RAF Spitfires salute forces' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn
Two RAF Spitfire aircraft have flown over Dame Vera Lynn's village of Ditchling at midday ahead of her funeral.
Author Clare Mulley paid tribute to a 'resilient servicewoman' in Dame Vera, commenting on her travel from gig to gig to boost morale among British troops.
She told Sky News the singer made a 'huge impact' on soldiers' spirits when she met and performed for them near the frontline.
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Rolls Royce Merlins.... The wonderful sound of freedom😁😁 RIP Dame Vera😔😔
Vera Lynn an incredible lady and an icon of her generation.
I love being british, so proud to wave my flag for our soldiers
@patp8405
4 жыл бұрын
@Richard R maybe its time to extinct
@summerbankboy
4 жыл бұрын
@@patp8405 Maybe its time to dump the EU, draw our horns in. forget about the environment turn back the clock 150 years build up arms and try and retake our Great British Empire back at least that way we would all die like heros
@braxxian
4 жыл бұрын
Your first name says it all.
@jordancornish3789
2 жыл бұрын
@@braxxian explain your point here? Genuinely curious.
She made many hearts smile during a time of grief, loneliness and hardships. Lovely lady. Thinking of her family today 💖
Absolutely magnificent. What a remarkable gesture
@johnwhorfin5150
4 жыл бұрын
fukhead
@tinamcintyre6797
4 жыл бұрын
Grim Well worth ever penny ,to send a true PATRIOT off ,in the manner she deserved .
Thanks Dame Vera. Those planes make me feel pround everytime I see a Spitfire (or a Lancaster).
@goonerinSP
4 жыл бұрын
Or a Hurricane!
@johnwhorfin5150
4 жыл бұрын
bahahahah awaawaahahah
@Baard2000
4 жыл бұрын
Yep......always gooseskin....
@Baard2000
4 жыл бұрын
@Grim It was money well spent...... In my humble opiniom... 😁
@goonerinSP
4 жыл бұрын
@Grim she's worth it.
What an honour to say Dame Vera was British
So proud to be British! Rule Britannia!
@tinamcintyre6797
4 жыл бұрын
Crassus of Rome Me too 👌
Lovely memorial and glorious planes
RIP. A very special lady.
RIP 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴
May she rest in peace 💙 Such a beautiful send off 💙
Wonderful to see what vera meant to the british people RIP VERA ❤
Brought tears to my eyes
Watching the Spitfires made me sad and nostagic as if I was saying goodbye to a once proud and great nation that has lost its identity and is suffering from dementia :-(
@braxxian
4 жыл бұрын
The people haven’t, your as great as ever. Your leaders however are a different matter.
The sight and sound of Spitfires and Hurricanes always cut deep...may all the boys that died in them fighting for freedom live in paradise.
Much respect for these pilots ✌🏻a beautiful ‘send off’
Wow. That gave me goosebumps!
There will only be one Vera lyn 💙
Who are the morons that put a thumbs down.?Obviously people that have not lived through war and know what this lady meant to the nation. RIP Vera.
@OsmanOsmanHan
4 жыл бұрын
Ze enemi
@flypast9725
4 жыл бұрын
Germans
@alastair9894
4 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the cell phone moronic mob
RIP X. What a way to be sent to heaven by 2 beautiful spitfires. I love Birmingham 🍻🏴
I'm surprised this tribute to dame vera hasn't offended anyone or been deemed racist
@nubianqueen4375
4 жыл бұрын
Attention seeking haaa, sad
@Ryan-ob7qu
4 жыл бұрын
just slipping that comment in before free speech disappears haaa
@roystonevans2223
4 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-ob7qu haha I'm afraid my good friend I agree 👌the world's going crazy
@atangibletruth2669
4 жыл бұрын
Don't understand. Why would this be considered racist?
@Crazed-oi3bs
4 жыл бұрын
a tangible truth - People call Remembrance Day racist and vandalise war memorials and grave yards, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
A fitting tribute to the forces sweetheart.
Beautiful 🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩🛩💖🌺🥀🌹🏵🌸💐💐💐 RIP#Sweetheart💖
I wish to hell I knew why, after a lifetime of loving WW2 aircraft and reading the magazines, the books, and watching the films, just how is it that no one takes better air-to-air photographs or film than the Brits? No one!
Outstanding. The Brits show the world what true class looks like. We have tRump.
@Ryan-ob7qu
4 жыл бұрын
Maga 2020
@DaMurph
4 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-ob7qu WOW! What a blistering retort!
I remember when I was in the war I met vera and she was lovely
I notice today, Dame Vera Lynn's funeral was the 4th story on the BBCs 1'o'clock news ITV and Sky made it their headline story, quite rightly so. Shame on the BBC.
@annmiller1516
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, defund the BBC.
@gj55223
4 жыл бұрын
Didn’t fit their woke agenda.
@kevablade
4 жыл бұрын
Get ready to pay the bbc out of your pension money again soon though .
@steveparkes1
4 жыл бұрын
@@kevablade Hi Kev, I already do, have paid all my life, but am now tempted to stop, I can't abide the way the corporation is run and the agenda they follow.
She will never be forgotten Rip xx🎵🌈🌈🌈😊🌹
Rip vera ❤
A truly fitting tribute.
A Battle of Britain Spitfire and a D-day Spitfire. M.
Lovely 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏
We'll meet again 🇬🇧🇨🇦
Oh what beautiful planes
RIP Dame Vera ❤
Lovely tribute!
Stunning 😍😍😍😍
Lovely x
Another One Bites The Dust. May she go somewhere peaceful .
The sound from those machines
@mrtgamesz
3 жыл бұрын
@@garynilsson416 must have been amazing to see and hear
Simply bloody wonderful tribute to a wonderful Lady,and I say that a 'lefty' with not a racist bone in my body.
