The WWII Flying Superfortress - B-29
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- The B-29 is designed to be one of the most deadly, untouchable bombers ever created. The B-29 can reach heights no other planes or air-fighters could reach, and the B-29's payload can deliver devastating fire power that can level an enemy base. Watch our new incredible military video as we break down what made the B-29 a WWII superfortress!
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I'm glad I wasn't required to imagine I was a WWII pilot in order to watch this video.
I dont get it
"Imagine what would it be like being a Pilot in this WW2 Strategic bomber"
sewer rat sigh I’ll explain in almost every infographics video he says “imagine if you were this guy and had to go through thisâ€
Lol
My grandpappy was a gunner at an B-29 he was shot by a Me-262
sewer rat
Are you slow??
When you already know everything about it due to playing war thunder.
In War Thunder bombers like this almost got no chance to prove itself tho, almost always get bullied
Haha so true even tho the b-29 is a superfortress of sticks
@@cardiv5zuikaku944 they lowered the repair costs a littks though, right?
Ragav Janardhan I believe so, the me264 definitely got its cost reduced to like 6000
@@RagavJanardhan still 47K tho, it gonna take yours SL like no tomorrow lol
"At almost twice the cost of the Manhattan Project... it is also the most expensive weapons program of all WWII." Wow!
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@@lemonbikini777 Thanks!
Not surprising considering the silver lion cost.
Crazy to also think of how 88 took off that day, but only 2 of those planes (not the exact ones) still fly.
The industrial power of the US never cease to amaze me. WW1 the US feeds and supplies the biggest war in human history. WW2 the US does ths same while also handling a large portion of all global shipping, also researching a big portion of technological innovation, and also fighting on 3 continents and from the other side of the globe. Cold War the US rebuilds the western world and supplies/funds nations as diverse as South Korea, south Vietnam, western Europe, and various parties, freedom fighters/terrorists, and governments across the world effectively out spending the Soviet Union and PRC several times over. Even Today the States of New York, California, and Texas each individually have economies roughly the size of Russia.
Japanese when they send fighters without ammo:prepare to take down some bombers
Pilot:how will we?
Commander:we are gonna use a tactic that guarantees death.
None of them hit a bomber though and were shot down before they had the chance.
@@lockheedmartin2112 actually Japanese would mostly ram b17s
@@pov1698 I meant no B-29 Superfortress was ever rammed, but I should've clarified that in the first comment I made.
mrwiggles The germans did ram Americans b-17 in the European theater
@@BusinessMan_ForthePeople yes but Japan added honor to their deaths
My Grandpa was the waist gunner on the B-29 called "The Duchess". The way they had to sit and turn their bodies to look through the periscopes to aim the guns took a toll on almost all waist gunners and they now have severe back problems.
My Grandpa was a flight engineer on a B-29, never learned the name of the plane he was on though.
@@geoffreywozniak3553 my great uncle was the pilot of the Chicago Queen. I have a list of the people who dealt with some of the people who dealt with the plane and everyone on the crew. if you want i could look and see if this one was his? Does he share your last name?
Why great grandpa was Part of the US military (can't remember the branch) in WW2. He was in Japan when one of nukes hit.
@Christopher Morey I'm pretty sure the bullets wouldn't be able to hit them since they're 25000 feet in the air
Wow
Normal girl:
-Will probably leave you for another dude
-no protection from enemies
-almost no hugeness
B-29 flying fortress:
-could stick with you for the duration of war
-offers thick armor plating from aa guns
-over 100 ft long and over 140 feet wide
B-29 Flying Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Super Fortress:Are we a joke to you
Superfortress*
The Flying Fortress title was given to the B-17.
my ideal girl
-has the firepower of a Star Destroyer
-can carry nuclear bombs
360 gunner range... with cross fire ability...
Zeros:
Ight have a nice time...
Him: the B-29 is the older brother of the B-17
Also him:calls the B-29 a (her)
Lol
Well in the beginning of the video the b-29 identified as a male but half way through it changed it mine. C’mon bro it classic gender studies 101
@@lilhomiebro7539 don't mind him hes just a cis white male he doesn't get the genderfluidity of aerial combat vehicles
@@crispylizard8295 did you just assume his gender though? 🤨
@@crispylizard8295 oh sh*t I just did too. None of us are safe.
