AMERICAN REACTS to World War II: The 13 Hours That Saved Britain 😱(PART 1)
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I know you all have been waiting on this one!! PART 2 out NOW: ua-cam.com/video/N6PLo5_h4kk/v-deo.html
lets go man!
Yes please.
You can't leave it half way through!! and we all know the ending !
GDAY DEZ.R…..MATE…ARE YOU SAYING YOU HAVENT DONE THE SECOND PART…( i know you already watched it )…JUST LIKE WE WATCHED THIS PART…IN SOMEWHAT AMAZEMENT….THE POMS IN THOSE DAYS…..” TOUGH AS OLD BOOTS”…….SO WHERE IS IT…..and yes..i know ..you know .EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE IT………….SO…GET A MOVE ON….everyone’s WAITING
LOOKING FORWARD TO IT
When ever I hear Churchills speech about fighting them on the beaches brings me to tears because I believe we were all so united in not giving Britain up ..
Same here, every time!
You get my vote.
Yeah. It fills me with energy and Pride in my Nation. If I ever need to fight for this country I’ll be listening to that speech, no doubt about it. Whether it be invaders in planes or the ones in boats. I’ll always fight to the very end regardless of the odds; because I’m British 🇬🇧 and I won’t take orders from any country other than mine. For King and Country 🇬🇧 🏴
The British strength of character kept them going. They would have sing-alongs and comfort and help each other while down in the shelters. They have needed their sense of humour and stiff upper lip,it gave them true strength when the chips were really down. Brave people. My respect and admiration from a proud Australian.
Respect to you also for your comment mate.🇦🇺🇬🇧🤝
@@Anglo_Saxon1 I'm old-school Australian mate. My ancestors might have come here in chains but my mum and dad taught me to have respect and consideration for others. As I've got older and learnt what others have had to endure it turned to admiration as well as respect. I respect most people until they truly show they are undeserving of it. I've also realised that I need to cut some people a break sometimes as we are all capable of having a really bad time and displaying behaviour we would normally be appalled by. Saying that in general the British people I've met over the years have been warm decent people and not hard to like.I seem to spend a lot of time on hear watching British and Australian content as it is not full of unnecessary drama and complicated crap. I guess you guys are similar to us in that regard
@@matthewcullen1298 We are very similar,but I suppose we're gonna be cos we're cut from the same cloth mate.
Luv the Aussies and have nothing but pure respect for the important part they played in both those terrible wars.
Agreed, well said. We are going to need to roll up our sleeves and go once again before the years out. GB/AUS/USA/Can and NZ.
@@matthewcullen1298 And full respect to you guys for being the first to stop the Japanese on land at Milne Bay, Aussie militia against Japanese marines and you lads smashed them.
Great Britain 🇬🇧 has balls of steel , man ...small country, huge roar😉🇬🇧
FACT 💯
My Mum was a Londoner and she and her family experienced all the raids. My Dad was stationed there, he was with the R.C.A.F. ( Royal Canadian Air Force ) and that’s how they met. It was the steel resolve of the Brits and the leadership of Winston Churchill that kept them strong in those dark times!
Must have been terrifying , bless them the people of Britain did not give up, we were having no nazi rule on our island .
I was a young’un in the war and one of my strongest memories is of the air raid wailing and the family going to the shelter in the garden. Once there you were not supposed to go back to the house. However, somebody realised we’d forgotten the TEA. With a bit of ‘oh bother’ my grandmother got up and said she was going back. Yes, she went back into the house in order to get the TEA. There was no way we were going to sit in the shelter with planes dog-fighting overhead or dropping bombs without being able to have a cuppa!
your Gma was crazy 😂
@@DezzReacts Tough as old boots Dezz !
My grandmother would have done the same thing ( she was a tough old bird as well) R.I.P Nan
Every English person reading this nodding along like Yep Grandma knew what's up.
The greatest generation
I’m crying 😢
My grandfather was born and raised in Poland, WW2 broke out when he was a teenager. Poland fell and he was forced to join the German army, he was sent into an area which became known as the Falaise Pocket because the Allies had them surrounded. He had some very close calls but managed to escape and was taken in as a prisoner of war by the British. He was transferred to Britain and joined the Polish division of the British army, and started his life here once the war was over.
My grandmother was born and raised in Tooting, London and had to use air raid shelters frequently.
My gran’s brother was captured by the Japanese, ended up working on the Burma railway. They were treated really badly. He got appendicitis but there was no aneasthetic so they had 4 men pin him down whilst they removed his appendix out. He survived, came home at the end of the war and would sleep on the floor as he wasn’t used to mattresses on beds and found it hard to readjust to it.
JEEZ thats tuff man, he sounds like a very tough dude
I had an uncle who was a POW in Japan for 5 years, he only ever mentioned it once, no conversation though, what I'd never realised/thought about is that the POWs were there when the bombs were dropped.
@@chrisshelley3027 I found this out from my gran and he was the same, would rarely talk about it. They could see he had been affected as he had nightmares and when they came back they were emaciated and she did say he mentioned it wasn’t actually the Japanese that were the worst for treatment, cruel as they were due to their ideology at the time, but i think it was Koreans (i could be wrong here) trying to impress the Japanese.
@@widsof7862 Thanks for taking the time to reply, it's much appreciated, apparently in WWI the Japanese had been really good with the prisoners (Germans that time) I can't help feeling that's one of the reasons they were on the same side in part two, I also believe losing the first time altered their attitude to prisoners the second time around, when I was told about my uncle being a Japanese POW I was more shocked at how long he had lasted, I honestly thought that they were there until they died at around 6 months, the one comment that he made was while we were watching The Birdman of Alcatraz and the scene where someone finds a maggot in the food and asks if anyone wants it, my uncle just said "we were greatful of that, it was meat and better than what they served", the few family members there were so shocked that he'd said anything about the war just struck us dumb and no one dare speak, no one had thought about the film triggering him, it was awkward but it passed and we were more careful in future about what was watched on TV, the thousands of men like him and your grandfather too, we will never really understand what they went through, I don't mean this in a cruel way, but I wouldn't want to know deep down, take care :)
@@zenmaverick A Gentleman in my street was a prisoner of the Japanese, a very quiet person, very unassuming. He returned , stick thin, took him several years before he seemed to put any weight on. I was walking behind him years later , there was a Japanese car parked in the road, he spat on it. A brother of my grandmother was also a prisoner of the Japanese, he never regained his health or ever seemed to put on weight? I should have imagined there were many men who never fully recovered. So sad.
