Bless the war-time generation, such resilience and fortitude will never be repeated ❤🇬🇧 we owe them a debt of gratitude for the freedoms we have

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

4 ай бұрын

And are now giving away without a whimper.

In September of 1951, Dad got assigned to London as a USN Lieutenant. I, having been born a few days after VJ Day, had my 6th birthday aboard ship. We lived in a nice, rented home in the south of London, and I started school. We often drove or rode a bus to downtown, and I started seeing great piles of brick rubbish, and thus was introduced to "The Blitz". This was compounded by gas masks hanging in the garage, and air raid drills, when we had to get into the shelter adjacent to the garage. Britain was still rationing food and such; I well remember when sugar went off ration the next year, and I was able to buy penny candies at the sweets shop. A few years later, Dad was assigned to a Naval base in the Philippines, thus I also got introduced to the War in the Pacific. The British people, and the Filipinos, have long impressed me as heroes in their own right.

@halfpintcustoms3428

5 ай бұрын

1941 I presume ?

@andrewmorton9327

4 ай бұрын

No, 1951@@halfpintcustoms3428

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

4 ай бұрын

@@halfpintcustoms3428 British rationing finally ended in 1953.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Andrew, for your interesting and amiable post. Regards from the UK.

These young men did not run away to a safe country but fought for theirs. These many fit young scroungers who flood here should try that

@norsemanbushcrafting1621

Жыл бұрын

Well its because of britains actions in ww2 that you have these «modern» issues today. Until you can come to terms with that there will be no bettering of the situation.

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

4 ай бұрын

@@norsemanbushcrafting1621 Oh yes.... of course its Britain's fault isn;t it... give over you big stupid jesse.

My Grandmother worked in Croyden as senior secretary working for the director of a number of factories. She started at the bottom and was moved to work for him when they realised she spoke fluent french, She always talked about been in the shelters singing war songs. Helping Mums with their little ones. Just mucking in with everyone else. During the day going all over London to meetings with her boss. Funniest story she told me was she became very adept at removing her stockings and jewelry at speed before going into a shelter she was worried the other women would think she was trying to lord it over them Her boss always supplied her with stockings as no secretary of his would be allowed into a meeting with bare legs. Strange thing ti fixate on in war time. She quickly picked up a thick accent she turned on the second she entered the shelter. She said how strange it was walking back to her Aunts seeing a bombed house then the house next door still standing looking almost untouched. Before the war she taught deportment, elocution and French Great grandma thought she just worked in the secretary pool she'd have locked her in her room if she knew she went every where with a Man. She even left clothing and stockings anything that might catch her out with her Aunt before returning to Yorkshire. She met my Grandad traveling to London and back on the train.

The Home Guard was not known as Dad's Army during the war. I think that came later for the TV series.

Opening shots of a Spitfire-- pity it had an 'additional' cockpit, fitted in the 60's-80's.

Why keep the background noise so loud when the narrator is talking over it? Im sure i missed some interesting details because i couldnt hear parts

8:27 don't blur it.

Good to see one I have not seen. This was great. Thank you! I find this dark part of history. Such raw heroism, uncertainty, the collective good of a whole country won their survival. It's reality that Britain could of easily been done in by Germany. It could of happened, it came unusually close.

England and France went to war to protect Poland. When the war was over Poland was under the boot heel of another dictator. That’s progress!

@GertrudePerkins

Жыл бұрын

The law of unintended consequences.

@user-vj3io9jx7y

Жыл бұрын

англия и франция вступили в войну, только языком. Впрочем как обычно. Только якать и умеют. Языком трепать не кирпичи ворочать

@bogtrottername7001

Жыл бұрын

Are you implying that he would have stopped at that if the allies did nothing ?

@dennisweidner288

Жыл бұрын

@astralclub5964 Actually it was. As brutal as the Soviets were, Soviet plans were not mass genocide. I suggest you read about the NAZI Generalplan Ost. And while America and Britain were not willing to launch World War III to liberty Poland, there was diplomatic support that aided the Poles, especially when Soviet controls became less brutal. This was a factor in Solidarity's eventual success which began the unraveling of the Soviet Empire.

@thenickerpl

Жыл бұрын

France is 🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️

el mejor momento de los banqueros y mercaderes

Why a clip of Russian troops at the head of the video?

Why were Russian soldiers in the photo??????