0:43
They pointing finger guns at their heads
Gonna suicide
Ahaha ya i see thet 😃😃😃😃😡😉😉😉😠😠ðŸ˜
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I thought that to
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My grandfather was an Irish man who fought for the Americans (he refused to fight for the English crown and Ireland was neutral). I was talking to him once about serving in the American army and something he said that I always found funny was "One thing the Germans never understood about the Americans was that if they had enough room to fit another .50 caliber machine gun in something, they were going to do it."
Haha that's gold, sounds like it would be a famous war hero quote
dang das coo
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@@AgentDanishMan Sláinte
@@zumis1011 He was a hero in his own way. He was awarded the silver star for assaulting a machine gun nest from across a bridge by himself, despite him being the commanding officer of his detachment.
Imagine how badass you would feel being a gunner on this machine
Also, you guys in the replies are thinking of the B-17. The B-29 Was *Marginally* Safer.
Being a bomber crewman in ww2 had some of the highest mortality rates so probably not very badass
If you consider being pumped with flak shrapnel and high calibre cannons "Badass", then sure
Well badass and freezing
PTSD FOR THE WIN BABBY
@StodgyPigeon061, Actually B-29 gunners had it easy, the guns were remote operated, and given that the B-29 had a maximum service ceiling of around 33 THOUSAND feet and max airspeed of (and no this isn't bs) 350mph... the Japanese had little that could even HOPE to touch this thing.
Funny enough though, that's probably why the B-29 wasn't approved for European use, because the B-17 was considered adequate, and the Germans actually had planes that could reach this plane reliably.
me:drops cookie
ants on my house: 00:02
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The running animation for the soldiers tho
(My comment is to no offence to anyone. )
Dude, they upload everyday do you really think they are gonna put 10 hours in running animations??
@@kenju6610 lol no. It's all about the content IN the video :D
You'd think being called the Infographics show they'd put a little more effort into the graphics part
That’s how we really run
Bahahaha
During the latter part of WW 2 a couple of B 29s made emergency landings in Soviet territory The Soviets returned the air crews but hung onto the planes They later reverse engineered and build them as the Tupolev TU 4 NATO code Bull
A NATO plane? The USSR was never apart of NATO
US: Whew! You saved us, thanks for the fuel.
Soviets: What fuel?
US: The uhh... fuel for our planes
Soviets: What planes?
Eddie Pancho
Code named “The Bull†by NATO, just like how the NATO cade names the MIG-29 by “Fulcrum†and so on.
Eddie Pancho nato code is how NATO refers to enemy aircraft,tanks,etc
Mike Murray yeah they were jerks when it came to having stuff
2:05 B29s are pretty vulnerable to hostile fighters actually. The fact that late war US Air Force was able to provide air protection by launching P51 in Okinawa thus diminishing the casualties of the flight crew may have contributed to the misconception that is B29 crews can “can perfectly protect themselves†with the machine guns.
But only a FEW Japanese fighters that could reach B-29s altitude, secondly the USAAF focused more on low level firebombing of Japan and then climb back to their high altitude again during their return flight
@@ramal5708 The Mitsubishi J2M Raiden (Jack) was a the only real interceptor and maybe the Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (Tojo). The other fighters could reach up high could be the Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Frank) and Kawasaki Ki-100 Hien (Tony maybe? Its predecessor the Ki-61 was Tony for sure).
Mainly because the bombsights on the B-29's weren't accurate enough from such high altitudes. The bombers were thus sent to fly low altitude missions for greater accuracy but at the cost of greater losses.
GENERAL MACARTHUR: "That's cool but wanna know what's better than Bombs? Fire Bombs."
Lol
True!
Tho suckes when you're the one giting bomed lol
Actually, that was General LeMay
Fire bombs wouldn’t be useful
Think
rolling thunder, a powerwave
when you hear expect a hurricane
My grampy flew the B-29 “Pride of the Yankees†over Tokyo, 1 engine got hit very badly, the other had its propellor go wild and fly off, yet with only 2 engines left a zero attacked the bomber, lined up with the nose of the plane, ( he was a pilot ) and opened fire. A bullet hit his knee, then pulled back. Yet he still said with 2 engines out, he said “I’m taking this son of a b*tch all the way back!†And he did. He died in I think January 2014, I was 3 years old when he died. I miss him, but life is life, you can’t bring back dead people, even if they were a loved one. That is his story. Thanks for reading.
so you are 11?
also great story
We thank your grandpa for fighting. God bless him
And he told you that story when you were 3 or younger and you remember it?
Yea right.
