@@neilisagumI know they would have bothered.and did. Never underestimate loyalty, to on family and country. The guts are still there. Just hope they're not called upon to prove it.
I'm reading the "Splendid and the Vile" right now. Days away from the first sortie(?). The books gives such a great idea of the mindset of the British, Churchill and his Commanders, the manufacturing of planes--civilians asked to keep daily diaries...One of THE SIGNAL events, in history, for me. Amazement, respect and sadness for ALL who aided in the Battle of Britain AND the removal of 345K British and French troops from the French coast with hundreds of smaller craft involved, this when the Germans plowed through France, surrounding these brave men. So many incredible horrible stories, and much heroism to balance the horror.
This is painful to watch coming from an Anglo-German family. My mother was considered a Nazi by my English grandmother, although my mother had opposed the Nazi regime. My grandmother lived in Coventry and experienced the bombing. This is so sad.
🇨🇦As a boy in east London we slept in an Anderson shelter, listened to the drone of counter rotating props ,air raid sirens, and the ack ack guns in the park. We picked up shrapnel in street.we were evacuated twice and finished up in the industrial midlands. I came to Canada in 1958 , it was difficult when I met my first German.
It was a monumental effort by all the people of Britain in so many areas to overcome such a crisis of being invaded by a dangerous enemy. It just goes to show that when a nation and especially civilians come together how much can be achieved. In any crisis that's what is needed and it goes for today. People need to come together to overcome the challenges and problems.dont leave it to governments
I so agree. If we all stick together we can overcome what the government is trying to do to us. Our strength will be in looking after neighbours friends and family x
Churchill was aware that it may be the end of human rights and humanity as we know it, if Hitler would've won. I guess even if Hitler managed to launch operation sea lion and landed troops in Britain, Churchill wouldn't have surrendered or seeked an armistice.
The Battle of Britain, as a boy scout, my troop 224 made a trip to London for the 30th anniversary! Movie Battle of Britain! Came out year before! We went to airfields to listen to the survivor pilots! We didn't appreciate it, till the history was understood! (Time!) My father was in the US military, in Germany!
Most who lived through this time are gone now. These eye witness accounts are invaluable and are testimony of the endurance of the human spirit. I guess everyone lost someone he or she knew. In the 80s I talked to a woman who was 10 yrs old and evacuated from London. Sad times.
I'm 93. I went through all this stuff, (in Liverpool ). I'm currently working on a TV series (somewhat true story) about an actual Liverpool Girl factory worker, and her boyfriend ( a Blenheim pilot). Will be about a year or so before it gets on TV.
@@alanmiller8887 That's fantastic! I've watched quite a bit about England during ww2, the Blitz and London. We need to hear all the voices that experienced those times. Does the movie have a title? I will watch for it!
God bless all those young lads, who without any hesitation, were totally prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice. And further, bless all of the British for their unwillingness to surrender and the commitment to stand up for democracy. The British empire must truly be remembered as heroes in that time. Thank you from a proud Canadian.
Great documentary. My father was an RAF tail gunner in Lancaster bombers during the war and my mother was in the Army and worked in one of those Plotting Rooms.
What a privilege to see this before die. What a wonderful video. Thank you. My darling father Robert Arthur Kerr who was in WW1 as a medic. . How I loved him. Sorry.
Never has so much, been owed to so few! (Pilots) By so many! (Civilians)~40,000-43,000 civilians killed ~46,000-139,000 injured Two million houses damaged or destroyed (60 percent of these in London)
My home town of Hull was heavily bombed but it was never reported because it was a large Port on the English channel,why? When other Ports were commented on,on Beverley Road a road leading to the town center is an old bombed cinema that still stands today,but it looks like after all this time they are starting to do something with it,l think it should left as a memorial to the people who died in those raids over a thousand of them..
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran ( RAF ) pilots sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. A loud shout out to the disillusioned/arrogant Luftwaffe commander in chief Herman Goering. For decimating the German air force. Full of unreasonable/impossible promises. At the expense of pilots & crews. Losses Berlin's disillusioned leadership couldn't afford to loose. Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland ( flying ace ) at times argued with both Hitler 😈 & Goring. About the catastrophic losses of air crafts & experienced pilots. He actually had a camaraderie with fellow pilots. Cared about them. The other 2 considered pilot's as expandable replacements.😇😇😇😇. Giving Britian & Moscow tactical advantages by 1942.
How come those who wring their hands over the British and American bombings of Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden never wring their hands over the German bombings of London, Birmingham Liverpool and Coventry, or for that matter, Warsaw, Rotterdam or Belgrade?
