I read "Stuka Pilot" when I was in the 9th grade, I am now 73. Leave politics out of it. He was a remarkable pilot, with a price on his head by the Russians. Soldier are soldiers the world over and are honorable men, politicians are SOBs the world over!

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

Spot on

@themwuzthedaze

Жыл бұрын

You took the words out of my mouth. I, too, am 73 and I also read "Stuka Pilot," finding it the chronicle of an incredible soldier. I don't agree with his politics but I do find his exploits an amazing story of dedication and heroism.

@explorer1968

Жыл бұрын

Nothing less than that!

@DarkMargenal

10 ай бұрын

Dude was also a fucking nazi and antisemtite so no, he was talented, but a talented bastard nonetheless

@johnyhefner

5 ай бұрын

@@themwuzthedazehis politics are being validated on a daily basis in our present times.

519 confirmed tanks 13 aircrafts 4 armoured trains hundreds of trucks and vehicles 1 battleship He was a Legend

@charlesbowman129

Жыл бұрын

And a die hard NAZI until he died.

@dub2536

Жыл бұрын

Werent cameras installed into the aircrafts wings to film and thereby prove that they accomplished what they had?

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of his kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@nickhector5060

Жыл бұрын

Show us a list of the tanks he destroyed... And you will only find two aircraft victory claims for him in German archival sources and mention of a third on a scoreboard photo dated February 1945. ...So where are the other ten?

@dub2536

Жыл бұрын

@@nickhector5060 Possibly in the same location of the missing NASA paperwork and blueprints. Despite allegedly 53 million $ every 24 hours they somehow claim to have destroyed the technology to travel to the moon. But in 1969 they could. Paraphrased.

What an incredible pilot. I’m glad he got to fly a focke wulf 190 for a while. And I can imagine firing those cannon fitted to the stukas to kill tanks would have been epic

the best warrior of course and an honourable man at all time. my over all beloved Papa was one of the youngest KG-pilots at France and show twice 1944/45. he had personal contacts to Oberst Rudel, whom we met each year at Ulrichsberg/Carinthia.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

What was he like?

Rudel and myself corresponded a few times in the 1980's and he sent me some autographed photos. What a hero!

@rtauzin64

Жыл бұрын

A turd

@michaelbrogan7537

Жыл бұрын

Awesome!! 😁

Just a badass pilot. And what an impressive amount of kills. The battleship is the icing on the cake.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

Actually, that battleship was a big prize but in other events it became more hazardous. Just simple things as not having air cover or the climate. Flying through dense fog etc... I can't say it enough : terrific book . Also remarkable that he saw himself as an avarage pilot . And the cliché about his politics : not that much mentioned in the book in my opinion.

Sadly despite the larger than life true story a movie will never be made, like wise we won’t see a movie like Fury but of a German crew in a Tiger or Panther even though the Germans had the Greatest Tank Aces of all time. Winners get to write the history books and produce the movies we are so accustomed to. With a notable exception Clint Eastwoods Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima…Showing the battle from both sides..Brilliant.

@robertmccall379

Жыл бұрын

So true. The Victors always distort the real truths. Rudel must have been an amazing Pilot. I hope his stolen medals were returned to him by the Americans.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

It would undoubtedly make for a far more exciting film, too. Heroism in the face of overwhelming odds vs the final part of a strategy game where you've already got overwhelming numbers & you know you're going to win.

@Kruppt808

4 ай бұрын

If the troops weren't associated with the some of the worst criminals of the 1900s then maybe 🤔 people would celebrate the individuals more..... They all marched lock step hands in the air and this guy continued his "politics" well after the war. As a part German person with probably over 100 books on all parts of German history I say this.

@elultimo102

Ай бұрын

Unlike the US, there seems to be a Prussian culture that respects warrior prowess, even in an enemy. Case in point, the fighter pilot who chose to escort Charlie Brown's B-17 back to base, when he could have easily finished off the barely flying aircraft---broken but unbowed. (The two pilots became good friends after the war).

I met a retired German soldier who knew Rudel in the POW camp in England. Said Rudel treated the war as a sporty event. He didn’t drink or smoke. If memory serves, he crash landed 17 times. Always shot down by ground fire, never by enemy fighters. He escaped from Russian soldiers, roamed barefoot for a week or so, back to German lines. I think he flew 2,550 operational flights. When finally flew to an airfield in France to surrender, Americans there stole everything he had on the first night. Medals and flight log records. Read his book.

