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Your rivers and waterways have creatures that will kill you. Ours don't. That's because God likes us.

My grandma had the tip of a bombe destroy her outside toilet during the Blitz. I still have it. Its got a little propeller on it and is about the size of an orange.

Thank you for your respect of UK citizens. London was the centre of the blitz, however, many major cities and towns were also affected during this period. Cardiff, a city in Wales with a strategically important dock was severeley bombed in January 1941. My great grandparents home took a direct hit, killing them, a daughter and grandson (4 yrs old). They were always spoken about and remembered during the post war period, hence my recollection of those times, despite being born in the mid 50's.

ruclips.net/video/mj5m_tz4Bjk/видео.html. Eye witness events of the blitz, 13 hours that saved Britain, enjoying your videos, thanks.

As awful as this was, i am appalled that there still is a Statue of Bomber Harris in London. The Allies returned the questionable favor of bombing civilians, multiple times worse. I recommend a watch about a specific event in my hometown in the Summer of 1943: Hamburg’s Citizens Burnt Alive - War Against Humanity 071 - July 31, 1943 ruclips.net/video/Y1zdQjO-I3Y/видео.htmlsi=a60bHrfV_lNwtZHz Let's not do this kind of thing again, ok!? That is one of the purposes of the EU, to bring everyone so close together that a War between us becomes unthinkable... oh wait, yeah, Brexit... Well, the UK wanted to join only for the economic benefits, not for political ties anyway.

It's a Cathedral, hence the large size.

and yet 80 years later people are cowering from covid, pathetic, not bombs, missiles or gunfire but an incredibly mild infection

Hi I worked as a chef in the pub in Malham back in the 1980s and would often take a walk up to Malham cove to get some of those beautiful views and it was one of my favourite places to visit on my days off .I have really fond memories of my time there. If you do come back to uk in the future I would highly recommend you visit Malham.We are blessed in the UK to live in such a beautiful part of the world

Fascinating to see Americans so interested in our history. I was born two years after WW2 ended. My Brother, who was 17 years older than me, used to tell me stories about watching the doodlebugs fly over. He also watched dogfights between Spitfires and German fighters over our village, He used to go and collect the brass shell cases that fell from the sky during these episodes. He was conscripted into the RAF when he was 18, and after training, was sent to Malaya, to fight the communist bandits in the jungles there. He was based in Singapore, for two years. He told me many stories, about how he had to drive troop trucks through the jungle as fast as possible because of the risk of ambush. He drove with his Bren gun on his lap. He also had to drive fire engines and ambulances at airfields. As damaged aircraft came in to land, he had to chase them down the runway. Many crashed. He said dead bodies were incredibly heavy! He came home safe and sound. with his Active Service Medal. My Grandfather fought in the Irish rifles in the 1st WW. He had a wife and three young daughters at home when he was killed in the Somme. One of those little girls would one day be my Mother. He was killed at the age of 41 in 1916. Almost every British family has lost a relative in a war. I hope you find this interesting, although it's nothing to do with the Blitz. My father saw the Blitz, but never spoke about it. My Mother was a war worker, as many women were, and was a welder in Chatham dockyard, building warships. Incredible when you think what women did during the war. A lady aged 102 in the village I live in now, Joan Downing, used to fly warplanes to different bases in England during WW2. Fighter planes and Lancaster bombers. Regards from the UK.

Many other British cities were bombed too.

Your comments about castles you just need to know every inch of Britain has been fought over for 2 thousand years.

The cage is a Morrison shelter the corrugated shelter outside is an Anderson shelter

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"0:00 so as everybody knows we went to London". You conceited, pompous ego-trippers, everybody DOESN'T know and very few care. Get over yourselves!! That's where I finished and gave a Thumbs Down.

The most heavily bombed cities outside London were Liverpool and Birmingham. Other targets included Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry, and Southampton. The attack on Coventry was particularly destructive destroying most of the city.

