B-29 Superfortress Operation Against Germany
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Can you make video about invasion of czechoslovakia 1968 please
Can you say the name of the music?
Can you please make a video regarding reverse engineered B 29s by the Soviet Union and what was the outcome of the original and impounded B 29s during and after World War 2? Thanks
Thank you Sir. Stay cool and safe.
Thanks for posting this video, because I have pondered upon this for years!
Oddly satisfying to see B-29s with a coat of olive drab.
For sure. Take note Gaijin!
Tell me! Looks absolutely gorgeous!
Only downside is the paint apparently makes it slower.
@@_-.-_-_.._--.-_-_----_-.--_._- It's better to look good, than to be good.
Amuro Ray they need to rework some planes BRs the fact that I can’t fly a me262 against p51s but can fly American Cold War jets against ww2 props makes me despise gaijin.
This guy has the best documentary voice I've ever heard. I could listen to him talk about anything.
How about the importance of altering your lifestyle to combat climate change? :)
Same
His voice used to be much less confident and almost hard to listen to. Nowadays, he is truly as smooth as butter
@@peterbills4129 Well, I'm a truck driver, so....
Maybe not VPN's ...
"...including the American 22,000-pound 'Amazon bomb'...." Prime Delivery?
Essentially Grand Slam'. The RAF were told to give all their documentation on dropping single heavy weapons to the US after the war.
It's free next day delivery with an account, even on Sunday.
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About ten tons each!
Or the Disney bomb? Permanent vacation?
This guy makes every WWII buff feel like a total casual.
Yep, our WW2 knowledge manhood is mocked.
True, before finding this channel, i thought that i knew a lot about ww2
But being made to feel casual was never so good.
Scott B u a great
@@scottb4579 Ain't it the truth!
"It Was Scrapped" this word always send a shudder down my spine.
America loves scrapping important historical objects, like tanks for instance.
@@daygus1115 America is actually pretty good about keeping important historical objects like tanks and planes compared to most European and Asian countries.
@@daygus1115 no those are the British
Why was it scrapped so early? B 29s where flown into the 50's.
@@chriszelez7970 Probably because it was a pre-production aircraft. I bet the USAF retained only the late models.
My uncle flew the Hump during the war as a flight engineer, then later flew out of Chengdu on bombing raids to Japan. After the war he became a civilian instructor of flight engineers at a Texas air base. So this episode has particular interest to me.
My grandad was sustained by the over the hump route , how they found us I'll never know? And how much the pilot's appreciated the cheery wave from the boys
Understatement!
@@neil7994 Brits for you? We quietly do what's needed and smash it ! Thank god
I have a cousin who flew C-47’s over the hump during the war. I wonder if they knew each other.
My old law partner's dad flew the hump as a pilot. Wonder if on the same plane?
Hi I am nearly 82 now but when I was a lad of 14 at school I was in the RAF section of the cadet force. We had a summer camp week at RAF Marham when the B1 Washingtons were there. Their main task was to fly for I believe about 10 hours around the north of Scotland to check for any Russian aircraft incursions. This was before the radar early warning chain was up and running. Being lads interested in aircraft we had full rein to climb in the a/c chat with the crew etc. I almost flew in the long overnight flight around the UK. We were prepped up with all our warm clothes and greatcoats under which was a Mae West life jacket. I crawled through the tube above the wing which was all padded and was told by a crew member that if the a/c depressurised I would come out like a bullet from a gun. I was issued with 2 meals to keep us going, also we had a self heating tin of soup! Sweets etc soon went. I had a seat to the rear looking out through plexiglass where I strapped in. I was told I could go where ever I liked during the flight as it was a long and boring flight and I suppose I was light hearted entertainment. On other visits to RAF stations we were usually allowed to sit in a pilot's seat and fly the aircraft, which I was hoping to do again. The a/c engines were started up but then the sortie was called off due to bad weather up north. Always a great regret that I never flew in a B29. I later joined the RAF as an air radar fitter working on Canberras and before we were allowed to fly we had to get checked out in a decompression chamber, I still have the certificate. No Health and safety back in 1953. Roy
Sir, Curiosity had me poke around the internet just now. RAF Marham: "Built 1916." Today, "Home of the F-35, Fifth generation strike fighter." Well, that's a fair bit of aviation history! Thanks for your story. I looked up Marham, wondering if it might be in Scotland. My grandfather was in the 'London Scottish' in WWI, leading machine gun squads. In his photo album, a snapshot shows them down in a trench, having set up a machine gun on a 45 degree angle just at the top of the trench. Pointing skyward for anti-aircraft duty. He made it home, and emigrated to the Territory of Hawaii. He tried to re-enlist as WWII started in Europe, but alas, no. So he mailed his uniform, kilt and all, back to the regiment. But the ship it went on was sunk in the Atlantic. I do have his greatcoat! (thick and heavy), bonnet and helmet. He didn't volunteer a lot of war stories, but once, he commented on having had allied Japanese Navy ships as escorts during WWI (he served in Greece, partly), rather than being an adversary. He lived on the island of Maui, but his two daughters were over on Oahu at boarding school in 1941. The campus overlooked Pearl Harbor. But I'll stop now! Best wishes, Mike
royverden9049; Thank you for sharing your wonderful story. So sorry you missed the B29 hop but I’m glad you got “The Tour”. Cheers.
