I really appreciate your attention to detail on V2 rocket history. Great way to spend some time thank you

Excellent find. I use the images on Britain from Above a lot for my own interests. It is truly amazing resource. Sadly, now having looked at your collection of videos that you have not produced any further analysing photos, but I will live in hope. I learnt a lot about analysing photos from you first video which will help me obtaining interesting information from old images.

I really enjoy these films of yours. Keep up the good work!

Fantastic to see you back in action! Have followed this channel fo many a year, so I consider myself one of those who greets you as a long lost friend! Watched the 2 hour special last night and the rest of the decoded videos today. Your presentation is hard to surpass in any video, on any subject, on KZread in my opinion. Fascinating detective work on the airburst theory for St. Stephen’s Road. My gran had her stories of the Clydebank blitz to tell me when I was little, anything on the subject of WWII always brings me back those early memories of her telling me things while chain smoking her Berkeley! I reckon 20 Woodbines in the pocket of the handwarmer chap too :) I mean this sincerely, keep up the amazing, entertaining work!

Thanks, this helped to build a mental picture of the extent of the damage. Just going from the streetlevel pictures it was hard to scale.

Great video, you have done some amazing research. What confounds me are the collapsed fuel lines on the rocket bell. Closing the fuel valve rapidly could cause vacuum in the lines. However, what was the pressure on the outside of the pipes at the end of the 60 second rocket burn when the rocket had climbed above much of the atmosphere?

Thanks for the Britain From Above info, Not seen before.

Just loved your work sir

Fascinating stuff! Great channel!

Awesome followup - Thanks

Cant wait for your next episode of V2 Rocket Photos - Decoded!!!

Brilliant work, thankyou.

great Video about the V2 .Cheers from Oz

So post-war property development did more damage to this neighbourhood than the "Blitz" and the V2 missiles combined

Something that should be part of worldwide history, so something like this would never happen again. But because of a certain group of people who have been we'll say steering the bus in charge of school curriculums like say in the 🇺🇸 this kind of stuff has been totally disregarded as being of any importance anymore. What happens when history is forgotten??? SMH yep its bound to be repeated again. Thank you so much for your work on this subject matter. Even at my age growing up the second World War was still only less than 35 years in the recent past and everyone who I knew back then all somehow or somewhere had at least one family member who was a contributing factor to the war. I was lucky enough to have many people in my family who somehow survived the war especially one of my biggest mentors of life, my grandfather who was an Officer graduate of King's Point Naval Academy of NYS. This man was hunted by Hitlers Wolf Packs after surviving the bombing of Pearl Harbor another miracle in itself. His brother, my great uncle was in the fox holes freezing his limbs off losing almost all his toes to ftost bite during the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardens Forest who landed on the beaches of Normandy France. My grandfather also found himself in the Pacific Theater after VE day hauling oil and fuel to the islands out there. He had one of the most dangerous jobs of the war besides being in a trench! He was on a fuel/oil tanker out there, so the Japanese were on the look out for ships like his slow moving and critical to the war effort and sometimes with absolutely zero defensive measures to protect him. They had a couple anti aircraft guns and some deck guns along with depth charges but it was like playing Russian roulette every agonizing second that passed. Knowing a sub or plane or just a small battle cruiser would only need one shot in the hull of the floating bomb he was on top of! He carried a .45cal government issued Colt 1911 in case the ship was hit and he didn't die immediately after. It was his mental security in the fact, every man on that ship was afraid of, burning alive! There's no escaping a vessel like that as he bore witness to In Pearl Harbor watching his fellow navy and marines being burned to death while in the water! This put some serious stress on the guy, I really couldn't even imagine what he saw and smelled the carnage of war is enough to break the hardest of heads! No one thinks about burning to death slowly while being surrounded on water until you know your on a fuel tanker! Once the oil and gas begins to leak out the water around the vessel is usually surrounded with the fuel floating on the surface and it took a single spark to light it up. One moment your drowning and the next as you reach the surface after jumping overboard you go to gasp for a breath and inhale flames into your lungs! I totally understand how he felt about this shit! They had pacts on these ships that if they were able to shoot, the sailors all would agree to this rule! If you saw one of your shipmates in this situation to shoot them in the heads before yourself. Non commission officers and sailors didn't usually carry their own side arms in the Merchant Marines. So it was up to the officer's to be in charge of this task in case the ship was taken out by the enemy. Pretty fuckin crazy times and somehow these guys survived and didn't have as many mental breakdowns as they do today, war is traumatic no matter what end of it you are in! This was a slightly different level though not wanting to survive only to drown or be burned to death. I can definitely understand that though! Sorry for the long story. But thanks for all the great work and research you do on this topic.

I'd imagined that the war damage would have been cleaned up quicker than that. Especially surprised by the temporary housing. I recall that the post war years were economically tough in England. How big a factor was that in the cleanup?