Never before in the field of conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few
Never after the field of conflict has so much been owed by so few to so many!
@@B-A-L tomato tomato
Every over the age of 50 In Britain, had grandparents that served in one way or another. They never spoke of it at all. The greatest generation.
Sir
I am a 62 years german. So I was born after this terrible war. Still i do remember my grandfather who was shot down over Britains territory,to say this: I was the enemy but the British were strict but fair. Thank you british
Crazy! Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾
My dad joined the British military at 17 just as war started and fought in the desert campaign, as well as in other areas. Although he hated hitler and the nazi elite, he had nothing but respect for the normal German soldiers who, like him, were just doing their job. We went to Germany on a short holiday tour about 30 years ago. My mum felt ill while we were out in town and we stopped off in a little shop owned by an elderly couple of my parents age. We were a little worried/embarrassed because the man there would certainly have fought during the war and we didnt know how he was going to react. He and his wife could not have been kinder and offered my mum a chair to sit on and a cup of tea and called a taxi for us to get back to the hotel, for which we were very grateful. Although they didnt speak much English and we didnt speak German, the man and my Dad did not need words….they shook hands and nodded their heads at each other with a smile and tears in their eyes…each with mutual respect and a sort of kinship for having shared so much tragic history and loss of life on both sides. I suspect it was a long emotional awaited release for both of them.
Thank you sir for your comment , I also was born after the war. My family never blamed the German people for anything, just one person... an Austrian named Hitler. My mum and dad where so proud when I started learning German at school, unfortunately I have forgotten most of it now but Danke und Liebe aus England.
My grandmother was next to a POW camp in the UK and she said the German boys came out for exercise and helped her pick fruit and vegetables. She said all of them were so young and polite, they didn't want to fight.
The war was a long time ago now and Germany is a different and great country. I just wish we could have stayed more connected within the EU. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
My dad was on the British railways during the war, and because of the importance of keeping the trains running was prevented from joining the military.
He used to tell a hilarious story about when he was on a locomotive pulling a train of ammunition and they were attacked by a German bomber.
I can't tell it like he did, so to cut a long story short, he described how the three of them on the locomotive were trying to outrun the German bomber by shovelling as much coal as the could into the fire below the boiler. Of course, they had no chance of outrunning the bomber, and eventually the ammunition train was set on fire.
They kept going and the bomber eventually left them.
My dad made the story last forever and had everyone laughing at the stupidity of what they were trying to do. I did notice that he never finished the story.
When asked, he always cut it short by saying we got off.
I never knew what really happened until after he died, when in a conversation with my mum, she told me that he was the only one of the five crew on the train to escape alive, because the bomber came back to finish the job. My dad jumped off, and rolled down the banking seconds before the ammunition exploded.
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He had some odd behaviours which we now know were probably PTSD. He kept punishing himself because he was the only one to survive.
War is hell
Survivors guilt 😔
@@DezzReacts Thanks for your comment. You're right of course. I'm nearly 70 now and wish that I could go back in time with everything that I know today.
I would have been able to deal with him with much more sympathy and understanding.
My family went through the London Blitz .My sister saw some shocking things such as a woman blown up against a tree.
What utter& total respect for The Battle of Britain pilots& all who took part what we owe them all ❤️🙏
My grandparents ran the quarantine kennels for dogs in Hackbridge, South of London. One morning my grandmother and a "kennel maid" who worked for them were walking along the long straight road from the house to the kennels. A Nazi aircraft came out of nowhere and flew above them down the road really low, to avoid the RAF fighters. The machine gunner in the front of the aircraft opened fire on the two people he could see on the road. The bullets stitched the road and both of the women dived for cover. They were carrying buckets of dog food. Thankfully, the passing Nazi gunner missed them, but when the plane was gone, it took my gran about five minutes to get a bucket of dog food off the head of the kennel maid, who had jammed her head in it, when they dived for cover. They survived unscathed, but they went on to feed the dogs in the kennels. They just carried on.
Wow 👍👏👏👏🇬🇧🇺🇦
The UK invented radar - and we gave the know-how away to our later allies because it was wartime.
The women took over men’s jobs - like working in ammunition factories, plane assembly works, working on buses.
Thats exactly what happened in america during the war as well!
O you only touched the top of the tech that was given,not to mention military bases etc,Liberty ships and P-51 were designed to British specification. What I didn't know was UK was way ahead in the nuclear tech and could have had their own bomb but would have required putting every resource we had into producing it
Actually a number of countries had radar by this time. After the Graf Spee was scuttled at Montevideo the ship's radar equipment was removed but neither British intelligence nor Watson-Watt, who invented British radar, would believe it. The commandos had to bring bits of equipment back from Bruneval in 1942 to demonstrate how good the Germans were. There is a book about the Brunevale raid that gives more examples.
@@pzpete Yes, and Germany seriously made an error in under estimating the UKs use of RDF. And of course as stated ‘RDF/radar’ formed just a part of the Dowding system, one of the first fully integrated air defence systems.
@@woooster17 That was the lucky bit of the Battle of course, the different way that radar was utlised by the UK and Germany. Unfortunately of course the Royal Navy suffered from the gunnery radar that the Kriegsmarine used.
Another wartime true story is the called "the greatest raid" on St nasaire , a true story of real heroism and yet very few people know about it
That the one where the attacked the dry dock?
