🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To THE MOST TERRIFYING SOUNDS OF WORLD WAR 2! 

The most fearsome sound is that guy's voice

Keep in mind, all these sounds would sound 30000 million times worse IRL. I always knew that, but you can never truly appreciate how horrifying sirens or whatever are until you're in a life or death situation. I only realized that after an event I'm not keen on delving into right now, but I just wanted to put that out there. Its like your heart stops beating, and your spit gets caught in the back of your throat, and all you can think of is 'why this day?' Its a terrible feeling

The Jericho trumpet was actually meant to help pilots know what their speed is for proper timing, the scaring part was just a bonus.

Such admiration for the British for all they endured during the war. They had to be terrified but maintained such grace and perseverance under such unbearable odds and conditions. Respect.

My mom told me that she use to run and dodge bombs as a teenager in Japan. Just by the sound they knew which way to run . Thank goodness I was born in the states.

Two of my great Uncles survived WWII, and another died. However, our public school system decided last year to stop teaching this portion of history to students. God help us.

Probably the scariest sound that has fucked up my head in Iraq was the siren for incoming mortars and rockets. It sounded just like in the video, followed with a voice over a loud speaker saying, "incoming incoming incoming". If you were close to a bunker you could run in as fast as possible, but if you werent all you could do was drop to the ground and hope you would survive.

The tornado sirens in the U.S. are actually the exact same air raid sirens that were used in Europe. They were purchased in large numbers as surplus. We actually hear them regularly. A lot of times people don't even react as they are tested monthly

I'm a military enthusiast with my familiarity in the Navy. I read the title of the video & thought immediately about the dive-bombing from WWII Pacific Theater.

My Dido (grandpa) on my dad’s side fought at Utah Beach in Normandy on D-Day. He told my dad that Saving Private Ryan was extremely accurate to what he experienced. He earned a Purple Heart and many other medals, and was a guard during the Nuremberg trials. I wish he could’ve lived longer to tell me more stories since he died when I was only eight, but he lived with my parents and I for 5 years until then. Thankfully he’d told my dad countless stories and saved literally everything from his time overseas (maps, rosters, his helmet, pics, etc) and even told me a few stories. I know from my dad that being over in Europe and being a first generation Slovak-American was extremely difficult for him, but he hid it well. My grandpa on my mom’s side also fought, but on the Pacific side. I only know a bit because from what I do know and considering his personality... I’d rather not know more. On one visit I wanted to show him this cool new show I was watching, and after putting the VHS (I’m old) in it was clear he was not gonna be a fan of Inuyasha... 😐

As a combat vet. As for bombing and artillery. Surprisingly you can get use to it. "If it's my time, it's my time" The most terrifying sound in combat isn't bombs or bullets. It's hearing the call "FIX BAYONETS". No matter which side you're on. You know it's dying time. It's going to be face to face and hand to hand. It's going to look an smell like a slaughterhouse.

My dad was in the Pacific during World War 2. On his 20th birthday, he was shot 3 times in the chest and once in the shoulder on Luzon, and was left for dead initially. He never talked too much about it except to say that it was unimaginable horror. He did say that the sound of shells coming in at night was terrifying. We lived near one of the largest military bases in the world, and sometimes at night he said the booming sounds from there took him right back. When Saving Private Ryan first came on TV, my sister wanted him to see it. He watched for maybe 5 minutes, and said he couldn't take it, that it was too real. He said you could not imagine what it was like trying to get to the beach. Because of him, I prefer The Pacific to Band of Brothers, but he would never watch either one.

In the 60's every Wednesday they would test the air raid siren at noon to make sure that the alert system was still working. It made everyone stop and stare out the window until the siren was finished after one minute. Especially after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then it became more significant.

I can remember listening to the live radio broadcast from Baghdad, the first night of the allied bombings in 1990 - the wail of the air raid sirens in the background were chilling.

Here in the States, the air raid sirens that were set up during the War and immediately following curing the Cold War are indeed the ones you hear in the tornado videos. Same warning; take cover, different 'attacker'.

Band of brothers did a fantastic job in putting you in the scenes and making you feel for each character. I remember in school hearing of the Shell shock that many experienced. Unreal sounds.

Can you imagine the sound of a large air raid approaching, the throb, almost more felt than heard of hundreds, even thousands of aircraft engines? Sounds that you never forget.... When I was in elementary school - during Vietnam, I lived not far from Camp Pendleton - a large Marine Base in California. Oftentimes we would hear the sound in the distance of the 105mm Howitzers practicing, but one sunny day at school we could hear a rumble - like distant thunder...and we were confused, because there just weren't any clouds. Our science teacher explained to us, that it was the Battleship New Jersey - conducting gunnery practice at San Clemente Island. San Clemente Island was 75 miles away from where we stood.

