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A lot of misinformation here! You do know a lot of the bombs that fell on the uk were from our own army!! the timers on the bombs were so bad they fired the bombs into the sky and timed them to detonate in the sky taking down the German bombers…trouble is most of the bombs landed in the streets of London and THEN exploded. Over 52,000 British people died in the 1940’s due to the bombing. Despicable
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I had 2 ladies who went to church with me several years ago, Elsie and Ella. Elsie lived through the Blitz on London. Ella survived the destruction of Berlin. They were best of friends. Both suffered horribly from a war neither understood.
My grandmother survived the bombing of her city down in a private bunker. She told us grandchildren about that experience: It was as some giant had taken the hole cellar in his hand and shake it up and down and sideways. After the bombing raid the old city with its half-timbered houses was flattened to the ground. She said: You can see from the (former) southern gate to northgate... She went to another part of the city to look after her family, meet a neighbour and was told: "That your father is dead you already know." No, she didn't. After airraid warning her family hurried to the next public bunker, but my grandgrandfather went back to make sure the house is properly locked. He died in the street in front of the bunker by the blast of the bombs. That story is one of the reasons why I hate Nazis and people who started wars for their own advantage. Never, never, never again!
I know a guy who was a child during the blitz. He told me that his dad was an old fashioned, stubborn guy who wouldn’t go anywhere without being properly dressed. So on the way to the bomb shelter during an air raid, he took longer because he had to do up his tie! They were on their way to the shelter (finally) as a bomb landed on it, killing everyone inside. Doing his tie saved his life and that of his family.
My grandad lived in Bolton at the time, he said they could see the bombing of Liverpool from across the moors the lights in the sky . He went to Liverpool to visit an uncle in the navy . He said to me the buildings were bombed,blackened, some missing, some holding on , and some like rotten teeth . I knows it’s not london but it was very descriptive
My mother was born in London in 1921 and left London in 1946. I travelled with her in 1967 to visit some of her old haunts. The house she grew up in was about to be demolished because of old age The row houses across the street were all brand new....cause the old ones were destroyed during the blitz.
I was a child in the war born in 1935 and have many memories of the war, one in particular was a bomb that hit a bomb shelter with a family in it my sister and myself had been talking to the 13 year old girl of the family the day before as she was a friend of my sister, s, l was looking at the girls little niece playing behind her and thinking how rosy her cheeks were, l was only about nine myself, the next day l remember seeing a group of elderly men standing in a circle with their backs facing inwards while firemen where digging for the bodies of the family, they brought out the young girl her grown up sister and little girl and her mother her dad was nightwork so survived but collapsed when his family were brought out, no survives it was a direct hit, it still makes want to cry when l think of that day and those men standing in that circle all looking outwards,
I'm 64 now. My dad was a soldier in the war. He was an engineer. He got called up. I've heard many stories about the blitz on Manchester. At Christmas. He and his brother Bob went out and got drunk. Bob had a glass of water touching the chimney breast. They said blow it when the sirens went off..a short while later, the glass started vibrating and ringing against the walk. It was the vibration of the high explosive bombs rattling the glass he looked out of the window and nearly died. "Ray. Ray, the whole sky is red" "get up, quickly and let's get to the shelter now"! 700 bombers over two nights terrorised Manchester for two nights!
When I was working in London I used to walk from Pimlico Station to Millbank Tower and it was amazing to see how many of the buildings were displaying bomb damage from WWII. A few years later I spend even more time working in High Holborn and would frequently notice the scars on bomb damaged buildings. With the exception of some churches, I never used to notice it so much in the other cities where I worked as whole areas that were damaged during the war were cleared and new building erected.
I lived in Pimlico in the late 90s, in an 8 year old building built on a bomb site - it was interesting seeing how long it took to rebuild 4 years of carpet bombing
Thank you for such incredible insight, as someone not from Britain this is so interesting. We take for granted today how much history London never mind the rest of the UK has.
Thanks so much for making this video. My parents lived through this and my late grandfather-in-law was a fireman in London. Both my parents had near miss incidents from enemy action as young teenagers.
Thank you for putting this window on the past together - a past in which many good people lost their lives and suffered terrible trauma. The world itself only barely escaped catastrophe. Let's hope that in the future we can avoid falling victim to the forces of hatred and division that so badly married the 20th century.
My gran always told me to 'Look up!' when going around and about because I'd see interesting things. There are loads of divots out of the side of Tate Britain. You don't need bomb maps to find the scars of the war. Often there'll be a street where one side is old buildings and another side all post-war. That's often V2 damage, that would take out the whole side of a street. I do cross check with Borough archives (often online) afterwards. Nine times out of ten it's wartime damage as opposed to post-war planners clearing an area. Some areas of London were really badly hit.
