At this point I think P-47 was burning 150 octane fuel, too.

Pretty good video. Only one mistake that I caught, referring to the FW-190 as liquid cooled. Most of them were air cooled radials. Only very late in the war were the Jumo engines fitted.

As a side note, I see many of these WWII videos now with AI generated images. Just AI slop. It's sad. There ought to be a way to stop this. If you are presenting a factual video and you use AI generated images, YouTube should refuse it. Put it in the fiction section. How to know this? Require AI generated files to carry a marker -- "This image is fake.."

--paul

Meanwhile, there are legitimate channels that are getting pulled for simply using vintage photos.

Some channels (and there's more than one) I've seen seem to be computer read from a script/book or are AI generated to some extent. I nearly bit off on them, but as you point out, there are some misses in pronunciation/vernacular/minor facts that a real person would catch pretty easily.

...good post on the P-47...VDH in his book "The Second World Wars", discusses how in particular it was so effective in attacking German ground formations in support of the Allied successful breakout offensives following the D-Day landings....

...back in the day I fired a 50-cal on the range, and amazing to think of the power of having eight 50-caliber machine guns on one aircraft...

There’s a huge amount of AI generated “documentaries” on YouTube, even this one is AI narrated. Pretty sad really.