I hope every new Australian understands these men and women risked their lives to protect what we have today in this country and try and fight to keep it that way!!
As an ex-RAAF maintainer (engines/airframes) 1987-2011, this film still resonates to me from my service in various theatres of the globe. My dad was RAAF aircraft electrician from '48-'65 and he worked on many of these beautiful old ladies of the skies. This film has kind of connected me with my forefathers, both genetic and military, in a way I never knew possible. Thanks for posting up
The short clip of the Sunderland being attacked by three 88s can be found in its entirety in a film called 'Coastal Command' Its great piece of wartime history....The actual crew ,not actors!
One of my father's best friends was a pilot of G for George, James Alexander (Alec) Saint-Smith. The saint painted on G for George. Sadly he was killed in 1944.
Thank you have downloaded to watch on my TV, my grandfather was in the British RAF was shot down over France in WW2 on his first mission over enemy territory, but luckily got back to the UK through the help of an escape line, and was also made a member of the caterpillar club for bailing out.
Good and interesting video. Just like over here in America. Men and women who risked their lives so we can have what we got today and live the way we do. God bless all the arm forces 🇦🇺 and America 🇺🇸.
I am a Brit, everyone I ever met when I was a boy who served with the Australians told me what excellent servicemen they all were. And how self reliant, they could fix the unfixable, and courageous as well.
My Grandfather was based far North Queensland he flew in bombers took an enormous amount of pictures of bombs being dropped. Pretty sure or though he never said i think he was a navigator Bombardier. His Son my Uncle still has heaps of these pictures that he took including his mates and wrecked aircraft My Grandfather donated 3/4 of these to a War Museum in Camberra i think. judging by all the different bombing raids he took part in i'd estimate well over 60 raids closer to 100 amazingly he came through the entire War unscathed as for some of the planes he flew in he took pictures of the damage caused by gun fire and flak.Because he was never shot down and his feet never touched enemy soil for this very reason he was never awarded a War pension ... as did many of our Airmen ... i watched with keen interest hoping i would see him .. gone but not forgotten ..lest we forget
My uncle Norman died when the Sunderland Serial No. ML740 from 461 Squadron RAAF, was shot down by JU-88s over the Bay of Biscay on 23rd March 1944. 7 of the 11 crew survived and were subsequently rescued. I never got to meet him as I was only born the following July.
My Great Grandfather enlisted in 1941 in the RAAF when he was only 18, he did get some air gunner training but I don’t think any air gunner combat, yet I don’t know. He was sent over there around 1942 and came back a sergeant, never spoke of his war time experiences although we do have a newspaper clipping from I think 1942 or 43 describing a Japanese air raid. There is also a story of a time he had to take up arms on an attack on the airfield. He was a wireless operator and wireless operator mechanic.
AFTER MANY YEARS OF RESEARCHING, JUST DISCOVERED MY HALF BROTHER WAS ON MISSIONS WITH THE FAMOUS RAAF 460 SQN , OUT OF BINBROOK. 30 MISSIONS, BEFORE JOINING 199 SQN. KILLED ON LAST WW2 RAID ON GERMANY 3/ 5/1945.
The Lancaster seen in this clip PO - G was from 467 Squadron RAAF based in Waddington. My father was a member of this squadron, and mentioned a BBC film crew spent some time filming from the ground and in the air with this squadron.
great video on the perspective of mens minds .People who remarked upon the large numbers of marriages in the immediate post-war period tended not to mention the record number of divorces. The fact that veterans' hospitals were full of men with serious mental health problems went undiscussed. The movies of the 50s and 60s did not depict the reality of war. Did many have the courage to go to a doctor and say, "I don't feel very well in my mind``..YEA AND PROBLY GET PRESCRIBED VALIUM.THNKS FOR POSTING THIS VDEO.WORTH WATCHING AGAIN
Your comment reminds me of what people close to Prince Phillip have recalled about him after his death recently, that his generation had a very 'get on with it' mentality, unfortunately, those who didn't fit the mould, who with genuine, what was known as battle fatigue, & is now known as ctpsd, was sadly only really credited after the great war, & even then, many thought it was a load of psychobabble fooey & that those suffering were just straight up malingerers. One of the men I admire, who was deeply affected, & who tried to be a voice for other sufferers was Harold 'Pompey' Elliot, he tried to get greater recognition from the government & top brass, for the way his men were affected by war, he was mostly overlooked & ignored, it wasn't really until long after the way in which our Vietnam Vets came home, that these issues were beginning to be highlighted, aggravatingly, the very machine that signs folks up for war, is quick to fight their individual claims of PTSD when they come home, even though we know participating in the theatre of war is a significant factor in the symptoms. I personally find it heartbreaking that a portion of our vets have felt no other way out of their private hell, than to try to regain peace of mind by ending their pain, which is the same aching solution Pompey Elliot succumbed to all those years ago, as the saying goes, much as things change, the more they remain the same.
