The Warning (1939) - extract 

I can imagine how scary this would be bless

The sirens creeped me out!!!

A salute to my great grandfather Albert C Sargent. You fought for our freedom. R.I.P. Albert C Sargent

My grandmother whom is currently 88 and born in 1931, was 9/10 years old when bombs hit her hometown of Dewsbury on 12 December 1940 and the surrounding areas. The anti-aircraft guns were positioned at the top of Caulms Wood (the local woodland area) there was a communal shelter about one or two streets away from her in Batley, one of her older friends at the time died in the blast, she's told me the most horrific part of the bombing was the screeching sound as the bomb shot downwards i remember when she told me she said it was 'hellish' which is probably the most accurate and appropriate description, Her father fought in the first world war too, driving supplies onto the front line via horse. I cant imagine what this experience would have done to him, all the PTSD and such, a truly truly unimaginably terrifying time.

kid crying crashed in the window door brought me here.

My Mum was born 30 September 1939, 27 days after WWII was declared. As a toddler, she tells me that she can still remember being led by her Mother (my Granny) by the hand with her elder brothers and sister to a nearby farmer's field to lay in the ditches of the field night after night until the 'all clear' sounded. In the pitch dark, cold night air, any sound would have been frightening for a toddler, much less the sound of bombs exploding. A different age....❤❤❤❤

If I were to time travel, I'd do it in this time in England...

No but imagine just walking home from school and hearing air-raid sirens go off,light go out,curtains closed,people rushing for shelter and just panic that would scar a person for life

I don’t know my great great grandfather but he fought in a tank killing a German general and died from a grenade so if u are reading this bless the solders who fought for freedom , our happiness and our lives .

it must've been the scariest thing to have heard in that time

Even the dog knew what to do that's cute

My great grandad, who is now 94, fought in this war. He was only 12 years old. I can’t imagine how he must’ve felt at this very moment

but the siren at 0:08 is a French siren and a British siren is heard.

my uncle said everybody farted in air raid shelters

my great Granda was in ww1 ships and survived and he didn’t take place in ww2 but also survived that! I’m still so proud of him.

Narrated by C-3PO

0:08 That Siren Is A Sirene Civile Air Raid Siren

This is really shows what the fear is like and the music in the end is amazing showing them running

Why do I keep Hearing the same type of voice in the old movies?

My Nanna said that when she was little and the air raid siren would sound, her mum would gather the kids together and hide under their shelter which was a Morrison shelter (a kitchen table with mesh around the sides). Her mum would be crying and shaking and I can only imagine how terrifying it must have been for people who had never experienced anything like that before. They would rarely have even heard planes.

My grandmother who passed in 2020 was a young girl when Clydebank was hit by the bombs. I remember asking her about it when we were doing a project on world war 2 in the school and her insight even though her memory wasn’t all there was fascinating. I can’t imagine how scary it must’ve been for her. I only wish I had asked her more about it at the time!

The fact they where playing nice music when. A bomb was gonna get dropped out of the air

This has to be the scariest sound in the world. I'm getting actual shivers listening to it

I come back to this video every now and then....it's so eerie

Maybe my mother was in this war but she was the one who took down a plane before getting shot... Mad respect mom.

I remember my nan told me she and her four sisters ran to a shelter, one of her sisters slipped and broke her knee on the cobbles. She had to be carried into the shelter by two guards, one of which was her future husband!

They play this noise at my local barracks every Friday at 12pm even now, it’s such a distinct reminder of the war. It also has a side effect of freaking people out when they visit...

rip to the soldiers who died serving their country

The streets looked a lot cleaner then...!

My grandfather was in the war and he survived

My Great Grandfather fought & served with the Cdn. Military in WW2, he was a young scottish immigrant and the fight was back home so of course he signed up and went to fight. He was deployed all throughout Europe but the biggest battle he ever took part in was the Invasion of Normandy on June 6. He stormed Juno Beach with the 3rd Infantry Division, marched thru holland & belgium i believe until he got to Nazi Germany. He will always be my hero for the rest of my life.

My mum and her sister were evacuated to the West Country at the beginning of the war. Then their mum went and bought them back to London! Mum said the most frightening thing were the doodlebugs/buzz bombs. If they flew over with the engine buzzing you were ok. If not, it was a lottery of death and destruction. How can we even imagine how terrifying it must have been.

As seeing how many wars that my grandma had been through. Now I know the experience of those wars

My grandfather became a soldier during the war in Birmingham before he became a police chief in the 50s until retirement aged 50 in 1982 And he was 7 years old when the war broke out As for my grandmother holly she was 3 years old when the war broke out And I went past both my grandparents old homes in Weoley castle south west of Birmingham which they lived during the war years

I live in New York and I hear this sound every 6 o clock for some reason my town is weird I’m not even scared of it anymore I’m used to it lol

My great granddad fought in ww2 rip

Imagine you paused the video and the sound is still going on.........