@@dukecraig2402 His mom could have told him later
​@@brq4carsM FOR MATURE
MY Grandpa enlisted in 1940's he flew this plane for over 20 years., thankyou to all warriors for U.S.
Was he a captain, because my great grandfather was a captain on one which is in a museum today, it’s amazing
your families died quickly if your great great grandfather was in WW2 my great grandfather was in WW1
@@ryan-angusdonaldson9573 how?
This is seriously so advanced for the time.
Gotta love ww2 history
I'm more of a cold war type of person
I'm Both
Us army dafet ussr army the cold war is iconomy war this is soo not poosibole to dafet red army people nead to idiots to fink lik thet
@@_M27_ shut up you my food for my musclees
@@_M27_ you fooll of prootin and mitiriul
10:30 that happened to a b17 as well named “mizpahâ€
lol the guys eyes at 1:30 he is probably thinking I'm in love
True
@@ajlavell1 ya lol
"War was finally coming to Japan."
Dolittle and his B25's:"Are we a joke to you?"
Yeah. Dont forget those small little pt boats that i think zoomed into japanese bays and well. Yeah
and johnston
I'm glad my maternal grandfather's B-29 never got shot down. I would've liked to fly one of those if I was in his shoes.
Your grandfather did something considered impossible, attack mainland Japan, he has my best wishes
My grandpa got shot down in a b17 over germany and was a pow and eventually escaped and walked hundreds of miles until they found allied forces. Then he came home and went to fight in the pacific 💪
F-ZERO: i'm the best plane ever!
b-29: *hold my nuke*
Lol
I see the comedy in the post, but the Zero was never the best plane. It couldnt dive, and couldnt catch US fighters in a straight line. US pilots took advantage of it and used Energy fighting to beat the zeros
@@michaelliu8842 r/themoreyouknow
@@rempuia69 lol
5:26
U.S. Sub: Im about to end this mans whole career
Physics: Aight Imma head out
5:25 : Gets hit by a torpedo in the *front* ...
Later then goes to sinking from the back of the Warship?? Lets just Call that infographic logic
War Thunder be like
@@lukelyall5879 even war thunder is more realistic that that
You should make a video on Richard Halsey best who sank 2 Japanese carriers in a day
I think he didn't made it sank but he hit carrier twice in a single day
5:27
Torpedo: hits bow
Ship: sinks from the stern
That plot
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Omega lol
Broke the chain
Lol
8:26 YOU HAVE A HOLE IN YOUR LEFT WING
😂😂
The fact that the engines are not so perfect and sometimes problematic, they solved this problem with B-50 variant with a better engines
Two things I wanted to point out. First, the B-29 had a tricycle landing gear with a nose wheel in the front while the main landing gear in the wings rather than the bicycle gear as seen in the video. Second the Zero had it's main landing gear in the wings as well and a much smaller tail wheel. Just something I'd like point out as an aviation enthusiast myself, as constructive criticism of you will.
5:53 those planes be noclipping through each other
The then:
**USA and China be fwends to fight da Imperial Japan**
The now:
**USA and China now gone into another Cold War... again?**
It's called a fake friend
Because back then China wasn't a communist country
@@ramenns9693 Yup, and then Mao and Communism strikes. Whoa.
George Bush said there is a strategy I have, which is to control a country, which will lead to attracting Muslims, overthrowing Western and American regimes, and establishing an Islamic empire from Spain to Indonesia.
Richard Myers said: Our exit from Iraq will lead to the emergence of an Islamic caliphate
French President Sarkozy said: There is no need to use the language of wood. There are Islamic extremists seeking this confrontation to establish an Islamic caliphate, and I do not underestimate the possibility of a confrontation between Muslims.
Vladimir Putin said: The international terrorist group has declared war on Russia to carve out and control parts of Russia and establish an Islamic caliphate.
The British Minister said: There is no discussion regarding the possibility of an Islamic caliphate
The ccp is evil and is killing its people, e.g. the Uyghur.
Last time I was this early
Italy was still switching sides
@Don’t click my profile! His grammar was fine
That doesn’t mean much they always switch sides
@@Euoplocephalus no it wasnt lol
Keenan's clips what was wrong with it?
Me: comments
Me: refreshes page
My comment: Aight I’m out
Chip at ur moms house
@@chris-8597 Not funny, didn't laugh.
Masterc that was a master piece fym
@@joshuaclark1719 I have made a severe lapse in judgement, and I do not expect for me to be forgiven.