The B-29 is surprisingly fast for a piston-engine bomber of its size. In a lot of airshows, it sometimes needs to fly a display circuit and stay at a slower speed with B-17s, DC-3s, and the like, but when it can make a pass all on its own, it's pretty impressive.
Ah yes nothing as good as Mark Felton history channel
Felton is known to resort to plagiarism and is hardly an accurate source of information.
I enlisted in the USAF in 1960 and served at a base in Germany with several WWII veterans in my unit. I began reading the history of the war at that time and never stopped. Mark Felton's videos make me feel like an American high school student who cannot find Germany on a map.
The history guy is another good channel to watch
I hope Mark do a Video about US Soldiers in Germany it is so intrestring i knew the americans from Heidelberg and Mannheim and i lernd english ( they livd in my block ). It broke my heart when the US Army left Heidelberg and Mannheim in 2013-15. The US Bases are now Storage and Wearhouses and the normal buldings are now property of the City Heidelberg and normal apartments.
@@albertkurz913 My speculation is it broke the hearts of US Army troops to lose your cities as plum assignments . I've heard stories of warm acceptance by Germans .
@@biketech60 Many US soldiers stayd in germany after the army left the bases. Im in my early 20s, this was my childhood. To write over it it feels from another time from another world even after covid hits. Strange
@@biketech60 Many former Us soldiers say to me they loved it to be stationd in germany. It was for them like an never ending vacation
The B-29 project cost more then the Manhattan project! The streamline engine nacelles on the B-29 worked fine at low altitudes but at higher elevations the engines overheated. Later B-29s had larger openings, plus some extra vents. But flying fast at 32,000ft taxed the engines and used a lot of fuel, so General Lemay ordered the flights to fly lower and slower, and later to increase accuracy, even lower. A lot of people thought that flying such an expensive high altitude bomber at low altitudes was a waste of time and money. But improved lubricants, better fuel systems and much better aiming using radar eventually made them more effective. Note in one of the photos a B-29 has the experimental quad 50cal.
Flying higher they encountered strong winds which was discovered and called later the Jet Stream!
Every time I think that Dr Felton can’t possibly come up with more WW2 info I’ve not heard of , he proves me wrong
You find the most interesting operations about WWII. I have bookcases full of history books but you continue to surprise me, Mr. Felton. Don’t stop.
What many people don't know is that a large number of B-29s were also used in the Korean War (and actually helped to turn the tide of it). They kicked the crap out of the Communist forces and supply lines.
Thunderbird 1 , Well, they were used but I believe it was well known by all that in fact when the North Koreans introduced the MiG-15’s we Americans began suffering great B-29 losses. I believe the losses were so great in fact that the U.S. stopped flying B-29 missions. There exist film from Soviet MiG-15’s showing attacks on B-29 flights and their pilots describing their attacks on our planes. We tried supporting them with fighter support flights but at that time they just weren’t capable of staving off the MiG-15’s. There are several books written by people that were involved in the conflict and had first hand knowledge of B-29 operations that can clear the air for us all.
Just in case you didn't know this Felton is also a fantastic author! Definitely go check out his books :)
The B-29 was far more sophisticated than most people realize, and even had a true "fly-by-wire" control system. Except it wasn't the flight controls, but the gun laying system. The gunner aimed his sight head to track and range the target and the central fire control computer, about the size of a small refrigerator, used that data as an aiming command, provided electronically through electronic synchros at the sight head. It wasn't just remote control as in pointing a sight and the system points the guns in the same direction remotely, The gunner was telling the computer the target's azimuth, elevation and range relative to the sight as an electronic command, and the computer figured out where to point the guns, allowing for parallax error, true airspeed, pressure altitude, temperature, 50 cal ballistics, and target lead angle, and drove the turrets to where it calculated they needed to point.