@janporinchak5867

Жыл бұрын

They aren't making men like that anymore.

@hauckjohn

Жыл бұрын

I read his book several times. His personal struggles to prove himself are a good example to men, everywhere

@The.Original.Potatocakes

Жыл бұрын

So 20% of the time he gets a kill.

@SeamHead33

Жыл бұрын

@@The.Original.Potatocakes and 100% of the time he made it back home. If there are flights where he doesn't encounter any targets, he can't do anything about that. Besides, you are only counting his tank kills. Rudel was credited with the destruction of 519 tanks, one battleship, one cruiser, 70 landing craft and 150 artillery emplacements. He claimed 51 aerial victories and the destruction of more than 800 vehicles.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

@@SeamHead33 the fact that he also racked up that many aerial kills makes it even more impressive. It's too bad so many people still feel so intimidated by them that they try so desperately to undervalue the heroism of men like him.

Politics aside, Rudell's determination and success cannot be disputed. One point that surprised me about the JU-87 aircraft upon encountering an actual surviving example in a museum, is the plane's sheer size. It is no small airplane for having only one reciprocating engine and propeller.

@ericscottstevens

Жыл бұрын

My Grandfather was lucky to be 5ft 3inches tall as the rear gunner. In his war photos the JU87 looks monstrously huge with him standing by the rear tail section, he really was influential on me and our family for being humble and it took insight on my part to get him to type out a summary of his war experience written months before he died.

@davef.2811

Жыл бұрын

​@@ericscottstevens I would be very grateful to read that, sometime. Thanks.

@ericscottstevens

Жыл бұрын

@@davef.2811 A portion of his insights and a few photos are in Guerrilla Nightmare: Luftwaffe Stukas at War Against Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

@@ericscottstevens it's shameful how men like him were treated without the respect they deserved by so many people.

@Kruppt808

4 ай бұрын

I love any ww2 vid comment when it starts with "Politics Aside"😂😂😂😂

What a record! Respect!

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

This shows what mankind is capable of when your mindset is focused on a goal. The good or evil behind the goal isn't always understood. This man did remarkable things even tho he was part of the darkest events in the 20th century that brought hell to earth. Just think what he would of been capable of if his country did not go to war.

@destroyerarmor2846

Жыл бұрын

Praise God for nukes. Bigger imper nations don't attack other countries for territory anymore

@beefchops1400

Жыл бұрын

He was a sycophantic sociopath and a dedicated nazi……he’d have probably done very well in some other form/alternative of life like becoming CEO of some massive corporations or self made billionaire!

@dr.kroenen2425

6 ай бұрын

Rudel found his calling in war, probably would have been lost without it.

I'm currently building the Hasegawa 1/32 scale JU-87 Kanon Bird of Rudel, His book "Stuka Pilot" is excellent

@cbroz7492

Жыл бұрын

...I built the Revrll kit in or around 1968_69...used the then new Polly S paints..excellent coverage and finish .

@ABC-48483

Жыл бұрын

I collect little nazi era tanks.. tigers ..panzers I'm obsessed. I have a massive collection I keep hidden away in my spare room :p I also have a authentic iron cross 2nd class :p

Greatest combat pilot of all time.

@WJack97224

5 ай бұрын

There were several German aces and several Amerkan and Brit aces as well.

I got his book! Highly recommend it

An outstanding ace. awesome video

The Stuka, in its traditional role, was obsolete by 1940. However, place a 37mm canon under each wing and you have one hell of a tank killer.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

Obsolescent more like

@elultimo102

Ай бұрын

They say the same of the A-10 Warthog, but I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it.

wow this man was a one man killing machine!

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

I agree

What a soldier..

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@seanohare5488

Жыл бұрын

I agree

An amazing man and patriot regardless of what you think of his politics.

One of the last Knights of Europe

Love him or hate him ,you have to respect him.

I was born in the '60s. Back then I built and painted a cannon carrying Stuka like he flew. Later I joined the military and became a tank commander .Silly me. I still have that model plane.

