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The UK was the only country where the US did not forgive a war debt. Ever. The final payment was made in *2006*, despite the country being bankrupt in 1945. Food rationing lasted until 1954. Despite 7 British out of every 10 'allied' casualties, bankruptcy, and a decade of post war destitution, the US treated its ally appallingly. While it gave Germany money to rebuild, it watched Britain struggle to feed its children.
This is what every UK student of history has in mind when some yahoo says, "We saved your ass in WWII."
Here Here, but also consider that we British are a proud lot and would not ask for relief from a debt. No matter how stubborn and stupid it seems today.
Well said.
I also tend to remember what the US was supplying to Germany, and that from 1941 it was swept under the carpet; and in some cases the supply carried on based from other nations. I wonder how many sunk ships the Kriegsmarine could account for while using SONJ fuel oil.
@@Simon-Davis Incorrect! However Russia continued supplying fuel and oil to Germany for irc around five weeks after operation Barbarossa began, some of this oil/fuel may have been used by the Kriegsmarine, who knows.
@@fruitgums Just the tip of the iceberg. Its well worth looking at the lengths that Walter C. Teagle went to up to his resignation in 1942. He went as far as protecting German patents and stifling US production of synthetic ammonia, acetic acid and methanol, as well as directly preventing the US army from obtaining paraflow, used in lubricants for high altitude aviation. He also refused to supply synthetic rubber to the US. Bear in mind that before the US stepped in during Dec 1941, it wasn't illegal for US companies to trade with Germany, the morality of it was very much questioned at the time though. At one point Teagle was under threat of investigation from the US Department of Justice, and directly petitioned Roosevelt. Even after Teagle, as late as 1944 it is known that SONJ was supplying Spain with oil, and that 48000 tons a month was going from Spain to Germany. There are plenty of other individuals and companies who supplied Germany, but Walter C. Teagle is a good entry point on the subject.
Don't forget we came out of that war bankrupt as a nation. We did not fight it to increase our Empire or influence. We fought to try and stop an evil regime from conquering the world.
and we finished paying WW2 debt off in 2006
@@googleuser6319 yup , and the US blackmailled us over the war loans from 1945 until then. Meanwhile, Germany was relieved of all reparations in 1950 and Britain *paid* to rebuild their industry And Japan's.
we also didn't finish paying off America for a lend lease agreement until 2006, so you can imagine how much it must of been, we also sent russia thousands of fighter aircraft and tanks, so did Canada, America and other nations, a high Russian general said himself that if it wasn't for America sending their tinned spam that his soldiers would have starved to death and would of had nobody to operate the machinery they were given or the ones they produced themselves
@@TomGodson95 Ialso recall that that brave Merchant Marine who faced those awful terrifying trips through the winter North sea to Russia, recieved no medal from the British, but did from the Russians. They were not included in march past at the Cenotaph either.
And made to brzke up our empire which could have helped make our economy better and come back better, or who know what mignt of happened
Huge respect for someone from America taking the time to actually find out something about our war efforts.
Its a shame they dont research the truth
It was total war. Total commitment. Nice to see an American made aware of the facts - so many seem to have no idea. Cheers mate!
And I hope many more young Americans see this. As they all made great sacrifices at the time. Thank you for this. 👍
It was a terrible time, but one to be proud of too. I hope many can better relate to the situation in Ukraine after seeing this film.
The bad reputation of British food among American's came from this time when we not only couldn't afford to cook a tasty meal, but the ingredients, spices, herbs etc were unavailable, so when the troops went home they moaned about how awful our food was.
Can't say that now, the food over there is great 👍🏼
Indeed, Mad thing is that for many of the Poor in Britain, War Time Rationing was the Most Healthy Diet they had ever had before especially in the City Slums.
The reputation for tasteless food is totally unfounded and goes back to the British army rations in the Second World War, which were intentionally bland so they lasted longer in the field. The UK food is among the best in the world with a fantastic climate and incredible produce. The English breakfast is second to none, and the English Roast dinner with meat, potatoes, and accompaniments like Yorkshire pudding, vegetables, stuffing, gravy, and various condiments depending on the meat is world leading & beyond compare 🇬🇧.
Fish and chips were never rationed in N Yorkshire so me mum said
it's a luxury now but still love it
Britain's stiff upper lip never wavered, we carried on regardless of what was thrown at us.
What saddens me is the fact that the Spitfire inventor, Reginald Mitchell, literally worked himself to death getting this iconic plane into production. He died before he saw what a huge difference the Spitfire made.
Thank you Reginald Mitchell & his team and the magnificent pilots who flew them
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._J._Mitchell
Don't forget the Hurricane fighter. There were 6 Hurricanes to 1 Spitfire fighting the Battle of Britain.
My great grandad flew the Spitfire Mk-IX against the Japanese, he was based out the cocos islands in the 136th squadron and fought at imphal I think, of you google the squadron there's a picture of spitfires lined up with their crew standing outside their planes. My great grandad remembered having the photo taken
Also John Chadwick, the English Nobel prize winner and scientist who discovered the neutron, and was pivotal in the development of the atomic bomb. Not once mentioned in the film Oppenheimer.
@@spizzenergi2292 I think a lot of people forget the large contribution non-US allied scientists made to the Manhattan Project. They also are not taught about the Tube Alloys project in the UK with participation from Canada that was developing nuclear weapons during WW2. It was started before the Manhattan Project.
Rudolf Peierls and Robert Otto Frisch co-wrote a memorandum about Uranium-235 and its devastating properties. This led to the formation of the MAUD Committee, which called for an all out effort to develop nuclear weapons. Due to the staggering cost and proximity to enemy bombing, ultimately Tube Alloys was subsumed into the Manhattan Project.
The shame of it was, despite agreeing share all technology under the Quebec Agreement, the United States did not share the complete details. The soviets got valuable information from its atomic spies who had infiltrated both the UK and the US projects. The US then terminated co-operation completely after the war ended under the Atomic Energy Act 1946. This prompted the UK to relaunch its own efforts, under the hilarious project name High Explosive Research.
Little, if anything, is mentioned about Tube Alloys or the immense contribution it made to the Manhattan Project. The British and Canadians are just listed as having provided assistance. Thankfully, we have a new generation in the United States who are looking beyond their shores and learning world history.
Thanks for sharing that
Many people even Brits don't realise the sacrifices we made during the war or how bad it was. My grandad had a farm and at one stage during the war, the only way he could man his farm was by using German prisoners of war to work on there, because all the other men were at war, and my mum often didn't go to school because she had to work on the farm, but that's how it was.This is why I get so annoyed when we are constantly expected to feel guilty and ashamed of our past, yes we have done things that we should be ashamed of, but we have also done so many things that we should be proud of and that is why I will never apologise or feel ashamed of being a Brit. We are tough, determined and just get on with it, or at least we used to be, and that is something to be proud of.
If any country has nothing in their past which causes an iota of shame, they're lying. People nowadays view history with monochromatic lenses which blot out the nuances of the real world
In 1989 while I was doing my A levels I was working a part time job at a car dealership half a mile from my home in Letchworth (North Herts) when a policeman knocked the door and explained that a demolition crew working in the derelict factory directly opposite on the other side of the road had discovered an unexploded German bomb in the basement. Despite being a shell casing manufacturer during WW2 it was highly unlikely that it was targeted and more likely a stray released from a plane that either got lost or was chased away from London (Leicester Square is about 30 miles due south of Letchworth and the docks and warehouses in Tottenham, Middlesex were a high priority target, barely 20 miles away). I found it amazing that nobody noticed the hole in the roof or the holes through the floor at the time but I suppose it may have buried itself in from the side without striking the building itself, anyway I digress. The officer informed me when the army bomb squad had arrived and they decided that the safest thing to do was force the bomb to detonate, no point risking lives for a building that's been out of use for 20 years and coming down anyway. Now, I know while I sat outside I was only about 100 yards from the explosion but I was flabbergasted by the sheer force it unleashed, it was like being at the epicentre of an earthquake. It gave me an appreciation, not an understanding, of what people went through day after day then night after night. It's truly unfathomable to conceptualise in any way, unfathomable to imagine the sheer grit of the British public in those times. Truly a very special generation, no finer generation of Humans have ever existed on our little speck of dust in our Universe. We as a species may never see the like again, we must remember and honour them for all the time we breath and live.