Unfortunately, barely 4 years later, in 1950 in Korea, the B-29s were shot down easily by the Soviet jets Mig-15...! That was the end of their career...
And the Genesis of all that gun technology was the B- 17G Bendix chin turret, which was designed to counter head- on attacks from enemy fighters and did so quite successfully.
Thanks for all the details. My dad was a ground crewman who specialized in these turret systems. Due to being young he got into the war late, served at a B-29 training base in Texas. Post-war he became an engineering draftsman at Grumman. I'm sure his experience with such complex systems helped make him the valued employee he was.
@@kevinanderson3849 What was the point of making that comment? Dude took the time to compose a long comment detailing specific technology and engineering built into the aircraft, and your response is a quick drive-by comment about how the plane was inevitably rendered obsolete? You could literally respond with that for pretty much any topic...
@@30AndHatingIt Thank you.
My dad was stationed at RAF St Mawgan, working on the crash crews during the latter part of the war and I remember him telling me about this aircraft. Cheers Mark, yet another fascinating video.
My father was a mechanic on the Dyin Duck, a weather B29 that flew into hurricanes and sent the info to the Allies.
Taking a break during my “essential” work. And I received a notification from the best KZhead history channel. This video has made my break even better. Thank you Dr Felton.
His videos are essential viewing!
Carry on the good work .
guffmulderEOD3119 LOL I was taking a work break too
Essential viewing in the Ulster Hospital in N Ireland now as well lol
Should check out sabaton history. But I'm gonna assume you have if you're a history buff, lol
I thought they were only in the Pacific theater thats awesome
As much flak as was over Germany idk how well a pressurized plane would have done
@The Rockall Times you were a little boy back in 1945, so I don't say OK boomer
Mark goes anywhere a Super Fort could take you!
One of them probably would of dropped an A bomb on Germany had they still been in the war :)
@@KrGsMrNKusinagi0 "If I had been asked to do it, I would have done it in a second. You're damn right. If the Germans had not surrendered I would have flown the bomb over there. I would have taken some satisfaction in that because they shot me up." - Paul Tibbets pilot of Enola Gay who had previously flown B-17 missions in Europe
Had refractive surgery for eyes so was difficult to read / watch anything so I listened Mark Felton videos and audio books during these difficult days afterwards. Thank you Mark so much for excellent content you create.
Get well soon!
Get well! from me also!!🇺🇸🇬🇧👍
Press on ! Comrade !
ComboSlicer You do extremely well to type with the problem with your eyes.
@@MauriatOttolink voice typing
My dad was stationed in La Rochelle in the 50s. He had a Navy buddy who operated a fire boat out of the sub pens. The allies had bombed the hell out of those sub pens and through all that effort my dad said the roof of the pens only sported little divots where the bombs landed. He said the Germans must have gotten a few laughs about that!
That intro music is always music to my ears, you know you're in for a real treat.
@Gappie Al Kebabi ,👍
I catch myself humming the melody at work all the time
YES!!! More quarantine material!
WW2 Bombers.had the greatest names painted on them. But then again I heard of a WW2 PT boat Nick named " the plywood bastard."
I have always been in love with the 29, think it started about 12 years old with the polished finish and pin up style nose art. I got to take a ride on one about 15 years ago in Colorado as a birthday surprise from my wife......BEST 70 MINUTES OF MY LIFE. Just a beautiful piece of history.
What a fantastic video. I was actually stationed at RAF St Mawgan whilst serving in the US Marine Corps! These are unusual times we live in, to put it mildly. Thank you so much for keeping a sense of normalcy in my day-to-day life. I am an airline pilot now and these last few weeks have been anything but normal.
Once again, every time you think you have heard every WWII story, I'm hit with something completely unknown, like a bomb from a B29
When did he refer himself as a historian?
John Smith good for you calling him out like that! The world needs more people like you. What’d we do without people patrolling KZhead determining who can call themselves historians like you?
- "A bomb from a B-29, completely unknown", Oh come on, Really? Where've you been hiding for the past 75 years?
