The Disney Bomb
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- It was not an easy task to hunt down Kriegsmarine U-boats. The grey wolves of the Atlantic knew precisely when to attack and when to hide from its prey.
It was even harder to destroy U-boat pens scattered in the French coasts and the Northern Sea.
From the beginning of the war in 1939 through the end of 1942, Allied forces had only neutralized 150 U-boats, roughly three per month.
In contrast, the Germans had a success rate of sinking 20 ships of roughly 180,000 tons per month.
The British were desperate for a solution. They could not withstand losing any more ships and essential supplies at the hands of the stealthy U-boat hunters.
Conventional bombs had little effect against the massive concrete structures of the Kriegsmarine submarine pens. The RAF made futile bombing raids that always had the same outcome.
A U-boat pen's roof could withstand the impact of 7,000 pounds bombs, more than any Allied aircraft could carry at that time.
As ideas ran short of putting an end to the German threat at sea, a peculiar animated film from Walt Disney's company inspired the Royal Navy to begin working on a bomb that could penetrate the thickness of German bunkers.
The Britons decided to baptize this warhead with the source of their inspiration. They called it the Disney Bomb …
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When they drop this bomb, it magically makes smaller studios bankrupt so Disney can buy them
And bad live action movie remakes
Yeah magically
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“I’m Winston Churchill and you’re watching the Disney Channel”
*drops bomb*
Holy shiiiiiit 🤣
Da da da da daaaaa *BOOM*
Yeah, he said that
and some people are impressed with a mic drop....Winston was da bomb. Well, kinda. You know what I mean.....
Talk about shots fired.
Kriesmarine: "vat is zat?"
Mickey Mouse: "It's a surprise tool that will help us later"
yo this had me literally laughing out loud 🤣🤣🤣
Some evil guy made it 70
@@tactikoi-airsoft3251 Got to get it to 420 now.
@@Treblaine had to make it 430 my friend lol
Correction: was ist das
When you have an engineering degree but draws cartoons for work.
There were quite a few times engineers called Walt crazy, when he turned to Imagineers they made it happen.
The monorail is an example
Or an artist doing cartoons with engineering applications.
The dude got rich tho
@@Someone-jz5pl So what's wrong with that? Poor boy.
@@Dave-ty2qp did i say anything? I just said He got filthy rich by animating movies,so damn good at it that we still watch them 70 years after,dont be so toxic
The only bombs Disney makes nowadays is dead franchises.
Lol
Wasnt Walt like a massive supporter of Germany pre/during WW2?
@@MaxiimTribe oh yeah, Walt did not like jews much like Henry Ford.
@@MaxiimTribe Probably but then he realized that the company was going broke because of the war and he took that propaganda money to shit on them.
Got emmm!!
The B-17 might have been the only American bomber capable of carrying the “Disney” bomb but had the British decided to use it the Lancaster was more than capable of carrying the bomb internally since it was only around 16 feet in length and weighed around 4,500 pounds, as it was by the time the “Disney” bomb was ready for deployment the R.A.F. already had the 12,000 pound Tallboy and the 22,000 pound Grand Slam bombs in service to do the same job.
Why am I not surprised
And did a better job.
I thought that the RAF had sucessfuly used the Barnes Wallace designed " earthquake " inducing bombs against the German U-Boot pens.
@@Bill23799 Yes smashed the U boat pens sunk the Tirpitz (by not only smashing through the deck but going straight through and out the hull) and imploded the 'secret' under a mountain Messerschmit 262 assembly plant
@@Bill23799 What beat them in nearly all cases was the air gap in the concrete roof.
This is what you’re house will get hit with if you miss a Disney plus payment.
indeed
@@GunnerHeatFire indeed
Your*
Random guy who forgot to pay them: at least I died watching Disney plus
@@Sp00kq ours *communism intensifies*
Dropping Disney’s
I just dropped a "Disney" myself...😏
Kill streak unlock:
Disney bomb strike
That’s what I thought 😂
💩 bombs away 💩
Lmaoo we are gonna disney this city
Kinda weird that you glossed over the fact that the disney bombs are actually rocket propelled straight down. Thats pretty unique.
Yeah he was too busy repeating himself that the British officials were intrigued.
6:04
@@unbarredhalo7327 thank you. Some people just don't listen
8:54
@@152mmapfsds i know it was briefly mentioned a couple of times but maybe you don't understand what "glossed over" means?
The deadliest Disney bomb run killed nearly all of the Star Wars universe..
Not all of us died there..
I dont want to ruin the 69 likes
@@H.G.Halberd
Oops. Sorry.
But I had to add my +1 to the feeling of the comment. Bloody Disney.
@@tin2001 well now I can give it my like too
@@501ststormtrooper9 Sir yes sir.
Barnes Wallis designed the Tallboy and Grand Slam “earthquake “ bombs dropped by Lancasters of 617 squadron RAF from (I think) 1943 onwards without assistance from Disney, destroying bridges,tunnels,canals and (again from memory) the Tirpitz at harbour in Norway.
Also the bouncing bombs. Hence the dam busters.