@johnpotter4750

2 жыл бұрын

I have at my ECR a large 3 x 4 picture of Waterloo up to the throat and you can see an ack-ack gun site (with a wall shielding the station from blue on blue, )all the railway lines repaired (1 Day) and the road arches(longer) canopy (1 hole) and bombed buildings leveled and covered from view by advertising hoarding (Standard) No discernable bomb march. it was dated 1955. some good movies showing London bomb damage - The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) , Sidney James, Alex Guinness (melted Gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers) The car outside the factory looks similar to my fathers Jaguar, big external headlights (and always Maroon), both my father and uncle swore by Jaguars

@Fanakapan222

2 жыл бұрын

When talking of the post war housing shortage in Britain, many overlook the fact that the shortage had been building up since the end of the first war. A tardy start to clearing what often amounted to jerry built inner city housing was made in the 20's but the 30's depression effectively put the brakes on that effort. So by the end of WWII, even if one discounts damage from enemy action, the shortage of housing was huge. As for the temporary housing (Prefabs) they turned out to be remarkably resilient structures that it would seem were not at all bad to live in. Kynaston records a certain Neil Kinnocks memories of his family moving into a prefab and imagining they had some Hollywood style of living compared to what they had before. I moved to my current address in 1967, and another of the roads in what was a rural district still had prefabs that remained until the later 70's

@RWBHere

8 ай бұрын

I lived in a small town in Lincolnshire. Bomb sites were easily found in the mid-1960's. A few WW2 air raid shelters are still to be found in the mid-2020's, if you know what to look for. One bomb site which we played at in that seaside town is now a council Pay and Display car park. I live in a city nowadays, and evidence of previous bomb damage can still be found. In one case near to me, two terraced houses were destroyed, and three houses replaced them. Their style is somewhat different to the surrounding properties, and of course they are smaller in width. The house numbers include a, let's say 57, 59 and 59a, to accommodate the extra property. In rural areas of Lincolnshire (which was called 'Bomber County' by some people), as in some other mostly Eastern and Southern counties of England, there are still some fields with coppices or hollows in them which show where bombs had dropped and exploded. Not all of them are from enemy aircraft; some were dropped by RAF and U.S. bombers which had been damaged in action, causing them to have to offload their bombs before making a forced landing. Other bombs were dropped by German aircraft missing their intended targets by quite a few miles. Some of those bomb loads have left strings of craters spread over several miles of farmland. Google Maps shows some of them quite clearly.

@RWBHere

8 ай бұрын

We still have a whole estate of WW2 prefabs in our city which are maintained to a high standard by their owners and tenants@@Fanakapan222 They'll likely still be standing in another 50 years' time.

I was indeed wondering what happened to the church. Thanks for the conclusion.

Sad to see civilians getting blasted with the descendants of V-2x

You have lost weight sir 🤗

@RocketPlanet

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but I managed to find some of it over Christmas! KR RJD A&NTV

Thanks, very interesting. It's a shame you have to put that disclaimer at the end, a product of the modern age I suppose. For example, I enjoy watching documentaries on serial killers, an attempt to understand them (I still don't), but that doesn't make me a serial killer or have any desire to be one.

admittedly i forgot where i followed you from, it was your old v2 vids. i literally just watched your 2 hour v2 vid and besides the war time false propaganda you injected into it about the people who built the v2's i was glued to the whole video. very nice

@stevenkelby2169

3 жыл бұрын

Care to expand on that claim?

@maxwell8tre

2 жыл бұрын

There’s always some idiot. No matter the subject, no matter the time of day. It hurts my soul knowing that people like this fool exist. If you cared to, you could go and visit the horrendous places where this is fully documented to have happened and educate yourself thoroughly, but no, you won’t. You’ll spend your day on bile filled internet echo chambers where you consider a poorly worded racist rant as news because it already agrees with you. Most likely, the use of “injected” in your thinly veiled, yet ultimately pointless barb at this videos maker, tells us that you believe accurate vaccination news to be “Rebecca wot’s a nurse and friend of my step-dads sister’s taxi driver sez you don’t know wot’s in it.” You’re on a Facebook group three thousand strong, chock full of people shaped effluent, who wear the fact they never finished school as some kind of modern badge of courage. Your comment isn’t welcome to read, it’s not welcome as part of what you poorly judge to be a compliment to anyone, certainly no-one with a semblance of grey matter anyway. Furthermore, if you were any sort of Oracle, the foreshadowing of your own incomprehensible foolhardiness would be all that occupied your third eye, alas, all I see is that you are a third eye. The eye on the end of a bell end, to be clear. Block this idiot. He should not be allowed to view anything else or offer up what he believes to be a contribution to this community. Just go straight to the Hitler was misunderstood community, I’m sure they’re always looking for new members given the rate of mortality for things like sticking tongues in plug sockets, or fast blending your intestines for a Tik Tok challenge. Honestly mate (and I use that term loaded with the utmost disrespect intended,) I couldn’t hate you more.

@johnpotter4750

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxwell8tre Wow, bit of a rant, waste, just say "idiot" (Heh, heh, UK 13A sockets block tongues ;- )