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Dunno who request these clips... as an RAF serviceman myself. Love seeing it
Thank you for your service
@@sheilachipperfield5841 meh, just doing my part. Thanks :)
i requested the first raf one on pateron :P , amazing.
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@@michaelraf4893 nope.
"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." ~ Churchill
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Heres another one. The only thing the germans did pre war, was to oust the zionist rothchild bankers. In 1933 the front page of the daily expresss said, the jews declare war on gernamy. The war didnt start for another 7 years. More died pre war and post war thn in the war, you do the maths
@@robinwallas437 Talk about not taking what you've read in context. Try looking at the entire report in that rag of a tabloid paper - no matter their use of hyperbole, they still clarified themselves:
"Judea declares war on Germany" is the Headline. The sub-headline reads: "Boycott of German Goods".
Ergo? The paper reported that a mass action of Jews to boycott German made items was happening, and exaggerated the headline to make their paper sell: we call it click-bait today.
I mean, really... is that the best you have? "Oh, Jews killed SOOO many more people than died in the war. More died before WW2 and after WW2 than IN WW2..." where 80 million died. Yes. Of course. If you want to hate Israel and Jews, you're free to do so. You're going to have to answer to someone far greater than yourself or me or anyone on Earth for doing so, but knock yourself out, mate. But if you want to be taken seriously, go check your sources thoroughly before hand.
Try NOT using tabloid paper reporting, for one. You know, the papers that use overly exaggerated headlines to draw people in? Like: "My mother was kidnapped by aliens!! Reee!" That'll be helpful.
Hell, I doubt you even know WHY the Jews were reacting against "Germans" that way, do you? They weren't. They were reacting against NAZIS:- Nazis used the Enabling Act to gain more power in Germany, and had already focused against the Jews as a scapegoat in order to unite their people behind them. But, of course: a less than reputable paper (It's not the bloody Telegraph, mate) uses the words "Jews" "war" "against" and you think you now have proof positive to back up your racism against Jewish people. I'd suggest many things: learn to think clearly and logically. Learn to read more than just a headline. Learn not to take things out of context. Learn what "hyperbole" is. If you don't know what that word means, I'd suggest a dictionary - a good one, like Oxford's English Dictionary. One that doesn't change every five minutes the way Webster's does.
May the British Empire last for
A thousand years, men will say
This was their finest hour.
One of my favourite speeches
Of Churchill.
My great uncle was a pilot in the Luftwaffe, he came down over Dover was caught became a POW . . then became a test pilot for the RAF . . . and since then was always raising funds for the RAF Benevolent fund . . . I always remember him saying . . . "we were lied to". . . (We the German people)
my friends Dad was also a German POW and met her mother after he war in Dover as he opted to stay here. They had a very happy marriage with four children. I never met him butby all accounts he was a lovely man. he was shot and left for dead in France I think by the Americans in he stomoch and fell in out of consciousness. Then some more Americans came along.. and he was shot again and left for dead. He survived and the British came along and he was treated and taken prisoner. if anyone was meant to live it was him and he was only young. It wasnt his time.
Interesting story Catherine - Thanks for sharing
I get that. Massive kudos to your great uncle.
Yep, and history repeats itself, this time is the Brits who are lied to by a bunch of Tory Politicians. Lies about "Brexit" ....
@@livesteam As theres no 'heart' button for commenters...
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I'm a 34 year old Englishman and not prone to emotional displays, however I don't mind admitting that I experienced a lump in my throat at the thought of the horror that my country was subjected to. Thank God for those heroes that saved this nation. I can only really sum up my admiration for that generation with one word and it's 'gratitude'
And we got off "lightly" compared to the mainland.
Er.... it was a choice to go to war with Germany. Germany wanted peace with Britain. Britain lost the whole of its empire as a result. Halifax was right.
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Hi Joel, your comment "don't mess with Britain" reminded me of a conversation I had with my American neighbours over twenty years ago. It was just after 9/11 and I commented that I didn't understand why America wanted us as allies as you could hide Britain in a corner of the US and forget about us being such a small country. I'll never forget my neighbours reply he simply said "I'll tell you why we want you as allies, you're tough little buggers. That's why". It made me feel very proud that a huge country like yours valued our support.
Never underestimate the British
So very proud to have Britain as our greatest ally.
I’m so incredibly proud of my grandparents’ generation and grateful for what they did.
I bought a pint for a guy who was in the RAF & flew at the Battle of Britain. It was my honour to meet this guy.
And our generation was too scared of Covid to leave home and honour them last November. Our generation has gone along with restrictions they opposed to death.
@@biggsydaboss3410 I was lucky enough in my youth to make the friendship of a Polish pilot. He and his friend escaped as the Germans took Poland (his family were Jewish and were killed) . Above his fireplace was a big photo of him stood beside his Spitfire! Meeting no movie star or sports star could even come close to how honoured I am that he was my friend.
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Yeah the Polish did us proud during the Battle of Britain. Shame how Churchill treated them at the end of the war. I get that we had to concentrate on rebuilding, but they were almost completely snubbed, same with the Czech pilots.
It would have cost us very little to commission a statue in their honour & name them as heroes. Which of course they were.
Makes you proud to be British doesn't it. It's clear to see why people from that generation tend to have a 'what will be, will be' mentality. I guess that's the only mindset that can get you through the fact that you could have a bomb dropped on you at any moment.
"Never before in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" - Winston Churchill
Hear, hear! The proudest day in our military history with the exception of our navy's war on Slavery.
Unfortunately this video is more patriotic than accurate. We need to give thanks to the Polish pilots who flew our planes, the French who sabotaged and attacked the Nazi bases, and the Russians for occupying and destroying the ground forced. Amongst others.
@@clarkeysam At this point of World War 2 the French Resistance barely existed and Russia was still an ally of the Germans and openly trading with them. This is the Battle of Britain. If Britain had been knocked out then the North Atlantic convoys to aid Russia would never have happened meaning it's quite possible that Russia could have been knocked out as well. In regards to the Polish pilots - their service is a debt that can never be repaid and their treatment after the War is frankly disgusting
The pilots themselves joked that Churchill was actually referring to their bar bills!
@@clarkeysam That came later.
Now you can see just one of the reasons we are so proud to be British.
I love to hear you say that. I am, but I read so much that tells me we are either not proud or not aloud to be, so good to meet you over the airwaves who feel the same way I do .
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You should be as proud of your allies , because without them you were mince.
@@jamesbong7852 And without us they were mince.
@@jamesbong7852 At that point you were nowhere to be seen and we stood alone, had we failed the US would have had no base in Europe to fight from and Hitler would soon have turned on the US you can be sure of that. The US could not have won the war without the UK and visa versa.
I grew up in the 50’s thinking it was perfectly normal to have a mother terrified of birds, fireworks, thunderstorms, fire, enclosed spaces; there wasn’t a door inside the house you were able to shut. It was only when I was older that I learned she had been buried alive for 3 days in the Coventry blitz. My aunt, flinched whenever she saw a baby; I learned she had been the one made to shin up a ladder to fetch body parts off the roof and telephone wires when the maternity hospital was bombed. My Uncle suffered pain from shrapnel which couldn’t be removed as it was too close to his heart; sometimes he felt it moving and he would joke “I’ll be off now”. My father came off leave with battle fatigue only to find his first wife and child had recently died. I know dozens of stories from my family; I don’t know any of them that weren’t deeply affected by the war.
