D-Day From the Perspective of a P-51 Mustang Pilot

This is episode 4 in the story of Ed McNeff and his incredible journey as a P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt pilot in the 355th Fighter Group during World War II. This will cover his missions of D-Day, taking place on June 6th and June 7th of 1944. This was made using the World War II flight simulator War Thunder. Hope you enjoy! Please like, comment, and subscribe. #WW2 #WWIIHistory #WarThunder

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[TJ]

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[cliffordterry]

Seeing videos such as this, I wind up wishing that you could have been able to start your work 30 years ago. Still, what you are creating is historic treasures for future generations.

[bramcurtis]

The Mustangs painted in the black and white look absolutely wicked in the strictest sense of the word. Both beautiful and utterly lethal.

[msmeyersmd]

The Greatest Generation. Many of my College Engineering instructors were WWII vets.
And they had the scars or missing li:bs to show for it.
Their legacy and the men they raised to follow in their footsteps for this great country lasted until 1992. They included my Father. A SAC Pilot from the 1950s until 1967. Until he took a detour, due to Robert McNamara's debacle in the skies over South East Asia. He survived 104 missions and came back to SAC HQ in Omaha as a Strategic Nuclear Planner for the Bomber Wing of the Nuclear Triad. He left ASAP in 1973 after one year in DC. He apologized to me because it would be my third High School. But, he said he would have a heart attack if he stayed there any longer. The Military was trying to dump people as the Vietnam pullout began in 1973. As did the first OPEC gasoline price crisis. The first year of forced racial integration bussing in DC. And, don't forget, the Watergate Hearings and Nixon's resignation soon after in 1974.
It's been a steady downhill path since. Our country's leadership has been slowly infiltrated for a long time...~110 years. In 2008, we went into a Neo-Marxist free fall. We had a temporary "drogue chute" slowing things down from 2016-2020. Our Main Chute and Reserve chute were disabled by our own government. We hit the ground at terminal velocity in 2020. Since then we've only seen PsyOp theater, Gas Lighting, Bread and Circuses. Misinfo, Disinfo and other Propaganda up the Wazoo. Wanna' be self-proclaimed "chosen ones" and their useful idiot Criminal Abettors (PTOCs - Psychopathic Traitorous Organized Criminals). Are rapidly trying to consolidate their power over the whole world. As I write this. Their long term Strategic Plan to Divide and Conquer is nearly complete. Ray Charles or Stevie Wonder could "see" what has happened, and is continuing to occur. Unfortunately, ~50% of Americans are "blind" to this.
I watched a short video by John Lovell who is a founder and leader of the Warrior Poet Society Network. I agree 100% with what he said. There are almost no "blue states". Only large dysfunctional "blue cities" inside those Red States. Most will not be shocked to find that these "blue cities" are controlled by the same PTOCs I described above. Organized Criminals. It's almost a 100% correlation.
These are the people that take turns with their hands stuck up JBs puppet ass, to put it bluntly. Almost exactly like the 1989 Movie, "Weekend at Bernie's". Check out "Wag the Dog" if you haven't seen it for awhile. Both movies made by these same PTOCs.
As if anybody doesn't know who JB really is. Unfortunately for him and the USA, a demented old man...and a major criminal. The PTOCs "puppeteers" have ~19 months to crash the economic system (the economy is NOT the effing stock market) and/or start WWIII. With the Nuclear "Sword of Damocles" held over the head of humanity.
Never forget. They Do Not Care about you...or humanity. As George Carlin said so eloquently.
They only care about themselves.

[carrickrichards]

After D-Day, the Forward Air Control (FAC) doctrine was very efficient for dedicated Fighter Ground Attack (FGA) squadrons eg Typhoons/ Tempests. FAC parties were attached to forward battalions (like Artillery Foward Observation Officers (FOO) were attached to companies). Flights of aircraft from squadrons loitering over rear areas, were called forward individually by the FAC for specific targets.