Incredible stories of sacrifice, bravery and really banding together through the blitz. My great uncle wrote "boy in the blitz" Colin Perry, my great grandmother was injured whilst working in the maternity ward when the Germans bombed Liverpool mill hospital.. I can't imagine how scary it must have been, brave souls!
@@zobo999 My grandpa lived in Liverpool when he was first married after WW1. He had fond memories but for him a major highlight (always a small boy at heart) was when a train toppled sideways on the railway turntable at Lime Street!
My mother in law was bombed out once in London. She and her co-workers would go to the top of their office building and watch the RAF and Luftwaffe go at it above London. RIP
Just a technicality. A sonic boom is created when the aircraft / rocket reaches the speed of sound , about 750 mph. The boom of a V2 rocket landing on your head wouldn't be heard by you. Those nearby would, of course, hear the explosion.
When in Hamburg I met an old artist who was still working in the cellar he’d worked in since before July 43. He showed me photos of the results of operation Gomorrah. The firestorm that killed 37,000 and injured 180,000. The destruction of Dresden is a good book too.
My Mum survived the Blitz. I don't know that she ever sheltered in a Tube station, but she would definitely have complained if her tea was discoloured. Thanks for this video.
Really interesting and informative thank you. I was the pub manager of the Princess Louise pub near the Holborn tube station back in the late 80s. Built circa 1878 / 1880 still with all its original victorian features including the huge gents urinals. I'll never forget a group of German tourists paid the pub a visit. They were in awe of the victorian glass and tiles etc, and were saying what a magnificent building. Wickedly I turn round and said , "Yes we were very fortunate that the German Luftwaffe missed this building, with a slight smirk and walked off. I forgot about the stretchers being used as fencing, thanks for reminding me.
I worked in a school in east London for 30 years. There was a chap who worked there who was interested in the school's history. A bomb which failed to explode went through the roof of one of the wings one night. The man I knew tracked the flight of the aircraft which had attacked that night, found the airfield they came from, tracked down the man he reckoned was the pilot and went to visit him in Germany. The man told him that he'd dropped his bombs because he was scared to death and losing his bombs meant he could fly higher, faster and get the hell out of there.
I remember hearing a similar story, of a lad who's best friend was killed when German bomber scored a direct hit on the bomb shelter his friend and friend's family was sheltering in, on the outskirts of London. At first the fellow was filled with rage at the unfairness of it all, but as time went by he realized that the German pilot most likely panicked and jettisoned his bombs early in a desperate attempt to escape from the vengeful RAF.
Just to add a topical not😢. The pope that just died was a Nazi , never apologised for swearing lifelong allegiance to Adolf Hitler and stuck up for the bishops that ran the rat runs to South America and child molesting priests. Not a good man . At all .
4:10 The Luftwaffe had several Systems to aim to a target: X-Verfahren (in active service since 1938) was able to aim a 300x300m square about a distance of 350 km. There were also Knickebein (Funkfeuer), Erika (Funkfeuer), Bernhard (Funkfeuer). The most important work to jam this radio beam guidance systems was done by Reginald Victor Jones and his team. See also under: Battle of the beams in Wikipedia.
Some have harsh words for this man of renown, but I think their attitude should be one of gratitude. Like the widows and cripples of old London Town that owe their large pensions to Werner von Braun.
''Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down? That's not my department' says Wernher von Braun''. Thank you for this reference to the great Tom Lehrer. From his song 'Wernher von Braun'.
The side road, beside the Tate Britain Gallery (Atterbury St.) at Millbank, has numerous signs of bomb splinters in the stonework where a bomb landed in the street. It's also a great gallery to visit btw. If you want a good book on the subject, read Juliet Gardiner's book The Blitz. Loads of first-hand accounts and very moving.
My Grandfather told me about meeting a girl in London when he went through in 1943. He tried to look her up in 1945 but her street had been bombed and he was told that nobody survived. After watching this video I now suspect it was from a V2 rocket instead of a carpet bombing run. Thank you for the video, it was quite informative.
My family lived in the Bootle area of Liverpool. My Dad was evacuated to North Wales prior to the May Blitz in Liverpool. My Aunty and her family got the bus to the countryside and slept in farmers fields each night for a few weeks until the bombing campaign was over. These stats are from a web site about Bootle, "Over 1,000 people were killed or injured and over 80% of houses were damaged or destroyed. Very few families escaped the blitz unscathed; over 20,000 residents were left homeless following the bombing". There were still empty bomb sites when I was a kid in the early 70's so the bombing had an effect for a couple of decades. P.S. Thanks for all the fantastic content.
