As a child growing up in post-war Japan my father would take me and my brother to Yokosuka Naval Base where he kept his personal boat moored, and we would visit it, and afterwards shop at the naval exchange there. One of the routines when visiting Yokosuka was to visit a waterfront park (don't recall the name, it was almost 60 years ago), and at this park was the wingless hull of a Kawanishi H8K. It was open to the public to explore, and me and my brother would climb up into the cockpit, and pretend we were pilots. I had a friend who was stationed in Yokosuka during the tail end of the Vietnam war, and he did not remember ever seeing this hull a park, so I image it was scrapped by the early 1970s. My dad fought in the Pacific Theater, and he had nothing but praise for these behemoths.

@brandonharrsch8318

10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the memories ❤

@gratefulguy4130

9 ай бұрын

共有していただきありがとうございます！お父様に祝福を！

The latest version of the H8K still flies! Post-war, Kawanishi evolved into Shinmeiwa. It makes the US-1 (ironically) long-range search and rescue flying boat, powered by turboprop enginesitt has a much longer range than helicopters, and can actually land in rough seas. At least one USAF F16 pilot credits his life to the US-1.

@2011SoxMD36

10 ай бұрын

All true, and the concept overall will probably outlive any of us here watching this video around release, because the concept has been evolved into the new US-2, which is in service with additional units still in production 💪

@paulwoodman5131

10 ай бұрын

The US-2 is an amazing plane, STOL by using boundary layer control, an internal gas turbine blowing air across the wings. And some other innovations.

@joesutherland225

10 ай бұрын

Waterbomber variant of us 1 ? If not.why not?

@parthaadhikary8776

10 ай бұрын

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@parthaadhikary8776

10 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Don't forget to mention the H8K on the bottom of Chuuk Lagoon, shot down with an admiral on board (he and two others survived the crash). It's an easy scuba dive. I was privileged to touch the control yoke that the pilot held till the last. There's also one at Saipan that can be dived on.

The flying boat tradition continues in Japan with excellent designs flown by superbly trained crews that have rescued innumerable downed airmen, sailors, and civilians under very adverse conditions.

@johnjephcote7636

10 ай бұрын

In 1939, a Sunderland landed and rescued the entire crew of the torpedoed freighter 'Kensington Court'. I have never seen this mentioned.

One commentary I’ve read characterised the H8K was the most difficult large Japanese aircraft to shoot down, being well powered, armoured and armed. A very efficient design.

A Sunderland pilot told me they had a decent speed and a lot of rear turbulence, if intercepted he would get low so could not be attacked from below, and the large amount of rear turbulence was enough to give them rear protection.

Impressive. Maybe they should build a modern version for fighting Wild Fires.

@sixfootbear

10 ай бұрын

Martin Mars. American flying boat.

@Fearless1247

10 ай бұрын

​@sixfootbear i think they're retired now and were built during ww2. We need a modern flying boat

@grumpyboomer61

10 ай бұрын

There are amphibious water bombers built in Canada and used around the world. They're smaller than the H8K, but they're probably more versatile.

Always loved flying boats. The Short Sunderland was one of the first models I ever built. Surprised that Dark Skies hasn't done a video on the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1. It was a jet powered seaplane fighter. Unfortunately time had caught up with the concept so it was eventually scrapped, but it would have been interesting to see how the concept would have matured.

@joesutherland225

10 ай бұрын

Hey waterbombers out of the us-1?

@Getpojke

10 ай бұрын

@@joesutherland225 ?Not quite sure what you mean? The Saunders Roe SR A/1 was a jet fighter that could land & take off from water. The US did take up the idea with the Convair F2Y Sea Dart fighter, but it too was only ever a prototype. When you say "waterbombers" I thought about firefighting planes, were you talking about the Martin P6M SeaMaster? Again time caught up with that & nuclear missiles launched from submarines took their place.

@joesutherland225

10 ай бұрын

@@Getpojke no converting the Japanese flying boats being in production today being converted to fire fighting aircraft similar but smaller than the old Martin Mars water bombers used for decades now retired recently I believe

@johnjephcote7636

10 ай бұрын

Geoffrey Tyson rescued Eric Brown when his SR A/1 struck a stray timber in the water. The engine went into Campbell's 'Bluebird' boat. I remember the last Sunderlands going...1960, I think and I watched Aquila Airways 'boats in Southampton Water.

