate account.
There are so many times I would love to see production of these planes again. If they were cheap to make using production methods of the 1940s, I would think modern industrial technology and manufacturing techniques would make it a highly sought after to own full size planes or at least 80% scale.
I believe there is a company in New Zealand, making new fuselages for mozzies, I'm not sure if they are producing wings as well.
The Mosquito is the most beautiful plane to ever grace the sky in my opinion. It looks gorgeous and the two Merlin engines make a sound that fills me with emotion.
It was an exceptionally effective aircraft in all its roles from bomber in war time to mail plane in peace time. It was ahead of its time.
Excellent video, thanks.
Thank you!
Great video ! I was considering the corsair, but seeing the stats, tje Mosquito was really as good fighter as a tactical bomber.
GREAT video.
Thank you!
Very well done video. Thanks. Have you done a video on the CR42? That seems like a very interesting fighter. I'd like to see your take on that aircraft. Thanks again.
1,284, about 20 per cent of war time production, built as unarmed bombers minus conversions to photo/recon. Max bombload 2,000 pounds in bomb bay plus 1,000 pounds on underwing hard points. "Some" modified to carry one 4,000 pound "cookie" bomb, a metal drum filled with 2,000 pounds of explosive.
BAE Mosquito page
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Link is to Luftwaffe training aid model of B17 with cones of fire.
The most versatile plane is a fascinating topic that still dominates the design goals of the current F-35. It should be a great topic.Thanks for providing this important piece of history.
I've read that a pass from a rocket-carrying Mosquito had the equivalent firepower to a broadside from a cruiser.
No not a cruiser a destroyer
60 lb rocket warheads weighed almost the same as 4.5 inch naval shells.
This would still be my plane of choice today. It is that good. It would be for my private use. I feel much safer in this than any of the other small private planes for sure.❤
Goering " See ! Heavy fighters RULE !! .." :D
The mosquito did well in the intruder and fighter roles it was eventually joined the American built Northrop P-61 “Black Widow” in the intruder role unlike the mosquito the Black Widow in both Europe and the Pacific fronts.
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George Volkert suggested an unarmed bomber in May 1937 in response to the Air Ministry specification (P13/36) that was eventually filled by the Avro Manchester. This design was to use speed as its main defence. This was before de Havilland came up with this idea.
Good video on this amazingly versatile aircraft. Yet I don't quite understand the listed loss to sortie ratio for No. 8 Group at 14:30.
If 108 losses were sustained on a total of 28,215 sorties then in my opinion the loss rate would be 1 on 261 sorties - which is still very impressive for a bomber but far from 1 per 2800.
The Mossie was a great plane but far from perfect. It handled well but was demanding and had a fairly high accident rate; a common thing for high performance aircraft. Especially twins.
The Merlin was a war winning engine but the highly boosted versions used in the "special" Mosquitos were a little delicate. Again, it's not a flaw but a common thing when an engine is pushed way beyond its designed performance.
A flaw that was never fully addressed was, ironically, the wooden structure. It wasn't an issue when they were kept in hangers in England but prolonged exposure to the elements could ultimately destroy the structure. The Australians rejected them over it and the Brits sent very few overseas and I've even read a couple anecdotes claiming that a few rain flights could destroy them. This was apparently cured in the Hornet because they served reliably in the tropics for years. Better adhesives and paints I think though I've never found the specifics.
thanks for another brilliant ww2 aircraft documentary.
Interesting: you mentioned Tu-2 instead of Pe-2. I would be interested to hear why.
Maybe because the Tu-2 had a longer range of 2,020 km (1,260 mi), a highier service sealing of 9,000 km (30,000 ft), a faster rate of climb of 8.2 m/s (1,610 ft/min) and heavier bomb load of 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) internaly and 2,270 kg (5,000 lb) externally? agaist the Pe-2 1,160 km (720 mi), 8,800 km (28,900 ft), 7.2 m/s (1,420 ft/min) and only 1,000 kg (2,205 lb) of bombs, sorry I was curios and entered the wikipedia to compare the planes, wille the speeds are that diferent (Tu-2 528 km/h (328 mph) and Pe-2 580 km/h (360 mph)) with the Pe-2 faster, I supose the range and bomb load is more important for a strategit bomber or a bomber scort
Yes, that is the big question about the Soviet one. The Pe-2 had more roles, but I feel that the Tu-2 might have been more effective in some of them. I'm preparing a video with that comparison, and I will probably use the Pe-2, since it did more roles overall.
“Tsetse” is another species of ‘Mosquitoes’ indigenous of the equatorial region of the african continent.
Not a bad documentary, a few vital things missing though. Oddly enough, the long range load for a B17 was the same as the Mosquito. I worked for nearly 40 years as an engineer in our MOD, and you just would not believe what crap we have bought from abroad now all the British armaments factories have been destroyed. Gawd, even a 1960s P2 Lightening could out climb an F35. I wonder what it was like, breaking the sound barrier vertically ? Ah, the good old days when Britain could make its own tanks and not pay Germany. They must be turning in their graves.
The fact they achieved all this with wood construction is also quite terrifying. Something that should have, by conventional ideals made it completely obsolete and unfit for duty.
4.14 "three Mosquitoes ... failed to down any enemy bombers."
