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Five Things You Didn't Know About Heinkel He-111
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- Heinkel He-111 is probably the most recognizable WWII medium bomber. Initially presented as an airliner, it soon saw combat in the Spanish Civil War. Here are five things about it that you probably didn't know.
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- Ron Mackay - Heinkel He 111; Crowood Aviation Series
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He111 in combat. Its bomb load was puny a jokeno wonder hitler couldnt set London ablaze like his germany was burning by allies heavies
He 111 has got to be one of the best-looking aircraft of all time. Easily on par with the Spitfire for visual appeal.
And I think that B-29 designers might have been inspired by it 😁
Also, Me-262 - in my opinion. 😏
@@showtime112no B29 pressurised dictated its tube like apperance the B29 was in a class of its own but a generation advanced too
Best looking as spitefire pity it wasnt as good in combat
Some of those CASA Heinkels were used in the movie 'The Battle of Britain'.
Excellent video as always. Good tactics for the night fighting. They're silhouetted against the stars. No or few defensive guns underneath.
Thanks for commenting! I couldn't find the exact description of tactics used by He-111 pilots in these hunts but this one somehow felt the most logical. Those TBs were not protected from that angle and they could hardly maneuver to avoid fire.
Two of the Spanish Heinkels were also used in the film 'Patton' and some appeared in the 1969 movie 'Eagles Over London.'
@@colinbarron4 Thanks. I did not know that.
@@robgraham5697 Don't know about "Eagles Over London" but Spanish airforce He111's were used in the film "The Battle of Britain", as were Spanish airforce Buchon's, basically an ME-109 with a Merlin engine. Film was also made in 1969.
If I remember correctly, at first, France had refused to be flown over by the largest formation of German aircraft seen since the Second World War. But it was ridiculous, these were demilitarized planes that were being moved from Spain to Britain for the movie...
THere is an interesting book written in the 60s about the making of the movie. I think it can still be found in used condition.
My favourite bomber. It just looks fantastic
Thanks for the feedback! Early versions were quite different though.
Outstanding video on one of my favorite planes. I knew 3/5 of the lessons taught, but I never heard of it being used as a night fighter on the Eastern Front. Well done!
Thanks for yet another great feedback! What was the other one you didn't know?
That one was news to me too.
The fact that He-111 also scored some air to air kills makes this plane fantastic as well as badass at the same time.
Not bad for an airliner 😁
Got to see one up close and got to go through it, mid-late 90’s. The commemorative Air Force had a Spanish built Heinkel with Merlin engines, painted up in German colours. Showed up in multiple cities with a B-17G. That was a good summer.
I believe it was :)
They crashed the Heinkel
@@None-zc5vg yeah, I saw that. Did some pretty hefty damage. I believe it was a wheels up landing.
I think I saw the same plane, at an airshow in 1999.
@@MImlac likely. I think it was the only one left flying, in North America.
Very well done, Showtime112, excellently compiled. Did not know the night fighter version. Thanks for the info. Just as you mentioned, China purchased 10 Henkel He111As from Germany to fight against Japanese in Shanghai area. Four were sent to bomb the Japanese fleet in the Yangtze River. Japanese interceptors showed up. The Heinkels could have fled away but they decided to shoot back. With the gun buckets lowered, they were slow and three were shot down eventually.
Thank you for the feedback and additional info. I want to cover some of the Chinese fighting against the Japanese in a future video. Probably not the Heinkels since they were early versions and they looked quite different, but there are other planes.
@@showtime112 You can consider I-153, I-16, Gladiators (which had a record of downing 3 Japanese type 96 bombers in 1 single attack) P-36, P-40, P-38 and B-25. Many choices indeed. Looking forward to that and thank you in advance.
Interesting history, specifically about the night fighter ops!
I'm glad you appreciate the content! The night fighter operations is probably the most fascinating of these facts.
Well researched. Great work as usual!!!!
Thanks, I'm glad you appreciated it!
So dad, you shot down 12 planes! Did you fly a 109 or 190? You flew WHAT?! Amazing, that is one of the best stories never told. Had that crew been allied there would be dozens of books, and a couple of Hollywood films about them. Imagine what stunning talent those gunners had. The 111 only carried single 7.92 mm MG's in each position. Only 1/2 positions could engage a target in any particular direction. So they took down 12 huge enemy bombers with a handful of rifle calibre bullets. Those 111 MG's carried ammo in drums (75) I think. Oh... and they did it IN THE DARK!
