10 Most Amazing Discoveries From World War II
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Secret Nazi nuclear bunkers, sunken hordes of silver, and lost World War Two relics in the jungle, here are 10 of some of the greatest discoveries from World War Two.
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10: Secret Nazi Nuclear Bunker
When you think about the Nazis, you typically think of lunatic German soldiers shouting angrily and doing some pretty horrendous stuff. You don't typically think about ants. But in fact, the Nazis were basically a bunch of ants. They burrowed all underneath Europe, constructing all kinds of underground tunnels and bunkers, with some of them only being found now.
9: Sunken Silver
When the Nazis fired their torpedoes at the S.S. Gairsoppa during the Second World War, they probably had no idea that the ship was actually carrying $240 million in silver bars and coins. Not that it would have done the Nazis much good in the end, but if they had known they probably would not have sunk the ship.
8: The Musashi Battleship Wreck
What do you do if you're an American billionaire with an obsession for World War Two relics? Well, if you are Paul Allen, you put together your own exploration team and start looking for shipwrecks. This is exactly what happened back in 2015 when Mr. Allen discovered the sunken Japanese battleship, the Musashi, after it was sunk over 70 years ago by the United States forces.
7: Carrier Pigeon in the Chimney
Forget sunken ships and forget war planes. One of the coolest World War Two discoveries ever was the carrier pigeon found in a chimney. People from the United States probably are not that familiar with carrier pigeons, but in Britain they get a lot of respect. They have a huge historical significance in the United Kingdom.
6: The P-40 Kittyhawk
On June 28, 1942, Sergeant Dennis Copping was flying his damaged P-40 Kittyhawk between two British airfields located in Egypt. The plan was to get the plane repaired. However, the 24-year-old soldier crash landed in the middle of the desert and the aircraft sat there for over 70 years until found again in 2012.
5: The USS Independence
The USS independence was an impressive aircraft carrier used during the war. It operated from between 1943 and 1945 in the Pacific Ocean. Then, it became one of the vessels in a target fleet for atomic bomb testing in Bikini Atoll. It was damaged by shock waves and radiation, and was eventually sent back to the United States, where it was intentionally sunk off the coast of San Francisco.
4: The Japanese Mega Sub
The Japanese I-400 Class Submarine was easily one of the most impressive war machines of the 1940s. It was the largest submarine ever built, and it kept the title of largest until the 1960s when nuclear ballistic missile submarines went into production. But in the 40s, it was a mega sub. It had the ability to travel around the entire world 1.5 times without needing to refuel.
3: Panther Tank in the Basement
Everyone dreams of owning a tank. Arnold Schwarzenegger has one, why can't I? Well, in 2015, police in northern Germany seized a World War 2 Panther tank that was being kept inside a senior citizen's home. The man in question was 78 years old at the time, and he had been hoarding the Panther tank along with some other pretty impressive military equipment, such as a torpedo and an anti-aircraft gun.
2: The Me-262 Aircraft
In the Netherlands, the substantial remains of a Me-262 Schwalbe jet fighter have been discovered buried under the ground. The discovery came completely by accident while workers from the Deelen Air Base Museum were working to excavate a WWII bomb crater at a nearby airfield.
1: WWII Relic in the Jungle
World War Two planes are basically scattered all over the world, and some of them are only now being found. Take the Japanese Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty Bomber recently discovered on the Balalae Island in the Solomons, which had been rotting in the jungle for over 70 years. And it's not the only one.
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the picture of the plane near the water is not a messerschmitt 262, but it is a bell airacobra in russian air force markings.