When I was going to ASW school at FAETULANT NAS Norfolk October to December 1966, I noticed several huge crates along the steam pipes that heated the barracks. These crates were marked "Emily" and were a complete H8K. I understand that after many years the crates were loaded aboard a ship and returned to Japan. I know there is now a complete H8K on static display somewhere in Japan. I trust it is the one I saw crated in Norfolk.

Another great video. Thanks

Pretty sure BV222 Viking was bigger, also Martin Mars, and a few other experimental types.But yes H8K was an outstanding aircraft.

@BV-fr8bf

10 ай бұрын

Agreed! BV238 even bigger

@edwardcook2973

10 ай бұрын

The H8K was the largest flying boat that actually entered production and that made actual combat missions.

@enscroggs

10 ай бұрын

@@edwardcook2973 I believe you are mistaken. The Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking was longer (121 ft vs. 92 ft.) had a greater wingspan (151 ft vs. 124 ft), and had greater capacity (108,000 lbs max. takeoff weight vs. 72,000 max takeoff weight) than the Kawanishi H8K.

@VIDEOVISTAVIEW2020

3 ай бұрын

​​@@enscroggsbut the kawanishi H8K2 has longer range, faster, built in more numbers, heavily armed and actually used in the war

As mentioned in the video, my father, Captain James L. Neefus, leading a 4 plane section of Brewster Buffalos, shot down an Emily near Midway in March 1942. The first known shoot down by a Marine in WW 2. Navy Cross awarded.

@markjumper5308

10 ай бұрын

An amazing achievement, as the Buffalos weren't that much faster than the Emily, and given the Emily's legendary toughness, making it difficult to shoot down.

One of the most telling aspects of Japan’s unpreparedness to fight a sustained war can be found in its constitution and shipping of Zero Type Fighters. They were originally constructed in a factory - shipped in parts via an oxcart - and then fully assembled at another facility.

7:20 Who spotted Ronald Reagan ?

I remember seeing an H8K in the Commandos 2 Men of Courage PC Game, that you actually leave the island with a rescued Allied Pilot and also a Golden Statue and a Wrecked Sailor

@antr7493

10 ай бұрын

OMG i loves those games

A Caribbean now in Miami that has watched as a kid there & then here, the marvels of Flying Boats . New lil of this one.

Great video!

Thanks so much for your research and hard work bringing us these videos.

great video... Thank you.

God! How I wish Tamiya or Hasegawa produced a 1/48 scale model of this aircraft. An H6K would be nice in 1/48 scale too. With crew of course.

Fascinating, thanks!

Excellent

Supermarine Sunderlands flying out of RAF Pembroke Dock (and RAF Londonderry on the Foyle) - water airfields, in West Wales and Northern Ireland, then - lethal machines. Would have been bigger squadrons if we had the time to build more of them.

@atilllathehun1212

10 ай бұрын

Short Sunderlands....

@mongolike513

10 ай бұрын

My father flew Sunderlands with 461 RAAF out of Pembroke Dock. They were flying anti submarine patrols with old school torpex depth charges the whole war while in other theatres anti submarine homing torpedoes , ‘Fido’, were being employed to huge success. Despite radar and other electronic aids the crews had to contend with underpowered and slightly unreliable radial engines as well as enemy aerial interception and UBoat AA all of which were a threat to survival. And that does not count the weather which may have been the biggest killer I believe the luftwaffe ju88 unit Kg40 operated over the Bay of Biscay and accounted for at least 4 of 461’s Sunderlands and their crews let alone those sent further out into the Atlantic at the weather’s discretion. Quite possibly the Germans knew enough about RAF signals to manage these ‘innocuous’ interceptions? The Sunderlands were not that lethal despite the Australians mounting extra mgs from the galley windows and eventually mounting four fixed mgs in the nose to enable the pilot to suppress UBoat deck crews manning AA. Maybe fewer Sunderlands would have been lost had they been able to defend themselves with .50cal mgs? That goes for every other allied aircraft which was armed with .303 brownings, fighters and bombers and patrol craft. Meanwhile, this video is about the absolutely marvellous Kawanishi h8, what a pip!

@scotttait2197

8 ай бұрын

supermatine seagull, walrus ect , but not that

I hadn't known the Japanese possessed an air search radar. Thanks for the knowledge.

@williamsmith7340

10 ай бұрын

These radars may have been copies of German sets brought to Japan in submarine Yanagi missions to German occupied France to exchange strategic materials, including jet and rocket engine technology. These missions are described in detail in the excellent books “Shokuzai” by William Myers, and “Yanagi” by Mark Felton.