@@darthwiizius A truly remarkable generation - but not the only one. Northern Ireland - and specifically Belfast - endured bombings and shootins every day for thirty years, and still managed to get to work, shop, live and play. More than 3,000 civilians were killled, thousands more with varying injuries, 300 -plus police officer killed, and nearly 400 soldiers killed. Most British people seem to have forgotten that, and many that I know have never heard of it all. Worst of all, most peole don't give a toss! But they never had to live through it! As a police officer at the time, I've witnessed the carnage and devastation and the bits of bodies almost unrecognisable - something that everyone should see at some time in their lives in order to appreciate what human beings are capable of.
Onya mate ❤ from Oz.
@@reggriffiths5769It's terrible what the people of Northern Ireland had to endure day in day out for not just months but years! People's nerves must have been absolutely shattered wondering what was going to blow up next.
I'll certainly not forget what went on over their.But you might be surprised,because"the Irish Question" was on my school syllabus and was part of my GCSE studies.And luckily for me,my History teacher Mr Hannon was stationed in N.I. when he was in the Army so i was able to learn a lot from his own personal experiences.
Don't think it just gets brushed under the rug mate.
World War 2 was a total war for Britain. No one could escape it. My grandfathers were already in their 50s by then, but one was a ship's engineer and the other an ARP warden. Their wives helped families who were bombed out of their homes. My father was in the navy and my mother in the army. I am proud of all of them and very glad they survived, otherwise I might not be here.
Absolutely and Brittany still alone from about the summer of 1940 during the Battle of Britain & I think that continued for three months, but I keep thinking it was six months, and Hitler realized as angry as he was discovering from the Navy & Luftwaffe it was going to be impossible invade England by navy or paratroopers, and make an amphibious assault like the allies did on D-Day, and even Great Britain in the USA going into North Africa. The thing is that the USA was pumping out as much as we could to help Brittany and started the lend lease program with them in March 1941.
The thing about this video is absolutely true but it goes on to talk about the British beating the Italians and Germans in Africa and it was not necessarily the British fine by themselves because they got there in Africa and November 1941 and the USA got there in December. It was a good thing because they need it. All they could get in the USA had M3 Tanks that were made by one of the automobile manufacturers and it was an OK tank, but it didn’t have a very long gun & after they were in Africa, three or four months, they sent word back to DC that it essentially sucked and they needed something BETTER!! They needed these auto industry to get really creative and make them something bigger, but not too heavy that they couldn’t ship by the hundreds of thousands light would be needed. Within about two months, they had the M4 Sherman. That tank was not as tough as the Panzer tiger tanks BUT It was a darn good tank, and it was just big enough, and it was not too heavy on purpose because they needed to ship thousands and thousands of them at a time but it was fast and penetrable and it was very capable of getting through tight squeezes. My granddad was over in World War II and he said the best thing that the British tank division under Montgomery did that really helped with the British morale was when the Shermans first got delivered over to Africa. Do USA and British were playing with them for a day or so practicing on them and Montgomery went into battle with the Germans and they win the Germans’ butts all by themselves and no back up from the USA team, divisions, or anything and they just whooped German but all the way across- and then finally, the Americans joined them I think up in Tunisia. That was about the time the Germans surrendered and it was the summer or so 1943. It’s just that this video doesn’t add anything about that, but I have to give credit to the British people because Brittany was so crowded and then when all of the American sailors soldiers came over there with all of our armory and tanks, ships & Everything else needed for everybody because we shared and knew we needed to seriously go in with everything we had, & people in great Britain, or so nice after going through so much hell because they have been through the battle of Britain and then Germany was trying to starve them out when we were trying to send food and some of the German U-boats sunk Several of our ships and if they would’ve been military ships I am so certain that the USA but I declared war on Germany then but they were merchant ships and so much got something to the bottom of the Sea so they had to start sending smaller boats out to accompany them on each side so they can look out for the U-boats and bomb them but it was the only way to get supplies over to Britain. Great Britain did have the benefit of being an island for sure and those wins off the coast of Britain held off the Spanish armada in 1588. They were going to do the same thing to the Germans as well but for some reason, the USA ships sailed right on up and went to port somewhere, trying to stay out of sight of the Germans. People in Britain jokingly said that the island was going to sink because there were so many Americans there with all of the millions of British people already live in there plus all of the tanks and ships & artillery. There’s really not any or much difference between the “YANKS”- even though people in the south, think that being called a Yank is cute but southerner is probably a better word, but Yank he’s really perfectly fitting.
My granddad said it was absolutely so miserable over in Africa and it was hot dry and the sand storms were awful and he was thankful when they got over to Sicily because it was humid sometimes but at least they were out of the desert. And the British got tickled at the Americans when they got over to Italy because the Royal Air Force in US Naval planes were bombing Italian cities, but they were not using incendiary but just bombing them.. My grandpa said that the British got tickled at the way the Americans referred to it as “ putting the city in the streets”.😂😂 granddad said the British got tickled at that because the Americans wees just gonna put the city in the streets”. The reason behind that is because there would be so much trouble that the German tanks could not come up from behind them and ambush them or chase them wherever they were going, and the British and Americans could just haul butt and go wherever they need. Sadly, that was when the Italian surrendered and my granddad was talking about them surrendering or changing sides, and I couldn’t understand what, but I think it was a bit of c da the Germans ran all the way to Italy to disarm them.
That's a seriously long comment on a video. I'll like it but I'm not reading it all the way through. @montrelouisebohon-harris7023
my nans dad left for the north africa campaign when she was just 2 and by the time he came back she was 6, he also came into contact with mustard gas that the Germans was using, but thankfully survived that as he had his mask with him
my great grandfather was a roof spotter in the blitz. I still have the binoculars he used. sometimes i think about how i'm looking through glass that saw German bombers flying over our cities.
You guys werent Robinson Crusoe how do you think Australia handled it especially with the Japanese on our front doorstop and our most experienced troops away fighting in Africa, The Japanese were bombing towns across northern parts of the country including Darwin, submarines were torpeding cargo ships off the east coast even raiding Sydney Harbour and disguised German Raiders were causing havoc off the west coast. Out of a population of only 8 million 10% of the population served during WW2 which was comparable to Britains 12%. If the US hadnt entered the war when it did Australias position would have been far worse Churchill had already determined that defending Australia was not his priority defeating the Nazis was. Greatest respects to those people of Britain who went through the horrors of the Blitz. Keep in mind that airmen from around the Commonwealth were also there helping to win the Battle of Britain.
Brit here.Love the repect and humility you show our ancestors thank you ."Lest we forget "
I remember reading a comment about a US Army contingent who, after landing in England in 1943, were given a talk by a local vicar about living conditions for the civilian population.
He laid out a display on a table, showing our rations, and one of the GI's said he thought that was pretty good rations for a day. When the vicar explained that this was an adult's ration per *week* - not per day, the young man was left speechless.
The vicar then topped it off by explaining that when the US forces started arriving in Britain, our rations had been cut from earlier amounts, so we could share some of our food resources with the Americans.