There's evidence of the Blitz, even in my North West London neighbourhood. There's a half a house in a nearby road, half of it was blown up and so it's only one half, and on the plot next to it is a post war detached house. There is also a post war detached house across the road from my house ; my house which has a crack in its side wall plaster, after a Victorian house across the road was destroyed. If you take a bus through Maida Vale, you can see one side of the road that runs parallel with a rail line, pre war houses and next to the railway post war houses. There is a massive piece of wall, several stories of wall near Kings Cross station, that is part of a building that is still standing, because it is holding up the surviving buildings next to it. There is a filled in bomb crater in the middle of the tracks of the District Line Earls Court Station.
An interesting video, but can’t believe a completely wrong siren was dubbed on to the footage @2:55, this sounded like a European Cold War siren, WW2 Britain used a very distinct sounding Carter Gents siren .
My dad described the V2. You would hear the explosion and then hear the whistle of its arrival as they travelled much faster than the speed of sound. Unlike the V1 you would not even hear it coming. Not so scary as the V1 and the blast area was deeper but not so broad.
You can tell this guy is a great presenter because I just heard and saw the materials and stories presented and I could barely remember him. Unlike so many amateurs he deflects us away from himself. There is no "Look at Me" from this guy. I hope he has done and continues to do many more presentations like this.
This is interesting but a little misleading. Experiencing the V2s was quite different to experiencing the Blitz (and, as is made clear, the two did not coincide). Listening (at night) to a bomber flying overhead, you waited to see whether it would drop a bomb or not, which was very disturbing, bomb or no bomb. By contrast, you could not see or hear a V2 coming (which meant there was no point in taking shelter). If you heard a V2 explode you knew right away that it had missed you. As for Von Braun, I suggest you listen to Tom Lehrer's take on him.
My Auntie Molly was a nurse in London during the blitz,she got caught outside in a raid and was running to a shelter when an incendiary landed about 6 feet away from her,she was saved by a posterboard she was passing ,but she was horribly burned from the waist down,and spent the rest of the war in hospital.It's ironic that if the nazis hadn't stopped going after the airfields to attack the cities.England would have lost the Battle of Britain.
my Dad was a child during the Blitz and lived with his family in Plaistow.........he was never evacuated. They had an Anderson shelter in their back yard.........a tough generation.
My grandmother told me about the British fire bombing on Hamburg and Dresden. She was a nurse in the war and told me about all the bodies of burned children.
I walk my dog in a graveyard in Liverpool, on a big family grave stone there an inscription to a husband & wife both lost to enemy action in London I think it says July ) 1944. This has confirmed what I was thinking V2.
The same in Bristol. There's very clear bomb damage right through the city centre . What's left of it after the Bristol Blitz anyway! They had their own " Bristol Blitz" there because of the harbour and docks.
What a great video. So informative, interesting and really well presented. Last couple of times I was down in London I actually researched the Blitz and visited some of these places and more. Btw for future reference Luftwaffe is pronounced 'looft-vaffer' and von Braun is pronounced 'fon Brown' (as in the English 'brown'). 👍🏻
In those brown bricked LCC flats, some of them still have the remains of low level air raid shelters. These are mounds with a flattened top in some of the green areas of the estate.
V2 rockets didn't hit London during the Blitz, but four to five years later. The word Blitz is not a synonym for the entire Second World War as it affected London. While we are on the subject of the V2, Wernher von Braun's surname does not sound like "brawn", but like "brown" (more or less).
Beautifully presented and full of interesting stuff. I especially liked the inclusion of all the photos from the time. A salutory tale for us all. Well done Mr Rogers! 🌟👍
I think you missed the reason for the Blitz. Hitler decided if the RAF could bomb Berlin much to Goerings boast that no bomb would fall on Berlin that he decided to try to flatten London instead which gave the RAF time to regroup and then win the Battle of Britain. By hitting the City of London( not City of Westminster) they left the airfields alone. A big mistake by the powers that be in Germany.
Ah! Coincidentally I was visiting London just one week ago for the day and was waiting outside the V&A for it to open. For the first time I noticed the bomb damage which was featured in this vid (I do know the area very well)... I realised that was what it must be but there's a plaque which mentions its relevance.
Seen these marks from the guns of the nazi plane attack.They are not the only ones in London of course.At least one other is upon the Guards memorial at St James's Park.
Only Moaned about the colour of the Tea. Nowadays, people moan about everything, from the clothes they wear, to the size of their fruit. How would people today, cope with what happened in the past?
my godmother when she was 16 years old became trapped in her home when it was bombed in the war . unfortunately i don't know the full story as i only found out when she was dying. she had started relive that experience in her final months as her mind started to slip .this is a very good little documentary. and to think war never stops .