Years ago, I read Hans-Ulrich Rudel's book, "Stuka Pilot." It's quite an interesting read. While I can't agree with his politics, I can surely appreciate the man's accomplishments as a warrior.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of his kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne did you read the book mentioned ?

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 only partially by now, and also some military reports. We've actually had a discussion with another knowledgeable guy down here in the comment section, and came to a conclusion that although we can debate the number and type of kills made, Rudel is an ace nevertheless. However, we should be sceptcial towards exact numbers that German aces would put out. They still bear the burden of shameless overclaim. Here in Russia we've mostly dealt with similar overblown kill claims in relation to WW 2 from our side, but when it comes to the Germans, I believe there is yet work to be done.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne ... so you find yourself knowledgeable, however you haven't made the effort to read Rüdel's book ?

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 I'm in the middle of the effort right now, and yes, I do find myself knowledgeable, out of experience in the field.

He was a TITAN.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

Rudel had a even amazing career post war arming South American nations against Communism. Amazing character, exceptionally brave.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

If only communism had been defeated..

@Desertduleler_88

Жыл бұрын

@@gratefulguy4130 You can thank Britain and America for giving it life support during WW2. It is heavily connected to those who run the world’s banking systems.

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

@@Desertduleler_88 I know

I can see him today, as a young pilot, flying his A-10 against the Russians who invaded Ukraine.

@peterrobbins2862

Жыл бұрын

Or against the Americans who invaded Iraq ,Afghanistan, Vietnam , Cambodia, laos and numerous other countries

@gratefulguy4130

Жыл бұрын

@@peterrobbins2862 maybe the first two.. doubt he would have wanted to fight for communism. Our government might be awful, but nowhere near that awful.

Regardless of this man's political beliefs he was one remarkable soldier.

He was a Real German Fighter!

A true hero who did his best to defend his country

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of his kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@mtvrchannel3051

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne dude stop with the copy and paste

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@mtvrchannel3051 yeah, I was lazy here. However, I had a similar point to make, so here it goes.

@colinwhyte1526

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne Really? Camaraderie ran high in the Luftwaffe and I very much doubt that Rudel would be claiming "kills" made by his friends and colleagues, just as much that I doubt those aircrew would be willing to give him the credit for their very hard and dangerous work.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@colinwhyte1526 I mean, the Soviets were overclaiming as heck, and it's been mostly discovered by now, how it happened and why. The Germans, although having big kill claims, were also overclaiming. There is yet work to be done to figure out how much of their evidence does not transfer to actual Soviet losses.

Keep Your Friends Close. Keep Your Enemies Closer. US. Airman Respected the Luftwaffe, . Fierce Warriors, Many American Airman became Friends, with Luftwaffe Pilots after the War,,,,,,,

Great Job Dude

Really good job guys!

Hah! My father did the exact same, he jumped out of the hayloft with an umbrella, plummeted immediately, told his dad that he'd seen Charlie Chaplin do it at the bijou. It gave him flat feet so he couldn't go to Annapolis. He became a glider pilot, flew in Normandy, Southern France, 2 flights in Market-Garden, and one of only 50 Americans flying copilot with the Brits into Sicily...

@LeopardIL2

Жыл бұрын

Your father was a Maeket-Garden Vet? Full respect for him, taking part in that hill fated operation and a mark of Montgomery's stubborness.

@DaveSCameron

Жыл бұрын

Nein

@rangerjones5531

Жыл бұрын

Not how you get flat foot problems? Your daddy lied to you 🇺🇸

@vincentlefebvre9255

Жыл бұрын

Hi ! Seeing your name you must be from New England ?

@powerballminep67

Жыл бұрын

@@LeopardIL2 I recently read an old book by a famous WW2 British Spycatcher Lt Col Pinto describing his wartime experiences. He said that he knew that Germany were tipped off by an agent active in the allied forces. In other words blame attached to military leaders for the failure of Market Garden is either partly or wholly misplaced, as the operation had been blown and Axis forces were lying in wait.

Great man just on the wrong side Enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

@Desertduleler_88

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think so, one only has to look at the western world run by the USA today to see how backwards it has become. Communism has expanded considerably since 1945.

Great video!

Hero. Great video man

Great video. Thank you

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Rudel's claims are very much overstated, as any other German ace's on the Eastern Front though. You live with this now :D

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne you are truly clueless and biased.