MTA:- at it's lowest level, these were an adult's rations per week, apart from two items:
Bacon / Ham, 4 ounces; Sugar, 8 ounces; Tea, 2 ounces; Meat - 1 shilling's worth (£2.73 / $3.50 at 2023 values); Cheese, 1 ounce, or 4 ounces for vegetarians; Jam (US jelly), 8 ounces per *month* ; Butter, 2 ounces; Margarine, 4 ounces; Lard, 2 ounces; Sweets (US candy), 8 ounces per *month*
Vegetables and fish were not rationed, but that didn't mean there would be any in the shops!
Rationing carried on long after the war ended, with the last items taken off ration in July, 1954.
It's a wonder anyone could do a day's work on those rations. In New Zealand the butter ration was 8oz per person per week. My Grand parents had 9 children, that's 5 and 1/2 lbs of butter every week
Obesity was not a thing then, maybe the bank manager and MPs.
Thanks for this information
And don't forget, we were allowed 1 egg per person per week!
@@suemcgregor9248During certain times of the year, depending on where you lived, there's a lot you can forage in the UK too. More people back then would've had a small vegetable allotment or garden too. But yeah I think mostly people just helped each other out as well. It's why there used to be much more of a sense of community here than there is these days.
Britain declared war on Germany in Sept 1939, on Italy in Oct 1940, and on Japan on 8 Dec 1941. By then we had been fighting in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, in Norway, the Atlantic, the Arctic, the Mediterranean, Greece, Crete, and North Africa. After the first Japanese attacks we were fighting in Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma, India and the Far East. This was Total War, a fight to the bitter end.
If you were 18 you were drafted, my dad was only 12 when war broke out but his 5 elder brothers all took part and all survived, many other families weren't so lucky. My Great-Uncle was a Desert Rat and was invalided out after a Stuka attack, and even after the war ended Britain was so short of goods and money that rationing wasn't cancelled until 1954.
Thankyou
My grandparents were still feeding us tripe and other ration type food well into the 1980s. Grandad was in the merchant navy, torpedoed twice, watched his friends head roll off his shoulders, are which point he joined the army so he could shoot back. Now the English are voting for fascists. Betrayal of the highest order
My great grandad fought in burma in the 136th squadron, so sad that msot ppl don't even realise it was a front
@@piercecowley255 the forgotten army . The Chindits . Orde Wingate.
It must have been hell .
@bobbytreetop1701 yh, I don't have many stories as he didn't like talking about it, but from what my dad learnt when he was drunk is that he flee Bristol blenheims, but the engines failed once causing the plane to crash, killing everyone on board other than him but the bones in his calf had been completely crushed and he had to get a metal replacement, he was told he would never fly again, thats when he joined the 136th squadron I think, pretty sure he fought at imphal.
ALL british people should be proud of their ancesters. Remember how it was and still should be, Take good care of your heritage and your families people. Thanks for the vid bro....From Great Britain.
Even our dear departed Queen was in the army during the war as a driver ! I love your reaction to this video - makes me even prouder as a Brit - my father fought in North Africa, was taken prisoner and escaped the same day. and went on to Italy to fight the terrible fight of Mount Casino. I remember, after the war, when I was 3 years old going with my mother to cash in her rations and bring back a few eggs, a few slices of bacon and a little butter !!!
That part with Chirchil giving a speach was hard to hear. For anyone interested, this is what he said: “What kind of a people do they think we are?” Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?”
I wish there are leaders like him today
@@michellejones1618 Zelenskyy.
Shame most of the world has forgotten and want the British people to apologise for most of the woe's of the world, Real and Imagined.
@@ianmorris6437 this isn't the place for your weird nationalism that ignores genocide, colonialism, and theft. this is the place for learning history, not ignoring it.
@@CrowMaiden I am very aware of British and world history, Every modern country has their Dark history they would prefer didn't happen, But it did. Why would any child be held responsible for the crimes of their Father's or their country, History is meant to teach people not to make the same mistakes, Cherry picking history teaches nothing but hate, division and resentment.
I prefer the whole truth good, bad and ugly be out there, we cannot not change it, but we can learn from it. If that's weird Nationalism, I'll accept the label.
Hi ya my cousin from across the pond. Great reaction video. I think they should play this video in British schools because so many youngsters don't understand why so many of my generation (Gen X) are so proud of our parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles and their peers. I am a WWII re-enactor. I belong to the largest re-enactment/living history group in the UK called the Military Vehicle Trust who have branches all over the country. All our vehicles are privately owned. My partner and i have an amoured scout car called a Dingo. I dress as a Ack Ack Girl who were gunners with the Royal Artillery. They didn't fire the anti-aircraft guns but it was their job to spot the planes, decipher the type of plane, how far away it was, the speed it was travelling and when to fire. We are trying to keep the memory of this great generation alive and to teach the young to take pride in their country and to never let go of the prescious gift of freedom that we have inherited and to protect it at all costs.
My mother's job too.
I agree whole heartedly. This video should be standardised in all our schools curriculum. This new generation have grown up in a world of relative peace luxury and don’t understand what sacrifice is and what our families had to do to ensure victory. They need to learn this so it never happens again because once we forget history we are doomed to repeat it and they also need to honour the sacrifice of life so that they could live free today - that part really angers me about this post 2000 generation the entitlement and lack of respect for our fallen boys and destroyed family’s.
Another thing that's little known is that the vast loans Britain took out to pay for weapons from America were only finaly paid off in the mid nineties. We didn't just sacrifice our empire our youth and our wealth but we also morgaged our future to defeat fascism.
And the charitable and kind Yanks wudda cudda shudda done the right thing - but didn't & never do. Their government got STINKING rich and they'd do EXACTLY THE SAME THING AGAIN. Yanks talk the talk but never walk the walk. Look up how they reneged on sharing all their atomic info after the war when IT WAS THE BRITISH that gave (GAVE !!) the Yanks their two-year lead on creating the atomic bomb together with ownership of huge amounts of Uranium from their GREAT neighbours, CANADA. I'm 82+ and will never regard the Yanks as genuine or reliable or close UK friends.
The final payment was made in December 2006, I believe
2006 last payment was made, lend-lease is complicated
I think you'll find that the money wasn't spent on arms, it was used to rebuild because the war had bankrupted the UK. And it was paid off in 2006
And now we fight with fascists against our previously Russian ally. The world is on its head!
The children also did their little bit. Most were sent off to the countryside to be away from the bombings of the large cities, but they also helped out on the farms, picking fruit in the orchids, the older children looking after the younger ones. They were in the fight too in their own way. It was literally a national effort.
Yes, I saw a documentary about Bevans Boy's, the boy in the doco was upper class and he was sent to work in the mines. He was proud to be doing his bit for the war effort.
Thats the thing Hollywood forgets, all those Grants, Shermans, P40 Tommahawks and P 51 mustangs werent (mostly) designed and built sold to/for the US market: they were mainly requested to a specification by the British, and paid for.
“..and paid for.” WW11 British debts not settled until 2006 according to the Treasury
@@HannahD353 Does that really matter? It was paid and this is 2024.
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@@claudiaclark6162 Yes it does, that national debt caused the cancellaton of many techology leading projects that might have competed against American products,
@@keithwarrington2430 Depends upon which Treasury the U S or the British and I responded to Hannah It was paid
I think of the UK as a dysfunctional family. We can all argue between ourselves & call each other but if an outsider does it we will put all our differences aside & come together as one. Amazing.
That's actually quite true .... as a hulking Scot, the sound of a Southern accent telling me "You can't spend your Scottish fiver here".......nails on a fuckin chalk board! Anyone outside these islands pulls so much as a dirty look at said Londoner.... baws aff!
