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AMERICANS REACT AND LEARN ABOUT THE BLITZ

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AFTER VISITING LONDON WE FOUND THAT AT A LOT OF THE TOP OF THE WAY IT STOOD TODAY WAS ALL AFFECTED BY TWO THINGS, THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON & THE BLITZ. WHAT WAS THE BLITZ , A RECENT AND A TOP 10 UK HISTORICAL EVENT THAT AFFECTED EVERYONE ON BRITAIN'S TINY ISLAND, FROM THE BOMBING OF LONDON ALL THE WAY UP TP THE BOMBING OF GLASGOW, WE TAKE A LOOK AT BRITAIN'S PART IN WW2 HISTORY. FROM THE LONDON TUBE TO THE STREETS YOU WALK ON THIS IS SOMETHING EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW BEFORE VISITING THE UK.
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@MariTeabag-lf1ly 2 years ago

WE DIDN’T RUN AWAY
We were at war. Thousands volunteered, then went through conscription. Children were evacuated, women joined the forces, worked in the fields and munitions factories. Everything was saved and recycled.
We built air raid shelters in our gardens.

We didn’t run away to another country.

People too old to fight became air raid wardens, police men, home guard, firemen etc. Women drove the ambulances and provided tea and sandwiches.
They trained to be nurses and left home for the first time.
We dug up our gardens and parks to grow food. We had our food rationed.

We didn’t run away. We fought for our country.

We learnt how to keep pigs and chickens. Delivered milk to towns.
We lived in the blackout for years, went to work in the dark.
We were bombed relentlessly week after week.
Many worked deep in the mines and in the fields.

but we didn’t run away.

Our men were slaughtered, our women and children were slaughtered,
our ships were sunk, our cities decimated, our aeroplanes shot down,
In every town and village, there was someone who died.
We did this for 6 years

. . .and still we didn’t run away.

@le6360 2 years ago

What annoys uk and other Europeans, is when Americans say “we won the war for you!”. Our relatives fought and the Americans turned up at the end of the war when pearl harbour happened. And it’s like coming at the end of the party and making it all about you. Yea America helped. But saying they won the war is so untrue and laughable. It makes a mockery of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who fought.

@alananderson5731 2 years ago

We have a problem in the UK we don't know how to give up,thousand years of history makes you like this.

@Leenix18 2 years ago

The respect you show as Americans is truly admirable. As a Brit it’s rare to see such a humble couple not turn to the old ‘you’d be speaking German if it weren’t for us!’ The British resilience you speak of is ‘Keep Calm And Carry On.’ Something we still do to this day.

@junecooke1325 2 years ago (edited)

Hi, I was one of those kids living in the centre of London Westminster England. I was born 1935. The night bombing was terrifying. The Brits even in the face of the enemy will fight back, and not show any weakness to our enemy. The women were so amazingly strong, encouraging every child to get on with life and be cheerful. They never stood for moaning and complaining. The only time I saw my mother cry, was when she found out my brother Freddie age 19 was shot dead in Germany on the 23rd of April 1945. That generation were a special breed. And so were the Americans who fought with us.

@JohnCraig-y6f 2 years ago

I know that some US citizens have no idea of how hard the UK fought during WWII. I once had a US tourist say to me " You should be grateful to us because if it wasn't for us you would all be speaking German" Yeah... Right!

@keithcurrie6392 2 years ago

We British are tolerant and kind ,but if you poke the lion you will find a much different British people, we are resilient and we are really scary when riled,

@piers995 2 years ago (edited)

My mother was a young nurse during the war. During one air raid many people were crushed to death or suffocated when a crowd was rushing down the stairs to get to the safety of the subway. After that she refused to go down there. She told me once that after a shift she finished work in the middle of a bombing raid. Rather than go down into a shelter she decided to cycle home, but she found bombs landing either side of the road she was cycling along and thought she was going to die. She put her head down and cycled like mad homeward and lived to tell me about it. Whenever we visited London, years later in the 70s and 80s, she really did not like going on the tube. Your video has reminded me what a brave woman she was.

@adrianboardman162 2 years ago

The Battle of Bamber Bridge is a short, but interesting part of history. US military tried to dictate to OUR pubs to have segregated pubs. And in true English fashion, we obliged. By having signs on the doors saying 'Black Troops Only'. That went down like a lead balloon.

@ingobordewick 2 years ago

Greets from Germany! My grandfather was forced to fight for a dictatorship he didn't agreed with. He was one of the few that survived the battle of Stalingrad and one of the even fewer who came back from russian imprisonment. I only remember him as a broken man who woke up screaming nearly every night. I have seen pictures of him as a proud young man, before the war. But I can't get these two personalities together as one person. I can't even imagine what he has gone through. He never talked about it, at least not with me.