👍

The biggest mistake the allies did in ww1 was to allow the germans to be granted a conditional surrender one of the conditional terms was the army allowed keep their weapons to keep army to surrender undefeated allowed to march home with their firearms and not to occupy the germany capital

God had to bless their uniforms. Just amazing. Never before. And never again.

Human being were living like animals those days. War,War,War,war,war.

@phorm57

Жыл бұрын

People are still living like animals. Theres still wars going on as we speak....

@ramkumthiunrou7855

Жыл бұрын

@@phorm57 very true

@dennisweidner288

Жыл бұрын

@ramkumthiunrou7855 I suggest you look at Ukraine and the streets of American cities like Chicago.

We carried gas masks at the beginning of the war,but after a while we didn,t bother.

The thumbnail shows Soviet Russian soldiers. (??????) SF

When and how did Hitler promise to respect Austria’s independence?

Just so you know, the guy you blurred out at 8:28 was faking it. That was a reenactment for the news reports back in the day lmao. So... GOOD CENSORSHIP! 🤣🤣🤣

@phillgreenland2390

8 ай бұрын

I'm sure they've read your comment and are very concerned.

很棒的纪录片，如果现在还如那时，世界上只有美国拥有核武器那该多好。

Meh, you can present it as though thise measures didnt save lifes, but the fact more people died as a result of the measures than the areal bombing should maybe indicate that it was somewhat effective...Cant imagine less people would have died if no measures were taken at all 🤷🤦‍♂️

The winner has the right to write history 😂😂😂 understand ??? 😂😂

@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684

4 ай бұрын

Tell us your "Losers" history then?

@Topvidi

2 ай бұрын

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 British are evil as they were killing millions in asia and africa, robbing the countries. Plus they caused WWII with their war declaration as they didnt want another strong european player.

1st comment 😁 Gv me Reward lol

@pickmeasinner

Жыл бұрын

​@Syd McCreath well that'll do, yeah! Sup wi ya syd?! First comment is a fun achievement !

@kidink5244

Жыл бұрын

@Syd McCreath jk bro are you gay 🤣🤣

@kidink5244

Жыл бұрын

@@pickmeasinner and here's a professor🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@pickmeasinner

Жыл бұрын

@@kidink5244 ??

A very average budget documentary, made even more average by the poor sound mixing, the sound effects often drowning out the narration.

America saved britains arse

@wiliammound7942

Жыл бұрын

Not so . In May 1940 when the British war cabinet’s decided not to capitulate but to continue the war, that is the moment the British saved America’s arse.

@jeanbrown8295

7 ай бұрын

No they did not, ,they played a very important part ,but it was the Russians being invaded by the Germans that changed things,and the fact that Britain is an island,and also had a very large powerful Navy,and a very good Airforce

@user-vi6pv4zp7b

3 ай бұрын

There's a laugh

11 You claim to be of Mahomet, Moses, Jesus of Nazareth while they are not your prophets and are no longer on the earth. How can Abraham Lincoln who died in 1865 be the president of the Americans today? Can a corpse be the prophet of the living? What is this proverb? 12 When you say that Jesus Christ or Mahomet is your prophet, it is an abuse of language, just like your presidents who say that it is God who established them, while it is their population who established them by votes. How can a dead man be the prophet of the living? And how can a prophet say that he is the last prophet? If I tell you that after me there will no more be prophets, this will mean that the world will come to an end on the day of my death. But if the world continues, this will mean that I am a false prophet or you misunderstood me. It is as if Donald Trump was saying that he is the last president of the United States. The notion of last prophet is an imbecility. Salvation through a holy book or a dead prophet is an imbecility. But you, if you are a son of God, no matter what leads you out of a religion, you shall never seek another religion or a holy book that would be better than the others but you shall seek the living prophet of your time and he will tell you what you need to do to be saved. Outside of a living prophet, there is no Word of God. All those interpretations of holy books that you consume in your temples, churches, mosques and synagogues are transgenic food, food for pigs. [Kc.110v19] #ProphetKacouPhilippe

@wiliammound7942

Жыл бұрын

What on earth are you on about and what does it have to do with this video?

@Ira88881

9 ай бұрын

Cuckoo!!!

@countesscable

9 ай бұрын

Fruitcake alert! 🤪

@buddysanders4675

7 ай бұрын

Much appreciated but a lot of this documentary has mistakes about the true history that actually happened. For instance the bomber that dropped on London was lost and Britain had no night fighters at the time.

An old WWII veteran once told me that the only regret he had about the war was that Germany didn’t completely destroy England.