@@adoculos4521 First UK civilian death by German bombing was at the village of Brig O' Waithe in the Orkneys when on 14th March 1940 German bombing of Scapa Flow hit the hamlet and killed a 27 year old road mender named James Isbister.
The RAF did great work but remember a sea bourn invasion would still have to overcome the Royal Navy. Compare the organization required for D-day and what the German navy could provided in 1940
Everything generated in society by the "globalist powers that be" is based solely on "divide and conquer" with everything intended to incite black Vs white.... man Vs woman Vs delusionals..... jew Vs muslim.... gay Vs straight.... boomer Vs millenial.
Air Chief Marshall Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Was The Man For The Job.1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. 📡🧑✈️
The real effects of fascism is a lesson which still needs to be learned and remembered today. How quickly people forget just how horrible it is. With every generation there's the demagogue/megalomaniac with visions of power and glory, and his followers thinking he's the Messiah himself and the 2nd Coming -- with easy, quick answers to complex problems. I always wonder if enough people today watch these documentaries and learn from them. Many learn the right lessons, a few always learn the wrong ones.
You use the word "fascist" when it would be more suitable to say "totalitarian". Ask millions of people what it was like to live and die under than tyranny of left wing ideologues such as Stalin, Ceaucescu, Pol Pot, Mao and Mugabe.
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@@susanbrandt1724 Hi. Are you still out there? I still can't get anyone to listen, who can help bring it to life. We could be far on our way, by Christmas Eve. Our gigantic loophole is that "civil-defense" can not, and must not be - only - another Gov Agency...(FCDA... OCD... FEMA... DHS.). All are born into it. Note the definition of "civil" So, to fix both, since We need both - working well.
@@susanbrandt1724 Watch... PBS: pt 2... ... "Half the Sky"... FET And: "Meet John Doe" ... (Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwick). [Mix the possibilities.]. A matrix NGO, with FET Vets.
"Minute... Men... Women... Kids... Elders..." Neighborhood incident management... Comprehensive contingencies management... "Mustering" to resolve crucial issues, too. And, neighborhood incident management capabilities... Thusly... Basic human survival stuff... To bring "civil defense" back on line... In a 21st century context... Our secondary manual backup system. From your CCMC behind a Desktop Icon. ... Where you have accounted voice and vote. (Food, water, shelter, shielding, medical, health, fire, HazMats, Waste Disposable, republic, security, enforcers, S&R, liaison, logistics...) (Voting/Suffrage, Infrastructure, Environment, Education, Republic, Security, Legislation, Laws, Justice, Culture, Administration, Social, Logistics, Liaison... ... For helping commerce, and governing... ... To mechanize and empower pure direct demos-kratia within a republic. (Note to Greeks. Did I write that reasonable well? If not; correct me!). ... For managing emergencies... ... Like this one...??????????? With... ... Mitigation / prevention ... Preparedness ... Response (planned, and appropriate.) ... Recovery Throughout all Sectors... ... Public, Private, Government By consolidating and coordinating resources... ... (Human, material, information, environmental...) Using.. ... A neutral / objective logistics / liaison Matrix non-profit NGO... ... (Operations [networking] Section) ... With the other NGO Sections, and our "Projects" ... (Admin, Personnel, Operations, Projects, Facilities, Tech, Finance, Memberships, Logistics, Liaison... With "Issues" becoming "NGO Projects"... ... W/ Sub-Projects ... With Missions... .... (Who, What, When, Where, Which, Why, How...) About crucial issues. It's the difference between... ..."civil defense" and "Civil Defense." All are born into "civil defense." Thusly... ... Dare I offer, all we millions of Vets -scattered throughout all neighborhoods - who could build us an excellent - honorable - SOP backbone, in our NGO. ... (Young Vets know the newer systems, and tactic. ... (Older Vets know support and strategy. (Note: I ran Armories Ordnance Systems, in the Marines; but, I've never owned a firearm! Nor, do I care to be a member of a "militia", so a President can order me around, again. No thanks. However, I wouldn't mind us using the Swiss template, of "active and passive civil defense", since such ..."are integral to national security [democracy] posture." (OCD, 1961). And, I've been deep in this craziness, for 60+ years. So, hear me out. It's the only path you have, for realy improving the human condition. Hell! EMI/FEMA used my stuff, as a template. Find Williams "Bill" Thomas, and tell him, I said, "HELP!" "I found it!" .. He'll know what I mean. (Former; MT State, DES Div. Director.) Otherwise, many of my support-people have passed away, but have provided support letters. ... (Supervisory Special Agent Raymond James Dunn ... (Fvcc Instructor... Recommendation; publish 101/201 Text materials. Folks, your welcome to all my research. ... I can WeTransfer. I hope to get it posted, where anyone can access it... ... A place where we can keep it updated, as as our best copies. There's a long hellish story behind it all... ... To shut me down. Folks! This stuff belongs to you, anyway! I'm just trying to get one of the talking-heads to listen.... Finally. Enough, for now. I'll edit, and add more, later. (I'm just a broke, broken, worn out, old guy... Doin this, from a rotting old 20ft RV - where I'm not welcome - in my brother's back yard, with no water or sewage system. Hell! I used to be one of the guys, with a high security clearance, and a suit. I hope to leave this part of me, from what I have left, to give... To, my "Lady"... Liberty!). From an old Marine... Semper Fidelis...!... Standing by........................... Still..........!....?.....
