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My mother as a young girl was bending down to pick up something in the kitchen just as a V1 landed and destroyed all the houses next door and blew her across the room. I remember her describing how glass was everywhere and her father running across it in bare feet to find her. Fantastic video and thanks for sharing.
My political science professor mentioned a story of how his mom was from a well off family living in sort of a mansion. One day his mom's family was right outside in the field and saw a rocket in the sky fall down right on top of their mansion. Didn't say the extent of the damage.
@@skyhappywho's mom?, never heard a cockney call their mam mom?, fortunately where these missiles was landing it wasnt anything like bell air, or savanah Georgia..just working class neighbourhoods, filled with working class and the poor...
Those rockets fell on Belgium too. My mother was a child in WW2. She told the rockets made a terrifying noise. But if the noise suddenly stopped they knew the rocket was coming down.
@@bigmojito1765 Yep but the algorithms are getting better. I think within 5 years we can "recreate" old footage like this in 4K and exact color reproduction. All the data that is missing in these videos will be "dreamt" up by AI. Kind of like now, but much better.
@@Republic3D Wish he would specify it in the title so we know that its been upscaled. The video is just way to sharp and the color is temporally inconsistent
My mother and father were children during the war and both survived. They both lived in East Ham and recalled the terror of the V1 rockets flying overhead. You preyed that it did not go silent as they were passing overhead. If it did you knew they were falling in your vinicity. My mother recalled the day a V1 flew overhead and then silence. It was a direct hit on the Jelly factory around the corner. She recalled as a child searching the rubble for Jelly with all the other local children. My mother has since passed. God rest her soul.
@@sharondryden340 you should be thinking how rude it is to make like and poke fun a devastating events, as with the poster referencing jellow and east Ham, anybody with any sort of brain cell unless yankee which they obviously are would know its Hammersmith!!!, absolutely discracefull mericans talk as if this is overblown noncence due to the fact theve never witnessed such horror, the karma is for them the first time ever thell feel what it is like will be nuclear...
my mum always said amongst the carnage she had some of the best days of her life in the war and very seldom went down a bomb shelter looking at this footage i always new she was mad
@@RevenantCX I seriously have to find out. The narrator mentions all the supplies of glass, etc, everything needed to rebuild. It created prosperity to post war years. Brought us out of Depression era. Sardonic catch 22 satire. A real Kurt Vonnegut theme.
My Nan was a child in the war when this was going on. A V-1 went overhead. Fell silent and landed a few streets away. She also recalls her mother telling her that a bomb from a He-111 landed directly on top of her house and she was blown out of her cot across the street. She miraculously survived with little injuries. I can’t even begin to fathom a time like this. What a dark part of history but what amazing stories they all have to share. It’s a shame day by day we are losing so many of these people with their amazing stories. A truly different generation and the best generation in my opinion! God bless all those that had to suffer❤
I finished a book called "12 seconds of silence" a couple days ago and was captivated by the story it told about the smart fuse American scientists had developed during WWII. Those specially made fuse tubes were attached to the tips of the ammunitions and could be detonated beside a plane accurately, an incredible accomplishment at that time. London was practically saved by these smart fuses in 1944, when Nazis bombed the city with autopiloted V1s. I was trying to look for any existing footage of the anti-aircraft guns firing at London, and I stumbled upon this amazing video! Thanks for sharing!
The V1 was the first ever self flying missile created. The successor of the V1, the V2, was even the first ballistic missile ever and also the first man Made object in space (over 100km, the Karman line). When we look at footage of WW2 we always see this "old" war and the old times but those rockets are modern warfare. The V2 launched and found their target (still not perfectly tho, they missed a lot of times) and could fly at the speed of sound. Those people went through the horrors of modern warfare, the same stuff some people around the world are still going through.
The V2 was a hypersonic weapon, just like the ones fired at Ukraine today. It could travel over five times the speed of sound. It was also militarily useless, as it was very inaccurate. The germans fired 11 to take out a bridge, the closest landed 400 yards away, the furthest 40 miles away. The rest were all many miles away.
My Grandad grew up in Britain during the war. He said that one day, he was about 11-12 years old, and walking along a country path with his dad. Then, all of a sudden, his dad crash-tackled him to the ground and pinned him there. He managed to look up a saw a V-1 flying across the sky.