PS. Looked it up and the 111's may have been heavily upgunned with 5 20 mm cannon and 4 fixed forward MG's.
It is a fascinating story. It is possible that some of them were modified for this job. There aren't many sources covering this.
Interessant! Danke fürs Video👍
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Really outstanding computer graphics.
War Thunder isn't a proper simulation but the graphics are pretty advanced. Thank you for commenting!
Excellent video as usual
I appreciate your positive feedback!
and again, Topp Work, greetings from Germany, Ringo
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Just a plain old cool lookin airplane. One of my faves fershure 👍
I agree, thanks for the comment!
Dobar video, kao uvek
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The He-111 was used as transport in the Stalignrad airlift and as torpedo bomber against the allied Artic convoys to the USSR
Thanks for contributing. That torpedo missions sound like a very interesting topic for some future video.
@@showtime112 The He-111 losses as transports in Stalingrad were very heavy, 165 planes, only the Ju-52, a true transport, losses more planes...266!!!
@@showtime112 The He-111 could carry two torpedoes and had good range, so saw a lot of service against the Arctic convoys. Definitely worth a video if you can 🙂
The He 111 was in fact the Luftwaffe's most effective transport at Stalingrad. The fuel injected engines always started reliably in the cold whereas the carburated radial of the Ju 52/3m need to have hot air blown over it.
Very interesting TY
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Brilliant! You ought to be an Historian!
Thanks! I'm trying to be something similar :)
Heinkel 111 : many thanks to ressucitate the bravor of this plane ( and their crews ) , He111 have been always present form begin to end of WW2 ! a Luftwaffe heroe ! thanks for sharing : )
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Another great story.
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You forgot to mention how Spanish Heinkils would often fly over Gibraltar and RAF Hawker Hunters had to intercept them with Full Airbrake and landing Gear down
Yes, this might be an interesting detail.
HE111 a great plane versatile everything it do.
It was pretty good at what it was designed to do.
Fantastic work about this german bomber that became famous in the Battle of ENGLAND in summer 40. In Spain it was still used until the 70's !!! Incredible !!!
Used it like a night hunter in East front, it was a curious but an efficient idea.
The Battle of Britain.
@@beowulf1312 Sure, Britain !!!
Suis cassé. Dormir bien ce soir. Pour le Heinkel 111 espagnol, ils ont été utilisés en 1969 pour tournage du film bataille de Angleterre. Comme d ailleurs les Buchon.
Ils ont fait du S.A.R au départ de Las Palmas Gando Gran Canaria. Remplacé par Fokker 27. Ont du partir de Gando quand on bombardé IFni Sahara espagnol.
Ensuite il a oublié le Heinkel 111Z Zwilling mais la c'était un cas spécial a 5 moteur qui mériterait un vidéo
I quite agree. Soviets obviously used their antiquated TB-3s for night harassment duties and He-111 was pretty adequate to shoot them down.
Salut Jeanne. Tu connais le
Heinkel 111-Z à 5 moteur ?
Excellent video on a great bird sir!
I'm happy to hear that you liked it!
Great job on research for this.
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Another good one from WWII!
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Ljepo je vidjeti da War Thunder služi nečemu korisnom a ne samo da mi ždere živce 😁👍❤️
Thanks for the historical info, I didn't know half of this. It's nice to see that War Thunder is serving something useful and not just eating away at my nerves 😁👍❤️
Hvala na komentaru! WT hoće biti naporan. Ja u svojoj igračkoj karieri nisam baš previše igrao multiplayer i sad zahvaljujući WT mi je jasno zašto 😁
The Jerry's did make a pretty good medium bomber here, glad they didn't put all their efforts into making a four engine heavy bomber before the war started, things may have been a bit different early in the war.
The old well known 'you can't do strategic work with tactical bombers' problem 😁
In the Iraqi part : the attempt of coupe was known by : Rashed Aly Al Kaylany movement also known as the movement of May 1941 .
Thank you for contributing info!
Watching this after midnight with all the lights in my room turned off, those night fights looked awesome!
Great video, nothing less than expected!
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Thanks again! The night scenes actually looked better in the original video, YT compression unfortunately ruins it a bit.
@@showtime112 Yeah, yt at its best - as usual! 😉
Very interesting history. How do you make these WT missions
Thanks! I use CDK mission editor. It's not the easiest tool to use but I'm learning it.
@@showtime112 Can you elaborate more about that editor?
Is this a mod or a WT feature?
