These people were made of different stuff. Who operates out of mud-surface airfields with such great results

@gratefulguy4130

11 күн бұрын

With that much mud it's a surprise the thing could taxi let alone take off.

@ffjsb

11 күн бұрын

Uh, they lost the war... I wouldn't call that a "good result"...

@dsan8742

11 күн бұрын

​@ffjsb Looking at the performance of the Luftwaffe early war those are the good results, even the best fighters will lose if they find themselves in a 3v1

@ffjsb

10 күн бұрын

@@dsan8742 They should've crunched the numbers and seen that it would be impossible to overcome the resources and manpower of the allies.

@claudiomagi5375

9 күн бұрын

Ma secondo te il matto (hitler) faceva questi conti? Sveglia amico….

Wow, difficult conditions to work in but no complaining. Men of that era were made of different stuff.

@patrickhenry7099

11 күн бұрын

I could also tell from the soundless video that no one was complaining. Anytime in any service with any nation will reveal complaining, there’s often nothing else to do.

@SMGJohn

11 күн бұрын

Such a NPC comment "Muh old day" Wars are not like video games, 5% of it is spent fighting, the other 50% is spent walking, and another 45% spent waiting.

@bluephoenix8470

11 күн бұрын

@@SMGJohn Think Gen Y or Z would put up with conditions like that? Either way we are going to find out. War with China is coming.

@bluephoenix8470

11 күн бұрын

@@patrickhenry7099 Pilot at 0:23 had a smile on his face. What more do you want?

@gratefulguy4130

11 күн бұрын

​@@SMGJohn Funny, your statement is what comes off as an NPC comment. It was triggered in an almost incedental way, having nothing to do with what he said.

Alaskan bush pilots long before there were Alaskan bush pilots. Those are some unbelievably brutal conditions.

Rasputitsa.. I would boldly assume that's General Mud, the brother of General Winter, right?

@frenzalrhomb6919

11 күн бұрын

Russia's two top General's, or so I'm told!!

@Slithey7433

11 күн бұрын

Russia’s greatest defense: weather.

@frenzalrhomb6919

11 күн бұрын

@Slithey7433 Well, there's only ever been one foe that Russia's two top General's couldn't beat, and that was the MONGOLS!!

@feindkontakt5956

2 күн бұрын

Rasputitsa is the Name for bad weather in General in the eastern European Countries, which always occurs in fall - winter

Luftwaffe ground crews were mensch.

@MayhemicMAD

9 күн бұрын

My grandpa was serving as Luftwaffe ground crew, until they put him in one of those last ditch Luftwaffe infantry units with new uniforms but no training. He was heavily wounded 80 years ago today, at the start of Operation Bagration, where his whole division was destroyed near Witebsk. Soviet troops brought him to a field hospital where a soviet doctor saved his life. He came home four years later. I'm glad there was some humanity left during those dark times.

@AmericasChoice

9 күн бұрын

@@MayhemicMAD your Grandpa was very fortunate to have survived both the war, and Soviet captivity.

@dharmindercheema8842

6 күн бұрын

Aaj comment vich koye kuch bol de par jina army soldier officer ne eh war vich apne apne desh laye apne jaan de bazi la te oh amar ne

Interesting, the Stuka at 0:33 doesn't have a cover around the wheels

@Tydirium

11 күн бұрын

Go figure .. why would you think they had them taken off?

@frenzalrhomb6919

11 күн бұрын

​@@Tydirium Er, mud? Yeah, it's just gotta be the "Rasputitsa" the "muddy season" in Russia, having them on would just clog up the wheels all the time, or that's what I'm guessing.

@erickent3557

11 күн бұрын

Yep, that's what "Spat-less" means in the video title.

@SpenzOT

3 күн бұрын

@@frenzalrhomb6919 This is true. Also, early in the spring thaw it was not unusual for temperatures to go back below freezing at night, so any mud clogging tracks or wheels would freeze and completely immobilize vehicles and aircraft that had spaces (like the stuka's wheel fairings) that could trap large amounts of mud.

Too thick to navigate, too thin to cultivate.

Четкие сьемки..внизу горят советы

I just found a photo of a captured Stuka in RAF livery. And so far, at least 3 desert living Ju 87s minus spats. EVERYTHING looks better with RAF roundels. I once found a picture of a plane looking like a pregnant Stuka with the description of diesel powered Ju 86. Years later a search told me no such plane, no such engine, but I know there are diesel aero engines, now. And then...tada...there was a Ju 86 (a pre-war thing), and it had two, vertically opposed diesel engines. Vertically opposed, two pistons, one higher one lower, sharing the same bore and compression stroke- six cylinders, 12 pistons. Apparently that configuration works well with diesel.

Maybe they are 'spat-less' b/c mud would get stuck in the spats?

_'My!'_ ... What a bloody flood of a sludgy muddy mess! ... Poor li'l _'Stuka-Spooken'_ gobblers!

Слава Великой Германии!!!!

@user-vp5hu8om9b

5 күн бұрын

Спаржи зелёной объелся в Великой и голодной Германии, челядь !?