The P-39 pictured is one of the many my parents delivered as part of the 3rd Ferry Group out of Romulus MI........That's were mom and dad meet.....he'd tuck in tight on her wing trying to impress her....it didn't !!!!!!...it just really pissed her off.....she was all business.......her friend Cornelia Fort had been killed in a mid air by some jerk .......any way she ended up having to bailout of an Aircobra with big red stars on the wings and tail, June of 44.....swung once and hit the ground.......waited too long trying to save the "ship", as she called it .......wasn't afraid of dying just didn't want get blamed for screwing up a good plane......two weeks later she strapped on a Mustang.......accident board said sabotage.....the kraut POW's were working on the airfields......what could
go wrong....there were several lost this way.......mom was WASP class 43-5....P-39,40,47, 51and 63's.....she had great bed time stories when I was young.....who would have thought ?.......girls can fly too.................Capt. Mike.....SAT
Yeah that's a p 39 or a p 400
I know it from anywhere, for it’s my favorite plane
@@dawnboyd1753 also, that seems a bit sus...
Sheesh genuis in here
Never in human history has someone got so many things wrong in such a short amount of time.
Lol, also if you take out the unrelated footage and pics of other planes and ships, you end up with about one minute of footage :-)
at least someone besides me can see that
The errors are both glaring and painful. Dayum!
It's painful to watch or listen to.
Well, typical American. Absolute no knowledge of history when educated on public schools.
Betty bombers were not carrier launched and were not used against Pearl Harbour.
Good I did hear him say that.
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The Japanese "G4M Betty" is a land based twin engined bomber not used during the attack on pearl harbor. Planes used were singled engined carrier based aircraft. Types included, mitsubishi A6M zeroes, Aichi D3A Val divebombers, and B5N Kate torpedo bombers
agreed , there was a second less documented attack on pearl some months later but i don't think Bettys were deployed on that occasion either, they wouldn't have the range .
Yeah, they weren't used in pearl harbour.
7:35 sitting upright at 2600 ft... as a snorkeler swims by .. amazing.
bloody genetic modifications on Humans i,m still waiting on my giant bat wings i ordered
And the sun reflecting off the surface....
Great point! And he had to throw in the metric units to appease the Euroweenies ;-o
@@grazzer1673 FYI most of the world uses the metric system it,s only the US that i can think of that insists on using the unwieldy and outdated old British Imperial system
@@hexmark4879 As I already mentioned, among the virtues of preserving and using the Imperial system is that it makes you think. Whereas the metric system consists of the impossibly boring 10 - 10 - 10, the Imperial system, by contrast, is full of flavor (pint, ounce, quart, gallon, etc.) instead of the dileriously repetetive milliMETER, centiMETER, deciMETER, METER, kiloMETER, and so on. Moreover, unlike the drab metric system that requires very few brain cells to navigate, the Imperial system compels you to put on your thinking cap and exercise your brain. If you think that exercising one's brain is unimportant, look no further than your above retort. You start with "FYI". Do you really think you are "informing" me of something I didn't already know? In your feeble attempt at a sentence, you made six grammatical errors! You see what happens to people like yourself who are incapable of "complex" thought? It's no wonder that you now gravitate toward the easy system. It isn't that you deny the obvious multifariousness of the Imperial system, it's just that the Imperial system is far too complicated for your low level of intelligence. The world is getting dumber by the second, and I'll take a pass on participating in the decline of western civilization just to appease acquiescent Euroweenies like yourself.
FYI the G4Ms found in the Solomons are a part of Admiral Yamamoto's last flight before he was shot down in 1943
The picture of the ME-262 aircraft has a Soviet red star on a lend-lease P-39 Aircobra. Another mistake among so many in this video.
i know lol
Yeah there's a fair bit of "CREDIBILITY" missing from this video & consequently I'm moving on!!
Compare this shit to "Mark Felton" & his wartime videos!! In actual fact there is no comparison between the two of them. If you wish to watch real wartime footage inclusive of factual dialogue you need to got to Felton's site as he is "Mr. Wartime" video himself!! Stupid fun type photo backgrounds in thsi video just confirm the crap that it is!!
Almost all the items shown are not accurate representations. This destroys the narrative thus resulting in a negative comments.
