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You outdid yourself. Awesome job! Thank you!

20mm = .787 inch to whom it may concern

These stats are bogus. I have 2 questions 1. Ploiesti 2. Schweinfut . You’re comparing apples and oranges.

7.92 x 57 IS THE EARLY German machine gun cartridge.

how did the tail gunner get out fast like when the bomber was shot down or what are all the emergency hatches?

Like going from bow and arrows to repeater rifles . Incredible .

This is a contradiction - see cargo on submarine that surrendered at the end of war 2 in USA

"About the bomber's crustaceans?" You mean they had crabs on board?

slow your camera down, please

Fun fact: the X-4 missile was test launched from Fw 190s, and even without the third problem with using the system, ie having to avoid enemy return fire, not a single pilot was able to hit a bloody thing with it.

Being a gunner must be the worst.

Is this kind of tunnel Captain Yossarian is afraid of in "Catch-22"?

Just when I think I know a lot about WWII, I watch one of your videos and learn that I dont...🙂 This is great, detailed info. I knew we mined Japanese waters, but had no idea how effective the effort was.. Cruel- but more humane than firebombing cities- assuming the leadership would have faced reality and surrendered.

You can see the scars of these weapons in Tokyo today. The Nihonbashi Bridge still sports a burn mark on its east side.

Great video, you're a sensationally good historian. If all other historians would have been as meticulous as you, endless debates on what happend when and where and how in any conflict, could have been avoided. And seeing this video makes me wonder if the Japanese knew/know what an unbelievable destructive power an American invasion would have unleashed upon them.

you ain’t getting me in there. you can kill me before i go in there. deserter.

Now go shoot it again, and pretend you're holding a Steadi-Cam.

Very well explained!

Very interesting. I wasn't aware that the VT fuse had been added to bombs.

Bravo! I've found some of these references myself and intend to visit CalTech where all of the rocket work was done in WWII. However, only half of the documents survived the war. The B-18 pics are awesome, I read of those but never saw them. Finally, there is a book written by the survivors/family of VP-63 available titled, "MAD Cats The Story of VP-63" Warning, it is a work of love and respect, not a technical report, nor a novel. /vr Don

I liked the video, but perhaps you could do another video, or series of videos, with more detail. It was hard to get any detail with the pace of the video.

An ashtray?? No 'no smoking' sign on this airplane!

4:40 "Don't grab them or you will be flying the airplane". It's not a fault, it's a feature! Emergency steering location, like warships have.

It’s amazing that the B-29 copied the Millennium Falcon’s greenhouse cockpit.

Just wondering will you ever do a detailed B-24 Vid like the -17 and -29

you are doing nice stuff.. keep it up!

Brilliant 👍

When these were made we had powered flight for about 30 years, some advancement right there …..

I love the fact the seats have ashtrays. I would love this job

Enjoyed your little video very much. Thank you.nothing else to say,for this comment.

Excellent presentation as always... well done

awesome video

narrow as hell, that for sure.

That porta potty 💩 after use would have been ripe for crew the oxygen supply a life saver

Didnt pilot have a sheet of bullet proof glass on top of instrument panel for protection against head on attack.

Atomic bomber called B-San by japs as respect.

Great video as usual. May I ask where that beautifully restored B-29 is located?

Looks like at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Pretty amazing collection there including a B-17, B-47, Model 10 Electra and SR-71 (among many others).

Thank you for this. Well done....

Man am I jealous.

The Japanese Unit 731 for Biological and Chemical development was weaponizing diseases and developing their own inhumane weapons and only stopped after their surrender. The military had formed civilian units to be armed with any weapon, including bamboo spears to be sacrificed against American artillery, machine guns, armor, and air support. It was have been a slaughter on an unseen scale. The Japanese were starving to death hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war and their army was still killing Chinese in China. Any weapon that forced them to surrender before the invasion saved many more times Japanese than the weapons inflicted.

Ashtrays ? When they're breathing bottled oxygen ? That's crazy!

@WWIIUSBombers >>> Great video...👍

I just waited for an hour and a half in the hot Carolina sun only to get rushed through 12 feet of the interior of a B-29 in about a minute... It was worth it!

My dad was assigned to Dallas Fort Worth as a mechanic. Prior to this he was at Pueblo CO on B24s. He told me many stories about the Supersfort teething troubles, especially with the engines. I recently reviewed some videos detailing problems with the fire control system, and it's obviou😮😮s that this aircraft was truly cutting edge technolog, so teething teething troubles were unsurprising. Ultimately its defects were corrected, and it served admirable until jet powered bombers supercede it. But my Dad always preferred the Liberator.

I've really enjoyed your WWII US Bomber series. At some point you may have to consider starting on a Cold War US Bomber series. They've got a B-47 and a B-52 at The Museum of Flight, right? Or, maybe, as a way of transitioning, you could cover the differences between the B-29 and the B-50 bombers. Thank you for all your work on this excellent series.

I was intrigued by the comment about shooting out searchlights, since I've often wondered about this. Please, do you have any more information?

Was the flight engineer a commissioned officer or an NCO?

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