Oh my goodness. What a story your family has to tell. We must continue to cherish the memory of these people. We need to learn about this in our schools. Seems to me our history is trying to be supressed. But, perhaps I am wrong. Thanks for sharing such incredible and valuable stories.
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@@loopielou4426 I'm a history teacher. It's still well covered.
@@seang3019 Hello Sean. I sincerely appreciate you writing to tell me. Ill tell my father too. It is very heartening to know it is. Bless you.
@@loopielou4426 that sounds horrific. My grandad was a prisoner of war for 2 years. He never talked about it ever, and I questioned him loads about it. Sad times
It's great to see a young bloke like you taking an interest in such history 👍🏻
I couldn't agree more.
Absolutely agreed, it's refreshing to see. My father was based in Singapore as a dispatch rider, he had so many amazing stories.they used to put wires across the road to decapitate the riders so he had to go through jungles to get the job done.
You are so patronizing. There are millions of young people infinitely more intelligent, interested, than you.
@@paulstewart6293 Can you name them, and actually offer definitive proof of your baseless claim? We await your answer.
Was just thinking the same
I'm totally impressed by this young lad.He's gonna do ok in life.
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That remains to be seen!
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Yeah he seems like a great fella
Shut up Peter it's obvious he's a good lad!
My lovely dad joined the army when he was 18 and was fighting in the liberation of France on the D-Day landings at the age of 22. He survived and lived until he was 89. Such a proud man and we were so proud of him and what he did for his country. My husband and brother-in -law took him back to the beaches of Aramanches for his 65th birthday. The locals welcomed him with open arms and he had a wonderful few days. Such memories for him. Both sad and triumphant. We owe so much to all those brave men from all nationalities who helped in our fight to freedom.
Unfortunately not all American young men show your willingness to understand other cultures. I’m relieved to see that at least one person is curious enough to see both sides of the issue. You are one young man who is very special. I’m hoping that you never lose that special curiosity.You are amongst the rare ones.Keep up your great work.
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My father who was Canadian, volunteered and joined the army September 3 1939. Was in Britain by December 1939. He was infantry and was on the ground for the battle of Britain. During this particular event my dad was manning an anti-aircraft battery.
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My naibour came over from nova scotia Canada to fight in the war I was proud to go on a trip to fiset his family in Sydney glacé Bay and to see the respect he was given everywhere we went even when we got off the plain at passport control was a great man and freind
The Canadians stood by the UK's side, right from the beginning. If it was not for Canada, the UK would have been starved into surrender. God bless the Canadians!
@@archiebald4717 yeah mate so true but I always remember a story my naibour told me about the canada army would be in front doing all the fighting and when they took a town or a city American soldiers would march in with there nice clean uniforms and take the credit don't get me wrong we needed America but that was a sticky point for my naibour you have a lovely country went to nova scotia with my naibour.and every were I went was made to feel at home sending my love from Scotland brother
@Grimsby Reapers I second that!
Just imagine how those RAF pilots felt, knowing it was entirely down to them. That they were taking flight in an unwinnable battle, that their beautiful wives were on the ground, the homeless, the poor, the middle class, the rich, every man woman and child relying on each of those pilots to give their lives for theirs.
Being in the air is the most vulnerable place you can be. The courage to go up there, I dont know where it comes from but we can thank them every single day.
100% the RAF’s finest 13hours, us Britons owe it all to them, to the pilots, intel, mechanics. Every person involved in that in that effort saved GB so we could live to fight another day. Heroes.
Anything to do with Battle of Britain makes me extremely proud and very emotional. I don't even pretend to understand such courage and determination. It is simply beyond my comprehension. What a great lad presenting too. Thank you 😔
As a Brit, this gives me tremendous pride in my country. Really appreciate your reaction to this, my good man. Keep up the fine work!
No intention to be mean, but if your country did not sign Munich treaty and helped Czechoslovakia instead, there would not be a need for battle of Britain, you basically gave Germans high tech industrial nation with fully developed war industry and told us if we defended our country we would be the agressors. But yeah, this battle was indeed a great effort by the Brits. Sometimes errors have to be made to see the truth.
Plus never forget the great help of foreign pilots. Australians, Belgians, Czechs and Slovaks, Frenchmen and Of course Polish and many others.
@@koroslav I'm not blind to the mistakes made by Britain during the war, so you don't need to try and dump on my nation like that. Just let me be proud of my country, and perhaps share in the pride that we (and by we, I mean the allied forces, not just the Brits) fought tooth and nail and repelled the Nazis.
@@Ghost0fTheNavigator there was no intention to insult your nation. As I said sometimes mistakes are necessary, but they should not be forgotten, otherwise they tend to be repeated. UK is very strong in this and while other countries try to erase their dark history, UK can be proud that they were allways among first to do what was right.
Even in the 1938 you had great men that saw what is comming like Churchill or Alfred Duff Cooper.
And the struggle for victory since 39 is something to be proud of.
Totally agree. I feel these stories are not told enough. We need to be able to feel this pride that we are sadly losing.
@@koroslav My F-I-L navigated a Lancaster bomber. His pilot was Belgian. We all owe people like him a huge debt.
Britain was never truly alone. We had the Empire and Dominions, all of which were brought into the war when we entered it. It is no disrespect to our own fighters to acknowledge the huge contribution made by others from far away.
My mum, bless her, worked 12 hours in a nut & bolt factory in London every day at 16. At night she worked in the fire brigade fighting fires during the bombing. Early one morning just after daybreak a German fighter came down and fired at her and the cannon rounds went off either side of her!. After her fire brigade shift, she was still expected to go to work the next day for another 12 hours!
Attention to duty! Wonderful woman! Another day at the office for all. I hope we never find out if such a breed exists today. It really is hard to imagine in our soft world, where just saying a wrong word could land you in hot water. Bless their souls.
What an incredible woman.
A very close friend of my mum's, was the same age, 16. She worked in a factory close to where we lived in Battersea, it was called the Projectile, that is what they made there, shells for the Artillery, and the Navy, when she told me, I was about 35 years old, I got so emotional at the thought that a 16 year old girl would be doing work in a place like that, i started crying.
This factory was very close to Battersea Power Station, which must have been a target for the enemy, if they had hit the power station and the Projectile half of south London would have disappeared, these incredible young women played a massive part in the defence of this country. I love them all, and am massively proud of every single one of them.
It is 77 years since the war ended, so very few, if any, original survivors are still with us.
What a fantastic site, and what a great young man. Love his respect for the past.
The generation of our Grandparents saved our island home. As kids we always thought hearing war stories from my Grandparents was boring but when you grow up you realise it's anything but 😂 We owe our Grandparents a huge debt of gratitude for fighting for this little but Great Country.
Great reaction was a pleasure watching with you 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
I wanted to hear stories from my grandparents about it, but none of the 3 I knew growing up would tell me about it, my maternal granddad had PTSD from what he saw in conflict and my paternal grandmother was pretty shaken up by her experiences as a London nurse ... So I rarely heard stories of WW2, unfortunately - I didn't even know my granddad was a sergeant in the paras until I saw a photo of him in uniform after his death and Googled the pips on his sleeve (I don't even know his military service number)!
My father fought the N.African campaign, into Tripoli, Sicily. He spoke a lot about the war but only the funny parts - donkey racing, pranks they played. Never anything about the actual fighting. All he would say was that you were either bored or shit scared.
Clearing through his things after his death I found many commendations for his efforts.