Tallboy became operational on the 8th June 1944. Grand Slam became operation in late March 1945. Development of both only started after the Dams Raid in around June / July of 1943 with the plan for three weapons, 2 ton Tallboy (Small). 6 ton Tallboy (Medium) and 10 ton Tallboy (Large). The Tallboy small was built to develop the aerodynamics of all three and one still exists in the Brooklands Museum. The fact that the Royal Navy were also working on a similar weapon, capability wise stopped Tallboy S becoming an operational weapon. Tallboy L was put on the back burner to allow Tallboy M to get priority development and that became the Bomb MC 12,000lb Tallboy. Wallis actually went over to France to inspect the damage done by Tallboy in the September of 1944 and after that visit, Gland Slam got the green light for priority development as it had been found that Tallboy wasn't capable of taking out all of the targets intend for it. Wallis proposals for the bomb didn't get published until March 1941 and all of his maths were based on the aircraft releasing the bomb from 40,000 feet. A Lancaster with a 12,000lb load could barely make half that height.
There are vids of these bombs with their rockets firing,you should've got them,coz thats what make these bombs different,also the rockets lit for about the 3 seconds and had to be dropped from a certain height more max effectm
@@olengagallardo8551
Rockets with poor reliability. Tallboy and grand slam didn't need rockets to attain Mach 1 speeds
"The Disney bomb"? You mean the new Star Wars movies??
An lots of Marvels
“Mickey, what’s that?”
*”it’s a surprise tool that will help us later.”*
Donald needs help guys, his deep undercover operation has disclosed a U-boat pen.
Underrated af
*cough* stolen *cough*
@@nebu1a441 *cough* nobody asked *cough*
*cough* just pointing out how unoriginal you are and that you dont have the brain capacity to think of a simple joke, so you have to steal jokes from others people specifically Treblanie *cough*
"Am I invisible to you?" - both Tall Boy (10,000 lbs., and Grand Slam, 22,000 lbs.) - "Yea!" echoes Lancaster Mk, V
After being heavily modified and stripped down, lol
First tallboy bomb was dropped in June of 1944. In fact no less than 21 tall boys were dropped before the end of 1944. With 12 more dropped by April of 45.
Grandslam 42 were dropped during the war starting in April, so well that is true that the grandslam didn't do much, the tallboy certainly did.
The Disney bombs weren't used until February of 1945.
I knew about those 2 devices, but I never heard of the Disney.
Thanks!
Ah I mistook tallboy for another familiar Boy, don't know how I didn't recognize the Grand Slam though, thanks!
The British Air Force used tall boys a gravity bomb that went supersonic filled with torpex which took several days to fill, the Lancaster had a huge bomb bay and a new release mechanism ( bomb and release by Barnes Wallace) sank the Tirpitz and as an earthquake bomb destroyed v weapon and difficult to collapse bridges
The release mechanism was used by the nuclear missions as the US had no such kit.
There were several lancs ready on stand by to use the nukes if the silver plate version of the B29 failed in tests with its modified enlarged bomb bay.
And my bigger favourite, the Grand Slam
I drink Budweiser tall boys regularly.
I don't think it took two days to fill with explosive But it did take two days to machine the casing to precise shape and tolerance on a centre lathe. That is why the crews were told to bring them back if for any reason if they could not drop them. Whether the crews did so or not I don't know, I know I wouldn't! Imagine trying to land with one of those things on board.
@@dp-sr1fd pretty sure the filling with molten torpex took the girls who did it two days, I recall seeing a picture somewhere with them with buckets up a ladder. Amazing that these are the progenitors of modern bunker busters using pretty much same concept with updated technology and materials.
Not a wonder weapon? I think it was.
@@tomtd Just as a matter of interest look up the Rochling shell on Wikipedia, the Germans developed it during ww2. Looks like the same principle as the Disney bomb minus the rocket.
So, Disney inspired what would become the "Bunker Busters". Interesting...
No not in the slightest.
@@prawngravy18,??? That is exactly what inspired the "Disney" bomb, ergo, the eventual "Bunker Buster"...
The "bunker buster" of the Gulf War was an exceptionally long, narrow yet dense and strong bomb. The first few bombs were made by filling old cannon barrels with explosives then fitting to the tip an armour piercing shell from a battleship's gun.
Long and narrow meant a huge weight to drag ratio so if dropped from high they would reach huge velocities from gravity alone. This is much more like the operating principle of the tallboy bomb.
But bunker busters are much smaller than Tallboy, they penetrate as deep but lack explosive power, they need to be far more precise so a key element of a "bunker buster" is that it's precision guided.
@@Treblaine But that's how these bombs worked. Long and narrow and dense, and high speed.
No. The RAF developed 11,000 pound (Tallboy) and 22,000 (Grand Slam) free-fall bombs. Those were carried on RAF planes, and were effective at submarine pens and railroad tunnels. They were designed to get as deep as they can and explode, and destroy the foundation. They reached close to the speed of sound when they hit.
B-17 Short range missions (
Depended on the range required. Standard Lancaster load for the Ruhr was around 14,000lb. Want to bomb Berlin, the standard Lanc bombload was 9,000 to 10,000 lb.
Watch this to understand Lancaster vs B17 payloads! Great info! czcams.com/video/tIQj2qfpXSg/video.html
Not the most accurate of an introductions. Britain had an aircraft to carry the 4,500lb 16 foot long bomb. The Tallboy was 12,000lb and 21 feet long and came into service June 44. And it was carried by the Avro Lancaster.
Most of the U and E boat pens in Europe where destroyed by the RAF Tallboy bombs - along with V weapon bunkers, bridges, canals and even a pocket battleship.