We had to apologise for the bombing of dresden, yet no one acknowledges that Hitler levelled Coventry. Once again, we're expected to shoulder the burden of blame. I'm fed up of it myself.
Everyone in Germany learns in school about Coventry.
It’s always us that have to apologise for all kinds of things.. Blacks want us to apologise for slavery…. FFS we were the first to abolish it and we still get shit. I too am fed up with it. 🇬🇧
We apologised for it becuase it was wrong. Winston Churchill was devastated when he found out that Dresden was firebombed. It held no military value and was a cultural city.
We apologised because if we didn't acknowledge or regret it we were no better than the evil our relatives were giving their lives to stop.
It was a rouge RAF commander that ordered the attack on Dresden, who resented German civilians rather than those who were attacking us.
@@474hdbubs7If you think failing to apologise for Bombing Dresden would make us no better than the Nazis then you are deluded.
@@neilcarpenter2669 I never claimed such a thing.
It's a slippery slope to justify being righteous while committing such acts. Winston Churchill literally said by doing such a thing was blurring those lines.
Your opinion versus recorded facts doesn't mean Jack.
My Great-Grandfather served in the British Army in the late 19th century, my Grandfather served during WW1, my Dad served during WW2 (the Greatest Generation) landing on Sword Beach on DDay. My brother served from 1969 to 1978 & I served for 24 years (77 to 2001) retiring as a Warrant Officer. No British Serviceman/woman needs to be taught bravery or the determination to fight - it is part of every Briton’s DNA. There is no better soldier than a British soldier, that is a fact universally acknowledged and respected.
"How did John Briton get on OUR team?" Forgive me, but wasn't it the BRITS who were waiting for Uncle Sam's boys to get on OUR 'team'? 😀😀😀
they'll never get it Marvin.. there are still American tourists ( the unusual Americans who have passports ) and expecting Brits to be thankful to them for winning the war.
@@jasminejones7389
Sadly, you may be correct. Naturally, one entertains high hopes for the educational power of the Internet - but a generation is growing up in the States, many of whose members have never even _heard_ of WW2 (I kid you not). I can only hope that the growing interest in History, stimulated by the 'Net, will somehow manage to outpace the growth of Historical Ignorance, spawned by the distractions of the telly, video games, and the social media. Books - who needs 'em, eh?
@@marvinc9994 madness when youtube is filled with dissertation level history of all brands for free....
This public information film was made for the American market and makes 2 very telling points.
The first is when Lend Lease is mentioned, think of it as "Buy Now, Pay Later", because America expected us to pay for all the war materials they supplied. I remember reading that Britain was the only country to fully pay America back, Russia and others all failed to do so, and in some cases refused to do so.
The second point is made by the narrator, after America joined the war and sent men to Britain, they were initially supplied with 4 million tons of goods for free by the British, and our orders for tanks, planes, ships helped kick start American industrial production, leading to the boom years of the 1950's that established Americas wealth.
@@GSD-hd1yhThank you😢🎉❤
The wartime diet was so well thought out that after the war there was a generation of long lived people (if the smoking didn't get them!)
What this video couldn’t tell you was that the last item to come off of rationing (coal) didn’t happen until 1958 and that while bread wasn’t rationed during wartime it became rationed a couple of years after the war ended.
For people of my sort of age, their parents spent their entire childhood w really with something being rationed (my parents were born in 1945 and 1946) my Mum’s parents (both born in 1925) spent almost all of their teens and early adulthood with something being rationed (rationing started as soon as war was declared in 1939 with just a handful of items on the list in the first few months until almost everything was either rationed or rare), with them both experiencing rationing from the age of fourteen until they were thirty three.
My Mum’s Dad never fought in the war because he was in a reserved occupation as he worked in a shipyard on the Clyde (but as soon as the war ended he was conscripted into the RAF) and my Mum’s Mum worked in a laundry. Apparently one day when she was walking through the town there was a bombing raid being carried out by the Germans and at one point a plane was so low that my Grandma looked into the face of the German pilot. One of my maternal Grandma’s brothers (she was the youngest of thirteen surviving children) was in the Merchant Navy and received the BEM (British Empire Medal) for an act of bravery that saved both the ship that he was on and the lives of the crew. As far as I’m aware the vast majority of the journeys that he made were between the UK and North America.
You might find the old series The World At War interesting. It was made in the 70’s and so there are many interviews with were directly involved on both sides and is a mostly pretty unbiased projection of the facts (at least the known facts as there would likely have still been some things restricted by the Official Secrets Act).
There is also a great film called Operation Mincemeat, which tells the story of the elaborate covert mission of the same name that prepared the ground for the allied invasion of Sicily.
Many great films made during and just after the war like The First of Few (1942) which is about the creation of The Spitfire or A Matter of a life and Death (1946) which is a beautifully filmed fantasy romance about an RAF pilot that’s shot down or Whisky Galore! (1949) which is a comedy (specifically an Ealing Comedy which are films made by Ealing Studios that have a bit of a cult following) about a ship laden with whisky that is run aground during a storm and the antics that ensue from the locals rescuing the cargo and having to hide it due t the rationing. All three films are in black and white (though A Matter of Life and Death goes between colour and black and white, there is also a 2016 remake of Whisky Galore! that isn’t quite as good as the original…in my opinion).
Of course there’s the great Dad’s Army as well which is a beloved UK sitcom set in a fictitious town during the war and is about the antics of the local Homeguard, which the writers had actually been members of their local Homeguard.
@@lynnejamieson2063 I was born 1949 still I remember sweets and sugar were still rationed as kids we would playI bombed houses in Manchester.
@@jacklomas7773 my Mum was born in ‘46 and remembered playing on the bomb sites and rubble next to her primary school at playtime.
I am British. We lost 600,000 men in WW1. No one wanted to fight again, but someone had to. Both my grandfathers fought. My mother was bombed during the war. Now the woke tell them they were war criminals for bombing Dresden. The woke who seem to run the country my grandparents bleed for. We don't show our veterans of all conflicts enough respect.
Dresden was rebuilt back to what it was pre-war - if you visit Coventry you will see the cathedral that was bombed by the Germans and rebuilt as a 'modern' concrete monstrosity - as was much of bombed Britain. I lived in Dover in the 1980s, there were still bombsites from World War 2!
There was outcry in britain during the war when reports came back from Dresden, one of the reasons it took so long for bomber command's contribution to be properly recognised and memorials erected. Nothing to do with wokeness.
Great-grandfather was at the Somme, he was caught in a cloud of mustard gas and returned to the UK after the war with shellshock. Grandfather fought in the Navy in Greece during WW2 on a destroyer.
I'm immensely proud of both of them.
@@Oberon117 I remember as a small child, visiting a sanatorium where my mothers relation died.. He was gassed with mustard gas in WW1. Her father joined up early in WW2, ground crew in the RAF. If only I knew then what they went through, but I was just a child. Sad nthey are all nearly dead now.
@@markenetube it's why we should never forget!
So proud you have taken the time to understand we British! Respect to you and yours. ❤
One of the things that saddens me so is that the current tides in the social and political climates have caused generations to grow up not knowing just how bad things were for a long time.
I am what is often disparagingly referred to as a Boomer as I was born in 1963. We had no TV, no phone, no car, no heating in the home beyond one fire, an outside lavatory, no bathroom (we bathed in a tin bathtub we brought into the living room and filled with water heated on the fire) and the food we had available was still limited. Rationing had ended when I was born but the effects of the war were still very much felt.