[timothymcdonnell]

Thank you so much for this, & moreso, for helping our next generations appreciate what our "Greatest Generation" did for us. My Dad & 4 of 5 uncles served in WWII (the 5th in Korea), & their mothers, fathers, & sisters served & sacrificed so much at home. I chose a career to teach history to honor of them & all our generous ancestors who deserve so much of our humble gratitude.

[josephwear]

Now are you not glad a game like war thunder exists? Videos like this would have been impossible without a brilliant special effects team. Now they’re a piece of cake thanks to game platforms like this! Bravo!!!👏 👏👏👏

[dougcastleman]

Did you say early summer, 1944? Dday? Summer solstice in the northern hemisphere is on June 21. So, late spring.

[ToddSauve]

One of the things creators of the flight sim videos that are out there do not get correct is the D Day black and white stripes. They always make them crisp and perfectly aligned. This was never the case. The stripes were always crooked and sloppy looking because they were added in haste and applied with simple paint brushes and not masked and sprayed on. A pet peeve of mine, LOL! 😉

[glendepasse]

The B and C model P-51's were actually 9 mph faster than the D model due to the drag produced
by the bubble canopy.

[ThetrueJester]

Another amazing video from the GOAT. It's gonna be a good day

[drgondog]

Dad flew his first combat mission on D-Day - and one of the 354FS pilots that found and shot down a Ju 87 inbound to the beach. The 354th and 357th scored 12 destroyed of the 15 Ju 87s. He was flying 'tail end charlie' as #4 in Blue Flight, and became 354FS Operations officer just after he shot down 2 109s near Rugen Island two weeks later. Then 354FS CO and Fighter Ace 7 weeks later.

[waynesimpson]

20 yr old, poor soul. It is difficult to comprehend, look around at your modern day 20 yr olds or recall what you were doing when you were 20? Imagine having to dish out death and destruction or receive it. What a generation, I'm eternally grateful.

[patolt]

21:38: Just a strange detail: Foster died on June 7th in "Rhone, Draguignan, France" according to the document showed in the video.
Well, I'm French: Rhone is a "Departement" (an administrative area around a main city, to make it simple). The "département of Rhone" (Rhone being the name of a river) is located around Lyon, let's say more or less in the middle of the country while Draguignan is a city located in South-East France, 800 km south from Paris, 80 km north of Toulon on the Mediterranean coast, nothing to do with Rhone, neither the département nor the river itself. Moreover nobody was flying overthere on D-Day so that the document displayed in the video doesn't make any sense. It's rather curious.
However being buried in "Département du Calvados" is the only thing consistent since it's indeed the area around the landing beaches. Just for information

[ChefDuane]

My father flew P51D #4413849 "Little Buster" air cover for D Day. He was stationed in RAF Bodney 352nd Fighter Group. He flew B's, C's, and eventually the D model. Had to bail out over the North Sea from his B due to fuel starvation, but was picked up by a Brit minesweeper who say him bailout.

[TheBaconStrip]

Ed McNeff is a true American hero. Hearing and watching his story has been truly inspiring. I'm very glad that I found this channel.

[MusketeerTed]

And did you know that the dday invasion stripes caused a shortage of black and white paint in the uk?

[ditto]

Movies tend to get two things wrong, possibly because of availability issues, but still… 1. in June, 1944 the mustangs were mostly olive drab and gray with invasion stripes, B and C models, no bubble canopy. 2. Ground support planes were far more likely to be Thunderbolts rather than Mustangs. Mustangs were used for ground support, but were mostly replacing Thunderbolts for high altitude bomber escorts. In movies, such as Saving Private Ryan, when a fighter makes a strafing run, it’s often a bare aluminum P51-D, which is possible but unlikely.

[paulaustin]

As a nation we stand on the shoulders of giants!

[moonshineofthemoon]

Let’s go another video of Ed Mcneff! I’m glad to see another video, the videos are getting better and better.