Jeremy Clarkson did a brilliant job presenting "the greatest raid". Its an almost unbelievable tail of heroism. Brilliant from start to finish.
Another fascinating video also presented by Jeremy Clarkson is...
"the Victoria cross, for valor"
Well worth checking out 🙂👍
We owe a great deal of gratitude to the foreign airmen also who came to Britain and flew against the Luftwaffe this day - Pilots from countries that had fallen to the Nazi's came to fight too.
The Polish pilots
@@JP-se3ti Polish ,South African,Canadian.French ,Australian, Kiwi's,Israeli,American - I'm not sure but there might be a full list at the end of the documentary . If not the film 'Battle of Britain' has the full list .
@@mikecaine3643 and the Czechs
@@mikecaine3643 - the Kiwis per capita were the larger contingent including Sir Keith Park. 80 % of Fighter Command were British Born
Britain i THINK had just invented the radar system,we were quick & v.good at organising where to send our planes,the Germans were shocked that we were right there in front of them so quick! German pilots thought we had many more planes cause they never expected us to meet them head on in so many locations around Britain. Much respect to the WAAF who did so much & helped out.
The rumour was spread that the British pilots ate carrots to see in the dark. The Germans made their pilots eat them untill they went orange.
The Germans actually had radar too, but as a few individual stations, nothing like the organized system of the UK, and when the British and the US began striking back at Germany with large bombing raids, the Germans had no ability to reproduce a similar system for their own national defense. They did mount radar into their heavy night-fighters but of course while that helped individual fighters to locate their targets, being relatively small units their detection range was short...basically and literally "too little and too late"
@@simonwaugh5519 The Americans were not involved in the Blitzkrieg. Polish, Canadian, Commonwealth other nationalities included.
@@iriscollins7583 A few Americans pretended to be Canadians and joined the RAF, and a few Americans were actually ordered to go on secondment to the RAF, as this was a real opportunity to get some knowledge of actual aerial fighting.
Strangely, the Americans decided that daylight bombers in formation had, and so would in future succeed against a well-organised, radar-equipped fighter defence organisation.
They did this until the end of the war, while Commonwealth bombers flew at night to avoid easy daytime fighter interceptions until mid-1944, when they went over to 'around-the-clock' bombing, day and night.
@@simonwaugh5519 The Germans built up their radar-equipped defences steadily over the war, peaking in mid 1944, with numerous systems covering different heights and ranges, and controlling night-fighters and flak batteries with the data collected by central stations.
It was much like what Britain had built some years before, and would reach a level of efficiency that almost ended the bombing offensive, until the targets were changed from industrial and city targets to the aircraft industry, destroying much of the German's defensive air capability.
The allied system of escorting fighter sweeps also added to the destruction.
It must have been an amazing sight and sound. A few years ago I was on the south coast when a single Lancaster bomber came over the coast, turned and did a flypast relatively low over the beach. The sound of its four merlin engines was thunderous. I assume it was going to an airshow.
Some of the colour film is from 'the battle of britain' film. We had many planes fly over us being filmed. I was at the airfield when they blew up one of the hangers.
My Grandmother, who at the time was a child living in Kent, once told me that she witnessed a dogfight between (if i recall correctly) a Messerschmitt BF109 and a Spitfire over the village of Eastry, close to where I live now. Fortunately, the German got the worst of the engagement and was shot down where it then crashed into the newsagent shop at the end of the high street.
Other stories include V1 flying bombs going overhead and mild malnutrition and recovery due to war rationing.
Do we want to see part 2. I believe the answer across the board is "If you don't we'll riot!" 😁
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Yes. Part 2!! Also…in the American National Archives there are a few to watch. ‘Know your Allie’ and ‘Why we fight’ are very good to show how they were talking at the time. Honestly, most Americans think that the whole of Europe did nothing and the USA came to save us but in reality…Britain was fighting the Nazi War machine for years all on our own. Americans seem proud about their help in the war (which individually is valid) but as a country it’s shameful to leave your Allies fighting alone for years. Think about it…the Nazis (the people who are used to describe the most disgusting of things) who took France, Spain, Italy (although they were pretty much onboard anyway) and all the rest except Russia were being held back by Great Britain and the USA didn’t give a shit because it wasn’t near them. They had to be manipulated and then bombed before they bothered to get involved. Not all, but most US citizens think they did everything and we should thank them gratefully while shining their shoes. I think they were more than happy to watch us fight the Nazis all alone despite the horrific atrocities they committed just so they could take advantage after the war which is exactly what they did.
America wanted to stay neutral because we were still recovering from WWI and the Great Depression, however we supplied Alot of weapons and armory to our allies and made a lot of money. I wonder if we would have ever been involved if japan never attacked... maybe we would of if London fell tho.
@@DezzReacts World War 1, 1914 to 1918, America entered 1917. So I think we also had our problems too.Also we weren't the only getting arms Etc. America was also supplying Germany, Henry Ford. And BMI were actually given medals by Adolph Hitler.
@@iriscollins7583 Yes I'm pretty sure the German Luffwaffe preferred a certain grade of fuel that had certain additives in provided by the US unfortunately among other things. They made a lot of money while staying neutral.
@@iriscollins7583 You make it sound like it was America's duty to enter WW1 early. It wasn't our war, and we probably should not have gotten involved. Europeans had been having genocidal fratricidal wars for centuries, and people emigrated from Europe to America to get away from that. They called WW1 The War to End All Wars, but it only turned out to be round #1. Post WW1 Americans were disillusioned with the whole thing in the 20s and 30s, and felt that their young men had died in the first war to preserve the British Empire. You cannot blame the typical American in 1940 for not wanting to jump into another European war.
@@brunopadovani7347 They are always bragging about being our nearest allies ever since. As one who lived through it, you can probably understand why some of us think the way we do.
Working class Londoners used to go hop picking in Kent during the summer. They used to stay in old huts on farms that they’re used to wallpaper every summer. It was their only holiday. (Hops are used in brewing beer.)
Those leather footballs used to soak up water and were very, very heavy!
Should have put more dubbing on them boots.
The Battle of Britain Command Centre (Bunker) as seen on the video with the planning table, showing the plotting of the outgoing planes and the incoming planes and those that had been shot down and never came back is at RAF Uxbridge, just outside London. It's open to the public to visit. I've visited it a few times over the years. It's very deep underground, 60 feet (18 metres) and 76 very steep steps to walk down. It was so highly secretive during WWII that the people who worked on the plotting of the raids over Germany ate and slept in the bunker for long periods of time so that their comings and goings were kept to a minimum not to arouse suspicion as to what was going on. The then Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited it on numerous occasions to oversee the operations and the Queen's Father when he was King also visited with the Queen Mother to boost the morale of the people working there. A new museum, conference centre, restaurant has now been built next to it, the old museum which housed diaries, personal letters, photos and other items belonging to the pilots and their families was very limited for space so it was decided to build a bigger museum to house it all. You can find it on the internet under "Battle of Britain Bunker".
My nan was making ammunition underground. She died recently at 98; bless her. Hard as nails that woman, if I was going to get into a fight, I'd stand behind her! A different breed than generation Dezz. They don't make them like that anymore.
My Gran lived in Greenwich during the blitz, when she was at work half the street where she lived was totally obliterated and all the windows on the other side were blown out, a lot of her friends and neighbors were killed that day, she didn't talk about it too much she only said it hardened their resolve to fight on no matter what.
My danish grandmother was affected greatly by the Ukraine invasion. Clearly triggered some old fears. She is 89 so She was 6 almost 7 when the germans invaded 9th of April 1940. Alot of grim stories from that 5 year period they were in the country.
Just to note that at this time. The British army was recovering from the Battle of France and Dunkirk. We didn't have the weapons or supplies to bring the army to full strength. This was a Do or Die situation.
My wife & I take care of a wargrave from the battle of Britain, he was a brave New Zealander pilot shot down over Dorset 15/08/40 - we chose him because he was the furthest from home - we lay flowers and tend to his grave throughout the year - we urge others to do the same , it's the least we can do for their sacrifice .
A Marvellous gesture. Is it Pilot Officer C.H Hight? or Sqd Ldr T.G.L Lovell-Gregg whose grave you tend? They were BOTH shot down and killed on 15th August 1940. It would be lovely if their descendents were aware of your kindness.
it's amazing that an American is actually interested in British history (Y)
Most of the action shots are taken from the 1969 film called ‘Battle of Britain’ The bombing images around 5:20 are I believe filmed at Duxford, a fighter and later, bomber base during the war. I was at Duxford last week for their evening air show.. Spitfires, Hurricanes and various other historic aircraft were flying.
Duxford, yes. There is a gap now where that hangar was blown up, used as the main car park.
The site has a large aircraft museum, workshops where historic aircraft are rebuilt, a pretty impressive tanks and fighting vehicle museum, and both restored planes and tanks are regularly run.
Look up Imperial War Museum Duxford on the internet, and see what's scheduled to happen there, mostly in the spring and summer.
Well worth visiting, you can also spot a lot of filming locations from the film 'The Battle of Britain'.
Our Queen was a ambulance driver during the war,
Great video 👍🇬🇧
Check out the live chat during the video. Dezz now knows Queen Lizzie is a kick ass individual. I believe he actually calls her immortal at one point 😁👍🏻
@@andrewmoss3681 Sadly now we know , not true. RIP Maam
Film footage from Battle of Britain film starring Robert Shaw, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Susan Hampshire and Edward Fox. The late tv presenter Nicholas Parsons, actor and writer the late Jimmy Perry (one half of the writing team behind tv comedies Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Hi De Hi and You Rang My Lord) and the late Labour MP Tony Benn appear in this year video. You can visit some of the Battle of Britain 🇬🇧 airfields which have a museum RAF Hawkinge, RAF Duxford (part of The Imperial War Museum), RAF Manston (was an international airport RAF Biggin Hill (is now an international airport, has a small museum and The Heritage Flight where you can be flown in a Spitfire for £2,500 it does have a museum of it’s own), RAF Elvington (Elvington Air Museum), RAF Doncaster (South Yorkshire Air Museum), RAF Hendon Museum and RAF Cosford Museum. Also The RAF Bunker Museum and Bentley Priory where Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding in charge of Fighter Command had his Headquarters. One RAF pilot Ray Holmes crashed his fighter into a German bomber he bailed out his aircraft was dug up live on tv a number of years ago from under a road in London.
You are such a good guy ...I find Americans so respectful...you need to listen to Al Murray to understand British humour as well...remember the people of the US and UK are close, forget politicians znd govts
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Normal grannies and grandads, who partook in one of the greatest defences mankind has ever seen. Britain is built differently
My father was a 19 year old spitfire pilot out of bigging Hill on that day, he sadly died in 1978 with cancer. We must never forget what they all did for us. Sending best wishes from UK Devon
S/O to that badass of a man!
To this day I can remember the drone of German Bombers going overhead at night. Luckily we lived in a well camouflaged town, German Bombers DUH, DUH, DUH. Two houses were bombed into oblivion at the end of street, all inhabitants killed.It was only built on a few years ago. They kept the sirens on after the war, they used to go off in the mornings from the factories.
Rip he fought for freedom 👍🇬🇧
Thank you for your service
I'm from Devonshire as well
this truly had me in tears thining what my ancesters did to keep me and our beautiful country of england safe, IM TRULY VERY VERY PROUD❤
Really. It's not just the 13hrs that saved Britian. It's the 13hrs that saved the world. If Britian didn't survive they wouldn't have had to fight a 2 front war with Russia and there would have been no staging ground for D-day. The US would have been surrounded and cut off from the rest of the world and eventually subdued.
I still think they would have lost, they could have never won against the Soviet Union. The war would have just lasted longer
@@sheepsky Nazi Germany would have lost anyway. The organisation of both manufacture and maintenance of their military equipment was unbeliveably bad.