Soon, there will be no one left alive from this brave generation that lived through hell. England will be the worse for it too. A brilliant video, thank you. Neil
As a resident of Kyiv I can now relate so much to these scenes. It feels just the same. Indiscriminate shelling of civil infrastructure and peaceful cities by the russian missiles, residents cleaning up the rubble after massive shelling, air raid sirens, the thunder of anti aircraft weapon working near by, this is our daily reality. This is what happens when fascism (ruzzism) gets out of the bottle again. This is pure terrorism.
They mean stamps to exclude you from battle, or to leave, your a nurse, blackout warden, fireman, firewatcher, AAA gunner, or rescuer and debri remover..or tea and soup kitchen..literally everyone in it together until final victory..
@@wor53lg50Leaving wasnt an option for the British in World War ll . Europe was occupied and the US and commonwealth where out of reach Otherwise there would have been British Refugees .
@@hannahdyson7129 no not at all?, in fact many did go canada and america and some did risk the perilous journey past u boats to oz before japan? It was mainly kids beleive it or not, adults preferred to stay and due their duty, even the royals and many aristocrats what, a silly thing and totally irrelevant thing you say? ....
Living in Kyiv all through the war and being bombarded by missiles. Hearing and seeing cruise missiles, kamikaze drones. You automatically draw parallels with what you see in this video. With what the people of Southern England and London experienced in those years. And the only thing you hope for is the marksmanship of the air defence force.
My mother took my brother to the welfare in Somers Town in his new pram which she'd had to wait for. She chained the new pram to the railings with a padlock to stop it getting nicked while she was inside. A V2 was heard inside and the mothers all flung themselves to the floor protecting their babies. After the bang she went outside to see all the other mothers' prams blown down the road. Her new pram chassis was still safely chained to the railings, but the top was gone forever.
It always baffles how some people are so quick to say they want to go to war. Most of the people in the U.S. that are saying they want a civil war have no idea how awful the reality of that would be and how unlikely their grievances will be quelled.
Americans say that because there hasn’t been war on the mainland since the civil war ended in 1865. They no longer know what it’s like to be occupied by an enemy force, or to have their peaceful neighborhoods bombed.
I've never seen anyone truly support the idea of a civil war. Some states talk about separation but I'm pretty sure no one but the clinically insane would suggest that.
@@damntravis6056 just curious, what do you mean exactly? What do you consider taking "wanting a civil war" seriously? What does one have to do? I ask because I've listened to right-wing media fetish rants where they daydream about getting to use their guns and it's not isolated to one small group. It's a huge swath of the right-wing media apparatus that's taking about it. I've never hoped for the chance to use military grade weapons to mow down my neighbors just for having a different political worldview... just for a point of comparison.
My grandad was doing structural repairs at the Woolwich Arsenal. One day they heard a Doodlebug so they went up on the roof to spot it and it came down pretty close and the roof jumped up. He never did that again.. My other grandad was a V1 spotter and flak gunner at an RAF base near Folkestone. He said he was in an old newsreel film doing this, so maybe he is one of those gunners in the film!
Well, eventually it will. But we'll just find some other way to go to war with each other. Hell, we're already seeing that with political instability in every western country.
..."Extensively," in this case is a very subjective term. From what I can discern, 10-15,000 V1s were launched, and A little over 3,000 V2s were launched. So, certainly there were 4x more V1s used, but that's not as big of a gap as one might otherwise typically believe. Besides, given that the V2 cost about 20x more than the V1 but delivered a similar payload, I imagine that the V1 would have always been the more popular weapon with German armed forced no matter how long the war had gone on.
My mother lived in Kent, and they used to hear them go overhead, then duck, when the noise stopped, and a big bang close by. The ack ack shell debris rained down all over the village roofs. Dangerous to watch dogfights in case spent shells and plane bits fell on you. Sometimes a crashing plane blew up nearby, and pilots floated down, the Old Boys of the Home Guard would rush to round them up, dangerous if you were a British flyer, many got killed by mistake. The rubble went under US Airfield runways in the Midlands, if you want to know, including the remains of Coventry after it was blitzed.
Amazing footage of familiar scenes. I was a young child throughout WW2 in London. We never worried much about V1 rockets, only when it went silent it got scary. Had few come down fairly close. Much bigger problem was the V2 rockets. They flew fast and high. When one dropped through the clouds there was very little time to take shelter.
@@andynixon2820 That was a perfectly reasonable comment for me to make and i will stand by it. I will explain my thought processes further if you require.
Grandfather was shooting at V1 with 40mm Bofors near Antwerp in 44. V1''s also overshot London to land in home counties and air launched missiles aimed at Manchester and Merseyside hit the Peak District.