For anyone feeling a bit of fear from this, find a recording of a Merlin engine. The engine that powered the spitfires. That sound was a source of comfort/hope at the time. Lest we forget!

The British public said the sound of the V-1 didn't scare them. It was when the sound stopped that they got scared. All the trucks that you saw those rocket launchers on were lend-lease Chryslers from Detroit. The MG-42 training film had them cutting a living tree thick as a fat man completely in twain.

The one thing missing from this is the 16 inch guns of a Battleship. Many German soldiers from Normandy spoke of the the battleship barrages as the moment they new they might not hold up against the invasion. Same with the Japanese on Okinawa and Peleliu and also Iwo Jima. Great reaction in any case!

14:12 While probably not anywhere near as loud as it would have been then, the siren reminds me of the siren we have at our local fire station where I live here in New Zealand. It's a volunteer fire station so when a call comes through, it goes off to alert the volunteer firefighters. On a quite morning, I can hear it from my house, 20 kilometers away.

Literally finished rewatching Band of Brothers an hour ago 🤯

My grandfather and 6 of his 7 brothers fought in WW2. That truly was the greatest generation. I doubt any since would have been able to fight and survive under such circumstances.

13:30 you asked an extremely complicated question and it's a controversial issue to address. WWII was a situation where the major powers implemented total war meaning nearly every aspect of society was geared towards the war machine. At what point does a society have culpability for continuing a war machine that kills millions of people in places like Russia and China? In that war, economics became the deciding factor and destroying industrial capacity was needed to eventually stop the German and Japanese war machines. I don't see many scenarios in WWII where civilian casualties could have been avoided especially if they were building the machines of war.

The air raid siren is in War Pigs, hell of a song

Speaking of creepy sirens if you haven't heard the tornado siren that the city of Chicago uses it is completely different than what most people think of as a tornado siren. There are some short videos of it going off and it is one of the most ominous sirens out there made even creepier as it echoes through the city. It is designed to not do a repeating pattern so your ear won't get used to it and start to ignore it.

Those tanks had the 88mm anti-aircraft gun installed. They could take down an aircraft flying at 25000 feet (7620m). The Germans actually built a tank that could withstand the 88mm, it was so heavy the drivers were told put someone on their back and jump on one leg, if it held you up the tank was good. 79 ton war load out.

War is terrifying, enemies do everything to terrorise eachother and the Nazis were damn good in that case to create these things. They tried to destroy almost everything, humans, cities, landscapes whatever they found useless in their minds. The MG42 was so good, it's still working very well and it's easy to handle. Thank god that at the end they had not enough material and supplies to create more of these horrible things. Other weapons which luckily came far to late were the V2 rocket, the Horton H IX fighter plane, the Messerschmitt ME 163 Komet. The V2 was early enough to attack England, Brussel or Antwerp.

Only putting this here because it was your last upload.... there's a great hockey terminology video that came out today on youtube. His channel is called The Hockey Guy... and it's his latest video, Hockey terminology for new fans .... kinda long but it's great for new fans. Hope you get a chance to see it. Keep up the great work

The first time I heard a tornado siren, I almost wet myself. My poor uncle who was in WW2 used to come and visit us, and every day at noon, our little town would fire up the siren, indicating it was 12 o'clock. When that siren went off he would leap out of his chair and run outside. This was in the 70's, 30 years after the war. What did that poor man go through ?

6:05 Infantry versions were usually 1200 to 800, which can be changed via a BCG (Bolt Carrier Group) swap. 1500 was the Anti Aircraft version...

Here’s a fun fact for you: the MG42 was so good, it’s still being used today. The German MG3 is literally just an MG42 converted to the 7.62 NATO cartridge.

Have a tornado siren right behind my house, they test is every first tuesday of the month. When I was younger we used to shoot my PVC, hairspray propelled potato gun at it all the time, never shut it up!

Everton uses an air raid siren at Goodison now before the traditional Z-Cars

I don't know how widespread the tradition is around the world, but every day at noon the fire department blows the noon whistle. In the small farming town where I went to school the fire department had an air raid siren. As kids we had no idea but the sound must have been frightening to some.

That air raid sirens sound happens once a month in my town in the US as a flood warning test.

Nowadays...the sirens we hear are either mother nature related, a false alarm, or nuclear war. Let's just hope no one is mad enough to start a nuclear war.

Your lips to God's ears, may we never experience this again. War is brutal, those that "survive" it, live with it the rest of their days. Every military man in my family told me that.