I won't spoil the feel-good nature of this video by going too deeply into it but to be accused of White Privilege and the like whilst our finally recovered nation is 'invaded' by the Third World sits very sour in the stomach.
to true
I totally agree with you 😢
I'm hoping you see this, my grandad was at Bamber Bridge and I'm related to most of the British people involved. They all lived very very long lives, with grandad passing at age 90 with 3000 people at his funeral, which isn't bad for a tiny deaf Yorkshire gardener. There was a lanky lad, my great uncle George who punched out a white MP who was looking like he was going to open fire and was arrested for it. He's still with us well into his 100s.
oh, excellent. x
My grandad died about ten years ago, at his funeral was the last living veteran from his unit. It was really great to be able to talk to him.
What's his name
@@declanshanahan3888 If you know the family then this would be doxing myself, sorry.
Yes, anyone who thinks Britain is racist needs to Google "Bamber Bridge", the only altercation fought on British soil during WWll
I don't think that many Americans appreciate just how much the UK was on the Front Line during World War II.
Just take a look at the figures for civilian war fatalities ON HOME GROUND in the two countries and you will get the picture:
USA
Hawaii*: 68 (Pearl Harbor Attack)
Alaska* (Aleutian Islands Campaign, 1942 - 1943): 18 (2 civilians killed, 16 died in captivity)
The 48 Contiguous States: 6 (Balloon Bomb, Oregon)
TOTAL: 92
* : Although Hawaii and Alaska were not actual US States during World War II they are included for completeness.
UNITED KINGDOM
70,000+ (Largely due to German bombing raids, V1 and V2 attacks). About 40,000 of those were in London and the surrounding areas.
If you pro-rata that up to take into account the larger population of the USA at that time it would equal nearly 250,000 American civilian deaths due to enemy action over the now 50 States (or over 600,000 now!). Not the 92 who actually did die that way.
Now do you understand?
Excellent reaction, great work. Keep it up. UK struggled so hard during WW2 and sacrificed alot. More than world would know. Search history and learn and you'll realise.
You should see the story when the germans built a wooden airfield, tanks the lot.... and british sense of humor they dropped a wodden bomb! 😂
Well said Neddy.
I thought that one was hilarious
My grandma was in the RAF- she was a wizz with maths. My grandad fought for our country, sadly becoming a POW in Burma. He never spoke of it, neither did my grandma. They were an incredible generation of humans! We live freely for their sacrifices and I am eternally grateful 🇬🇧❤
My Grandad who had shrapnel in his leg when landing in africa went From Africa into southern Italy and to the top defeating Italy. with Shrapnel inside him to victory but never had the metal taken out all his life.Pain for life .. HERO never complaining
What upsets me most is that after WW2 it seemed the Brits got a lot more flack "now" than Germany, Italy or Japan does. Time and time agian we get abuse for "the past" ignoring how bad it would of been for the rest of the world if we lost before the US came into it. (In fact even now a lot of our industries are owned by US or other Europeon countires whos profit goes to improve "anywhere" but the UK)
Thinking about it the only thing we got out of the war was the NHS, which is why we are so protective of it despite its current problems.
During the battle of Britain in WW2. My Grandfather was personally responsible for the destruction of eight German bombers and the loss of all crew. He was arguably the worst aircraft mechanic the Germans had !
British Comedy at it's Best 😂😂😂😂😂😂 just saying from Glasgow 🇬🇧👍💙😂😎
Current population of the UK 68 million. Now it's an uncomfortably tight squeeze.
No-one should forget the brave colonial troops that fought alongside the British
I've heard that the supermarkets (the major ones anyway) estimate that the actual population is around 90+ million people. They believe that it's around 90+ million people by the amount of food they are selling, which is supposedly is enough food to feed 90+ million people. I am not sure if it's taking into account food waste and obesity levels to work out their estimate of 90+ million people, but they're saying that the amount of food being sold is for more people than what official figures say the population actually is.
We are a small island but dont f with us!
Too f&&king true. Leave us alone AOK. Rattle our cage …..
Not advisable. 🏴🏴🏴 & NI 🇬🇧
tell that to the british ????labour party
@josephberrie9550 don't feckin remind us!
@@josephberrie9550 Never be fooled into thinking our current government even remotely cares about British values.
Problem is... We are now fighting within... The Trojan Horse of Islam...
Another thing that wasnt mentioned is there was shortage of food! No bananas or oranges and only a small amount of meat and dairy products!
Ration books for nearly everything ,including clothing .
I was born in 1938 and spent all the war years in London ,fortunately not in a badly bombed part .
But we all lived under the rules of the time ,rationing ,fuel hard to get ,blackouts where not a single light was allowed to be seen through the curtains, going into the streets after a bombing raid and seeing not only destroyed buildings where your friends lived, but weary men dealing with fires and sifting through the rubble for survivors .
Americans ,think 9/11 and imagine that going on for years.
My grandma was born in 1938 and she told me once that she didn't even SEE a banana until 1951. People forget that the rationing didn't totally end until 1954 and in some cases, even got _worse_ for a short time after the war was over, with even bread going from being freely available to being rationed for a short time in 1946.
Pretty sure that's why you'd get tangerines at christmas even up til when I was a teenager in the early 2000s, we know what it is not to have things like that and not take stuff for granted...or used to at least
@@cptsteele91 Even now, when bananas are really cheap ,I still look on them as something rare and marvellous !
Since the end of the war and once they became available I have one every day.
My Grandfather was in the British Navy during the war. His submarine was sunk at least one, with him and the other survivors drifting at sea for 3 days until rescue. It's crazy to actually see footage of what he would have gone through to survive.
Royal Navy.
@@BG15138 no, not at all. Respect the blood and sweat they’ve spilled. It’s the Royal Navy.
@@BG15138 it’s not. It’s the Royal Navy and nothing else.
Enough now, away with you.
@@BG15138 ok mate, serve?
@@BG15138 so you should understand… you’re better than this. Fucking British Navy.
My great Uncle Harry Worrall was a WWI pilot then afterwards he trained UK men to fly at Yorkshire. Those brave flying men then fought and won the Battle of Britain 1940 thanks to this forward thinking project with Neville Shute During WWII he worked as Manager at a aeroplane factory in Britain again being a test pilot. He was born in Fiji, raised in Australia, remained in UK after college. We were all considered as British subjects until 1984.
Being a Pilot in WWl was literally suicide. Your Great Uncle was a very brave man
Absolute respect for watching this video!
And that everyone is why we refer to them as 'The Greatest Generation' ❤
The self sacrifice was huge, even at the top including the King, it was known that the War would cost the British their Empire but still they fought on
They certainly are The Greatest Generation, I am glad a lot of them are not seeing what Britain is becoming in 2024.
Brits don't give up.
Correct they don't and we all know it.
They don't seem to be fighting todays invaders.
@@elemar5 They are all liberal socialist now what was yours isn't yours anymore.
@@elemar5the lion is now massively illiberal in its liberality.
We are not who we were.
Hold on to your hats boys.
Hearts of oak!
Thank you so much for your total respect of this little country of ours. Its heartwarming to see your reactions and to know that you fully understand the sacrifices that were made by the people of our country at the time. We stood alone against the might of Hitlers Army, Navy and Air force until eventually, after Pearl Harbour, the USA ( who up until then had remained 'neutral') joined in with our fight for freedom against the tyranny of Facism. The bond between our countries remains as strong as ever to this day.
During the Italian Campaign (1943) my father's regiment (Scottish) fought at the Battle of Montecassino where the Germans took over the hilltop monastery and could pick off our men over a very long period. Our men slept in water if necessary during this awful time and saw their comrades die daily.
One morning my father recalled that the sky looked 'made of metal' - it was the American Air Force who had come to put an end to the battle! Dad said that he and his pals felt sorry for the Germans! How great was the contribution of the Americans and Canadians and other allies in that horrible war.
