What Life Was Like During The War | History Of Britain | Absolute History

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  @RickityKricks · 5 years ago

  Babs just talking about traumatic moments like they were just ordinary  experiences. That's grit.

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• NA

  @naluzoniro · 5 years ago

  Oh, I've got an even lovelier story about love transcending war ! I'm french, and one of my great-uncles was sent to Germany for obligatory work service (replacing the soldiers by working in farms and factories). Except he was sent to a farm where the german owners were super friendly, and treated him like a son (their own son, I think, had been killed in battle and was around the same age). He ended up marrying their daughter <3

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• HE

  @healinggrounds19 · 5 years ago

  I can't imagine today's people adapting to the wartime restrictions.  They would die protesting in the streets.

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• SA

  @samplerstitcher · 5 years ago

  My mum and her family were bombed out of three houses. On one of those occasions they were running to the shelter in the back yard, mums sister Elsie was carrying the baby of the family, when the bomb hit it blew her off her feet and down into the shelter. She suffered from bad nerves the rest of her life, as did my mum. My mum and grandad used to be wardens, they went round after the bombing and helped people. Grandad pulled a little boy out who was upside down in a trash can. He had no head. My mum joined the Brit army shortly after that, her job was cleaning out the tanks after they came back from the front. You can just imagine what that was like. One of the lids was not properly latched back and it fell crushing her thumb. My dad (a Canadian) was in Italy and Sicily and was wounded twice. He was a sniper. He was not the same man when he came home according to his friends. He would not talk about it at all. The nightmares kind of told the story though.<br><br>I know this is meant to be presented in a light kind of way, but trust me, there was not much &apos;fun&apos; going on in real life. Bless every vet that has been through a war...

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• MA

  @mastrofnone8025 · 5 years ago

  I salute the Brits. They stuck it out with dignity

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• AL

  @AllDayBikes · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGetheMFbts&amp;t=379">6:19</a> You can see her remembering her father in her eyes right after she mentions him. Nice.

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• NS

  @Nstone53 · 5 years ago

  I like to tease my father-in-law and ask him how many kids over seas he has. Really sweet gentle man, very calm demeanor and when hes mad he just talks sternly. Never yells. His wife likes to point out how much of a ladies man he was in his youth. He was a navy man from age 16- to 35 almost 20 years. Got married and had kids in his 40&apos;s.

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• N7

  @n7565j · 5 years ago

  I had 2 great uncles that flew B-17&apos;s out of the UK into Germany, (also had another that commanded artillery during the Battle of the Bulge, he also had some amazing stories!!!), the 1st was shot down on his 1st mission, but the 2nd finished his tour unscathed, (physically, not mentally). Uncle Gene once stated that the English were not happy the American&apos;s had &quot;invaded&quot; their country, but on one occasion he had been relieved of flying duty due to a cold and inner ear infection, he was in town doing some shopping while the crews were taking off headed for Germany he overheard a senior lady say, &quot;There go OUR boys...&quot;!!! He said at that point, he finally felt accepted by the locals and that he actually teared up... He also said that he felt responsible for his cousins death as Charles had stopped off to see him on his way to his base and his a/c had engine troubles causing him to miss his first mission, and that had he not stopped, he wouldn&apos;t have been on the mission that ultimately cost him his life... On a side note, my family and I went on a once in a lifetime trip to the UK in 2017, we went on a tour of St Paul&apos;s Cathedral, the back of the Cathedral was bombed by the German&apos;s and when it was rebuilt, it was dedicated to the US aviators that gave their lives in defense of their country. The gentleman who was conducting the tour asked if any of us had relatives who lost their lives in the air during WWII, I was the only one who raised their hand, the elderly gentleman snapped to attention and asked me to come up and view the book that contained the names of those brave men, (it&apos;s under glass), and told me on the way out we would look through the 2nd book they had on the side to see if we could find his name. Well, we did, and we did find his name and he even allowed me to photograph his name so I could send it to my mother, (she is Charles&apos;s first cousin and remembered him headed off to war). You aren&apos;t allowed to take photos in the Cathedral, so he asked those of us in the tour to gather around so I could take the pictures for mom. When I got back to our room, I sent mom the pictures and called to see what she thought, she was crying saying, &quot;they didn&apos;t forget, they didn&apos;t forget&quot;... Hearing her say that made the whole trip worth while!!! Excellent program, thank you :-)

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• GU

  @guernseydonkey17 · 5 years ago

  Thank you so much for covering the invasion of the Channel Islands, so many war documentaries don&apos;t which I think is wrong because we are British

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• HI

  @hieithefox · 5 years ago

  It’s so crazy that so many were killed not by a bomb or building collapse but by crushing each other because of slippery stairs

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• RE

  @resnonverba137 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGetheMFbts&amp;t=128">2:08</a> How very elegant the lady was despite her situation.

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• A_

  @A_Salty_Fishe · 5 years ago

  &quot;I&apos;m meeting Alex Jones&quot; nearly had me spitting me tea out!

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