That was a nice touch there at 5:43.

Imagine being an 18 year old in 1939. The dreaded draft letter comes through the door. You expect to get sent to the trenches in France like your relatives were. Then you find out you'll be manning the big guns down the road. What a great relief that would be

@timmensch3601

4 жыл бұрын

They were mostly manned by teenage boys

@bowenjesus2303

2 жыл бұрын

instablaster.

@markwilson3978

2 жыл бұрын

A lot of these gunners end up going to the hell on earth known as the Burma Campaign.

@markiobook8639

9 ай бұрын

My grandad as HAA on 3.,7 inchers all up and down UK from Aldershot to Culmdown.

@steventitterington7156

Ай бұрын

Did we down many German bombers during the blitz

That crump sound is satisfying.

Ahh, but working too hard can give you a heart attack ack ack ack ack ack...

The Bofors 40mm is a much smaller gun. The fixed emplacement with added shield suggests a QF 4.5 inch naval gun.

@PeriscopeFilm

8 жыл бұрын

+strategicconsensus Thank you for this insight!

@markiobook8639

9 ай бұрын

more likely a 3.7 incher- 10,000 made

Thank you for sharing these. These are always intriguing. Be well. Take care

Notice how they said the aircraft had to be spotted visually. They said this because they did have RADAR but it was top secret technology, and trainees could have been enemy spies.

@markiobook8639

9 ай бұрын

Yes I'm sure the Germans by then had not worked out what Chain Home was.

Heard this term in an episode of Foyles War and was wondering what it meant. The particular scene showed people in an airaid shelter during the Blitz, with a man complaining that there had been no ack ack heard at all during the bombing. Amazing film

@iandeare1

9 ай бұрын

Part of the British WWI phonetic alphabet Ack being 'A' therefore AA The phonetic alphabets changed about three times during WWII before subsequently settling on the present NATO code Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, etc.

4:35 - "No one saw that, right?"

@DerpyPenguin4747

7 жыл бұрын

Nice catch

@vinay4358

6 жыл бұрын

i didnt get you ..

@jeffreywarcher

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinay4358 last dart completely missed the dartboard - Ironic considering their whole job involves aiming at stuff

Fantastic!

There were also mixed batteries with the ATS who did everything bar fire the guns

@Saranne1004

9 ай бұрын

yes, my mother served as a Predictor, working the machines from a tower, she lost several friends - blown to bits.😪

@macraghnaill3553

9 ай бұрын

@@Saranne1004 My mum was on the predictor as well, she was in Battery 542 in Kent [also several others], going by what was written on photo's from her friends she was what today would be a "Team Leader"

As a German, I like the British. We should never have been at war with each other.

@RicTic66

6 жыл бұрын

Back at ya, I've got friends in Delmenhorst and Bremen I love visiting, give me fish in bread, brat wurst and a stein of Becks or Weißbier and a night on the town. Germans (the ones I've met) are good people.

@dulls8475

6 жыл бұрын

I agree

@JohnDoe-qr7fx

5 жыл бұрын

im British, and there are many things i love about Germany and its people one of those things is that after trying and failing to conquer Europe, you gave it another go!

@johnernest2779

5 жыл бұрын

I'm American and I agree. It's Amazing how one asshole can change the life of millions of people overnight! People in charge are greedy and power hungry. It makes me wonder how things could have been different if we wouldn't have been at war, we could have been good friends and went hunting or fishing together. It's too bad bad leaders make horrible decisions.

@MatthewBaileyBeAfraid

4 жыл бұрын

It was Hitler’s intention that he get the U.K. on his side to begin with, as he considered the English, specifically, to be “kin” to the “German/Aryan.” But, Hitler was just a bit touched in the head when it came to many things he believed. He just happened to come along at what was precisely the wrong time, Politically, for the Government of Germany to effectively oppose his Populist and Revanchist message, which is a type of political pandering that remains pretty effective even when Social and Economic Conditions aren’t “horrible,” as was the case in the late Weimar Era. The Political-divisions in Germany resulted in Hitler’s rather rapid rise to power. And even though most of the population didn’t explicitly support him, Herr Hitler did win up receiving more-and-more support as conditions improved, and due to the rather unfortunate effect within Democracies of a population tending to support whoever is in power, out of the mistaken belief that doing so will somehow make them “more influential” WITH said Government (or that it will “protect” them from any “bad policies” of that government). Populism remains one of the most powerful opponents of Liberal/Western Democracy, even today. And the tendency of Populism to lean heavily toward Nationalism still produces the exact same kind of scapegoating of “The Other” that occurred in the Third Reich. The Targets of Populists identified as “The Other” just change over time. To the Populist-Right, the “Other” becomes minorities and immigrants (which often still includes “Jews,” as they seem to be a part of all Conspiracies in some way or another). And to Populist-Leftists “The Other” is the “Wealthy” or large Corporations (and, again, the “Jews” usually get sucked into these Conspiracies as well, given that many banks are still controlled by Jewish Families - or at least still connected to them, along with several very prominent Billionaires who are Jewish... “OBVIOUSLY” they are part of some super-secret cabal oppressing people across the globe). And thus you often get strange alliances and opposition due to Populist Regimes coming to power. Prior to the crash of 1929, Germany was seen as an emerging powerhouse of Global Progress, Industry, and the Arts... And then History occurred.