I know my grandad who fought in the war is luckily still alive i here war stories all the time of what he saw and did is amazing to here
And our generation was too afraid of Covid, or too terrified of the police to go out and honour them last November.
@@proudhon100 I have to disagree with you. Staying at home to avoid catching/ spreading COVID was the sensible and right thing to do.
During the Battle of Britain one fifth of Fighter Command’s aircrew came from overseas and 16 nations were represented in its squadrons. Pilots of 303 (Polish) Squadron walking away from a Hurricane A total of 126 New Zealanders, 98 Canadians, 33 Australians and 25 South Africans participated. They were joined by three Rhodesians, a Jamaican, a Barbadian and a Newfoundlander. The Commonwealth countries produced some of the best fighter pilots, including the Australian Flying Officer Paterson Hughes and Flight Lieutenant Adolph ‘Sailor’ Malan from South Africa .Plt Off William Meade Lindsley 'Billy' Fiske, an American Olympic gold medalist and pilot in 601 Squadron.
After the fall of France, the RAF welcomed into its ranks exiles from German-occupied Europe. In all, 145 Poles, 88 Czechoslovaks, 29 Belgians, 13 Frenchmen and an Austrian flew in the Battle and many of these proved to be excellent pilots. Though only operational for six weeks, the Polish No. 303 Squadron claimed 126 victories to become the top scoring RAF unit. The most successful RAF pilot, with 17 kills, was Sergeant Josef Frantisek, a Czech national who also flew with ‘303’.
Though their countries were neutral, 10 Irish and 11 United States citizens fought in the Battle of Britain. Pilot Officer William ‘Billy’ Fiske was the first American airman to be killed and a plaque was later unveiled to his memory in St Paul’s Cathedral which read:
“An American citizen who died so that England might live.”
600 of the 3,000 RAF air crew involved were not from the British isles and we are eternally grateful to each and every one of them for their service and sacfrice . God bless all of them and never think they have been forgotten as many commentators seem to think.
armstrong germany So of the 3000 pilots in the RAF 2400 were British, also a lot can be said for British engineering, the design of the Hurricane and the Spitfire fitted with the Merlin engine matched the German planes, and radar gave Britain a network of quick information.
@@alfreddunn03 Jebus man, relax.
Richard Shillam I’m chilled.
YOu often hear a lot about Polish pilots in Battle of Britain.
I'm from the north of England and as such my family were not directly involved in this invasion, but my dad joined the army at the age of 16 and was only 19 at the end of the war. He was heavily involved in active service in Europe and became the youngest Sergeant in the British Army. Something I am extremely proud of.
I had an aunt who was an ambulance driver in London during the war. She had terrible nightmares from her experiences. Nowadays she would have been treated for PTSD but then the British stiff upper lip ruled and no one talked about how terrible it was. They looked at the positive. They (mostly) survived.
I grew up just after the war in Chislehurst, South East London, very close to the caves where people sheltered from the bombing and I remember seeing evidence of the bombings in the fifties. My mother towed spitfires when she was in the women's air force and spoke of the tragedy of pilots who never returned and the bravery of the young men not just British, but also the many Polish airmen in the UK.
My great uncle had been a fireman in London during WWII but never spoke about the horrors he must have seen. We owe a great gratitude to the men and women who fought for our freedom and their courage should never be forgotten.
Seeing some of the young now defacing our war memorials and likening Winston Churchill to a nazi should educate themselves and appreciate what others have achieved for the sake of others.
I can think of other remedies, but not legal
Ive got a copy of a photo of my dad as a young boy taken in the 1950s where his knees, legs and socks were black from the soot and rubble, standing tall and straight with his hands behind his back, he looked so innocent. But his mum certainly gave him an earful when he got home, covered in dirt and with the cost of the photograph she then had to pay for, She wasn't best pleased, Being Irish, Catholic and living in South East England during the 50s you can be sure you wouldn't have wanted to get on the wrong side of her. Lol
In the old golf course, now a public park, behind Bromley High School for Girls in Bromley, you can still see the concrete hard standings for the AA guns from the war.
I was born in 1957, as a kid living in north London there were still large areas around my street that were bomb sites and supposedly out of bounds (they were my playground) my grandfather was ashamed that he never fought in the war because he had a "reserved occupation" this meant that his job was too important for him to serve his country as a soldier, in truth his job as the senior engineer for the General Post Office meant that he had to keep the telephone services running for the whole of north west London, this area included all of the government buildings including Whitehall and the war office, this part of London was a major target for the German bombers. According to my father he was out repairing all the telephone lines as the the bombs were dropping in order to keep the phone lines operating, three times he was hospitalised during his time doing his job.
It wasn't until he had passed on and I was old enough to understand exactly what he had undertaken I realised how important his job had been and how much courage it must have taken to do it, I feel sad that he was ashamed not to have served his country when infract what he did was probably far more than he could have done with a rifle in his hands.
Great recollection! He sure was an important part of British resistance and a hero in his own right.🙏
Communication maintenance would have been absolutely essential. Without reliable communications your defences would not have been able to co-ordinate. What a shame he did not recognise just how important his role was.
@@davidberriman5903 Agree, and only highlights the stereotypical narrative of what society thinks about a hero.
Im English, have Ukrainan grandparents who came to the UK in 1947 and have researched history for years. This documentary makes me proud of those who fought for our freedom and to all the men and women who gave so much, you are the heroes. Thank you to the young man who presented this video
We owe this fantastic generation so much! The fight was so close, and victory hard won! May they all Rest in Peace!! Thankyou for your respect of our history. ✌✌✌✌
Proud to say my lovely Mam served at Biggin Hill. We owe them all so much .
Yes we do!! And you mam is indeed lovely...
Looking into your family's tiess with the war is sobering. My great uncle was a merchant navy master who drowned off the coast off Norway and my nan's brother was a dispatch runner at Dunkirk. The war isn't as distant as it seems in textbooks etc
My dad was at Biggin Hill too. 😀
When I I started comprehensive school at 12 I found out my language I had to learn was German. When got home and told my parents that I had to learn German they freaked. My parents were very patriotic and said no son of mine is going to learn German. What are the other options they asked, French is the other option I said. Right you're learning German they said. Lol 😂😂😂
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That is very British lol.
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It is great to see the world and people like yourself, a fellow American watching and learning. As an American living in the UK for over 2 decades and served in the USN. I found that my old history books never quite taught the entire truth. More of a glorified version to boost the American spirit along with the pledge to the flag. I have had a opportunity to be with some Veterans of WW2 and to go to places like Aerospace. Keep doing what your doing bud, and hopefully one day you might make it across to the UK and really then grasp the culture here. I was shocked!!!
This moment set the path for generations of my family. My Father was a young boy at this time. His Father was an agricultural worker and my Dad, even though he was young, would help him in his work - like everybody else fighting for the war effort. He once recounted to me a particular occasion when he was out in the fields working alongside his father when a lone (lost?) German fighter appeared in the sky. The pilot began a series of low level flights, strafing with his machine guns at anybody below. My Grandfather picked up my Dad and threw him under a tractor trailer then dived over him, covering him with his own body. Thankfully both survived the moment. My Father, 6 years after the war, joined the Royal Air Force as a 'Boy Entrant' (not yet 16 years old) and went on to serve for 41 years, ultimately achieving the rank of Warrant Officer, a much respected man. My family had many members who were part of the British military. Some served through the Second World War, two of my Great Uncles died during the the war serving for the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy. My Mothers Father served in the Royal Air Force as did two of her Brothers through the 1940's to the 1970's. I joined the Royal Air Force in 1980 and served for 14 years. My Father sadly passed in 2017. I am now 60, trying to eke out a living in the run up to retirement, but my hardships are nothing compared to the inspirational British men and women who fought off the Nazi tyranny, when Britain stood alone, resolute. Without them the world would now be a much darker place.
