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American Couple Reacts: British Invention: Earthquake Bomb! BIGGEST Non-Nuclear Bomb Used By The RAF In WW2! FIRST TIME REACTION! We have NEVER heard of this bomb before! This thing was a BEAST! The way it was built and the science behind it is truly fascinating! The Royal Air Force is absolutely FEARLESS & super impressive. This part of WWll felt like we were watching an intense movie when they were using the bomb for the first time! Deep respect to this British invention and as always, Thank you to ALL active duty & Veteran servicemen and woman watching. Please join us after the reaction for a special P.O. Box gift from an ex-RAF soldier. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow 5 месяцев назад
We have NEVER heard of this bomb before! This thing was a BEAST! The way it was built and the science behind it is truly fascinating! The Royal Air Force is absolutely FEARLESS & super impressive. This part of WWll felt like we were watching an intense movie when they were using the bomb for the first time! Deep respect to this British invention and as always, Thank you to ALL active duty & Veteran servicemen and woman watching. Please join us after the reaction for a special P.O. Box gift from an ex-RAF soldier. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!
@jessgunn6639
@jessgunn6639 5 месяцев назад
the movie "the dambusters" is based on the bouncing bomb
@scottosborne2915
@scottosborne2915 5 месяцев назад
you should take a look at the dam busters it only had a few seconds mention in this video you may find it more interesting
@planekrazy1795
@planekrazy1795 5 месяцев назад
If you think the Viaduct raid was intense you really should check out the 617 Squadron operations to sink the Battleship Tirpitz it took incredible planning and flying. It took more than one go at it.
@MrHws5mp
@MrHws5mp 5 месяцев назад
Judging by your faces when he mentioned the Bouncing Bomb, you haven't heard of that either. If so, you really, REALLY need to check it out. It's a story so wild that it actually WAS made into a movie: The Dam Busters (1955). The Bouncing bomb and the Dambusters raid have become parts of the British cultural landscape, to the point where adverts and comedy shows can reference it without explanation and people just "get it".
@brucewilliams4152
@brucewilliams4152 5 месяцев назад
You can cost a Lancaster at East Kirkby Lincolnshire even ride under for a ground run. The 22000 grand slam were carried by the 617 squadron, known as the dambusters. On May 17 1943, 617 attacked German same with bouncing bombs
@janehenry3206
@janehenry3206 5 месяцев назад
Barnes Wallace was a genius, he should forever be remembered as a national hero. I love watching the Dambusters, never gets old.
@patrickporter6536
@patrickporter6536 5 месяцев назад
Dam
@Volcano-Man
@Volcano-Man 5 месяцев назад
I have never seen the 'Damn Busters' but I have read the book by Paul Brickhill called 'The DAM Busters,' and seen the film 'The DAM Busters!'
@janehenry3206
@janehenry3206 5 месяцев назад
Yeh sorry, usually pretty good st English. My daughter studied at Oxford.
@brigiddinsmore
@brigiddinsmore 4 месяца назад
I went to Germany to stay with my cousin and was taken to the area of the " bouncing bomb ".
@Jay-Leigh
@Jay-Leigh 3 месяца назад
@janehenry… “Wallis” 😊
@dukeemzworth3005
@dukeemzworth3005 5 месяцев назад
Marshal of the RAF Sir Arthur Harris, Chief of Bomber Command : "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. They have sown the wind, and so they shall reap the whirlwind."
@KevinStansfield
@KevinStansfield 5 месяцев назад
Very philosophical statement to make
@memkiii
@memkiii 5 месяцев назад
@@KevinStansfield It is paraphrasing the Bible.
@bobblehat6603
@bobblehat6603 5 месяцев назад
@@memkiii Indeed. Hosea 8, Verse 7.
@randomnutcase8926
@randomnutcase8926 5 месяцев назад
Do you mean air chief marshal? pretty sure Marshal of the RAF is the monarch.
@jackthelad5366
@jackthelad5366 5 месяцев назад
Marshal of the RAF is a serving officer not the monarch
@tobytaylor2154
@tobytaylor2154 5 месяцев назад
Your face when he mentioned he designed a bouncing bomb, you should check out the dambusters raid by 617 squadron. Skimming the bomb like a pebble across water, it's a legendary mission from ww2
@mattsmith5421
@mattsmith5421 5 месяцев назад
They're iconic
@HORNET6
@HORNET6 5 месяцев назад
It was actually a mine, a bouncing mine. Brilliant lateral think by Barnes Wallis.
@tobytaylor2154
@tobytaylor2154 5 месяцев назад
@@HORNET6 yes, thank you for your input, but everyone who isn't into this kinda thing knows it as the bouncing bomb. But I don't want to go into too much detail otherwise I'll be waffling on about highball etc. ✌️
@scottlewisparsons9551
@scottlewisparsons9551 5 месяцев назад
You beat me to it! Well done.
@bluesilvahalo3576
@bluesilvahalo3576 5 месяцев назад
Definitely the story of how the bouncing bomb came to be and how it was used is fascinating
@orwellboy1958
@orwellboy1958 5 месяцев назад
If anyone is interested, there's a brand new Mosquito being built in the U.K. it's being funded by soley by donations, it's called the people's Mosquito.
@markpitts5194
@markpitts5194 5 месяцев назад
Put a link in matey!
@baylessnow
@baylessnow 5 месяцев назад
Here's one... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4hz8bWjfgK0.htmlsi=yK-j_ojI984-xJcj The blueprints for the mozzy were found in an old filing cabinate at the Airbus factory in North Wales when an office was being cleared out! They were almost sent to the local tip! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9bT5dksmcHE.htmlsi=Kt-FEGux0T97F7Kl
@harryjohnson9215
@harryjohnson9215 5 месяцев назад
Amazing plane fast, good range, good Armament(on the FB version) and has 4,000 pond payload (same as the standard load as the B17)
@kevinfoster926
@kevinfoster926 5 месяцев назад
Link please.
