Awesome Redtails......Tuskegee Graduate, Engineering, 1995, I am loving this....

@rocksteadymilitaria541

Ай бұрын

i never specificly heard about the lads glad this series brought it up altho i do think it was a little bit pushed from above :)

good series but i felt like ep 9 was just slapped together

D-Day was cloud covered. Bombers missed the coast by miles. Dad (B24's)said they flew to Cherbourg for the secondary target.

@rocksteadymilitaria541

3 ай бұрын

thanks for the info :)

I watched this episode when it was released and, as a pilot, noticed a CGI mistake right away. At the 4 minute, 52 second mark a P51 gets it's left wing shot off but spins to the right. Wings don't work that way. Earlier in the video (4:39) another had its left wing shot off and spun to the left as it should have.

@tonykeith76

3 ай бұрын

GCI made a lot of mistakes......And P-51s never used HVAR in WWII

@jamesf3084

3 ай бұрын

Maybe they were the A-36 "B" model LOL.@@tonykeith76

@GhostBravo3-1

3 ай бұрын

​@@tonykeith76 nah where tf did you find that source from. HVAR was made in July 1944 and P51s used it

@stanross8551

3 ай бұрын

I always believed this to be true until that video of the 2 skydiving planes was national news. Wing sheared off in the collision and the plane spun with the remaining wing going down not up. A survivor confirmed this video was factual in that stunning mid-air event. Google it. I'm still baffled by it.

@justin36004

2 ай бұрын

@@tonykeith76they used HVARs in the Pacific Theatre targeting Japan around July-August 1945.

Thank you for the video.

Never thought of New POW's arriving at camp, the only source of outside news the Prisoners get. the guy making the plans on Bennies was not necessary in this clip. They did a better job with flight characteristics than RedTails did (it was like they were riding motorcycles) but that Dive, still too tight. 4:02 The CGI guys need to spend some time on boats to get the feel for no breaks only inertia.

Excellent review!

The producer himself said he knows they didn't fly together but it was to pay homage all the "experts" come in and get all worked up about a couple brothas flying planes is sad and funny to me

It is unlikely the P-40 fighters were used in night attacks like that. Let alone flying in close formation at night. Such a mission would more likely been done with medium bombers that had navigators and possibly radars. Even in daylight they would be more dispersed for strafing. Also bombing in line formation at such low level the following aircraft could be damaged by explosions. And they had no way to judge height for low attacks at night. Was it done at night in the movie so it was cheaper or the explosions looked good. They should have had another aircraft to do navigation. On most night missions aircraft flew relatively alone. Formations would be well dispersed. Some aircraft were specifically to mark targets at night for other bombers. They would have the best crews and equipment and drop flares and incendiaries from medium/high altitude. The RAF often used twin engine Mosquito or Beaufighters for night intruders and many other roles. . And used them for night intruder missions as in the show. The USAAF had Mosquitoes and Beaufighters for night operations and used other US medium bombers. There were also two or three seat light bombers that had navigators. The Mosquito was the best bomber of WW2 due to its speed and were often given the most dangerous missions. It was much faster than the Beaufighter.

@stopmotionwarehouse8986

3 ай бұрын

All that yapping and you’re still wrong, and guess what: all ya had to do was watch the real history of this unit to know. You’re stating inaccuracies that are just plain wrong, like you’re looking for a problem that isn’t there

Would have liked to see the 56th fighter group in one of the episodes .

@Atpost334

3 ай бұрын

Exactly, or the 4th FG (Eagle Squadron), or the 357th FG (Yoxford Boys), or the 352nd FG (Blue Nose Bastards of Bodney). Plenty of fantastic fighter groups in the Eighth Air Force.

@Demaenetus

3 ай бұрын

Wikipedia: The 56th Fighter Group is credited by the Air Force Historical Research Agency with the destruction of 665.5 aircraft in air-to-air combat, the 56th Fighter Group had more air-to-air kills than any other fighter group in the Eighth Air Force, was the top-scoring Republic P-47 Thunderbolt group during World War II, and recorded the second-highest number of air-to-air kills of any USAAF fighter group. The 56th also claimed 311 fighters destroyed on the ground. The Tuskegee airmen were credited with 112 enemy aircraft destroyed in the air, and 150 on the ground. Also 148 enemy aircraft damaged.

Jamming this story line into the series was really unnecessary to begin with. This scene was sloppy and not very well researched in my opinion.

@bcask61

3 ай бұрын

I agree. The story of the Tuskegee airmen is an important one and has been told in other films. Shoehorning them I to this series seems like woke pandering. And no one should be surprised

@Golden-dog88

3 ай бұрын

it was nessacary for the thrown together ep 9

@unropednope4644

3 ай бұрын

​@bcask61 stop using woke for your racist dog whistle. What films have they been featured in besides one or two? Haven't the stories about the white fighter pilots and bombers been done to death by hollywood? I guarantee people know the story about the Tuskegee airmen less than the standard white bomber boys narrative. Nice try though but just admit you hate black people and move on.