"The Disney bomb saw limited use by the United States Army Air Forces in Europe from February to April 1945. Although technically successful, it initially was insufficiently accurate for attacking bunker targets. It was deployed late in the war and had little effect on the Allied bombing campaign against Germany."
Full details - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_bom
Thank you for posting this comment - you saved me from having to type something similar!
Can't believe they never heard of the Tallboys.
I agree 100% with you. Maybe I heard wrong, but they stated this was a British Army project working with the American Air Force. But it was Barnes Wallis' Tallboy that took out the targets you mention. One of the last raids by 617 was a Tallboy raid on the U-boat pens at Brest. Not to mention the Anthor Aqua-duct, the V sites, the Tirpitz etc.
Thanks for addressing the inaccurate info.. Dudes got great intros though lol.
@@LIE4ME I love the video's and as a CZcams creator myself - I can appreciate the workload and the time it takes to produce a quality product - but sometimes there needs to be a little more explanation.
The final Disney bomb was The Last Jedi.
Though the live action Mulan was a bigger financial bomb.
The last jedi was good. Just as consistent as the other movies.
@@prawngravy18 czcams.com/video/vw7pcCj0ORk/video.html
@@IvorMektin1701 nice.
Stop doing drugs. You're damaging your brain.
@@lastswordfighter
You're failed film critic.
From the Scottish engineers vernacular description of a Mickey Mouse machine.
"This Disney work and that Disney run properly"
Ironbru for all! (Is glaswegian make it deep fried mars)
"SNAFU" = "Situation /NORMAL- ALL/F**KED/UP"
@L Train45 Actually you are both wrong. The original and correct acronym is "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up". It has been bastardized over the years. I blame Hollywood.
We had Tallboy and Grand Slam.
Never heard of Disney
Me neither, but they may have been made in Irvine, Scotland.
My friend's grandfather packed the Tallboy and Grand Slam at the ICI explosives plant in Irvine. He had to go into the bombs to do it! They worked in special large rooms with hugely thick earth walls and baffled entryways so that if there was an explosion only one room would be destroyed as the blast would be directed upwards. They had several explosions during the war. No trace was left of the people in the rooms destroyed.
War is hell.
@@ivancho5854 I have detected (some 10 to 15 feet down), seen, and, touched an original (mid 90's). Several actually. I was part of a civilian team attached to 33 Engr Regt (EOD) for 13 years. You should check out Livens containers. Found them in the UK too.
@@ivancho5854 They were probably *named* by Scots too
Well chaps, we've designed it, we know what it can do. Bit stumped what to call it 'though.
Och, this bastard goes into the U-boat pen I'll tell you this, it Disney ha' roof on after that ye ken.
Oh. Of course. Jolly good.
@@babboon5764 🤣 Well observed. 👍
I have read that the Valantin pens were destroyed by Bomber Command using Grand Slam bombs.
I refer you to James Holland at al.
Yes, i had always heard that with the Lancaster heavy bomber carrying the Grand Slam, the bomb bay doors had to be removed accommodate the huge 10 ton bombs, they were used against the U Boat pens, various bridges and viaducts and generally any hardened installations where a normal bomb wouldn't penetrate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Slam_(bomb)
Roy Chadwick's Avro Lancaster was flying in 1941 and was able to carry the 9,250 pound Upkeep, 11,000 pound 21 foot Tallboy, and 22,000 pound 26.5 foot Grand Slam. All of which were substantially heavier than the little 4,500 pound 16.5 foot Disney bomb. Coastal Command was bombing Uboat pens and they didn't have heavy bombers. You really need to do better research. I suspect that the one destroyed U-boat pen you did show was the work of 617 Squadron Dambusters with the Tall Boy? Disney was not as effective as Tall Boy and not even a pretender to the league of the Grand Slam. The USAF had no capability of carrying those bombs in Europe though. A B-17 typically only carried 6,000 pounds to Berlin when a Lancaster typically carried 14,000.
_Tallboy_ and _Grand Slam_ operated off a different principle than the "Disney Bomb": they relied on impacting the ground very close to the target and the shockwave from the below-ground explosion caused a very localized earthquake to "shake down" nearby structures. That's how the _Grand Slam_ bomb finally took down Bielefeld railway viaducts in March 1945.
Read nearly word for word from the Wikipedia site as well.
A twin engined Mosquito B mk IV could easily carry a 4000lb 'Cookie' bomb. And still fly at the best part of 400 mph.
@@Sacto1654 You're right there!
depended wich german u boat bases since construction differed , the allies never achieved to destroy for instance the u boat pen at l` orient dispite being bombed with tallboy and grandslam
Biggest Disney bomb was Rise of the Skywalker.
Flex take couldn't fix that lol
Came here expecting this, wasn't disappointed.
Walt Disney: "Why did you have to give them THAT idea idiots!?"
Me too
They are literally the 1% everyone is always complaining about , after all.
Other well known Disney bombs:
Mulan (2020)
Disney's Star Wars: ROTS
and Alladin (2019)
Even today Disney continues to inspire bombs of even greater scale.... in the box office.
They have one of the most lucrative franchises in history including the number 1 box office holder and also have one of the most popular television shows. I think they’re doing just fine.