A Legend 🫡🫡🫡

Rudel was used in the devoplement of the A-10 prior to his death.

What an absolute beast

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

519 tanks 🤯 that's crazy great Storie

Perhaps the greatest warrior of all times.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@germaniac44x28

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne it seems ONLY for you that’s why you repeat your comment over and over again Stalin put a bounty on Rudels head … that says all about the most successful combat pilot in history !!! German soldiers lead the record books of modern warfare ! Russian soldiers lead the Death records !!! It’s not a myth or a lie … it’s a undeniable Fact that MASS beat CLASS 80 years ago !!! No allied pilots or tank commanders lead any of these record lists !!!!!

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@germaniac44x28 I repeat this to have wider audience. German soldiers lost both to mass and class being simply outclassed by the Soviets, who were representing an inherently poorer country but even under such circumstances learned to fight better than their German opponents, and the Germans absolutely lost to the Allies, again, by mass and class, in air, at sea and on the ground. You can't fight a war with everyone at once, and that's a lesson Germany learnt well enough. German soldiers, altough it is not their fault, lead the record books on failing to accomplish strategically necessary success. We measure army's strength by its ability to perform its pre-set role on the respective theatre of warfare. The Germans did well in 1939-1942, but then were strategically outplayed on all fronts. The Soviets lead the record on absolute sheer freaking will, strategical superiority, adaptability and tactical superiority, being able to beat the Germans while having less mobile artillery (with less shells and in lesser numbers overall), less radios and less experience, but being better at learning and winning. The Germans would have had negative kill - death ratio if they had not killed up to 3.3 million Soviet military captives making them not just blatant overclaimers, but also war criminals. And no, no amount of personal overclaim, even based on some real feats makes you the best soldier. Kill count means nothing if you didn't accomplish your task and ultimately failed. The Germans failed. End of story.

@germaniac44x28

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne oooh some one is mad 😂 MASS beat CLASS 80 years ago REAL military experts have the same opinion all over the world !!! I repeat an undeniable FACT again if u want … German soldiers lead the record books of modern warfare !!!!!!!!!!! Russian soldiers lead the Death records 😂 15 million 2nd class Soviet soldiers died fighting my grandfathers Wanna know where and how many of them my grandfathers killed ??? To the last day of the war ! No POW camp … just walked home when their government surrendered to the WORLD !!! Both knowing the Fact being superior to their fallen enemies !!! German soldiers lead the record books !!! Russian soldiers lead the death records !!! Did your grandfathers fought the whole world like my grandfathers did ????? NO Now S t f u mad little Ivan and accept undeniable FACTS !!! 2nd class MASS beat CLASS 80 years ago !!!! Now repeat your crying 😂

@germaniac44x28

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne NO Nation on this planet can win a war against a combined allied WORLD !!! No need to be an expert to figure that out !!! NO Nation can beat the WORLD !!! Say thank you to USA and UK for all the food , planes , tanks and supplies they send to mother Russia !!!

It's kind of funny the word the name stuka in Romanian mean a fish translated in American/English the same fish is northern Pike which the plane looks kind of that.

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

Stuka was never a word really. It is a short form of Sturzkampf.

Brilliant Documentary

What a patriotic flyer and ace.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Well, there is no proof in Soviet documents that he did most of the feats he claims to have done. Rudel was most likely overclaiming as much as he could.

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne Doh! You have not researched or if you have, you've been pretty lazy.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemartin6144 ah, yes, a German fanboy. Niet, Ribbentrop.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemartin6144 Rudel is often critisized for providing no time and day for his flight descriptions, and even if every single one of his wins was somehow proven, here is one remark: Rudel claims to have destroyed 13 Soviet tanks on the February 8th when he got wounded, whereas the 69th corps of the Red Army that was fighting near Lebus (a town which Rudels mentions as the place of his heroic act) claimed to have lost 1 tank destroyed and 2 tanks damaged (then repaired) due to all reasons - artillery fire and aircraft impact. At best Rudel destroyed one tank there, or maybe even none. Given that he was prone on thinking of the Soviets as inferior, I would no be surpised to discovered that his reports were false at least half of the time, or the reports of his teammates for that matter.