I wish Mr. Felton or somebody would do a video on the B-29 raids of the Korean War. They were highly dangerous (especially after the MiGs started flying), but CRUCIAL to the coalition war effort against the Commie KPA.
What about the four B-29s that had to land in the Soviet Far East after bombing missions in the Pacific? That would make a great video. Fantastic work as usual! Keeps us from going stir crazy in these dangerous times.
Which they promptly reverse-engineered.
Another one that would be very interesting to pursue. From what I've read, any Americans that landed in Russia during the war were NOT treated well even though that country and ours were suppose to be allied.
Yeah please highlight what scoundrels the Soviets were treating us like the enemy to get their covetous thieving hands on our planes to then reverse engineer them to oppose us.
@@DardanellesBy108 yes exactly. Typical Soviet behavior.
BEST BOOK NETWORK Americans always play victim
Mark, thanks for another outstanding documentary. I remember hearing about the "Hobo Queen" as a youngster in 1970 when I lived with my parents in a house on the edge of RAF Little Walden. There was a chap living nearby who told me about the "Hobo Queen" and said it had landed at RAF Little Walden at some time. He used to be a farm worker in the area and knew a lot of the base personnel during the war. I was never able to verify what he told me until now!
The intro... The voice.. The content... AWESOME.Simply awesome.Thank you Dr.Felton.
One Documentary cited that an Arado Ar-234 jet recon/bomber got A picture of the B-29 as it just landed in britain...
unusual low-volume pic,no matter which way you cut it..
Hobo Queen, god damn plane names were so great.
Swordfish A family friend was a gunner on The Slick Dick 73RD BW 20TH AF.
went with the nose art
She travels on train to train
I had a car called Black Betty and a truck called Big Bertha
One B-29 was called "Boeing's Boner".
I’ve always had an interest in US Heavy Bombers in Europe - my Grand-Uncle was the bombardier in the Lead Plane (Big Operator) on the first Ploiesti raid in ‘43 - he was a fascinating person to know, I’ll say that! What’s sticking with me from this video is the fact that the B-29 turrets were remote controlled - I knew the later B-52 was, but I never knew they’d developed the tech enough that early! Thanks for MORE new knowledge Mark!
Twenty-five videos ago, I thought, "No way can Mark Keep this up." DJNaija wrote : "This guy makes every WWII buff feel like a total casual." Yes. He's keeping it up.
Well i am an astute militay historian... you sir are a treasure providing new information into my already large knowledge base... have a great day thumbs up stay awesome military history buffs/nerds.
Yes we are all awesome!!!!
Always fascinating and revealing, Mr. Felton. A friend of mine's uncle was General Charles Sweeney, who, when he was a mere major in the AAF, piloted the B-29 "Bock's Car" that dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki. (Because of the weather and certain decisions Maj. Sweeney made, The Bomb wasn't dropped on its primary target, Kokura. Upon his return, during the debriefing, he was considered to have "screwed up." ) The course of my life once brought me to Ohio, were I visited the U.S. Air Force Museum in Dayton. There before me was Bock's Car! (I had a lengthy conversation with its erstwhile commander just a few years before at a wedding reception. He told me his favorite mission was leading a flight of fighters (1950s?) From the U.S., to Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Iceland, and hence to Great Britain. Great work if you can get it.
my father was a naval aviation ordnance man on Tinian. He went over to the army side often with his camera. he took many shots of B29s. including "THUMPER" I have been going the USAF museum since the 1960s. the museum has expanded greatly in the last 20 years.
Great Video , I met a B-29 Pilot years ago in Fort Lauderdale Florida I was in awe of him & very proud as well . I've watched many videos on B-29's flying operations over Japan over 300 crews was lost over Japan .
The research on your videos is just astounding, thank you so much ! With the matched historic footage this my favorite educational video format on KZhead.
Your stories never cease to amaze! Keep them coming.
I'd love to see a video about the B-29 campaign mining the waters around Japan. Great video here, too!
I had forgotten about these missions until reading your comment. That be a great idea for Felton to pursue. A long time ago I had read about a B-29 mission that was one of the longest completed and it involved laying mines.
I think we intended to fly B-29's over Germany only in final missions planned for August, 1945 if the war lasted that long (which it didn't). That way the Luftwaffe wouldn't have had a chance to practice shooting them down ahead of the mission in which one B-29 was to be from Colonel Tibbetts' 509th Bomb Delivery Group. (If I had been planning that final mission, I would have hidden his B-29 amongst a group of other B-29's and have those drop bombs on Berlin but be ready to scatter back home the moment Little Boy was released.) If this sounds like Alternate History, it isn't. Colonel Tibbetts and the 509th Bomb Delivery group were initially going to go to England and were sent to Tinian instead only when it was evident they wouldn't be needed in Europe.