Seriously, that guy's voice! He could be talking about baking cookies, and make it sound ominous. ...Imagine the blood curdling screams of your children, if you dare not remember these dark, dark chocolate chips!

When Flying Stuka Take Off That Horn Immediately it Drove Pilots Insane From The Noise

As one of the first users of total warfare said: war is hell. As much as the bombing of London is villified, the allies committed the worst civilian bombings in the firebombing of Tokyo, the bombing of Dresden, and the atomic bombs. Each one of those made the London blitz look like a snowball fight.

It makes sense to me now why a lot of the writers and directors i know wrote movies based on their experience during ww2 would be so focused on how everything sounded. Sometimes a sound is all you need to know how certain death is around the next bend...

I love band of brothers own the hard case series watched it couple months back after few years of not seeing it

The last one just reminded me of Night Witches by Sabaton

One of the many reason I believe those that fought and lived during WW2 are the greatest generation. The living hell Europe and Asia went threw is something I don’t believe my generation could could handle.

Keep in mind that the direct targeting of civilians by air was perfected by the Allies. Dresden and Tokyo were deliberately burned to the ground. Probably deserved but nonetheless horrifying.

Hence, The Greatest Generation.

Airborne's "live it up" uses a Stuka soundtrack to good effect.

All throughout our childhood of the 1950s through the 1970s, they would sound those sirens every Monday at 2:00pm to test the air raid sirens that would warn us of impending nuclear attack. We had regular air raid drills in school, and you had to know how to identify air raid shelters and where they were near you. If you were in school, you would line up along the walls of the hallways with your head on your knees. I later learned that this was not to protect us, but to make it easier to locate, account for and collect the bodies.

There are modern equivalents that are equal to a lot of these - check out A10 Warthog sound

The London Blitz was bad enough, though surprised the bombing of Dresden didn't take "Most Infamous," no disrespect to either side of the coin.

The first thing I expected was that siren

When I was in the middle East, the most frightening noise for me was the Sound of Silence. It is that silence that prevails any ambush. That is frightening.

My mom was a young child when WW2 started in England. She was evacuated to the countryside in England. My grandfather fought in the war in France. He came home alive. My grandfather and grandmother ended up with 6 children. Mom was # 2 of 6. She was born in 1930. She joined the British Army when she was16 or 17. Met my dad who was an American soldier when she was 19. She was a nurse. Met my dad on a blind date, she didn't like him at first. They dated a while until he wanted to meet my grandparents. He brought them all kinds of things that England couldn't get like chocolate, alcohol, cigarettes, stockings and other things. My grandfather was amazed at what the Yanks could get and just loved my dad for his generosity. Mom and dad married in 1950 in California. They were married 16 years until he had a heart attack in 1966. Mom was only 36 when he died, he was 52. She was 16 years younger than him.

1:80 You are absolutely right. Imagine the Germans having to hunker down because the US (& I think British) were starting to use proximity fuses on their shells. It didn't even have to hit your foxhole. It would just explodes some meters above it. It must have been horrible on both sides. 3:20 (coughing 1000 lb warhead. The V2 was the one with a one ton warhead) 3:35 It was pretty short range for the time. The range of fighters would be 500 to 750 miles by comparison. But it was unmanned. The guidance would have probably been too far off much beyond that. So they didn't bother to make it any further on range. 12:10 Decimate? LOL!! Decimate means one tenth would be destroyed. I can guarantee you an enemy tank would be more than a 1/10th damaged against a Tiger/Panther. They are right though, there weren't many of them. 13:28 It was pretty much reality of war back then. The Axis & Allies started the war by trying to hit only factories & military targets. The US tried precision by daylight bombing but with little to show for it. The British were bombing at night to spare their air crews being shot down so much. Both made horrible attacks that killed a lot of civilians. Latter stage of the war they were both making 'rubble jump around'.

Where I live we still use the British ww2 siren in the dockyards

In my opinion, the most terrifying sounds of WWII are sirens and metronome from Siege of Leningrad. That's what really creeps me out every time I hear it. Three of my great-grandfathers were on Eastern front. One of them was pilot(he lived through whole war), another one was medic(he died in 1942 because of tuberculosis) and third one was partisan-journalist(taken prisoner by Germans but later escaped from concentration camp, lived through whole war). All of Russians have this kind of story in their families.

The most fearsome sound that I have ever heard was a recording of the firestorm when Dresden, Germany was bombed.

It all made the Sticky Bombs of WWI look downright comical!

They did make a training video for the MG42 but as far as ive known and seen it was more so they could ID the gun via the sound and know how to plan movements AROUND the gun (by identifying the sound the distance and the reload times and all that) as opposed to get them psyched up per say for it.