I have Francillon's book on the Japanese aircraft of the Pacific War and it is a most excellent book.

Can you turn the volume of accompanying music down please ? It gets in the way of your narration

Great perspective on Japanese WW2 tech, thanks!

Great historical appraisal

The Blohm and Voss bv 222 wiking was the largest flying boat to reach operational status in ww2.

@gratefulguy4130

9 ай бұрын

This guy gets a lot of things wrong. In his defense, WWII is very compartmentalized in that way. There really isn't much in the way of comparing things on a grand scale. Partly because it would paint the Germans in a very impressive light. Same reason war movies never arm them properly. It can be 1944/45 and you won't see a single Sturmgewehr, FG42, G/K43, etc even though they were widely deployed (except the FG42 of course). That's just an example.

Flying boats are awesome I wish they where still a thing. I know there are a few out there but not enough.

@urazon9465

10 ай бұрын

If all the icebergs melt and enough land gets submerged, maybe they will return...

@MrMinuteman69

10 ай бұрын

There are a few companies that are making modern flying boats for civilian use. No where near the size of these. Limited to about 6 people. These planes are for bush type pilots to get hunters and fishermen into remote areas on lakes and some rivers. Although in some countries they still use larger passenger style flying boats. I have seen them used in areas of the far east. Able to take passengers to remote resorts that don't have a runway but plenty of ocean.

@manifestman132

10 ай бұрын

@@MrMinuteman69 I know of the Lakes and some other smaller ones. Yes those ones might be the Chinese built AG600. The JSDF also has a pretty nice one as well as a few Russian ones out there. I just wish there where more.

@manifestman132

10 ай бұрын

@@urazon9465 Well time to start designing some massive flying boats and become a super villain haha.

Fascinating synopsis of a versatile aircraft

If only it was completed a year earlier, I would have loved to see how the "Spruce Goose" would have done...

@raymondminty4923

10 ай бұрын

It was a transport for flying resources across the Atlantic, it was no combat machine , It would've been useful in 43,44 as ship were being sunk.

Both H6k and H8k are available in WarThunder

Big fan of the channel. What’s with the super loud music at the first half?

I'm sure it was a fine aircraft. But short Sutherland of Great Britain and the American pby we're also very very fine flying boats.

One bombed Townsville during the second world war there is a recording of the radio coverage at the battle of Coral Sea memorial at Kissing point in Townsville Queensland

Shoutout to President Ronald Regan which actually appeared in this video at 7:23.

Crushing blow... half the fleet and all ac on maneuvers. Phirric victory

How would the H8K compare with the Martin Mars?

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I wonder if any of these great planes have been saved after the war.. Too many WWII planes have been lost over time. It would be great to see one of these planes one up-close! I also just saw this week that there is a beautiful WWII B-25 Mitchel medium bomber like the one used in the Tokyo raid that is up for sale here in the US! It was a private party ad that had an asking price of 2 million USD! That would be a treat for anyone espically kids to fly around in this day and age! 😃

@williamsmith7340

10 ай бұрын

Yes, there is a complete version on static display at a museum in Kanoya City, Japan.

@TheWolfsnack

10 ай бұрын

.....several of the Martin Mars were saved...we used them in Canada as water bombers for years until they were decommissioned....we still do not have a water bomber with the knokout punch of the Mars.

@user-fk7um5bt2u

10 ай бұрын

There is a Sunderland flying boat on display at Duxford museum in England.

Video footage got a bit more random on his one.😁

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Is this place Yokohama?

nice music video..........................cant hear voice over music.............by

their limited landing feature made them deadly

now its descendant , the US-2 modern flying boat

Interesting that now the US is entertaining buying the Japanese current flying boat to use as reconnaissance in the Pacific.

Just saying boats that fly awsome

As for bombs, the ordinance was carried externally on wing racks like all other flying boats. Yes, that was Regan. And please proofread your script. You said the cockpit mounted the engines.

@sixfootbear

10 ай бұрын

The Sunderland carried its bombs inside the fuselage.The bombs were winched out to a position under the wings when needed..

And the failed second attack on Pearl Harbor had the Navy blaming the Army Air Corps.

Saw some flying boats looking like borrowed yech from Sikorsky.

Sheesh, flying boats..what's not to like

I believe the Martin Mars is larger; but did it come just after WWII?