Yes we did . The original plan was to drop the atomic bomb on Berlin first . The Nazi's got lucky !!
Cool, video Dr. Felton, that's why I love this channel, it tells me the obscure stories that I've never heard about, please keep the videos coming, Cheers.
Interesting story of the B-29s in Europe. Found the maps n archival films ENHANCED the ultra interesting narrative. Kudos for this video. Looking forward to ur next one.
Sir, your videos keep me very interested. It encourages me to dig deeper into history. Love your books as well. With Great Thanks, Allen (Former U.S.A.F.)
Leave it Mark to bring us more history than we could ordinarily never hear of....Three Cheers!
I’m glad there are now two flying B-29’s now with “Doc” coming online a couple years ago. Another amazing story from Mark Felton! So very enjoyable.
I was fortunate enough to be able to see and go through 'Doc' at a heavy bomber show. From my understanding it's one of two flying example left. Highly, highly recommend to go see it!
sparky454chevy I will go you one better. While it was still at the Smithsonian rehab facility in Maryland, my children and I got to stick our heads into the bomb bay of the Enola Gay. We then backed out and continued to the front of the plane where a docent informed us we were not supposed to be on that side (the left wing side) of the plane. I thought nothing of it as there were no ropes preventing us from being there. It wasn’t until I saw pictures of it at the Udvar-Hazy museum at Dulles airport several years later that I came to find out the plane was never supposed to be touched nor entered by any civilians not working on its restoration/preservation.
Every time I hear this channel's theme I feel like "Oh yeah, bring it on!"😂😂
Cheers for the vids Mark, I love these little overlooked story’s that you tell
Absolutely fascinating. The B-29 Superfortress was my first ever Airfix bomber. When I lived in the US in 1995 and 1998; I took flying lessons and in 1998, two aircraft from the "Confederate Air Force" came to visit - a B-24 Liberator and a B-29 Superfortress. It was a dream come true. What was even better (for me), my favour fighter during WWII was the P51-D Mustang and at the same time the CAF visited Natrona County Airport, a private owner (from Canada) flew in to refuel with his P-51D! I'll have to dig up the photo I took of all three aircraft doing a flyby.
Hope your doing well Mike.. Be safe. Keep sharing more videos especially during these lockdown days. Cheers
Mark.
Fantastic content as always Mark. The 29's were also used in the covert recon over the soon to be dubbed "iron curtain' but you already knew that XD... I must say though that ever since the Downing Street Cats video, I can't not laugh and envision a brooding Larry the cat scheming to your introduction music!
As a recent subscriber & WW2 history buff, i must say how pleased i am to have found this channel. Mark's unbiased & smooth narration make it a joy to watch. Gratitude for ur posts. There well received. The good thing about being a late sub, is that i get to binge on loads of previous posts.
Your videos have been such a fascinating way to keep our minds occupied during this wretched covid quarantine. The amount of work you do in not only researching, but finding this old film footage is remarkable. Informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work!!
Fascinating video. There's a B29 weather reconnaissance aircraft wreck up on the Peak District just outside of Glossop, it crashed in 1949 during its landing approach to Prestwick in bad weather and you can still see that it points directly at Manchester airport runway.
I continues to be amazed by the extraordinary research skills and knowledge this channel possess. 👍
And again a fascinating story I had never heared of. Thanks, Mark!
Thank you for your work Mr Felton! It would be great to know more about the U- boat base of Helgoland. There is not much known today.
And which type of big one bomb actually hit Koenigsberg i. Prussia in 1945? Thanks a lot by neckarcupdreddyfan Rgt 35 Sikorski Heeresflieger
*sees no negative comments* “Now this does put a smile on my face”
Agree. It's a travesty there are currently 105 dislikes. This is quality content.
@@marcolian . They're from current Boeing employees that don't like being reminded that once upon a time they could build aircraft that don't deliberately fly into the ground
@@MartintheTinman Maybe they're security researches not happy with the promotion of NordVPN? Excellent history channel.
@@marcolian I guess they don't appreciate to be distracted. 😉
Thank you again Mark the voice Felton, great presentation👍
This channel is fascinating! I always see something new. I have been subscribed over a year and still keep finding things I didn’t know. Great channel!