I'm always deeply ambivalent about this sort of programming. The Allies bombing raids killed many more civilians than the Axis. In both cases these were not side effects, it was the intent to kill civilians. The lone raid on Tokyo killed twice as many people as were killed in the totality of the Blitz. (sources were Wikipedia, but this is well known). The single bombing of Dresden killed half as many people as the totality of the Blitz. The only recongnition of this was the commnet that the Nazi's joined the British in the mantra "To destroy anything you have to destroy everything".
@@lenabreijer1311 Which leaves open the logic that slaughtering civilians is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. The only thing wrong with the Blitz was they did it to “us”. On the other hand “Total War” was the prevailing concept of the time. No one questioned it. Admiral Donitz was tried war crimes for the unrestricted attacks on merchant shipping in WW2. But - the USA copied him in detail in the Pacific against the Japanese. This is why I’m ambivalent.
@@rtbinc2273 the punishment to fit the crime. Start a war and start the bombardment of civilians don't expect anything different. Oh and don't forget the concentration camps, the slave labour camps and not enough bombs were dropped.
Funny how it was the "worst thing ever" yet...Big Ben is still there. Westminster Abbey. London Bridge. Globe Theater. Buckingham Palace. THEY'RE ALL STILL THERE.
Hi Paul, Globe theatre is a modern reproduction. Buckingham Palace was bombed and damaged while the Royal Family were in residence. Big Ben is part of the Palace of Westminster, of which the chamber of the House of Commons (the centre of British politics) was destroyed. Westminster Abbey was badly damaged by bombing. Oh and technically London Bridge is not still there as it was sold to the US in the 60’s and replace by a modern bridge. Maybe you are referring to Tower Bridge? The bulk of those buildings you refer to are towards the west of the city. The Luftwaffe targeted mainly the dock lands toward the east, both the docks and the residential areas of the workers in the East End.
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A lot of misinformation here! You do know a lot of the bombs that fell on the uk were from our own army!! the timers on the bombs were so bad they fired the bombs into the sky and timed them to detonate in the sky taking down the German bombers…trouble is most of the bombs landed in the streets of London and THEN exploded. Over 52,000 British people died in the 1940’s due to the bombing. Despicable
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I had 2 ladies who went to church with me several years ago, Elsie and Ella. Elsie lived through the Blitz on London. Ella survived the destruction of Berlin. They were best of friends. Both suffered horribly from a war neither understood.
i know berlin was worse they had two army's coming in London only had airstrikes still sad to see though
My grandmother survived the bombing of her city down in a private bunker. She told us grandchildren about that experience: It was as some giant had taken the hole cellar in his hand and shake it up and down and sideways. After the bombing raid the old city with its half-timbered houses was flattened to the ground. She said: You can see from the (former) southern gate to northgate... She went to another part of the city to look after her family, meet a neighbour and was told: "That your father is dead you already know." No, she didn't. After airraid warning her family hurried to the next public bunker, but my grandgrandfather went back to make sure the house is properly locked. He died in the street in front of the bunker by the blast of the bombs. That story is one of the reasons why I hate Nazis and people who started wars for their own advantage. Never, never, never again!
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My grandmother's nane was Elsie
@@mare2971 As far as I remember, Germany neither declared nor started war on Britain.
I know a guy who was a child during the blitz. He told me that his dad was an old fashioned, stubborn guy who wouldn’t go anywhere without being properly dressed. So on the way to the bomb shelter during an air raid, he took longer because he had to do up his tie! They were on their way to the shelter (finally) as a bomb landed on it, killing everyone inside. Doing his tie saved his life and that of his family.
Yay war never changes let's hope humanity's destructive nature doesn't screw us all (and that's a great story )
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My grandad lived in Bolton at the time, he said they could see the bombing of Liverpool from across the moors the lights in the sky . He went to Liverpool to visit an uncle in the navy . He said to me the buildings were bombed,blackened, some missing, some holding on , and some like rotten teeth . I knows it’s not london but it was very descriptive
My mother was born in London in 1921 and left London in 1946. I travelled with her in 1967 to visit some of her old haunts. The house she grew up in was about to be demolished because of old age The row houses across the street were all brand new....cause the old ones were destroyed during the blitz.
My sister in law lived in Newham you can see the old houses that survived and the newer ones built later
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I was a child in the war born in 1935 and have many memories of the war, one in particular was a bomb that hit a bomb shelter with a family in it my sister and myself had been talking to the 13 year old girl of the family the day before as she was a friend of my sister, s, l was looking at the girls little niece playing behind her and thinking how rosy her cheeks were, l was only about nine myself, the next day l remember seeing a group of elderly men standing in a circle with their backs facing inwards while firemen where digging for the bodies of the family, they brought out the young girl her grown up sister and little girl and her mother her dad was nightwork so survived but collapsed when his family were brought out, no survives it was a direct hit, it still makes want to cry when l think of that day and those men standing in that circle all looking outwards,
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I'm 64 now. My dad was a soldier in the war. He was an engineer. He got called up. I've heard many stories about the blitz on Manchester. At Christmas. He and his brother Bob went out and got drunk. Bob had a glass of water touching the chimney breast. They said blow it when the sirens went off..a short while later, the glass started vibrating and ringing against the walk. It was the vibration of the high explosive bombs rattling the glass he looked out of the window and nearly died. "Ray. Ray, the whole sky is red" "get up, quickly and let's get to the shelter now"!