I like making my own missions in IL-2 1946 Editor which I find very useful. But it feels a bit outdated and I want to move to a new one.
@@hariszark7396 It's a separate app you need to install but it is official. You can watch the tutorial videos to give you an idea how it works. This is the first part on the WT channel: czcams.com/video/GCb0sd3pfKk/video.html
@@showtime112 thanks mate. 👍👍
6) Heinkel WANTED to provide Lufthansa with a successor to the He 70 (who didn't want another gas guzzler), as well as an improved bomber for the Luftwaffe - as the second prototype was being shown at the Paris Salon as, "The fastest aircraft in civil aviation," the first and third prototypes were undergoing evaluation by the Luftwaffe as bombers.
Thanks for contributing! I wanted to talk about these early days of He-111 but the problem is that early versions are not available in any game. And they looked very different.
The He70 was good looking but was eclipsed by a Junkers competitor that was more capacious.
@@None-zc5vg Lufthansa used the He 70 as a prestige aircraft - 6 passengers at 200mph. Were it not for state subsidies, the Party buying tickets en masse, and the reliable old Ju 52s bringing in revenue hand over fist, it would've driven them to the wall, they'd no desire for a bigger, thirstier, successor, no matter how far Heinkel bent over.
Surprising that He111s were used as night fighters. I guess although its speed was in the mediocre range it was most likely a very stable gun platform. I wonder if any large caliber guns were mounted in this role at unit level? There's something else about the 111 that I discovered a few years back. Apparently they had an inherent design flaw in the wing attachment points with the fuselage which created problems with accelerated metal fatigue. Not sure if any failed in flight though.
There is indication that some of those Heinkels were modified to an extent but generally, it was more an ad hoc employment. Thanks for commenting!
Many Heinkel He 111 had a 20mm gun in the nose.
@@williamzk9083 KG26 used the 20mm cannon in the nose to great effect during torpedo runs. Was good at suppressing return fire
I seen pictures of one plane fitted with 4/5 20 mm forward firing cannons
Excellent work. Just played a tabletop BoB game where He-111s were featured. Very good.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you liked it!
That's interesting that the Spaniards made use of Merlin engines for the He111, when the Jumo engines were not available - I wonder if the Merlins improved performance, in comparison with the Jumo engines?
And a bit ironic too. I'm not sure if there were any performance improvements. I wasn't looking into it much but I suppose there must have been some. If nothing else, there was the availability of spare parts and ease of maintenance.
@@showtime112 Yes, ironic, not least of all
beautiful airplane!
There was something to it, that's for sure.
Okay, I must admit I never knew about the He-111's night fighter role. That crew though, some good hunting.
War Thunders bomber on bomber action is not so silly afterall.
That generally isn't too well known but yes, it did happen sometimes 😁
Bravo Showtime 112! The role of the nightfighter deserves an episode of its own. Waiting for it!
Thanks! Maybe I'll go into that. But night fighter operations deserve some more attention for sure.
For Spanish version, many of thèm were used for the movie: Battle of Britain, like hispano aviacion HA1109 buchon(aka Bf109E ... with Merlin engine).
Spanish S.A.R Heinkel were replaced by Fokker 27, certainly based at Gando airport Gran Canaria island.
I think you forgot the spécial version He111-Z aka Zwilling a glider tow but différent story
Yeah! The makers of the BoB movie were quite lucky that someone still operated those planes. Ironically, with the engines used by Spitfires and Hurricanes 😁 I didn't forget the Zwilling but I didn't have it in the game nor was any good footage available.
@@showtime112 Hello mate. I watched Your vidéo 👍 when was in hôtel thalasso thermal spa. Close to Spanish border. It was a pleasure to watch it After a swimming pool, sauna, hammam session 😰
@@dominiqueroudier9401 Not what most people would watch in such a situation but I'm happy to hear it 😁
Outstanding video and presentation.
Thanks, I'm very happy to hear it!
Have you considered making a video about the yugoslav partisan air force?
Not seriously but it might happen in the future. I found a text how possibly the last combat mission ever taken by a Ju-87 Stuka was by an example captured by the partisans. Stories like that could really work.
There are also a couple of interesting stories of NDH pilots defecting over to the partizans. It’ll probably be really hard to find the airplane models for the videos.
@@lukamarko1037 Very likely. I think those were some trainers or recon biplanes mostly.
@@showtime112 If I remember correctly, they were obsolete Potez bombers. I’ll send you a link to the article.