Yes, not a good video.
@@brendonrutherford5118 he didn’t even GOOGLE to see if the g4m1 was used at Pearl harbor(I’m not an idiot btw)
The Gairsoppa silver was recovered around a decade ago. This is even on Wikipedia, Also there was a documentary series done on this salvage operation.
The picture in number 2 is a American made soviet used p39 air cobra not a me262
Yes
Oh boy. Either you saved me from watching a dumb video, or you got me to go watch something hilarious!
Next up - we will talk about ultra-modern 5th generation jet fighters while showing you random images of WWI Fokker tri-planes, Spads, and SE-5's.
Yep, what a half-assed ill-informed silly production.
no no no those fokkers were in messerschmitts
This irritated me so much I could not finish the video.
NO BUT FR THEY GOING GO SAY ITS A F22 AND SHOW US SOME FW190
@David Smyth top most amazing discoveries of arab war
It’s better to just listen than to look at the pictures and video.
A Betty was not that difficult to take out. In fact it's nickname was "Flying Cigar" due to it's shape and tendency to easily catch fire when hit.
The Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty Bomber could not fly off a carrier - too big - so was not at Pearl Harbor. It was an Imperial Japanese Navy bomber, but only land based.
Also, it did not have self-sealing fuel tanks and had no protective armor. The wings contained fuel as well as body tanks to increase its noteworthy long range. They could fly over 2300 miles with a full bomb load. Comparably in age and development stage in the war, the German HE-111 could fly 1357 miles max, usually much less; and the American B-25 Mitchell had a stated range of 1300 miles.
Bettys were considered by many Allied pilots as not too difficult to flame by hitting them in the wing tanks, or any other fuel location - tracer rounds could then light them off. American fighter pilots called the G4M1 the 'Flying Zippo' referring to the ubiquitous cigarette lighter of the era.
The primary danger to attacking pilots was the 20mm cannon in the tail which was probably the most powerful tail guns in a bomber during all of WW2.
Lt. Butch O’Hare was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on February 20, 1942, while facing eight Bettys as the only pilot with ammunition within range to stop them from attacking the carrier, USS Lexington. With only 34 seconds of bullets available to him, O'Hare averaged using only 60 rounds per G4M1 bomber as he shot down five and badly damaged a sixth. Almost all of his shots were made at difficult deflection angles. The two remaining Bettys dropped their loads well short of the carriers and ran for home. Post war records indicate the sixth damaged Betty crashed before returning to base.
I am not saying the Betty was very easy to bring down; it still took skill. That bomber had no 'ruggedness advantages' (armor and self-sealing tanks) that could be attributed to the Grumman Wildcat O'Hare flew in his engagement.
The Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bomber's biggest advantages after its long ranger were the skill and experience of her pilots and crews - an advantages that dwindled as the war progressed.
The Betty was a land based bomber. All the Japanese planes that took part in the Pearl Harbor bombing were single engine carrier aircraft.
Yep, I was going to say that if no one else did. The Betty Bomber was a land based aircraft. And at the time, there was no Japanese land bases near Pearl Harbor.
And they sure couldn’t take off from a carrier. But, it is still a very cool find..
I couldn’t believe he said that ether. If he’s gonna comment on a video, he should at least know what he’s talking about.
yeah, they were kates and vals that attacked Pearl Harbor.
This clip must have been made by the fact checker for FB.
Betty bombers were not used at Pearl Harbor.
And they did not have sealing fuel tanks and therefore easy to shoot down.
Only carrier based aircraft were used. No Betty bombers
You might be able to get the Betty bomber parts at the local Subaru dealer. Both are/were made by Fuji Heavy Industries.
The Japanese "Betty" had no armor, did not have self sealing fuel tanks, was easy to take down and did not participate in the Pearl Harbor attack, it was a land based bomber, not a carrier bomber.