My grandfather served in one of these batteries, but I don't which one or what guns they were equipped with, in the UK (he was in Peterborough for a period), north Africa (after the Torch landings) and in Italy. Although he died before I got ask hime anything about his service.

@andydavidson

6 жыл бұрын

my dad was in the RA, he was in Peterborough and Lincolnshire before being sent to north Africa in 41, then into Italy, he was on searchlights

@markiobook8639

9 ай бұрын

Same. But only UK as he was too old. HAA Aldershot, Culmdown, many others.

I like your video very much. It's really great. I'll keep an eye on your channel. I am your fan and I will support you.

Would be interesting to know which year the film was made

Showing this to my mother in law, she is 93 and served in the Royal Artillery in WW2 as an ack-ack girl. She joined up at 14 and was in the Antwerp area on 1st Jan 1945.

Priceless commentary, sounds like a Monty Python sketch.

2:17 "a military target" euphemism for factory.

I have no idea what makes you think that's a 40mm gun, it's a much bigger gun - probably a QF 3.7 inch.

lol the boys in the pub are the same guys/scene they used in the R.A.F scramble to fighters upon alert. those boys sure get around, lol

@rancidpitts8243

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Ferro You're not supposed to notice stock footage. Play the game and no one gets disappointed.

@mynameis9057

6 жыл бұрын

rancid pitts lol they're great though, nonetheless, I'll try to.

QF 4.5-inch Mk I

@OrkneyBG

6 жыл бұрын

Would it not be Mk II, on Mk I mounting? I thought land service versions were all Mk II.

"Oym an anti-aircraft gunna. We chaps on tha guns, loyk those in every otha brahnch of the new army, come from all woaks of loyf."

yeah. radar is a good thing to have.

Can anyone let me know if there are any books or printed material on British Ack Ack units n the UK and Europe?

3.7 inch gun, perhaps?

@TheDansetteList

7 жыл бұрын

No, 4.5".

the British used the 3.7inch aa gun I thought

@TheDansetteList

7 жыл бұрын

You're right, but they also used the 4.5" gun. The giveaway is the shield to protect the crew from the muzzle blast. I also think that must be an early war film, since there are no females in the battery.

@carlmatton7728

6 жыл бұрын

TheDansetteList z

It's not very well known, but there were also anti-aircraft rocket batteries around London in WWII. I don't know what guidance system (if any) was in use for them, though.

@PeriscopeFilm

7 жыл бұрын

LOL I think it was quite well known. The defense of London was extremely important to the Brits. Radar was used to detect incoming flights of Luftwaffe aircraft, as well as an elaborate system of spotters, intelligence, etc.

@avro549B

7 жыл бұрын

I only found out about the rockets because I met someone who had served with them, and he seemed to consider them poorly known. I was referring to the guidance for the rockets themselves. They were likely ballistic, but I could be wrong.

@PeriscopeFilm

7 жыл бұрын

I see. Well, most were ballistic but some certainly had proximity fuses, especially late in the war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze#World_War_II

@johnorchard4

7 жыл бұрын

My great-uncle served on a rocket battery somewhere around the Woolwich arsenal area.

@TheDansetteList

7 жыл бұрын

The rockets used were 4" ones (called "Hedgehogs", or "UPs" for Unrotated Projectiles), mounted in batteries of 64, and they were only used at VPs (Vulnerable Points) to scare dive-bombers with near misses. They were unguided.

How hard was to hit an Airplane

Is that crickets chirping, or someone blowing a whistle as the crews rush to their guns from the Canteen? I guess it is whistles, since that was also a means of identifying WHERE troops were supposed to go when lights could not be used.

Periscope...please edit your clip. This is not a Bofors 40mm.

4:31 bro really miss a fvcking near dart board, how can he hit the plane 💀💀💀

Always wondered with all the story's of the German 88, if the allies used heavy anti aircraft guns against tanks

@HRHooChicken

7 жыл бұрын

Undoubtedly in a panic, but I do remember reading that certain British AA guns got damaged when fired horizontally so it probably wasn't standard practise.

@TheDansetteList

7 жыл бұрын

The British 3.7" gun was designed to be used as an anti-tank weapon too, but the only examples I know of it being so used was in North Africa.

@timboinozify

6 жыл бұрын

No, it definitely was NOT. It could be fitted with a telescopic sight, and such use was attempted, it was rarely successful as the training was focussed on AA defence, and unsuited to open warfare.

@dulls8475

5 жыл бұрын

Not sporting old chap.

The aim is probably a little off after 15 pints.

I came for the Mars Attacks jokes. Ack Ack! I left disappointed.

ACKKKKK

Trans rig-ACK!

That’s actually WW1

@PeriscopeFilm

6 жыл бұрын

NOPE!

@jamesmitchell1909

6 жыл бұрын

Connor Callahan is it bollox

@KG84C

5 жыл бұрын

No, it's World War with an even digit. Where do you get off with inaccurate comments?

british air defense system until the advent of radar.

04:22 Wrongly oriented chess board.

Where are the Gunner Girls? They did everything but actually fire the big guns, and had to do it with male shenanigans going on at the same time. It was a special assignment for the women that tested the highest on the apptitude exams.

@KJones-cx9fh

5 жыл бұрын

*aptitude

The AA gunners caught a spy. So they tie him to the top of a tower and shoot at him for a week then they found he had died of thirst.

He sounds like salad fingers.