You always bring information about WW2 I never knew. Thanks.
Dr. Felton never ceases to amaze us. Thank you.
Thank you for your effort, and the information.
My Father's best friend was the superintendent of Dodge Chicago where they made the B29 R3350 engines
We used to live near RAF St Mawgan in the 1960s when it was an Avro Shackleton base. I had no idea B29s landed there in the war! Also my old man was in the British Army towards the end of the war and I’ve still got his army aircraft recognition manual from 1944 that says “Mention may only be made of the great new US Army bomber, the B29, which has been designated the Super Fortress”.
My friend's grandfather used to tell us stories about some Giant planes they used to see in an airfield near our old house, Now I realise that it were the B24 and B29s that used to be there at Piardoba in West Bengal, India Thanks Mark
Thank you Doctor Felton. I was always wondering about the B29s. Additionally, I have always wondered why I have never heard about the US Marines either being in the fight for Europe except for attached to ships. Anything about that in the future would be much appreciated too...
Your docs are simply the best on youtube ...... simple and strait to the point ! Love it !
Thank you so much for continuing to provide us with content during these dark days.
something i found out just recently the Australian RAAF also operated the B29 only two of them. two of the planes loaned to the British were loaned to Australia to do high level research, Would make an interesting model to take to shows a B29 with the kangaroo roundel of the RAAF on them.
Australia didn't use the red kangaroo inside the roundel as dumbass Americans would mistake any red markings for rising suns
he probably does not mean during WW2, in fact, I'd be sure that it wasn't.
I'm Australian , and know a little of RAAF history at least, I did not know we had any '29s...but it figures, we did have some obscure types serving in small numbers, and it seems kind of stuff that would go on post WW2 and Cold War , US/UK/Australia...British nuclear bomb testing and stuff in the area.Airplanes flying through test A-bomb mushrooms to collect data/info. RAAF was 5th largest AF in world in 1945.
@@KateLicker they were loaned to us by the british for high level research
The Boeing B-29 Washington wore Its RAF markings and serial numbers whilst in Australia, no RAAF roundels with the kangaroo in motion were applied.
Can you do a video on the captured/reversed engineered B-29: the Soviet Tu-4? I would love it thanks!
The progression from the Tu-4 through the Tu-85 to the Tu-95 would be cool to hear in detail.
@@Justanotherconsumer Yeah although the wings of the red star episode on it, is very good.
"Hobo Queen"- what a great name for a family- friendly fast food franchise. ☺
Some on the US B-29's shown at the start had tail symbol "Z". these were planes of the 500th Bomb Group. My father was a Radio Mechanic in the 338th Squadron. He used to think the flight crews had it easy. Flying around while he sweated it out in a tent, fixing radios that were corroding in the tropical weather of Saipan. The, when illness or injury made a need for replacement radio operators on the missions, the mechanics were "volunteered" to got out on them. Changed my dad's mind, especially when they flew through the very effective Japanese 105mm flak guns.
Even rougher resistance was met by B-29s when they flew missions during the Korean War. The Norks had some flak and antiaircraft guns of their own (probably of a Soviet design), but what made things nasty is when the MiG-15 entered the war. Chinese PLAF pilots (along with North Korean ones and Soviet mercenaries) were able to wreck havoc on the older prop bomber squadrons with their new jets until the F-86 Sabre arrived. Once the Sabres and U.S. Navy F9F Panthers were escorting them, the B-29s were finally able to more safely fly their missions. This resulted in the 1952 mass raid on Pyongyang (at the '53 armistice, the North Korean capital was 75% destroyed) and other huge strikes against North Korean targets. It was clear though that prop bombers were rapidly becoming obsolete, leading to the Superforts being replaced by the B-47 Statojet by around 1955.
Mark felton, greetings from argentina, you made very interesting content. You are a light!!!
@@themaus3847 not Hitler or any nazi. Please, you must respect people. Ignorante maleducado
To whom do The Falklands belong?
@@eltalondehierro1462 - No capto qué te quiso decir preguntándote por tu abuelo...
@@hhe5218 it belongs to the people that occupied it. Rescato el valor de los soldados, oficiales, suboficiales y cabos argentinos, dieron un gran servicio por la patria. But the military who were in power were corrupt. En mi opinión la guerra de Malvinas fue algo politico. The proceso utilized nationalism in order to unify the people. Te recomiendo que leas malvinas de tata yofre and british writers and historians on the subject who really understand history. Quisiera que tengas una visión completa de la realidad.
