Fantastic comment . Made me shed a tear.my family fought against both Germans and Japanese. British Army , Royal Navy.im going to copy and paste that comment if you don’t mind. 🇬🇧

@@gazza1196 That’s fine. I just couldn’t understand why so very many young men fled their countries instead of staying and fighting for them. It must be a cultural thing I suppose. From someone who’s Grandfather was in WW1 and Father in WW2 and me in the Navy for 12 years.

There's no one quite like the Brits, we're built different. Throughout history, through the ages there has been non-stop wars and invasions. The Brits are the only ones that will literally fight until the last man standing is standing no more.

Of course the main reason British people didn't leave was that there was nowhere to go and no means of leaving.

​@@UltimateRestorations-ny9rhprecisely....plus the British government made it illegal to not join the army and join in the fight and were willing to arm and train the population, unlike many conflicts today where the government is killing its own people who can flee easily across land.

But what can you say ,in the face of such ignorance?

I hear that all the time online and it really pisses me off , if a tourist said that to me he wouldn't say it a second time ...

@@larkspur4714 lol, why, what would happen?

Pearl harbour where the US was taken completely by surprise, two years into a global war..😆

⁠@@pauldunne822you’re ridiculously disrespectful.

Rest in peace freddie x

My mum was born 1931 my granddad had been a docker, Surrey Docks before the war, was a tail end Charlie in Lancasters. They were bombed out twice once when the docks got bombed and then when they were taken in by family they got bombed out from the house they were staying in Sutton. I’m heading towards my seventies, and I was raised differently than kids these days, because we knew what our grandparents had gone through, it made us appreciate what we were able to have all the more. Rest in peace Freddy, you will not be forgotten ❤

If it were not for the Russian's, Britain would have been decimated.

The Blitz was dreadful for Londoners and those innocents in other cities. Spare a thought too for the innocent German civilians bombed and firebombed to oblivion in numerous cities including the awful experience that was Dresden. The poor people on both sides who had to bear the brunt as usual.

@@david-spliso1928 That has always been the case through time. And sadly it will never change, because no matter humanity’s various ideas of how to achieve a perfectly equitable society, the one thing that always hold us back from achieving it, is humanity itself. Thus the populace will always be the body that bears the brunt of the decisions made by the elites. There is nothing quite as corruptible as a noble man with good intentions 😔

Hello, from England. A lot of the old boys got made to do things that people weren't supposed to do. And even though your grandfather fought my ancestors, he did what he had to do to survive. War is awful but brings out the best in people, like the Christmas truce during WW1 where our ancestors played football before going back to killing eachother haha the whole thing is mad. But no hard feelings, England and Germany are like old brothers, we are fruit from the same Germanic tree haha That's why we hate eachother so much 😂.

Boys made to do atrocious things and suffer mentally all their life.For the greed and hubris of evil old men.I hope ur Grandad found some peace before he died.

traitor

Thank you for posting this. I am from Coventry. A city that was devastated by bombing on the 14th November 1940. My mother was a child then and she has just passed away aged 92. Although it grieves me greatly, I appreciate you sharing your experience. It reminds me that war is predominantly purpotrated by those who reject peace, by those who crave power. I send love to you and your family.

Most of us folk in UK realised your military forces ...were just following orders ..just as ours . As your Grandfather ..our relatives suffered the same mental torment on their return !! The lost of sons of parents of German families were just as real for us ...same pain ..same heartache same loss !! Heartbreaking !

Bamber Bridge is a fascinating piece of history.

@adrianboardman162 Please don't' hold up the UK during WWII as a paragon of racial tolerance. It's a pity that people in our cities didn't show the same antiracist sentiments towards black and Asian immigrants in the 50s. "True English fashion" my hairy arse. Then in the 50s we weren't in extremis as we were during WWII.

@@crackpot148I was going to say this. Don’t get me wrong, it makes us feel good to hear that story, but Britain was still extremely racist. We just weren’t as racist as America.

@@user-ki2jp1cp3o People need to travel more. In the 1950s, we were just as racist as the rest of the world is currently. It's only the West which obsesses over race.

@@crackpot148 The apparent sign in B&Bs & shops read, "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs". No mention of Asians. However, that sign was made up for a class project in the 1980s by the Irish Studies Centre of London Metropolitan University. John Draper contended that the photograph had been a fake."The photograph emerged only in the late 1980s, and the university has conceded to me that it is of ‘somewhat uncertain’ provenance. They have been unable to discover who took the picture, where or when. “An old news clipping which I have presented to the university points to the image having been mocked up for an exhibition called “An Irish Experience” mounted at the now-defunct Roger Casement Irish Centre in Islington, London. “This dubious picture has long been cited by politicians, academics, even the Equality and Human Rights Commission, all of whom no doubt believe it is genuine”.

The imperial war museum used to be bedlam mental hospital.