Thank you for sharing your work with me and my family! God bless you and your keeping and restoration of these priceless memories and film stories and documented history exactly how it happened in time 80 year's ago almost now in the British Isles where the one half of my family originally came from. Scotland and Wales! God bless your heart for the time and work with this documentary about London and Southern coastal regions. If you have any more, I would love to see them.
History like this needs to be taught no, burned into the minds of school children. Force them to see and understand what bravery and evil really are. They won't learn how we got here by binging on Tik Tok. They can build a better future but, only by embracing the true history of our past.
Humans continue to repeat horrific history. How can anyone watch this and not think of the Drones falling on the cities of Ukraine day after day. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
The usa engineered this war in ukraine when they helped overthrow the ukrainian government in 2014.Installed a usa puppet government in ukraine then the usa backed and funded ukrainian nationalist and neo nazi who then went out and harrased and killed ethnic Russians in the east and south of ukraine a direct provocation created by the usa against russia
I always imagine what it would be like if something like this happened today with how the world is so connected with each other. Also assuming that nuclear bombs never existed or will be used because we all know the outcome of those…
london bombed continious until end of the war. between fall of france and invasion of ussr German airraids so intensified almost every night called The Blitz
What the Germans did to London back then with the V1 and V2, the Russians are doing to Ukraine today with their drones. It's cruel, it's cowardly, but it's doomed to fail.
I remember this. So many V1. So much waste. The happiness at the beginning, and then the fear. The enemy over powering us but the expectancy of a new tomorrow. A return to how we were and to once again dominate our foes. When i sent the last V1 to Britannia i thought it was time to get the hell out of there and head to Argentina. Oh well, Mein Fuhrer, there's always the Falklands to invade!
The usa engineered this ukraine war.Remember the usa and its illegal invasion of iraq in 2003 that caused the deaths of at least 250000 Iraq's.Rember the usa and its illegal bombing of Cambodia by B52s in 1973 that killed 100000s of cambodians
My mother is English, told me a story about these, family went to back yard shelter, there was a big house next door, when they came out shelter, it wasn't there
I guess the Ukrainian army is really advancing fast, if the bots are so desperate that they're using google translate to spread their nonsense. Lovely! Glory to our brave soldiers. Чел, перекладач тебе не врятує, могилізація вже близько.
@@Snaildriver in what way??, the only thing it does represent is the truth, so how is it not, is it a lie ive told then?..the more people keep using that waysist card the quicker it wears out, that wolf getting closer and closer with that boy evey time its clumsily used...
UK started the bombing campaign UK refused 3+ peace treaties offered by Hitler its pretty clear UK knew it had backing of multiple nations (UK+CANADA etc) under its belt.
Nope, a german wayward bomber got lost and dropped its bombs on a civilian area which killed people, next day Churchill sent 30 or so handley paige's to Berlin in reprisal, all though a few did get to berlin, many got downed on the journey and on the way back, causing a third not to return, the few bombs that did get dropped insensed hitler as it had done churchill so the blitz began..ending with sow the wind, reap the whirlwind...
@@HuplesCat The Luftwaffe bombed the East End first so the RAF gave them some of their own medicine plus the fact it was a shock to the nazis that British bombers could reach Germany and a morale booster to the UK.
If Nazi Germany had developed the Me-262 and the V1 and V2 missiles at the beginning of WW2, in 1940 or 1941, I don't know what would have been the fate of the allies! My God!
I highly doubt they would make a difference. Considering of how limited Germany’s resources were. They would struggle to produce enough. Even so, they would lose train engineers, pilots, chemist, etc throughout the war. The Germans would undoubtedly lose.
Same with Kjiv : even some russian missiles are like a reversed V-1 Same goal: terror from a desperate tiran, a pointless offensive Military benefit : close to zero, as in 1944
And now compare the destruction in London or other cities to the destruction of Warsaw in Poland. Of course, the damage here was not caused by the V1 rocket, but by the Germans through direct military actions.
destruction of the americas by UK destruction of africa by UK destruction of asia by UK they had it coming but it was shortlived thank God for luminati they are ''free'' from persecution
Это надо русским показывать, а то они думают что война была только у них, а остальные страны без крови сдались((( что русские только воевали и победа только благодаря им наступила (((
It's remarkable to see also the effect of a tonne of explosives and the wide percussion effect compared to the previous blitz era bombs. Although traumatic they were flawed as they couldn't due to technical limitations of the time be specifically guided to a particular target thus in effect a terror weapon with some stategic effect but not a tactical weapon. Looking at in silence in colour makes it easier to relate to
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My mother as a young girl was bending down to pick up something in the kitchen just as a V1 landed and destroyed all the houses next door and blew her across the room. I remember her describing how glass was everywhere and her father running across it in bare feet to find her. Fantastic video and thanks for sharing.