Speaking about how packed britan is right now our census says that there are a little under 68 million people living here (we have a higher population density than China). Although some indicators seem to suggest that we have substially more people in the country (mainly wastewater output, electricity demand and food purchased). We found this out during a court battle with various utility providers and supermarkets arguing to expand their market share based on a bigger demand than thought.
I saw this revelation too. Mad. One thought I had was that we were stockpiling for UKR. But the leccy etc tells a different story. What is the uk pop actually?
@@burtlangoustine1 I've heard a lot of different numbers but it's quite a big difference. I've heard estimates from 80-90 million but I haven't seen anything more than rough estimates based on extrapolation of the original case.
@@burtlangoustine1 Officially? A bit over 68 million. But I too have heard the stories about the demands being placed on supermarket supply chains, which would indicate around 10% more i.e. 74-75 million. Which is ridiculous for an island the size of Britain. But we do know that the net migration figures over the period January 2022 to December 2023 was 1.449 million. (Source: UK Office of National Statistics (ONS).
I didn’t know we were spending 49 million pounds a day back then! That’s 3 trillion 437 million 708 thousand pounds a day in today’s money! No wonder were poor lol
We're poor because the Americans demanded £3.5 Billion pounds + interest bringing the total to £7.5 billion for lend lease, which we paid over 60 yrs.
@@sammic7492 Yep, and we gained nothing for our selves from the war whatsoever. I used to think it was a glorious movement for our ancestors to have sacrificed for, the older I get the more I realise it was just self destructive and pathed the way into a rough future where we are weakened and even belittled for being a native. Branches cut off of family trees for the sake of a continent that frequently has nothing but bad things to say about us.
@@lfcmike12 and if we had given up? How would that have been?
@@jasminejones7389For us? Well did Switzerland survive the war because they didn't get involved? Yep. And they didn't have to lose millions of their citizens to get to the end of the war. Whether we got involved or not, Germany couldn't have won the war against the soviets, so we didn't need to join.
I don't know where you got that figure from, but it's ludicrously high.
Don't forget Britain wasn't alone. The whole Empire was there in support.
UK was alone from may 1940 to April 1942 when USA joined UK Europe was already beaten into submission !!
@@geoffbeattie3160 He means the nations of *our* Empire :) It gets rather overstated but certain things were of great importance - particularly ports. My grandfather was 8th Army and he fought alongside some Indian units at Monte Casino and he had only good things to say about them - of course that was much later in the war when America had finally decided to join in :D.
The first country to declare war on Germany after the UK was Jamaica. They didn't even have an army and demanded that the British form a Jamaican military so they could enter the war alongside us. Details like this get lost in the big picture, just as despite the Irish government being allied to Germany in WW2 the massed menfolk of the Republic of Ireland crossed the Irish Sea and enlisted in the British military in defiance of their own government's orders.
@@geoffbeattie3160Wrong. Britain was not alone, our Commonwealth Cousins all joined us in declaring war on Germany. And before the Yanks joined the war we had won the Battle of Britain and had stopped the Germans in North Africa at El-Alemain. The Russians had just started to fight back too when America entered the war. We are grateful for the American help in winning the war. But in all honesty America came out well from the war whilst it crippled Britain and Russia for years to come.
@@darthwiizius Good points to note, darth :nods:
Hello from the UK to a fine example of why Britain and America have a special relationship. Thank you for sharing this. That’s a follow from me. 🇬🇧❤🇺🇸
I'm from the UK, my grampy was navy and was sunk on three occasions, he never spoke of the war. My other grandad was a desert rat as he called himself, fighting in north Africa. I am forever humbled by their service and lifelong sacrifices due to the losses that they experienced ❤
Neal you might like this (World War II: The 13 Hours That Saved Britain | Free Documentary History)
My own Grandfather in the Royal Navy in WWII was torpedoed and sunk twice, interned in North Africa escaped got back to Britain where my Grandmother with 2 sons believed he was dead, and went back to the war, was on ship at D-Day and survived to the age of 101, these men fought for our Freedom, and i for one will never let anyone take it from us.
Proud Brit here great video and thanks for taking the time to understand what the Little island in the North Sea is all about wife grandfather served in Burma and took prisoner at fall of Singapore prisoner on DEATH railway from 1942- got home in 1946 we should never forget what this generation did for us living today
We have a lot of countryside, and small towns & villages. It's only the cities that are congested 🤗🇬🇧🙋♀️
Yes until current The Labour government let still more thousands of migrants into our country. I am not racist but I believe in controlled immigration not opening our borders to just anyone. A lot of the migrants are young men , few women and children.
I am afraid Labour are traitors to all our brave men, women and children who fought so valiantly for freedom.
We are heading towards becoming an Islamic country in years to come
I was amazed at my dad’s funeral. The venue was full of people I didn’t know. During his burial lots of older chaps shook my hand. These were men my dad served with during the War, all saying what a good man he was. All I know he reached Corporal, apart from that I know next to nothing. He didn’t speak about his service
I believe they’re many like him.
Honestly this video is so heartwarming to see. A man seeking and accepting knowledge of the culture and history of others and being genuinely interested and excited to learn.
There are a lot of people who could benefit deeply from your example. I wish you the best so that you might spread this mentality.
Sincerely, your ally across the pond,
John Britain.
Hi, I'm over 70years of age, born after that war. It's good to see you educating yourself, even though it's a bit US centric. Through our joint efforts i have been lucky enough to live through a rare period of history with no major conflicts.
See this is what gets me when you hear tons of Americans say they won the war for us. We stood alone for a long time and then the Americans come in when they had to and claim that they were the amazing people who saved us.
Some Americans joined the Canadians and Some Canadians joined the Americans. The fact is it was a joint effort by all the Brits and the British Colonies and we all kicked their asses. We all had a right to brag. Don't forget the Russians were there too. I'm sorry we were late but it takes a while to go from farmers and factory workers to soldiers.
@@claudiaclark6162...the Russians paid the biggest price...20 million dead...
@@claudiaclark6162 I think the issue is that its always claimed by the US that "we saved you or you would be speaking German now" ,, which wasn't the case. The Battle of Britain air war was the deciding factor , after we defeated the Luftwaffe AH Cancelled Operation Sealion which was going to be the invasion of the UK.
11 US military personnel were involved in that.
The Battle of Britain went from between 10 July - 31 October 1940, the US didn't even enter the war till December 1941!.
Overall it was a group effort to end World War 2 ,, no one contests that ( well except the US ) , which we acknowledge but why cant the US acknowledge that they weren't our "saviours", that was the Polish , Czech , Indian , French , Belgium , Canadian , New Zealand and Australian ( Other nationality's too ) pilots who flew to defend the UK in the Battle of Britain.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/history-of-the-battle-of-britain/battle-of-the-nations/#:~:text=With%2017%20confirmed%20victories%2C%20Sergeant,in%20the%20Battle%20of%20Britain.
We needed the resources that the US sent , no ones contests that either but we did pay back EVERY SINGLE PENNY ( Dime ) which we finished paying off in 2006.
Unfortunately, the bloody Yanks have a point.
When they finally got to us, Britain was on the bones of it arse! All our materiel had to be abandoned at Dunkirk and the convoy raids were in full swing, IIRC.
I couldn't agree more so many simply don't know that America only joined the war in Europe when Hitler declared war on the US on the 11th December 1941. America reciprocated the declaration some hours later but the fact is the US had no choice but to fight Hitler & the Nazis. By no stretch of the imagination is that coming to the rescue & winning the war for the British.
Thank you for your kind words, rarely has the struggle and sacrifice been so well depicted. We were grateful to have America with us after Pearl Harbour, it had been a long dreadful battle until then. I am so proud of my country, we are pretty docile most of the time, but don't underestimate us.
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Docile like an old English Sheepdog...
... Just let us sleep 😂
@@Rachel_M_Nice one! I like that 😂
It's very rare we're given the opportunity to be proud of being British. Those oppotunities are even rarer from Americans.
It's always nice to see. Thank you for allowing me to be proud of our little spot in the world.
What many don't realise is that food rationing continued in the UK long after the war ended. Chocolate and other candy plus sugar, butter and meat were all still rationed in 1953. The last of them (meat) stopped in 1954. Girls like my Mum rubbed gravy browning on their legs and drew a seam with a pencil instead of having nylons. When my Grandad returned from the war (RAF groundcrew stationed in Iceland to help protect Arctic convoys) he brought Mum a pilots escape map to use as a headscarf as it was made of silk and quite colourful. I still have it. The film mentioned Sheffield being the Pittsburgh of the UK. It's about 25 miles as the crow flies from where Mum grew up. She once told me about being outside one evening, seeing a strange red glow in the sky and asking what it was. A neighbour said it was Sheffield burning from an air raid...
You need to watch Jeremy Clarkson The Greatest Raid of All documentary
I watched that twice and I still can't believe those men pulled it off. How HMS Campbelltown didn't sink under the sheer weight of their brass balls alone is staggering.
Great documentary by Clarkson. I watched that a long time ago. British courage at its best!
He also did another documentary about the Victoria Cross. He was inspired to because of his wife's father who was a recipient of one.
I’ve watched it time and time again, incredibly humbling story of the great British resolve and determination
I have. Truly amazing.
Even the Queen put on a uniform and got involved, she was also promoted on merit, not due to who she is. I think I saw a video about it on here. When young I worked for a old man in the security industry here in Australia, he was very tough on us guards but he was a good man. One day I was talking to one of his sons who pointed to a photo on the wall, it was my old boss as a young man with Winston Churchill with their arms around each other smiling and looking happy. This was long before Photoshop and home computers, the photo was taken at the end of the war, my old boss was from Cyprus and in the Greek army but attached to British intelligence. From what I understand, they used to to parachute drop him into occupied areas or close them, he would wander around as if a local and then would report the enemies location etc. I was proud to have known him. Also, we had rationing here in Australia, my mother was a child during the war but she remembers a lot of what was happening around her back then.
The Queen was in my mother's regiment in the ATS. What a great person!
So proud of all our wonderful, brave ancestors, truly The Greatest Generation
Feels odd that an Aussie would be so friendly with Churchill considering that he was one of the people responsible for the shitshow that was Gallipoli.
As a nation we have been involved in war for 2000 years, whether defending, internal or overseas. A little island that if disturbed fights with 2 millennia of experience.
Thank you for appreciating we Brits are not the big bad wolf we so often are betrayed as now a days! History shows we have learned from our long ago past over and over and moved forward. We stand for freedom, we have huge determination and we have only fought if we been threatened since the late 1700's...... We are not good at blowing our own trumpets but we kinda like it that way..... Us Brits in tern though know without our Allies from Canada, India, Austria, Newzealand etc we could never have held either the Khazar or Hitler back in the way all us then Allies did! Thank you Commonwealth Countries!!
In Canada the weekly rations per adult:
sugar: one cup (the average Canadian eats twice that much today)
tea: two ounces, or coffee: eight ounces. (because these items came from other countries)
butter: four ounces (one-quarter pound)
meat: 24-32 ounces (less than five ounces per day)
beer, spirits and wine were also rationed, the amount varying between provinces
Rationed non-food items included: tires, cars, bicycles, gasoline, fuel oil and kerosene, solid fuels (like coal), stoves, footwear, and typewriters.
Out of a population of roughly 10 Million, 1.1 million were in uniform and the remainder were committed to the war effort. Lard, tinfoil, metal, string, clothing, shoes and many other items were safe and donated to the war effort. Farmers adjusted and increased their crops to include many types of grain, meat, dairy products, etc. Canada became Britain's source of food, planes, ammunition, ships, plus almost everything else.
While Canada was totally committed to fight the Axis, we found it quite pathetic that, while the men and women from across the Empire were sacrificing everything to defeat Hitler and the Axis, USA industrialists were advising Hitler on how to build assembly lines, refineries and steel mills. If that wasn't too much, the USA congress sat back and allowed all of us to fight the evils of the Axis for over two years before they finally decided to enter the war. Had they done so at the beginning, the war would have been over in months not years. In turn, only a fraction of the men and women of the Empire who gave their lives would have died. That, we will never forget.
When the USA was attacked and bombed by Japan, December 7 1941, at 7.48am Hawaiian time [ 12:48pm Washington DC time], Canada declared war on Japan within hours. However, it took the USA 23 hours and 49 minutes to declare war of Japan. [12:30pm Washington DC time]. Chimo
Wow, I didn’t know some of that. Thank you. We certainly got to know who our real friends were and who left us to fight it out alone for nearly 3 years. ❤ from 🇬🇧
I like the style of the original video. Melancholy, retro, informative and still humorous.
As a former Paratrooper and Royal Signal in the British army, this still made me cry.
Thank you for considering this topic with respect.
Sincerely. Bless you, lad.
Thank you very much for this reaction.
It's so refreshing to hear a young American appreciate the efforts and sacrifices of the past.
Subscribed.
My grandparents dug up their lawn and planted vegetables and fruit and kept chickens
Everyone tried to do that if they had land or the parks and green spaces were all used for food production
My mother was 8 when the war started
My Father 18 and straight into the airforce
I had older parents and grew up with all the stories of that time.
Nearly twice the population now.....and even we can get confused about, Britain, UK, England etc 😁
Yeah and it isn't due to the natives increasing it either.
@@oliver2629 what the Celts….yeah your right those bloody vikings and Romans stealing our jobs….my family came from Denmark in the 800’s…. Then got jiggy with some Welsh…..I best get back to where I belong…just got to learn Dutch….😏😳
Being in my eighties, this documentary is a blueprint of my early life, we survived for each other, the comradeship at home and on the front, has never been closer. The churches were full and that is where we drew our strength. We were never healthier, despite the rationing,because what we did eat was fresh and nourishing. No junk. Sadly it was our swan song and despite the fact that by the mid fifties for working people small luxuries started to make life easier, the drop in our social bonding and Christian charity fell away. Now it is a different world the changes may appear to be in our interest, but the dark underbelly of the life of our wealthiest globalists are every bit as dark as those we went to war with. Both in America and the UK, and the Commonwealth is all but gone, and none of the good that was done is ever reported.Left to its own devices, India would have destroyed itself. War was a bankers dream, they backed both sides, and cashed in. Blood money, spilled on the fields of Europe. Blood money. That left young women facing a childless life alone, and what children there were, fatherless.There is nothing glorious about war.
There are more people in the UK than Canada and Australia combined.
Nobody back Britain into a corner. Which is why Putin thinks the UK is a greater threat than the US.
Excellent video, well presented by Neal. Well done!
The one thing we as Brits understand, war is tough, very tough. As seen in the video we will do all we can to avoid it, but if we have to we will fight, and fight to the bitter end. If the cause we are fighting for is justified, do not expect us to give up. The one thing we will not do when we are fighting with our allies is to do what Trump decreed and Biden was too soft to stop, is to say the war in Afghanistan is getting tough we are going home. It puts your allies in an impossible situation. It also left Afghanistan in a situation 10 times worse than what it was before the war started. As you have seen in the video as a nation Britain will fight and fight, as Churchill said "it is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road maybe".
What isn’t recognised is the label “Britain” eighty years ago in WW2 was used to refer to countries in the British Commonwealth, not just England.