Check 46 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London. It was later rebuilt after being bombed. I used to live there as a child, prior to it being bombed ! A near miss (for me) indeed ! It was the only house in the street destroyed.
@@StuartWhelan-up8vs Born mid 30's. So I actually experienced the London 'Blitz' first hand. (from beneath a kitchen table) Mind you, other cities in Britain also suffered--Coventry for example. Incidentally, the word 'blitz' which was/is a shortened form of 'blitzkrieg', was (is) a German word, meaning lightning strike/war or something similar.
My only ww llstory was peace had been called the neighbor hood my relative was in said all the people brought out tables and chairs n whatever food n drink they had. They all ate drank and cheered cried and took their first real breath in a long time.
When were these interviews made? What company produced this documentary? It must be, obviously, 1980s-1990s vintage? Very few of the people featured, or even people 10 years younger than they, could possibly still be alive now, in 2023. Your lengthy "see more" section makes no mention of the provenance of this documentary. I would like to know more about this film -- who produced it, when it originated, etc...
Well, go off and do some research yourself. This is just a yt channel. Someone looking for stuff to interest their subscribers. Not your personal PAID researcher. You got a free documentary. No gratitude, just a list of ridiculous demands that you appear to believe must be answered because you have rather insultingly listed them. There might have been links to extra edited interviews from these people interviewed, at the time, or additional documentaries. Frankly, with your attitude, I would not reply and block your access to my channel. You appear to think the character of Colonel Blimp is actually aspirational. You do realise he was a universal joke?
That’s a very stupid thing to say. War is war no matter how you think but WW2 was the first war to involve civilians as major targets. Some 500.000+ Germans civilians were killed in bombing and in Japan some 1 million civilians killed so please don’t say Germany and Japan got off easily because that’s not true. Also some 20 million Russians died in horrific circumstances
The couple next door had an anderson shelter in the back garden right up to the 80's. When they had a row or he came home drunk and she locked him out he went and slept in it.
Quite a number of my neighbours as a kid in Liverpool still had their "Andersons" in their gardens being used as garden sheds. At the end of the war you had the option to pay £5 and keep them, otherwise the local council came around to dismantle and take em away.
31:44 Germany did not dig shelters. They built them fastly and almost always above ground from reinforced concrete. Some of them had dual role, being flak towers and same time bomb shelters for public. Many German cities still have them. Its exceedingly difficult to remove them from middle of inner cities. German houses also have proper cellars, which served as food storage/refrigeration. These were great home shelters, with one problem. German salvage crews had different problems than British. They often could correctly guess that all people are alive and well in cellar, but if multistoried apartment building had collapsed above them, there was hurry to open pathway to them to breath and escape. Maybe for this reason communal shelters were built above ground. They had enough job digging cellars open.
@@terrym3837 I think Coventry for sure suffered more damage in a single night's bombing, but cumulatively Hull had much more- I suspect because it was a secondary target for so many other raids if they didn't get through to the main objective. It was 'relatively' easy to find by just following the Humber on the way home and easier still to dump the payload over the city.
I would watch the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin. There are people who want a war with Russia for their own gain. They don’t care about civilians anywhere. An agreement could have been made with Russia earlier. The mainstream media and politicians don’t want people to learn the truth.
Глибоко вражений незламністю і добре підготовленістю до німецької навали на Британію. Нам, українцям, варто в них навчитися єдності, взаємної помочі одне одному. Слава Україні! Хай живе Британія!
The germans made a blunder in starting their campaign late in summer. If they had started earlier the british air defences would have been depleted far earlier and the germans woukd have had air superiority. The delay allowed britain to make aircraft, bombs and defences. The proximity fuse was not yet developed
This documentary certainly sticks to the prescribed view of events. I thought James Holland's documentary on the Battle of Britain was much more informed than this which just repeats The View that's been vomited up since 1940. To think that Churchill was outraged by the bombs accidentally dropped on London is it great example the Antiquated information given to is here.