@Dogsbody6162 2 years ago (edited)

An American name that deserves recognition is Gil Winant. He was a former Governor of New Hampshire and was then appointed by Roosevelt as the US Ambassador in London when Joe Kennedy bailed out because he believed that Britain couldn’t survive the Nazi onslaught. Gil was a real hands-on guy and was out on the streets, night after night, assisting Londoners during The Blitz. When he re-visited London a few years after the war he was recognized and greeted by Londoners. Gil unfortunately ended up committing suicide because of the traumas he had endured. I’m a Brit but I recognize him as a true hero.

‘Citizens of London’ is a very good book if you are interested in this history. It focuses on ‘Americans who stood with Britain in its darkest, finest hour’. It documents how Gil Winant, Ed Murrow and Averell Harriman worked tirelessly with Churchill to bring America into the war.

@grahamwarford5452 4 months ago

Brits never quit. Bring it....💪

@rawschri 2 years ago (edited)

One of the Theatres in London was hosting a variety show ( Comedians, Dancers, Clowns, Singers etc ) in 1940. A comedian was halfway through his act, when the audience were sent to the shelters following an air-raid warning ! It suffered a direct hit and was not rebuilt until 1947. The owners thought it would be great publicity to ask the comedian who was performing to host the Grand re-opening .... he walked on-stage to a packed theatre, and when the applause died down, uttered the immortal line, " Now as I was saying, before I was so rudely interrupted " .... He brought the house down !!

@sarahbob8401 2 years ago

We British are grateful to anyone who fought during the war we have our freedom because of their bravery.

@paulgibson490 2 years ago

Much of the western world seems to forget that when the Germans came we didn't give up and fought on with the help of our empire. BRITAIN held out until the USA came into the war after pearl harbour and Germany declaring war on America, Britain footed the bill and we didn't repay all our debts to the USA until the after the year 2000. Now this has been forgotten.

@immoralreplicant1332 2 years ago

My mother was in Coventry the night the Luftwaffe flattened it. She remembers watching what she,at the time, called " the fireworks " through a gap between the top of the door & the roof of the back garden shelter. She cried because her parents wouldn't let her go outside to see them properly (!) She was 3 years old. Walking around town a couple of days later, everything she remembered was just...gone. She asked my grandma what happened & she said " this is what the fireworks did "
When I was a kid I used to wonder why when we went to firework displays, it was always only my Dad who took us. She would never come. I was in my twenties before she told me. She would even turn off the TV if it showed anything with fireworks going off.
Weirdly though, she never had a problem with films or TV that showed actual explosions, real or fictional. She was quite happy to sit through war films & the like. It was just fireworks. Somehow that connection in her head has never left her. She's 87 now & still puts loud music on to drown out fireworks in November or on new year's eve.

@barrysteven5964 2 years ago (edited)

I heard an American living in the UK say once that she felt that from the NHS to mini-roundabouts there was more of communal feeling here and more of a sense we need to co-operate, work together and look out for each other. My parents' generation always put it down to the blitz spirit. Not only London was bombed by the way. I don't know about that. Maybe the "British communal spirit" came first and resulted in the blitz spirit. Chicken or egg.
But Americans do well to tread carefully when talking about the war. We are, as a nation, deeply grateful for the sacrifices of young American lives as the D-Day landings commemorations reminded us. However, when you tell us how grateful we should be, we feel forced to remind you that we had been in the thick of the war for over two years before the USA joined in after Pearl Harbor. America rescued us because it knew if we fell they would be next. It was in their own interest. Which is right, fine and understandable. But be honest about it.

@animalian01 2 years ago (edited)

My maternal grandfather was a firefighter in London during the Blitz, and throughout the war, they were as much heroes as any soldier,sailor, or airman

@michaelstamper5604 2 years ago

There's a lovely story I heard about a young RAF pilot who was on leave in London during the Blitz. He was enjoying a quiet drink with friends when a bomb dropped nearby and blew the doors and windows out. When everyone picked themselves up again, his glass shattered as soon as he touched it. The barman, very calmly and quietly, just said "I do apologise about the glass, Sir. Have one on the house."
That's us British. No smart mouthed foreign dictator is going to get any kind of grip on us. Then or now.

@catherinemccullough299 2 years ago (edited)

I was born in 1944, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. I remember as a child playing on the blitz sites. Belfast was a shipbuilding and aircraft centre, and therefore a target for the bombs. My father wanted to join the army but was classed as an essential worker, because he worked in Short and Harland aircraft factory. Thirty years later we were plunged into a terrorisr war, more bomb sites, but that’s another story.