3:53 ah yes, it definitely wasn’t Midway, but a battle I as a reenactor have never heard of in my life, that takes the cake as the biggest naval battle of the war
The battle of 'light Gulf' was a USN attack against a Japanise lightbulb factory just off the coast of Greenland. B52 dive bombers attacked from seventy thousand feet and using the newly invented JDAM managed to score a direct hit on the filament department.
good one :)
LEYTE GULF NOT LIGHT GULF
It was a sad day when their additive 3D printers went off line.
it was sbd/avenger bombers
I feel so dumb now...
Leyte is pronounced "lay-tee". The Japanese sub you include did not have yet to be developed missiles, and it's aircraft were small seaplanes designed via "quick connect" to be folded up & put away in a deck mounted "hut" when not in use. The supposed ME-262 you picture is an American P-39 Aircobra propeller-driven fighter in Soviet colors via the U.S. WWII Lend-Lease program. The Betty Bomber was not used at Pearl Harbor as they were not Japanese aircraft carrier planes.
Correct !!!Me-262????
Never seen a jet fighter with a piston engine 😂
FOR MOTHER RUSSIA COMRADE'S
This dude doesn’t know anything about wwii.
First he called a bell airacobra an me-262
Second he thought the Betty attacked Pearl Harbor, not possible in 1941 as most bombers were operated by air forces and could not be launched off of an aircraft carrier.
And he says the Betty has self sealing fuel tanks and good armour and after one hit they would come down they weren’t hard to take down
Que the Doolittle raid
no, the me 262 was most likely there, he probably got the picture wrong, because he always does.
About 1% of the visuals are connected to WW2 era.
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Correction, The Leyte is pronounced as "Lay- te"
ME-262 is by far the coolest find.
only it's a P-39 Airacorbra with Soviet markings
Not really
Yeah me 262 is coolest
100000000000000000000000000000000000000000%
I love ME 262s they are super cool
About 60 years ago; when I was ten years old, I went to a private school.
One of the many dutys we had was running the flag, up the pole.
Two kids would do it, with an older kid in command!
One day, someone phoned the school, and asked, "is the school in distress"? ....
Canada.
Then we all got a lesson on which way was up; on the "Union Jack"....
Now, to this day...I notice which way is up; on the "Jack"....
You probably can guess where this is going....
Yup...your Union Jack, at 4:331 in, is upside down!!!
(Is your channel, in distress?)
nice spotting
Yes....
Please try to connect the clips with the storylines and your "pronuciations" are EXCRUTIATING.
By drag you mean destroy, correct? Because when taking the panther out of the “cellar” they hadn’t actually installed the tracks so it could be properly moved and ended up destroying the suspension along with every single one of the road wheels. Sad but true.
I shed a tear when i learnt that
2 things, about the P-40, a Spitfire is shown flying. ME-262, showing a lend lease P-39 in Russian markings. Not dissing video just perusing
Half of it is made up bollox.
G4m1s weren’t at Pearl Harbor... and the musashi wasn’t sunk by C130s and biplanes... and not to mention many other inaccuracies including showing a spitfire as a p40 and having a flying tiger p40 in the Sahara... the flying tiger was in China at the time
Talks about WWII
:casually shows modern day military troops:
10:30 мин-,,Глаз Америки ,, плохо видит-вместо P-39 Aircobra с красными звёздами ВВС СССР он утверждает что это немецкий реактивный 2-х моторный Ме-262.
drugs are bad he has a problem i think.
I don’t think the Betty was used in Pearl Harbor, to bug and heavy to take off from carriers in my opinion
This channel may hold the record for showing clips and pics totally unrelated to the subject at hand. Talking about a Me-262 while showing pics of a Russian operated P-39 is really sucky, folks.
Right up there with the book about WW2 aircraft which has an A-10 on the cover : )
And saying that the g4m1 was used during Pearl Harbor...
7:37 ship sits 2600 feet below the waves... Shows scuba diver casually swimming by not even with an oxygen tank. Yeah....