700 bombers over two nights terrorised Manchester for two nights!
When I was working in London I used to walk from Pimlico Station to Millbank Tower and it was amazing to see how many of the buildings were displaying bomb damage from WWII. A few years later I spend even more time working in High Holborn and would frequently notice the scars on bomb damaged buildings.
With the exception of some churches, I never used to notice it so much in the other cities where I worked as whole areas that were damaged during the war were cleared and new building erected.
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I lived in Pimlico in the late 90s, in an 8 year old building built on a bomb site - it was interesting seeing how long it took to rebuild 4 years of carpet bombing
This is fantastic! I truly enjoy these historical before and afters with context. Thank you.
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Mum bless her lived through the blitz she was a child,but she remembered they were bombed out three times unimaginable
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Thank you for such incredible insight, as someone not from Britain this is so interesting. We take for granted today how much history London never mind the rest of the UK has.
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I'm from Toronto. When I visited London in 2007, I've seen blitz damages in Croydon. It was scary
Very good but a bit of confusion, the Blitz was 40/41. V2 attacks started in late 44, a different period of the war.
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Thanks so much for making this video. My parents lived through this and my late grandfather-in-law was a fireman in London. Both my parents had near miss incidents from enemy action as young teenagers.
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Fascinating stuff especially as a Londoner myself! Of course we learnt about this at school but to revisit this and learn more is priceless!
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Thank you for putting this window on the past together - a past in which many good people lost their lives and suffered terrible trauma. The world itself only barely escaped catastrophe. Let's hope that in the future we can avoid falling victim to the forces of hatred and division that so badly married the 20th century.
My gran always told me to 'Look up!' when going around and about because I'd see interesting things. There are loads of divots out of the side of Tate Britain. You don't need bomb maps to find the scars of the war. Often there'll be a street where one side is old buildings and another side all post-war. That's often V2 damage, that would take out the whole side of a street. I do cross check with Borough archives (often online) afterwards. Nine times out of ten it's wartime damage as opposed to post-war planners clearing an area. Some areas of London were really badly hit.
Incredible stories of sacrifice, bravery and really banding together through the blitz. My great uncle wrote "boy in the blitz" Colin Perry, my great grandmother was injured whilst working in the maternity ward when the Germans bombed Liverpool mill hospital.. I can't imagine how scary it must have been, brave souls!
@@zobo999 My grandpa lived in Liverpool when he was first married after WW1. He had fond memories but for him a major highlight (always a small boy at heart) was when a train toppled sideways on the railway turntable at Lime Street!
My mother in law was bombed out once in London. She and her co-workers would go to the top of their office building and watch the RAF and Luftwaffe go at it above London. RIP
Just a technicality. A sonic boom is created when the aircraft / rocket reaches the speed of sound , about 750 mph. The boom of a V2 rocket landing on your head wouldn't be heard by you. Those nearby would, of course, hear the explosion.
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When in Hamburg I met an old artist who was still working in the cellar he’d worked in since before July 43. He showed me photos of the results of operation Gomorrah. The firestorm that killed 37,000 and injured 180,000.
The destruction of Dresden is a good book too.
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My Mum survived the Blitz. I don't know that she ever sheltered in a Tube station, but she would definitely have complained if her tea was discoloured. Thanks for this video.
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My Grandfather was a fireman during the war covering Portsmouth and Hayling Island where he was from. This was a very interesting video, thank you.
I'm ENGLISH but I've never heard of Hayling island??
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Excellent episode, thanks!!
(Although I find the stretcher fence a tad creepy... one can only imagine the ghosts attached to those stretchers... 🙂 )
Thank you for sharing this history with a Londoner very fascinating 🙂
Really interesting and informative thank you. I was the pub manager of the Princess Louise pub near the Holborn tube station back in the late 80s.
Built circa 1878 / 1880 still with all its original victorian features including the huge gents urinals.
I'll never forget a group of German tourists paid the pub a visit.
They were in awe of the victorian glass and tiles etc, and were saying what a magnificent building.
Wickedly I turn round and said , "Yes we were very fortunate that the German Luftwaffe missed this building, with a slight smirk and walked off.
I forgot about the stretchers being used as fencing, thanks for reminding me.