Accidentally dropped? What about the hundreds of British civilian deaths and casualties during July and August 1940 as a result of the Luftwaffe bombing of RAF Biggin Hill, Northolt, Kenley and Croydon? ALL of which were within the boundaries of "Greater London" that Hitler had expressly forbidden the luftwaffe to bomb.
V2 rockets killed most brits, invented by werner von braun he is now a celbrated hero who also used Jews to build his V2 Tunnnels underground bases he was SS, he was taken on after the war given a big house etc and head of the Apollo Program. Makes me Sick.
Britains 9.11 longer and more devastating and von brauns V1 and 2s added to the trauma As he was valuable to the usa He was sent there after war And wasnt hunted down like Bin laden!
V1 and V2 rockets were produced by slave labour , people from conquered countries in Europe working in terrible and dangerous conditions. Tens of thousands died. The V rockets perhaps only weapons in history that caused more deaths to their makers than to their targets.
Id wanna know how the Luftwafte manage to get all the way to liverpool considering Liverpool is on the west coast of England and Germany is eastbound of the England over the North sea. Over the Irish sea...is Ireland did Germany has bases there? Lol
I mean migrants do the job, France should send millions of them in the UK , they are more efficace than any blitz and bonus is that they are genetically replaced .
Very good documentary. However Women did not fly fighter planes and therefore did not take to the air to fight the Germans as your introduction inferred. Many brave women did risk there lives during the blitz in gun emplacements on the ground firing bofors guns and my aunt Helen was one of these ack ack girls as they were known.
Ladies did fly all fighter aircraft. Although not in combat. They were widely employed in the distribution of new and repaired aircraft from depots to operational units.
@@markspence3295 The "ATA girls" (Air Transport Auxiliaries), although the truth is that the "girls"only made a small, but still hugely important minority, within that service.
Women joined the ATA. They flew everything from tigermoths to lancasters, alone, with no weaponry or radio. They delivered new planes, flew back planes needing work, but flyable, sometimes mistakenly labelled. They flew VIPs and did a taxi service for pilots. They became the first English women workers who earned equal pay with men.
There was NO way the nazis were going to cnquer the UK. True that Britain alone would never have been able to liberated Europe, but there was equally no way that the nazis would have been able to invade Britain in the face of the world's largest navy.
My grandfather was an RAF pilot. Luckily, he lived to tell the tale.
Me too god bless them all. Do you know what plane he flew ❤
Brave man ❤
God bless that generation who fought so that we didn't have to ❤
Thank you to these young RAF pilots you saved Britain and Europe from the devil.
Only to witness the country slowly dismantled by gutless, self serving politicians 😉
And for what ? if they knew what the place would look like 80 years later they wouldnt have bothered.
Britain handled the Blitz only to be betrayed today by the more destructive policies of its own government
@@neilisagumI know they would have bothered.and did. Never underestimate loyalty, to on family and country. The guts are still there. Just hope they're not called upon to prove it.
RAF didn’t save Europe
I'm reading the "Splendid and the Vile" right now. Days away from the first sortie(?). The books gives such a great idea of the mindset of the British, Churchill and his Commanders, the manufacturing of planes--civilians asked to keep daily diaries...One of THE SIGNAL events, in history, for me. Amazement, respect and sadness for ALL who aided in the Battle of Britain AND the removal of 345K British and French troops from the French coast with hundreds of smaller craft involved, this when the Germans plowed through France, surrounding these brave men. So many incredible horrible stories, and much heroism to balance the horror.
This is painful to watch coming from an Anglo-German family. My mother was considered a Nazi by my English grandmother, although my mother had opposed the Nazi regime. My grandmother lived in Coventry and experienced the bombing. This is so sad.
🇨🇦As a boy in east London we slept in an Anderson shelter, listened to the drone of counter rotating props ,air raid sirens, and the ack ack guns in the park. We picked up shrapnel in street.we were evacuated twice and finished up in the industrial midlands. I came to Canada in 1958 , it was difficult when I met my first German.
It was a monumental effort by all the people of Britain in so many areas to overcome such a crisis of being invaded by a dangerous enemy. It just goes to show that when a nation and especially civilians come together how much can be achieved. In any crisis that's what is needed and it goes for today. People need to come together to overcome the challenges and problems.dont leave it to governments
I so agree. If we all stick together we can overcome what the government is trying to do to us. Our strength will be in looking after neighbours friends and family x
@@joannamorgan6911 Keep that message going out amongst your friends & family. Absolutely spot on.
Churchill was aware that it may be the end of human rights and humanity as we know it, if Hitler would've won. I guess even if Hitler managed to launch operation sea lion and landed troops in Britain, Churchill wouldn't have surrendered or seeked an armistice.