That is so cool I love this stuff like world war 2 and 1
Me tho
What crap... In the beginning of the ME 262 story is a picture of a russian Airacobra propeller fighter, without the propeller blades. truly magnificent work by mixing those two fighters..
Dennis Copping is my great uncle! My nan has his badge, it smells a lot. We also have the letters informing him being missing. We also have a letter from the Queen and her father.
Yes m6 great uncle taught in India 1943 he mia 2 and married an Indian woman she died on board he had a badge I forgot what badge it was but it had 2 lions and it was in the shape of a cross.
No Betty's used at Pearl Harbor 12-7-41!.
You really need to do your research better. That P-40 you showed flying was actually a Supermarine Spitfire.
And the actual p40 shown was a flying tiger, which was in CHINA so I have no idea how that and it’s H O R R I B L E editing ended up there...
Of all the ships sunk in WW2, the one pictured is not the Musashi, looks more like the battleship "bulk carrier"
The g4m Betty bombers weren't use in the pearl harbor attack it was D3a Vale B5n Kate's and A6m Zeros
The picture you show for a MW 262 is actually a Bell P 39 Airacobra of which many were supplied to the USSR under lend lease. The ME 262 was equipped with 4 Mk 108 canon , not 2.
Very intriguing!
Inoright
And only zeros and others I dont recall the accounts saying there was GM4 Betty's in the raid
Zeros, Vals, and Kates were all that were used at Pearl.. not sure there were or weren’t a5m claudes used... don’t think so...
that soveet plan is a p39 airucobru
Dork
#6 the P-40 Kittyhawk you show is really a Supermarine Spitfire.
Plus, the P-40 was a Warhawk not Kittyhawk.
10:21 That's... not an ME262. ME 262s have 2 Jet engines. One on each wing.
How do you know all this
@@priyathomas4981 painful research
I wanna say for the record, the game was easier to take down than the narrator said. They were lightly armored, but did have some defensive armament
People Finding sunken WW2 ships in the Philippines sure is something I'm proud living in here, I wish I can find a plAne UnU
Also...
"Leyte" Not "Leyt" lol
American Eye motto: Never let facts and research get in the way of CLICKS.
He said there was an anti tank gun in the guys basement but it was a bofors 40mm aa gun
Totally stupid video using modern aircraft, ships and wrong locations. Don’t waste your time
The plane you show is an Air cobra in the Russian air force WW2.
I agree with you
unfortunately, by the time I read this comment I was already 3 minutes into the video and screaming at my screen from all the wrongless. ...*facepalm*
So much wrong information. Wrong photos as well
Why do you show a Spitfire flying in an item on a P40?
the Betty Bombers interest me the most at this time
Why is the vast majority of the images unrelated with the story? Old galleons being shown for ww2, clearly modern day soldiers with modern weapons and gear etc...
You forgot the Yamato...
Yep, how hard is it to get the right picture for the plane.
Pictured is a p-39 not an me 262.
Every thing we've owned is from the nature, so the nature own everything back.
the Beatty is not a carrier launched aircraft....not used in pearl harbor raid......
that's is a Bell P 39 not a German 262, their kinda screw up
The German ME 262 he was talking about is showing a picture of an American made P-39 with Soviet Russian markings. This guy does not get much right.
The RAF P-40 has been known about for years and the Stormbird (Sturmvogel) is not all that secret considering Me 262 project built replicas with Learjet engines
It is pronounced Lay-tee Gulf.
no this one was the much smaller one, the lite one.
G4 Betty bombers were never anywhere near Pearl Harbor, had no armor nor self sealing fuel tanks. There is a LOT of completely wrong information here being put up as factual.
yeah true
Yes indeed this side tunnels were found and they were indeed used for research into atom weapons but this tunnel complex was know of after the war and was simply filled in.