top quote my parents, both front line B.O.B you may survive a war, but nobody wins one, so I thank every allied service person, for I have seen the cost up close. let us never forget, lest it happens again
Thank you for this worthy tribute to Australian fliers. Incidentally, at 2:40, that's an RAF crew operating from Port Ferry Bay. The War Office film "Coastal Command" shows them in a punch-up with 3 Ju88, in which they sustained fuel leaks. Some Beaufighters chased the 88s away, and an RAAF Sunderland went out to guide the RAF Sunderland back home. See th-cam.com/video/0XMeZ07Atug/w-d-xo.html at 56:02 to hear the pilot's unmistakable RAF officer's public school accent.
Young Men, were taken in a year into then high performance aircraft with minimal training.. Just inside continental US, 15,000 airmen were killed. www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2019/02/12/staggering_statistics_15000_us_airmen_killed_in_training_in_ww_ii_412.html
Why is this video presented in widescreen letterbox format rather than the native format? On the iPad it then appears double letter boxed. Other similar age videos in TH-cam appear full screen.
Hi HistJ. This original 35mm film shot in an Academy Ratio (equivalent to a 4:3 ratio) has been recently scanned on a 4K scanner using a technique called overscanning. Scanning of the film frames in this way includes a lot of extra room around the frame such as film sprockets and edges. To present 4:3 images such as this in contemporary widescreen 16:9 frames such as TH-cam we need to pillarbox the images with black bars to the left and right of the frame (letterboxing is black bars at the top and bottom of the frame) which covers the film edges, sprockets etc. This way it is presented in its original aspect ratio. To present it as a full frame 16:9 image would be a distortion of the image. TH-cam automatically pillabroxes 4:3 content uploaded to its platform. By uploading 16:9 digital files we avoid TH-cam doing it automatically. Thank you for your feed back and we will investigate the issue you mention with the ipad playback.
@@NFSAFilms Thank you for your very detailed reply, you obviously know what you are doing. Just for reference, one of my favourite films from NFSA is ”Calling Sydney Harbour” it appears full screen on the iPad. I am guessing here but if you pillar box 4:3 video to 16:9 yourself before you publish to TH-cam it will then appear as pillar boxed AND letter boxed on non 16.9 display devices. But If you simply publish the video in native 4:3 format on TH-cam then TH-cam will pillar box it but only when needed. TH-cam do not distort the original format, as in stretch 4:3 to fill 16:9, as far as I know.
Hi HistJ. Yes Calling Sydney Harbour (great film) is a standard definition digital copy from tape. It was not scanned in any HD aspect ratio at the time so presented in it's true 4:3 aspect ratio (720 x 576). We don't need to pillarbox and if we did we would be pushing an SD file in to a HD ratio and that would actually affect the extant quality of the SD digital copy. Hopefully soon we will be able to do a new scan of that film at 4K and present it in even better quality. Thanks for your interest and please keep watching.
Hey theirs Australian good old rare Westerns mistical continent and modern wealthy common sense that they have such heroes since the first war beautiful country good rock and roll
Is there a source for the statistic that half of the crews were lost during the first four missions, and then their survival chances improved? Most losses of bombers were due to flak, which would have hit the planes more or less randomly.
Numerous references to losses. For example, read John Terraine's book 'The Right of the Line', also Patrick Bishop's 'Bomber Boys', Alastair Revie's 'The Lost Command', Kevin Wilson's 'Men of Air', Larry Donnelly's 'The Whitley Boys' and also John Herrington's two books 'Air War Germany/Italy 1939-43' and 'Air Power over Europe 1944-45'. New crews were definitely at their most vulnerable and often they inherited a well-worn (frequently a synonym for clapped-out) aircraft from a crew that was tour-ex. Stirling crews were particularly vulnerable as, due to thir shorter wingspan, they flew about 4,000 feet lower that the Lancaster & Halifax and were in range of both light and heavy flak. After the first 3-4 missions Bomber Command aircrew morale increased until around the 13th op and gradually decreased thereafter. Understandable so, given that statistically they were unlikely to survive a full tour of 20 ops. Experienced crews often flew a little higher than the majority and were therefore above the height-settings on the flak shells. However, your contention that flak was more effective than the Luftwaffe night fighters is not borne out by the statistics. According to Edward Westermann's definitive book, 'Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defences 1914-1945', in the period July 1942 to April 1945, flak downed 1,345 aircraft, whilst the nightfighters shot down 2,278 aircraft. Therefore, nightfighters accounted for 59% of Bomber Command's losses as against 41% by flak, a ratio of 1.69:1. Flak did however cause greater damage to RAF bombers, at a ratio of 5.1:1, though that damage was not catastrophic in nature.
@@chrisweeks6973 Are they any stats on "Schräge Musik", this has often been written about as quite catastrophic for the British bomber due to a lack of ventral defensive weapons. However, I lifted this from Wiki:' "Freeman Dyson, who was an analyst for Operations research of RAF Bomber Command in World War II, commented on the effectiveness of Schräge Musik: The cause of losses... killed novice and expert crews impartially. This result contradicted the official dogma... I blame the ORS and I blame myself in particular, for not taking this result seriously enough... If we had taken the evidence more seriously, we might have discovered Schräge Musik in time to respond with effective countermeasures. - Freeman Dyson" Given Freeman Dyson's reputation, I think it is most likely true. Although, apparently, early losses to "Schräge Musik" were often attributed to flak.
There is something false about this official concern for the health of these men a generation after they sacrificed their youth for the future continuation and well-being of their nation, of their people. Where, for instance, are * their * voices?
There are some really good reading resources out there, I've read a lot on WW2, but one of my favorites, (on WW1) have to be two by a little known author named Max Arthur, he wrote 'Forgotten Voices' (of the great war), I particularly liked that his book depicts the remembrances from men & women from most ranks, & from the broader perspectives of those fighting not just under the allies, but the Axis powers too, so a good cross section of folks if you will. His second book. 'The Way Home' similarly depicts the voices of those in the hours leading up to the finalisation of the war, where & what they were doing at the time, hearing the announcement of the armistice, what happened & how they felt after, & finally, going home & how they settled back into life immediately after. As I say, there's thousands of books with individual accounts from all theatres of war, but these two gave me a real personal feel for the participants from the hardy private to CO's, nurses etc, thought I'd throw it out there if anyone wants a more intimate perspective of the time from those involved.
I love how the narrator couches the attack on German cities as a 'counterattack'. At least the old movie 'The battle of Britain' treated this honestly.
And where would these 'Airmen' be without the WAAAF - the women who kept them up in the air? Women who were in the WAAAF unti l the end in vital roles, many of whom were NEVER given the Service Pension or benefits or recognition in their lifetime?
I hope every new Australian understands these men and women risked their lives to protect what we have today in this country and try and fight to keep it that way!!
oh we are in so much trouble it's not even funny. im cool with it. yes exactly gratitude is the attitude.
As an ex-RAAF maintainer (engines/airframes) 1987-2011, this film still resonates to me from my service in various theatres of the globe. My dad was RAAF aircraft electrician from '48-'65 and he worked on many of these beautiful old ladies of the skies. This film has kind of connected me with my forefathers, both genetic and military, in a way I never knew possible. Thanks for posting up
Hi Dean, thanks for letting us know how you have connected with the film.
Wow, unexpectedly powerful and bleak for such an old doco. A great watch.
The short clip of the Sunderland being attacked by three 88s can be found in its entirety in a film called 'Coastal Command' Its great piece of wartime history....The actual crew ,not actors!
Thanks for the info mate, I’m giving that a watch.
One of my father's best friends was a pilot of G for George, James Alexander (Alec) Saint-Smith.
The saint painted on G for George.
Sadly he was killed in 1944.
There is a rawness about this type of movie that you don't get today.
Thank you have downloaded to watch on my TV, my grandfather was in the British RAF was shot down over France in WW2 on his first mission over enemy territory, but luckily got back to the UK through the help of an escape line, and was also made a member of the caterpillar club for bailing out.
Good and interesting video. Just like over here in America. Men and women who risked their lives so we can have what we got today and live the way we do. God bless all the arm forces 🇦🇺 and America 🇺🇸.
I am a Brit, everyone I ever met when I was a boy who served with the Australians told me what excellent servicemen they all were. And how self reliant, they could fix the unfixable, and courageous as well.
Absolute legends these young blokes were.
