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vurtne brought me here 😂

It is not true to say that Londoners hadn't experienced bombing for two years before the V 1s. The second Blitz, known as the 'Baby' Blitz, had gone on from December 1943 to June 1944. It wasn't as intensive as 1940, but it was the same thing in effect and pretty bad. I know because in this period my family home came very close to suffering a direct hit - a slight deflection in the bombing angle and I wouldn't be here now. Even that Blitz was bad. Then we endured the V weapons after that.

Our greatest generation. RIP to all who died during this time, and infinite respect.

very similar to whets going on in Gaza now. you cant kill spirit. lovely these are people you and me.

great upload thanks x this and exploding the myth about guy folks is very hard to find better than potato quality. looks like no lime and mortar was used .

I asked my grandmother how she survived WW2 at home in London. She could only say, "I don't know. You just did." It seems the alternative - giving up - wasn't thinkable.

My grandmother told me a story of walking - over rubble - past St Paul's to her war work. She told me about the heat she felt through her shoes, and the melted street. Her feet survived, but her grandparents were bombed. Her war work was redrawing maps of bombed-out London. I sometimes wonder if she ever had to redraw the street in Chelsea where her grandparents died.

I bet the survivors are so grateful that WE saved Europe, seeing how good Europe is to us nowadays!

My 4th time thru. Awesome set of docs. Ty

I've always wondered what would have happened if Hitler had overcome his hubris and NOT declared war on Russia and its meat wall style of combat.

My granddad was a US Army Sargent and he met my grandmum on the first night of the blitz. And she was a British nurse. I guess if you can make it through that 60+ years of marriage was a walk in the park. 2nd condition was whoever asked for a divorce had to take all the kids. There were 6. And 4 were boys. There were still things that bothered him at age 92 or 96? But long ass time and there were still noises and like, he didn't like Italian food cause he did some shit there and airplanes. He only took one airplane which was to visit Ireland with his wife, my grandmother. But they were content to drive. I think about it alot but the few times I asked he would just Focus on talking about my grandmum. He said that he and Pat (my grandmum) never once ever talked about it. Not a word about it. Actually most who lived through the blitz never spoke a word of it.

Had a grandfather who served in the RAF during WW2. He started on Blenheim's as a navigator, He got a piece of shrapnel through his knee and thigh, so went to an engineering squadron. He said he was never afraid because the anger and hatred of the nazi regime kept him going. He always regretted that he could have possibly killed civilians, but in war, the civilians had just as much chance to die as soldiers on the battlefield. Became a bank manager after the war and active in veterans charities.

This series really puts what is happening in Ukraine now into perspective. Horrifying

If Germany had won western civilization wouldn't be gone now.

7:17 Blast gauges and high speed cams were about in the 40's they filmed the nuclear tests with. EG&G was the company that was in charge of high speed film. Not sure who made the blast gauges.

Excellent video, my grandparents were from East London and my Gran sometimes told me what it was like to be there..God Bless Them All

29:00 my home city of Plymouth was raided 59 times between 1940 and 1944 and you can still find scorched paving slabs where blobs of molten metal from the incendiaries have melted into their way into the stone slab. Each hole has a lump of metal in it about the size of a coin. After a raid in March 1941 St Andrews Church in the city centre was gutted, in the aftermath someone nailed a piece of wood above the remains of the doorway with the word "Resurgam" on it (Latin for "I shall rise again"). When the church was restored they replaced the wood with a granite plague bearing the word, it's now known as the Resurgam Door.

Are you uploading anything else? I would love to be able to listen to IN AND OUT OF THE KITCHEN - 4 SERIES. A couple of people had it but got shut down. I don't think because of THAT series. When it is up, I listen to it at least once a month.

Thank you so much, Shiny. If this is of interest to you personally, have you watched THE 1940'S HOUSE and I think it is called THE WW2 KITCHEN AND GARDEN? I think both can be found online

Within 1/2 mile walking down the road and saw and heard both Bishopsgate and Baltic Exchange. Strangely exciting but all the paper and glass and blast wave like a bad dream while awake.

Beautiful done

The Footage from the Bombing is one of the best I ever see

THX so mutch for uploading

Thanks for uploading this. My last viewing was a cheap version and this is so good. So powerful. I'm old enough to remember what much of London looked like in the mid-1950's and there was still so much empty space. Terrifying for a 10-year-old child from across the Pond. It was MY first introduction to what hell must have looked like during the war.