I'm an archaeology student in England and I recently got the opportunity to excavate a WWII Hurricane fighter, when we found it the joystick it was still set to 'fire'! My great-grandad was a mechanic in the RAF and he happened to work on the farm that it crashed on some years prior; funny old world. The pilot was Polish and survived the crash and the war! It's so nice to see people take an interest in this stuff because I think it is very important for our generation to avoid another war at all costs
Mr great grandfather farm is where Hess landed
Joystick? hahahha this is not a computer game, you mean the FLIGHT YOke , right? :P
my grandad was also a mechanic for the RAF, he would never talk about it, in hinsight i wish i had asked
@@theSFCchannel It was a single-handle control column, which has always been known to airmen as a joystick - a slang term for a penis btw. :-)
Reminds me of a man I knew ( Kenneth Lee) an RAF pilot, who never spoke of his wartime years but ended up in Colditz....
My mum was a nine year old little east end girl at the time and I grew up hearing her tell of this day.
My dad was 17 and had just got back from Dunkirk , he later fought in Normandy and on through to berlin
As I grow older and read more about the war I cannot put into words the admiration I have for my parents and their generation,we owe them so much.
Them we got the NHS thanks to that generation and their children’s hard-work the thank is a Measles pension The lowest in Europe £150 week
Do your NHS not vaccinate for measles?
@@frankklein4872 I think she meant measly pension, blame spell check.
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Bless you and thank you for the part your incredible family played in ensuring we can be the great country we are today. We just need to keep reminding the next generations about this so we keep a pride. As Brits we are not very good at showing it.
My Gran was evacuated from London because of the German bombing. She was sent to the County of Cornwall and was adopted by a local family. She never saw her mother and father again and was about 50 years later that we managed to track down all of her Brothers and Sisters. They were reunited not long after. Unfortunately my Gran is the only one left now.
My uncle was killed that day, a young RAF pilot. It's good that telling the story still has an impact, but it makes me a bit sad that your generation has so little knowledge of WWII events in Europe. For them, it's 'ancient history'. Thank you for increasing awareness of how close the UK cam to having a very different future history...
May I ask Spitfire or Hurricane? What a HERO.
@@AxlMorris1999 Hurricane, I believe. All the people with the detailed knowledge are dead now, the last of them being my father, who died a year ago, aged 97. He himself was in a tank in the Normandy landings. DDay+1, on Sword Beach.
Big shout out to you for showing this and the understanding and the Respect you showed..
Absolutely. Mr JPS is a breath of fresh air, in his presentations. He's genuinely interested, and has a really likeable style.
As a proud Brit living in Canada, it's great to see a young man react in such a way, respect to you. My father was 7ish, lived in London so was evacuated, it was not easy for him, but he got through it, to be my hero and the best Father, my Mum too, she was 3ish when a doodlebug landed in the next street, the blast took out the front bay window, but my Grandmother had the strength to lift the oak dining table up, it saved both of them, phew. My mums Dad was a bus driver in London his bus got blasted by a bomb, lucky to make it through. My Dad's Dad trained the guy's to drive truck's, as a former Rolls Royce car mechanic, he did his bit. I am proud that the whole country stood together, that was the only way they got through, good time's and bad.
What an incredible family history you have. Visited Canada from the UK a couple of times. Very much like it. Lots ot love heading your way from your homeland.
My dad was a gunner sergeant in the 2nd world war he would tell us story's but we didn't appreciate what he went through back then now I'm older I do he was a very brave man ❤ God bless him
It’s wonderful to know that your generation are interested in our history. My mum was 10 when this happened, until the day she died she was terrified of thunder . As a young child myself I remember her hiding behind the sofa 😢😢
It is encouraging indeed to see people like this young gentleman taking a keen interest, because they sure as hell don't get taught about it in school these days. I've just come from another reaction video that covered Churchill. The young American chap who was doing the reaction to it had no idea who Churchill was. It wasn't his fault and with all credit to him, he took learning about Churchill on through his own initiative. As he said though, they just aren't taught about that particular period in time, or the key figures who were involved anymore.
I love documentaries like this, watching them always gives me a lump in the back of my throat. I bet those who served and died for this country are turning in there grave looking at what's happening to Britain today.
@Steve P *cough* brexit *cough* let’s not forget the arrogance of some of the British as well and the sudden increase in antisemitism in the UK. For the record, I am British.
@@emmataylor567x5 And the Islamophobia
Yeah, they were educated fellows who knew when it was "their" rather than "there".
@Steve P you say that like it's a bad thing, while I'm just trying to lift you above the uneducated and braincell-lacking masses. But good for you, be proud of your inability to master the English language :-)
@Steve P you say that like it's a bad thing. Only trying to help you improve yourself, you wouldn't want to look uneducated on the internet would you? Oh wait.....
These pilots were very young, many in only their late teens/early 20s.
At secondary school, my art / craft teacher was an ex-RAF Spitfire pilot who took part.
There was one particular RAF pilot who flew in WW2 who also flew in WW1. He was 42 years old at the time, and was, as far as is known, the only pilot to fly in both World Wars.....
Very young yes/but so very brave
The chap called "Jimmy Perry", who has several speaking sections in the documentary, is best known for co-writing the Sit-Com "Dad's Army" with David Croft - all about the UK's Home Guard during the time of the Second World War, a service Perry himself served in. The Home Guard consisted of men who were too old (hence the name "Dad's Army") or too young for service or had reserved occupations and couldn't be drafted.
When he tried to do research in to the Home Guard to find stories he could write about, not many would come forward because they feared being mocked as plastic soldiers.
The final episode of Dad's Army is so brilliant, it's worth watching the whole series just to appreciate.
Time Team did an episode on the Defence of London in the event of an invasion: showing what these "plastic soldiers" would do in the event of an invasion
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I've seen a documentary about plans for if an invasion succeeded; underground resistance fighters who would be expected to do everything they could to harass and impede the enemy. Their average life-span was calculated to be in the order of a couple of weeks.
One of the grimmer aspects of being recruited into this underground was that they would have to kill the man who recruited them, so he couldn't give them away under torture.
and that Arthur white chap is David Jason's brother
I love the fact that some of the people were very famous, but the young man knew none of them (why, indeed, should he?) Vera Lynne, Brian Sewell, Nicholas Parsons, Jimmy Perry...
Yes I know!
Thank you Joel for a magnanimous reaction to this our finest hour. Much respect to you for wanting to learn about what our country went through. I wish more of our younger generations would do the same. You sir are a fine young man.
He seemed just to want to RUN!
Bless you for appreciating our history, wish more of British youth did
My father was a flying instructor in the RAF during WW2. He told me they couldn't train pilots quickly enough. Many of the young men he taught were killed in action. He never spoke about it but I think it affected him deeply.
My Mum as a child was 'blown out of her home' by Gerry bombers getting rid of bomb weight as they flew back home. She was buried in rubble and rescued but still has to sleep with the window open due to being buried alive.