I was nearly 5,when war was declared,I lived in London,we never took shelter down the tube,my mother would not go down there,there was a church in our street and the sub basement level was fortified,it was divided into sections,and furnished with 3 tier bunks,we used that throughout the war.The bombing did not end when the blitz ended,there were raids right through the war,right into 1945

@@piers995 wow, brave woman indeed. My grandmother was in a concentration camp in what was then Czechoslovakia from age 15-19 years old. I’m ashamed to say that as only a 1st generation Brit, I do not know all that much about the physical impact the war had on this country. My grandfather was a Royal Scot, served in North Africa but taken Prisoner of War (coincidentally put into the male section of my grandmothers concentration camp, where they subsequently met!) He passed away in 1959 so I never met him therefore never grew up with his stories. My grandmother passed away in 2003 and the stories of her experiences still make me nauseous.

I wouldnt say fighting our enemies with grit and prowess had anything to do with given up, it will never happen, and Hitler knew this that is why he ended any attempt to invade us. One of the reasons why over half of the country wanted out of the EU, was due to the fact that most of Europe at one time has attempted to invaded us and got their arses kicked in the proceeds.

I think you are riding high on propagandor. When you say 'give-up' what did you mean? Give-up theiving? Or give-up sending troops to follyisome wars to be slaughtered for endevors you do not understand as 'Greed' and the disruptions of others who live and reside in those lands? So you lost so many wars and so many men, women and children endevoring to be an Empire and what have you to show for it. Much langer cemetarys and a smaller Empire. Of course The UK does not have a thousand years of history. It began with Queen Anne. Prior to Queen Anne there was the Union of England and Scotland which unified with King James 1st & 6th. Historically sometimes the people your Prime Ministers opted to try to rule over reply by equally violent measures and place a bomb in your house which helps UK war zellots give-up. Then of course you end up with supposed war veterans talking as one of the few survivors and the sheer absolute Hell their lives have been decades on and for decades after. They too did not know how to give up as the Hell they were part of co-exists like scars along-side them every day. As an Ambassordor for Britian/UK over the last 20 years of wars. One observation I have observed is a policy by the sit at home goverments of 'No-Negociations'. As sadly they to do not seem to have any policy of giving-up untill so many are dead that they withdraw their forces of war. Ironiclly in the Tory war against Bashar Assad of the Arab Nationlist Socialist Prarty which could be seen as a Tory attack based on hate of National socialists the British electorate just voted on the 4th of July for a Nationlist Socialist Goverment (Labour Party). So it's like a double wammy against Theiving Torys and their war mongering zellots. My recommendation is if bullies do not know how to give-up then they should know something about the size of those you intend to victimise and make aggressions against. Pick on the little country and you could find their supports turn-up such as Russia, Iran and China and then when you start seeing overwheming odds you may decide you better give-up. But please see though the smoke of war as britian/UK does know how to give-up. They have given-up so much they now have a smaller Empire. When you are running away from conflicts you started that is giving-up. And when the soldiers return home after fleeing the war zones what have they got? What has the Country, Nation got for the bloody losses. Something worse than nothing. Decades of debt and more scars which they didn't need except that they saw them selves as desiring a bigger Empire. An Empire is of course rulership over others. Such as when The UK/Britsh goverment decided it wanted South Africa. Remember the poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson (Charge of The Light Brigade). As you need to speak for your self or for those in your constituency as many a Milatry Brigadeer may tell you that an intelligent army needs a brake, needs also a reverse gear. A zellot with out a brake is less intelligent than a car s most cars (.99999%) have brakes.

You call it a problem? I call it a blessing.

Unless it's the government killing us. Then we roll over and say nothing.

@@debbierowley8833 That is an example of British humour. British humour ~ Ironic, self-deprecating, satirical and at times very very dark.

Thank you for that . That is something I did not know , though I did know about Joe Kennedy and his attitude to Britain.

Joe Kennedy hated us 🇬🇧

Many wonderful Americans helped us against the Nazi machine in the early days of WW2, ...... except Joe Kennedy and FDR !

Thanks for this, I didn't know either. That man was a hero and sad how he died.

Just bought a book about this man because of your post. Unknown subject to me until this, so thank you.

Real Yorkshire grit, your grandma was/is a bad ass!

@@Duncan23 To be fair that was repeated all over the UK.

I'm not saying this didn't happen but it was actually William Connor who wrote a regular column at the Daily Mirror for over 30 years between 1935 and 1 February 1967 with a short intermission for the Second World War, his column restarting after the war with the words "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, it is a powerful hard thing to please all of the people all of the time." He took his pen name from Cassandra in Greek mythology, a tragic character who is given the gift of prophecy by Apollo but is then cursed so that no one will ever believe he. There is also a similar story about a BBC Television announcer using the same phrase on the resumption of the fledgling service in 1946.

He bought the house down, again!

