Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Luftwaffe Lightning; The Focke Wulf Fw 187 Falke" video.

  1. LUFTWAFFE: "The Focke Wulf 187 vill be ze vorld's greatest night fighter!" MOSQUITO: "Focke off".
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  2.  @scootergeorge9576  Every squadron and geschwader recorded its daily losses. Recorded losses are verifiable. Recorded claimed victories are not. Google Kurt Welter, who claimed to have shot down 26 Mosquitos in his Me 262. His claims were compared with RAF recorded losses after the war. Only three Mosquitos were lost on the days and nights when Welter claimed a victory.
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  3.  @Ralphieboy  Udet was brilliant. He gave a joy ride to a teenage boy called Eric Brown. Thus inspired, Winkle went to university in Germany and became a Royal Navy test pilot. And the rest is history.
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  4.  @toddduffy1658  No. The 219 was a gallant attempt but a failure. The Luftwaffe experienced what translates as "Mosquito panic". Night fighter crews terrified of taking to the skies because of roaming Mosquitos.
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  5.  @toddduffy1658  Ace Kurt Welter claimed 26 Mosquito kills in his 262. After the war, his log book was compared with actual British losses. Only three losses were recorded on the days and nights when Welter claimed a Mosquito. The easiest way to become a Nazi ace was to lie. If the Luftwaffe's claims were authentic, they'd have won the war.
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  6.  @scootergeorge9576  Funny how there's a glue named "Uhu".
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  7.  @vinceely2906  All of the records from the Battle of Britain have survived. Historians and nerds alike have delved into them, discovering minute details about which pilot shot down which aircraft. It turns out the RAF overclaimed their kills by 50%, whereas the Luftwaffe overclaimed by a factor of three. Nothing unusual about overclaiming. B17 gunners were infamous for it. Then there's the pounding taken by the Wehrmacht at the Falais gap. Typhoons and Tempests unintentionally exaggerated their panzer kills. The same panzers were attacked and hit time and time again, so that the number of panzer kills greatly exceeded the number of panzers present.
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