@@Shadowfax-1980 Outside of running the Star Wars movies into the ground (just look at the Han Solo movie), Mulan (brought to you by CCP slave labor, ethnic cleansing and forced organ harvesting) and of course the minor franchises they failed like Artemins Fowl they are doing pretty good.
My uncle was the Ball Turret gunner in a B-17 during WW2. About 40 or 50 years ago he told me about a mission he had been on where his plane was carrying two rocket propelled bombs slung under the wings The target was one of the German submarmiarine pens. When they got near the target weather had the primary obscured so they were ordered t return and dump the bombs in the channel. My uncle swore that when the bombs detonated he could see the bottom of the channel from his sot in the turret
Hitler: " Vat iz dis? ...dats Goofy ."
Love it! 😝
Das goofy*
"vas is das" (Was ist das - Germans pronounce "W" like our 'V". They pronounce "V" like "F" .. hence "Folkswagen". Folks' Wagon.) Sorry .. I took 2 semesters of German 30 years ago and I never get to use it.
@@SOGPHALANX Das ist goofy (dumm)
Hey, I can't help it - if Hitler's English was lousy.
I thought Euro Disney World was the Disney bomb.
Because the EU has built so many successful parks by themselves?
"A cultural Chernobyl" Complete with dancing carrots if I remember correctly.
They were going to put the enemy to sleep with awful remakes and boring political messages? Diabolical.
Also by ramming more high value franchises into the ground.
Were? They still do exclusively just that
Today, they just call the Disney bomb Star Wars.
Ah yes, "Star Snores."
@@Otokichi786 derp
Disney dropped a Mulan not long ago.
disney dropped a realistic lion and it fucking died
It’s sad isn’t it? People are so ignorant thinking China is a normal country
@@sc1338 True. 🎄 ✌️
I do the same after eating too many beans.. OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker 😆 merry Christmas. 🎄
I dont know why you didnt use the proper title of the disney bomb: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
War is horrific... But it breeds amazing innovation
Unfortunately for killing people
@@andrewthomas8233 A price to pay for innovations
@TM War Thunder Naw only someone from the first world would say that what if it was you and your family members being blown up from bombs that crashed through your roof while you were sleeping would you still be like ahh well its just the price of innovation ?
@@andrewthomas8233 Well, looks like you didn't learn much.
I came from the Third World nation. And yes, we are all behind your "Advanced Nation", where ever you are. But the point is, as long as you used it for the better, then we wouldn't be having much Wars as we once had back in the 20th Century. But, if there are some weapons that are deemed too dangerous to be used even for civilian purposes, they are outright banned. Nuclear powers are the exception because they have better benefits than a bunch of poison gas used in WWI and WWII(the latter case being used in the Holocaust). Tanks and such are the exceptions because they are controllable compared to the Mustard Gas.
You need to understand that we are humans. And we always tend to let our ego and pride lead us to war. It's no surprise that no one invaded one another today all thanks to the continued arms race that no one knew or noticed.
@@tmwarthunder1016 dude have you looked around you do realize more people die everyday around the world from weapons of war then ever in history im sorry it hurts your feelings for some reason that i said unfortunately for killing people lol take it down a notch there billy and to say a price to pay for innovation is prity dumb to say or do you not understand why that was a stupid thing to say?
l thought the Disney bombs were the Kurt Russell films they made. *FUN FACT Walt Disney's last words were reportedly "Kurt Russell..."
Gen X enjoys the Kurt Russel Disney movies.
@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu if you've every sat though one as a 8yr old in the late 1960s you would have liked them too. We didn't have a lot of choices back then. K.R is a cool dude in real life and takes care of his grandma that old little blonde woman that follows him around....
@@wildancrazy159 That's Goldie Hawn.
@@Minong_Manitou_Mishepeshu ouch! But KR is a hero of a man and a great actor
There were three key points about these bombs:
- they were very heavy;
- they were very slender;
- they were boosted by a rocket just prior to impact.
Your video would have been greatly strengthened if you had explained this more clearly - but you only briefly mentioned the rocket boost and not until more than halfway through the video. Too bad.
Obviously a bomb is heavy, obviously they’re slender and the rocket boost is interesting. But the video as a whole does what it’s meant to do as good as always. Which is being educational. If he went into detail nothing would be greatly strengthened, it’d really just be the same plus 2 minutes
It’s a doc if people want to do more research they can
But I feel as though the rocket boost would have been dropped later on in order to decrease the cost of the bombs, probably for a better armor piercing head
Everybody gangsta til' Mickey starts nuking his enemies
The Lancaster could out carry a B17 couldn't it? So the statement that the British couldn't doesn't make sense. It makes more sense if the bomb had to be used during the day as the British did mostly night time strategic bombing while the US did day time raids as they felt it was more "precise".....like that meant much in WW2 strategic bombing.
The bomb didn't get much interest from Bomber Command, it being a Royal Navy project may have been part of the cause, but the USAAF were interested and helpful.
Grand Slam and Tall Boy bombs dropped from Avro Lancaster's destroyed most of those Uboat pens. These bombs were much more powerful than Disneys version (which the Lancaster could easily carry btw, sloppy research there).
Could, but didn't, apparently.
And it does seem the Disney was effective.
Badly damaged several, but most were left pretty much unscathed, most bombs missed and the very stable weather conditions needed for that level of precision bombing were rare, as well as the requirement for very effective suppression of the enemy's anti-aircraft capability.