My political science professor mentioned a story of how his mom was from a well off family living in sort of a mansion. One day his mom's family was right outside in the field and saw a rocket in the sky fall down right on top of their mansion. Didn't say the extent of the damage.
Thanks for your testimony, though poignant as it is ...😞
Comical recording considering what both USA and UK did to Germany and Japan. Firebombing civilians, burning children and women alive purposely.
@@skyhappywho's mom?, never heard a cockney call their mam mom?, fortunately where these missiles was landing it wasnt anything like bell air, or savanah Georgia..just working class neighbourhoods, filled with working class and the poor...
@@wor53lg50 I think you need to re-evaluate your assessment of Savannah Georgia.
Those rockets fell on Belgium too. My mother was a child in WW2. She told the rockets made a terrifying noise. But if the noise suddenly stopped they knew the rocket was coming down.
I recognize this sound from Battlefield V, you know the bomb is coming when the sound stops all of a sudden
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet 😅 dude they are talking about the real war
@@nyctophilecat No shit bro he was making a comparison to battlefield V you fucking genius.
@@nyctophilecatlol
@@GratDuForloradeArgumentet please show more respect
this is some of the best quality war footage I've ever come across
It's been restored with Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
With that stupid music? You must be kidding!
@@Republic3D Yeah the color is super off
@@bigmojito1765 Yep but the algorithms are getting better. I think within 5 years we can "recreate" old footage like this in 4K and exact color reproduction. All the data that is missing in these videos will be "dreamt" up by AI. Kind of like now, but much better.
@@Republic3D Wish he would specify it in the title so we know that its been upscaled. The video is just way to sharp and the color is temporally inconsistent
My mother and father were children during the war and both survived. They both lived in East Ham and recalled the terror of the V1 rockets flying overhead. You preyed that it did not go silent as they were passing overhead. If it did you knew they were falling in your vinicity. My mother recalled the day a V1 flew overhead and then silence. It was a direct hit on the Jelly factory around the corner. She recalled as a child searching the rubble for Jelly with all the other local children. My mother has since passed. God rest her soul.
From west Ham My parent were stuck in a pram and down the roford rd until me nan said "enough" and went back home to E17 statford!
Indeed poor dear may she rest peacefully now
@@sharondryden340 you should be thinking how rude it is to make like and poke fun a devastating events, as with the poster referencing jellow and east Ham, anybody with any sort of brain cell unless yankee which they obviously are would know its Hammersmith!!!, absolutely discracefull mericans talk as if this is overblown noncence due to the fact theve never witnessed such horror, the karma is for them the first time ever thell feel what it is like will be nuclear...
Thank you for this, My mother and her family lived through this in London; some of the stories are incredible. Here in the US, no idea.
As a child, my mother saw burning freighters that had been torpedoed off the coast of Long Island. U-boats were quite active there.
my mum always said amongst the carnage she had some of
the best days of her life in the war
and very seldom went down a bomb shelter
looking at this footage i always new she was mad
My respect goes to your mother
Astounding it was humanly possible to remove all that carnage. Where did they put it? How many years?
@@RevenantCX I seriously have to find out. The narrator mentions all the supplies of glass, etc, everything needed to rebuild. It created prosperity to post war years. Brought us out of Depression era. Sardonic catch 22 satire. A real Kurt Vonnegut theme.
There were still bombed out houses in East London in the mid 80's when I lived there.
I'm not too sure but I believe some of the brickwork was removed much further east.
@@dellawrence4323 That seriously is pathetic from The British government, why did it take so long to even clean up those bombed out sites?
A lot went to New York city and forms part of a coastal road in the southern part iirc?
My Nan was a child in the war when this was going on. A V-1 went overhead. Fell silent and landed a few streets away. She also recalls her mother telling her that a bomb from a He-111 landed directly on top of her house and she was blown out of her cot across the street. She miraculously survived with little injuries.
I can’t even begin to fathom a time like this. What a dark part of history but what amazing stories they all have to share. It’s a shame day by day we are losing so many of these people with their amazing stories. A truly different generation and the best generation in my opinion!