For hundreds of years, the British Empire went around the world bomb(ard)ing and terrorizing nations around the world. Not a week goes by and some new attrocity is unearthed from dark archives: for example, search "The Bombardement of Alexandria in 1882" (then click on "images"). Looks a lot like Coventry, doesn't it? Kagoshima, Canton, Sebastopol (Krim War), and and dozens of others. Such fun to have own leaders coining the term *"Copenhagenization"* to mock the children they burnt alive while cheering on the historical heroes committing such acts. Victims? Who cares about victims? Right? From wiki: *"Oh, that example of Copenhagen has worked wonders in the world!...I (would) like to see the name of that city become a verb ... 'cities will be copenhagenized' is an excellent phrase."* William Cobbet en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagenization Excellent indeed... *So around the world they went, turning towns and cities and entire kingdoms into "mere verbs"...* Such great fun, bomb(ard)ing everybody else, but not being bomb(ard)ed oneself. Terror bombing countless villages as the weapons improved, but the practice remained: creating uncounted victims because nobody cared enough. In Mesopotamia, and Aden, the Sudan, and then euphamistically terming this "Air Policing". Makes you think "terror" is really just your friendly neighborhood Bobby, right? When they invaded half the planet, their "heroes" wrote stories about how exiting it was to "dodge bullets" and bomb(ard) countries without declaring war. The locals defending their own? Mowing down natives armed with spears, with machine guns? Pfffft. Who gives a... Famines accompanied by racial slurs of "breeding like rabbits anyway", sticking women and kids into concentration camps, scorched earth policies, torture chambers, slave labor camps (called "penal colonies"), and the list goes on... No doubt getting a bit of their own medicine when their own cities burned down, and V-2s killed their kids, and they finally knew what it felt like. Not so "exiting" dodging rockets, right? Not so nice "reaping" what had been "sown" for a few hundred years, eh? Not so great having own *cities turned into verbs, right?* Londonization, Liverpoolization, Hullization, Doverization...Coventrization. All of a sudden, they were sooooo tired of all that "Empire"-stuff... Brits are nice today, but back then they simply had to be taught a lesson they wouldn't forget.

One thing that should be remembered is that the accuracy of ariel bombing (especially at night, and when facing Anti Aircraft guns, barrage balloons, defending fighters etc) was so bad, that I once read that 1/3rd to 1/2th of the bombs that were carried by Luftwaffe bombers that were intended to target my home city, landed up to 20 miles from the centre of the city, well outside the city boundaries and the urban sprawl, and ended up in forests, fields, rural villages etc. The city I am from suffered 80 separate air raids, and up to 2,000 large and medium sized High Explosive bombs as well as literally tens of thousands of small 1kg to 5kg incendiary and anti personnel bomblets actually landed inside the city boundaries, but its thought that up to 50% of the planned number of bombs ended up up to 20 miles from the centre of the city, miles from the built up area.

Great series. Sadly all the people who spoke are now dead.

And they were all so younge

My Grandma was there, all her hair fell out from sheer fright!!!

now this is stuck in my head: "'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun."

währe schon geil wenn Deutschland wieder V2 Raketen bauen würde

I feel like they should have rebuilt the terraces after the SC-1000 and the incendiary’s. it would have been better for the V-1 launch

And all those Nazi scientists (about 6000) ended up in USA and UK under Operation Paperclip. Verner Von Braun particularly - he was head of NASA. Tell me again, WHO won that war?

Should not have mixed videos of lancaster and shadows of heinkel III bombers. Sloppy!

British milk bottle technology is on point.

"makes safe" "removes with more explosives"

love the shot of the milk bottle that gorgeous little milk bottle

25:14 Chills

Operation Paperclip

bicycle pump with water on magnesium , not good idea

the Third Reich’s relationship with drugs, including cocaine, heroin, morphine and, above all, methamphetamines (aka crystal meth), god loves the UK i think this was the work of drug fueled maniacs'

Baldrick is blowing bombs up now.

I always watch this to remind myself that I am lucky to be here

I went to visit St.Paul’s because they saved it in the blitz amazing i was so sad

Thank you for adding part 4, that the other neglected to do for some reason, who had only 3 parts.

They can build houses to bomb but they can't build houses for the homeless. Crazy isn't it..

My declaration hurts, just wanna stab it right now! Congratulations, you've found yourself Been preaching too many times to an hysterical mind So won't you fucking behave yourself.. It's all in there, without despair So you've saved your soul? It always depends who will deliver Have you ever known Such a beautiful mind that gives you shelter I'm waiting for something to show, I might as well... Just drag me down so low I'm down the drain and I've got nothing to fear With a polluted mind I had my share of losing Don't you ever cross that line So you've saved your soul? It always depends who will deliver Have you ever known Such a beautiful mind that gives you shelter Break the record, in a second, cherish your mental weapons Watch the progress from an aspect that's stabbing the drama inside.. I'm waiting for something to show, I might as well... Just drag me down so low I'm waiting for something to show, My punishment For being down so low I can't believe how it used to be, Selfish minds were abusing me Self pity and determined to crawl Manipulation of a merciful soul I'm waiting for something to show, I might as well... Just drag me down so low I'm waiting for something to show, My punishment For being down so low

this stems from lies, we never needed war and the fear of what would happen when invaded were also LIES

Why do they do that - withdraw one episode?

Two documentary shows? No wonder Tony got snippy and burned out on time Team!