@@roberthardy3090
Hardly the truth.
The Tall Boy and the Grand Slam bombs were hardened to attack heavily reinforced concrete structures.
Particularly U-Boat pens and the V-3 gun in France.
The payload has nothing to do with effective suppression of the enemy's anti-aircraft capability.
By the time the USAAF used the Disney Bomb the German USB fleet had become largely ineffective.
On both sides of WW2 the countries had innovative and technological advances in weapons and defenses.
The Allies had the superior arms production in all weapons by the 1944.
The Germans had a significant research lead in the V1, V2 & V3 weapons.
Jet engines in Me 262 and Rocket propelled Me163
Germany was also working on their own Nuclear weapon technology.
The USA is quick to lay claim to winning the war.
Even to the extent of claiming credit for actions that they weren't even involved in.
eg Enigma, Tobruk, Radar.
The success of winning WW2 was in large the ability of the USA to produce and supply weapons and military equipment.
A turnabout from the USA's isolationist position, declaring that WW2 had nothing to do with the USA, until Pearl Harbour.
Being a safe haven with immense production capabilities, to provide Aeroplanes, Fighters, Bombers, Ships, Tanks, transport trucks, Guns and ammunition.
The Western World does owe the USA a debt of gratitude for belatedly entering the war.
The USA also owes Britain and her Allies a debt of gratitude for fighting against German conquest of Europe and the technology transfer from Britain to the USA.
While Britain had the first disclosed Jet engine with the Frank Whittle Radial engine.
The Germans had the first Axial Jet engine on which every modern Jet Engine is based.
@@grahamlucas2712 The US had its own very capable radar development programs, though not of course John Randall's breakthrough invention of the cavity magnitron to enable high power centimeric radar. The destruction of the V3 site was a perfect use of the Grand Slam bomb, penetration of soft rock to considerable depth followed by a highly destructive cavitating explosion. Exactly the use Barnes Wallace designed it for. It was imperfect for penetrating high strength deep concrete, as many failures in the Heligoland experiments demonstrated, The stresses on such a large diameter bomb are huge and a long slim bomb is more effective at punching through without failing, as demonstrated by current weapons for the purpose. The British also had axial flow engines in development during the war, the Metrovic F2, a more sophisticated design than the German engines, was first used in Meteor prototypes in 1943. It was less reliable than the rival centrifugal engines, given the metallurgy of the time, and so was not actively pursued in the war. The developed and enlarged version became the Sapphire, a fairly successful rival to the Avon in second generation jet aircraft.
@@roberthardy3090
Robert we agree on so many grounds but USA propaganda should be seen as such.
The video implied that the United Kingdom didn't have a bomber capable of lifting and dropping the "Disney" bomb, when it had aircraft able to take the 12,000 pound Tallboy and the 22,000 pound Grand Slam bombs INSIDE their bomb bays.
Not slung underneath the wings.
By the time the USA belatedly entered WW2, Britain had developed 4 engine long range bombers capable of hitting deep within Germany without the resources available to the USA.
You have to hand it to the Brits to take a cartoon animation and to turn it into a real Bunker Busting Bomb.
Britain had their own version of Radar for defence, Chain Home.
A long way behind German Radar using rotating dishes and operating at very much smaller wavelengths that are at higher frequencies.
The USA may have had a well developed Radar research but not a patch on the Germans.
Reginald Victor Jones, British Engineer and Intelligence expert had many successes in analyzing and countering German warfare Technology.
He went on a raid to France to capture a Radar operated by the Germans.
He had a minder to protect him, and kill him if they were likely to be caught.
R V Jones 'Most Secret War'. An informative read.
It wasn't only the Cavity Magnetron given to the USA in a technology transfer.
The German Luftwaffe fighter and bomber radar secrets.
The German Navy Radar, The Navy and enigma code machine secrets.
The Battle of the Coral Sea was won by the USA because they had the UK supplied Radar technology to locate the Japanese Naval ships without relying on aircraft spotters.
WW2 was a co-operative effort.
We can thank the efforts of all the Allies.
Britain, Canada, Australia, USA.
We can also thank the USA Marshall plan that was instrumental in restoring to the stability in Europe and the peace with Japan.
What we won't abide are American movies winning battles even before Pearl Harbour..
Yes I am an Australian.
You are not entitled to make up your own TRUMP'ed up Fake Facts.
Hopefully the nightmare of Donald Trump era is over.
WATT? 'Ground Breaking' report! Never, ever seen any info on the Disney Bomb!
I have actually visited Watten, and can't remember any reference to this...
Will have to go through my photos to find the date I actually went there!
It's a Stupendous construction. Especially when you press the 'Öffnen' button on the 11' thick, remaining sliding door. (Yes, Eleven Feet Thick)
I have heard of Barnes Wallis and the Tall Boy bombs but this is the first I have heard of Disney Bombs and how effective they were.
Mr Wallis designed a bigger bomb too, Grand Slam
Mr. Wallace's bombs were also a hell of a lot more successful
Wallis, stupid autocorrect
first for me too, very interesting.
I’m surprised Disney haven’t taken to the courts objecting to others using the word “BOMB” like they do when they make a cartoon.
If you referred to the Northern sea to anyone outside america and a lot of people in america they wouldn't know where you were talking about.The actual sea is the North sea which is located from Norway,Denmark,Germany and countries located down the east coastof the UK.