Paul Allen died about the time this warship was found.
video: they were attacked by ww2 american planes
shows ww1 planes*
Its long gone now. But there used to be a old rusted russian metal wing biplane in west Virginia on a farm near newell wv rusting with an old tractor it was. Of the type the legendary strike witches used and had an incomplete maxim still mounted on it Supposedly it was brought back in a crate after the war
metal winged biplane,never seen one ,also is it the night witches
It's pronounced lay- tea- gulf
Leyte gulf sir
I know all that shut up
Can I get back at 12 minutes and 57 seconds of My Life, absolutely horrific production.
The silver from the gairsoppa was salvaged by the Norwegian ship named seabed worker( the same ship and teamWHO salvaged the F1 rocket engine from the Apollo space mission ). A small portion og the silver was minted into comemorative coins inn honor of the Norwegian war sailors. The silver recovery was documented inn the 3 part Discovery series named silver rush
I think you could have done a little bit more research about the Me-262. Look man, I’m 11 and even I know that that’s not an Me-262, that’s the Soviet version of the American P63 Kingcobra
Actually the P39 was American but under the lend lease agreement was exported(shipped) to the Russians, like the many Russian operated M4 Sherman’s
@@thecobra1143 Yeah and i apologize to everyone because he showed pics of the actual 262 but on that picture it was a P39
The Betty bombers are most interesting, hopefully they can restore, because there are none now as you say.
Comments have saved me. Thank you all.
It's really amazing what's out there
This video, whatever it is, begins with the words, "Secret Nazi Nuclear Bunkers," and then proceeds to show us a picture of a cast metal turret probably made by the French in World War One for the Maginot line. Please, no more!! It's making my head hurt!!
The carrier pigeon is the coolest thing i herd on this list
10:19 this picture in fact is not a me 262. It is either a Soviet/American bell p39/p400/p63
4:26 “in Britain they get a lot of respect” proceeds to show us marine saluting a British flag
This deserve much more views
It’s only been two weeks it’ll get more within the year
And likes
That 240 million in silver would be worth roughly 4 billion USD today.
Amazing Content All The Best To You All.
The airplane was the P 39 Aricobra.
Why when you start talking about Me-262s you put up some random images of people digging, some photos fom 1944 and a P-39?
9:23
He had a AA (Anti Air) gun
9:56
He had a AT (Anti Tank) gun
What now he has?
He had a 88mm cannon to be more *accurate!*
Both are kind of correct if it,s a 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 they where originally designed as the name suggests (Flugabwehrkanone) as an air defence weapon but proved extremely effective in the AT role, so perhaps we could cut "American Eye" a little slack on this one he,s probably developing a bit of a complex over the myriad amount of mistakes already pointed out.
After they retrieve it and bring it up what ever country it resides in they have to divide it by the time it's divided several times .it won't be worth the hard work bringing it up to the surface.
10:16 that is p39 aircobra
Better take that unoperational tank away from that super dangerous old man. Wouldn't want someone to bitch about it
Number 2: that is no way in hell a messerschmit 262, it has the red army insignia on it.
sent this to my class mates thanks
your class mate prob failed whatever he needed it for
@@wackings7776 A classic example of "the blind leading the blind."
1:18 'first jet fighters were built'
Image: shows a glider
Yes, P-39 air cobra
Not to be mean but airacobra
P39 is correct tho
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STOP WAR !!!!
Battle of Light Gulf???
I wish I could have met the old gent with the tank. Bet he was a character.
My great grandpa fought WWII
Cool my step grandpa fought in the Vietnam war
I call him pipa
I believe someone who served in the European theater in WWII, lived in the house I now own in the late 40's and 1950's. I found a German device hidden in the basement. It was a compass mounted on two gimbals It was used in the navigation system in a WWII German bomber.
the ME 262 aircraft with russian red star? the joke of the century
NO Bettys at Pearl Harbor!
Fact: most artifacts from WW II were found and placed Inside the WW II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.