I know what it was like, rationing didn’t finish till fifties, God Bless your Mom, they was the strongest wives during the war, I call them the back bone of Britain….They did all the jobs the men did before they left for war, even fighting back home against the enemy… The girls worked on the farms to keep them turning over all food grown in Britain, veggies, wheat corn, looking after cows plus milking,….Not forgetting pigs chickens, rabbits, pheasants , we had fruit, apples, plums , pears blackberrys, raspberries, rhubarb,, gooseberries, this was our fruit…We had a good life through difficult days during bombing… But we survived, ….

So sorry for your loss ❤

Very sorry for your loss.

God bless your mother she sounded like a strong determine woman, who represents the idea of the British strength and stoicism we have come to learn. You should be proud of her legacy.

@@helenchelmicka7894 thankyou❤️

Britain was not only defending its country for many years but it was on the offence of attack in Europe. Freeing the french and liberating other countries of German occupation. Russia also played a big part in the war, which history books and western schools like to forget. Without the Russians we would of lost the war.

My Mum worked as a nurse during the Blitz, this was before I was born I am 75 now. She refused ever to speak about what she saw and so did my Dad he was a gunner. When I was a child the road I lived in had bomb sites some where the whole house had gone and many where only half were left. Kids played on those bomb sites for years afterwards (including me). We used to go for walks along the embankment by the Thames and Dad used to point out places along the river where you could clearly see that guns had shot chunks out of the walls along the river, bullet marks too from the planes flying over as the walls were I think Granite. The damage is still there so you can look and feel them. To see those planes heading toward you firing those guns must have been very Scary. I had two Uncles in Concentration camps they had some hair raising stories. War was very real for them and us as it was in our lives from an early age. My Grandma used to hide under the kitchen table! I can remember rationing just about, certainly rations for Children such as orange juice came in a tiny bottle like a medicine bottle and we had a teaspoon per day! This is something no one should forget, we all just need peace in this world now.

@@horyzengaming3935Of all German losses in WWII, 85% of men and 75% of war materiel were against the Soviet Union. In the siege of a single city, Leningrad, more Soviet people died than the entire war dead of Britain, the USA, France and Canada combined.

No they did not held out until 1941 they held out till 1945. The US military was massively small in 1941 and it took till 1944 to get the men fully trained and sent over. Yes there was a campaign in Italy and the far east but they were side shows. Churchill wanted to invade Germany via Italy and it would have ended the war a few months early if it had. The main thrust was in northern Europe where the UK had over 1.1 million men and the US army had a 3 million man army. The French had in 1914 more troops on the western front but you never hear them say they won the first world war on their own, the same was in 1940, it is only the Americans who say that. It is true the US bankrolled the UK and USSR but that is becasue they had too esp. with the brits as they refused to pays for American weapons with gold et al - my previous rely. The US army was green and very inexperienced and we saw this Operation Torch, the Italian campaign, and in Northern Europe. Market Garden also showed how green the US army was and so did the Battle of the Bulge. Eisenhower gave away eastern Europe to Stalin because the US did not trust the British and the American elite thought they could trust the Soviets more. Please read up on the relationship between the allies and how it nearly collapsed and how lend lease came about. Ask yourself why? Red about the battle of Britain, The British defeating the Italians in 1940, Taranto raid that sunk the Italian fleet (the Japanese studied that raid and used it lessons on the Americans at Peral harbour), El alamien 1942 , the Battle of Imphal 1944. Also the the British has a massive force of over 8 million fighting in WW2 while the US had 16 million.

2006 to be exact. Roosevelt was determined to bankrupt Britain.

It was Russia turning against Germany that really helped us win the war, as Germany had to split its forces to fight her. That had more of an impact on the war then America joining us in the fight.

Not only that but Britain being an island gave all defeated European nations a secondary base of operations where their legitimate Governments could govern all of their armed forces that had managed to escape the continent across the channel, even without Russia, the US and our own Commonwealth forces Britain was never alone, we were the leading contributor of a combined European military machine by default only because the other European nations were residing within Britain at the British tax payers expense "during the war", what may or may not have been paid back to Britain after the war to cover the costs of our financial support for those nations in exile is a different matter completely, but during the occupations of their nations the British people paid for them to be here.

Germany turned against Russia. Until that happened, they were allies.

Americans didn’t want to get involved as they were too busy selling arms to the Nazis. Companies like Ford were selling engines for German vehicles. They’d have lost their income , it was only the Japanese invading pearl harbour that forced them into the war. When they did finally help us they loaned us weapons and money, something we were in financial debt for years after the war. One reason why many of our houses and buildings look the same, people needed somewhere to live after our cities were decimated.

@@josiebridle1947 Actually, Germany turned against Russia. Despite British warnings, Stalin refused to believe that Germany would attack, right up until it happened. The UK and the USA had to split their reinforcements to help supply the Russians with massive amounts of tanks, planes, metal, ammo, food, etc.