@@hhe5218 - What ? Looks like you ended up in the wrong place...this is a thread about the B-29 !
I was wondering why those bombs were not destroying that Uboat Pen. Then he said it had a 23 foot thick concrete roof. I was like "oh".
Trevor Goebel Joseph Kennedy Jr. was killed on a mission to strike the U boat pens.
@@williamsimmons152 - You might be wrong, I'm afraid...I remember reading (and hearing on TV documentaries ) that Joe Kennedy (JFK's older brother) got killed when the bomber he was piloting from Britain to Germany to attack the river Ruhr dams was hit and exploded.
Fascinating as always Mark. As I've commented before your ability to find such interesting, untold, stories of such well known machines and events is staggering! Hope you and yours are well, and stay safe!
My uncle lost his life in the crash of a B29 at San Francisco on August 5th, 1950. The co-pilot was Gen. Travis for whom the base was later named.
I’ve always wondered why the B-29 wasn’t deployed in Europe. Thanks to Mark I wonder no longer.
Can you do a video specifically about tanks in the Allied invasion of Sicily? Love your videos!
I continue to be amazed at the excellece of Dr. Felton's videos....and the diversity of these vignettes.Another story I had never heard before. Les Griffiths
Great program. My father piloted B-17's and 24's with the 8th. I often wondered why we didn't use the 29's in Europe. Thanks!
I’ve always wondered why the b 29 was t used in Europe during the war. Now I know. Plus info I didn’t know to think about, well done Mark
absolutely fascinating! Utterly rare b-29 info, wow
Amazing video! The research involved with this! Thankyou so much
This answered my long standing question. Thank you Sir.
My dad worked on Washingtons at RAF Coningsby during his national service.
May I say sir, that your content and narration approach that of my favorite documentary series 'The World at War'.
I was never much of a fan of Olivier as an actor but his narration of World at War had supreme dignity.
One of the Superfort's greatest assets was its range and bombload . In Europe the distance from England to Germany was not nearly as great as the distance from the Marianas (where I was born in 1958) to Japan. The Superfort was needed in the Pacific where a mission could stretch for almost 3000 miles, nearly the distance from the east to west coast of our country
I liked the 4 x 2 timber "adjusting" tool for whacking the Disney bomb fins into place ! 9.41
Thanks I learned something and never ever saw 29 in olive drab.
See my whole life, I thought they were just in the Pacific! Thanks so much for these videos Mark, you really do a great job!
Never had knowledge of B 29 in Europe till now .thank you!!!
Chrysler made the engine upgrades in their Chicago-based plant... the same one that became the Tucker automobile factory. From the engine's design, Chrysler learned lessons about over-head valve combustion chamber configuration, which it adopted into it's first V-8 engine: The Hemi built during the 50's. Lessons from it and efforts in Indy Car helped Chrysler that the next step of development for their top racing engine during the 60's, resulting in the 426 Hemi... a legend that it's base design still sees use in Top Fuel and Funny Car drag racing classes to this day. The first-gen design still sees use as well, in capsule drag boat competition, and a strong performance aftermarket as well.
Mark, as always awesome history I never knew about on the B-29’s in the European Theater.
The B-29 manufacturing program was just an incredible feat of human effort.
@Thibault Derese What an extremely odd thing to say. I don't remember anyone saying ANYTHING about Nazis, you weirdo. You're giving off extreme neo-Nazi vibes. Seriously, that was a weird comment.
I was wondering and Googled this topic and of course I got Dr Felton as a result. I love this channel
My grandfather helped build the plant at Marietta GA. Now USAF plant 6 run by Lockheed where they have been building the C-130 for around 70 years, also the C-141 and now the F-35. After the plant was build, my grandfather was a supervisor in the wing assembly part of the plant. I have been in aviation all my adult life. Guess it came in my genes.
Thank you Mr Felton for posting more interesting material of little known history to keep us from insanity during quarantine. I wish you could come to the US and be my history professor
So amusing and unexpected hearing my hometown mentioned. Must have flown straight from the Dobbins AFB in Marietta. Possibly produced at the Lockheed facilities in Marietta? I assume it was Lockheed then.
Yup, USAF Plant #6!
My Granddad built B-29s there!
As always, thank you for spot on history lesson.