I wonder if one those flying boats was what got the USS Wahoo. It was sunk by an aerial bomb.

@MrSimplyfantabulous

10 ай бұрын

We'll never know. Cellphones didn't have cameras in WWII.

@amadeusamwater

10 ай бұрын

Japanese records might know. They list an attack by planes on a sub at the time and place. The record might list the type of plane@@MrSimplyfantabulous

They should produce a video on the U.S.' "biggest secret bomber of WW2" and fill it with stock footage of the B-17.

Just a comment on the music, the clip you used in yhis episode at the beginning was way too loud and harsh. It was hard to understand your voice over it. Keep the background music minimal.

Allied airmen feared it? Is that why they shot one down with the worst fighter in wwii... Some of the crap they say in these videos.

@RichGallant

10 ай бұрын

5 20mm cannons and 5 .30 cal mgs and pretty decent armour. Flying boats in general were very difficult to shoot down, and not a target you want to go after. But the non sealing fuel tanks were a big problem.

"Recognition of the Japanese Zero Fighter, 1943" at 7:20 featuring Ronald Reagan.

Yeah, who in the Japanese department of plane design said 'it must have a range of 5180 miles'?

@alexzenz760

10 ай бұрын

Maybe 8500 km ?

@roop298

10 ай бұрын

it doesn't round in any conversion.@@alexzenz760

@paulwoodman5131

10 ай бұрын

Or 444 kmh.

Struck terror into the hearts of allied pilots, I think more like there’s a nice big target

Do any still exist, can they be seen by the public?

@puremaga17

10 ай бұрын

Kermit Weeks has a Shorts.. He has a KZread channel

@brucecawoodfamily7447

10 ай бұрын

a complete static h8k on disply in japan. this is the only surviver

Why would it "strike terror" in enemy pilots? Submersibles definitely, but not planes.

I had thought the big Marlins were bigger (PB2Y-2 and PBM) were bigger, but no, the Japanese win this spec.

Wasn’t the Martin Mars bigger?

How the hell do you drop bombs out of a flying boat? Waterproof bombay doors? Like straight through the bottom of the hull that's supposed to keep you from sinking? I don't think I'd like the idea of flying on a sea plane with a giant hole in the hull. Probably best to put that on the shelf next to screen doors for submarines.

@macjim

10 ай бұрын

Oh, you just put them on top of the wings and when you see a target, you fly upside down and drop the bombs… 🥸

@BigWheel.

10 ай бұрын

You'd mount them on pylons on the wings or side, or toss them out the back via a hatch. Some flying boats did have fully functional and sealed hull doors to create a bomb bay.

@rayceeya8659

10 ай бұрын

@@BigWheel. Obviously, but it still looks sketchy to me. Who builds a boat with a big door in the hull?

@paulwoodman5131

10 ай бұрын

In the Short Sunderland the bombs are stored inside and transferred to the wing by trolley through a hatch in the side of the fuselage.

@Classickoolcars

10 ай бұрын

@@macjim. I was “INVERTED”….. 🤣🤣

If only there was a way to turn down the music so that I could actually hear the narration

It’s hard to hear you over the music

We have flying boats, what about flying tanks. Edit: I meant a literal tank with a turret separate from the body.

@TylerJC40

10 ай бұрын

Tried that it didn’t go so well

@puremaga17

10 ай бұрын

The Russians tried that with a "bolt on" flying kit to a Tank..

@carguybikeguy

10 ай бұрын

That’s the AC130 gunship.

@lancerevell5979

10 ай бұрын

Soviets tried but failed. Just too heavy.

@TimeTheory2099

10 ай бұрын

During the Normandy invasion the US Army tried ocean going tanks. Quite a few didn't make land, thus a short lived Army tank submarine division. 😱

The H8K had great range and was deadly to submarines but if they encountered Allied planes they were basically large slow moving targets. Any plane that could be shot down by Brewster Buffaloes could hardly be called formidable.