God bless all those that had to suffer❤
I finished a book called "12 seconds of silence" a couple days ago and was captivated by the story it told about the smart fuse American scientists had developed during WWII. Those specially made fuse tubes were attached to the tips of the ammunitions and could be detonated beside a plane accurately, an incredible accomplishment at that time. London was practically saved by these smart fuses in 1944, when Nazis bombed the city with autopiloted V1s. I was trying to look for any existing footage of the anti-aircraft guns firing at London, and I stumbled upon this amazing video! Thanks for sharing!
If you mean the Proximity Fuse that was a British invention developed in America
@@Matelot123thats shared with America under the tizard mission..
Watching this, people killing each other in a barbaric and cruel way, it all seems insane but we keep on doing it
And we will continue to do it until we destroy all humanity with nuclear weapons.
Because unfortunatly there always gonna be greedy & blood/power thirsty individuals who want to watch the rest suffer.
No one cares
@@joseydugo6227 yeah average American😅
@@datacollector345 yeah we’re not weak like you untermenzchen
When will humanity stop going to war because a few tell them to.
People don’t tell them to, politicians make wars!
This looks so much like Irpin, Ukraine, where I live now. It’s like some kind of bloody time-loop.
war is just a loop. You would be amazed at how much war today is alike war back then.
Slava Ukraini
@@anomalyp8584 apart from drones. And satellites. Nightvision. Artillery shells that can hit with 3m accuracy from 200km away.
@@TransoceanicOutreach to a certain extent. But ALOT of stuff is just straight out of ww2 and ww1
@@TransoceanicOutreach FYI they had night vision tech in WW2
The V1 was the first ever self flying missile created.
The successor of the V1, the V2, was even the first ballistic missile ever and also the first man Made object in space (over 100km, the Karman line). When we look at footage of WW2 we always see this "old" war and the old times but those rockets are modern warfare. The V2 launched and found their target (still not perfectly tho, they missed a lot of times) and could fly at the speed of sound. Those people went through the horrors of modern warfare, the same stuff some people around the world are still going through.
The V2 was a hypersonic weapon, just like the ones fired at Ukraine today. It could travel over five times the speed of sound. It was also militarily useless, as it was very inaccurate. The germans fired 11 to take out a bridge, the closest landed 400 yards away, the furthest 40 miles away. The rest were all many miles away.
My Grandad grew up in Britain during the war. He said that one day, he was about 11-12 years old, and walking along a country path with his dad. Then, all of a sudden, his dad crash-tackled him to the ground and pinned him there. He managed to look up a saw a V-1 flying across the sky.
God bless Great Britain for not bowing to terror …they richly deserve the Word Great !
Soon, there will be no one left alive from this brave generation that lived through hell.
England will be the worse for it too.
A brilliant video, thank you.
Neil
As a resident of Kyiv I can now relate so much to these scenes. It feels just the same. Indiscriminate shelling of civil infrastructure and peaceful cities by the russian missiles, residents cleaning up the rubble after massive shelling, air raid sirens, the thunder of anti aircraft weapon working near by, this is our daily reality. This is what happens when fascism (ruzzism) gets out of the bottle again. This is pure terrorism.
@@HuplesCat Yes. Yes they did
They mean stamps to exclude you from battle, or to leave, your a nurse, blackout warden, fireman, firewatcher, AAA gunner, or rescuer and debri remover..or tea and soup kitchen..literally everyone in it together until final victory..
@@wor53lg50Leaving wasnt an option for the British in World War ll . Europe was occupied and the US and commonwealth where out of reach
Otherwise there would have been British Refugees .
@@hannahdyson7129 no not at all?, in fact many did go canada and america and some did risk the perilous journey past u boats to oz before japan? It was mainly kids beleive it or not, adults preferred to stay and due their duty, even the royals and many aristocrats what, a silly thing and totally irrelevant thing you say? ....
@@wor53lg50Most left post war . Too dangerous with the U boats
And the " Blitz spirt " was a huge myth
Living in Kyiv all through the war and being bombarded by missiles. Hearing and seeing cruise missiles, kamikaze drones. You automatically draw parallels with what you see in this video. With what the people of Southern England and London experienced in those years. And the only thing you hope for is the marksmanship of the air defence force.
Your channel is truly one of the finest on RUclips. Thank you.