One of my favorite airplanes, beautiful aerodynamic design
Nowadays we’re all used to watching various cruise missiles being launched by aircraft but the He111 goes down in history as the first aircraft to air-launch the original cruise missile ~ the V1. This version was put into use as a way of launching the V1 to targets outside the reach of the ground-launch sites especially once the allies overran V1 launch sites as the western front advanced.
Questions for people that play War Thunder:
1) Can I play with a friend in our private server?
2) Can we play Co-op PvE?
3) Can I make my own missions and maps, in a mission Editor?
1) Yes 2) Not sure, I haven't tried something like that 3) You can make missions with the CDK editor which is a bit complicated but you figure it out in time. You can also use custom battles option which is much simpler but limited. However you need to play online PvP battles to unlock airplanes. You can buy premium ones. Initially, you only get the initial level planes such as Gladiator, P-26 or I-15.
@@showtime112 thanks for your reply! 👍👍
Very good original content.
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Hey showtime, do you use War Thunder CDK when making videos? Or do you have people that volunteer to help create them.
Yes, I use CDK to setup missions I need to make the videos. No volunteers yet 😁 There are people who are interested in flying such missions. I sometimes used such help but with DCS.
Thanks for this historical video. EXCELLENT JOB.
Thanks once again Pablo!
I always wondered why there was never a 4 engined version?. Seems like an easy upgrade to a useful aircraft. ❤️
I think it was probably too small for it. Germany had some four engine bombers but they were never produced in large numbers.
There was , sort of the He116. But unit wasn't used in the military. At the time Germany didn't need long-range bombers it preferred smaller faster one. They only really started looking into long-range for the America bomber. As for a 4 engined He111 that would have taken a big redesign and heinkel were working on the 4 engined He177 . But the less said about that the better.
Well, although there was never a 4 engined version of the He111, there was a FIVE engined version ~ the He111 Zwilling (‘Twins’)~ which was basically 2 He111 joined together by a new centre wing section which mounted the extra engine. This monstrosity was built specifically to tow the Me321 heavy glider, itself later upgraded into the 6 engined Me323 Gigant.
Incidentally, the Zwilling was a huge improvement as a method of towing the Me321, which had previously been towed by a formation of three, yes, THREE Me110 fighters, whose pilots really earned their pay for such a dangerous task.
Awesome video as per usual. Another interesting plane with such a neat history.
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The night fighter action is quite interesting.. I must learn more about that
Thanks for commenting! If I find some more detailed sources, it might be a future topic.
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Preciosísimo y excelente bombardero lijero!!!!
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Some He 111 had a fixed machine gun in the tail. It was more a deterrent to distract the attacking pilot.
Psychological warfare 😁
You should do a video about operation oluja there were Croatian mig-21’s carrying out sorties against serb military
That's in some long-term plans.
I have a soft spot for the He - 111, not as dynamic as other bombers like the Ju - 88 , but a real workhorse not dissimilar to the British Wellington (Wimpy) ,the 111 had beautifull curved lines and those large thick wings could absorb quite a bit of rifle caliber machinegun fire,ok she was relatively slow,but could lift a hefty weight,and the slowish and steady platform made her exell at launching torpedos.
I have always been fascinated by these aeroplanes and their crews, wondering what it would've been like to fly a mission over England in one! There would be a great view from up front with all that glass! (I never get shot at in my imagination though and open a flask of coffee on the way back over the channel!)
Yes, certain things seem more romantic when we imagine them 😁
Can you do a video on the Anglo Iraqi air war
I'll probably do it someday.
Well, I didn't know most of these.
So the video was successful :)
In one of my books I have a picture of a Ju 88 night fighter with (I think) Wurzburg radar sticking out the front, maybe these had that too?
Apparently not. Those Heinkels didn't go through extensive modifications. Unlike special night fighters in the Western front later in the war.
@@showtime112 so it was mostly "maybe they will fly here too so we can shoot them down"
They use on the film Batle of Britan They film This movie in Spain they use m109 it tha rools Royce engine .and H111 from Spanish air force.
Yes, good thing they were still around at that time to make the film.
What classical music piece is the beginning of the video
That is from Beethoven's 5th Symphony.
Nice video. Those Merlin engines completely ruined the aesthetics of the He 111 and Bf 109 clones.
Thanks for the comment! As usually, there's nothing like the original 😁
About two planes was used after war in Czechoslowakia, one as jet engines tester.
Thanks for providing info!
What were the Soviets doing at night in 1942?