There was no hurricane:( Haha jk I care more about the spitfire. Honestly what an awsome plane, so fast and delicate looking but a beast in battle. Proud to be british 🇬🇧
@johnwhorfin5150
4 жыл бұрын
thats because it was war thunder lol
Wow great
The Supermarine Spitfire was a fantastic fighter plane, fast and maneuverable. However, the design and the materials they were constructed from made them very easy to take down once a Luftwaffe pilot could get them in their sights. Now the Hawker Hurricane was less maneuverable, but a much tougher bird.
Lovely
🇬🇧✌️ R.I.P 🥇
Greetings from Canada. Interesting that one of the Spitfires featured the invasion stripes. Dame Vera Lynn was with the people of Britain and the Commonwealth through the entire war, not only the Battle of Britain. It is important to remember and be thankful for the Commonwealth since the US only joined the fighting at the end of 1941. Until that time the US was mainly an equipment supplier making money for its industries. Not saying that the US did not make great sacrifices when they finally entered the war in 1942. Churchill appeared thankful for US participation while taking for granted Commonwealth sacrifice.
Good to see the Spitfires are social distancing
RIP
Actually...what a great idea. I think RAF Typhoons or F35s should do a figure 8 "infinity" symbol over each city in UK to mark the brilliant fight against Covid19. Good way to lift morale and get people talking about the latest jets we have too. 👍
Can we get a close up on those planes bc I think one may be a hurricane they r extremely similar planes on the exterior the cockpit is the only difference
@MC-nb6jx
4 жыл бұрын
Thunder 1484 ..... Both Spitfires look at the wings, impossible to mistake them with Hurricanes 😉😉
@dannylonglegs3879
4 жыл бұрын
M C meh fair enough how about a typhoon ? 😐
@MC-nb6jx
4 жыл бұрын
Thunder 1484 ... If WW2 Typhoon sadly there’s non left flying ☹️
@dannylonglegs3879
4 жыл бұрын
M C 🙁 gotta just fly it in war thunder instead then
@MC-nb6jx
4 жыл бұрын
Thunder 1484 .... Sadly yep🤣🤣
👍like uk
I just adore the Spitfire... I’ve studied it, watched countless documentaries about it, flown a Harvard (the trainer spitfire pilots used prior to flying her). I’m as patriotic as the next Englishman. So disappointed to see the racists using patriotic videos like this to confuse it with being a patriot ☹️
In a fitting tribute, Dame Vera's body was thrown 'over the white cliffs of Dover', landing next to the sewage outlet pipe where it was united with a huge flotilla of ocean bound turds. Together, they floated out over the horizon, to a chorus of 'we'll meet again', as the sun set forever on the British Empire.
@musashi3036
4 жыл бұрын
What?
But don't forget the Hurricanes. They made up twice the number of Spitfires.
A pity the commentator prattles on over the marvellous sound of the two Merlins. The sound brings on a real emotion ... sadly ruined by his voice telling us what could have waited till flypast finished. Did the same during Captain Toms flastpast.
Who dat
❤️❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧💐👏👏👏🎶
Kinda was hoping for a couple of ww2 typhoons or tempests lol
@lawrencelewis8105
4 жыл бұрын
Along with some Mossies? Some Beaus? Seriously are there any Tempests or Typhoons flying today? I can't buy the British aircraft magazines like Flypast anymore since Covid 19.
This isn't breaking
@Scarz3ny
4 жыл бұрын
For those that remember it is🇬🇧
Non la buée est présente en permanence. C'est handicapant grave. Je l'emploie en tant qu'éducateur mais avec des personnes en situation de handicap dur dur pour la compréhension
Painting looks like Snake design
@musashi3036
4 жыл бұрын
They are d day stripes :) they were used to identify allied planes, to prevent friendly fire
why is this breaking news this happens every year?
@eggfriedrice4495
4 жыл бұрын
Vera lynn didn’t die last year or the year before.. and so on
@annmiller1516
4 жыл бұрын
Laaninovitsch What happens every year?
Imagine if sky news actually pinned this comment they won’t
@musashi3036
4 жыл бұрын
Good, It’s good they don’t pin stupid comments like this
Amazing events but it annoys me when these aircraft are hyped up, yes I love the spit but the BOB was a draw, only reason why Hitler Didn't invade was he gave up and gave his attention to barbarossa. Right, I'll shut up now lol
@adventussaxonum448
4 жыл бұрын
It's a amazing how Adolf, at the moment of victory (apparently) decided to bugger off, attack Russia and commit himself to a war on several fronts. "All" he had to do was stroll into Britain. A draw, my arse! He failed, big time. Realised he couldn't beat the RAF, couldn't beat the RN, but he had a bigger, better run army. The only way was east, once he realised he'd never invade the UK. (He cocked that up as well).
𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒! 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐘! 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄! 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐘!
that wasnt real
@musashi3036
4 жыл бұрын
What?
Load of crap
@calthedragon5686
4 жыл бұрын
Why?
@Crazed-oi3bs
4 жыл бұрын
How?
@rustynuts4426
4 жыл бұрын
Celebrating some 'Dame' fcuk them elites!
@musashi3036
4 жыл бұрын
RustyNuts elites? She came from a poor family in the east end, she was not ‘elite’ in any sense of the word, She had a gift, and gifted the troops of the war and us with her beautiful voice
@rustynuts4426
4 жыл бұрын
@@musashi3036 War..... the riches game to send the slaves (us) wether we like it or not, into battle so they can land grab, oil grab or labour grab.. it has always been the same. People just need to wake up to the lies (weapons of mass destruction).
𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐊 𝐈𝐍 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐏𝐒! 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐘! 𝐖𝐄 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐄! 𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐘!