Beautiful story, hopefully he's with our father in heaven. Greetings from Rimbey Alberta.

Here, here! My father was US Army infantry. 5 countries in the European theatre. He and his four other siblings (three brothers and and one sister) were in the war. They all returned home safely. Thank God!

"Fought for freedom" - Gotta love this trope. White people can't conceptualize about fighting for anything other than some vague idea of freedom lol.

@@TruthDissident Assuming im white are we? Thats not very cash money of you captian SJW.

Amen

Its crazy to think that as time goes the greatest generation is forgotten! Schools need to make it a priority to teach what these men and women went through!

What an incredible man from a wonderful generation.

They did theie homework, and it paid off too!

yep there gonna be a good narrator ngl

I was relocated for few days during a bushfire... I was walking down the street and at the fence line of a property was an old man. Well dressed and with a tie. He simply invited me inside for a cup of tea as if he had known me for years. I sat and talked with him and his wife.... He also was a tail gunner on a Lancaster. He talked like you'd talk with somebody about doing some work around the home. As if it was perfectly natural and every day and that it was only a job he did, yet he appreciated that he was lucky to be alive. He talked of his tactics and those of the German pilots who came up behind in their attacks. I listened to him just as I might have sat and listened to my own Father..... An irony is that my own Father was actually in the Luftwaffe.... I never heard him speak of his experiences though but once he exploded for a few moments in absolute anger and hatred towards only one group... The Nazis. Another irony is that my best friend in my school years was the son of an Australian Italian who flew in Britain with the RAF and then returned to live in Australia and to raise a family. A wonderful story to read is that of an American pilot of a B17, Charlie Brown and a German pilot, Franz Stigler, who refused to shoot down his crippled plane as it made its way back across the English Channel after a bombing raid. They became very close friends as old men.

Half the world was handed over to communism after the war.

Thanks for sharing a bit of her story!

US, RAF, RAAF, RCAF ?

@@georgielancaster1356 RCAF

@@Cervi65 that's awesome

Agreed!!! Everywhere and to every child!!

Every CO wants that. It IS the greatest reward, better than promotions or commendation…

@@TruthSeeker. Of course you don’t, but Americans do!

Patriotic pride lol. WW2 ruined Europe you dunce.

You sound like a clown its hilarious.enjoy your new world order and the death of your culture and race :)

@@TruthDissident i know right! Can you believe some people

@@WatchmyPlaylist. Yeah it's sad king

Yes, he has lived in the US for some time now, Thanks for watching!

@@MemoirsofWWII I'm just curious. Can you tell us what U. S. state he has lived in? Thanks again for sharing his story!

@@TruthSeeker. Something I’m sure you’re all too familiar with! lol

@@TruthSeeker. Ever thought of a 3rd grade refresher course in English grammar?

Yes indeed it is I pray if the time ever comes for people to stand up we would have the courage that they have

Warrior's...

Everyone fought for freedom. Look what Hitler did. 6 million people gone!!

It’s our turns now boys. Gear up it’s going to get ugly

Compared to now youngsters fighting over vape pens

From a yank…. I absolutely love the British. They are so respectful and fearless. It’s amazing that after the USA broke away, we’ve become such tight allies. Long live Britain. May their citizens live in peace.

Thank you for your selfless heroism in the air and the eagerness to do the riskiest job and dedication to insist to extend your abilities within the extents of your god gifted capabilities. Our sovereignty and culture has relied on us all. You answered your calls. In the most british way possible. We salute you Boys. You Mad Lads you

This is how I ended up here.

It's our responsibility & it's imperative that we don't ever forget the courageous men & women & their stories.

If I may ask are you a VET sir?!

@@BoldLion no

@@Historybuffm8 Your profile picture looks military to me. That is the reason why I asked. I wish you and your family an amazing weekend sir!

@@BoldLion It’s a picture of Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier in 1948. I looked up to him from a young age. It was sad he passed away last year in December. Thank you and I wish the same for you too!!

@@Historybuffm8 Thank you!

Get as much information from your Dad about his experience in the war as possible. I know very little about what my Dad experienced and now he is gone. He passed away 6 years ago at 92. So much history is lost.

Lol poor guy his friend got his pen pal girlfriend 😂

@@fredthegamerschrarder7716 I know I always thought the same thing, pin pal must not have been as attractive as my grandpa 🤣

@@OneNationUnderGod. 😂

Where was she from?

@@terminallumbago6465 just south of the Scotland border but I don't remember the exact name of the town. I want to travel there someday and meet some distant cousins, I always wanted to take my grandma back there but by the time I could afford that kinda trip she sadly passed away. My dad and I still want to do it, we've talked about taking some of her ashes back home. Once things get back to normal it's a trip we need to do!

@@PepRex hes attractive and confident :)

please fill out a veteran form on our website www.memoirsofwwii.com thanks for the lead! www.memoirsofwwii.com/veteran-form

@Harry Bawles yes lmao theres still the royal family over here

My hat's off to them too. The Luftwaffe gave them absolute hell, they suffered a bunch of early setbacks, and yet they still endured and helped free western Europe from tyranny. The Brits of World War II are some of the toughest, strongest people I've ever heard of.

@Harry Bawles at the moment we ba r Queen Elizabeth who's the longest ruling royal ever.