For example: A damaged RAF fighter returned to its base and mechanics were there repairing and making it airworthy in hours.
The Germans returned them back to the factory. Imagine the logistical nightmare that was.
That is one example. They were also out-manufactured by the UK and massively by the USA.
@@lol9184lol oh yeah I know. A lot of their equipment was also insanely over-engineered and thus a nightmare to maintain/fix
londoners had grown accustomed to German bombers overhead. you should do a video on the blitz, when Londons civilian population were bombed mercilessly by the Germans
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Also bristol and Coventry although london took the brunt
My mother survived that, has told me many stories about it, but all through her descriptions she remained 'a Lady', reserved and good natured, although she did swear once and called them 'buggers' then apologised for her bad language, she has passed on but she is forever in my heart, my dear mother.
@@jillbarnes199 You forget Hull, the most heavily bombed city outside of London. Quote Wikipedia: " Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged". "1,200 people were killed and 3,000 injured". 🇬🇧
@@Paul-hl8yg I stand corrected
This is a Great video, I've seen it a few times now. My dad's most vivid memory of WW2 was seeing his little sisters cot get blown across the room when a bomb went off across the road from where he lived, it blew all the windows and the front door out, and took the roof off his house. They were lucky to survive. If you are interested in the military , take a look at the video "what it takes to earn a Victoria Cross". The Victoria Cross is Britain's highest award given. (medal). Like the American "Congressional Medal of Honour". It's a longish video, but well worth watching.
I am NOT your 'Bro'. That said, why do you think it's right to take up most of the Screen ? It's Not Right, unless you want to be the 'Hero' or 'Pretty Boy'. Is that your Intent ?
The film at 4:30 is not real, those are American vehicles. The rest of your coverage is from a Film, "The Battle of Britain"
If I were you 'Bro' cough I would be Very Embarrassed to have done what you have done. Be Ashamed. I curse you for your disgusting performance over something you obviously know absolutely NOTHING about, all in a vain hope of making Money from UA-cam.. May you and yours suffer from exploiting such brave men
The story of VC recipients is an excellent one
@@Rabmac1UK wow ….. if you are so offended, stop watching. And the name of the film is exactly as stated. He isn’t remotely responsible for the footage at 4:30. That is what is in the film, which I have probably watched a dozen times. And it’s HIS show. Why would he not take up any amount of screen he wants to? And how is he exploiting anything? He is a reactor on UA-cam, just like thousands of other people, he puts up his reaction to films or music or whatever else he wants to. If people chose to support his channel, I’m pretty sure that no one is holding a gun to his head.
@@leslieshand4509 Thank you for your reply. Your position is noted.
@@leslieshand4509 Indeed So, but there is a FAR Better Video, which I recommend to you, and please don't be put off by the Author, I know some find him controversial
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With Kind Regards
My mother who was 7 at the time, and her little brother, were strafed by a German pilot as they ran down the street for cover. A shopkeeper saw them and dragged them inside. Strafed, if you aren't aware is where a pilot continuously shoots at someone as they try to escape.
The Fighter Command 12 Group was defending the Midlands. my home is the east midlands making me feel really suprised that the germans were near me, I feel really funny to how we were the only surviving country left in Europe, kinda like your teammates are all down and its all up to you. Man this would've been a really sweaty frightening time for all.
The 13 hours in this film was the day the Germans failed to defeat the RAF. The Battle lasted far longer, 10 July - 31 October 1940 (3 months and 3 weeks).
For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain.
The RAF celebrate Battle of Britain ever September 15th because of the events depicted in this film because Hitler could no longer invade Britain and had to scrap his plans and demobilise his invasion forces.
Even if Hitler did land his armies in England, the defences would have been a very tough nut to crack, far harder than he met in Europe. They included numerous lines of anti-tank traps, mined houses at strategic points, pill boxes of machine gun and artillery positions. We even had secret assassination squads hidden away. The defence lines stretched right across England, at differing levels.
props to the old boys who flew the spits and hurries during that period .. the fighter planes could only fire for 30 seconds before there guns was dry
My mother worked at the Vickers aircraft factory in Weybridge in 1940. She was there when it was bombed, killing 83 and injuring over 400 workers.
My father was in a reserved occupation, however as a member of the St. John's Ambulance brigade, he was a volunteer ambulance driver during the blitz on the East End of London.
I only learned that when I asked him what the medal ribbon on his uniform was for.
What a lot of people don't realise, is that although we could produce Hurricane and Spitfires as needed, its the pilots that were the ones very hard to replace. We owe a lot to our Polish and Empire pilots. My grandmother was in a sweet shop 150yards away from a 'milk bar'(an early type of coffee bar) and was blown from the shop to the bar when the blast of a bomb occurred. She survived.
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This is a very narrow view of the war. Civilians could not be evacuated ....where would they go.... civilians were ALL in the fight children could be seen in the video helping clear up. The war was fought all over the country. Coventry in mid England was obliterated by the Germans in just one night. The scars are still visible. Liverpool too was really badly hit. In Birmingham my parents (then children) spent nights in small air raid shelters. My father was walking to school after such a night when a lone Mecherschmitte flew low down low down his lane and straffed the houses by him.
It was a very immersive thing we were living on very little food very little sleep and of course many were killed whole families gone overnight. Thanks you for being so interested. No day was NORMAL for anyone !!!
Think about it, we're an island... There are only 2 ways to get troops form mainland Europe to Britain.
1. Sail across the water (Not an option since Britannia Rules the Waves).
2. Gain air superiority (Paradrop troops on to naval bases and use the air power to bomb British Ships that are intercepting the invasion force).
If Hitler can't do 1 or the other, then we are un-invadable lol. The only thing he can do then is try to bomb us into submission in aerial bombing raids at night time and shit. That's why 'The Blitz' began as soon as the Battle of Britain was won by Britain.