Yes, I was there, living in London as a child. That period of continuous air raids was somewhat annoying. Going to school each day, my sister and I would collect shrapnel that had fallen during the night and we would count the houses lost in the previous night's raids. I never forget the sound of the bombs dropping, getting closer and then, fortunately, receding as the raid passed us. We would normally shelter in our house's cellar and I remember particularly one night when the front door was blown in and my father being propelled down the cellar steps by the blast. I, too, remember we were caught out by a raid and taking refuge in a tube station. Our parents worked for the War Office in intelligence and translating messages from the far east and censoring messages, as they had recently returned from ten years in Siam (now Thailand), so were familiar with the languages. They produced language glossaries (which I have) for the troops and were involved with military cartography. They were also roof-top fire watchers and I have their passes which they referred to as their 'burglar permits'! Sometimes there were enemy planes over in the early evenings presumably looking at damage and locating targets. So I recall seeing ours chasing and dog-fighting to bring them down or send them away. The scariest sound was from the 'doodle-bugs' (V1 flying bombs). Sounded like a very heavy motorbike with an added hollow echo sound. The moment of greatest fear was when the motor cut out; then there were a few seconds of total silence before the enormous explosion when it hit some random place. Totally evil. Later, in the 1950s I worked in Coventry and saw the total devastation there. Clearance and rebuilding was continually being held up by discovery of unexploded bombs. The destroyed cathedral with its still proud bell tower and spire, along with the building of the new cathedral are clear memories.

Wherever you see a new building in central London … that’s where the Germans got there first …

My Grandad was Fire Chief in Coventry during that terrible destruction. Got badly injured and Hospital for many weeks.

castles were primarily military fortifications

As a boy after the war, one of my husband’s - and other London boys’ -favourite hobbies was to search through the rubble for, ‘finds’ … bits of planes, etc especially German ones, but the best finds were live bullets …. You clamped each one in a vice and banged the flat end with a hammer and chisel …. Result??? Loud bang … after all, it was a bullet ….

Thanks for the video. Yes, in Britain we survived the worst the German Airforce could throw at us in World War 2 war. Later we had to contend with the V1 & V2 Rocket Attacks that were difficult to defend against. Spare a thought for the brave Ukrainian people who's civilian & military have survived a similar pounding for two years. Both wars started by a vicious power hungry dictator who cared nothing for the lives of ordinary people. Dictators are always bad news, hungry for lasting power so if the despicable Trump says he will be a dictator for 1 day DON'T BELIEVE HIM, almost everything he says is a lie. Putin lied about invading Ukraine, Xi lied about Hong Kong ..... NEVER TRUST ANY OF THEM.

I was born in 1953 in London. As a child I played on the bomb sites all over London there were so many. It was.just part of my childhood.

You now understand the spirit of those citizens of the UK that underwent the privations of WW2. That spirit lives on in most part. We will stand a lot up to a point then watch out. A great video reaction - thanks. Try also “The 13 hours that saved Britain “- the story of The Battle of Britain. It has more personal recollections of people who we children at the time. It a RUclips video.

The house I grew up in was a house was previously almost destroyed in the blitz, the whole top of the house was blown off. The person who used to live was found her in the garden inside a bedroom wardrobe.

If you look at bombsight.org it has an interactive map with the location of every known bomb that fell on London during The Blitz, including tags about the type of bomb.

My mum's school suffered a direct hit from an unmanned V-1 flying bomb towards the end of the war. This weapon was an indiscriminate one, for once launched it would simply fly onwards until it ran out of fuel and crashed. If you happened to be on the ground and you heard the motor fail, you were in deadly peril. They made a very distinctive noise from the rocket motor and when you heard the engine cut out, you ran for cover. Mum's school was flattened by the V1 but - fortunately - it was a weekend and the school was closed. She got a few weeks off !

And it's happening all over again ! Putin and Ukraine !!!

They reckoned spitfire pilots only lasted 3 to 6 weeks …

The Germans bombed every port; every industrial centre… not just London … and picked on sites that would annoy us, too … Portsmouth, Southampton, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry… Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral …. Although the fire wardens managed to kick the incendiary bombe off the roof in time …everywhere really, as they released left over bombs everywhere… … my old family home had cracks in the ceiling from a bomb dropped in the nearby main road … we were miles from the docks ..

A number of places outside London that suffered during the blitz were not well known because the government kept it quiet to keep up peoples morale. One place was Clydebank. A small town near Glasgow, only 7 houses remained intact after the 2 night raid with most of them totally destroyed. It was a target because of the shipbuilding industry on the River Clyde.

May I suggest you watch 2 videos produced by the US National Archives Channel. These were to show US servicemen, posted to Britain, what we had been through. Titles are: Know Your Ally: Britain. and Why we fight. Hopefully you find them both interesting and educational.