@DIREWOLFx75

10 ай бұрын

One of the most common nicknames of the Emily among allied pilots was "porcupine" or something commonly along the lines of "that damn thing with 20mm cannons everywhere". Also, the Buffalo wasn't quite as bad as sometimes portrayed, go look up its service in Finland and be amazed at how well it could do. The orders for allied pilots was to never EVER engage an Emily if they were alone. Even planes like B-17 or even worse didn't manage anything like that. And in the case referred to, IIRC there was half a squadron in the air, so probably 6 Buffaloes or more against a SINGLE Emily. The only reason they didn't shoot down more fighter aircraft is because they were absurdly outnumbered. But noone attacked an Emily carelessly, or they got themselves shot up good. And slow??? The Emily had almost the same topspeed as an early Hurricane. Slightly faster than a late war B-17 for both topspeed and cruise speed. For a flying boat, it was exceptionally fast.

@miket2120

10 ай бұрын

At that time the H8K didn't have the heavy defensive firepower of later models. Later on in the war, the H8K2 with their 5 20mm autocannons were considered a prickly target to engage and were well respected by Allied pilots.

@dukecraig2402

10 ай бұрын

​@@DIREWOLFx75 Bad comparisons, how was it's top speed compared to Hurricane's that weren't using mid 30's octane level British gas? Try putting that in an Emily and then look at it's top speed, thing's happened fast during that era with everyone's engine power with higher octane fuels being the biggest reason, just look at the difference in climb rate for a P38 in 1938 compared to 1942, their climb rate and top speed jumped as much as it did in just that 4 years mostly because of the octane rating of US avgas going from around 90 to 130, the "early" Hurricane you reference was flying on an octane level from a time when the Emily probably wasn't even on the drawing board yet, the Emily didn't fly until after the US was even in the war, by then everyone's octane levels were about as high as has ever been used in gasoline engine's, you can't even buy stuff that high at airports anymore, they don't even make it these days. And the US Brewster Buffalo's and the Finnish one's were two entirely different animals, just when the Buffalo was starting to be produced thing's like self sealing fuel tanks and armor plate to protect pilots were just coming to be and the Navy made Brewster add them on, once they were lugging that extra 400 lbs or so around they turned into total dog's, but the Buffalo's Finland used they stripped all the excess weight out of one's they ordered without self sealing tanks, that's why they had such good results with them, Greg Boyington said that a Zero didn't stand a chance against an early Buffalo, he said those things would "turn inside of a phone booth", but the one's that wound up in US service weren't hardly the same fighter, they were dog's, so yea, if they shot down an Emily then one wouldn't stand a chance against fighter's like F4U's, F6F's, P38's or even Wildcat's. 290 MPH is indeed slow when the fighter's in the air at the same time as the Emily were flying were at least 100 MPH faster in sustained level flight, fighter's only stayed away from them when there was only a few because with the Emily's defensive guns why risk their lives trying to shoot one down? If they were on their way to bomb something and must be stopped that's a different story but if one is simply on a maritime patrol and there's only one or two of you risking your life to shoot one down would have been stupid, but to a pack of fighter's there was a bunch of Japanese guys who were about to meet their ancestors.

@grahvis

10 ай бұрын

@@dukecraig2402. Because of their defensive armament, the Germans weren't too keen to tackle the Short Sunderland either.

Japanese very good engine specialists... make way good stuff.

Was that a young Ronald Reagan on the right just after the subtittle " into the frey"????

@huwzebediahthomas9193

10 ай бұрын

Hey, Nancy - come listen to this. 🙃😁

4500 gallons of gasoline ! What could go wrong ?

loved shooting these things down in Birds of Steel

dude what happened to them...

♫ I heard where you got that Intro Mate... Aye, ride wit me, if ya ride wit me You can slide wit me if you feel like, 550 on the fye sticky, come get high wit me that’s a deal right? ride wit me, if ya ride wit me You can slide wit me if you feel like, 550 on the fye sticky, come get high wit me that’s a deal right? (Hook foreground) That’s a deal right? that’s a bet right? That’s a bet right? That’s deal right? That’s a deal right? That’s a bet right? That’s a deal right? That’s a deal right? That’s a bet right? That’s a deal right? That’s a deal right?

Massive Yes...just think how much bigger for small stature soldiers 🇯🇵🎏⛩️🍣🍤🍱🍶🍻

What's the difference between a flying boat and a floating plane? 🤔

@lancerevell5979

10 ай бұрын

Flying boats have a boat-shaped hull with small outrigger floats, Floatplanes ues standard fuselage supported on one or two floats.

@MrSimplyfantabulous

10 ай бұрын

Lots of practice?

@HubertofLiege

10 ай бұрын

One’s been bombed the other shot?

Brewster Buffalo aircraft shown down a H8K Emily at Midway Island.