Yeah & often these guys had to make do with outclassed aircraft with a lack of supplies & logistics for spare parts.
That was excellent. It conveyed a real sense of what it must have been like to have fought in the air in WW 2; nerve-wracking and deadly.
My Grandfather was based far North Queensland he flew in bombers took an enormous amount of pictures of bombs being dropped. Pretty sure or though he never said i think he was a navigator Bombardier. His Son my Uncle still has heaps of these pictures that he took including his mates and wrecked aircraft My Grandfather donated 3/4 of these to a War Museum in Camberra i think. judging by all the different bombing raids he took part in i'd estimate well over 60 raids closer to 100 amazingly he came through the entire War unscathed as for some of the planes he flew in he took pictures of the damage caused by gun fire and flak.Because he was never shot down and his feet never touched enemy soil for this very reason he was never awarded a War pension ... as did many of our Airmen ... i watched with keen interest hoping i would see him .. gone but not forgotten ..lest we forget
The top generals loved Australian New Zealand and Canadian fighters. Reliable and courageous.
Americans always thanks Aussies. I stopped by your beautiful country at Perth while in the Navy.
Surprising references to what is now known as PTSD just 20 years after the war.
My uncle Norman died when the Sunderland Serial No. ML740 from 461 Squadron RAAF, was shot down by JU-88s over the Bay of Biscay on 23rd March 1944. 7 of the 11 crew survived and were subsequently rescued. I never got to meet him as I was only born the following July.
My Great Grandfather enlisted in 1941 in the RAAF when he was only 18, he did get some air gunner training but I don’t think any air gunner combat, yet I don’t know. He was sent over there around 1942 and came back a sergeant, never spoke of his war time experiences although we do have a newspaper clipping from I think 1942 or 43 describing a Japanese air raid. There is also a story of a time he had to take up arms on an attack on the airfield. He was a wireless operator and wireless operator mechanic.
An excellent documentary.
And from a POM who remembers, Thank you Australia.
AFTER MANY YEARS OF RESEARCHING, JUST DISCOVERED MY HALF BROTHER WAS ON MISSIONS WITH THE FAMOUS RAAF 460 SQN , OUT OF BINBROOK. 30 MISSIONS, BEFORE JOINING 199 SQN. KILLED ON LAST WW2 RAID ON GERMANY 3/ 5/1945.
@@MrDaiseymay❤
The Lancaster seen in this clip PO - G was from 467 Squadron RAAF based in Waddington.
My father was a member of this squadron, and mentioned a BBC film crew spent some time filming from the ground and in the air with this squadron.
Hopefully there’s more of these kinds of videos.
great video on the perspective of mens minds .People who remarked upon the large numbers of marriages in the immediate post-war period tended not to mention the record number of divorces. The fact that veterans' hospitals were full of men with serious mental health problems went undiscussed. The movies of the 50s and 60s did not depict the reality of war. Did many have the courage to go to a doctor and say, "I don't feel very well in my mind``..YEA AND PROBLY GET PRESCRIBED VALIUM.THNKS FOR POSTING THIS VDEO.WORTH WATCHING AGAIN
Your comment reminds me of what people close to Prince Phillip have recalled about him after his death recently,
that his generation had a very
'get on with it' mentality,
unfortunately, those who didn't fit the mould, who with genuine, what was known as battle fatigue,
& is now known as ctpsd,
was sadly only really credited after the great war, & even then, many thought it was a load of psychobabble fooey & that those suffering were just straight up malingerers.
One of the men I admire, who was deeply affected, & who tried to be a voice for other sufferers was Harold 'Pompey' Elliot, he tried to get greater recognition from the government & top brass, for the way his men were affected by war, he was mostly overlooked & ignored, it wasn't really until long after the way in which our Vietnam Vets came home, that these issues were beginning to be highlighted, aggravatingly, the very machine that signs folks up for war, is quick to fight their individual claims of PTSD when they come home, even though we know participating in the theatre of war is a significant factor in the symptoms.
I personally find it heartbreaking that a portion of our vets have felt no other way out of their private hell, than to try to regain peace of mind by ending their pain, which is the same aching solution Pompey Elliot succumbed to all those years ago, as the saying goes, much as things change, the more they remain the same.
thank you for the special detail video on men and women who in wars keep Australian life free today are special every person today and further
Glad you enjoyed it
top quote my parents, both front line B.O.B you may survive a war, but nobody wins one, so I thank every allied service person, for I have seen the cost up close. let us never forget, lest it happens again
Outstanding documentary.
Thank you for this worthy tribute to Australian fliers.
Incidentally, at 2:40, that's an RAF crew operating from Port Ferry Bay. The War Office film "Coastal Command" shows them in a punch-up with 3 Ju88, in which they sustained fuel leaks. Some Beaufighters chased the 88s away, and an RAAF Sunderland went out to guide the RAF Sunderland back home. See th-cam.com/video/0XMeZ07Atug/w-d-xo.html at 56:02 to hear the pilot's unmistakable RAF officer's public school accent.
Beautiful and haunting, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for posting.😎👍
No problem 👍
Loved this .....thanks Aussies
The Walrus. Marvellous aircraft.
Sometimes what comes in dreams scares then proverbial out of me.
Fine tribute.
Better than many doccos made now.
Awesome footage of '67
Thank God for the Aussies in World War 2 and every other since,
ANZACS MATEY.
It was a jolly good show
Glad to see it just wasn't the Yanks who won the war in the Pacific. Well done the Anzacs.
@Ronald Hinton Yeah, Aleutian all year, Iwo Jima, Luzon, Tarawa, Solomons all walks down picket fenced lanes.
No sir the Australians and NZ people are fierce fighters and we in USA know that
Lest we forget.🇦🇺
Doesn't even mention training. At least as many RAAF men lost in training as in battle.
Young Men, were taken in a year into then high performance aircraft with minimal training.. Just inside continental US, 15,000 airmen were killed.
www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2019/02/12/staggering_statistics_15000_us_airmen_killed_in_training_in_ww_ii_412.html
GOD BLESS THEM ALL.
amazing 😜
a sad finish
Why is this video presented in widescreen letterbox format rather than the native format?
On the iPad it then appears double letter boxed. Other similar age videos in TH-cam appear full screen.
Hi HistJ. This original 35mm film shot in an Academy Ratio (equivalent to a 4:3 ratio) has been recently scanned on a 4K scanner using a technique called overscanning. Scanning of the film frames in this way includes a lot of extra room around the frame such as film sprockets and edges. To present 4:3 images such as this in contemporary widescreen 16:9 frames such as TH-cam we need to pillarbox the images with black bars to the left and right of the frame (letterboxing is black bars at the top and bottom of the frame) which covers the film edges, sprockets etc. This way it is presented in its original aspect ratio. To present it as a full frame 16:9 image would be a distortion of the image. TH-cam automatically pillabroxes 4:3 content uploaded to its platform. By uploading 16:9 digital files we avoid TH-cam doing it automatically. Thank you for your feed back and we will investigate the issue you mention with the ipad playback.
@@NFSAFilms Thank you for your very detailed reply, you obviously know what you are doing.
Just for reference, one of my favourite films from NFSA is ”Calling Sydney Harbour” it appears full screen on the iPad.
I am guessing here but if you pillar box 4:3 video to 16:9 yourself before you publish to TH-cam it will then appear as pillar boxed AND letter boxed on non 16.9 display devices. But If you simply publish the video in native 4:3 format on TH-cam then TH-cam will pillar box it but only when needed. TH-cam do not distort the original format, as in stretch 4:3 to fill 16:9, as far as I know.
Hi HistJ. Yes Calling Sydney Harbour (great film) is a standard definition digital copy from tape. It was not scanned in any HD aspect ratio at the time so presented in it's true 4:3 aspect ratio (720 x 576). We don't need to pillarbox and if we did we would be pushing an SD file in to a HD ratio and that would actually affect the extant quality of the SD digital copy. Hopefully soon we will be able to do a new scan of that film at 4K and present it in even better quality. Thanks for your interest and please keep watching.
G-for George.🇭🇲
All that for a plate of 'Bacon and Eggs' ! Salute you all !
Sounds like Richard Burton narrating!
Don't think it was Burton I heard no Welsh lilt on vowels
I knew someone in the war
Down to to your pilot , never flystraight and level
Thay r the real Australian
Beautifully narrated by an uncredited Alistair Duncan.
No, Sorry he would have been 9-10 years old at the films issue.
Yes Alistair did narrate this film.And many other film unit films.
@@NFSAFilms I know. I was a voice over artist for 40 years and always enjoyed working with him.
Actually this Alistair Duncan www.imdb.com/name/nm0241892/ Not this Alistair Duncan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alastair_Duncan_(actor) So many Alistairs!
@@hb3331 I worked with Alistair a lot and I know it's him. Check the reply from the NFSA.