Kamerad, a Jack of all trades ain't to be mistaken for a journey man. I know bro: English sayings make fukall sense
At 14:40 It has an error - It should say I loss per 280 not 2800. And to it is actually 1 loss per 261 sorties..... I liked it though :)
James “Lou” Lumia who was only American Mosquito ace who shot down a Me 410 on a intruder mission after bringing down the gear to reduce the plane’s speed and during an infamous daylight ranger mission strafing mission on airfield on France/Germany border he shot down a Luftwaffe trainer aircraft and a Junkers Ju 52 this was recreated on Dogfights episode Supersonic.
The Mossie nightfghters fed with laughing gas must have been the happiest fighters in the RAF! The Bristol Beaufighter was qute versatile as a heavy, long range day fighter, ground attack aircraft, night fighter and torpedo bomber, but could not compete with the Mosquito except in one respect: the Mozzie couldn't carry torpedoes. Also, the Beau could tolerate moist, tropical climates better than the Mozzie and did considerable service in S. E. Asia.
The SBD Dauntless performed in the dive-bomber and recon roles alongside shooting down a few planes as well, without a doubt the most important US Navy aircraft until the Grumman Avenger became available in large numbers.
Other than that, yeah the P-38, Mosquito and Ju-88 all enjoyed sucess as fighters/night fighters, ground pounders and reconaissance planes. Can't really think of more types that performed all these
this well. The B-24 was a solid heavy bomber, cargo plane and maritime patrol/U-boat attacker I suppose too.
Great plane, thanks for the video! Made out of all wood I think its radar signature was less too. Check out the two 60s war films about it, 633 Squadron and Mosquito Squadron!
Those films were awful in that they actually destroyed real Mossies to make the action more "dramatic". Such a waste.
*"300 feet of cable"*
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The FW 190 was created as a war horse in mind, and with a few modifications was able to fill some spots to a degree, so, my vote is in it
Can't agree with that. Its fighter bomber versions were terrible tbh and suffered horrific losses. It was never a good night fighter either, and certainly not a naval attack aircraft.
Not in the same league in terms of versatility.
According to American War documentaries , America won both World Wars . So the answer must be the plane that constantly had to abort missions and turn back to base . The one that threw rods , swallowed valves , fouled plugs , blew turbochargers , ruptured intercoolers , possessed faulty induction systems , poor engine cylinder head detonation and regular engine failure , leading to total disintegration whilst inflight . As the American war documentaries explained , this was the fault of British fuel . Next question .
Don’t bother with the ‘slightly reduced radar detection’. Most people who talk about this don’t know how radar - and especially WWII radar - works. It’s not a point either way. I’d leave it out before the comments about how ‘it was the first stealth plane’ start appearing.
14.00 4,000 lb cookie 1944
One is being restored in nz.
17.00 6710 war time production
the best plane of WW2. The same bombload as a B17 but twice as fast and could fly at twice the altitude.
Death by Mosquito
Hello. Mostly good info about the mosquito but you forgot or deliberately didn't mention it about the Shell house bombing they also bomb a school, 86 children died 18 adults.
Yes that was a very regrettable outcome, but it was war, and a sad fact in war, on both sides innocent civilians get killed or hurt, these poor Danish children amongst them.
Mosquitopanik
The Mossie was the only twin engine ww2 plane that could gain altitude on one engine.
You obviously know Zero percent about flying multi engined aeroplanes and the same about aviation history.
17.20 +600 victories claimed by nightfighters
LaGG3 vs P 40???
The most beautiful warbird.
And the saddest, most pathetic end. As target pratice for jet fighters.
1/2 the price of a B-17 to build could carry as many bombs and was fast.
DH98 Mosquito B. Mk IX 54 built
1,680 hp Merlin 72 engines - otherwise as B. Mk IV. 54 built. Could carry 2,000 lb internally, plus one 500 lb bomb or a drop tank under each wing. Some modified with bulged bomb bay doors (starting 1944) for 4,000 lb bomb.
BAE Mosquito page
B 25
Skeeters smelling German blood in the dark...
Failed to mention the Shellhaus raid killed 200+ innocent children.
Not anywhere near that number. 88 I think. And let's be honest, as regrettable as those children's deaths are, it's hardly the aircraft's fault is it? And I believe the raid was at the behest of the Danish resistance as well.
Let's also remember that Germans, in the first world war burnt to death women and children when they fire bombed London. This was deliberate whereas the inconvenience you mentioned was not.
15.28 shows beaufighter
A BAD thing? ;-)
And yet the USA went for the P61. I suppose someone has to make a profit!
Big, loud, heavy, late. USA, USA, USA!
...and only four 20mm cannons. Haha
What accent does the narrator speak with?
Berlin Propaganda/Morale Raid Two RAF crewmen were KIA.
The Luftwaffe night fighter aces were much, much more successful! This is never mentioned in these videos.
That's only because they had more targets to shoot at. It's also irrelevant to the story of this aircraft.
I'm pretty sure the topic at hand is more about the aircraft then the living meat bags piloting them.
But they had far more targets to choose from with the heavy bomber streams flying over continental Europe. By this time in 1943/44 the number of Luftwaffe bombers over Britain were much less in number compared to Bomber command's numbers. The German radar system of vectoring a night fighter say a JU88 equipped with the Lichtenstein radar set and Shrage Musik cannon and letting the JU88 find a Lancaster or Halifax or Stirling using the radar and coming up underneath and firing directly up into the fuel tanks was a brilliant concept, and the sad fact is they had plenty of targets to chose from and they took advantage of that fact. The Mozzie night fighters were stalking the JU88 and ME110's night fighters of which there were less in number. So the figures are a numbers game really.