My Dad lived in Burton on Trent and he could see the flames from Coventry as well. My mum lived in Derby and told me that they built a false town out in the fields to fool the Luftwaffe into thinking that they had hit Derby. (It worked!) Derby, like Coventry, was a prime target because of Rolls Royce who were making the engines for the British bombers. Rolls Royce did get bombed (the Luftwaffe followed the trains apparently) but it was only a minor strike, luckily.

My grandmother said the same - she could see the bombing of Coventry from a small town in Warwickshire. She looked after a couple of evacuees - from Liverpool I think - they kept in touch after the war - even when they went to Australia. We met one of them in the 1970’s. We were still very young so had no idea who he was and my mother wasn’t born until after the war. However they treated each other like family.

The Coventry raid took place on November 14th , Coventry was absolutely Devastated

I was born in Leeds, 5 years after the end of the war, but we used to play on the old bombsites when I was a kid. They weren't all cleared until the late 60s as part of the slum clearances.

My mother was living in Leicester at the time of the Coventry blitz. She told me that the fires were so significant that you could read a newspaper outside at night!

​@@nicholaskelly1958 My famiy were in Dudley and they said they could see the glow in the sky and knew when Coventry was burning. As usual the other towns and cities get overlooked, in favour of London. My "aunty" was in Plymouth, her husband was in the Navy. She went into the shelter during an air raid and came out with just a wardrobe key that was in her pocket left to her name. . They went for all the strategic places, the docks, the ports, the manufacturing centres, not just London. To be fair, we did the same back! But strangely our attacks sometimes get called "War Crimes" It was Tit for Tat. As for my "aunty" my grandmother in Essex was having forces men billeted on her, and one was "Uncle Joe" He asked if she would take his wife in, and she did. It must have been nuts in that house, my only Real uncle still at home ( unable to fight due to being deaf!) used to sleep in the bath some nights. Or on the floor. despite that she still found room for my mother to visit and she told me some amazing tales of the people she met, just at my Nan´s house. I think despite the seriousness, they were actually having a great time! there is nothing like constant threat of oblivion to make you live life to the full! "Aunty " Win was soon joined by the wife of a man who had escaped Poland to fight with us. " It didn´t go too well, and my mother seemed to to write her off as "resentful" but I think now we would have a bit more understanding. This couple had just fled their country, lost everything, including friends and family, yet he was fighting on. She may well have had PTSD However deep these things go, there is always a layer deeper. That is the difference between a Refugee and someone still in their own land. At least you are "Home" however bad it gets. To leave everything, and go to a foreign place, with very little understanding of the language, the culture and so on, must have been monumental. Her husband was fighting, she could do nothing. She must have been in turmoil

it was the UK's most preserved medieval city up to that night - all those timber/beamed buildings burned in a massive firestorm.

Coventry was deliberately targeted due to this, incendiary bombs used to cause the place to burn.

After Coventry was bombed a new German word was born, 'Coventrieren', meaning utter destruction, especially of a city.

Çanada was part of the Empire. The USA was not.

Neither should anyone forget that the Soviet Union was allied with Germany until mid-1941, just a few months before Pearl Harbour.

NO ONE SAVED US WE THOUGHT TILL THE END THE D DAY ARAMDA HAD 1200 PLUS SHIPS AND AT LEAST 850 OF THEM SHIPS WHERE BRITISH

Prior to WW2 the Emergency Medical Service was set up to provide free hospital care to people injured by bombs. It became a forerunner of the NHS.

@@KINGKONG-vh5tj - The Canadians also punched above their weight for the size of their population on their D-day landing beach and during the liberation of the Netherlands and Italy. Their convoys also supplied the UK at great cost of life and ships.

@@susieq9801 Canada was, I believe, the first Commonwealth country to join us and make common cause in WW2. God bless Canada.

My Grandma worked in the munitions factory in the North East

Wow thats amazing 😮

@@Teaandabuscut Hi! Well that’s not fair that she got fined!

@@wendyryder2708 I know crazy.. ok you didn’t die so here’s a hefty fine. 🤔🤨😒..

@@paulahornblow5650 that’s so sad and cool at the same time. They worked their arses off and got treated like crap even when they were so young.

I think it is an exaggeration that the USSR won the war. True, Russians suffered immensely and pushed the Germans right back to Germany, But the Allies also played a huge part, including of course Australia.

The UK fought Germany in an air and sea war for a very long time before Barbarossa, and afterwards before US involvement. The choice to prosecute that theatre of war was a large part of their ruin.

russians without British convoys would have had a much harder time of it! Had it not been for Barbarossa being delayed while Germans had to bail the Italians out in Greece then the advance would have been a lot farther before winter 1941! The fact that Germany was fighting on multiple fronts was their downfall! russia while being supplied by Britain and US were able to regroup! The Germans broke their teeth in the east!

Russia was an ally till Germany turned on them. At the time of the Normandy Campaign in the west,the British and Canadian troops had as many German Armoured Divisions facing them on a 60 mile front as the Russians faced on a 600 mile from. The Germans pulled a lot of their best troops and equipment back from the East to be used against the western Forces in Normandy.