Despiste his political tendencies, this man was a True Hero. His Resilience, Endurance, Skills, Bravery and sheer Courage makes him one of the most Skillfull, Brave and Successefull soldiers of WW2, from both sides. A True "Super" Man. But on the wrong "side" of Humanity.

@stuartahrens6775

Жыл бұрын

No Mate. He fought for his Country how can you say he was on the wrong side. What is the right side. American interested in making as much money from both sides.

@jpmtlhead39

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartahrens6775 its more than obvious, that you dont understand what i meen by saying that he was on the "wrong" side. And i still finish it with "of Humanity". Still dont get what i meen by it...??!!! And what the Americans got to do with this, man..??? That is what i dont understand. Iam talking abaut a men's Life, and you came with the Americans..!!!!! WTF.

@stuartahrens6775

Жыл бұрын

@@jpmtlhead39 Everyone has a right to say what's on their minds. If you knew me and how im the first born son of a German. I've had people tell me all my life about humanity Ha Gee double standards always remember that not all of us are going thro life and loving it. No harm done mate. But I do understand what you mean okay.

@jpmtlhead39

Жыл бұрын

@@stuartahrens6775 He was fighting for his country's leader principals, Morals and politics. Wich everyone in the world are aware of what kind of principals were at stake. Thats what i meen be on the "wrong" side.

@stuartahrens6775

Жыл бұрын

@@jpmtlhead39 it's okay after all look at the world now 80yrs on. We still kill each other like nothing has been learnt from the past. Look at Vlad Putin he calls the EU Nazi Europe. No one forgets it and even if the WW2 is over?? Is it really over. Old enemies are just that. But that's what I mean Humanity is told by the so called winning sides agianst a hole people who are seriously pissed off about this past because of this I will always take the side of the under Dog.

Rudel never belonged to the Nazi party or was ever convicted of any war crimes. He was the best combat pilot that ever lived. He was the first person to climb the highest volcano in South America after the war and he did it with one leg and a prosthesis.. His name will stand with Robert Howard, Lauri Allan Törni and other great soldiers in the annals of history..

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

Not so buddy, he was a full on Nazi. Even the other Luftwaffe guys like Erich Hartmann, etc said so in their autobiographies.

@hairydogstail

Жыл бұрын

@@dougerrohmer Afraid so buddy, he never joined the nazi party. He was never a member..

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

@@hairydogstail Well, I'm not so sure about whether he was a card carrying member of the Nazi party, but he was a Nazi. After the war he was involved in providing sanctuary for escaping war criminals, including Mengele. In the West German Federal election 1953 he ran as a candidate for the far right neo-nazi German Reich Party and lost. His name was toxic after the war in Germany. See what the Rudel Scandel was all about. Also see what happened at his funeral and the fall out from that.

@hairydogstail

Жыл бұрын

@@dougerrohmer Well slick, that is nothing more than hearsay about helping war criminals as you and no one else ever had any evidence of this or he would have been jailed in Germany. He was never a member of the nazi party as I stated before and he belonged to a conservative party, which didn't make it a nazi party as that had been outlawed in Germany lol. By the way, the nazi's were leftist, hence the socialist in the name. How people call the nazi's far right when they were socialist and support many of the ideas of the leftist today is incredible. Gun control, free education-health care, government control over private business, pro abortion, no private property protection, no free speech, racist policies, etc,etc. Not very conservative policies there slick, but your leftist educators propaganda sure has taken away the ability of people to think..

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the Soviets ever confirmed that volcano to be the highest in S-America . If not, this claim can not be valid (wink wink )

Pretty good and informative video. The book is awesome.

The German airforce was full of men who served with distinction in plane's tanks U boats and even kids because of the Nazi regime people forget that they fought for there country. My Father was 15 yrs old I love you All so much better when my father used to tell me. He was my Hero.

@charlesbowman129

Жыл бұрын

Rudel was not one of those. He was a lifelong NAZI. Erich Hartman was, he fought for country. He was one of the bravest men I've ever read about.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

@@charlesbowman129 technically he was never an actual member of the NSDAP but he was dedicated in the beliefs of the party for life.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

@@charlesbowman129 if you dive down to a battleship with AA fire surrounding you, pulling up at 500m over the battleship ... takes balls of steel. And I'm not mentioning the aiming & releasing a bomb - part of it. That AA fire doesn't care if you're a member of a party or not. He also landed 6 times to rescue / pick up stranded collegues whilst under fire. That's impressive.