@KathrynLiz1
@KathrynLiz1 5 месяцев назад
Cool... there's guy in New Zealand that builds them too... I have seen them fly here in NZ.
@richarddickson747
@richarddickson747 5 месяцев назад
Both of you wonderful women are NOT warmongers but you respect the military. There is a famous motto that translates as IF YOU DESIRE PEACE THEN YOU MUST PREPARE FOR WAR. This is why the military keeps intensive training just in case war ever breaks out. They train constantly and many sadly die in training exercises to be ready at all times for a war that they deeply wish will never happen. They are the true heroes that keep us safe.
@rayjennings3637
@rayjennings3637 5 месяцев назад
I knew two men who were killed on exercise in W Germany in 1969.
@trespire
@trespire 5 месяцев назад
Second that. Effective deterance is how wars are prevented.
@rayjennings3637
@rayjennings3637 5 месяцев назад
@@trespire I 'liked' your reply but would add one word - 'Demonstrably' effective ...
@trespire
@trespire 5 месяцев назад
@@rayjennings3637 I was about to include " .. and demonstrating the political will to use it " , but I thought it would fly over the heads of most viewers, as it so often does. I'm a fan of Roosevelt's saying, "speak quietly but carry a big stick". I'm also proud of my small nation. We don't like to use what we've got, but when we do the other side had better be prepared.
@russellfrancis6294
@russellfrancis6294 5 месяцев назад
I second that.
@IanDarley
@IanDarley 5 месяцев назад
Tommy is all but invisible, just like the actual heroes that gave their lives for us, I feel that this was a deliberate design choice.
@jamielindsay1506
@jamielindsay1506 5 месяцев назад
The RAF is badass and so brave. I never even knew about such a thing as an earthquake bomb! We've got a lot to be proud of here in Britain.
@pauldurkee4764
@pauldurkee4764 5 месяцев назад
Not just the ability to complete these missions jamie, but the creative genius to come up with these projects and make them reality.🇬🇧
@almac2598
@almac2598 5 месяцев назад
They don't seem to teach history in schools anymore.
@daniellysohirka4258
@daniellysohirka4258 5 месяцев назад
Don't forget about the RCAF
@user-fq8rs7rz3i
@user-fq8rs7rz3i 5 месяцев назад
@@almac2598You’re right. Neither positive or negative.
@Lazmanarus
@Lazmanarus 5 месяцев назад
@@almac2598 To be fair, the bombs were still classified TS for quite a while after the war.
@geordieb3959
@geordieb3959 5 месяцев назад
Ex-Royal Navy serviceman, now 72 thankyou dear ladies for your kind words 🎉
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow 5 месяцев назад
Thank YOU for your service! 🫡
@eyesopen1850
@eyesopen1850 5 месяцев назад
Same from an ex squaddie
@borninjordan7448
@borninjordan7448 5 месяцев назад
Thank you for your service.
@rhydbarratt8839
@rhydbarratt8839 5 месяцев назад
From an ex crab thank you
@Brytonrock
@Brytonrock 5 месяцев назад
There used to be a Barnes Wallis museum building at the York Air Museum, on the former RAF Elvington. As you entered the building you passed by a Tallboy, a Grand Slam and a practice Upkeep, the codename for the bouncing bomb. Inside there was a comprehensive collection of all of Sir Barnes Wallis work including his work on pre-war airships and other aircraft such as the Wellington medium bomber and it's follow up aircraft that he designed but never made it into service. One thing you may not have known is that he design a radical aircraft called the Swallow, which included his latest pioneering work but again it was never built as it was too far ahead of it's time. This work went on to be used in many cold war aircraft on both sides, the Variable Geometry Wing or as it's commonly known, the Swing Wing.
@eddierogers9491
@eddierogers9491 5 месяцев назад
Apparently after the war one of the Grand Slam bombs was placed on display at RAF Scampton’s main gate, in 1958 during road widening the workmen trying to move the bomb discovered that it was still live after 13 odd years being sat on and being a tourist attraction , it was calculated that if it had detonated it would have removed the RAF base and most of the nearby city of Lincoln
@HORNET6
@HORNET6 5 месяцев назад
Without a fuse it’s actually insensitive and won’t do anything.
@jamesbeeching6138
@jamesbeeching6138 5 месяцев назад
You beat me to it!! I understand there were a pair of bombs as "Gate Guards"....When they were moved the contractors opened the bombs thinking they would contain rubble !! Instead they discovered Torpex!!! Whoops!!!😮😮😮😮😮
@jamesbeeching6138
@jamesbeeching6138 5 месяцев назад
​@@HORNET6I still wouldn't recommend hitting it with a hammer or dropping it!!!!
@KevinStansfield
@KevinStansfield 5 месяцев назад
​@@jamesbeeching6138I also recommend that you don't have any parties near it as well!
@Lazmanarus
@Lazmanarus 5 месяцев назад
@@jamesbeeching6138 Torpex, like most modern explosives is relatively insensitive to shocks, it needs a specific impulse to set it off. C4 (Composition 4) can be used as a fuel for heating/cooking, it burns quite slowly when ignited, but will explode very rapidly/powerfully with the correct impulse.
@Oddballkane
@Oddballkane 5 месяцев назад
Learning about history is important because if we don't, it will be forgotten, and it could happen again.
@Varksterable
@Varksterable 5 месяцев назад
Hence the expressions "History repeats itself" and "History is written by the winners." Unfortunately, being informed about the past seldom overcomes the human conviction that, "well of _course_ it went wrong back then. We know so much more now. _This_ time we will get it right!" I'm not saying that remembering the past is a bad or irrelevant thing; it is neither. Remembering the past is vitally important. But I feel compelled to point out the above when people imply that simply 'remembering' will stop bad things happening again. Remembering the past and being humble enough to learn from it is key. And unfortunately the latter is something which tends to diminish from one generation to the next.
@cowboy10uk
@cowboy10uk 5 месяцев назад
Thankyou very much for the kind words. As a RAF Veteran (served 12 years ) and the 4th generation of my family to serve, you have no idea just what those words mean to me. Thankyou.
@vaudevillian7
@vaudevillian7 5 месяцев назад
I’m on the Lincolnshire border in Notts and I can face in every direction and there will have been a former Bomber Command airfield no more than say 5 miles away. Some are still there. I used to volunteer at Newark Air Museum and that was RAF Winthorpe. Right next door to RAF Coddington, then just down the road was RAF Balderton - which was given to the US for a brief period - gliders and airborne troops took off from there for Market Garden. RAF Syerston is still active and you can hear recordings by a BBC journalist that joined raids from there. There was RAF Fiskerton as well just over in Lincolnshire. There were just so many close together. My grandad came over from Jamaica to join the RAF in WW2 and he was a Wireless Mechanic in Bomber Command
@urizen7613
@urizen7613 5 месяцев назад
If you're up for the occasional military topic I strongly recommend "The Greatest Raid of All". Truly epic!
@urizen7613
@urizen7613 5 месяцев назад
And also the Dam Busters raid, with more weird bombs.
@Markus117d
@Markus117d 5 месяцев назад
And The VC documentary..
@johnleonard9090
@johnleonard9090 5 месяцев назад
I would add Hobart’s funnies, the special use tanks developed for the D-Day landings and beyond.
@baylessnow
@baylessnow 5 месяцев назад
Make sure that it's the Jeremy Clarkson version of 'The Greatest Raid' that you watch.
@g8ymw
@g8ymw 4 месяца назад
@@baylessnow Although it seems to have disappeared, Jezza did a brilliant documentry of the Arctic Convoys focussing on the foo coup that was Convoy PQ17
@vaudevillian7
@vaudevillian7 5 месяцев назад
I’m currently training to walk 100km in 2 days for SSAFA, a charity for serving personnel, veterans and families, and your continual respect and admiration is a great motivator
@hideandseek80
@hideandseek80 5 месяцев назад
I just found out today that my 17 year old nephew has enlisted in the British Army. His interviews start next week. I hate war, I'm terrified of the danger he could be putting himself in. I am however exceptionally proud of him and fully respect and admire his decision. Thank you for sharing videos like this, as a Brit myself I love learning more but also I love the genuine reactions from you both. Love and respect from Worcestershire UK x
@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming
@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming 5 месяцев назад
The Army (while not where I served) is a great establishment for a young man. They learn a trade and become part of a family who will cross burning seas and pass the hounds of hell to go and help them. Even after 50 years. War is an extremely rare by-product. I served in the Royal Marines and saw action in Sierra Leonie, Bosnia, Iraq War 1, Iraq War 2 and Afghanistan. Despite these wars, I would do my time twice over again without hesitation.
@ericjackson9496
@ericjackson9496 5 месяцев назад
He'll be alright. He's only got five hundred years of experience to.learn and absorb. Crack on lad
@pidgewidge942
@pidgewidge942 5 месяцев назад
An old film worth watch ....The Dambusters, brilliant film
@planekrazy1795
@planekrazy1795 5 месяцев назад
Designed by the Legend Sir Barnes Wallis Dropped by the equally Legendary 617 Squadron aka The Dam Busters. Reading the history of it all is awe inspiring, the struggle of Barnes Wallis getting the bouncing bome designed and approved by the powers that be. The extreme training of the Squadron. He terrible cost in air crew. Some of the best aircrew and commanders Guy Gibson, JB Tate and Sir Leonard Cheshire.
@tobeski
@tobeski 5 месяцев назад
Barnes Wallis was a proper genius - very worth digging out a documentary about him
@paulbattson834
@paulbattson834 5 месяцев назад
There are two Lancasters still flying. One is in England, the other is near here in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Somewhere I have photos of the Lancaster flying over Niagara Falls.
@RoyCousins
@RoyCousins 5 месяцев назад
There is a third Avro Lancaster (NX611 "Just Jane") at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre which is slowly being restored to an airworthy condition, with a current target date of around 2029.
@clinging54321
@clinging54321 3 месяца назад
The Canadian Lancaster never dropped a bomb, when built it was given an Air sea rescue role, carrying a full size life boat in its bomb bay to drop to anyone seen floating in the water, and reporting the position to naval units.
@RoyCousins
@RoyCousins 3 месяца назад
@@clinging54321 IIRC both the flying RAF Lancaster and the one being restored to flight were built late in the war and didn't see active service and were used in non-combat roles.
@colrhodes377
@colrhodes377 5 месяцев назад
What a wonderful gift. As an ex-serviceman, i feel so proud of those who served before me, those who served with me, those who served after me, and those who will serve in the future.
@andrewr311
@andrewr311 5 месяцев назад
There is an old movie that covers some earlier work on bombs by Barnes called, the Dambusters
@michaelbruce5415
@michaelbruce5415 5 месяцев назад
"Thank you for your service". Amen. Precious and meaningful words that should be offered to all servicemen and women who have risked their lives for our freedoms. Love your channel and patriotism ladies.
@bobbralee1019
@bobbralee1019 5 месяцев назад
I was a RAF Weapons Tech (Armourer) for 35 years and you are right most of us who have served and have seen war really are anti war. Thanks for your support for those who have served and those who are serving.
@omargj1
@omargj1 5 месяцев назад
Unfortunatelly to maintain peace there is a need of being prepared for war and be able to fight back.
@ianfisher7360
@ianfisher7360 Месяц назад
"Plumber"
@ulvsbane
@ulvsbane 5 месяцев назад
The Britts were hugely innovative. Just look at what they came up with. And even more wild, what they thought of but never used. And their naming of things is simply amazing.
@harryjohnson9215
@harryjohnson9215 5 месяцев назад
The most famous bommer squadron in ww2 No 6-1-7 squadron Also known as THE DAM BUSTERS A special bommer squadron formed for a mission that someone said was insane.
@bernardedwards8461
@bernardedwards8461 5 месяцев назад
The Grand Slam weighed 10 tons, but was little used as it came late in the war, but destroyed the Bielafeld viaduct. The Lancaster was very slow and vulnerable when carrying it, but by then the Luftwaffe was on its last legs. Much more widely used was the 6 ton Tallboy, which was easier to carry and destroyed all sorts of targets including railway tunnels, U-boat pens, the V-3 supergun built to shell London from France, and the battleship Tirpitz. It had an armour piercing nose, and the idea was not so much to form a crater which buidings would fall into, though that did happen, but to send an earthquake-like ripple through the rock strata which would shake to pieces reinforced bunkers and similar structures some distance away, not requiring a direct hit.
@clinging54321
@clinging54321 3 месяца назад
The Bielafeld viaduct raid was escorted by RAF Mustangs the Luftwaffe wouldn't have been too much of a problem, with their rookie pilots, limited fuel &ammo.
@bernardedwards8461
@bernardedwards8461 3 месяца назад
@@clinging54321 Dont you believe it. Certainly by 1945 many experienced Luftwaffe pilots had been killed or injured, but large numbers of allied planes were still being shot down, so the Lancasters needed those escorts if they operated by day.
@barty7016
@barty7016 5 месяцев назад
Lincolnshire was called Bomber County during the war.
@ianprince1698
@ianprince1698 5 месяцев назад
most of Lincolnshire is flat, ideal for runways
@vogonpoet5860
@vogonpoet5860 5 месяцев назад
IS called bomber county
@user-pf2rx3mj4e
@user-pf2rx3mj4e 5 месяцев назад
Still is
@almac2598
@almac2598 5 месяцев назад
Us ex Fleet Air Arm types just called it RAF East Anglia
@memkiii
@memkiii 5 месяцев назад
@@almac2598 *No they didn't,* because Lincolnshire isn't East Anglia. You are thinking of what is mainly Norfolk, Suffolk, and some of Cambridgeshire.
@peternewson3793
@peternewson3793 5 месяцев назад
Hi ladies, thank you so so much for this. I want to say a special thank you for your remembrance message and showing the "Tommy". I come from an army family, and lost quite a few family members during the wars. I also served six years in the army, three years with the special forces, and lost a few friends. Thank you again for your positive messages of remembrance. To be honest, the dedication of the "Tommy" made me cry. Keep up the good work with the videos. Peter. P.S. I celebrated my 58th birthday at christmas, I served in Northern Ireland and Iraq.
@dabrab
@dabrab 5 месяцев назад
Back in early 2015 I was responsible for moving an Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam from display outside 617 Sqn's site at Lossiemouth down to Scampton for storage. I think I was chosen because I was very near to retirement and didn't have a career to ruin if it went wrong! It was an 'interesting' exercise as there was no original lifting gear in existence - even empty the Grand Slam weighs over 5 tons.
@lauriea2971
@lauriea2971 5 месяцев назад
Hi ladies My name is Laurie and I’m new to ur channel plus I’m retired from the Canadian Army Forces(CF) as a reservist. Ty for ur words. God bless u two and all N.A.T.O.(allies forces) I want to say Tysvm all those r in/retired military personnel that r at home or overseas. They r in my thoughts and my prayers. Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow 5 месяцев назад
Hello 👋🏻 And Thank YOU for your service 🫡
@jenniferhirst2130
@jenniferhirst2130 5 месяцев назад
Great video. They have examples of all these bombs and raf consinsgby where the battle of Britain memorial flight are based. They have the only UK flying Lancaster bomber. These bombs are full if concrete. Go to see the battle of Britain display if you can when in the UK, its AMAZING!
@terryneale3086
@terryneale3086 5 месяцев назад
My late uncle EJ (Ted) Neale. Volunteered just before his 19th birthday. He qualified and was assigned to be a tail gunner in a Lancaster, in 514 squadron, out of RAF Waterbeach. Life expectancy was 6 to 8 weeks. Not many survived but he did. Flew 30 operations, then returned as a gunnery instructor, flying another 25. We owe his kind a huge debt.
@russelltaylor7779
@russelltaylor7779 5 месяцев назад
If you want to be able to see the statue, use a small led powered by a battery and place under the base! The light will be diffused to the edges of the plastic and create a nice effect.
@mandypotts9090
@mandypotts9090 5 месяцев назад
I had never heard about the grand slam and it flew from Woodhall spa not far from me (Lincoln ) the RAF has played a big part in Lincolnshire and still does .. we get to see the Red Arrows most days . So interesting to learn about the inventions , skills and bravery that helped shorten the war . Love your channel you bring us such varied subjects . Your beautiful gift from Bill touched my heart , thank you to Bill and Jim for their service ❤️
@simonmonk7266
@simonmonk7266 5 месяцев назад
You can see the grandslam at Yorkshire Air museum and at raf Hendon.
@delbydoo
@delbydoo 5 месяцев назад
@@simonmonk7266 there is one at the BBMF visitor centre at Coningsby too
@jacquelinepearson2288
@jacquelinepearson2288 5 месяцев назад
What a beautiful commemoration gift you received! Back in 2018, I visited a display in a local church in South Manchester marking the same event. They had large, perspex figures placed along the pews. It looked like the ghosts of WWI soldiers sitting in the church, each one dedicated to a named fallen soldier from the parish. Very simple idea, but so effective and moving.
@gracesprocket7340
@gracesprocket7340 5 месяцев назад
One of the Tallboy which missed during the 1945 raid to sink the Lutzow (ex-Deutchsland) on the border between Germany and Poland was found a few years ago, and made safe by controlled detonation. There is news footage of the explosion made available online. (The smaller) Tallboy generated a very large plume of water in the canal.
@gordonfrickers5592
@gordonfrickers5592 5 месяцев назад
Lincolnshire, that was Robin Hood's territory; although you may be aware that the Sheriff of Nottingham tried to dispute that. Men like Barnes Wallis were literally living legends when I was growing up in England so had 'one over' Robin Hood. I grew up 15 miles South of London in Kent not far from the famous RAF Biggin Hill, in land covered in WW2 'artefacts' as varied a craters where aircraft had crashed to complete, slightly dilapidated, post D Day military bases. Lancasters, Spitfires, Hurricanes still flew overhead and the Meteor was the latest thing, state of the art. There was still a lot of barbed wire, no go zones and some uncleared mine fields in Kent. People still used ration books, had their gas masks and so on. You are helping us, thank you. It's difficult and I think important to convey the atmosphere to the youth of today. Britain was virtually bankrupt, items like a single fresh orange were luxuries. I recall many people looked thin, grey, tired and yet there was a strong sense of comradeship and optimism. If your car broke down, that is if you had a car, people would stop, not to rob you but to assist with a repair. I was surrounded by veterans and everywhere one went, even in my own street, there was plentiful evidence of 'The War' as people called it for decades after. Thus stories like this one & many others are very familiar to me. It's facinating to watch your reactions as this larger than life true story of people who did the impossible is revealed to you. I especially appreciated your sensitive handling of your gift at the end of the broadcast. Thank you for keeping these stories alive, preserving them from the erosion and dust of myths and legends. I've been asked to write a book about my work as a painter (as in artist) and my life so I'll keep this text to be adapted for the book, thank you for the inspiration. What is impossible? My Father who was 'in for the duration', as in served 7 years mostly with the Pioneer Corps, used to occasionally say to me, "Difficult we do straight away, the impossible takes a bit longer". God bless you both.
@nigellusby8256
@nigellusby8256 5 месяцев назад
Hi girls, I live in Lincolnshire. Just down the road from me is RAF Coningsby, home of the QRA (Quick Reaction Alert). We often get Typhoons screaming over our garden. ...however, RAF Coningsby is also the home of the BBMF, (Battle of Britain Memorial Flight) so we also get to see the Lancaster, Spitfire & Hurricane frequently, but why is it here? RAF Coningsby & RAF Woodhall Spa were linked airfields right next to each other. 617 squadron were fully based at Woodhall Spa during the latter part of WWII & the "Dambusters" memorial is in the heart of the village, because some of that historic raid's aircraft left from here, not RAF Scampton. & just a few miles up the road is RAF Waddington, the home of the Red Arrows.
@memkiii
@memkiii 5 месяцев назад
My last posting was RAF Woodhall Spa (a satellite of Coningsby). Sadly not much was left of it even then. The runway was mostly a gravel pit, and only one Hangar plus a couple of sheds were standing. Lincolnshire was absolutely full of bomber bases in WWII, almost all closed after the war, although a handful remained, hosting the V Bomber force, and as training bases. RAF Coningsby a couple of miles from Woodhall spa is the home of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, which you can visit, and a set of these bombs can be seen outside the Hangar. Lincolnshire, and specifically Lincoln City is well worth a look at online - or a visit.
@SuperDancingdevil
@SuperDancingdevil 5 месяцев назад
Receiving your Tommy was quite an emotional moment for me and I’m so glad that you keep him in a special place for you and that it touched you, Thank you for sharing it with us .
@380Scania
@380Scania 4 месяца назад
Winston Churchill called 617 SQN his problem solvers and told the Squadron Commander don’t come home till you have the job done (Tirpitz). Per Ardua Ad Astra from an RAF vet 89-01
@briankenny3690
@briankenny3690 5 месяцев назад
The greatest raid of all and .the dam busters raid is a must watch especially the dam buster raid the flying and engineering problems are legendary legendary especially the low flying at night 😮 the latter was made into a full lenth movie and is still available try and watch it really is worth watching. Keep up the good work ladies ❤
@davidb3979
@davidb3979 5 месяцев назад
Interesting fact. In 1958, what was thought to be 'dummy' bomb at the main gate of RAF Scampton’s in Lancaster which was the home of 617 Squadron, tuned out to be a fully live Grand Slam bomb. For over 10 years it had been sitting out in public with kids playing on it.
@M4BoarBiker
@M4BoarBiker 5 месяцев назад
Hello ladies, thank you so much for your heartfelt video. I have watched a few of your videos now and find them very entertaining. This video is informative and installs a sense of great pride. As a Brit whose Grandfather (ground crew) and Great Uncle (Navigator) served in the RAF during WW2 I'd like to say thank you for making this, i think you are both great. Btw my Grandfather survived the war but sadly his brother was shot down off the coast of Rotterdam, Holland in 1942. Lost without trace. 😢 Keep up the good work, loving your channel.