My mother took my brother to the welfare in Somers Town in his new pram which she'd had to wait for. She chained the new pram to the railings with a padlock to stop it getting nicked while she was inside. A V2 was heard inside and the mothers all flung themselves to the floor protecting their babies. After the bang she went outside to see all the other mothers' prams blown down the road. Her new pram chassis was still safely chained to the railings, but the top was gone forever.
"It's like seeing snakes if you don't like snakes, only worse."
Lmao I couldn't believe my ears when he said that.
It always baffles how some people are so quick to say they want to go to war. Most of the people in the U.S. that are saying they want a civil war have no idea how awful the reality of that would be and how unlikely their grievances will be quelled.
Americans say that because there hasn’t been war on the mainland since the civil war ended in 1865. They no longer know what it’s like to be occupied by an enemy force, or to have their peaceful neighborhoods bombed.
I've never seen anyone truly support the idea of a civil war. Some states talk about separation but I'm pretty sure no one but the clinically insane would suggest that.
@@damntravis6056 just curious, what do you mean exactly? What do you consider taking "wanting a civil war" seriously? What does one have to do? I ask because I've listened to right-wing media fetish rants where they daydream about getting to use their guns and it's not isolated to one small group. It's a huge swath of the right-wing media apparatus that's taking about it.
I've never hoped for the chance to use military grade weapons to mow down my neighbors just for having a different political worldview... just for a point of comparison.
I'm homeless, now, from feeding the poor. I'm not supposed to be bitter, am I?
People are foolish. War means death, for everyone. Nobody wins.
Wow! Amazing footage. Thank you!
Imagine all the ordinance falling down on top of you from them guns
Others may have written the British off...except for the British. When it all ended, they were bloodied, but they weren't defeated.
My grandad was doing structural repairs at the Woolwich Arsenal. One day they heard a Doodlebug so they went up on the roof to spot it and it came down pretty close and the roof jumped up. He never did that again..
My other grandad was a V1 spotter and flak gunner at an RAF base near Folkestone. He said he was in an old newsreel film doing this, so maybe he is one of those gunners in the film!
The same thing is still happening in Ukraine today. It will never end.
Yes, Ukrainian Nazis firing HIMARS onto civilian targets.
Of course it will
Well, eventually it will. But we'll just find some other way to go to war with each other. Hell, we're already seeing that with political instability in every western country.
It will. It just doesn't feel like it at the moment. x
Nice to see an American War Correspondent giving Brits some credit.
Omg, this channel is amazing... really thank you for your work!
The V1 was bad but thank god the war ended before the V2 could be used extensively.
..."Extensively," in this case is a very subjective term. From what I can discern, 10-15,000 V1s were launched, and A little over 3,000 V2s were launched.
So, certainly there were 4x more V1s used, but that's not as big of a gap as one might otherwise typically believe.
Besides, given that the V2 cost about 20x more than the V1 but delivered a similar payload, I imagine that the V1 would have always been the more popular weapon with German armed forced no matter how long the war had gone on.
I was on the wrong end of a VI, and two of my friends were on the wrong end of a V2, a few too many fell on London.
@@arthurwebber-g4l stop it you werent alive🤡
My mother lived in Kent, and they used to hear them go overhead, then duck, when the noise stopped, and a big bang close by. The ack ack shell debris rained down all over the village roofs. Dangerous to watch dogfights in case spent shells and plane bits fell on you. Sometimes a crashing plane blew up nearby, and pilots floated down, the Old Boys of the Home Guard would rush to round them up, dangerous if you were a British flyer, many got killed by mistake. The rubble went under US Airfield runways in the Midlands, if you want to know, including the remains of Coventry after it was blitzed.
Amazing footage of familiar scenes. I was a young child throughout WW2 in London. We never worried much about V1 rockets, only when it went silent it got scary. Had few come down fairly close. Much bigger problem was the V2 rockets. They flew fast and high. When one dropped through the clouds there was very little time to take shelter.
Superb. Thank you for this. Every Londoner should see this. (Including, and especially, those who had no ancestors in London at that time)
One thing that's always been constant throughout history is war and its innocent people that are aways the one that end up getting hurt the most.
Walk those same streets now and you have to remind yourself you ARE still in England.
That's a ridiculous comment .
@@andynixon2820 go visit and see what it has become.
@@andynixon2820 That was a perfectly reasonable comment for me to make and i will stand by it. I will explain my thought processes further if you require.
@@shanestewart4905 Don't bother. Andy probably reads the Guardian and thinks white people colonised black England.
Take your racism somewhere elee. We fought the war against people like you.