I’ve had the privilege to see fifi the Boeing b-29 flying over my house every year at the mid Atlantic air show in Reading PA. She’s a very gorgeous bomber I hope to ride her one day
I have been on her when I was a kid, she was set up as a static display.
It wasn’t 88 planes that took off, it was 111. It was just that the other planes had to turn back due to malfunctions.
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I love learning about WW2 and anyone else remember the name of the b-29 superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on hirishema because I do
Engineering masterpiece. It was literally years ahead of its time if you think about it. Especially the pressurized compartments and remotely connected 50 caliber machine guns.
Not to mention the Analog Computer guidance for the guns and An/APY-7 Radar
Big deal... the Junkers Ju-86P and R had it as well years before... but only for two man crew and only for a single rifle caliber MG in the tail.
@@Cuccos19 they didn’t lol
Yes but something people don't realize and like most other poorly researched videos on the B29 that get things wrong is that while in combat the cabins weren't pressurized, standard procedure was for the crew to don their oxygen masks and for the flight engineer to depressurize the fuselage to eliminate the possibility of an explosive decompression during battle in the event they were hit.
This plane is an absolute beast and it looks gorgeus!
I hope that one day in my life we have a flying aircraft carrier. Kind of like the helicarrier in Avengers.
The Russians actually built a TB-3 parasite aircraft carrier, I believe it was even used in combat once and I think it was quite effective, the Americans passed around the idea of doing the same thing with the 747.
@@tatevolk7553 I just looked into it, it is called Zveno project. It wasn't a full blown carrier but it held a few aircraft. It was actually very effective. Too bad nothing came of it after 1942.
@@tatevolk7553 Oh man!!! Really!!
You know what i hope for? I hope for racism to be over in my lifetime.
A better carrier would be the aigaion
look into operation charriot from ww2, that story will blow your mind
I feel like I’m watching a propaganda documentary.
@Hariom Shree lol just a history video.
Nope the B29 was the best bomber of the war statistically. And yeah we built it 😎💪🇺🇸
Same lol he always says finally the us are stronger than japan
@@cicciomalino4956 I mean... they were and are stronger. That's why they managed to win the war...
@@definitelyjustcj4148 don’t use those emojis together
My neighbor was a turret gunner in a B24 bomber, he passed away sadly but I'm glad to have met him. He was one of the greatest men I've known.
B24? Lol
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@@C9benZra nah I'm a human
B-52 Stratofortress: Allow me to introduce myself
the fortress family.
2:01
Well the B-29s over japan got P-51 fighter escorts
my favourite hike here in the UK is to the overexposed Superfortress. It's amazing how much wreckage still remains
A few things
1.SOME B29 had 20mm in the rear but was removed later for only 12.7
2. Zero had mostly wood as the reason USA RAN MOSTLY APIT ,
3. There was a gunner in the rear of B29
4. B29 Gun computer was one of the first PC IN AN AIRPLANE and took into account many factors including weather in solutions
This was awesome it was very sucurit and I can tell you did a lot of research and time on it
Keep it up this is why I still watch these videos
1:49 is the best information I have ever seen
I saw a genuine airworthy B 29 at an air show in October of last year nicknamed "Doc" and it was an awesome piece of history
Is’t it a war crime beca-
“Sussssss they wonâ€
😅🤣
Nope, the conventions that established air bombardment warcrimes happened after this.
A lot of the things that became war crimes were made war crimes because of WW2. Many of them were brought up because of WW1, but the nations of the world couldn't agree on much of anything and thus did a whole lotta nothing.
Also, Imperial Japan had a different idea about what constituted acceptable wartime conduct so it's entirely possible that Japan wouldn't have been protected by international agreements or internal policies anyway. Many such rules have conditions for excluding bad faith actors, noncompliants, and/or non signatories. It's a warcrime to bomb a church, but hypothetically if enemies are fighting from inside it it's a free target. If it has been militarized it is a free target. If the enemy makes a regular habit of bombing churches themselves turnabout is fair play. While these international agreements (and internal policies they influence) generally also cover engagements with non signatories; non participation in the agreements doesn't usually engender much sympathy when the protections are needed, especially if paired with noncompliance or bad faith actions.
Gotta play by the rules or nobody will care when you get cheated.
@@duddude321 I personaly think that in all out war nobody cares about the rules if they are losing.
Me: watching Pewdiepie.
Infographics: uploads.