Hey guys , if you want to know more . Please get this book , it's the best book on Britain at war. It is called " BRITAIN AT WAR " BY JULIETTE GARDINER

Nice respectful video, thank you . . I think your surprise is based on the fact that the US has never experienced Ariel bombing. To be attacked that way . Maybe if you did ,then your country wouldn't be so war like .

I would not be here as my gran meet my grandad during the blitz, he worked on the underground and she sheltered in the one he was in one night, the rest is history.

The super basic explanation of why we have so many castles is because, back in the day each area would have a defensive castle that the lord of that region would reside in. The locals would form a town around it, that would be inside its walls, then when any neighbouring enemy army came all the residents could retreat safely inside. This is how our towns and cities grew, the more strategically important sites the castles became stone, nobles later on also built fortified houses once political stability meant castles weren't as required. Eventually they built the manor houses you now find all over. Each village or larger community would have a manor house/lord it was owned by, then the land would be tenanted to local farmers. That's why there are so many, because they were needed due to the societal structure and risk of attack. We have a really interesting history, it would be great if you could do a deep dive into it, it'll probably explain a lot about our culture too. Edit: Buckingham Palace is basically new! 🤣 Look at some of the Welsh castles in particular if you are going to visit, since there was a lot of fighting in that region, they have some excellent castles (over 600 in total I believe) Thames is pronounced Tems 😀 (- we know our place names and language in general is f'd), genuinely is as beautiful as it looks though!

Quite a few old cities and towns in UK have 'Shambles'. These streets/areas are where the butchers worked, slaughtered animals, prepared them for food and sold the meat.

Hi guys, i loved the video but the sound was low . If you want to see more history, watch 13 days that saved Britain, and the greatest raid of all .

You also had the devastating V1 and V2 attacks in 1944.

One of my grandmothers slept in the tube station every night of the blitz. She was in her late teens. She had severe ocd from life in london during ww2.

My grandmother evidently refused to go into the Anderson shelter. Decided early on they were useless and stayed in the house. She survived but the next block was flattened. Mum lived through the Blitz and went to work each day. The thing I remember her telling us happened later in the war when the V1 and V2 rockets were deployed. The V1 rockets she could cope with as their engines cut out before falling to earth and exploding. She could tell by the sound if they were going to hit locally. The V2s were not so accommodating. I was born in 1947 and thought the bombed buildings were a great place to play although it was strictly against mum's orders. The Russians suffered far more than anyone else in WWII.

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The British mantra - “Keep calm and carry on” 💪

The blitz on Coventry on the 14th November 1940 was the single most concentrated attack on a British city in the Second World War. Codenamed “Moonlight Sonata” the raid lasted 11 hours and involved 500 Luftwaffe bombers gathered from all over Europe. The centre was completely flattened a horrific story.

Liverpool was bombed night after night sky filled barrage balloons our house had shelter which we slept eight of us Then we got we got evacuated my sisters and brother to Wales we got treated terrible my dad found and took us home home back Bombed houses every were I'm now 89 still going

Your comments through this video were measured and are appreciated. I'm 64 years of age, consequently, I missed WW2 by 14 years. But a section of the City of London Museum has a selection of short interviews of London folk who lived through the Blitz. One of the interviewees was explaining the tremendously harrowing job Undertakers had throughout WW2. The chap went on to explain that this profession before the war had dealt primarily with folk who past away peacefully. When the Germans started dropping bombs in civilian areas, it fell upon the Undertakers to collect pieces of humans, and attempt to make sense of the remains. This profession were never trained or given help to cope with mental strain these poor individuals had to endure, dealing with heavy dropping out of the sky, destroying all it lands on. The largest missiles that targeted London were V2's that weighed in over 12 Tons. With such kinetic energy whole streets were flattened and humans were often atomized. All shocking to learn, but I was appreciative that the Museum has preserved these interviews, voices of those long gone who witnessed the horrors ordinary folk went through, seemingly just getting on with life as best they could. In conclusion, whenever I hear a politician promote a military initiative, I'm expecting their exit plan to be as detailed as their entrance plan. Robert

I grew up in Plymouth, in Devon. I was told as a child about the relentless bombing the city was subjected to.