To be fair, not many Americans would know what you were talking about whether you mentioned "The Northern Sea" or "The North Sea".
@@hamletksquid2702 not true. It's only not know by last 2 gens of Americans. Even as gen x from 65 to 85' many were still getting an education. These last 2 dont know crap about our past. They are destined to repeat as history always has .
@@henrybadd7116 - Those are the times we live in. I was born well before '65, and they didn't teach us anything about WWII in school - it was too recent. Now it's considered ancient history by a lot of people and therefore not interesting. You certainly can't trust videos like this to be accurate, either. Did you notice the "Northern Sea" he's talking about is actually the North Atlantic Ocean? I'm not sure that shallow and inaccurate information is better than none at all, but that's what people get these days.
@@hamletksquid2702 yha I'm only a year before you. But in High we had the choice in our history courses. As well as language and trades.
I am sure this is exactly what Walt Disney thought his company would inspire.
Cartoons are a good cover for pederasty.
Well, it was really intended for Adolf.
Where's the harm in that?
Heres a little unknown fact walt Disney and henry Ford were nazi sympathizers.
@@andrewthomas8233 That's such a commonly known fact it's been a joke on Family Guy....
@@herpderpherpd ask your average American i can guarantee they had no idea
Normally I would give your excellent videos 5-stars. This one 4.5. The Disney bomb at 2000kg and 5-meters long was a good weapon system for B-17 & B-29. I question the statement that only the B-17 could carry the Disney. However, that it was the only allied aircraft that could carry it is incorrect. The General Purpose (GP) Grand Slam at 10,000kg and 8-meters in length, built be Vickers, deployed by RAF bomber command at about the same time. It’s telling that the Royal Navy and USAAF worked to together on this project. The RAF was already backing the much larger GP Grand Slam for hardened targets. I’m guessing RN/RAF rivalry was at play as it’s likely that a Vickers Lancaster could carry at least 4 Disneys as internal stores.
As a side note: in 1945 RAF Lancasters were being worked up to carry the A-bomb to Japan if the A-bomb capable version of the B-29 wasn’t ready in time.
There may have been problems with the Lancaster. Certainly it could carry a much heavier payload, but centrally mounted. It may have only been able to carry two or possibly one due to mounting restrictions of the aircraft or the munition. I have never seen a Lancaster carrying anything on under wing hardpoints.
So if the Lancaster could only carry two say, why not let the B17s carry them and the Lancasters could drop the Tallboys and Grand Slams. Logistics is often the primary concern in war.
Avro Lancaster and Grand Slam is not a GP bomb, its designation was Bomb Medium Capacity (MC) 22,000 lb. The MC means it had a 50% Explosive content by weight.
The Disney film was based on a book by the same name authored by Alexander P. de Seversky, an aircraft designer of the period.
I’d have sworn Wiley Coyote inspired this.
With his friends at ACME?
But Wile E. Coyote is a Warner Brothers character, not Disney...and anything made by Acme with input fom their biggest supporter is bound to backfire epically. If WB had a secret WW2 weapon, particularly for the Pacific theater, it was just their little ol' grey hare in "Bugs Bunny N-ps the N-ps", with his quick wit, fooling soldiers by cross-dressed as a geisha, knowing a bit of sumo, and giving out grenade-loaded ice cream treats. (The epithets Bugs used in that part of the cartoon - stuff like "beaver teeth/monkey boy/sl-nt eyes", sound utterly bizarre and so wrong today, but I always remind myself they're a product of their era.) That cartoon is on YT if you want to hear for yourself.
Don’t leave out Duck Dodgers and his Disintegrating Pistol! LOL
3:45 How is it a revolutionary idea that a long slender bomb will penetrate better than a short stubby one? lol
It’s not that it’s an incredible idea, it simply had not been done before. Kind of like the invention of the mini ball for muskets. It took roughly 300 years of militaries constantly using guns before someone had the idea for a conical bullet that could conform to rifling.
@@lukesteele3276 boy... his profile picture is adolph
Why was the RAF's Lancaster not able to carry these bombs? After all, it carried the Tallboy bomb but the B-17 & B-24 could not.
@@Randy-Lahey they were smaller and lighter then the tallboy bombs which had already been dropped on the base so i cant see why they were not dropped by lancasters
because a whole squadron of lands failed to cause any damage whilst lobbing earthquake bombs 💣
@@bobdinwiddy but that's got nothing to do with the lancasters capability to carry the disney bomb, due to the fact both the tallboy and grand slam were bigger bombs and were dropped by lancasters
@@bobdinwiddy That is not true. Go do some research.
or instance: 22 Lancs had their chance on 24th august 1944 including eight 12,000lb'ers > one hit to the rear of the e-bootbunker / / 8th february 1945 all 17 lancs dropped 12,000lb'ers with 1/2hr fuses just one penetration ... ??