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I worked in a school in east London for 30 years. There was a chap who worked there who was interested in the school's history. A bomb which failed to explode went through the roof of one of the wings one night. The man I knew tracked the flight of the aircraft which had attacked that night, found the airfield they came from, tracked down the man he reckoned was the pilot and went to visit him in Germany. The man told him that he'd dropped his bombs because he was scared to death and losing his bombs meant he could fly higher, faster and get the hell out of there.
I remember hearing a similar story, of a lad who's best friend was killed when German bomber scored a direct hit on the bomb shelter his friend and friend's family was sheltering in, on the outskirts of London.
At first the fellow was filled with rage at the unfairness of it all, but as time went by he realized that the German pilot most likely panicked and jettisoned his bombs early in a desperate attempt to escape from the vengeful RAF.
still cool but little do you know if he wasnt scared youy could have been blown up lmao
@@jesseray9944 I should have thought that was quite obvious
@@junibug6790 The aGerman was in uniform and had plead allegiance to Adolf Hitler, the civilians in the shelter were civilians. No excuse. !
Just to add a topical not😢. The pope that just died was a Nazi , never apologised for swearing lifelong allegiance to Adolf Hitler and stuck up for the bishops that ran the rat runs to South America and child molesting priests. Not a good man . At all .
This is what’s happening in Ukraine right now but with newer technology.
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4:10 The Luftwaffe had several Systems to aim to a target: X-Verfahren (in active service since 1938) was able to aim a 300x300m square about a distance of 350 km. There were also Knickebein (Funkfeuer), Erika (Funkfeuer), Bernhard (Funkfeuer). The most important work to jam this radio beam guidance systems was done by Reginald Victor Jones and his team. See also under: Battle of the beams in Wikipedia.
In 1977, we visited London. Signs from the Blitz were still very present. If you think about it, it was only about 37 years before.
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Some have harsh words for this man of renown, but I think their attitude should be one of gratitude. Like the widows and cripples of old London Town that owe their large pensions to Werner von Braun.
''Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down? That's not my department' says Wernher von Braun''. Thank you for this reference to the great Tom Lehrer. From his song 'Wernher von Braun'.
The side road, beside the Tate Britain Gallery (Atterbury St.) at Millbank, has numerous signs of bomb splinters in the stonework where a bomb landed in the street. It's also a great gallery to visit btw. If you want a good book on the subject, read Juliet Gardiner's book The Blitz. Loads of first-hand accounts and very moving.
My Grandfather told me about meeting a girl in London when he went through in 1943. He tried to look her up in 1945 but her street had been bombed and he was told that nobody survived. After watching this video I now suspect it was from a V2 rocket instead of a carpet bombing run. Thank you for the video, it was quite informative.
My family lived in the Bootle area of Liverpool. My Dad was evacuated to North Wales prior to the May Blitz in Liverpool. My Aunty and her family got the bus to the countryside and slept in farmers fields each night for a few weeks until the bombing campaign was over. These stats are from a web site about Bootle, "Over 1,000 people were killed or injured and over 80% of houses were damaged or destroyed. Very few families escaped the blitz unscathed; over 20,000 residents were left homeless following the bombing". There were still empty bomb sites when I was a kid in the early 70's so the bombing had an effect for a couple of decades. P.S. Thanks for all the fantastic content.
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Nicely done, some great facts from the TFL archivist.
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Great video. Ive never noticed the damage still left in the open. Those stretchers are hardy piedes of equipment.
The unbreakable Brits!!! So proud of my nation!!!!
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There's evidence of the Blitz, even in my North West London neighbourhood. There's a half a house in a nearby road, half of it was blown up and so it's only one half, and on the plot next to it is a post war detached house. There is also a post war detached house across the road from my house ; my house which has a crack in its side wall plaster, after a Victorian house across the road was destroyed.
If you take a bus through Maida Vale, you can see one side of the road that runs parallel with a rail line, pre war houses and next to the railway post war houses.
There is a massive piece of wall, several stories of wall near Kings Cross station, that is part of a building that is still standing, because it is holding up the surviving buildings next to it.
There is a filled in bomb crater in the middle of the tracks of the District Line Earls Court Station.
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This was so interesting. London is my most favourite city in the world … Edinburgh a close second. Thank you so much from South Africa
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An interesting video, but can’t believe a completely wrong siren was dubbed on to the footage @2:55, this sounded like a European Cold War siren, WW2 Britain used a very distinct sounding Carter Gents siren .
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Love your channel 🙂
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My dad described the V2. You would hear the explosion and then hear the whistle of its arrival as they travelled much faster than the speed of sound. Unlike the V1 you would not even hear it coming. Not so scary as the V1 and the blast area was deeper but not so broad.