@arefkr

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne As if whatever the Soviets said would be credible. They had at best a casual relationship with the truth anyways

Amazing guy.

My Dad was wounded by a Stuka in North Africa. 1942. Near Tebourba

I have a tattoo of a diving Stuka on my back.. really cool photos used in this video

Those high G pullouts from a dive bombing attack were the major cause of hemorrhoids on quite a few pilots. You can understand why.

Amazing!

What an amazing man. Politics is always subjective, there is NO right or wrong. He was a hero and that is a fact.

@WJack97224

5 ай бұрын

There is a difference between ''right and wrong."

Germany produced some outstanding pilots before and during this period

When he was a teenager he jumped from a 2nd story window with a umbrella yes he ended up with a broken leg! Wow the eyes were in the sky at a early age.

Only 7? Soldiers were EVER awarded the Knight's Cross with oak leaf clusters, swords and diamonds!! That equals 5 Knights Crosses awarded! I'm no fan of the man's political beliefs but have to admit he had talent and luck in his service to achieve that level of awards. Intresting thing, he was never awarded the Blue Max? 🤔

@eddiehooper9741

Жыл бұрын

The last blue max was given out in 1918

@dondiddly8942

Жыл бұрын

I believe the Blue Max was a German Empire thing.

Another Hans and Frans kick ass story

WW2 was Man vs. Evil and Man lost

Legend

Impressive.

“It’s the MAN… not the Machine.” ~ Gen. Chuck Yeager

I would love to see a good comparison of the stuka and the Dauntless dive bombers.

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

The Dauntless is pretty sloppy compared to the Ju 87.

@USAACbrat

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemartin6144 That means what in english, is that a performance charistic?

@stevemartin6144

Жыл бұрын

@@USAACbrat The Stuka had really great dive bombing accuracy in terms of flight and as well there was (unlike the Dauntless) a window in the floor of the cockpit and a very highly accurate bomb sight.

@USAACbrat

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemartin6144 Both types had great dive bombing records, What about Drag, range speed, and # produced?

@colinwhyte1526

Жыл бұрын

As a tankbuster and ground attack they both would have struggled against the Hawker Typhoon.

Rudel became a legend flying a slow flight-level and outdated dive bomber?? Legends not always use state-of-the-art weaponry then!!

The irony of getting your Stuka stucka.

In his collection of essays _Fireworks!_ Col. Jeff Cooper not only wrote of Rudel, but got a signed declaration from Rudel stating the essay was essentially true, despite the extreme claims.

Grandfather was a rear gunner with 3./St.G 77 then transferred to the founding of I./St.G 2, then back to 3./St.G 77, From 1942 to end of the war with 3./SG151 in Yugoslavia as flight training cadre for flight students and the FW190. One pet peeve Grandfather had were against boastful afterwar Luftwaffe veterans who claimed they flew in these significantly impactful aircraft. Grandfather ask (as a former aircrewman and cadre training section chief) them a few questions then say afterward to my mother "that man was a liar about being in the Stukas.....his ass never touched a runway"

@brankomilutinovic1992

Жыл бұрын

Where in Yugoslavia?

@ericscottstevens

Жыл бұрын

@@brankomilutinovic1992 Pančevo as the main base, possibly Alibunar, and Agram (Zagreb). too. He had been in the Balkan region with 3./St.G.77..... 3 years earlier at Bieljina and Belgrade-Semlin. He spent a lot of the war in Yugoslavia compared to his earlier campaigns from 1939-1941.

@brankomilutinovic1992

Жыл бұрын

@@ericscottstevens What a coincidence. I am from Pancevo 😳

@brankomilutinovic1992

Жыл бұрын

@@ericscottstevens Did your grandfather tell you what happened while he was in Pancevo? Do you have any photos or documents? I am researching the history of the city during the war.

@ericscottstevens

Жыл бұрын

@@brankomilutinovic1992 Not sure where the main airfield was. Someone a few years ago was doing research on StG / SG 151 and had done some preliminary maps. SG 151 was one of the largest Luftwaffe units in the inventory as they did training and frontline service. Surprised SG151 was not included in Operation Bodenplatte , SG4 was used instead.