619 was nothing but a mickey mouse outfit for not hitting the mark time and again with their 12,000lb'ers - nice muscles but not accurate at 17,000ft to get more than one hit out of an entire flight. Small wonder an American plane flew a Yankee firework, imho.
this long read is a five-star report on IJmuiden, made when they enlarged the sea-locks, very detailed...
www.commissiemer.nl/projectdocumenten/00005081.pdf
I have spoken to many a local on the subject of IJmuiden and have had own research on Holland's Atlantikwall published in Dutch. Never shy to hear a new story though, in nederlands or in plain english ;)
"These are the Cubans, baby. This is the Cohibas, the Montecristos. This is a kinetic-kill, side-winder vehicle with a secondary cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst. It's capable of busting a bunker under the bunker you just busted. If it were any smarter, it'd write a book, a book that would make Ulysses look like it was written in crayon. It would read it to you. This is my Eiffel Tower. This is my Rachmaninoff's Third. My Pieta. It's completely elegant, it's bafflingly beautiful, and it's capable of reducing the population of any standing structure to zero. I call it 'The Disney Bomb.'"
Children normally use cartoons to escape the hell's of this world ,go figure .
This was before TV too, those cartoons were shown at theaters and used as a sort of training film.
Extra creepy were the Micky Mouse children gas masks of WW2.😟
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@@THEBIGGAME683 huh , how do you do that ?
Never heard of this. The biggest WW-2 conventional bomb I was previously aware of was the British Tallboy which was also used successfully by the RAF against submarine pens.
3:33 guy's just bashing this huge bomb with a 2x4.
I LOVE your videos because I am such a World War II nerd I have a hard time finding things that I haven’t already learned about except most of your videos include things that surprisingly I have not heard about before so I really appreciate it!!!!
Wonder why they didn't use the Lanc .... it had a long bomb bay and certainly could carry the load ...
The phrase: "The RAF didn't have bombers capable of carrying such heavy bombs" is suspect. What will Dr. Mark Felton say about this?
@@Otokichi786 A Mosquito could almost carry one .... that would seem to make more sense, smaller target and faster ....
Probably the Lancasters were too busy doing other things. Also it may have been because the B17s were set up for daylight raids and somewhat better armed as a result.
Thank you for the giant red arrow on the thumbnail. I had no idea where the bomb was supposed to be.
And here I thought Barns Wallis and his"Tall Boy" earthquake bomb had dun in the sub pens in France!?
And, according to every history book and the official account, you were right that is what killed the sub pens. Along with Bridges, v weapons sites, tunnels, oh yeah and that little pesky pocket battleship tirpitz !!
@@davidschad1472 Tirpitz was no pocket battleship, though Tallboy did actually take out a German Pocket Battleship Lützow in what is now Poland in 1945.
Crazy how only the air force used it considering they weren't founded til '47
8:01 i was like w-wait Helegoland?! xD It's just Helgoland haha :D Went there for a week 3 years ago. Beautiful little island! But u can still see the many exact impact craters of these bombs. Kinda crazy to think about what happened there when it's so peaceful now
Imagine that on your resumé:
- Vegetable peeler
- Fountain pen ink bottle
- Rocket propelled high-penetration bunker buster bomb
"Northern Sea"? instead of "North Sea???? "7,000lb...more than any bomber could carry"...unlike the AVRO Lancaster that could easily carry 10,000lb of bombs & even as far as 22,000lbs, which they did & dropped one on the U-Boat pens in Farge, France. These videos are pretty sloppy.
Dump Trump - Agree with your user name and your view of this video. The Lancaster could carry this bomb with ease. I wonder if the B 17 was employed instead because of its higher service ceiling and top speed?
Give the guy a break, it's reasonably well researched ok he didn't say what you knew, doesn't make him a sloppy video maker.
Try making one and then let us judge it?
See how you get on.
@Glen Towler I didn't know that about the Lancaster.
@Glen Towler didn't need to carry it externally as it could fit within the standard bomb bay had they wanted to carry it, you would have ten feet of bomb bay left in total, so plenty of room to get it centered, at sixteen inches across a grand slam modified Lancaster would have been able to carry two side by side, we had bombs to do the same job whereas the Americans didn't, so they used it.
I worked in one of those sub bunkers in IJmuiden for a coupla years around 2015. That picture of the bombed out harbour at the start had me all 'wait a minute I know that place!'.
In the future Disney will own wars.
In the future wars will probably be between companies and not countries
@@collinmurphy107 let me guess cyberpunk reference ?
@@thesailormercury2 no, but is that a saying from cyberpunk? I’ve just been saying that since the first time I played the titanfall 2 campaign
They paved the way to more modern bunker buster using exactly the same principle.
This is an inaccurate video, the Lancaster could have held these inside the bomb bay, they are smaller than the grand slam and tall boy bombs the Lancaster's carried. Lancaster's with tall boys and grand slams did the damage to the sub pens (along with many other targets), this bomb was a relative failure.
The Lancaster could also have carried the nuclear devices used against Japan, whereas the B17 could not.
Maybe the only American bomber that could carry them at the time was the B17, but if that's true, why not say that?
I second this point. The lancaster could easily have carried this bomb internally. I suspect the reason for B-17s using it rather than lancaster was the (for its time) extremely accurate bomb sight on the B-17 and the fact that US planes were flying daytime when hits on individual structures (admittedly big ones) from high altitude were possible. The lancasters could and did perform similar roles using the above mentioned tallboy and grand slam bombs using the earthquake effect
The first bunker buster. Pretty sick design. Well done brits.
I had not heard of this. It sounds similar to Barnes Wallis bombs.
Just skip it then.
A follow up about modern bunker buster bombs would be interesting.
As a country we dont remember what its like to fight a war for existence anymore....In our efforts to preventing such a war we have forgotten how to win one.