Im not sure if the Blohm & Voss BV 222 was not more massive. The BV 238 for sure.

The usual multiple repetition of the same clips . . .

7:20. The man on the right Is the real Ronald Reagan!!

Was this what the bear flew from Tail Spin?

I think I might take my chances in a flying car ? Cool huh?

How is this the deadliest flying boat of WW2? Just because a French historian said it was does not make it so. The Japanese had very poor anti-submarine capability and there are no real, confirmed, descriptions that I can find of these aircraft sinking any submarines (admittedly my search was brief) despite some vague claims late in the war. Having good performance/armament does not make it the most deadly (capability of offensive armament just as important), and as for being the hardest Japanese aircraft to shoot down, well that is hardly a feat considering how lightweight and flimsy Japanese aircraft were generally designed to be. Brewster Buffaloes anyone? How many Kawanishi H8Ks were attacked by fighters and survived? I would say both the Sunderland and Catalina were deadlier because of submarine kills obtained. The Sunderland could also carry 96 passengers, as they did during the Crete evacuation in 1941. Fantastic range though.

@Classickoolcars

10 ай бұрын

QANTAS used them also on the “Kangaroo route”.. the Short Sunderlands.

@blowingfree6928

10 ай бұрын

@@Classickoolcars Yes they did, and Ansett Flying Boat Services operating from Sydney Harbour. Quite a few civil operators used disarmed Sunderlands (not referring to the Sandringham), including BOAC, NZNAC, SAS, TEAL, the US Trans Oceanic Airways, Aquilla Airways, Antilles Airboats, and various South American and Caribbean airlines. At the end of the Second World War, a number of newly built Sunderlands were taken out to sea and scuttled as there was nothing else to do with them. What a shame!!

How did it strike terror in the hearts of allied pilots? I would think any fighter squadron that encountered one would say a prayer of thanksgiving before shooting it down.

@lancerevell5979

10 ай бұрын

So terrifying even the lowly Brewster Buffalo is all over it, downing it. 😄

@BigWheel.

10 ай бұрын

They were admittedly very well armed and were fairly hard to shoot down. But still easy targets because they would be big.

@franktreppiedi2208

10 ай бұрын

They had 5 20mm cannons, so Allied pilots treated this boat w respect.

@stevepirie8130

10 ай бұрын

In War Thunder the “banana boat” was easily set on fire but with expert gunners those 20mm cannons were lethal as it faced low tier tinder box fighters. In RL likely it was more lethal as a spotter of shipping for subs to intercept.

@blowingfree6928

10 ай бұрын

KZread is full of videos whose titles claim such-and-such aircraft struck terror into allied/axis pilots. All modern wishful thinking, hyperbole and bollocks. Maybe the ME163 struck terror into the hearts of their own pilots, but that is the only one!!

Dont understand the dismissing attitude to the Catilina Flying Boats and their great contributions to the war effort in all ww2 theaters of war for the allies????? for an aircraft that had little or o impact on a global war effort?????

@lancerevell5979

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, the Cats served very well in all theaters all through the war, and still flies today.

@BigWheel.

10 ай бұрын

Cod waw made an entire level about them where you perform a run and gun/ search and rescue mission.

I think Catalinas did allot more damage to the Japanese than these flying boats ever did to the US. To quote another channel, "It is hard to separate a good plan from good pilots. Good pilots can make a mediocre plan plane more dangerous than a great plane. American pilots had more resources and were better trained than the Japanese by the time to these behemoths were introduced.

It could be argued that the damage done to U-boats, particularly as the war progressed made the British Coastal Commands Short Sunderlands at least as deadly.

290 MPH is UNDOUBTEDLY an exaggeration.

So advance it was taken down by Brewster buffaloes I'm not even looking up the stats, but I'm sure the PBY Catalina was far deadlier.

The background music sounds really brainwashy...

And it did absolutely Jack $h!-T.

shorts Sunderland maybe more effective

Really? The most massive? What about the Blohm&Voss BV -222 and the BV-238? Both 6 engined flying boats!

Actually this planes were sitting ducks!

Blohm & Voss BV 238 was bigger more heavily armed.....geez get it right. Only plane that could do 3000 miles...hmmm can you say B-29..3250miles.

Still....because the Japanese didn't believe in armor and self-sealing tanks, you could almost turn one onto a flaming tinderbox with a slingshot.....

Why the stupid noises added to the soundtrack?

NOT impressed with the H8K just a flying target