Sailing across the channel was actually the only option.
Gaining air superiority had nothing to do with a German airborne assault on naval bases.
The Germans needed to clear the RAF from the skies to protect their seaborne invasion force.
@@johnt8636 They never would've attempted to sail across the channel unless they gained air superiority which they failed to do.
Also the Germans absolutely did plan to drop troops by parachute onto airfields and naval bases before the invasion. This was what they were originally designed for but were only first used in the invasion of Crete... Again which is another Island. They had massive air superiority over Crete but not over the Channel as Stuka dive-bombers took massive losses over the channel and south England
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Yeah, I know. I just said so.
In the failed attempt to capture The Hague in May 1940, the fallschirmjaeger lost about 1500 troops & 250 Ju 52's. This left them with about 3000 troops for Sea lion. An ineffective force given the task.
And Crete, was a near disaster for the fallschirmjaeger.
@@johnt8636 Well yeah, like I said, they needed air superiority to be able to contest the Royal Navy in the Channel... If they can't get Naval or Aerial supremacy then Britain is utterly impossible to invade. If SeaLion was launched, however, the paratroopers would've been sent first to try to take and hold air strips while German planes came in with more troops and weapons to resupply them.
Thanks for a great video it was very interesting. My mum's family lived in London during The Blitz but she got married at that time and was living 30 miles away. She used to look out of her bedroom window at night. She didn't see the flames but the sky was all red. London was on fire. Very scary times for everyone. I'm going to look at your video again and look forward to part 2. Best wishes from England
part two is out! its on the top pinned comment 🙌🏾
Not many people know it but quite a few American volunteer pilots joined in the battle of Britain some flew British aircraft some American government aircraft with RAF colours, also some Polish and French veteren fighter pilots that managed to escape to the UK (often in aircraft during the invasion of their nation)
Having flown in these style of aircraft one of the most important things in a dogfight is the ability to turn very fast this is limited to the aircrafts ability and your own ability, in flight school when turning at stupid speeds you can experience very heavy G force and minus G force and enough will make you black out or white out.
Depending on your body's make up, physical fitness, blood pressure and what you recently had to eat and the amount of oxygen you have can all effect your ability to turn faster and not black or white out.
Germany never wanted to fight the UK and Hitler was very fond of the UK and British people due to the fact he was in WW1 and I think a British soldier spared his life (he may have made that up for PR)
But the UK could have just ignored Germany and have coexisted with it without threat of being invaded or territory taken away.
The UK declared war on Germany thinking the US will join in, the only reason why the UK was not taken over by Germany is the fact that Hitler messed up and invaded the soviet Union then quickly lost interest.
Hilter was always an asshole but when he had a new private doctor that would give him multiple daily injections of multivitin (methamphetamine and sometimes oxycodone or cocaine) you can see he turned into a paranoid bipolar madman.
Hitler could have been ousted or deposed of, many attempts where made but the allies never went with it.
Only after the war did General Patton admit that we have defeated the wrong enemy, meaning Hitler and the SS should have been deposed of with a new leader that was not a nazi with the wermact strong to counter the USSR.
Very few men in the German military where nazis l, just normal guys that got forced to serve like most other soldiers during war.
Afterwards the USSR got the lions share of Europe.
Realy the UK should have not been involved in WW1, it was the most pointless war ever and its not like the UK owed France anything.
If WW1 never happened or ended with a reasonable treaty fast then no communism no nazis no ww2, Korean war, malay emegancy, Vietnam War, soviet afgan war, no cold War at all, and a good chance no afgan or Iraq war.
WW1 was so brutal as at that time they still used cavalry and swords, it was the first big war with machine guns that changed everything.
No one took note of the Russian-Japanese war.
If they did it WW1 and wars leading from it never would have happened.
What's insane is that the UK could have had jet fighters similar to say the mig15 before the war, and they did have some jets prototypes and in 43 the meteor that was a twin jet engine the first allied aircraft.
Since the UK and US had access to rare metals especially chromium it means the engines had plenty of flight time but early German jets, they could just not afford to use these metals so they would be made out of steel and be good for 1 or 2 flights before being replaced.
I think there were only 2 American pilots involved and over 80% of the pilots in the Battle were British.
@@valeriedavidson2785 I know it was a handful or less. Plus a few polish and I think french pilots that managed to escape. I mean no need to waste a well trained pilot but of course most would be British. I did hear some horror stories of ground crew hosing the blood out of Lancaster's that had some holes but could still fly just fine.
My father was a bomber navigator, guiding the bombers over Germany. He said that the motorcycle accident that made him unfit to fly saved his life. The life expectancy of flight crew was measured in weeks.
My grandfather was too young to fight, he was chosen to man the lifeboats in portland harbour.
Portland harbour was a Major target because the whitehead torpedo factory, the naval base and the mulberry harbours.
The air defences were highly concentrated and due to this we were bombed very heavily in comparison to the local region.
I think you will find that the footage at 4.25 where the soldiers are marching with the tank is from a movie not real war footage as one of the leaders is the actor Tele Savalas
I was wondering where the found some 4K footage of WW2 😂
@@DezzReacts I think the movie that they used the clip from is The Battle of the Bulge with actors Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas plus a lot of other great actors of the time movie made in 1965
At around 10:00 they were indeed on the front line, women included. The radar stations were attacked & bombed directly. The group/sector stations with the female plotters were also bombed. There’s an interesting & amazing story of heroism conducted by a WAAF (womens auxiliary Air Force) who after the airfield was bombed, immediately went out and placed flag markers where unexploded bombs had hit, to warn the fighter pilots before they came back and landed.. I can’t think of her name right now, but she was decorated for her bravery.
Proper soldier
Kept her cool, understood there was a job needing done
Saved lives
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Definitely go for part 2 I’m sure you would watch it anyway.
Oh it’s coming!