@jonathanwetherell3609
@jonathanwetherell3609 5 месяцев назад
Sir Barnes Wallace, an Engineering hero. He designed the most successful British airship, using a geodetic frame. Then the Vickers Wellington Bomber, again using a geodetic frame. This was the RAF's mainstay bomber in the early part of the war. Then the three bombs mentioned in the documentary. 617 Squadron was formed specifically for the "bouncing bomb".
@grahamlong6870
@grahamlong6870 4 месяца назад
And after the war his inventiveness lived on in that he also designed the variable geometry aircraft, in other words the swing wing, such as the F111 used, and the more up to date B one bomber of the USAF. The Tornado low level strike aircraft built in the seventies or possibly eighties (I think), and that too used the swing wing concept. An absolute genius!
@jonathanwetherell3609
@jonathanwetherell3609 4 месяца назад
Agreed, along side Stephenson, Brunell, Armstrong and Parsons.@@grahamlong6870
@derekowens1817
@derekowens1817 2 месяца назад
Wallis was structural engineer on the Wellington design team. The designer was Rex Pierson, Vickers' Chief Designer. D
@jonathanwetherell3609
@jonathanwetherell3609 2 месяца назад
@@derekowens1817 Ta for the detail.
@djs98blue
@djs98blue 5 месяцев назад
You might be interested to know that Al Murray and James Holland host an excellent ww2 podcast called ‘We have ways of making you talk’. They’ve covered British war innovations quite a lot.
@djs98blue
@djs98blue 5 месяцев назад
There also a very funny couple of videos of Al Murray at the tank museum in Bovington where he picks his best and worst 5 tanks of ww2 and they are all the same!
@lucylewis9437
@lucylewis9437 5 месяцев назад
Another amazing video by you two awesome ladies. Loved this video ❤. Thanks to all servicemen and woman and veterans ❤❤❤❤
@alanhilton7336caradventure
@alanhilton7336caradventure 5 месяцев назад
The only single thing we can learn from war is technological advancement but still it's a very costly lesson to learn.
@christannock2027
@christannock2027 5 месяцев назад
Im ex military, was a soldier in the Royal scots, thank you ladies and great video, keep up the good work 👏
@TheNatashaDebbieShow
@TheNatashaDebbieShow 5 месяцев назад
Thank YOU for your service! 🫡
@316kennyj
@316kennyj 5 месяцев назад
can you imagine any other country scrapping the Scottish regiments to the scrapheap? especially 1st of foot . should have been kept at all costs , even if just for ceremonial purposes
@F11BAR84
@F11BAR84 5 месяцев назад
Always love the respect you guys show for the military, great bit of history learning for a Friday 😊
@johnturner8383
@johnturner8383 5 месяцев назад
Wow bloody hell ,good job chap's ..and thank you ladies for sharing this
@frankdoyle9066
@frankdoyle9066 5 месяцев назад
Thank you ladies as always.
@Tidybitz
@Tidybitz 5 месяцев назад
What a lovely video, I'd not heard about some of these things and I'm British. How nice too that the man sent you that gift, it is special and very touching. May I suggest that you could stand it on your shelf on one of those uplighter things they use to illuminate glass ornaments, that would look nice and just light it when you're filming.
@extramite8
@extramite8 5 месяцев назад
The attacks on the tirpiz are worth looking at, the ship had been attacked by midget subs in all manner of ways. But the RAF were finally successful when 617 squadron were sent to Russia to attack it from the east
@michaelmorgan9103
@michaelmorgan9103 Месяц назад
My dad was a Lancaster Bomber tail gunner and he was shot down on Dec 10th 1944 delivering this type of bomb to an earth bank dam in Germany. He was the only survivor of the bomber.
@comicmania2008
@comicmania2008 5 месяцев назад
Great video ladies - subscribed, thank you! I'm ex RAF, but Lancaster bombers, Tallboys and Grand Slam bombs were way before my time. We have a museum though at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, that has a Grand Slam and a Tallboy bomb on display, as well as a working (not flying) Lancaster. I served at RAF Coningsby, where we still have a flying Lancaster. Used to love doing jobs in '4 hanger' where me and my old buddies used to marvel at the Lancaster, the Spitfires and Hurricanes and RR Merlin engines that are still used for flypasts and displays.
@rosalindyates7331
@rosalindyates7331 5 месяцев назад
Wow! I have to admit I had tears in my eyes at the end. What a fabulous and generous gift to receive from Bill. I hope Jim made it home at the end of WW1. Does it give anymore information on Jim. I could try to look him up on Ancestry. Thank you for another great video.
@karengeldart2350
@karengeldart2350 5 месяцев назад
Hello Natasha & Debbie, thank you for the great videos. My grandfather was in the RAF just after World War 2 and he said it was the best time of his life. I joined the RAF a few years after his passing, although I am no longer in the RAF due to shattering my elbow, I do miss the way of life and friends who still serve. God bless you both ❤
@rozhunter7645
@rozhunter7645 5 месяцев назад
Great and fascinating video this morning ❤
@joannedickie7863
@joannedickie7863 5 месяцев назад
Two of my husband's uncles flew in Lancasters during the war. They were both in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). One flew with 460 Australian squadron & failed to return from a "milk run" mission. 460 dropped more tonnage than any other Bomber Command squadron but also had the highest casualty rate. The other uncle flew with 617 Dam Buster squadron. He joined the squadron after the famous Dam Raid when the squadron was dropping Tall Boy & Grand Slam bombs. He survived the war but did not discuss his war stories until his final years. He was very matter of fact about his wartime exploits stating he & his fellow squadron members had a job to do which they did to their best ability. He also said the war years were the best & the worst years of his life.