The problem is you are labeled 'far right' if you attempt to overcome the challenges imposed by your own government. Oh the irony!
Or told by your Prime Minister, M. Thatcher that there is no thing as Society.
The Battle of Britain, as a boy scout, my troop 224 made a trip to London for the 30th anniversary! Movie Battle of Britain! Came out year before! We went to airfields to listen to the survivor pilots! We didn't appreciate it, till the history was understood! (Time!) My father was in the US military, in Germany!
What a experience thanks for sharing
Interesting?
Most who lived through this time are gone now. These eye witness accounts are invaluable and are testimony of the endurance of the human spirit. I guess everyone lost someone he or she knew. In the 80s I talked to a woman who was 10 yrs old and evacuated from London. Sad times.
I'm 93. I went through all this stuff, (in Liverpool ). I'm currently working on a TV series (somewhat true story) about an actual Liverpool Girl factory worker, and her boyfriend ( a Blenheim pilot). Will be about a year or so before it gets on TV.
@@alanmiller8887 That's fantastic! I've watched quite a bit about England during ww2, the Blitz and London. We need to hear all the voices that experienced those times. Does the movie have a title? I will watch for it!
God bless all those young lads, who without any hesitation, were totally prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice. And further, bless all of the British for their unwillingness to surrender and the commitment to stand up for democracy. The British empire must truly be remembered as heroes in that time. Thank you from a proud Canadian.
An amazing moment in human history.
These personal recollection of this time is priceless. We should never forget the sacrifices made by this, The Greatest Generation! 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
❤❤ total ✅
Thanks from a British lad in Carlisle Cumbria brilliant Documentary... Lest we forget. My grandad too all real heroes ❤❤😢😢
Great documentary. My father was an RAF tail gunner in Lancaster bombers during the war and my mother was in the Army and worked in one of those Plotting Rooms.
Tail gunners had some massive balls total respect to him thanks for sharing ❤
The greatest generation indeed.
My yank dad was a tail gunner and radio man. He told us many stories about being stationed in England.
We are English ancestry. Drakes. ❤🇺🇸
The British people were/are incredible. Keep Calm and Carry On
Well, they did have a large moat surrouding them, which the French didn't.
It was Coventry(at 8,51), not Birmingham or Castle Bromwich, you even showed the bombed Coventry Cathedral....
That was the 1st thing I thought. I have been there quite a few times and recognized the ruins immediately.
Thank you for this video 🌿
HEROES💯✨ RAF 🎯 👏👏👏 WOO HOO‼ “Never Surrender” ✌ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ !
It makes me wonder how my family, as well as thousands of others, made it through the Coventry bombings.
What a privilege to see this before die. What a wonderful video. Thank you. My darling father Robert Arthur Kerr who was in WW1 as a medic. . How I loved him. Sorry.
Never has so much, been owed to so few! (Pilots) By so many! (Civilians)~40,000-43,000 civilians killed ~46,000-139,000 injured Two million houses damaged or destroyed (60 percent of these in London)
The people of Malta witnessed the worst bombing of the whole war
My home town of Hull was heavily bombed but it was never reported because it was a large Port on the English channel,why? When other Ports were commented on,on Beverley Road a road leading to the town center is an old bombed cinema that still stands today,but it looks like after all this time they are starting to do something with it,l think it should left as a memorial to the people who died in those raids over a thousand of them..
When did they move Hull from the North Sea coast to the Channel coast?
@@Pluschap yeh relised I'd got it wrong when I looked at the map,thanks
Absolutely courageous selfless men. Thank you.❤
Interesting and informative. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what/whom the orator was describing. Special thanks to the veteran ( RAF ) pilots sharing personal information/combat experiences making this documentary more authentic and possible. A loud shout out to the disillusioned/arrogant Luftwaffe commander in chief Herman Goering. For decimating the German air force. Full of unreasonable/impossible promises. At the expense of pilots & crews. Losses Berlin's disillusioned leadership couldn't afford to loose. Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland ( flying ace ) at times argued with both Hitler 😈 & Goring. About the catastrophic losses of air crafts & experienced pilots. He actually had a camaraderie with fellow pilots. Cared about them. The other 2 considered pilot's as expandable replacements.😇😇😇😇. Giving Britian & Moscow tactical advantages by 1942.
مرگ بر انگلیس
9::00 minutes in: That's Coventry Cathedral. Coventry was blasted. Flimsy documentary.
I enjoyed watching . Thanks.
How come those who wring their hands over the British and American bombings of Berlin, Hamburg and Dresden never wring their hands over the German bombings of London, Birmingham Liverpool and Coventry, or for that matter, Warsaw, Rotterdam or Belgrade?