Joel, in this video you confirm once and for all what I already thought, which is that you are a thoroughly likeable and honourable young man who is deeply respectful of others, especially older people and those who experienced the horrors of war. Every video of yours that I watch shows me more of your admirable character and, as a father, I must say I'm sure your parents are incredibly proud of you, as I would be too. Wishing you a great life, free of war and hardship. God bless you.
Amen.
Nicholas Parsons, the guy in the red jumper, passed away last year at the age of 96. He was still working as a BBC radio presenter on a radio game show up until a few weeks before he died. Even at 96, he was mentally sharper than I am at 51.
my mom used to tell me how when she was going to school she would hear the enemy aircraft and she would jump in a ditch and lie flat, my dad was captured by the japanese and he led his men to safety and was awarded a medal.
""" A WARNING VERY GRAFIC IMAGES AND FOOTAGE....."""Bergen-Belsen concentration camp ua-cam.com/video/6XYBJlhu-n4/v-deo.html
This is where Anne Frank died,
Lord of the Rings/Star Wars/Dracula iconic actor, Sir Christopher Lee was among the Liberators
@Aussie Pom Yes i`ve seen the video documenting his family tree and his own history can you imagine if he had documented everything.... that would be a life times worth of reading/knowledge :):)
Absolute Goosebumps! My dad was 4, he remembers it to this day. Thoughts are with Ukraine at this time. Never Surrender!
My parents' generation went through this, and ever since I was a kid in the 1960s I've been thankful I never had to experience it. You, my friend are awesome for the way you have such an interest, and your appreciation. I have a cd of news speeches that Churchill gave in WW2, and I sometimes listen to them. If I imagine I am a British civilian at that time, I can easily feel like crapping myself. They had their backs against the wall, but in the end showed the World they wouldn't bow to it. I don't of course discount the manpower and equipment supplied by the other allies. But we were alone for 2 years.
I WAS BORN IN 1960 AND AM PROUD TO BE BRITISH
I deeply regret not asking my relations who lived and fought through the war many more questions. I wish I had listened more carefully to their stories when I was young, but as a young person I think I took for granted the world they had protected for me. Now I am much, much older i can see what they went through and sacrificed and i wish they were still here so that they would know. But I also know they were a humble generation and would have played it down. They were an incredible generation and I admire them immensely. I'd also like to give a thought to those young German men, most of whom would be terrified and would much rather not be doing what they were doing but were under orders. I think it is easy to watch any battle (particularly air battles) and forget that they were people just like us.
My late grandfather was a sergeant in an Boffa anti aircraft gunner team stationed on Southend pier during those 13 hours. He said it was astounding watching the dogfights taking place overhead. He was also worried as my nan was at home which was very close to Northolt Aerodrome, home of the legendary Polish 303 hurricane squadron which was regularly attacked by the German bombers. A couple of months later Southend pier was hit by a rogue bomb. My grandfather and his team spent 4 days and nights stranded on the pier because the sea was to rough to rescue them or even get food to them.. That's when he truly hated the Germans. But he hated them even more 4 years later when he saw first hand the horrors of Belsen. My other Grandfather was an engineer in the RAF. He qualified as a pilot but wasn't aloud to fly until 1944 because he was needed on the ground. He worked with the test pilots and eventually flew Typhoons in action in the last months of the war..
I've seen this documentary and it never fails to amaze me how those young guns kept hitting the Nazi Air force time and time again, if you have ever watched the movie The Battle of Britain it tally's at the end all the country's and it's Pilots that flew in the RAF....total respect to all of them. 💖
My mother in law as a 5 or 6 year old in a push chair with her mum and dad, had a grandstand view from a hilltop some 4 miles from an RAF field called Detling which took a full attack of German Heinkel 111 bombers which flattened most of the buildings at the airfield, Molly has said she could never forget what she saw that day.
I'm lucky enough to hear the sound of a spitfire going overhead.. there has never been an engine sound so perfect.. always makes me proud of my grandparents when I see this
One of the few remaining Spitfires did a fly over Hospitals in the South East of England a few months back . It was to show respect for the hospital staff working hard during the pandemic . Anyways , my big brother ( 66 ) knows everything about aircraft and Spitfires are his favourites ! Somehow he must have managed to drum some information into my brain growing up 😅 So I was at work ( nursing home) and heard this fantastic throaty roar approaching and ran out into the car park shouting ' Spitfire !!!!' And to my incredible joy , and also a few of my colleagues ,saw it fly overhead on its way to fly over Medway Maritime Hospital . Thank you big bro 👍
@@99fruitbat94 love this mate.. its a sound so perfect.. I'm not a plane enthusiast & know little about them but that sound.. unreal
I am lucky enough to have a Spitfire fly over our village in Kent several times a day in the Summer, the distinctive sound of the engine is just fantastic, I always stop what I am doing and watch as it roars overhead and it always puts a lump in my throat without fail. Occasionally we get a Spitfire and Hurricane double, just superb. The Men and Women of our armed forces were and are something special. God bless them all.
RIP Dad, love you.
@@spikeytop8982 My brother told me that the difference between the Spitfire and the Hurricane was that the Spitfire had manuvarability but the Hurricane could be shot to bits but had sustainability to keep flying !A real workhorse 👍 Love them both !👍
@@spikeytop8982 My mother married an ex Polish Paratrooper, turned Britain. He was involved at Arnhem. On their wedding day, I was getting ready, was in the bathtub, I heard this distinctive sound, Spitfire. I jumped out of the bathtub. Wrapped a towel around me,flew outside, just in time to see it. I'm told that it does a victory Roll when going over the Rolls Royce factory.
The guy talking about the “Chicken” is the actor Arthur White, his tiny brother is the actor David Jason.
Arthur was also an actor.
Also Jimmy Perry was a scriptwriter who created Dads Army, Hi Di Hi, You Rang M'lord and It Ain't Half Hot Mum.
Nicholas Parsons was a tv presenter, probably best known for Sale Of The Century.
Brian Sewell was an art critic.
Tony Benn was A Labour politician.
@@CrazyInsanelikeafox Dame Vera Lynn, singer, was known as The Forces Sweetheart. She sang from a child to old age and donned uniform and visited troops in theatre during the war, including in the Far East. She is famous for The White Cliffs of Dover and other well known songs in the UK.
God Bless all who were lost. And thank you for showing this. Another amazing thing is that survivors lived into old age. I experienced the bombing of Manchester. We had daily raids because there were two aircraft companies and an electrical firm that was working on guided missiles. Running into air-raid shelters at night in the snow was my earliest memory and watching this brought back the stench of rat urine of rat urine . The sound of the air-raid sirens made my blood run cold. I have never watched a film about the bombings till now because that sound of sirens takes me straight back to those days when we listened to the whining of the doodle bugs as the adults were tense.If the whining stopped, the bomb would fall and everyone breathed a sigh of relief when it continued on its course and they would all say a prayer for the souls of the people it would fall on. How brave of those young men and what a debt we owe them.
This has to be the best reaction video that I have seen. The respect you give & that you only talk when it adds to the video is first rate. You also share our humour - I was also laughing the second he mentioned the pickle factory next door, imagining what his next words would be. Sending respect to you from the UK mate. First vid of yours that I have seen and subbed straight after the video ended. Great job.
Totally agree.
Lovely young guy ! We were in deep shit at this time ! Deep shit ! We only just got through
Born towards the end of WW2, one of my earliest memories is of being held very tightly by my mother in a strange little cage we kept under the kitchen table. There was a lot of noise. Mum told me when I was older that the green patch I played on across the street had once contained a house with neighbours in it. We had a lot of green patches.