Grandfather was shooting at V1 with 40mm Bofors near Antwerp in 44. V1''s also overshot London to land in home counties and air launched missiles aimed at Manchester and Merseyside hit the Peak District.
Thank you for sharing your work with me and my family! God bless you and your keeping and restoration of these priceless memories and film stories and documented history exactly how it happened in time 80 year's ago almost now in the British Isles where the one half of my family originally came from. Scotland and Wales! God bless your heart for the time and work with this documentary about London and Southern coastal regions. If you have any more, I would love to see them.
History like this needs to be taught no, burned into the minds of school children. Force them to see and understand what bravery and evil really are. They won't learn how we got here by binging on Tik Tok. They can build a better future but, only by embracing the true history of our past.
Long live England , the country that never gives up!
The Russians are using Kamakazie drones in Ukraine that are essentially the flying boms of WWII except now it's Kyev and not London.
They target military objectives, unlike the missiles the Ukranians have been deliberately firing at civilians since 2014.
Kamikaze*
The other side too...
Humans continue to repeat horrific history. How can anyone watch this and not think of the Drones falling on the cities of Ukraine day after day. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
@@Aiden-cl7cz Eff Russia
Eff em both..
@@wor53lg50I bet you are Amercain
The text and subtext, damn.
Keep calm and carry on. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Wonderfully colorized.
Though sadly this may become a reality again in the next few years.
Amazing footage
Love these videos
The scars and damage were still apparent near St. Paul's cathedral even the fall of 1964 when I was there.
Just the sheer material cost of all that metal, wood, concrete is staggering
If you are reading this, know that sometimes you have to go through darkness to get to the light.... So worry no more for the lord is with you. Amen
Now the new Putler is doing this in Ukraine.
The usa engineered this war in ukraine when they helped overthrow the ukrainian government in 2014.Installed a usa puppet government in ukraine then the usa backed and funded ukrainian nationalist and neo nazi who then went out and harrased and killed ethnic Russians in the east and south of ukraine a direct provocation created by the usa against russia
"It's like seeing snakes if you don't like snakes" the english truly have a way with words
I always imagine what it would be like if something like this happened today with how the world is so connected with each other. Also assuming that nuclear bombs never existed or will be used because we all know the outcome of those…
Remarkable video.
The world's first widely used cruise missile.
Didn’t remember London was still gettin bombed in 1944, thought it ended in 1941
london bombed continious until end of the war. between fall of france and invasion of ussr German airraids so intensified almost every night called The Blitz
Had to double check. That was the blitz. The V1 attacks didn't start till 1944.
My friend lost all his family in 1945 V2...
Terrible what those people went through!
now imagine slavery for 400years and colonization of the French & British in Africa, 200years of evil
This is absolutely epic ... thankyou ..
evocative and profound reality check.. we must love not hate ❤
Felt like watching an old episode of the Twilight Zone.
Most of the V-1s were built by Volkswagen.
Hilter made 3 bombs v1 v2 and vw
What the Germans did to London back then with the V1 and V2, the Russians are doing to Ukraine today with their drones. It's cruel, it's cowardly, but it's doomed to fail.
It was a big surprise for the British because they saw a missile with a jet engine for the first time
I think it was a world first
I remember this.
So many V1. So much waste.
The happiness at the beginning, and then the fear.
The enemy over powering us but the expectancy of a new tomorrow. A return to how we were and to once again dominate our foes.
When i sent the last V1 to Britannia i thought it was time to get the hell out of there and head to Argentina.
Oh well, Mein Fuhrer, there's always the Falklands to invade!
What has happened to a once Great Country
Error in word "flying" in video name: [4k, 60fps, colorized] (1944) V1: Fliying bombs over London.
WTH is “fliying” ?
The greatest generation 🇬🇧
Idk why but my brain said to mention that the 1900’s were the 20th century.
Can't wait for the 2020's version of this - drones. Brought to you by Raytheon or Norinco.
And now in 2022 we experience the same sh*t all over. Putler has to go...
The usa engineered this ukraine war.Remember the usa and its illegal invasion of iraq in 2003 that caused the deaths of at least 250000 Iraq's.Rember the usa and its illegal bombing of Cambodia by B52s in 1973 that killed 100000s of cambodians
This is terrifying
My mother is English, told me a story about these, family went to back yard shelter, there was a big house next door, when they came out shelter, it wasn't there
The v1 was a far more cost effective weapon than the v2 for germans
Holy shizballs! How did you upscale it to 60fps??
this isn't history anymore, this is now in Ukraine
thank you... I have been following this channel for a long time and since February all these videos hit very differently, watching them as a Ukrainian
I guess the Ukrainian army is really advancing fast, if the bots are so desperate that they're using google translate to spread their nonsense. Lovely! Glory to our brave soldiers.