Don´t forget that Rudel was one of the advisers to the inventors of the A-10 Warthog

The new Luftwaffe flew a formation of , I think Phantoms, over his grave side service. This caused huge controversy, but they claimed the jets were on a routine training mission and just happened to fly over it

The steepest angle the stukas would dive at would usually be at 30° to 70° conventionally, they usually only did the roll over dive for propaganda films or if the missed their target.

If you figure in the angle of attack of the wing a 90 degree dive becomes like 75 or 80 degrees, 90 degree is almost impossible.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

Heinz Migeod states that an ideal angle was 70°

@USAACbrat

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 The 70 degree angle was also used by the American Navy for their dive bombers, The Dauntless was the best dive bomber in the inventory of the Navy and the Army Air Corps as accuracy goes, the only one with a bomb sight ment for dive bombing.

That "Siren" sound was the Grim Reaper signal that he was comming to collect.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

Actually, what was said in this youtube isn't correct. The sirens were hated by most of the aircrews, therefore they took them off. Later some sort of tubing was installed on the bombs, also making some sound. Those were the trumpets of jericho.

@jpmtlhead39

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 those are the trumpets of Gabriel.

Ground-support aircraft have displaced artillery as "The King of Battle".

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

You're not paying attention to what is happening in Ukraine, are you? Manpads have made it rather precarious to venture low and slow over enemy lines.

@douglassauvageau7262

Жыл бұрын

@@dougerrohmer Good point. Thermal countermeasures and chaff may need optical countermeasures such as smoke (?).

@douglassauvageau7262

Жыл бұрын

A second set of eyes wouldn't hurt either.

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

@@douglassauvageau7262 Best just to stay out of there and HYMAR them from over the horizon, with expendable drone spotting targets.

I discard Politics in evaluating a man, I am now 66 and realise it has no place I Salute, without any reservation, a Very Brave Man, and Lover of his Country. I Love the UK just as much as he Loved the Germany of his day. Politics Right or Wrong all the years ago May You Rest In Peace Herr Rudel. Sovereignty is what matters, which will ultimately destroy the EVIL that is the European Union.

@kradius2169

27 күн бұрын

Stuka pilot Heinz Georg Migeod knew Rudel early. Interview on-line.

12:33 Just take a look at Hans-Ulrich Rudel, face what do you see?

the worlds greatest ... a 1 man army worth a whole division ... Stalin himself had put a bounty on his head ... Eagle of the eastern Front

I thought this was going to be about how most CAS and interdiction pilots grossly overstated their kill claims. Even the A-10 , prior to being fitted with equipment for dropping guided ordinance, is more famous in professional circles for its friendly fire incidents than for its kills. This isn't to say that they weren't brave or that they weren't skilled. Ground attack is hard. It was harder 80 years ago.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Finally a voice of reason in the comment section! If we sum up every claimed kill by the Germans on the Eastern Front, we may as well see that they destroyed more vehicles than the Soviets had overall or at particular directions, or in particular units that these supposed aces were operating against. It's still funny to see people belive in such myths though, haha.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

PLease read the book and come back again ...

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 OK, I'll get back as soon as I'm finished!

@coryhoggatt7691

Жыл бұрын

Stukas were well known for friendly fire incidents as well.

Hans Ulrich Rudel 1916-1982

Wait is that Indy Neidell's brother?

I don't think he ever destroyed 500 tanks to say, because most claims are just exaggerated. And it's not just him, it's literally anyone during the war.

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed, even the rocket firing Typhoons, etc did a lot less damage than their pilots thought. Not deliberately lying, but so much smoke and dust flying and the pilot kind of too busy trying not to crash to really look. German doctrine for tankers under air attack was to just sit it out inside their tanks because the odds are the planes would miss.

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

Did you read Rudel's book ?

@lucvanackeren5445

Жыл бұрын

@@dougerrohmer that doctrine was certainly valid on the Eastern front, for a number of reasons. I've never seen the same doctrine applied on the Western front from 1944 onwards. But I'm not a specialist ...