@@thunderbird1921 if it wasn't for America saving them they honestly wouldnt of made it.. no hate intended

@@ballard2212 Difficult to say, they had Canada, the other Commonwealth nations and the whole empire on their side. I personally think the British could have survived, but I don't know if they and Canada could have liberated Europe on their own. And Khrushchev said that if not for American Lend-Lease, the Soviets would likely have collapsed in 1942. Apart from maybe Sweden, Britain would have been a lone island of freedom in a European sea of tyranny and evil. America enabled Europe to win back its freedom.

White men don't get honored in the West nowadays. Unfortunately that's what these men fought for.

Gotta keep that post WW2 mythology alive!

Sometimes a foolish captain can cost the lives of an otherwise competent crew

Pity he didn't give a name. Did he give a date?

@@applesandgrapesfordinner4626 Sometimes a bad navigator or rear gunner can cost a crew their lives. Why just blame the pilot?. I heard of a crew who set out to get rid of their w/op because he was hopeless.

You should sue someone over it.

@@georgielancaster1356 It's one thing to want rid of a member of the crew because they are hopeless. It's a completely different thing to decide that you are going to bomb a town in a country that is an ally. Especially when the country & it's civilian population is already suffering as horrifically as France was. We all say stupid things now & again, but you seem to make a habit of it.

People really should talk about the British role in the Korean War as well. Even as an American, I'm bewildered how little your guys are talked about there, there were some incredibly courageous fellows in that bunch (both in the army units and the Royal Navy). Too bad we couldn't liberate the whole peninsula, but at least we saved South Korea and stopped the Communist aggression.

Our life would be the same

@@AleksandraKuzmintseva Not sure where you live, but life under the Nazi Regime would be vastly different for citizens the free world. Life for Jews, minorities, Jehovah Witnesses, likely Christians and other people of faith, Eastern Europeans deemed only good for labor, and homesexuals would most definitely be different....or non-existent. Maybe you agree with Nazi ideology and that's why you made such an ignorant comment.

@@djholliday4413 I am from israel and hitlerr was chatolic

@@djholliday4413 i would not miss these people you mentioned in your comment, and you're the ignorant here i work for the army what about you? Lol

@@djholliday4413 You can't even spend 20 minuntes in the army.

Well... Dresden WAS a justified target, it was the key junction of the German railway system and one of the final supply lines for the Eastern Front, so the bombing was VERY important for the Soviets in the East. As well as, the death toll has been HIGHLY exaggerated, mainly by German propoganda at the time (like Joseph Geobbels) and incorrect assumptions in the present (like David Irving), who put the number at anywhere from 100,000 - 300,000. When in reality, the death toll was between 20,000 - 25,000 (80% from suffocation) as discovered by historians working for Dresden to determine the true numbers, which is still alot, but not this genocidal revenge mission some people try to make it out to be. It was a strategic and justified bombing target, which sadly resulted in heavy civilian casualties, but DID contribute to Allied victory in Europe.

@@dilloncrowe1018 yeah, the only thing I found absolutely repulsive from Dresden, is the litera pile of molten goo that was once human

Col. Edward Shames Is Not The Last Member Of The Band Of Brothers Fame. PFC Bradford Freeman Is Still Alive

@@Anonymous_Anonyme no sir. I respectfully disagree

People remember Dresden but forget Coventry where the Nazis wanted to completely destroy a city. The Luftwaffe dropped 500 tons of high explosive, 30,000 incendiaries and 50 landmines as well as experimental explosive incendiaries. London was systematically bombed by the Luftwaffe for 56 days and nights. All across Britain, places like Hull, Swansea and Birgmingham were obliterated. No one remembers the grotesque chapter of the war when the Luftwaft dropped butterfly bombs in towns across the UK these small bombs were purely 'anti personnel' bombs designed to kill and maim people, the Nazi's used them on British civilians; to ensure chaos and terror they mixed the fuses so those trying to disarm them would be killed or they would land in a gutter or in a tree detonating hours later, they looked like a child's toy, so many curious children were blown to bits picking up the bombs. 20-25,000 died in Dresden. But 150,000 people were killed at Babi Yar alone, men, women and children marched into a ravine, forced to strip naked before being murdered. It's a hard truth that if Drezden being razed shortened the war by a day it probably saved more lives than it cost, it bought hundreds of thousands of brutalised, starved, sick and tortured people in the camps precious hours that undoubtedly meant the difference between life and death.

we agree that a Canadian Vet would be a great interview. If you know of a lead please fill out a veteran form on our website www.memoirsofwwii.com thanks for watching! www.memoirsofwwii.com/veteran-form

I do not know this man personally. But we have a 102 year old Ernest E World War two VET in Marshall TX. Just so you guys can look him up

@@BoldLion would love to see an East Texan on the channel

@@jerredwayne8401 Are you a East Texan?

@@BoldLion yes

My father served in the RAF from 1941 to 1947. In 1947 he joined BOAC in ground operations. Five countries and two airlines later, he retired in 1986 as the Operations and Maintenance Manager, North America for Swissair. Thank you for your kind words.

Try Raymond McFalone channel on youtube

@@Iomudh1 Chinese aswell

Yeah amazing. The West is in phenomenal shape now!