WOW thank you for this! Makes SUCH a change from the bashing we usually get from MANY who have NO idea❗️👌❤️
My Grandfather volunteered in 1939 and was not demobilised until 1946. I have to admit that it sickens me now that we are basically handing our country over to illegal interlopers who are given priority over everyone else. As much as I miss him I am glad that he has not witnessed the recent events in the UK.
i just want to thank you for the upmost respect you give with these video's we did not do this alone we had help from all around the world and i have upmost respect for every country that helped also we might be a small country but we pack a punch when needed so thank you for watching these video's
6:47 I'm in Scotland 🏴 and it's great to watch you smile while learning about John Britain. No words are required Neal.👊✌️
Ive seen other ppl comment this, but this is one of many reasons why I am not ashamed of my nation's past and will never be.
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Thank you for your great and heart felt reaction.
It is good to be reminded of what my ancestors did.
And I am an Englishman who has lived in Germany for almost 50 years. And also has a German passport and a German family. And the Germans bear no animosity towards the English.
Winston Churchill: “Never give in. Never, never, never!”
was a joy to watch! Thanks for the vid - John Briton :)
Dude, you should watch an old British movie called The Cruel Sea. Its about how life was during the war. Many of the actors were themselves veterans. Even as a British person now looking back you get a powerful feeling from it.
It is pretty much a true story.
How little they had, how dangerous life was for everybody at sea or on dry land and how they did their duty, quietly and without complaining - and they died that way too if they had to.
Who knows if we are still made of the same stuff our ancestors were made of.
I hope we're never forced to find out.
One of the greatest war movies
it was made during the second world war
@@josephberrie9550 Just after I think. The R.N. didnt have warships to use as movie sets during the war. Filmed in 1952 I believe. And mostly on location.
At the end of the film the destroyer even visits the Uboat pens in their fortified harbours in France. They had been immune from bombing there although the R.A.F. had tried every possible way. War damage is in every frame (almost) on land both there and in the UK.
That kind of war would be a rude shock for Gen Z but l have no doubt that if faced with "fight or flight" genetics would step up
"If it wasn't for the US you'd all be speaking German right now" is one of the dumbest, most ill-informed things you could ever say.
I’ve had Americans say it to me so, so many times with a smug grin on their faces….
If it was not for the British and Commonwealth fighting the axis before the Americans and also the Russians a couple of years later, most of Europe would be speaking German. Here is a tip for Americans. Next time a major war breaks out. Get stuck in from the start.
Did fuck all until pearl harbour 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@alanmccoll9631 The yanks see Europe as a buffer zone between them and the Russians. Because of the crap education system in the US. the Americans born after WW2 don't know that America also had many Nazi sympathisers at the beginning of the war in Europe.
What the yanks forget is, that without Britain, there would never have been an America.
My mother was a messenger from the war office to vatious places dotted around London. Took messages to the Austalian Canadians etc. During the Blitz. On a bicyle. She was 17/ 18. Very brave as a lot of spies about.
All that for us in 2024 to just give our country away without a fight 💔 at least with Hitler we weren't to afraid to acknowledge he was a danger and call him an enemy
I went to Florida was at the gates of the Disney theme park and took part in a survey by the Disney staff where they asked us where we came from, I said England...she looked confused and couldn't find the option on her form. I said oh maybe if you look up Great Britain, nope couldnt find it - so I said try United Kingdom...coulnt find it immediately...so she said..so where is that? I have to say since we are a great ally and friend of America a was not overly impressed. I love America and the Americans and
I treasure the closeness we have but to be honest it does feel a bit one sided sometimes
Thankyou for showing my beautiful country.. and how absolutely devastating the war was on us .. but I’m always proud to say we British will never give up never.. and the same is happening to us now our country is in trouble big and we need our allies more then ever .. America 🇺🇸 we love u .. you will always have our backs as we would yours ❤
It annoys when americans say "we saved your arse dude, we won that war" thank you looking into it. The look on your face with a sense of english pride made me happy ❤ you sir deserve a round of applause ❤
As a british guy, it's beautiful to see a guy from the US talk like this Thank you brother. Much love.
Charming old reel but the US joined our team, we didn't join the US team.
Why say this? We were the only country to stand alone against Germany, and from beginning to the end. Also, yes, while there were a lot of munitions and equipment made in the states, it wasn't free, we paid every cent off - in 2011 to Obama who thought it was funny.
And finally, the yanks only reached parity with us in the field in August 1944. Imagine that, a country 30 times bigger, a population 5 times larger and the biggest economy and there was less than 8 months of the war left (in Europe) when they field the same number of troops in the field!
My Grandfather fought in the trenches in WW1. My father was a bomber in WW2 .
What was he then? A Lancaster/Wellington/Halifax/Stirling or Mosquito.
@@clinging54321 You do realise that you are the one who looks an utter w⚓for that smart-arse remark, don't you?
Thank you for doing this Video. I'm an older guy from England who grew up in the shadow of WW2. I knew that we kept rationing for a while after the war to help rebuild our country but it's been a really heartwarming watch, for the video and your reactions and respect. Thank you again. Enjoy your pursuit of personal enlightenment and enrichment. Adding a subscription as this was a good one and it was enlightening for me too 😃
Im very proud to be British my Grandfather on my mums side was in Africa they known as the desert rats he would never talk about his time in the army! My other Grandfather was a merchant navy man they were so brave sailing through the sea full of u boats! He was torpedoed several times sadly he died before i was born but very proud of both of them us brits never surrender! ❤ 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤🏴🏴🏴❤🏴🏴🏴❤🏴🏴🏴❤🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲❤
My grandfather said nobody wanted to fight but in the end they had no choice. His convey got to South Africa and split in 2, one half to Singapore and their deaths, he "got lucky" as his half to Egypt and going across north Africa all the way from El Alamein to Sicily but would not speak of it.
To avoid getting the wrong impression, note that while population density for the UK as a whole is high, it varies a lot around the country. Urban sprawl in parts of South east England in particular can make it feel like the sardine can, but at the other extreme northern Scotland has some of the lowest population densities in Europe. Plenty of range inbetween.
The density of population rises now in the north of Scotland during the summer, but otherwise it is a few clusters of houses near a beach to launch your family's fishing boat.
@@20chocsaday lol, I imagine in summer the Northwest 500 route must be full of mobile sardine cans (VW california campers from london)
@@dna9838 Well, I have seen one but yes, there will be a few. It is also possible to rent one in Inverness and return it on time.
The scenery includes a lot of wet moss, brown burns and rock too steep for plants.
Sometimes you will see plains of purple heather.
My father was in the Merchant Navy, in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Arctic Convoys, the Indian Ocean and finally in the Pacific. My mother was a navy Wren, very proud of being a volunteer rather than a conscript. Her father was in the Home Guard while Dad's father had died of WW1 gas effects in 1922.
Everyone was involved. The royals had ration books too and like everyone else painted a line around the inside of their bath tubs to ration hot water. Even the then Princess Elizabeth signed on for war work on her sixteenth birthday and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service (later the Women's Royal Army Corps) at eighteen as a driver and mechanic; it's said that she was rather good at fixing problems with engines into old age. When she got married in 1947, the government gave her extra clothes ration coupons for the dresses for her and her bridesmaids. Queen Elizabeth was the the last surviving Head of State who was a WW2 veteran. (The previous Grand Duke of Luxembourg was the heir at the time of WW2 and landed on D-Day as an officer in the Irish Guards; later, he was allowed to liberate Luxembourg.)
My father was wounded three times in WWII. Twice in Africa and once in Goch just over the German / Netherlands border.
My grandfather a veteran of WWI served in the auxiliary fire crews during the blitz in London.