If it hadn’t have been for Churchill, there wouldn’t have been a blitz.

So was mine!! (Though paternal, not maternal ;) Though he was only 29 when war broke out, he wasn't A1 (he'd had TB in his youth) and therefore was not eligible for service. But boy, did he serve! "A nightmare" was how he described it to me - without detail - when I was a little boy many years ago. My father described him as a "brave man", again with no details. I guess they just wanted to forget it by the 1970s.

Respect to your Grandfather and the other`s like him who fought the war their way.

The only emergency service not allowed to take shelter while the bombs were dropping. Keep fight the fires was the order

My Grandfather had suffered badly from TB so wasn’t fit to fight. He manned the AA guns in London night after night, made him deaf.

I see the same stoic resolve and determination in the Ukrainian people as the Brits during those dark days. They have my equal admiration.

My auntie was born in the underground during the blitz/blackouts. My ex husband was in the RAF and we always lived on the RAF camps in service family accommodation. He retired a few years ago. On the last RAF station we lived, they tested the air raid sirens every Tuesday. I have recordings of them. Years and years of hearing those sirens being tested weekly and it never failed to stop me in my tracks and feel emotional. I'm in my late 40's so I'm not old enough to remember the war, but I'm old enough to have grown up listening to stories of the war from those who lived it and weren't so old themselves. So that air raid siren was always so emotional/humbling to me. I just couldn't imagine how intense the fear of hearing that sound would be, knowing you might die every time you heard it. And going to an air raid shelter, feeling and hearing the explosions and then coming out to sheer devastation once the attack was over for that day. Only to go through it again and again and again. It's heartbreaking

My recollection of London tube stations during WW2 is of metal mesh pull-down bunks lining the walls of station platforms. My other significant memory is of young servicemen clattering down escalators, in their metal tipped boots, with kitbags hoisted on their shoulders shouting across to parallel escalators to their brothers in arms. It was a cheerful noise.

What an amazing lady, I'd loved to have had a cuppa with her and listen to her stories.

I nursed a wonderful lady who was a nurse in the navy during wwII and she would often get her medals out and just look at them. I would sit with her and listen to her stories of the war during my breaks. Her hospital was bombed and she broke her leg when part of it collapsed on her. Like your great grandmother, she was a tiny little lady and she dug herself out of the rubble and proceeded to drag as many patients out to safety as she could. She did all this with a broken leg. She said adrenaline kicked in and she didn't feel a thing because all she could think about was saving her patients who were still alive and then finding her patients who didn't survive. It wasn't until she stopped that she finally felt the pain and realised bone was sticking out of her skin.

When the Spitfires and all other British Aircraft came off their production Lines Female pilots known as Ferry Pilots, flew the Aircraft to the various airbase’s around the UK. The reason that Female pilots undertook this is because the male pilots were on active duty.

@@stevenclarke5606 Wow! I didn't know that! Funny what our history lessons miss out... Thanks for sharing!

​@@ftycggvgybvhhj1721 I believe Southampton is more correctly thought of as "The Home of the Spitfire". Supermarine was based there and testing took place at Southampton/Eastleigh Airport. Wartime demand and threat meant manufacturing was dispersed widely around the UK

@@denisrobertmay875 However, most Spitfires were manufactured here, hence the "Spitfire Island" memorial. Whilst I do know many aircraft were produced all over the UK, the majority of Spitfires were made in Castle Bromwich in Birmingham

`There`s always another day` and `Things could be worse`

That stoicism was accentuated by the Blitz but it was there prior to that. The Romans were given a bloody nose by the Britons who were their most ruthless adversaries. They came close to being beaten by Boudicca which was unheard of, as they reigned supreme at that time.

@@paulwild3676 And the European giant Napoleon.

Greetings! My grandad lived in Wanstead London where there was a POW camp, with Italian and then German POWs. Towards the end of the war and afterwards he said the camp was not as you would imagine - with only a few British soldiers, in the main the POWs managed themselves. There was a very low fence and after the war ended the fence was removed. The POWs would work for local firms and go to church and also played in local football teams. My Grandad employed a few German lads in his engineering firm and said they were best workers he ever had. He said they were just young lads who had no choice and had to fight it was not their decision to start the war. They would sometimes come to my grandads house for Sunday lunch, he has photos of him and my grandma sitting with them in his back garden drinking beer! Many opted to stay after the war and some married local girls. Some of the Italians stayed and opened italian restaurants and ice cream parlours - which is why we have Italian restaurants now.