@anthonycrosby1083
@anthonycrosby1083 5 месяцев назад
Hi Deb and Natasha take a look at RAF East Kirby. An ex WW2 USAF base deep in the Lincolnshire wolds. Its been restored just as it was during WW2, and they have restored a Lancaster and a Mozzi Ex pathfinder They frequently do engine runs up and down the runway, worth a look!!!. keep up the good work ladies love from an ex RAF serviceman.
@RichWoods23
@RichWoods23 4 месяца назад
East Kirby is in the Lincolnshire Fens, about three miles south of the southern edge of the Wolds. Wolds are hills, fens are flat. Flat ground favours long runways, which is why so many bomber stations were built there.
@kathryncoleman6973
@kathryncoleman6973 5 месяцев назад
Really informative and great video,learning all about the horrific wars,and god bless Jim.❤
@Chris22967
@Chris22967 5 месяцев назад
Thank you ladies for your respect, God bless you.
@jimharrison748
@jimharrison748 5 месяцев назад
What a beautiful and thoughtful gift!
@christineharris4146
@christineharris4146 5 месяцев назад
So interesting and informative. I knew about the bouncing bomb used by the dam busters, but never heard about this one. You American girls are teaching me some British history. Thank you.
@thomasgarwell8214
@thomasgarwell8214 2 месяца назад
Me and my husband used to take our caravan to France, then spend the last three days in northern France to visit the Commonweath War Graves around the area, both WW1 and WW2. At the campsite we stayed at in Eperlecques (between St. Omer and Dunkirk), there was a V1 rocket installation built by the Germans about a mile away. We went to visit, and the allies, when they attacked this place, left it in the state they found it, which included a rather large hole in the top of the concrete ceiling which was caused by one of these Grand Slam bombs, and its still been left as it was found today. Sir Barnes Wallis was man ahead of his time. He also designed the bouncing bomb which destroyed some of the dams in the Ruhr Valley, Germany
@leebrown9680
@leebrown9680 5 месяцев назад
Super interesting. Thank you for sharing that.
@AngeDownie-by8ee
@AngeDownie-by8ee 5 месяцев назад
Tis Ange was really interesting thanks for finding this one Debbie
@andrewlaw
@andrewlaw 5 месяцев назад
My departed Mum dated Squadron Leader Guy Gibson of the 617 Dam Busters during the war. She just casually dropped it into a conversation one day like it was nothing out of the ordinary. 🤣 She said he used to drive his MG sports car like a lunatic with his dog (who will remain nameless for obvious reasons) in it.
@AaronOxfordExmouth1989
@AaronOxfordExmouth1989 5 месяцев назад
We have some of them in museums. When I say big, I mean BIG! these were and indeed are, monsters! Great video guys.
@Jordy120
@Jordy120 5 месяцев назад
'Yep nope', US version of our Aussie 'Yeah nah'. Thanks for the awesome episode. I had never heard of the bomb before. Cheers.
@JustJokes-bw4fs
@JustJokes-bw4fs 5 месяцев назад
Hahaha, yeah right.
@ianbutler8776
@ianbutler8776 5 месяцев назад
Thanks for posting this.
@christophercarr3755
@christophercarr3755 5 месяцев назад
What a fantastic reaction, love stuff like this. Lovely to learn about something I don't know much about bombs. Think you both need look into the Dam busters and the bouncing bomb more, we absolutely adore the Lancaster bomber here and there's only a couple left this flying.
@kennyjackson1234
@kennyjackson1234 5 месяцев назад
Check out the "Battle of Britain Flight"Includes the Lancaster,Hurricaine and Spitfire aircraft from WW2.
@EricIrl
@EricIrl 5 месяцев назад
Not World War 11 (thankfully, we haven't had eleven world wars). It's either World War 2 or World War II.
@janetburrows137
@janetburrows137 5 месяцев назад
My Dad was born in Lincolnshire, but brought up in Blackburn. Lincolnshire has a few air bases, cos it’s pretty much flat there. Some lovely tows and villages there. You need too have a look. Lincolnshire Cathedral is Amazing. Steep walk up to say Lincolnshire is flat. Oh also road signs????? Yep!!!!!!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!!!! Not really there on the back roads. But a lovely place too visit. ❤❤❤❤️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️
@liamspruce6776
@liamspruce6776 5 месяцев назад
One grand slam was a gate guardian for an RAF base, for something like twenty years it turns out they hadn’t bothered defusing the thing before parking it outside the gate where the general public could walk up to it.
@markstott6689
@markstott6689 5 месяцев назад
I hope that one day you will watch a video on the De Havilland Mosquito. I fell in love with this beautiful aircraft aged 8, circa 1976, when I bought the Airfix model kit for Christmas. It's still my favourite aircraft 48 years later. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
@kennethmaney914
@kennethmaney914 5 месяцев назад
There are numerous bases all over Lincolnshire. And alot of them are still in use today. The same place as the dambusters later became the home of the Battle of BRITAIN FLIGHT , of preserved WW2 planes
@gamortie
@gamortie 5 месяцев назад
Paul Brickhill’s The Dambusters is a book that chronicles 617 Squadron, RAF during WW2, from their start at the Dams raid to the end of the war.
@Salfordian
@Salfordian 5 месяцев назад
That Lancaster was taken to its very limits for sure looking at the wings, even if they put the more powerful Griffin engine (larger Merlin) in it I doubt it could carry more weight
@captainwarhead5626
@captainwarhead5626 5 месяцев назад
I enjoy learning about wars. I don’t like war itself. I enjoy learning how people out smarted other people in dire situations. I love that in such tense situations people were able to focus and make such incredible inventions to beat the enemy. That’s what I enjoy. God rest all the fallen in all wars. From St. Edmundsbury England 👍🏻
@vernonwright8886
@vernonwright8886 5 месяцев назад
Barnes Wallace also invented the 'Bouncing Bomb', made famous in the movie "The Dambusters"
@darrenpyper9689
@darrenpyper9689 5 месяцев назад
One was on display outside RAF Scampton. In the 1950's the station commander thought it a little scruffy so asked the paint section to smarten it up. So they got a crane and truck to move it to the paint shop. The crane struggled so they left it in situ. They asked the station armament section to look at. The Armourer opened an inspection to it and found it was still filled with Highe Explosive!