Bang on William.
You missed out Scotland!!
@@adoculos4521 Clydebank and others. First bombs dropped on the UK were at RAF Sullom Voe in the Shetland Isles on 13 Oct 1939.
@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Yes, and Leith docks.
@@adoculos4521 First UK civilian death by German bombing was at the village of Brig O' Waithe in the Orkneys when on 14th March 1940 German bombing of Scapa Flow hit the hamlet and killed a 27 year old road mender named James Isbister.
How very Tragic Times must of been?!!
The RAF did great work but remember a sea bourn invasion would still have to overcome the Royal Navy. Compare the organization required for D-day and what the German navy could provided in 1940
My uncle was an American airman in Colchester packing up the bombs for the attack on Berlin. My other uncle was in the U.S. as a flight instructor. ✈️
THANKS FOR THERE SERVICE FROM THE 🇬🇧 ❤
@@StuartWhelan-up8vs You are very welcome. Love the British, such kind people.
Merci Aurelie pour cette traduction je me suis régalée 👍👍❤️
... the bestial things people do to each other !
Please more of this togeetherness. Thanks be to God.
Everything generated in society by the "globalist powers that be" is based solely on "divide and conquer" with everything intended to incite black Vs white.... man Vs woman Vs delusionals..... jew Vs muslim.... gay Vs straight.... boomer Vs millenial.
Air Chief Marshall Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, Was The Man For The Job.1st Baron Dowding, GCB, GCVO, CMG (24 April 1882 - 15 February 1970) Commanding RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain. 📡🧑✈️
Wonderful, gentle, very eccentric man.
Muy buen video la verdad es muy entretenido y además de informativo muy recomendado la verdad
great documentary. Thanks.
Es un gran documental. Felizmente pude leerlo en castellano.
Law Enforcement Police Officers & Firefighters.
The real effects of fascism is a lesson which still needs to be learned and remembered today. How quickly people forget just how horrible it is. With every generation there's the demagogue/megalomaniac with visions of power and glory, and his followers thinking he's the Messiah himself and the 2nd Coming -- with easy, quick answers to complex problems. I always wonder if enough people today watch these documentaries and learn from them. Many learn the right lessons, a few always learn the wrong ones.
You use the word "fascist" when it would be more suitable to say "totalitarian". Ask millions of people what it was like to live and die under than tyranny of left wing ideologues such as Stalin, Ceaucescu, Pol Pot, Mao and Mugabe.
My dad remembers being taken out of bed to go down into the shelter
Great Britain at its best 💨💨💨🕊️
Folks! To keep it from happening, again... Bring true active and passive civil defense back on line... for comprehensive contingencies-management capabilities... Huge possibilities!
Thats a FAR better post.
I thought this exactly! It might get young people as well as older, to come together and be prepared for anything!
@@susanbrandt1724 Hi.
Are you still out there?
I still can't get anyone to listen, who can help bring it to life.
We could be far on our way, by Christmas Eve.
Our gigantic loophole is that "civil-defense" can not, and must not be - only - another Gov Agency...(FCDA... OCD... FEMA... DHS.).
All are born into it.
Note the definition of "civil"
So, to fix both, since We need both - working well.
@@susanbrandt1724 Watch... PBS: pt 2...
... "Half the Sky"... FET
And: "Meet John Doe"
... (Gary Cooper / Barbara Stanwick).
[Mix the possibilities.].
A matrix NGO, with FET Vets.
"Minute... Men... Women... Kids... Elders..."
Neighborhood incident management...
Comprehensive contingencies management...
"Mustering" to resolve crucial issues, too.
And, neighborhood incident management capabilities...
Thusly... Basic human survival stuff...
To bring "civil defense" back on line...
In a 21st century context...
Our secondary manual backup system.
From your CCMC behind a Desktop Icon.
... Where you have accounted voice and vote.
(Food, water, shelter, shielding, medical, health, fire, HazMats, Waste Disposable, republic, security, enforcers, S&R, liaison, logistics...)
(Voting/Suffrage, Infrastructure, Environment, Education, Republic, Security, Legislation, Laws, Justice, Culture, Administration, Social, Logistics, Liaison...
... For helping commerce, and governing...
... To mechanize and empower pure direct demos-kratia within a republic.
(Note to Greeks. Did I write that reasonable well? If not; correct me!).
... For managing emergencies...
... Like this one...???????????
With...
... Mitigation / prevention
... Preparedness
... Response (planned, and appropriate.)
... Recovery
Throughout all Sectors...
... Public, Private, Government
By consolidating and coordinating resources...
... (Human, material, information, environmental...)
Using..
