We see the impact of the United States Third Air Force, stationed in Britain.
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@timhancock66263 жыл бұрын
My air cadet unit visit to USAF Alconbury was cancelled the morning we were supposed to go in 1969. It was flippin cold and we went to the Shuttleworth Collection instead......I'm still "harrumphing" exactly 52 years later.....
@misyd724 жыл бұрын
Look at Life at it's charming and fascinating best.Excellent-thanks so much for sharing
@glenfordburrell92283 жыл бұрын
All members of the 70's Rock band "America", were US citizens brought up in an American Airbase in Hertfordshire, England.
@phillipecook32273 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that.
@timhancock66263 жыл бұрын
I saw them on their first UK tour in Harrogate.
@phillipecook32273 жыл бұрын
That was fascinating. I wonder how many of the people shown are still around? Hope life was kind to the newlyweds.
@Clappers894 жыл бұрын
I would have loved living in that street with all the American muscle cars about
@73firebird113 жыл бұрын
there was a 60 something Stingray that was just up my street in the 70s Bicester England and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT true and true
@davidian77873 жыл бұрын
You only have to listen to the intro music to realise how far we have come and how far we have fallen. I wasn't even alive when this was made but we have lost something, turned in on ourselves a fractured and insular people. Where are the old ladies on the bus who would chat and gossip with the rain still dripping from their coats. Everyone is silent now. Locked in their heads and afraid to be set free.
@davidbrooks1873 жыл бұрын
When England was England & there wasn’t this pc bullcrap degenerates around .
@mattc39913 жыл бұрын
You two David's need to calm down, it's not that bad ahahaha- times change, the young arent gonna hold onto the ways of the old, and that'll be the same for the next generation and the next and the next
@MrMenefrego13 жыл бұрын
@@davidbrooks187 Amen, David.
@Jimmythefish5773 жыл бұрын
@@mattc3991 yes, but sadly some the ‘young folk’ today have little or no respect for the very country they live in. Like the secondary school children in London burning the union flag that was flown at their school.
@mattc39913 жыл бұрын
@@Jimmythefish577 every generation has that, it's not about being "young folk" it's about having a distain for authority (whether you chose to agree with it or disagree is a seperate story). Look at the flappers in the 20s, the hippies in the 60s, the Iraq war protestors. To blame it on the youth is a disservice to what it actually is.
@stewartellinson88463 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire from the mid 1960s, there seemed to be US bases and US servicemen everywhere
@Enochthehammer2 жыл бұрын
My dad was stationed at South Ruislip 1963-66. I was a young lad. Good times. Brings back memories.
@Daniel-S13 жыл бұрын
I don't think coaching from Peterborough football club 'The Posh' (and 4th division for ever when I was a kid) is that lucky!
@MrMenefrego13 жыл бұрын
My oh my, those lovely English girls. 👀
@tomservo569543 жыл бұрын
"Peace Is Our Profession"
@NoosaHeads4 жыл бұрын
We would have been beaten by Hitler but for the Americans. England should never forget the debt that we owe the United States. Sadly there are plenty of young people that have no concept of history and have never even been taught about the two world wars, when America came to our aid.
@beyergarret1234 жыл бұрын
Rubbish, we beat them back during the Battle of Britain, after which Hitler turned his focus on Russia, who comprehensively drove the Germans all the way back from Stalingrad to Berlin, the Russians were in Berlin long before the Americans, they're the reason hitler shot himself, because they were on his doorstep, basic WW11 history.
@gavinhudson52514 жыл бұрын
@@beyergarret123 I take you've never heard of "Lend Lease".
@raymondshaw56854 жыл бұрын
America virtually bankrupted us and made us give up most of out territories, if that is what you like to call helping us!
@user-ky6vw5up9m4 жыл бұрын
Raymond Shaw returned stolen territories to rightful owners.
@Not_Yandere_Im_Ayano3 жыл бұрын
@@AA-mj8ot well written aa
@AtheistOrphan3 жыл бұрын
1:43 - Interesting car choice for an American serviceman at left: British-registered left-hand drive Renault.
@clifftrimble26163 жыл бұрын
Born at RAF Upper Heyford.. stationed at RAF Croughton and RAF Alconbury..
@73firebird113 жыл бұрын
Upper Heyford England 74 to 77 lived in Glory farms an American housing area Bicester, loved it even tho I don't think we were liked by the english community very much and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT
@stevebaines54663 жыл бұрын
As an Air Cadet in the 70's I went to RAF Little Rissington on annual camp & one of our days out was to visit the 20th TFW & their F111's at RAF Upper Heyford, we were made very welcome & enjoyed some great hospitality courtesy of the USAF, a brilliant day out
@kristov293 жыл бұрын
I have two friends who were born at the hospital at RAF Mildenhall. Their fathers were Americans and their mother's British. There must have been a lot of "activity" in and around Mildenhall.
@DavidHembrow3 жыл бұрын
What a splendid nuclear armed occupation.
@tomservo569543 жыл бұрын
Seven bedrooms...and likely one bath and no furnace.
@motorheadmalc3 жыл бұрын
Please can someone tell me what type of aircraft are those top-wing reconnaissance jets are with the twin engines under their wings?