There's a piece of stone in most towns in the UK that declares "We Shall Never Forget!"
I look around me now, and how easily and quickly so many people have already forgotten.
The greatest generation my country will ever ever produce- great video. The Battle of Britain was a genuine alliance of pilots from around the world (Old "Empire", Czechs, Poles, French, Americans)- The BoB didn't win the war BUT it ensured the war wouldn't be lost. Without the BoB, what followed between 1940 and 1945 may never have happened as it did.
Rusty... absolutely right. I can be said of the BoB, it kept the door open and the light on in the West.
The Soviets gave blood, the Americans gave supplies and resources, and Britain.. well we brought time and held the line!
An alliance yes but the British were by far the most numerous and this is being buried under Brit-Hate propaganda. 2400 British airmen plus countless thousands of ground crew, observers, gunners, plotters and civilian workers. The largest foreign cadre was from Poland, about 350 followed by Canada and the Czech and Slovak at about 150 each.
@@photoisca7386 so, an alliance then. Its not Brit-hating to admit we had help.
@@pinkyperky3506 Agreed, acknowledging that Poles, Canadians, Czechs etc flew in the RAF during the battle of Britain is not news to anyone who has studied the history. The fact that that is becoming wider knowledge is a good thing. Quite where @Photolsca gets Brit Hate from I don't know. Possibly his tin foil hat is getting a bit heavy?
All my grandparents , greatgrandparents , great uncles & aunties fought in both world wars , the stories they used to tell me as a child were awesome . The film clips are from the film THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN .
My Mum, still alive a 100 years old next month. She started as a radar operator at 18, shifted into fighter command just in time for the Battle of Britain. She was on duty this day as a plotter. I think she is one of the very last left alive that served on the 2nd. She is the last that served in both fighter and bomber command. She commented that they all knew it was the planned death blow for England, they had to win that day or the war would be lost. She later transferred later into bomber command where she met my 18 year old pilot Australian father.
I talked to both over the years about the war. You can't understand what it must have been like for these very young men and women. Particularly my father's group that had appalling losses and casualties. Bomber command had a 44.5 fatality rate. These young men all volunteers would climb into their planes every evening knowing half wouldn't survive the night. I just can't comprehend that kind of bravery.
I love watching your videos :)
Quote from my Grandmother born in the 1880’s “Those young foreign gentleman came over here without an invitation and made such a noise, it’s a wonder the government ever allowed it!”
He was well spoken then ua-cam.com/video/CTqW62Vw8Zc/v-deo.html
And they are still allowing it.
But that's enough about the brave Poles of 303 Squadron and their noisy Hawker Hurricanes.
@@richardsimpson3792 Not to mention the Czech, French, Irish, Americans etc who also flew in the Battle of Britain.
@@EricIrl Officially, Americans did not participate in the Battle of Britain because they only arrived in Europe well after that fight had been won and more than two years after the war started...as usual. However, it is thought that up to 9 US pilots participated in the Battle of Britain under umbrella nationalities such as Canadian.
Crying my eyes out.
We owe them so much. ❤
The one thing we owe them is to fight hard against fascism and protect our culture and values at all costs. They did the same and we owe it to them to make sure their deaths meant somthing and were not in vain.
NEVER SURRENDER❤
Thank you so much for showing this video ..what a great lad you are …my parents went through these war years ..my dad was in the RAF ground crew …so proud of him and all these men woman and kids that went through these horrific years ..such strong courageous people …at that moment in the war We stood alone but survived..🇬🇧. I’m a proud Brit …
You are lovely young man. I am nearly 65 and my father was a bombaimer in the RAF during the Second World War. Britain came very close to being overwhelmed by the nazi’s but our fighter pilots were so heroic it is beyond belief ! Thanks for your interest !
We were in deep deep shit ! Let’s not forget how close it was !
A proud moment in our history
I am glad this young American is able to appreciate and praise what was going on in WWII long before his countrymen joined the fight (in late 1943 in Europe). Sadly many think the war started in December 1941. Apart from the sheer guts and fortitude of the RAF pilots there were many factors that the Germans failed to understand:
1. Sir Hugh Dowding as the architect of the air defence of the UK at this time and welded together all the different elements into a single operating entity. He created the first integrated air defence system in the world.
2. The UK radar systems were far more advanced than anything the Germans had and therefore they failed to really attack the installations as hard as they should have. So they kept working and improving.
3. because of the early warnings Dowding was able to position Squadrons at height over the path of the incoming bombers so they were able to come out of the sun and take the bomber crews by surprise. Hurricanes were more effective against bombers and Spitfires were better against the Me109s.
4. The Germans assumed RAF Squadron numbers were the same as Luftwaffe numbers but they weren't. They had an idea how many squadrons but assumed each one was 10 aircraft when in fact they were 16. So when they de-briefed and said '20 fighters' they assumed it was like 2 squadrons when it wasn't. Interestingly the RAF made the same assumption so underestimated the damage they were doing.
5. The RAF never allowed fighters to go past the French coast so that if they got hit and could bale out a fleet of RAF MTBs could go and get them back out of the channel. Some baled out in the morning and were flying again in the afternoon. The Germans of course were captured if they baled out in the Channel or over England. The supply of pilots was the key to success not the supply of aircraft.
Per Ardua Ad Astra - the Few. God bless them all.
The fact that British aircrew could be rescued and be back in the fight is what led to SOME (and I mean only some) German fighter pilots firing on British pilots in parachutes. Did not go down well with the rest of the Luftwaffe.
Also, Hitler/Goering made the mistake of stopping their bombing of RAF airfields (to a large extent) so that they could concentrate on the cities. If they had continued to bomb the airfields then they would have won the Battle of Britain.
@@steveknight878 To some extent that is accurate in its basic argument. However what it fails to recognise is the dozens of airfields the UK had in place and was building. Remember all the fighters needed was a bit of a field. It was bombers that needed concrete runways.
So yes destroying airfields closer to the channel would have had a negative effect but that of itself would not have turned the tide of the battle.
I live in Uxbridge, where Churchill's bunker is and it's fascinating to visit. The bunker is very deep and the plotting table and all the light panels are truly awe inspiring to see. There is a museum up top now too and is always busy with school trips and adult visitors. If anyone is near there, I recommend going. It makes me proud to my bones. Churchill directed the whole battle of Britain from there and most of his famous quotes from that time, where said there. Amazing!
We visited the bunker last year and it was absolutely brilliant. Would recommend it to anybody interested in the Battle of Britain to pay a visit.
In my work as a Horticulturist I’ve met two of the FEW,one a hurricane pilot and the other a spitfire,very humbling to hear their modest accounts of WW2 based in East Anglia and Shropshire,there’s nothing wrong with a splash of national pride ✊🏻
As British, we don’t blow our own trumpets. We just get on with it.
All respect to the RAF, the oldest airforce in the world.
My east of England village was bombed a few times..A house was bombed the baby survived by being blasted into our village doctors garden in it's crib.
An interesting wartime figure to look into is Alan Turing.
Turing was a hero who saved us. The British authorities treated him shamefully after the war just because he was gay.
I live in Kent, UK. My Nan worked in the munitions factory in Woolwich and my Grandad was a mechanic on bombers in the war . They never got over the war, if that's something people are actually able to do. They always said it was the most exciting time of their lives. I guess when you're "lower class" and you're given an opportunity to prove your self it's the most positive thing in your lives.