Lord Has Haw's voice is pretty threatening. Operation Neptune 's bombardments would have sounded all powerful to Jerry.and Jack Tar alike.

Planet sounds next. Pretty creepy

Same here siren sound is so terrifying😨😨

Try Dark 5 as he covers things that are unexplained and or creepy in a good way.

Definitely terrifying! 😔

Re: The MG42 at 1500rds/min. Todays modern machine guns fire between 600-800rds/min.

Want to hear a cool sound, not used in War? Check out the sound of a Titan II rocket's Starter Cartridge, spinning up the turbine to mix the rocket's fuel to start ignition!

The mg42 shot 25 rounds per second 25X60=1500

This one was pretty disturbing.

And the MG 42 is adapted to Nato call 7.69 still in Service as MG3

Soviet rocket launcher was the catalyst for generations of techno fans lol

The sound of the MG42 wasn't nearly fast enough.

Yeah the whole thing creeped me out. His voice alone was creepy. Those Russian Katyusha rockets were terrifying. Actually it was all terrifying. I don’t know how our soldiers and allies faced that. It’s the stuff of nightmares and actually felt like it could be just as effective today - like scenes from WWIII. May it never happen. I remember those Panzer and Tiger tanks the Germans had in the movie Saving Private Ryan. So fricking scary and you should have heard them in the theaters. So loud. My brother was in the 82nd Airborne and lost hearing being around tanks. Ground shakes too. Good reaction Kabir. I don’t know how your countrymen survived all that in WWII. God bless them and you too.

Ich Liebe denn STUKA und MG 42 Sound

U should watch Jeremy clarkson the Victoria cross and the greatest raid of all.. I know he questionable funny stuff this is really serious and very respectful

We Germans got some badass and scary things bro 🇩🇪💀🗿

Scariest sounds ever bro😮

You have said you live in London, which I realize is rather big. But is there still any areas that show what happened to London in ww2?

3:40 not too impressive given the weight/range. Just get a Spitfire beside her and nudge it into the ground lol.

Can you react pls to the biggest Nazi weapon, the Schwerer Gustav

Star Wars Katyusha.

The air raid siren honestly sounds like an Omen of Death...it´s sound is horrific and eerie....it scares me down to my very core.

As for shelling. I would have to say WWI had it worst.

Oh if we only had the A-10 back then.

Did this video just say the tiger and panther were reliable? The late model Panthers were pretty good but a nightmare to work on from what I have read but the early panther and all the tigers broke down all the time and again were a giant pain in the ass to repair. Also there were some late war allied tanks that could go toe to toe with them no problem and outclassed them in many ways. Rest of the video is great but that line was pure horseshit.

You should watch "the Fallen of World War II"

I say it was the American voice on the other side of the radio

Scariest sounds of WW2: Third Reich: Yes

February 13th, 1945 is a day of infamy for the Allied Forces, when Dresden was bombed, destroying a city packed with refugees. The truth about the number of civilians killed in this air raid will remain unrevealed, as it would turn the German people into victims of a ruthless war machinery aimed to commit genocide. According to a Swiss historian, over 250,000 people were killed, that´s more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki together!. Fact is, that over 500,000 people werde reported missing following the raid. Just on a side note - it wasn´t Germany who started the bombing of cities - it was britain with an Air raid on the city of Mönchen Gladbach October 1939. The raid was menat to be the test for terror bombing.

War,,what good does it do,,we can use all teh money used for wars to eliminate hunger poverty and sickness

I like you more and more every video buddy.

dam your voice is so good (no homo)

Let’s face it, the Germans are second to none when it comes to military innovation and engineering. There’s everyone is fearful of them being allowed to have a full army. Imagine being Germany and having to fight both the Soviet Union on the eastern front and the allies globally. They made the fatal error of invading Russia in the Winter, if they hadn’t had made this error, they may have won the war. The nazis were ruthless, but we can all hypothesise about what would have happened if they won, maybe humans would have been selectively bred for desirable genetics and there would have been super-humans and maybe we would have been travelling the stars by now.

Stalin's organ was a double entrendre: Sounding like an organ, and meaning a certain part of a man's anatomy (in other words, you're F'ed).

German rockets....now react to how NASA was created and the us 🇺🇸 went to the moon.....connecting the dots.

🥰💖💖💖🇺🇸✨

Katyushas... They call them Stalin's organ. No a musical organ, idiot! - Random Soviet Soldier

The German engineering, Rockets and stuff 🗿

To be honest this is easy crap

The history is repeating.