Mostly harassment. They didn't cause serious damage but they kept the Germans from getting a good night sleep.
Dornier DO17. She's a good looker.
6) he 111 were the first allied bombers used to bomb Japanese in 1937 by the kmt
Weren't those Martin B-10s?
@@showtime112 sorry I ment to say Japanese not japan. They bombed Japanese landing forces in Shanghai
@@terrynewsome6698 Oh, sorry. Yes, that would make an interesting point. WT (or other games/simulations) don't have the early versions of He-111 which looked quite different so I avoided facts which had to do with them.
Actually the HE 111 was evaluated by Eric Brown after one from Kampgeschwader 26 forced landed near the Fith of Forth Scotland on 9-2-40 ao was under evalutaed BEFORE the Battle of Britain
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I believe the "first introduced as an airliner" bit was just subterfuge by the Germans.
It was always a bomber, but the Versailles treaty banned Germany from developing/building bombers, so they just called it a passenger plane and developed it anyway.
True, Germans were masking a lot of their military activity as civilian. Including the He-111.
Imagine if they repurposed the bombay, 4 20mm cannons in a Jazz Music arrangement, add some additional MGs to the nose, add Radar, and do away with the dust bin gunner. Might have given the RAF night bombers a few additional headaches.
It would have certainly worked magically in the Eastern Front.
Please tell me the US was not stupid AGAIN and not preserving the two He-111s they had as war prizes? I am not hopeful in any way. The US had flying Betty (NATO code name) bombers they didn't preserve and now there are no complete ones in the world. The US also had a one of a kind four engine Japanese bomber they didn't preserve. There may have even been a surviving all wood Tachikawa Ki-106 (Ki-84 Hayate) that I can't find information on what happened to it when in US hands. Does anybody know what happened to it (may be up to 3 of them? You can understand my pessimism. Thanks all.
No idea it was used as a nightfighter, like the Ju88 and Dornier17-217 all be it without added guns.
To be perfectly honest, I only recently found out about it.
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I love shooting down He-111 with my Spitfire....!!!
Yes, I see how that can be fun 😁
Whoa, how do you shoot down anything with only one machinegun pointing in each direction?😅
You have to be really really persistent :)
Well, one thing i didn't know is what was a Heinkel He111
Not exactly YT algorithm's brightest moment, obviously :)
Those Tupolev's look a bit cumbersome.
Night fighters with two 8mm machine guns. Four 20mm cannons might have worked a little better.
Certainly. But I think they were trying to achieve as much as possible with what they had at that moment.
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What happens to Indiana Jones' He-111?
For a people as tech savvy as Germans not developing proper radar equipment until late in the war is a bit weird...
You could say that I suppose. Technology sometimes needs ideal circumstances to emerge
Russian pilots : "We were just hanging in the air, flying by night we had nothing to care..."
Obf Waldemar was like : "😂 brrrrrrrrr... brrr"
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Finnish ace Ilmari Juutilainen shot down one of those soviet ones over Finnish gulf.
Franco was not a dictator. He managed to avoid communism in Spain, and to stay neutral in WWII. God bless him
Well, maybe this was the better option for Spain but you and I have very different definitions of a dictator 😁
Heinkel He-111 Zwilling 2 in 1
Yes, that was an interesting fact too. Unfortunately, we don't have a model of it in any simulation and I couldn't find any good footage either.
Try a CZcams search !!! @@showtime112
He 111 not in same class as allied x4 engined bombers
It was never intended for the same purpose.
Mussolini's favorite aircraft surely must be the Fieseler Storch.
Like I said, a four-engined HE111 is a simple upgrade
No idea mate
This video should be titled, "Five Things You Didn't Know About Heinkel He-111 ..... IF YOU'RE ONLY 12 YEARS OLD".
Not everybody is a die-hard WW2 aviation enthusiast. One guy here actually commented he didn't even know what a He-111 was :)
What happened in the end ??? Red Armed crushed the 3rd Reich .
Western Allies played a rather important role too but strategic issues are not the focus of these videos.
Not a plane that ever impressed me very much. Poor defensive armament,performance against Hurricanes and Spitfires.
German airplanes were mostly designed to operate in conditions of air superiority.
Nice looking plane, not a very good pay load or defense systems. Easilly shot down.. The plane that lost the Battle of Britain
It was asked to do something it wasn't really designed for. It definitely wasn't a strategic bomber.
The 111 was also used as a torpedo bomber over the North Sea and English Channel.
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