@dougerrohmer

Жыл бұрын

@@lucvanackeren5445 I got that from one of the many autobiographies I've read. And it was Western Front as well. But I'm not a specialist either 🙂

The footage reminds me of A - 10 Warthogs doing low level support of American troops in Afghanistan.

They 100% believed in what they were doing and they believed that they were right.

Germans may had been defeated by devils allies in huge numbers but Germans always were legend for ever

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

It’s not “Junkers”. It’s “Young-Kers”. The J is silent.

Junkers is pronounced Yoon (shorter oo) kers

Catapult the bomb onto the target? Where the hell did you get that nonsense from?

@rockbottom4909

Жыл бұрын

The main bomb under the fuselage (not the smaller ones under the outer wings) was mounted to a trapeze-like mechanism that would swing it away. This way the bomb wouldn't drop into the plane's propeller when released during the dive.

May be the Germans should focused on producing more capable ground attack aircraft for anti tank role. FW-190 with anti tank rockets and 30 mm cannon like the A-10? Something more capable than the MK-108?

@mtlb2674

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. But the Stuka was a lot cheaper to produce than Fw-190.

@someoneelse2472

Жыл бұрын

Stuka cheap but pilot training aint cheap

Great pilot shame about the ideology he favoured . Did he have a hand in the making and training of Argentina air force ?

@Parocha

Жыл бұрын

Don't know, but he was a consultant for the development of the A-10 Warthog. The design team even had his book as required reading. (Don't know if this is covered in the video, I am commenting as I listen to it)

@garykubodera9528

Жыл бұрын

If I remember correctly, Helped with others that fled after WWII in the development of thier 1st jet fighter based on WWII designs...🤔

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

Most of Rudel's kills are not confirmed by Soviet documents anyway, and those that happened could have been caused by his teammates anyway. Just another myth, as it seems.

@rossmac8743

Жыл бұрын

@@UppedOne neither the Nazi or the Soviet regime had a great reputation for the truth . It was a time when the truth was in short supply , wars have that negative effect of the truth.

@UppedOne

Жыл бұрын

@@rossmac8743 you are right, but there is still a thing: the Soviets had their wave of overclaims back in the day, and they've been mostly disproven, leaving in mostly valid kill claims. However, the Western perception of the Eastern Front is pretty much formed by the Germans and their memoirs, and people in the West have little access to Soviet and Russian studies of the WW 2 due to cultural and linguistic barrier. In the Runet we've dug up numerous documents of various regiments including those that Rudel fought against, and they very often have no evidence of taking casualties claimed by Rudel, and when they do it's hard to figure whether Rudel did it, or if it was a teammmate. This is what I meant.

Amazing material, just I’m not sure why and how politics were connected here - he loved flying and fought for country, not ideology

H. U. Rudel was not a fascist and the Third Reich was not a fascist country. Saying that there were a lot of fascists there is a symptom of ignorance of the subject or a desire to distort history. In Germany there was National Socialism and H.U. Rudel was a National Socialist. It is a pity that what happened to his unique medal was not mentioned (only one was made especially for him), but Rudel kept silent about it in his book, nevertheless one of his air ace co-prisoners described what happened, adding that he was an example to follow in times of war and how one should behave when one is a prisoner.

Its not a "Junker" its pernounced Yunkers.

@rastarn

Жыл бұрын

*pronounced

@dot2562

Жыл бұрын

@@rastarn lol

I've stopped this video at 1.35 And the commentary said something like the the Luftwaffe started to loose superiority in the air due to the numerical superiority of the allies and the Stuka was one of the German aircraft to suffer due to its lack of speed and armament. Not exactly correct the Nazis lost a great number of them during the Battle of Britain so much so by August 1940 they had been taken out of the front line and reduced to an anti shipping roll to keep them away from the Hurricanes and Spitfires of the RAF, and were hardly ever used against our island again. True they were used in most other theatres, in the Mediterranean especially against Malta, and in North Africa, and it was there that the numerical superiority of the Allies and the quality of the newer fighter aircraft reeked havoc on the Stuka.

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A VERY TOUGH, SUCCESSFUL PILOT; LEAVE IT TO THE AMERICANS TO COME UP WITH THE CONCEPT OF A "DOUBLE ACE", "TRIPLE ACE".

He did an honorable service fighting communism.

I hate being that guy but his name is pronounced "roodle" not "rewdell"

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