60/70s developers finished the job, 10 times over.
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Old Buildings in Lincoln's Inn still shows scars courtesy of Germany...
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You can tell this guy is a great presenter because I just heard and saw the materials and stories presented and I could barely remember him. Unlike so many amateurs he deflects us away from himself. There is no "Look at Me" from this guy. I hope he has done and continues to do many more presentations like this.
Did you mean this sarcastically? HIs error-strewn delivery was a constant distraction for me!
Lovely video, amazing stories from your expert, love the stretcher story .
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St Thomas Hospital was hit.You can still see the bomb damage.
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I didn’t know about the stretchers, fascinating, thanks
Bombs released within WWII were considered "lucky" to land within two miles of their target...
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excellent video
I used to live in Shepherd's Bush, around that area you can spot bomb sites by gaps in rows of terraces
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My Nan was in Bristol during the bombings and she told us how the kids would enjoy playing 'who could find the biggest bit of shrapnel'
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This is interesting but a little misleading. Experiencing the V2s was quite different to experiencing the Blitz (and, as is made clear, the two did not coincide). Listening (at night) to a bomber flying
overhead, you waited to see whether it would drop a bomb or not, which was very disturbing, bomb or no bomb. By contrast, you could not see or hear a V2 coming (which meant there was no point in taking shelter). If you heard a V2 explode you knew right away that it had missed you. As for Von Braun, I suggest you listen to Tom Lehrer's take on him.
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My Auntie Molly was a nurse in London during the blitz,she got caught outside in a raid and was running to a shelter when an incendiary landed about 6 feet away from her,she was saved by a posterboard she was passing ,but she was horribly burned from the waist down,and spent the rest of the war in hospital.It's ironic that if the nazis hadn't stopped going after the airfields to attack the cities.England would have lost the Battle of Britain.
my Dad was a child during the Blitz and lived with his family in Plaistow.........he was never evacuated. They had an Anderson shelter in their back yard.........a tough generation.
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My grandmother told me about the British fire bombing on Hamburg and Dresden. She was a nurse in the war and told me about all the bodies of burned children.
I walk my dog in a graveyard in Liverpool, on a big family grave stone there an inscription to a husband & wife both lost to enemy action in London I think it says July ) 1944. This has confirmed what I was thinking V2.
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Presenter chap - please don't pronounce the L in Holborn. Everyone knows that.
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The same in Bristol. There's very clear bomb damage right through the city centre . What's left of it after the Bristol Blitz anyway! They had their own " Bristol Blitz" there because of the harbour and docks.
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What a great video. So informative, interesting and really well presented. Last couple of times I was down in London I actually researched the Blitz and visited some of these places and more.
Btw for future reference Luftwaffe is pronounced 'looft-vaffer' and von Braun is pronounced 'fon Brown' (as in the English 'brown'). 👍🏻
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I was a toddler when the war started, me and my family survived the Balham tube bombing. Don't remember a thing about it.
Fascinating vlog well done 👏👏👏👏
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In those brown bricked LCC flats, some of them still have the remains of low level air raid shelters. These are mounds with a flattened top in some of the green areas of the estate.
Brilliant and informative
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V2 rockets didn't hit London during the Blitz, but four to five years later. The word Blitz is not a synonym for the entire Second World War as it affected London. While we are on the subject of the V2, Wernher von Braun's surname does not sound like "brawn", but like "brown" (more or less).
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There is a 1st World War memorial in Coventry UK that is scarred by shrapnel from the blitz of November 1941 (2nd World War) . Quite ironic really.
Very interesting
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Fascinating video !
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im sad to hear this but im also glad at the time everyone came togother you know as a family its good to see humanbs helping others in a time of war
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Amazing how such a simple thing as a stretcher that was repurposed as a fence. Still there.
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Beautifully presented and full of interesting stuff. I especially liked the inclusion of all the photos from the time. A salutory tale for us all. Well done Mr Rogers! 🌟👍
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My great uncle was lost in enema action.. boy did he have guts..
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Coventry was flattened in One night ...
My grandad was bombed out twice, when telling us the story he always laughed when mentioning the second occasion.
not much coverage of actual current locations given the title of the video. Disappointed.
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It's actually quite shocking to think that, to begin with, the Government did not want people to use the London Underground as a bomb shelter.....
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Wonderful/horrible video. Great host, as always/ Thank you for bring us the real deal:)
Thanks so much!
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Wandsworth and Battersea took a hammering too as Clapham Junction was targeted I believe.
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Correct, they were after the railroads at Clapham Jct. Station. My late mother lived locally during the war in nearby Earlsfield.
I've lasted four minutes biting my tongue but please, fer'crissakes learn how to pronounce "Holborn"!