@Atpost334

3 ай бұрын

Agree, this was completely unnecessary and just took up time. They have their own great story that has been told several times. It was just jammed into MotA storyline.

@timf2279

3 ай бұрын

Woke placement.

Love those Red Tails!!

Hans Scharff did not wear a uniform during interrogations.

@rocksteadymilitaria541

2 ай бұрын

the one in the series portraid a real person?

And the Turkegee airman were written into the series for what reason?

@matlew1960

3 ай бұрын

Because they were airmen who fought and died for their country and the men they were fighting with, just like every other airman.

@KMN-bg3yu

3 ай бұрын

@@matlew1960 them the writers could have substituted amy other fighter group? Maybe the 56th Fighter Group? Or perhaps the 479th? Not likely without a backlash

@haitolawrence5986

3 ай бұрын

@@matlew1960 Nobody is disputing that. The question is why were they shoehorned into this series???

@therant311

3 ай бұрын

@@haitolawrence5986so you can whine

@timf2279

3 ай бұрын

Woke

Crazy how if you believed every TV show and movie about air combat in NW Europe from recent years you'd think the Red Tails were the only fighter outfit in theatre.

@aw8079

3 ай бұрын

and if you watched every WWII film and tv show a generation ago, you'd have never heard of these airmen. They are your brothers too.

@BGRANT777X

3 ай бұрын

Every movie about WW2 pilots since redtails which did poorly in 2012 has been about anything but the red tails. Midway, Lancaster Skies, Squadron 303, Mission of Honor and Dunkirk are some of the bigger ones... no redtrails in those. So its not "every TV and movie" but give me 5-6 or is this a wahhhh everything is woke bit?

@marcusaurelius6012

3 ай бұрын

​@BGRANT777X Reality? - 2024? - Everything is a "abit" woke. I was hoping to see Dylan Mulvaney as one of the replacement crew members on Masters, but no? Just so disappointing

@armoredsaint6639

3 ай бұрын

IKR!

@KMN-bg3yu

3 ай бұрын

Yes, there have been at least 2 movies made about the Tuskegee airmen. I'm still confused about why the producers felt it was necessary to insert them into a story about the 100th BG (not really)

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@rocksteadymilitaria541

3 ай бұрын

thanks for the info :)

I honor the Tuskegee airmen for their service, but they were far from being the best U.S. fighter group. At best, they were average, which is not a bad thing, but it's a disservice to fighter groups with much better records, longer combat time and many more deaths. They were a small part (only 355 men at most) of the 15th Air Force, which had 21 bomber groups and seven fighter groups, but you hear almost nothing about the 15th except the Tuskegee airmen.

@mikesmith-wk7vy

3 ай бұрын

yea the movies over embellish it , besides a few of the high ranking aces most of the pilots were not very skilled. some can attribute it to the poor training because they were a segregated unit

@Demaenetus

3 ай бұрын

There were 1,279 U.S. fighter aces in WWII, including those who flew with the Flying Tigers and the Eagle Squadron. There was only one ace from the Tuskegee Airmen, and he had the bare minimum five kills required to be an ace. The 15th air force, which included the Tuskegee airmen, produced 74 aces during the war.

@svdagoat7972

2 ай бұрын

Jim Crow Laws and segregation couldn't even drink from the same water fountain so imagine how hard it was to join the military and fly a plane.. and where all these movies you speak of ? Red Tails if you believe that movie you're an idiot, lol The original Tuskegee Airmen movie form 95' was a way more realistic depiction.

No disrespect to the Tuskegee pilots, but this part of the story seemed really forced in there. Episode 8 was the weakest one by far

By the time the Tuskegee air crew were in action the German pilots with any experience were all dead, my mom could chase a 109 with a p-51 D. And watch the pilot bail out before the fight even began!

@therant311

3 ай бұрын

Even me262 pilots? The only reason the Tuskegee airmen didn’t see action earlier was befcause their superiors didn’t want them to make a name for themselves, and instead of you doing research on the matter you shed a light on your ignorance.

@Demaenetus

3 ай бұрын

There’s a myth that Tuskegee Airmen were first to shoot down a German jet fighter. They weren’t even the first in the 15th AF to shoot one down. American pilots shot down 60 Me 262 jets before March 24, 1945, the day on which the Tuskegee airmen claimed their first victory over German jets.

Bloody embarrassing STAGE acting.

@rocksteadymilitaria541

Ай бұрын

the series has its moments haha

Bombs don't burst into fireballs. I wish Hollywood would learn that.

@rocksteadymilitaria541

3 ай бұрын

exciting to watch :0