Nice to see a young man watching history and learning what happened 👏👏👏🇬🇧
Quite simply, if the RAF lost the battle of Britain the UK would have fallen and Europe would have been lost to the Nazi's. The US would not have been able to help without a island like Britain to launch an invasion from. Look at how hard D Day was over 20 miles now figure how easy it would have been to do the same over 3000 miles from ships with U boats about. If Europe had fallen the US would have been alone against Germany and Japan. The world we know today is due in no small part to the Royal Air Force winning this battle.
Yes thank Britain 🇬🇧. We are experiencing a political issue right now that we haven’t helped our alliance with Israel. It is not something I’m happy about. As American we are loyal to our allies.
That's why i always say the Spitfire was the plane that won WW2 because as you say if we lost the Battle of Britain WW2 was probably over, the Germans would have rode through North Africa into Iran/Persia took control of the Oil and would have invaded Russia a year earlier and probably defeated them....war over, thank God for the RAF, Spitfires and Hurricanes.
@James Peebles Yes it is quite right to say it, Hurricanes ( which were very good planes) were mainly tasked with shooting down very slow Bombers, without Spitfire protection they wouldn't have stood much of a chance against the German F109's, saying they had more kills isn't much of an argument, without the Spitfire we would have lost.
@James Peebles Spits scared the luftwaffe
Bob Bralee. For some strange reason you forgot to mention the country that inflicted by far the most casualties on Germany, the Soviet Union.
We must never forget WW11 was NOT a Blockbuster film, it was very much all too REAL
Agreed and the USA didn’t win it alone!
When did I miss WW3 through 11?
@@RandomStuff-he7lu It's a common mistake, isn't it. Not enough people know their Roman numerals.
@@EricIrl XI is eleven in roman numeral not 11 if you want two it is II ;P
@@RibonFox I do know that.
Around 25 years ago a local farm found an unexploded WW2 bomb on a plot that for years had been a site for weekend car boot sales, the controlled explosion was deafening and shook my house from over a mile away, god knows how they endured the blitz.
As a 9 year old boy our whole school spent days sat on the school field in a living history lesson - we watched overhead the dog fights over Kent & London. Years later I realised we had been watching the making of the film 'The Battle of Britain' and many of the planes had been large models. But to young boys it would not have mattered we cheered every time the teacher shouted with glee "There you go boys another hun bites the dust"
On the plotting table, you saw markers. The letter had a yellow background. The clock in the plot room had a different colour for each quarter hour. By looking a the plot table, all the plots with with same colour at that time were current, any plots with other colours were old plots , thus you could tell if any info was more than 15 mins old.
Each colour was for 5 minute segments, there was never more than 10 minutes worth of information on the table as you only had two colours of arrows on at a time - the current set and the previous set, as soon as it ticked round to the next colour you removed the oldest set (the yellow squadron tags always stayed that colour).
The plotters also had coloured lights on the table next to them so they didn’t have to keep looking up at the clock
My mother was 16 when the bombers attacked London and it affected her so badly that when i was little she would take me to the stairs when a thunder storm occurred. She would squeeze the life out of me in her terror because the thunder reminded her of being bombed by the Germans. The result for me is that i'm now terrified of thunder storms. :(
My Mother was also sixteen but relatively out of harms way in Wales. she did work in a munitions factory for a long while when older though. a bomb did fall on their town, ditched by a German bomber on his way back from bombing Swansea docks. She told me that she thought to herself... if I were older and had babies and the Germans invaded, as people were scared of that, she would have to devise ways of killing any children and herself despite knowing it to be a wicked thought. As it happened she didn;t have chiildren until she was 31 - me! and the Battle of Britain saved this country. Thank God for that generation. so sorry abour your Mother. she must have been terrified.
my mom was the same, thunder rumbles and she would hide under cushions. i used to be scared too but when i had my kids i learnt to hide it, same with moths lol
my mother the same, if it thundered in the night she woke us up, made us sleep downstairs, all in the one room, I too am terrified of even very dark clouds as it could be a storm, If I'm outside when it starts I get a panic attack...
My mum was only 4 but she remembers having to go to the underground stations and to the shelters at the bottom of the gardens when the planes came over bombing. She was in Liverpool and she said you could see the city alight with all the fires etc after the bombing raids; they used to sit and watch them... there wasn't much else they could do. She and her brothers and sister were eventually evacuated to Wales for the remainder of the war for their own safety... it must've been hard for them at that young age, going to live with total strangers, people they didn't know and split up from their families... I'm very proud of my mum and grandparents generation... I dread to think what would've happened but for them...
My mother was a driver in the RAF & her duties included driving lntelligence Officers to crashed German aircraft.
When i was 16, l was interested in metallurgy & tried to melt a piece of aluminum on our lounge room fire.
When Mum smelled the fumes from the aluminum, she became hysterical as it reminded her of the burning, smouldering planes & the charred bodies of the crew.
l got a clip under the ear from Dad.
These people were so brave. We can't even phantom the courage it was needed, the resilience and selflessness it took. Now with a pandemic all we see is people crying for their rights and freedoms while their families, neighbours, friends are dying in the Hospital.
I was born in Jersey, Channel Islands. The Germans occupied Jersey and I loved hearing my grandfather telling stories about that time. Him and his friends didn’t smoke but used to in the cinema because it ‘pissed off the Germans’ 😂 I remember going into an abandoned house when I was a child with my friends and we found a Red Cross parcel, I honestly can’t remember what was in it but I thought it was so cool!
It looks like a few of the aerial fight scenes were taken from the movie "The Battle Of Britain (1969)". One of my favourite war movies...and to me, was one of the best aerial war movies ever made. The Ron Goodwin soundtrack alone was one of the most rousing and uplifting movie soundtracks as well. :)
Yes!! Ron Goodwin 633 Squadron amazing music I listen to it all the time 🇬🇧 ✈ 🇬🇧
@@whitedwarf4986 633 Squadron....GREAT soundtrack. I love all Ron Goodwin sountracks. Where Eagles Dare is another fave of mine, and another movie i watch over again and again. Despite the pre Green Screen effects lol.
@@MrCloe333 not seen Where Eagles Dare but Goodwin also wrote the score to Frenzy my favourite Hitchcock film...such a British film love it 😀
I agree the film "The battle of Britain" is very, very good. I was an RAF Air Cadet at that time and we got a chance to attend the premier of the film. Unforgettable.
Great movie.
My grandmother, saw all of this, she was 18 during the Battle of Britain living is Sittingbourne, Kent. She was married to a pilot that died in that battle. The stories, events she experienced were fascinating. They were a strong generation, one to look up to!
My Mother was a nurse in a London hospital at this time. She was working alone on the children’s ward. The windows were blown in and the balcony blown away but no child was hurt because she had pulled all cots into the centre and covered them with heavy blankets. Mum worked 13 hour shifts with 2 hours off in the day then every other night she would be on fire watch on the roof.
@ Jenny Jewell if that's the cause then you're mother was a brave lady
So glad you showed that, my grandfather was a fire warden in the London district we lived in ,but he would never talk about what he saw, it was too traumatic, I think many people suffered from PTSD, after the Blitz. Thank you for your interest in this subject.❣👍
So grateful. My dad was in the RAF helping design aircraft, my mum was in the War Office. My Uncle on my dad's side was a pilot in the RAF, sadly assumed died in action. I feel connected to u guys in USA partly as you came into the War following the terrible attack on Pearl Harbour. We all pulled together.God Bless.