... A neutral / objective logistics / liaison Matrix non-profit NGO...
... (Operations [networking] Section)
... With the other NGO Sections, and our "Projects"
... (Admin, Personnel, Operations, Projects, Facilities, Tech, Finance, Memberships, Logistics, Liaison...
With "Issues" becoming "NGO Projects"...
... W/ Sub-Projects
... With Missions...
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Check 46 Gaisford St, Kentish Town, London. It was later rebuilt after being bombed. I used to live there as a child, prior to it being bombed ! A near miss (for me) indeed ! It was the only house in the street destroyed.
Wow how old are you know glad you got to share your story
@@StuartWhelan-up8vs Born mid 30's. So I actually experienced the London 'Blitz' first hand. (from beneath a kitchen table) Mind you, other cities in Britain also suffered--Coventry for example. Incidentally, the word 'blitz' which was/is a shortened form of 'blitzkrieg', was (is) a German word, meaning lightning strike/war or something similar.
This generation was the finest generation (my parents generation) the UK ever had or will ever had.
My only ww llstory was peace had been called the neighbor hood my relative was in said all the people brought out tables and chairs n whatever food n drink they had. They all ate drank and cheered cried and took their first real breath in a long time.
I bet they where happy too see the end of it my grandad too god bless them thanks for sharing ❤
When were these interviews made? What company produced this documentary? It must be, obviously, 1980s-1990s vintage? Very few of the people featured, or even people 10 years younger than they, could possibly still be alive now, in 2023.
Your lengthy "see more" section makes no mention of the provenance of this documentary. I would like to know more about this film -- who produced it, when it originated, etc...
Well, go off and do some research yourself.
This is just a yt channel. Someone looking for stuff to interest their subscribers.
Not your personal PAID researcher.
You got a free documentary. No gratitude, just a list of ridiculous demands that you appear to believe must be answered because you have rather insultingly listed them.
There might have been links to extra edited interviews from these people interviewed, at the time, or additional documentaries.
Frankly, with your attitude, I would not reply and block your access to my channel.
You appear to think the character of Colonel Blimp is actually aspirational. You do realise he was a universal joke?
The cost of ignorance is high... it shows itself in Americans emulating Nazis.
Germany and Japan got off easy
That’s a very stupid thing to say. War is war no matter how you think but WW2 was the first war to involve civilians as major targets. Some 500.000+ Germans civilians were killed in bombing and in Japan some 1 million civilians killed so please don’t say Germany and Japan got off easily because that’s not true.
Also some 20 million Russians died in horrific circumstances
Germany was raped and Japan had two atom bombs dropped on them. Yep they got off lightly.
The couple next door had an anderson shelter in the back garden right up to the 80's. When they had a row or he came home drunk and she locked him out he went and slept in it.
Quite a number of my neighbours as a kid in Liverpool still had their "Andersons" in their gardens being used as garden sheds. At the end of the war you had the option to pay £5 and keep them, otherwise the local council came around to dismantle and take em away.
31:44 Germany did not dig shelters. They built them fastly and almost always above ground from reinforced concrete. Some of them had dual role, being flak towers and same time bomb shelters for public. Many German cities still have them. Its exceedingly difficult to remove them from middle of inner cities. German houses also have proper cellars, which served as food storage/refrigeration. These were great home shelters, with one problem. German salvage crews had different problems than British. They often could correctly guess that all people are alive and well in cellar, but if multistoried apartment building had collapsed above them, there was hurry to open pathway to them to breath and escape. Maybe for this reason communal shelters were built above ground. They had enough job digging cellars open.
RUclips won't permit the link, but i believe Hull was the second most bombed city after London.
You are spot on it was flattened
@@terrym3837 I think Coventry for sure suffered more damage in a single night's bombing, but cumulatively Hull had much more- I suspect because it was a secondary target for so many other raids if they didn't get through to the main objective. It was 'relatively' easy to find by just following the Humber on the way home and easier still to dump the payload over the city.
@@coyhutt8022 Hull often gets overlooked it had 82 raids on it but as you say it’s geography also helped Luftwaffe
@@terrym3837 wasn't it only ever referred to as a 'north east town'? The council had a good go at destroying most of what the Luftwaffe missed
@@coyhutt8022 yes it was known as a North East Town most councils cause more damage then then the Luftwaffe
Please, someone explain to me, what is the difference between helping Great Britain then and helping Ukraine now. I’ll wait.
I would watch the Tucker Carlson interview with Putin. There are people who want a war with Russia for their own gain. They don’t care about civilians anywhere. An agreement could have been made with Russia earlier. The mainstream media and politicians don’t want people to learn the truth.
