Evidence of the World War Two Blitz You Can Still See in London

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[@JohnSmith-ws1dp]

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

[@infledermaus]

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[@adam_p99]

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.

[@fancyincubus]

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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[@adam_p99]

@@sloht4061 of all of the stupid claims that I’ve read on KZbin, yours is the most ridiculous and pathetic.

[@littlemy1773]

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

[@davidclark3603]

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!

[@johnschofield9496]

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.

[@jesseray9944]

i know berlin was worse they had two army's coming in London only had airstrikes still sad to see though

[@mare2971]

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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[@MagdaleneDivine]

My grandmother's nane was Elsie

[@thkempe]

@@mare2971 As far as I remember, Germany neither declared nor started war on Britain.

[@Brian-om2hh]

My uncle was an air raid warden in London during the Blitz. It was a dangerous job, and he had several close calls. He remembered banging on doors, shouting at residents in one particular street, to get them into shelters asap. One woman came dashing out of her house, but almost immediately turned around and headed for the door to go back in. My uncle asked her what she was doing, to which she replied " I forgot my teeth". My uncle got annoyed at this, and shouted "they're dropping fking bombs you know, not pies"........

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[@bobelliott2748]

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.

[@pault1964]

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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[@mhoward8352]

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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[@tonysutton6559]

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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[@jimherbert007]

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

[@EvinMA]

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[@chanelfitzgerald]

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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[@terrym3837]

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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[@postalsamGAMING]

I used to practice jumping my bike when I was a kid in a hole in the ground left by a V1

[@Cmillzzzz]

I worked on a golf course in Portsmouth and had to cut the grass in holes left by a German bomber losing his load… very surreal

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[@Crusty_Camper]

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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[@huwd2292]

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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[@stevieneilson2451]

Brilliant. Should be shown in schools around the country. 👍🏻👏

[@AbdiPianoChannel]

I'm from Toronto. When I visited London in 2007, I've seen blitz damages in Croydon. It was scary

[@davidostrowski679]

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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[@martinrolf2606]

As a child we used to yearly visit London as a family in the early 1970s. I can clearly remember the the bomb damage that there still was about. In particular the holes in the shop windows where bullutes and shrapnel would have passed through. It made an bulls-eye effect with a hole in the middle. As they amount of buildings that were covered in black from both the war from other burning buildings from the war and other pollution was everywhere.

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[@JohnThomas]

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.

[@Dog.soldier1950]

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

[@jovanweismiller7114]

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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[@sharonplumb4653]

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[@johnklein233]

This is a great video, thanks for making it. You gave me ideas for a couple new WWII related locations to visit on my next trip to London. Now I just need to figure out where I can get that bomb damage map you used

[@MrJest2]

Excellent episode, thanks!! (Although I find the stretcher fence a tad creepy... one can only imagine the ghosts attached to those stretchers... 🙂 )

[@peterward3965]

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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[@irampotter]

The V & A site is not all shrapnel from the bomb that fell over the road by The Natural History Museum, some including the telephone box damage was from a German bombers guns, my Uncle was a young arp warden and was ushering people towards the underground tunnel which runs underneath Exhibition Road when a bomber flew low over South Kensington Station, the gunner fired at the people on the ground and my Uncle panicked and hid in the telephone box which took direct hits, he didn't know why he thought that the telephone box would protect him but he was only sixteen and he just panicked. As a kid in the 1970s we lived just up the road from the V & A and I passed that most days thinking of my Uncle hiding in the telephone box.

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[@isladurrant2015]

My dad, as a boy, was machine gunned by a German plane down Tottenham High Road, someone grabbed his scruff of his neck and oiked him into a shop. Belated thanks to that person and yours... I wouldn't be here if you hadn't been there x PS he used to play with his friends, got called in for dinner and when he went out after found a gap where his friend's house was... if the Nazi fascists had won then I would never been, a dichotomy of Jewish/communist any other ... personally I've been close to the Provos Baltic Exchange bomb, no damage to me, but a child of a driver was robbed of her life. What is the point of war? Nothing for most.

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[@rustystuff]

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.

[@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13]

I'm ENGLISH but I've never heard of Hayling island??

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Lovely video, amazing stories from your expert, love the stretcher story .

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[@hatjodelka]

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.

[@zobo999]

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!

[@hatjodelka]

@@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!

[@GosWardHen98]

Great video. Ive never noticed the damage still left in the open. Those stretchers are hardy piedes of equipment.

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[@scottjoseph9821]

We owe so much to that generation the great nation of people from great Britain thank to them all so we had our today ❤ thank you and respect 🙏

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[@tonybaker55]

That little gem about the stretchers was really fascinating.

[@MrJones208]

Thank you for sharing this history with a Londoner very fascinating 🙂

[@jamesmartin3431]

The unbreakable Brits!!! So proud of my nation!!!!

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[@craigspallin554]

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.

[@gigteevee6118]

Nicely done, some great facts from the TFL archivist.

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[@ianlvt3780]

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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[@philyyz]

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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[@PeterGaunt]

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.

[@junibug6790]

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.

[@jesseray9944]

still cool but little do you know if he wasnt scared youy could have been blown up lmao

[@PeterGaunt]

@@jesseray9944 I should have thought that was quite obvious

[@johnbooth3073]

@@junibug6790 The aGerman was in uniform and had plead allegiance to Adolf Hitler, the civilians in the shelter were civilians. No excuse. !

[@johnbooth3073]

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[@mare2971]

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.

[@getinthevantim]

The tea story followed by the conclusion to camera in front of the stretchers really took this 'hit' to another level. Bravo!

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[@paulbooth1373]

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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[@AsianPanda.]

Thank you for that piece of history, I did not know a lot of those things. But, I think the one that surprised me the most was the stretchers repurposed as railings

[@kiwifruit27]

I didn’t know about the stretchers, fascinating, thanks

[@HJ-br3lt]

Fascinating video mate

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[@janderson6257]

At Lincoln's Inn there is visible damage from a zeppelin raid in 1915.

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[@thevictoryoverhimself7298]

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.

[@janderson6257]

''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'.

[@ClosedGame75]

Honestly ... as a Dane who was, years ago, named an honorary Yorkshirewoman on account of liking the food and getting the humour ... the idea that Londoners seeking shelter from the bombing above in tube-stations complaining about the tea is just heartening. I cannot possibly imagine anything more quintessentially BRITISH than that. "Oh my. A 500 pounder went off in the grocer's across the road, took out the whole block, totaled the living room and ruined granny's washing on the line ... but we'll manage. However, this TEA has an odd colour, Sir. This simply will not do! It is unacceptable and the government must immediately take steps to rectify this dreadful state of affairs. Please see to it that Lord Beaverbrook is informed that resources need to be allocated to research into how to correct this problem." You have to love it.

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[@Hairnicks]

That was really good, but the best bit was the fencing made of stretchers, absolutely brilliant, I do hope they get listed.

[@jesseray9944]

thats a cool sighting to but looking at it is sad knwing thousands died on those strechers

[@Hairnicks]

@@jesseray9944 true Jesse, but equally, how many did they save?

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[@georgiewalker1069]

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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[@BoredOfBills]

Fascinating video but I have to add a few things... Tips for tourists :::: Because he says it so many times let me, as a Londoner, tell you that "Holborn" is pronounced "Hoeburn" the L is silent. Also, the first V2 to land on London was in September 1944 - three years after the Blitz. The worst loss of life on the Tube during the war was actually at Bethnal Green where on the 3rd of March 1943 173 people died.

[@JNDSAN95]

glad you pointed out the "L" point!

[@johnnunn8688]

Is the tobacco, ‘Ode Hoeburn’?

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[@ricklehurst]

Interesting subject matter but spoiled by the inaccuracies, including the mispronounced place names.

[@brianjordan4787]

@@ricklehurst And no mention at all about the East End which bore the brunt of the bombings during the Blitz. What about the docks in West Ham? What about the two V2s that hit one street in Forest Gate? What about the V1 that exploded next to a packed double decker bus in Forest Gate? This guy needs to do his research.

[@caw25sha]

The buildings at what is now Whitfield Gardens in Tottenham Court Road were destroyed by a V2 and never replaced. However the building that is now Costa somehow survived.

[@fraseraitken1837]

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[@keithingram44]

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during my time studying a level history, my tutor told us about an encounter between a german exchange student and a british student who were both in her class. they studied nazi germany, and hence forth - the blitz etc. as students shared family stories the german student spoke about how on a certain day (i cannot remember which) her great grandfather was one of the pilots who bombed liverpool. the british student suddenly became really upset as she told the class that her great grandfather was also a pilot that night - trying to take down the enemy bombers. the girl started, that night was the night her great grandfather passed away in service. ‘mine too’ responded the german girl. my tutor told us that the classroom fell silent as everyone took in what they’d heard. a true moment of peace and unity, the thing that both their grandads never got to see. about 7 years on and i hear that the girls are the closest of friends ❤️

[@Vadoksam]

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[@johnnunn8688]

My mum was fire watching during the Southampton blitz. According to gran, her hair went white overnight. Her dad was on a rooftop, when an incendiary bomb landed, he picked it up to throw it off the roof and it went off. He was burned all over but survived.

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[@brianchristian7293]

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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[@superkalifragilischt]

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.

[@brianlopez8855]

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.

[@ricklehurst]

Did you mean this sarcastically? HIs error-strewn delivery was a constant distraction for me!

[@Cmillzzzz]

Thanks to the team for another brilliant upload! James’ comedy is clearly from the WW2 era as well (a close call…really James) 😉 Being a resident of Portsmouth we still have a lot of visible bomb damage from WW2 so I throughly enjoyed this. Really enjoyed James’ presenting style too

[@LiveDonkeyDeadLion]

You should have a look at the national library of Scotland site for historical maps. You can see aerial photos from just after the war of Portsmouth and the many missing streets, the damage around Elm Grove into Kings Road is something else (and the old maps themselves are interesting as well, I was surprised there were two farms in Milton Park)

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[@john_smith1471]

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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[@12345jonny]

This is what’s happening in Ukraine right now but with newer technology.