Me: Wait, that's illegal
I see u also watch sssniperwolf
he uploads up to 3 times a day usually 2 or 3
Cool but where’s the funny
Cool but where's the funny
History = never boring
Best animation hand down love it.
0:40 I thought they were all pointing pistols to their heads lol
Can we just take a moment to realise how cool the transitions are
Ok
This is exactly what I needed right now
I been waiting for this video forever...
Nobody:
New Yorkers protesting: 0:40
War can only be felt by those who are fighting in the war.
After that, the story of the wars seems interesting to everyone.
No one:
The Infographics show: State of the Art...
7:39 HAHA YOU'VE SPRUNG MY TRAP CARD
9:15 Imagine seeing that coming at you
Very angry shell
The zero was the best fighter in the Pacific at the start of the war. Not the best in the world.
@Ziad Khaled probably the German fighter, can't remember the name, it's all subjective though, since they fought on the same side.
@Ziad Khaled early US Navy Planes kinda "sluggish" if you compare to Zero, that said, they are better armored, Saburo Sakai once feels confident and only shoot his 7.7 mm against american F4F wildcats, much to his surprise the wildcaf still flying despite taking so many hits, he said if it a Zero, it will already turn into ball of flame.
If u watched 5 seconds longer they said it was only the best at the start of the war
@@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts yes. Which it wasnt. It was the best fighter in the Pacific at the start of the war, not the world.
@@zumis1011 BF109??
2:34 lol he just says "bye" and leaves
How about a series with the b17, b24 and the b25?
I got to see one of these take off a few years ago, just the roar of one plane was intimidating. Makes you appreciate how the Japanese must have felt when hundreds flew over at a time dropping bombs
He forgot that (i think ) the B-29 can run on 1 engine and still be flying
I love how the shell bangs on the b-29 s fuselage lol
i JUST saw one of these amazing planes today 4/7/2021 Fort Worth Texas. flew right over me and was pretty low too i was completely awestruck and the sound of it too was soo badass and cool I'll never forget that moment
0:24 Japan do go MMMMMMMMMMMMM
There is not only A6M Zero Fighter, there is Kawanishi N1K and Nakajima Ki-84 too, they can reach with their service ceiling against B29.
4:43 😂😂😂😂😂 Look at the little fighter screaming 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for always making your videos ad free!!!!â¤ï¸â¤ï¸â¤ï¸
These videos are filled with ads
The sound effects are hilarious
0:40 : What happens when you have siblings.
Also, 12 50. caliber machine guns are basically 12 automatic Barret m82's.
No it's just twelve ma deuce's
It's worth mentioning that Japan did have some fighters capable of reaching the B-29's cruising altitude, mainly the Kawasaki Ki-45 _Toryu_ ('Dragonslayer') and Nakajima Ki-84 _Hayate_ ('Gale'), but numbers of these were in short supply due to a lack of raw materials to manufacture them in significant numbers by the time raids on the main islands by B-29s became more frequent. Japan was also working on a purpose-built 'B-29 killer', the Kyushu J7W _Shinden_ ('Magnificent Lightning'), but this plane never left the prototype phase, as by the time it conducted its three test flights - two of which occurred on the same days as the nuclear bombings - the war was for all intents and purposes, over.
this will help me during school thanks!!!!!
Such magnificent creative machines made for such a despicable job. The irony.
Hi guys, love the vids, please do one on Operation: Chastise!!! It would mean the world to me!
the infographics show's videos honestly look like they've been made in a modded version of renderforest
9:07 AA in War Thunder be like:
A moment of silence for all who died in world war 2
The B-29 continued to be used in Korea and throughout the 1950s as the primary bomber of the newly formed formed USAF and was the main bomber used in most of the raids until the Soviet Migs made them easy targets for the jet fighters restricting them to nighttime runs.
yep it became te B-50 superfortress
@@lenoreallen8859 Basically the same but with new features
Bomber boi: Big
Fighter boi: Smool
Everytime i see one of these "here comes the sun" starts playing in my head
B-29s: *emergency lands in the Soviet Union*
Soviet Union: It's free real estate
japan: hey what you doing!?
USA: die!
2:50
Me: wait one of those ships is the same ship you guys used for Bismarck in a other vid IM SUSPICIOUS
I just love these military videos
When you are earlier that the re-fresh button😂💀
What? Lol 🤔
no it’s in the videos he didn’t add it to home
2:41 transformers on a budget
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