You should look up Mad Jack Churchill, some people enjoyed the war, my step father did, happiest time of his life. He was with David Sterling in the desert. David Sterling was in command of the SAS.
David sterling was northern Irish
My English mother and my grandfather were both on duty in London during the blitz of 1940. My father, a New Zealander , just like Sir Keith Park, commander of 11 group, was to become an ace fighter pilot in England later in the war were modest people who were doing their duty and thank them for it as I approach the end of my life and you for the young American who respects history.
June UK. You are a lovely lad Jps. I was born in the middle of the war and I am very proud of my country. Many of the pilots were only around your age as when I go to the cemetery I see some of their graves. It is good that young people of today watch these happenings. Take care.
The colour footage of the war was taken from the 1960's film "The Battle ofBritain".
A superb film and well worth watching.
A Squadron Leader I knew said that The Battle of Britain film was very realistic. He was there so they must have got it correct.
I was a spectator underneath the filming of that film and it gave me a little (much safer) taste of what my mother (15 at the time) had experienced during that day. She and her mother and brother were, later on in the war, in their garden shelter, in the east end of London, when their house took a direct bomb hit. They all survived, and had they not then I would not have been born...
My grandfather was also part of the D-Day landings later on and he also survived that. I guess they were counted as lucky, but I'm sure they never felt it at the time and the experience undoubtedly scarred them...
@@chaswebb4016 my dad was in the RAF during WWII. One story he old me was that he watched a live fire rehearsal of D-Day, which was being held on the beaches of Studland Dorset UK. He and a friend were on the Purbeck cliffs overlooking the beaches, and some machine gun fire hit the ground near them. I believe he turned and walked quickly away.
@@mmcbey1401 Agreed - but I feel it's wrong to include scenes from it in a documentary UNLESS it is made clear that the scenes were shot nearly three decades later.
When u corner this lil country of ours we hit hard and always punch above our weight,so much owed to this generation,”lest we forget”
Unfortunately the Tories have seen to our demise by restricting the budget to our army. We're a shell of what we were.
@Floyd1504 yeah potentially. I know it's more electronic based warfare such as cyber attacks.
@Real Thailand How anti Britain of you. Obviously not very factual though. I'm always curious why people hate Britain based on events from millennia ago.
@Real Thailand coming from Thailand you would say these things,I know my history “do you-“seeing as Thailand cuddled up to the nazis during the war
@Real Thailand and yet you come to the conclusion we are savages. After studying for 40 plus years and the country you live in. There's nothing about me that's patriotic as I believe in global unity. But the constant criticism is tiresome. Needlessly too.
Respect! I'm impressed with a young guy like you giving history like this your time
A really gripping documentary, but I feel so relieved that I didn’t have to live through that, even as a child.
Thank you for watching this so respectfully- I was in tears. My parents lived through this with the same good humour and - now - refusal to discuss it. Good luck, young manxx
Me too Mike. Its great to have an opportunity to be reminded and to feel a sense of pride in our country as us Brits are not very good at doing that are we.
Excellent video, and we'll chosen. I think the documentary was one made for the 70th Aniversery ten years ago, judging by the witnesses, a lot of whom were famous people in Britain. Dame Vera Lynn was a singer know as the Forces Sweetheart, her songs were the sound track of the war, she released an album for her 100th Birthday. Nicholas Parsons was an actor and quiz host, who kept working right up to his death in his nineties , Jimmy Perry was a comedy writer, who created Dad's Army a comedy that was inspired by his time as a boy in the Home Guard. And Arthur White (The boy who thought he was having chicken), is an actor but his little brother who he mentioned is David Jason who I think you have reacted to in Only Fools and Horses (Batman and Robin and falling through a bar). The footage I think is a clever combination of real footage from the time, mixed with recreations for the programme and from films. A lot of films were made using real WW2 planes in the 1950s.
Also the wonderful Art Critic Brian Sewell, Tony Benn the Labour politician.
Also were the Me109s in the Battle of Britain film another type of plane, cunningly disguised?
LOL - just had to check - the Me109s used in the film, were Spanish variants, with the undernose air intakes. So not the same type as those used in the air raids.
@@pauldenby878 Too busy fighting the battle to film it.
@Real Thailand I was actually referring to Joel's reaction video, when I said it was an excellent video, and I do think it was a well made documentary of the events with actual eye witness reports talking about what it was like.
I actually do agree that Hitler's invasion plan would probably have been defeated by the Royal Navy, and that the prediction of when he would arrive in London was over the top. In fact there were more RN personal killed in the Battle of Britain than RAF, because the Battle of Britain wasn't solely about an air battle it was the battle for Britain, to prevent it going the same way as every other country that Hitler had attacked up to that point. They only ever intended to invade after destroying air power and securing the passage, and we don't know if destroying British airpower would have allowed that, It would certainly have freed Germany to destroy ports and manufacturing with impunity. We don't know if faced with undefended cities being destroyed at will, we wouldn't have done a deal as Hitler hoped. In fact Hitler did not attack the Soviets until 8 months after the end of Battle of Britain, and for that time Britain was the only nation still fighting Germany. Yes we had had a string of defeats, but we celebrate that defensive battle because that was our first victory, and the first time the Nazis had to give up on an aim. If the RAF had lost and the victory had come at sea, then we would have been watching a documentary about our great Navy saving Britain, but the RAF did it first.
I'm sorry you are so angry, but don't confuse your bitterness with understanding. Hitler lost the war in the east, but the Soviets may have stopped Hitler, but they couldn't have defeated Hitler on their own, they needed allied help in supplies and in opening up the Western Front. None of that would have happened without Britain surviving attack. Do you really think the US would have fought Hitler to save Stalin? No they would just have fought the Japanese. That is why Britain's part was important, and its not jingoistic to remember it, and it started with that battle.
This should be mandatory viewing for all primary school kids so they can learn and be proud of our history.
My Grandfather flew in Lancasters during WW2 and was involved in both Dresden and Hamburg.
He was deeply sorrowful about the 10s of 1000s of people that were killed in those raids. He regretted it terribly and took zero pride in it, although he knew it was necessary. He never spoke about his experiences apart from a few short comments. A lovely man.
My Grandmother was in the WLA. She worked in agriculture all through the war to help feed the country.
My respect for them and their generation is immeasurable.
My mums father was a soldier and fought in both the first and second World wars, my mums, mum use to be a teacher but went to work in the factories making the bombs for the raf . They both would have witnessed this first hand but I was still too young when they died in 1983 and 1985 to hear any accounts of it from them personally. I'm so proud of them for their parts they played during the war.
This was great to watch and see your reaction. All my family come from the south of England and so we have a lot of experience with this, there are still scars of the war even today (Gardens where pubs used to be for example). My Great-Grandfather was in the war from 39-45 and my Great Uncle was in the Battle of Britain and flew a Hurricane. It's a shame but many of the people who fought or lived through this time are now passing away and I was lucky to have many great grandparents and grandparents alive when I was younger who could tell me their stories... There are some absolutely wonderful stories from this time which really make you feel so fortunate for the times we live in. So many people saw some terrible, terrible things, however, there are also some great stories of human kindness and British spirit and determination.
I agree Oliver. i hope this is taught in our schools and videos like this are shown. We must retain a nation's pride, but it seems to me we are losing it. I hope I am wrong.