Hey theirs Australian good old rare Westerns mistical continent and modern wealthy common sense that they have such heroes since the first war beautiful country good rock and roll
Is there a source for the statistic that half of the crews were lost during the first four missions, and then their survival chances improved? Most losses of bombers were due to flak, which would have hit the planes more or less randomly.
Numerous references to losses. For example, read John Terraine's book 'The Right of the Line', also Patrick Bishop's 'Bomber Boys', Alastair Revie's 'The Lost Command', Kevin Wilson's 'Men of Air', Larry Donnelly's 'The Whitley Boys' and also John Herrington's two books 'Air War Germany/Italy 1939-43' and 'Air Power over Europe 1944-45'.
New crews were definitely at their most vulnerable and often they inherited a well-worn (frequently a synonym for clapped-out) aircraft from a crew that was tour-ex. Stirling crews were particularly vulnerable as, due to thir shorter wingspan, they flew about 4,000 feet lower that the Lancaster & Halifax and were in range of both light and heavy flak. After the first 3-4 missions Bomber Command aircrew morale increased until around the 13th op and gradually decreased thereafter. Understandable so, given that statistically they were unlikely to survive a full tour of 20 ops. Experienced crews often flew a little higher than the majority and were therefore above the height-settings on the flak shells.
However, your contention that flak was more effective than the Luftwaffe night fighters is not borne out by the statistics. According to Edward Westermann's definitive book, 'Flak: German Anti-Aircraft Defences 1914-1945', in the period July 1942 to April 1945, flak downed 1,345 aircraft, whilst the nightfighters shot down 2,278 aircraft. Therefore, nightfighters accounted for 59% of Bomber Command's losses as against 41% by flak, a ratio of 1.69:1. Flak did however cause greater damage to RAF bombers, at a ratio of 5.1:1, though that damage was not catastrophic in nature.
@@chrisweeks6973 Are they any stats on "Schräge Musik", this has often been written about as quite catastrophic for the British bomber due to a lack of ventral defensive weapons.
However, I lifted this from Wiki:'
"Freeman Dyson, who was an analyst for Operations research of RAF Bomber Command in World War II, commented on the effectiveness of Schräge Musik:
The cause of losses... killed novice and expert crews impartially. This result contradicted the official dogma... I blame the ORS and I blame myself in particular, for not taking this result seriously enough... If we had taken the evidence more seriously, we might have discovered Schräge Musik in time to respond with effective countermeasures.
- Freeman Dyson"
Given Freeman Dyson's reputation, I think it is most likely true.
Although, apparently, early losses to "Schräge Musik" were often attributed to flak.
There is something false about this official concern for the health of these men a generation after they sacrificed their youth for the future continuation and well-being of their nation, of their people. Where, for instance, are * their * voices?
There are some really good reading resources out there,
I've read a lot on WW2,
but one of my favorites,
(on WW1) have to be two by a little known author named Max Arthur,
he wrote 'Forgotten Voices'
(of the great war), I particularly liked that his book depicts the remembrances from men & women from most ranks,
& from the broader perspectives of those fighting not just under the allies, but the Axis powers too,
so a good cross section of folks if you will.
His second book.
'The Way Home' similarly depicts the voices of those in the hours leading up to the finalisation of the war, where & what they were doing at the time, hearing the announcement of the armistice, what happened & how they felt after, & finally, going home & how they settled back into life immediately after.
As I say, there's thousands of books with individual accounts from all theatres of war, but these two gave me a real personal feel for the participants from the hardy private to CO's, nurses etc, thought I'd throw it out there if anyone wants a more intimate perspective of the time from those involved.
@@amp279 k
I love how the narrator couches the attack on German cities as a 'counterattack'. At least the old movie 'The battle of Britain' treated this honestly.
Ah yeah. It was. The Germans attacked first and bombed their enemy’s cities first.
@@XxBloggsamerican brainwashed
And where would these 'Airmen' be without the WAAAF - the women who kept them up in the air? Women who were in the WAAAF unti l the end in vital roles, many of whom were NEVER given the Service Pension or benefits or recognition in their lifetime?
Still heroes
20:30 Aaargh ! Why isn't this film rate R++ !?!? You will get a call from the "Christian Taliban of the 21st century" !!!
I know Australia had P38's, would have liked to see them in action instead of outdated Bostons and P40's.
Australia had three P38s in total, used a PR aircraft.
The P 40 was a fine aircraft where used correctly.
@@MarkGoding Yes at low altitude
Waving out the window gold😅