My mum was born in 1937, so she was a little young to remember The Blitz itself, but she does remember being in the Anderson shelter in the garden, hearing the air raid sirens going off, and seeing several "Doodle-bug" flying bomb going over her house, some on their way to London. We're about 35 miles SE of London. So there were a fair amount of air raids coming over North Kent. One Doodle-bug hit the local bus depot, a few streets away from her house. She said she could see the light from the fire, glowing above the houses. I know that some places in the US have a different take on war veterans to others. My daughter's friend is from Iowa, and when he stayed with us a few years back, he watched our Remembrance Sunday service, which is a national televised event every year. He told us that where he was from, if you weren't related or knew someone who was a veteran, most places he knew, didn't commemorate Veterans Day, as it's known there. My dad used to watch, as I thought of them, as a child, "boring" war films and documentaries. And I would, as I saw it as a child, get dragged out of bed, on a Sunday morning, to stand still for "Ages" (cue teenage imaginary angst!), as Big Ben chimed, before escaping back to bed! I'll put my hands up and say, at the time, I did not get it! What teenagers do. But, thankfully, that changed when I was 17. My dad had promised us that one day he would take us to the Netherlands, and when I was 17, we went. One of the places he wanted to visit was Arnhem. After D.Day, the Allies decided to try and end the war quickly, by Christmas, and try and take the bridges across the Rhine. They calleded Operation Market Garden. The Britsh were to take Arnhem. Unfortunately, things did not go well. It you've seen Band of Brothers, it briefly mentioned at the end of an episode, where it states that the Britsh paratroopers lost upwards of 2.000 men. (There is a good movie about this, its called A BRIDGE TOO FAR, and it stars Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, and Ryan O'Neal, to name but a few.) Most of Arnhem was flattened and had to be rebuilt, but the bridge and the HQ they used survived, the latter is now a Museum. But as a teen, I was bored out of my mind! I just didn't understand or care about the war! The day after we went to the museum, dad wanted to go to see the British War Graves, at Oosterbeek, just outside of Arnhem. When we arrived my parents and uncle, again wanted to read all the "boring" plaques on the walls, so I went off wandering, and for nothing better to do, I started reading the different white headstones. Everyone had their name, rank, regiment, and their age. The avarage age of these paras were in the early - mid 20s, some were in their very early 30s, mainly officers. Then I found a 20yr old, and was surprised. Several stones later i came across some more and a 19 yeear old. I remember thinking, "wow, hes only a couple of yrs older than me!" Several more stones and some more 19 and 20 year olds and them my first 18 year old, and another, and another! As I stood there wondering about who these boys were, I realised that they were only a year older than me! Or less? Had they lied about their age to get into the army? How close were they to 19? Had they only just become 18? Was Arnhem their first battle and they'd died? These boys, who were not old enough to vote, drink a beer or drive a car, but were old enough to jump out of a plane, behind enemy lines, and lay down their lives. It was then that I FINALLY got it! And thats when I lost it and cried my heart out, as I'm doing now, as I write this. My parents hugged me and I explained why I was so upset. I left there that day, with a different attitude. I now watch war films and documentaries. That November, a few months later, my parents didn't have to drag me out of bed, and force me to stand quietly as the Nation remembered in silence. Since that Sunday and EVERY year since, I've stood in remembrance of the men and women who have given their lives serving their country. But mostly, as I stand there, I think of those 18 year old lads, who helped me understand. I've been back to Arnhem and Oosterbeek twice, and both times I sort out those lads to pay my respects to. To say thank you to them for their sacrifice, so that my own daughter could become older than they did. May they and all of those boys Rip. Other notable old war movies to watch based on True events: THE LONGEST DAY - An all star cast, about D-Day. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN -covers the RAF fights. All star cast. THE SCARLET AND THE BLACK - the story about an Irish monsignor who helps Allied soldiers escape Nazi controlled Italy via the Vatican. THE GREAT ESCAPE II:THE UNTOLD STORY -less Hollywood flare closer to real events - Christopher Reeves THE COLDIZ STORY - Allied POW escapes. ESCAPE FROM SOBIBOR - The 1987 version. The true story of largest POW escape in the war. Ove 600 POW escaped a nazi death camp. There are many more good and informative war films, and series, (The Band of Brothers, Tenko,) and documentaries, (The World At War,) to name here as this novel is already too long. But there's a lot more to the war than what it seems that is taught in US schools.

No If one person leaves the cue as long as one of you stays in cue that is fine

As a survivor of 7/7 that face 😢