I think you missed the reason for the Blitz. Hitler decided if the RAF could bomb Berlin much to Goerings boast that no bomb would fall on Berlin that he decided to try to flatten London instead which gave the RAF time to regroup and then win the Battle of Britain. By hitting the City of London( not City of Westminster) they left the airfields alone. A big mistake by the powers that be in Germany.
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No V2 during the bliz.
Ah! Coincidentally I was visiting London just one week ago for the day and was waiting outside the V&A for it to open. For the first time I noticed the bomb damage which was featured in this vid (I do know the area very well)... I realised that was what it must be but there's a plaque which mentions its relevance.
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The Blitz was in response to the RAF bombing cities and towns in Germany.
The same horror's are happening in Ukraine at this present moment 2023 . . Did we ever think that this would happen again
War always happens its human nature
@@francesco245 Learn the difference between spelling and punctuation. 😊
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My grandads house was blown up during the blitz, not many people came out alive but he did
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Seen these marks from the guns of the nazi plane attack.They are not the only ones in London of course.At least one other is upon the Guards memorial at St James's Park.
AYE! And at the end of the war the buggers never returned them.
I come from Bath and there's a pub in the city centre that still has bullet holes from the Germans diving and trying shoot civilians
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Great film - absorbing and well oresented.
As others have noted, say 'Ho-burn' - also 'fon Brown'.
All best
There is bomb damage on the church of saint clement in the aldwych
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And you're not a war criminal if you can be useful. Rank hypocrisy.
von braun should got o jail for the v2
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What it was like to live under the relentless bombardment of Hiroshima:
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Only Moaned about the colour of the Tea. Nowadays, people moan about everything, from the clothes they wear, to the size of their fruit. How would people today, cope with what happened in the past?
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Don’t forget about immigrants who don’t care about this history or culture
A sonic boom isn't created by collision with the ground. 😆 Can we have a presenter with a better grasp of English & Physics in future please?
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my godmother when she was 16 years old became trapped in her home when it was bombed in the war . unfortunately i don't know the full story as i only found out when she was dying. she had started relive that experience in her final months as her mind started to slip .this is a very good little documentary. and to think war never stops .
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My grandparents met smack dab in the middle of all that disaster. Married 60? Years?
A long ass time for a trauma bond.
Most romantic story ever
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I'm always deeply ambivalent about this sort of programming. The Allies bombing raids killed many more civilians than the Axis. In both cases these were not side effects, it was the intent to kill civilians. The lone raid on Tokyo killed twice as many people as were killed in the totality of the Blitz. (sources were Wikipedia, but this is well known). The single bombing of Dresden killed half as many people as the totality of the Blitz. The only recongnition of this was the commnet that the Nazi's joined the British in the mantra "To destroy anything you have to destroy everything".
That is what happens when you start a war.
@@lenabreijer1311 Which leaves open the logic that slaughtering civilians is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. The only thing wrong with the Blitz was they did it to “us”. On the other hand “Total War” was the prevailing concept of the time. No one questioned it. Admiral Donitz was tried war crimes for the unrestricted attacks on merchant shipping in WW2. But - the USA copied him in detail in the Pacific against the Japanese. This is why I’m ambivalent.
@@rtbinc2273 the punishment to fit the crime. Start a war and start the bombardment of civilians don't expect anything different. Oh and don't forget the concentration camps, the slave labour camps and not enough bombs were dropped.
The sonic boom arrives, after the V2 explodes.
Blast wave rather than sonic boom, although travelling at the speed of sound (as do all sounds).
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On behalf of all the silly foreigners who visit this channel, what is the V and A?
the Victoria and Albert museum en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum
And they complain about Dresden?
Bollocks !
My street had 10 houses blown up
Still bullet holes in walls
And that's in Barrow in Furness
That was because they started the war.
@@lenabreijer1311 what, the people of Barrow in Furness? 😂
Funny how it was the "worst thing ever" yet...Big Ben is still there. Westminster Abbey. London Bridge. Globe Theater. Buckingham Palace. THEY'RE ALL STILL THERE.
Hi Paul, Globe theatre is a modern reproduction. Buckingham Palace was bombed and damaged while the Royal Family were in residence. Big Ben is part of the Palace of Westminster, of which the chamber of the House of Commons (the centre of British politics) was destroyed. Westminster Abbey was badly damaged by bombing. Oh and technically London Bridge is not still there as it was sold to the US in the 60’s and replace by a modern bridge. Maybe you are referring to Tower Bridge? The bulk of those buildings you refer to are towards the west of the city. The Luftwaffe targeted mainly the dock lands toward the east, both the docks and the residential areas of the workers in the East End.
@@huwd2292 You have the patience of a saint with these cretins.
@@skepticalbadger 😂 thank you.
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