Major mistake at 2.55, the USA didn't declare war on Germany, Germany declared war on the USA, else the odds were they'd have continued to sell armaments and other products to the Nazis until they lost, of if the Allies lost they'd have celebrated with their Nazi pals/customers. I thought Yorkshire TV were better than this, getting a basic fact wrong. One that we learned in school at 15 during history (2918-1945) in New Zealand. Shame on you Yorkshire TV, though otherwise it is a very good series and gives a good idea of what my parents and their families went through before, during and after the war.
@@solcutta3661 They would've had to recast these kids when they got holder, but I suppose it was difficult making them appear older if they used the same kid for more than a few episodes.
The teeth comment, so true, to this day, it must be something in the British water... I see racism even in war is there, fighting Hitler for the same reason
I am very pissed off about the disparaging remarks made by the old man about the way our American troops march. Our style of marching goes back to the Revolutionary War and is a more effective and less showy way than the over exerting feminine flaling of arms that the British use when they march. As Von Stueben taught our troops to march in a relaxed natural style at Valley Forge its been doing an effective job for over 200 years.
Don’t take it to heart John, it was just a typical comment from back then. Some of the language in this is reflective of the time and it was never meant as an insult. And from what I have been told about back then is the GI’s certainly cheered everyone up when they got here.
How ridiculous that our Englishman went to front lines to die yet they had the Americans here.. Why didn't they ship the English back here to do whatever it was the Americans were doing here.. What they were doing here were our women.. With their goodies to tempt the women.. And it didn't take much tempting so it seems.
It's strange but in 1983 I visited my aunt in England (I grew up in NZ) and got talking to her neighbours who had known both my parents when they were all children - went to the same school, lived within a few streets of each other etc - and I was being told stories of some of the things they got up to during the war when they were kids. There was a US army base in the area and the really odd thing was,, it was at least 40 years since the GIs arrived but the kids still remembered some of the things they had seen the GIs do, and not a one was complimentary. Especially about their treatment of the African American troops. There had been a couple of Indian families living in the area even back then and apparently they were treated by the GIs no better than they treated the African American troops, as though they were dirt and beneath them. Incidentally, at least one family had lived (and worked) in the area since the mid 1850s so they weren't exactly newcomers, albeit probably the only family from India at the time. People have long memories, I've remembered what I was told - also about the way they tried to make the women left behind whose husbands were serving overseas forget their husbands and go out and about - and sleep with - the GIs. No shame in it, and apparently it was as though to them the troops serving overseas didn't exist at all. Never forgotten, not likely to either, and I've passed it on, especially their racist attitudes towards non whites.