Чел, перекладач тебе не врятує, могилізація вже близько.
Шкода що у нас немає свого Черчелля.
@@jimmyhawkins1853You have him.
Not our backs is as iconic as no surrender
now we understand. and feel the same. 🇺🇦😢
And to think, we complain....
Modern drones have eyes and brains (AI) and you can't even hear them.
Just a matter of time before we get the world at war in 4k 60fps colour now
Wunderbar
if in doubt, use yellow ;P
Can you just imagine todays generation having to deal with this?
Remember this, whenever you are told our country and its native people are no good.
COLOURISED is the English spelling.
The huge contributions of BAME/global majority British have been completely left out of this video
Its 1940's london, youd be hard pushed to find any, unless they was in the services...
There were hardly any Asians or Africans in Europe in the 1940s
@@Arthur_King_of_the_Britons This POC erasure is unacceptable. Reported.
@@wor53lg50 This is unadulterated racial prejudice
@@Snaildriver in what way??, the only thing it does represent is the truth, so how is it not, is it a lie ive told then?..the more people keep using that waysist card the quicker it wears out, that wolf getting closer and closer with that boy evey time its clumsily used...
4:38
Robert De Niro Time Travel
London 1944 Kiev 2022
How many dead in kviv? Exaggerated comment. The Blitz was much worse
This information would have been embargoed during the war, because it was intelligence of value to the enemy.
BRAVO
That narrator sounds like Alistair Cooke.
Amazing we can stop these but not boats crossing the channel 😂
Somewhere I heard that UK bombed Germany before Germany bombed UK. Is it true?
UK started the bombing campaign
UK refused 3+ peace treaties offered by Hitler
its pretty clear UK knew it had backing of multiple nations (UK+CANADA etc) under its belt.
No but we did hit Berlin and target civilians first. Saved us as they stopped hitting our airfields. War is hell
@@HuplesCat Worse than hell
Nope, a german wayward bomber got lost and dropped its bombs on a civilian area which killed people, next day Churchill sent 30 or so handley paige's to Berlin in reprisal, all though a few did get to berlin, many got downed on the journey and on the way back, causing a third not to return, the few bombs that did get dropped insensed hitler as it had done churchill so the blitz began..ending with sow the wind, reap the whirlwind...
@@HuplesCat The Luftwaffe bombed the East End first so the RAF gave them some of their own medicine plus the fact it was a shock to the nazis that British bombers could reach Germany and a morale booster to the UK.
If Nazi Germany had developed the Me-262 and the V1 and V2 missiles at the beginning of WW2, in 1940 or 1941, I don't know what would have been the fate of the allies! My God!
I highly doubt they would make a difference. Considering of how limited Germany’s resources were. They would struggle to produce enough. Even so, they would lose train engineers, pilots, chemist, etc throughout the war. The Germans would undoubtedly lose.
There is no situation where the Germans win WW2. They did not possess the strength or will.
He was right.
Same with Kjiv : even some russian missiles are like a reversed V-1
Same goal: terror from a desperate tiran, a pointless offensive
Military benefit : close to zero, as in 1944
freemason spokesman 🧢
5:17 Prayer denied.
It similar what Russia is doing in Ukraine
And now compare the destruction in London or other cities to the destruction of Warsaw in Poland.
Of course, the damage here was not caused by the V1 rocket, but by the Germans through direct military actions.
destruction of the americas by UK
destruction of africa by UK
destruction of asia by UK
they had it coming but it was shortlived
thank God for luminati they are ''free'' from persecution
Poland suffered terribly. Europe is littered with " gifts " that keep being found
I would rather live in London during ww2 than the current London. That should tell you how bad things are lmao
Это надо русским показывать, а то они думают что война была только у них, а остальные страны без крови сдались((( что русские только воевали и победа только благодаря им наступила (((
Сейчас нам надо пупкина -свергнуть!
It's remarkable to see also the effect of a tonne of explosives and the wide percussion effect compared to the previous blitz era bombs. Although traumatic they were flawed as they couldn't due to technical limitations of the time be specifically guided to a particular target thus in effect a terror weapon with some stategic effect but not a tactical weapon. Looking at in silence in colour makes it easier to relate to