I’m sure my great grandmother wasn’t involved but was in high school in the air raid war, but she was 18 during world war 2.

Those are not British siren sounds. And the siren shown is French. The sound is like a high pitched thunderbolt, maybe chopper lvl 5

My grandad who was 5 in ww2 , he lived in bury and I’m 10, he told me not long ago that every day he would sit on his back garden wall and watch and count all the plains. He also said that when it cane to the blitz time he was terrified!

I can't imagine how scare people that time in WW2, god bless you all 🙏🏼😭

Is there a full version ?? That would be cool :D

It makes me wonder. Just how long I would have lasted, as a claustrophobic mess that I am? I would have very likely panicked and then been smothered by my neighbors to quell my nervous thrashing and pandemonium. At least those sirens are straightforward. Short bursts up and down for the hide for cover, and then the long and steady (almost peaceful or serene) drone for the All Clear. It’s quite a shame those sirens are still in use today for still all the wrong reasons excepting tornadoes and tests. Thanks for uploading this, harrowing as it is.

RIP grandad who was in WW2 u will be missed by me and your family 😰😰😰😰😨😨😨😨

Thanks to the camera man

I think all the soldiers are so brave for doing all that

Legends say, the baby is still crying until now.

My parents have got an air raid shelter at the bottom of their garden in London, the house was built in the 1930s. They’ve never excavated it which is a shame.

The quality of black/white film is very good.

@ rirox14. During the war I'm sure there were women who did go in to labor during the attacks.

My grandmother said during one war when they’d see any plane flying over they’d get low and hide under anything I bet that was so terrifying

0:43 that remind me of scp 106 the young man hat

Bless all those who died fighting for their country

Not gonna lie. Those cars are more shiny and cleaner than the modern cars I see today on the Streets, lmao.

i showed this video to my grandpa and he said he remembers hearing the siren and being in a bunker.

I’m now scared of the fire alarms my school have lol

Absolutely scary never thought to be there

Gave me goosebumps instantly

*when the vedio stops but the alarms keep playing* Me: oh SHI*

Imagine what the person recording this had to go through

Bless the children. It must have been frightening.

My grandpa was born in 42 but his brother was born in 1927 and I wonder if he every seen anything crazy

We should have bunkers like this now and days

I fell asleep, and youtube autoplay dragged me here. I'm gonna go look at my watch history to see what I watched while sleeping.

I Have My grandfather Was in ww2 but he was only 9 than he did not died in ww2 but i miss him

I can imagine how scary this would be rn

This would be scary to hear/see back then.

I loved this post!!!

this happened to my nan she is alive in the room next to me now :) thank you shelters, thank you England for winning the war and freeing us!

I didn’t know that the air raid sirens were originally a higher pitch.

My nanny, Beryl used to hide in the air raid shelters in 1939 or 1940 😢😢😢 my Nan mum died In 2014

My grandma and grandpa was in this war they were born on 1939 right when the war started but sadly mg grandma died on 26 October 2022 R.I.P❤️❤️❤️❤️

I once heard an air raid siren in real life which was meant for testing. It still scared the shit of me

This will happen in 11 years

Did anyone see that dog? What a brave dog, Trying to find his family after being in the area, I bet he was horrified to figure out this was a bombing raid.

I'll be damned war must be fucking terrifying and my grandfather was in the ANZAC army. May he rest in peace

The air raid of Great Britain during World War Two what a legend bro...

This was shown on the documentary, If the Bomb Drops by Panorama

My anxiety could never

Holy imagine this happen again like it would be scary

You take off your headphones but you still hear the sirens

We're learning about world war 2 at are school

The airplane one at the start doing a reverse got me dead 💀💀😂😂

Idk why but this scene melts my soul 1:04

This video is my new morning alarm.

The music 0:51 is just so ORIGINAL

Imagine hearing that at night ...

That is REALLY HD

Happening again

Imagine the people from the video suffering from this.

Im listening to this bc in johnstone sirens went off for the qory or what ever its called and i freaked out sooooo much i thought i was going to die (12th april 2018)

Heard this in camp Casey Yesterday 🤦‍♂️

And the children got told by their parents they were going on holiday but in reality they were getting evacuated :(

It gives me chills like a scary alarm,shower of bullets and especially if Is happening in a CITY

Rest In Peace Chester A. Berry.

I have to study about this and it's so sad

It's scary because you have got the sound on about 10000 planes and then you got a loud air raid siren in your other ear. 💚👽

Not a cell phone in sight, just people enjoying the moment

Just a few years away from WW2

I just confused, because... Why is the cameramen isn't panic yet??