@@55tranquility I was born in 1948 and my mother was living with my Dad’s aunt in the middle of nowhere in Suffolk. They didn’t even have running water. But their lives were made bearable by a couple of German men who had stayed on in England, when the war finished, and they, and a few others, worked on local farms. When they walked past the cottage, every day, they would drop off a few food items for the aunt, my mum and my sister. One of them was called Karol and I was given the middle name Carole in memory of him 😄

Yes this is a good one to watch

Narrated by John Nettles, a favourite British actor from long-lasting tv series: 'Bergerac' (Police Detective series set on the Channel Islands' bigger* island (?*) Jersey), and 'Midsomer Murders' where again, he played a British Police 'Inspector Barnaby'...and some of the older interviewees, in the '13 Hours' film were recognisable actors and TV presenters, Nicholas Parsons (R.I.P) and Jack(?) White*, ("chicken for dinner, Davy...!! ...oh...😳😟" ...*he's the older brother to favourite tv actor David Jason, of many roles, eg 'Inspector Frost', 'Open All Hours', 'Only Fools And Horses' 'Dangermouse' (voice of cartoon 'mouse hero') etc...

One of my fav documentaries 😊

It truly is, extremely evident and I feel it lives in the British people today

Thank you guys....US & UK best friends for a reason​@Trippingthroughadventures

As Churchill called it KBO...keep buggering on

"When you are going through hell, keep going" Sir Winston

That poster was never used in the war - it was held back for use if the invasion took place.

You are kidding right? "A treasure in your mind set " My old man was on Lancaster's RCAF Mum was a dispatch rider trying to get into SOE ,her brother was at Dunkirk and Monty , another unc was in the American marine corps they were all psychopathic and the war affected them to the point they were suicidal . My mother committed suicide. my father attempted suicide twice . In short they all survived physically but not mentally, .Of course I now realise how damaged they were and for what ? I will tell you to hand over everything to another race with a religion that hates us

@@rolandhawken6628 No I'm not kidding; plus I am speaking from a British perspective, about those who went through the Blitz. I am sorry your experiences are sadly different.

@@rolandhawken6628 No she is not kidding and please don't scoff. I am in agreement with her. I was born in 1937 and lived thru 25 bombing raids when half of our street was flattened and I lost my mother and a sister.

Dawn Sutton. Still a few of us. I was born in 1931- endured the Blitz, the so-called Baby Blitz (Dec. 43 - June 44), where the family nearly copped it, and then rhe V weapons. The memories of those days will never leave me.

@@vincekerrigan8300 My mum likes to travel but still has to take valium to get on the plane.

Britain was never alone, on the declaration of war all the commonwealth countries sent their young men to defend Britain thousands died doing exactly that.

did not stand alone friend. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Greece, Norway, Poland et el with resistance throughout Europe helped us survive and they fought alongside us as well as transporting food and war materials to us.

Plus the USA used its enormous manufacturing power to build Liberty ships and sold them to Britain with out cost until after the war, with out those ships Britain would have been starved into submission.

We didn't stand alone there were lots of other nationalities helping too.

​@@PatrickKelly-lz3pvAt the time of the Blitz Britain DID stand alone. There were some individuals who turned up to help, but too few to change the narrative.

@osgar333 : Well said mate, you speak the truth.

Yes, I’m heartily tired of the UK bashing too.

My father did the same, but on a gas storage tower (gasometer), done, as I’m sure your dad did, on top of an 80 hour working week.

Not threats of terrorism when they actually made good on their threats. A threat is when something is threatened and not followed through, the IRA acted through multiple bombings and then admitted to being responsible!

@@David-sk9vv Fair point! Corrected. 👍

@@MarkmanOTW Nah. I understood your point and you made an excellent one for sure. It is me being overly picky about wording is all. I do apologise if I was sounding awkward and such. Take care mate and have a great day 👍

@@David-sk9vv Cheers! Enjoy the longest day and the weekend 👍

And even more reminders for Europeans from where we and the US bombed in Europe (especially Germany, but quite a lot in France too) - in Germany, street closures for WWII bomb removal are still commonplace and rarely make the news.

There's a 1980's TV drama called Danger UXB available to watch on YT about the men who had to defuse those unexploded bombs one after the other.

​@@alexshapley8331I thought this video was about the UK? Stay on topic.

@@kburns70kb Why? It sounded like GB was only country that experienced thee things.

@@juliaforsyth8332 thanks - that's exactly how I read his comment, and I just wanted to put in some context

Belfast NI also took a battering for the same reasons, the single biggest loss of life from a single attack happened in Belfast were almost all the bombs hit civilian areas.

Thank god Someone came in with Scotland Ireland, I thought it was only the English that were involved in WW2 (British)war.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇫🇴

@@Jimbee-s1c Ireland never took part in WW2 though the Nazis did bomb Ireland a fair few times

My father in law was on the D Day Landings …on Sword Beach ..they were all so brave ..

@@joancline4844 They were

Same in Wellington, New Zealand. Look up The Battle of Manners Street. US vs locals angered by the treatment of local Maori boys.

@diane9656 I worked at Bletchley for a few months recently, is your mum on the Roll of Honour? Which hut was she associated with?

My father's side of the family comes from there. Most of the males were deal porters in Surry Docks, although my dad joined the army and was evacuated from Dunkirk.