Both British and German commanders knew that Germany could not actually invade Britain, in 1940 or at any time. The river barges to be used as landing craft would have been easy prey for the Royal Navy, whose main fleet could have sailed down from Scotland in a day. Add the famously rough weather in the English Channel and the heavily fortified coast, much of which was cliffs, and the invading army, unable to bring tanks, would have been slaughtered. An invasion was war-gamed at Sandhurst staff college in 1974 with senior commanders and veterans from both sides; the conclusion was that it would have been totally repelled within a week.
However, Hitler kept up the threat of invasion in the hope of bringing the UK to the negotiating table, and the threat was useful to the British government for keeping up civilian morale and determination. Also, of course, the Luftwaffe bombing campaign was very real.
My neighbor told us once how he escaped from an Italian POW camp by over powering guards with a group of comrades. When he left I made fun of him ( I was only 11 but still wrong). He heard through the wall and later brought us a news paper he'd kept of his daring escape. Humble pie is not the word. My dad made me shovel his driveway every winter until he died and to be honest I didn't mind
You need to watch the Victoria Cross video by Jeremy Clarkson......mind blowing!!!
That one is awe inspiring
Ima check it out
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The main footage of the film comes from The Battle of Britain film, Winston Churchill was a good look alike, that’s why the quality is so good, I’m an Englishman as you can probably tell
I’m so pleased that you are showing this to your viewers in the US
My Grandfather was on coastal defence Manning an anti aircraft gun. My Grand Mother made munitions for the war effort. London suffered a lot of bombing along with a lot of British cities, Plymouth, Coventry and a few others were almost entirely wiped out.
insane 😳 devastating
Over 70,000 Civilians were killed, many injured. In a 7 month period of the blitz, 40,000 were killed, 20,000 of them in London.alone.
Can you imagine today sending your kids to the countryside never knowing if you'd see them again or your husband for years ...different times , we live in a privileged world now ...war is different today , its more clinical and will never subscribe to all these actonyms of PTSD today that normal people just got on with it back in WW2
We British, especially in the South East around Kent and the like, are filled with what we termed in WW2 as "Dunkirk Spirit"; The Battle of Dunkirk happened a few months before this and really helps you realise just how important this battle, The Battle of Britain, really was.
It may also interest you to know that some of the squadrons who fought in this great Battle were from the countries that had fallen in the war, they fought with stunning bravery and we have never forgotten their courage and sacrifice.
My Grandparents lived through both wars, and my Grandfather fought in both.
In WW1 at just 14, he left home in Yorkshire and joined the army, he survived the great war (WW1), having received a small shrapnel wound at the Somme.
But in WW2 he was a member of the RAF and was a part of the events that occurred in The Battle of Britain.
He was awarded an MBE by His Majesty King George for his service.
My Aunt also worked with radar so may have played a role in the Battle.
But the story that stays with me is a much more scary tale to tell.
One night during WW2, my Grandmother, whom I called my Nana, heard a noise, so she went to look, at the time she only had one child, my aunt, and when she entered my aunt's room, she found that a bomb had dropped nearby; maybe next door, and half the room was gone, she could see into the street, so she grabbed my aunt and made for the shelter to wait out the raid safely.
My grandmother also received a commendation from the King, she was an OBE and was good friends with Dame Vera Lynn, who was in the documentary you have been reacting to.
Many members of my family fought in WW2 and one of my Great Uncles, who was a paratrooper, lost one of his arms in the war.
We are a nation that bands together when needed to protect the freedoms of the world.
Stay Safe and Well
Carol A Stringfellow ( A Proud Daughter, Niece, Great Niece and Granddaughter of Heroes)
The Germans bombed London Several times during the War - look up the Blitz of London
It's one of the reasons our late queen was so loved - she and her parents and younger sister stayed in residence at Buckingham Palace throughout the war
It was bombed multiple times and the Queen Mother (Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyons, wife of George VI was quoted as saying "I'm glad we have been bombed at least now we may look the East End of London in the eye,"
The Queen was a trained mechanic and ambulance driver throughout the war - with her father's grudging blessing
Both my nans worked in factories making aircraft so they would have first hand experience of this. One of my grandfathers was in the RAF as a mechanic keeping the fighters & bomber operational.
Most of the colour footage is taken from the film 'The Battle of Britain'. Hitler actually liked England, he ordered the bombers not to attack civilian targets and it was when the luftwaffe accidentally bombed a civilian area in London, that Churchill retaliated and that's what started the blitz.
The Lancaster Bomber,when flying, has no equal anywhere. It is beauty in sound and motion. 🇬🇧
The designer of the Lancaster, went on to design the Vulcan..🇬🇧
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I got you Sue 🙏🏾
Growing up in North Kent, put us on what had been the direct route German bombers would fly on the way to London. We had an air raid shelter in the back garden until 1983. Most of the village had to be evacuated around a year after the shelter was removed. The poor man opposite & one house down dug up one of Mr Hitler's little presents that he liked to send us by the plane full night after night. This poor man had actually survived D - Day & beyond, but nearly got killed by the Germans in his own back garden @forty years later.
Dundee in Scotland esp West end had lots bomb damage too, it was a scary time. Proud of our service personnel during the wars. We had blackout blinds but the German planes flew up by light of moon shining on river Tay so knew where they were.
My Dad, who was a boy during WWII, could idenitify all the WWII planes just by the sound of the engines. He could remember bombers coming over and the British planes attacking them.
Both my Maternal Grandparents, were only children at the time. Grandpa was put on an Evacuation Train to Wales and Grandma Irene and Great Aunt Constance evacuated to Somerset. They lived right upto late January 2021 (lost to the deadly Coronavirus pandemic).
The footage is not all actual archive footage, some of it is yes but for example part where you referred to as amazing quality it is actually from the very famous star studded movie Battle of Britain which depicts that entire period (certainly more than just 1 day), when the RAF battled to protect the skies and airfields of Britain to prevent the nazi invasion of Britain.
