American Reacts to The Blitz (1940-41)
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- American Guy Reacts to The Blitz (1940-41)
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Fun fact: Jerry Springer was born in a London underground station used as a shelter in 1944 :)
For a better impression watch
13 Hour's that saved Britain. Cheers
As always, the footage of the Blitz is on London. In this video some of the major cities are mentioned, but no-ne seems to think of Belfast, Northern Ireland - the biggest shipyard in the world that, apart from the many battleships it was repairinf and building, it was also building tanks, armoured vehicles and ammunition; the biggest ropeworks in the world that was making rope for ship's riging, cargo nets, hawsers, webbing and twine for parachutes; the most famous, finest linen in the world for canvas and aeroplane skins; and soap & candles for the forces and civilians. Over 1,000 people were killed in one night's blitz - so it wasn't just London. It was the first place the Americans arrived, and they used 21 NI airfields throughout the war. In fact, just a few miles from Belfast, the first US Rangers were formed.
Sadly. most Americans know little of the UK during the war, and even less of the US forces in NI.
still have my Anderson shelter in the garden now used as a shed. 🇬🇧👍 love your reactions much respect Birmingham UK. Birmingham is the second biggest city in the UK.
Yes Second Biggest Muslim Shit hole in England
Winston Churchill gave a speech over the radio to try to raise the morale and encourage the people of Britain. I’m not British (I’m Canadian) and I wasn’t born until after the war. But I have heard the speech (reaction video??) and even if I hear it today it still makes me cry. When he said “WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER” it was the most stirring thing I had ever heard.
Also, being born in 1948, I grew up during the Cold War. It was the most terrifying time in my life. I suffered from nightmares, etc. for years.
Thank you for your videos and your interest in the World. 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇱🇷 FOREVER friends and allies.
Iam her in scotland, nx town south of me is Dumbarton and I always remember my aunt telling me that they used to light up the Kilpatrick hills, away from the town. They were bombed instead of the town. In people's Palace in Glasgow there is great stuff about the Anderson shelters and loads of stuff about the blitz.
That was one of the big differences between the UK and the USA in World War II.
Some 70,000 British civilians were killed by enemy action on home soil during the war but only 6 were killed in the same way in the contiguous 48 states. And that was by a Japanese 'Balloon Bomb', not by enemy aircraft dropping bombs, V1 'Doodle Bugs' or V2 Rockets.
I was born in 1949, in Plymouth, a city where the centre was flattened by the German bombers. In the 50s there were bombsites, an area where the rubble of a destroyed house had been cleared, all over the city. As kids we loved them - an area to play on. I know at least one bomb landed just down the road from where I live now - one poor lady lost her life.
No, there wasn't really much in the way of panic when the sirens sounded. In fact, as the blitz went on day after day, if anything it became more organised and, well, routine.
Panic?
Errr,no,we’re British.
the only time the British panic is when we run out of tea :)
I have an Anderson shelter in my back garden. Now my garden shed. There was no panic during the blitz. In fact many people didn’t go into shelters preferring to shelter under the staircase. My mum nursed during the Glasgow bombing. Mum was only 16 years old. So many servicemen came home after the war only to find their family home and relatives gone.
My mom was a girl during the war, and was evacuated away from the industrial town she lived in, about 30 miles away to stay on a farm for a few months.
On a local industrial estate, the factories still had air raid shelters for the workers as recently as the '80s.
The Brits dont do "Panic Mode" mate. Unlike some people that went into panic mode cos of a radio broadcast of "War of The Worlds" by ORSON WELLS.
They also bombed Rotterdam to the ground to bring the Netherlands to its knees
Bombed 56 nights out of 57 child’s play? Hardly.
My father was a member of the St. John Ambulance Brigade. He was a volunteer ambulance driver in the East End during the Blitz. I only know that because I once asked him why he had a medal ribbon on his uniform.
My mother worked in an aircraft factory when it was bombed. 84 workmates were killed, with over 400 injured.
(over) simplified
My parents help to fight that war. They spent the night in the shelters and next morning after the "all clear" they left the shelter to go back to work in the munitions factory. And then worked a twelve hour shift!!!
The terrible thing is, for most of the Blitz the British were able to read the Luftwaffe's encoded communiques and knew where they were going to hit (look up Alan Turing and Bletchley Park). But they didn't want the Germans to know they'd broken the Enigma ciphers, so a group of officers in Britsh high command had the wonderful job of deciding which air raids they were going to intercept and which they would let through. One can only imagine what state they must have been in after the war...
Not too sure about know ing it in 1940.
I would love to see a reaction to rationing during WWII.
Greetings from Belgium
Victory in The battle of Britain made Hitler give his invasion plans, when my grandfather was away at war he got a message from my grandmother that said when she came out of the local shelter with the kids half of the street had been bombed and their house had gone they had to start all over from scratch.
super simplified vid tbh
From BE, I couldn't agree more ....
If the UK hadn't held, I'm sure we'd all be speaking German. This was the first truly awful blow to the Germans, who had been waltzing into every country they invaded so far. It just proved they weren't infallible and it also caused a lot of tension between Hitler and Göring, who was supposed to be the awesome decorated first WW superhero pilot.
The blitz went on for 8 months, it was more a matter of "they're back again" than panic. This is why all these dark bleak films like the remake of Battlestar Galactica is so wrong, humour and ridicule of your enemy is a weapon against them, it naturally pervades everything, and your enemy becomes a target of disdain and ridicule.
My mum was one who went down to the shelter and came back to find she and her family were homeless. Let's not laugh about that.
Birmingham was battered because it was the industrial heart of the UK , munition factories, aircraft production, engine production etc
Belfast was 'battered' for the same reason. TNK there were/are no shipyards in Birmingham.
@@tacfoley4443 Trying to destroy our ability to fight back or transport our food and starve the nation
No surrender 🇬🇧
I’d suggest you look at actual wartime footage of the blitz, cartoons don’t convey the devastation caused and the British bulldog spirt to flip the Germans a finger!
first XD
Compared to what German civilians had to endure in the Allied bombing campaign, the German air raids (at least until the V1 and V2 weapons appeared) were a child's birthday party...
They shouldn't have started it, then.
@@tacfoley4443 Do you really want to discuss how the war came about? Then we would have to start in 1914. Maybe we would have to go even further back. To the time when Queen Victoria was still alive...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 I had relatives and dead on both sides in both wars, and I was a soldier. Wars happen because men want them to happen. End of story.