A lot, but when you consider that the single bombing of Hamburg caused as many deaths it all puts into perspective.

@@tancreddehauteville764 The ordinary people on both sides were totally innocent in this and every war. It's the crackpot megalomaniac leaders and their enablers who cause wars and so much bloodshed. Modern day Ukraine is the same because of that slimy little git Putin.

​@@tancreddehauteville764wars a bitch my friend. "Lest we forget." We must strive to never let it happen again. Alas, with what is happening now, it seems we have not learned a thing. Shame on us.

I saw a snippet a few years ago, it was a bomb damaged shop with part of its building missing with a placard stating, ' open,,, more open than usual' typical Brit humour!

​@@tancreddehauteville764Not again for God's sake. So what? It was war!

Yes all the major uk cities were bombed. I’m from Liverpool and my family were bombed out.

London was bombed from 7 September 1940 - 11 May 1941. It must have felt never ending. The Duke of Windsor advised the Nazis that Britain would capitulate after two weeks of bombing. I doubt Hitler would have reinstated the Duke of Windsor but I wonder what he would have done to his brother and nieces given the opportunity.

Agreed, 3 of my grandparents survived close calls in Newcastle. My maternal grandma was a follow spot operator and my paternal grandparents both worked at Vickers factory. There were parts of my old Victorian school building that were hit and obviously new. Interestingly, they used to flood one of our main roads to the coast to mimic the river (where most factories were) and it worked. They ended up bombing a cigarette factory and a school. Luckily they were empty but other hits on the surrounding houses were not. War is always more complicated than the movies, fair play to these guys for learning 🙂

@@lettucebee8425 My maternal grandad tried to join up in Sept 1939 but was turned down because he was a widower with five young children and in an essential occupation (Heavy Crane Operator). Every day he'd work an 8 -12 hour shift at the docks then patrol the streets at night as an ARP warden. One night a bomb fell less than 100 feet from him and he was blown 20 feet into a garden, luckily unhurt. It wasn't until decades later, on his deathbed, that we discovered the lifetime of shame he'd carried because he'd been unable to fight while his mates served, and in some cases died. They were a different breed in those days.

@@silgen Aye man, my grandad was the same. It made him the hardest worker I've known. The young have always fought or worked for old peoples will. They will again.

Nice one my friend. For two years we were fighting alone, we were the only Country in Europe to stand up against Hitlers massive War Machine. It was only a small advantage being a lonely Archipelago nation in the Atlantic. We were an island and the U-boats almost Starved us out. America was a massive help later on. It was touch and go at times. 🇬🇧❤️👍. Take Care.

Thank you for watching 😁 we want to show full respect, to a place that we adore 🥰 -Tiff

@@Trippingthroughadventures By the way the Blitz wasn't just London but all cross the UK , Manchester, Bristol , York ( although York wasn't too badly damaged) Coventry was really badly bombed it lost most of it's historical buildings. other towns and cities were bomb also

I was around in WW11, we came through it all… ,& later my husband was in the Royal Air Force, we was still at war, have been even still to this day….I go to America to my sons, I’ve been there through different Presidents, the best was Donald Trump, he believed in the American People, & he loved his patriots all Americans…. The Americans was better off under Trump, but not the murdering Democrats… You have to live there for six months as I do when visiting my son… You see the truth not the lies they tell you in the newspapers, BBC, is the worst, the news on all channels just tell lies to the people…Don’t listen to them, this is done to make you out to not knowing the truth… Nigel Fararge is a true patriot, he tells the truth,but people can’t take the truth any more,..Labour & Conservatives, work for the WEF,that work for the Cabal, it’s the evil Rothschilds that owns the Parties….life will get worst now Starmer is in,… He has let the Immigrants know that they will be welcomed in Britain…. I hope you haven’t got to any bedrooms, because Tony Blair has put forward for people to take immigrants into their homes…Britain will pay a big price for putting Starmer in number 10! God help us…..

Not proud to be a Briton ?

@@davidspendlove5900 No I’m not, the things that made Britain great have long died out, the values we once held don’t exist, I feel for my grandchildren and the world they are inheriting, barring the countryside, Britain’s cities have become like a third world cities, full of knives and people openly injecting heroin as shoppers walk bye, nobody seems to care about there communities anymore

Coventry was bombed as well

Liverpool Mill Road Maternity Hospital was hit by a sea mine and 90 odd people were killed. A school near my grandparents house was hit by a sea mine and I think 176 people using the cellar as an air raid shelter were killed,a lot of them scalded to death by the boilers rupturing in the blast.

I remember being told as a child that in an effort to draw German bombers away from Liverpool ( which of course would have had nightly blackouts) Chinks of light were set up in the largely unpopulated hills of North Wales to the south of the city to fool the Nazis into thinking they were over Liverpool and dropping their bombs without causing death and destruction…believe it worked quite well except for the poor sheep that would have been grazing up there.