It's great to see someone so young wanting to absorb history so willingly. Your a very bright bloke, never forget what our elders have done for us 👍🏻 thanks for such great videos, keep up great work. Thank you ❤️ 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Hitler had a grudging respect for the British people. Referring to the invasion of Britain as Operation Sealion, suggests almost reverence. Britain’s defiance has become legendary and the way Britain carried on was used as the template by the Mayor of New York after 9/11. One of most remarkable things about that time was how Britain carried on as a functioning democracy. It is nothing short of miraculous that in general the rule of law was upheld too.
Last time I heard those sirens was early mid 1990s over Fishers Gate- Southwick, Brighton and Hove. Why no idea but it's haunting. Next was early 2000s but in the Imperial War Museum. I went in the Anderson Shelter for the Bombing Raid experience of WW2. If not expecting it your get jumpy easy because the shelters shake in simulation of close circa bombings.
Wonderful experience in legal safety. Oh and in my childhood was many WW1 Veterans alive too.
My mother's family lived in Bexley Heath during the war. So she and my aunt and uncle grew up with all this going on. A very different generation!
Yes part 2👍🇬🇧
Ask and you shall receive! It will drop around 7:45-8pm londons time!
@@DezzReacts told you there's be rioting if you didn't 🤣
@@andrewmoss3681 just finished recording/editing part 2 🙏🏾
4:22 what many people dont know is Analog film is actually capable of better quality the 4K and even 8K HD
Its just digital stuff is so cheap and the quality has gotten so good(vs cost), and most importantly the screen tech has gotten much better.
The film and cameras even back then were not the problem, the screens displayed on were, and of course many old films are degraded, but if you could go back in time and grab a 1940's film reel fresh after recording, you could remaster it today up to the same standards we see today pretty much
77 bombs were dropped on London during the war , my mum and dad lived in the East End, heavily bombed because of the docks, they were trying to stop food getting in.
My grandad was 14 when he joined up he was working with shipping logistics out of Ireland and where he learned his trade as a rigger
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My grandfather was a submarine radar soldier on the sub Splendid his job was to listen for hGerman subs
I believe that the British are like any family. We can argue between ourselves, but if somebody else has a go at us we will all come together to fight against any enemy. I remember talking to my father discussing what we would do if the country was attacked and we both said we would be like dad's army and enlist to do whatever we could do to save the country.
Since every city would be a target, most children were fostered by people who lived out in the country, These foster parents were not all volunteers, they were told they didn't have a choice in the matter.
My dad lived in the suburbs of an industrial city, (Birmingham) that did draw bombers. but he lived far enough a way it was considered relatively safe. But he remembers many air raids where they had to seek shelter.
Everyone i know (grandparents ect) all say they were not scared, even when they never knew if they would make it through that day.
My Great Uncle flaw Hurricanes he was apart of 11th Group stationed in Kent during the battle of Britain he was shot on 15th of November 1940 when he was attacked by 4 Bf 109's after downing a Do 17 which was his 19th and last kill before he was shot down 4-5 mins late his plane crashed near a church and it exploded send parts of his Hurricane everywhere. he was 26 years old.
My father was born down a tube station during an air raid. Shortly after his birth, their house was flattened by a bomb. They lived in the East End. Luckily, they were down in the tube again when it happened.
My Mum was in the WAAFs & repaired Hurricans she was stationed in Shrewsbury near Wrexham in Wales. Some of the pilots were no older than 19 and she saw a lot of injured pilots from the battle. Perhaps when people see this they will realise why us Brits know what the Ukranians are going through and support them. We lived in London & my Dad had to dodge the V2 rockets Hitler sent over from Germany, bit like Putin does to Ukraine. We called them doodle bugs (typical Londoner's humour). This war went on for 6 years youngsters today don't realise what their grandparents went through. 🇬🇧 (WAAFs = Womens' Auxiliary Air Force)
Put us in a corner and this is what we do ..as winston Churchill said. We will never surrender..that stands
My grandfather was in the royal Canadian Air Force went over to England just a few weeks prior to the big blitz. He was stationed in Yorkshire I don't have much more info about him than that he passed away In 1966 his name was Gordon Powell
At that time the spitfire had six 0.303inch machine guns 3 per wing it wasn’t until later that they modified them to add a 20mm Hispano cannon to each wing so at that time they didn’t yet have fantastic fire power.
The spitfire started off with 4 mg in each wing. Later marks of spitfire reduced the number of mg and added 20mm cannon.
yep defo built differnt my dad was in army told me few stories one I remember is when fighting Germany he saw a soldiers leg blown off and dragged him to safety not without risk also shooting one bullet skimed his helmet he felt the burn at side didn't stop him and ripped his uniform to wrap around rest of leg I guess it's were stiff upper lip comes from dispite everything wasn't gonna just let his fellow soldier to die I just wished I asked more when he was alive he saw alot respect to all of them 4 putting great in great Britain
My Grandma had to jump in a ditch with her Mum and Sister when there were aircraft overhead and bullets started hitting the fields on either side of the road. This was in Sussex, not sure the day.
You should check out the blitz.
My Grandfather joined the Royal Navy in 1916 at the age of 14, using his brothers birth certificate. He ended up fighting in both World Wars.
That’s nuts! Crazy thing is they prob knew he was under age but they were desperate for ppl
@@DezzReacts More than likely. He was tough man though.
@@melbeasley9762 Many men had to be deemed unfit at the start of the so called Great War WWI, due to malnutrition.
@@iriscollins7583 I hadn't heard that before, but it doesn't surprise me. The Great War was just another globalist cull. I guess starvation wasn't quick enough for them. They intend starving us again and that is a current work in progress.
epic brother big love from uk. seen you have a vid on the victoria cross cross that u enjoyed there is another one about the commandos which you will deffo like
my dad was about 8 years old playing in the garden when the sirens started my granmother rushed out and dragged him to a shelter and when they came out of shelter the garden were my dad was playing had a massive crater in it.. my dad used to tell me about even at 8 he remembered the sirens and bombs landing.