A BIG TARGET DESERVES A BIG RESPONSE THANKFULLY THERE WERE MEN UP TOO THE JOB .
Thought this was going to be a documentary about Solo: A Star Wars Story
When they dropped the Disney bomb, it didn't whistle as it fell through the air, it went "WOOOOH HOOO HOOO Hooey!"
And then The Gap Band Played “You Dropped the Bomb on Me.”
The french, upon finding the old bomb, immediately surrendered!
Given the bomb aiming technology of the time it’s interesting these were so accurate.
U.K. had the 5 ton Tallboy and 10 ton Grand Slam bombs. Spin stabilised and going supersonic on the way down.
The US refused to share the design of their Norden precision bomb sight, despite the generocity of the Tizard mission (a necessay ally in the war, as was the Soviet Union, but no Britain should ever fool that themselves that the Americans are a anything but a ruthless and very dangerous rival in practice). Britain was forced to develop their own high precision bomb site used by the squadrons dropping Tallboy and Grand Slams. In normal use by non specialist crews the simpler British Mk 14 bomb site seems to have been just as effective as the US Norden bomb site in practice.
The OG Bunker Buster, wait a second rocket accelerated? So this is the allied version of Fritz X or something similar to it.
The Fritz X had a flare in the tail so the bombardier could guide it to the target via radio control. It’s a common mistake to think it had a rocket motor, I did at first.
The technology is still used in ballistic missiles and conventional bombs to this day.
The RAF had the Barnes Wallis Tallboy bombs well before these that were used successfully on the u-boat pens and some of the V weapons. Also the Grand Slam bomb. These seem redundant.
The Disney animation shows precisely the effect envisaged by Barnes Wallis of the Upkeep bouncing bomb designed to destroy the Ruhr dams. By detonating the bomb in an incompressible liquid (water), the shock wave is transmitted in all directions until it either dissipates or hits a structure (which will fail it if cannot withstand the forces imposed). How the Disney animators came by the details to draw the effect so precisely is a mystery to me.
Not rocket propelled though .... now that seems to be a good idea.
@@mrb.5610 It does seem so, however tallboy & grand slam were supersonic in freefall. Propellant for the rocket takes up much of the casing volume. The reason I read why they stopped bombing the bunkers was to let the nazi's expend much vital material & labour reinforcing them at the expense of other facilities on the Atlantic wall.
The U boat pens near our marina, La Pallice in La Rochelle were almost intact & used by the French navy post war. Thus, Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice & Bordeaux pens remain intact
@@russcattell955i I imagine it was more effective to sink them at sea as well ... either by mines, ship or air attack.
The pens would have been heavily defended - a bombing raid in daylight would have been no fun at all ....
Quite possibly the best voice in documentaries
Mulan Live Action, anybody?
"Disney is the 2nd world's explosive buyer."
Disney Bomb: How cute.
Some of the so called “facts” here are straight from a Disney fantasy
Like?...
Like the Valentin U boat pens were destroyed by the RAF using Tallboy bombs, like the B17 wasn’t the only plane big enough, etc.
Out of all the memorabilia looks like France is the only one that gets to keep a Disney bomb
Mickey and Minnie's divorce. No judge I didn't say she was crazy I said she was f... Goofy
Today Disney makes box office bombs
This sounds a lot better when listened to a 0.75 playback speed.
It's okay.. much like a bin of CPUs everyone's brain works at a different speed ;)
2009! Still had its explosive charge intact!!! That there is proof that Disney never dies!
just shows you can have billions in army budget and "the greatest" minds. yet a regular cartoonist could come up with better ideas...
I've been to the German sub pens in Breast France. The allies didn't mess around. They had small houses built in the bottom of bomb craters. The pens themselves were only penetrated three times in the entire war and are still, unbelievably, in use to this day. Don't know how useful these would have been in that situation since the roof was made out of 24 foot reinforced concrete.
You don't get the full impact of history until you see it with your own two eyes.
This is literaly the "it was so good they made it in real life" meme
U-boat Captain: Let's hope these "Disney" work!
You did it again. You gave me something that I never even thought of. Thanks.
Good video! I don’t think the U-boat pens were necessarily part of the Atlantic Wall, though.
Walt Disney's genius exceeded human limits, everything he sketched became real and even a bomb, in defense of the evils that threatened his country and consequently mine, which was part of the Allies.
@ Dark Docs would you please incorporate closed captioning into your videos? I really enjoy watching them and love the channel!
If you're watching on your phone, touch the screen and tap the top right whatever they call it, and you'll have what you're looking for. You're welcome!
@@dannyarrowheadstalker3054 I will use that in the future, but I am on PC and I do not see an option for CC on this video. Other content creators sometimes include them. Thanks for the help!
should have gotten the Roadrunner to go through those pens with the Coyote and his Acme box instead..great vid as usual..thank you sir!
Similar to the "Bunker Buster's" of today. We now use cannon barrels as the main casing, because they will not deform on impact but travel many feet underground to destroy bunkers the Alkiada used in Afganistan.
Or 50,000 Chinese in Maine?
I saw that bomb with my own eyes...it was called the sequel trilogy and it wrecked the whole universe
Animators: hey check out this cool concept for a bomb in our cartoon.
Royal navy: Hey I've just had a completely original idea for a bomb which has nothing to do with this cartoon I just watched.