Глибоко вражений незламністю і добре підготовленістю до німецької навали на Британію. Нам, українцям, варто в них навчитися єдності, взаємної помочі одне одному. Слава Україні! Хай живе Британія!
They really were the greatest generation.
When was this documentary made? From the ages of the interviewees, I'm guessing it was some time in the '80s, but maybe the '90s?
This keeps going back and forth time line wise, which makes it impossible to follow.
The Brits did a great job staying together when things got tough. America too. Not sure that would happen today??
Things didn't get tough for America?
The germans made a blunder in starting their campaign late in summer. If they had started earlier the british air defences would have been depleted far earlier and the germans woukd have had air superiority. The delay allowed britain to make aircraft, bombs and defences. The proximity fuse was not yet developed
Ouch, That Hitler was a real meanie.
This documentary certainly sticks to the prescribed view of events. I thought James Holland's documentary on the Battle of Britain was much more informed than this which just repeats The View that's been vomited up since 1940. To think that Churchill was outraged by the bombs accidentally dropped on London is it great example the Antiquated information given to is here.
Accidentally dropped? What about the hundreds of British civilian deaths and casualties during July and August 1940 as a result of the Luftwaffe bombing of RAF Biggin Hill, Northolt, Kenley and Croydon? ALL of which were within the boundaries of "Greater London" that Hitler had expressly forbidden the luftwaffe to bomb.
ROYAL NAVY NETHER RECIVED THE PRAISE THAT THEY EARNED IN THE 2 WORLD WAR
V2 rockets killed most brits, invented by werner von braun he is now a celbrated hero who also used Jews to build his V2 Tunnnels underground bases he was SS, he was taken on after the war given a big house etc and head of the Apollo Program. Makes me Sick.
Now we are told to drive at 20mph. Fuc em
Yes bad but don't hear about theblitz in clydebank
what about BELFAST?
Great documentary, you guys showed those Nazis what you were made of and we all in the free world owe you our freedom.
Coming to America!
Britains 9.11 longer and more devastating and von brauns
V1 and 2s added to the trauma
As he was valuable to the usa
He was sent there after war
And wasnt hunted down like
Bin laden!
V1 and V2 rockets were produced by slave labour , people from conquered countries in Europe working in terrible and dangerous conditions. Tens of thousands died. The V rockets perhaps only weapons in history that caused more deaths to their makers than to their targets.
Why is Russia so reviled and not Germany.
Sadly all their hard work was for nothing as we got invaded and taken over anyway
The transcription of the spoken monologue is really lousy!!!!
Acá, mejorando mi "listening" 🤗
Id wanna know how the Luftwafte manage to get all the way to liverpool considering Liverpool is on the west coast of England and Germany is eastbound of the England over the North sea. Over the Irish sea...is Ireland did Germany has bases there? Lol
Bases on north france
My Grandpa helped people during the blitz sadly he got killed by the Germans so I will let my anger out Sighs here we go HOW COULD YOU GERMANY
i hope England get a new Blitz!
Lol, so does most people in England, wales and Scotland..
I mean migrants do the job, France should send millions of them in the UK , they are more efficace than any blitz and bonus is that they are genetically replaced .
Why do these videos always have such bloody awful background music? It spoils the whole experience.
27:20
Very good documentary. However Women did not fly fighter planes and therefore did not take to the air to fight the Germans as your introduction inferred. Many brave women did risk there lives during the blitz in gun emplacements on the ground firing bofors guns and my aunt Helen was one of these ack ack girls as they were known.
Ladies did fly all fighter aircraft. Although not in combat. They were widely employed in the distribution of new and repaired aircraft from depots to operational units.
@@markspence3295 The "ATA girls" (Air Transport Auxiliaries), although the truth is that the "girls"only made a small, but still hugely important minority, within that service.
Women joined the ATA. They flew everything from tigermoths to lancasters, alone, with no weaponry or radio.
They delivered new planes, flew back planes needing work, but flyable, sometimes mistakenly labelled.
They flew VIPs and did a taxi service for pilots. They became the first English women workers who earned equal pay with men.
Seen a few graves for Ats some where a car crash god bless them brave as hell flew damaged planes to get fixed 😢
Yes its bad about rhe blitz in london .however dont hear about reast of fhe couny ots all about London
The winner writes history ww2
In this case - thank goodness. Or would you have preferred this history to be told by Nazi Germany!
Why? How does YOUR version of it go?
Iv often wondered if pearl harbour didn't happen would the English have survived I seriously doubt it
There was NO way the nazis were going to cnquer the UK. True that Britain alone would never have been able to liberated Europe, but there was equally no way that the nazis would have been able to invade Britain in the face of the world's largest navy.