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[@julianaylor4351]

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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[@maxruedy951]

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.

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

Bombs released within WWII were considered "lucky" to land within two miles of their target...

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[@tropicalpalmtree]

'You can break our windows, but you'll never break our spirit'

[@jameswburke]

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.

[@chrischaplin8497]

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.

[@Equiluxe1]

The first school I attended back in the mid 1950's (John Keats) was opposite a bomb damaged building which was propped up with large timbers. I remember them pulling it down while I was at school, there was the remains of a large tree which the workmen had dug a trench around the base of and they had attached a thick rope to the tree and tied that to the bolster (ladder rack)of a lorry which they then attempted to drive off, the lorry had a tipper body which promptly got pulled up, the tree still stood and lorry body also stood up as well. The whole thing was so funny to watch that it is permanently etched in my memory.

[@jesseray9944]

gotta proterct are trees hahaha they give great air lol

[@ryanclements1845]

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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[@littlemissy2883]

That was a cracking video

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[@jimthorne304]

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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[@smithy280663]

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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[@katewild2194]

Very interesting

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[@nathanm5594]

Woolwich took a bit of a battering, st georges garrison church at the barracks famously took a direct hit from a v1. The dockyard took a lot of hits as well.

[@MaryBradley-s3s]

Because it was where weapons were made.

[@mikestaihr5183]

My one and only trip outside the US was to the UK.... I was shocked to see places in London still showing signs of the bombing..

[@paulketchupwitheverything767]

I was a kid in the late '60s and my parents still referred to derelict areas in the London suburbs as 'bomb sites'. Specific houses that that had been rebuilt after the war might be pointed out with "That one took a direct hit. They went back inside from the shelter to make a cup of tea before the 'all clear' sounded" or a more modern building would explained as having replaced a previous one that had been "flattened in the Blitz". Within a couple of generations the stories get lost and forgotten and the memorial plaques on walls are removed during refurbishments. It's great that people aren't living with such immediate jeopardy now, yet sobering to think how different and unpredictable things were then.

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[@pwimbledon]

60/70s developers finished the job, 10 times over.

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[@lesliebuck4178]

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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[@ginojaco]

Old Buildings in Lincoln's Inn still shows scars courtesy of Germany...

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[@blotski]

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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[@generalcancel]

Great production / presentation, very engaging.

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[@johnchallener]

My Dad was on HMS Formidable (aircraft carrier) during the war in the Pacific, they had the Kamikazi and plenty of action..but when my dad came home on leave back to London and an air raid took place, he said it was worse than being attacked by the Japanese...he said at least you could see the aircraft attacking the ship..but the Bombs in London could land anywhere

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[@glenriches4779]

The damage to the docks was soo bad that it was used during the filming of full metal jacket as a war torn Vietnamese city decades later.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Docklands was indeed devastated by bombing, but the ‘damage’ visible in that film was nothing to do with WW2, it was Beckton Gasworks during demolition following closure of the Gasworks for redevelopment.

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[@DeimosPC]

My Nana used to tell me a story about her and her big sister walking to the cinema when German plane started to swoop down and strafe the street. They ran into a shop and hid.. Once it was over they came back out and continued to walk to the cinema, stepping over the bodies of the dead. I can't remember whether that was in Hull or Liverpool. I think it was in Hull though.

[@tonysutton6559]

It was probably Hull. There would have been warnings of approaching planes in Liverpool but the Germans could sneak in at low level over the North Sea and launch surprise attacks on the east coast. My friend used to tell me about them attacking Grimsby in that way.

[@dragonofhatefulretribution9041]

Ah yeah because casually continuing your walk to the cinema down a street strewn with bodies of the dead is a perfectly normal thing to do..

[@DeimosPC]

@@dragonofhatefulretribution9041 I mean she was 4 or 5. Hull was continuously strafed and bombed throughout the war. It likely became the norm. Hull was the second most bombed city after London.

[@DeimosPC]

@@tonysutton6559 You’re probably right since Hull was hit so much during the war.

[@jesseray9944]

thats scary thank god im american and the only people who had the balls to attack were the japs but there attack wasnt as bad as uks

[@redstihl9027]

My grandparents lived two streets apart, the row in between them was bombed. Had that bomb have been further to left or right I wouldn't be here to tell the tale....

[@mrs.g.9816]

I read "The City that Would Not Die" by Richard Collier in high school in 1972, and I still have the book. I'm still impressed by the quiet bravery and pluck of the people, rich, middle class and poor, who endured the Blitz, keeping together in spirit in the Underground, fighting the firestorms, helping one another as well as they can, and often using humor.

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[@Yamato-tp2kf]

It's not only London that has scars from WW2, Paris also has scars in his walls but most specifically bullet scars in some buildings near Notre Dame, where is the Paris city prefecture of the police is, the Resistance and the police fought against the German soldiers during the liberation of Paris in August 1944 violent shootings happened in Paris, including nearby the cathedral of Notre Dame

[@johndaarteest]

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.

[@racheltaylor6578]

St Thomas Hospital was hit.You can still see the bomb damage.

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