@ducatobeing
@ducatobeing 5 месяцев назад
What a lovely and thoughtful gift. When you come to the UK, visit the Bomber Command Memorial at Lincoln. Then go to the battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby (a wartime Lancaster base). They have Tallboy and Grandslam bombs on exhibition. The designer, Sir Barnes Wallace ( a former naval officer) was also the originator of Variable geometry for high speed jet aeroplanes.
@bluesilvahalo3576
@bluesilvahalo3576 5 месяцев назад
Once again thank you for teaching me history from my own country that I'd never heard of! I'm much more familiar as with everyone of the bouncing bomb that Barnes Wallis invented and hope you can find a video about that as it's fascinating.
@ShaneH42
@ShaneH42 5 месяцев назад
Great video. ❤ The story behind the Dambusters / bouncing bombs are certainly something worth looking in to
@bordersw1239
@bordersw1239 5 месяцев назад
My father was in Bomber Command in WW2, 103 Squadron, his base lost over 2000 aircrew. I met Barnes Wallis’s wife and daughter in about 1976, as a child she helped her dad, catapulting marbles across a tin bath, unaware that he was developing the bouncing bomb.
@megfreeth4377
@megfreeth4377 5 месяцев назад
That was really interesting if scary, I can’t imagine what it was like for the pilots having to do this, such brave men and women, they have my admiration and respect, thank you for the life I have now❤
@user-cx9fs5oo5u
@user-cx9fs5oo5u 5 месяцев назад
Fascinating video, Barnes Wallis was a great inventor. I loved the Tommy you received.
@florrie2303
@florrie2303 5 месяцев назад
Great video, as usual. Keep up the great work that you both do. Love from the UK. ❤
@lillipupsmum8820
@lillipupsmum8820 5 месяцев назад
My grandfather was a flying ace in WW2. He was awarded a DSO, DFC & Two Bars, which not many pilots were awarded. Sadly he isn’t with us anymore. But he really had an amazing life and what he did in WW2 was so very brave. He has a quite long Wikipedia page about him and his life and accomplishments. I am very proud to be able to say that I am related to him. He also did the best Donald Duck impressions 😊. I have just found your channel and so far I am thoroughly enjoying your content. Lots of love from across the pond 💕
@williamlarge69
@williamlarge69 5 месяцев назад
Mosquito the wooden wonder my fave plane of ww2 and what a great gift aswell for you 2 amazing ladies keep up the great content
@manbate05
@manbate05 5 месяцев назад
Hi Girls, Loooove your show! 617 Dambuster Squadron was based at RAF Scampton here in Lincoln where i live, my mother who was a teenager during the war would watch them take off on raids, the planes roaring into the sky slowly and banking away to wherever they where heading and i remember her telling me that the very last plane always took off the opposite way down the runway - for luck! Woodhall Spa is about 30 mins from Lincoln, the whole area was covered in RAF bases during the war, only a few remain active at this time, the biggest just up the road from me is RAF Waddington which has a heavy American Presence. Lincoln is around an hour from the east coast, between here and the coast is the old RAF East Kirkby, now an aviation museum which is attempting to get one of the original Lancasters back into the sky, this particular Lancaster was the gate guardian at RAF Scampton when i was a boy, East Kirkby was a mixed Squadron base of British and American ( the are currently looking at restoring a Liberator). The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight with a Lancaster, Dakota, Spitfire and Hurricane based in Coningsby is about 40 minutes from Lincoln so we are use to seeing a Lancaster flying past especially during the summer months when it is en route to Air Shows, and of course the Red Arrows who have just moved from RAF Scampton are daily practicing over head, so we are incredibly lucky to have such history and presence still in our sky, i think maybe at times we can be complacent with just how fantastic these guys are as we see them so often - however whenever the Lancaster goes over with those twin Merlin engines roaring away, everything comes to a standstill as everyone is looking up in the air! Just as a side note, know you love your historic towns and cities, so why not take a look at Lincoln, we have a fabulous Cathedral, (used more recently for it's interiors to double for St. Paul's Cathedral in the Da Vinci Code ) and a castle ( which holds one of the original copies of the Magna Carta). Thanks' for being so entertaining, your show is so very addictive!!
@michaelgrimes2312
@michaelgrimes2312 5 месяцев назад
Iove you both, great reactions. Both look great as usual x
@camelsac
@camelsac 5 месяцев назад
Military vet here fyi. There was an Earthquake bomb on display outside one of the RAF stations. Legend has it that it sat outside the base on display for decades…..with all its explosives still inside! I don’t know how true it is but I like to think it might be true and another quirk of our unique country!😂
@robwhite6057
@robwhite6057 5 месяцев назад
Those bombs were huge. I was an Air Force armourer in the early 1970s and we had a Tallboy in the school entrance. They were "very" large
@MrBrenren
@MrBrenren 5 месяцев назад
Your comments around the engine failure on Fauquiers Land (18:13 ish) - According to legend, the Squadron Leader kept out of his Lancaster and ran towards Calders plane with the intention of taking it over - Calder saw him coming, guessed what had happened and gassed the plane, leave Fauquier in his wake!
@jim2757-w8m
@jim2757-w8m 5 месяцев назад
Girls, you must never fear of what others think when you are educating yourselves and other’s. 🥰
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