My mum was a child in Bootle, Liverpool. It was the most bombed area by square foot. One side of the street fronted the docks and behind it the railway lines Hitler was trying to stop supplies coming in from America. Houses in her street were bombed. One story that stuck in my mind was her being evacuated due to an unexploded bomb.Brave men defused the bomb but we're killed when they went to the next job. They were brave men

I think you fin that Hull was the most bombed place in the country, I only learnt this recently.

What about German civilian numbers killed in massive night and day bombing raids?

@@juliaforsyth8332 ... They got what they voted for.

@@juliaforsyth8332 As Air Marshall Harris said in 1942: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

@@martinwebb1681 Yes. They did. Hitler had made it absolutely crystal clear from the 1920s what his territorial ambitions were and what his racial hatred was. And they were happy to go along with it as it suited them. 😠

@@juliaforsyth8332 To quote Air Marshall Harris in 1942: "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

Yes, although this video concentrates on London, it's well worth adding that all large cities were targeted the same way. My family in Liverpool were made homeless three times by aerial bombing.

The story of the blitz always concentrates on London. It wasn’t even the worst affected city.

@@ams1897Swansea per capita had the worst raids. Liverpool the longest continual raid, the May Blitz of 1941. Hull was wiped off the map, as was Plymouth. They always concentrate on a load of Cockneys sitting in Underground stations. The rest of the country was left undefended. That is why Coventry was destroyed. In Plymouth people had to go to Dartmoor every night and sleep in tunnels.Sheffield had horrendous raids as did Bristol. Then they started bombing our beautiful cities, like Norwich, York, Canterbury. Bath had a terrible raid which killed 600 people in one night. Manchester suffered the Flying bomb raids in 1944. This concentration on London as ever pisses the rest of the country off.

@@paulwild3676I understand your point but London is the centre of government whether we like it or not.im from Birmingham and we got it pretty bad

Video doesn't mention Birmingham, which after London and Liverpool was the most heavily bombed city. Half of the total number of Spifires manufactured were built in Birmingham. Hence why the concentrated bombing raids took place to try and cripple the production. The city also manufactured weapons and ammunition.

Alone? Kiwis, Australians, Canadians volunteered to help right at the start, And many other nations.

Even some Americans who came on their own initiative to help, and there were supplies just not the troops till later.

Maybe you should look into both of these because there are two sides to each of these cases. For instance, look into the Ukraine nazi's, who are open about it. Look into Nato and their interferences in that area. When the soviet block dissolved, Russia was promised that it wouldn't happen. The USA installed the current puppet government and has constantly interferred in that area. Now Ukraine is being financed by them, mainly. After that, if Ukraine win, the US will own them in all intense and purpose. Their debt will see to that. I'm not saying Russia is blameless. Ukraine has a lot of resources worth trillions. But this is really a war of proxy between the US/west and Russia, with the Ukrainians the pawns in all this. As for gaza. Look into the Hamas coventant 1988 and see what you are supporting. Although there was a renewal a few years back, the old one wasn't scraped though. You might want to look up a clip about a son of Hamas and the terrible things done to Israelis. Or a clip asking Palestians what will happen to the Jews when they get control . They will disappear was the answer, basically genocide. So, for the Israelis to be accused of genocide is a bit rich. How many times do you have to get attacked by people who have genocide in mind before you need to destroy them before they destroy you. Again, I'm not saying Israel is blameless and innocent. But there are always two sides and not as clear cut as the narrative from the media.

You're clueless, we should not be finding Ukraine. They are the most corrupt country in Europe. And full of neo nazis

Ukraine yes, Islamists in gaza no. They went into Israel and committed the most disgusting medieval crimes known to man. Yes I feel sorry for the innocent civilians but they support hamas.

Are you saying Israel is a bully and a tyrant? Hamas is the equivalent of the Nazis, only much worse. 60,000 Israelis are displaced from their homes in the north duet to attacks by Hezbolla from Lebanon. What do you ecpect Israel to do?

you dont know what your talking about if you donate to gaza your funding hamas just like the americans did with the IRA and noraid

I’m a Cov girl and I’m so glad u made this comment. Our city glowed red with the fires from the raids and we lost so many brave souls.

​@@TheSneakyfiendhave the buildings been replaced

@@shaunbat5097 I was raised in Coventry and no, the buildings were not replaced. Coventry lost its medieval centre and built a new modern one. The old cathedral was destroyed and a new cathedral was built next to the broken walls of the old one. The British bombed Dresden and after the war Coventry and Dresden became linked in friendship.

@@shaunbat5097No they weren’t, I live there now mate-we lost a lot.

My late husband was a boy at that time in Hull. Typical of a heedless youngster he told me how he would stand in the garden on the air raid shelter ,wearing a tin helmet ,to hear the shrapnel pinging down !

I live in scarborough, Yorkshire, and it was also bombed in the first world war,

@@user-en1zl7ii4h Yes ,that attack was famous because the ships got right in near the shore ,without being detected.

That's incredible. What an amazing man