Seventy-four years ago today

WWII got my Dad out of the family business (painting & decorating etc) into the RAF in 1940 as aircrew, a job he relished & remained in until the mid 70’s, so I suppose you could say ‘an ill wind’ & all that. He always said that he must be one of the few people who did rather well out of the jolly old Fuhrers antics.

Seventy-four years ago today

The A&AEE moved from Martlesham Heath to Boscombe Down and I’ve been at Boscombe for 26 of those 74 years 😮

Don’t rely too heavily on the ‘common purpose’ propaganda that has since become embedded in the Home Front legend.

The Eastenders famously booed and heckled the royal family, the miners tried to hold the country to ransom with a series of strikes for better pay.

Make no mistake. If a new Hitler were camped on Cap Gris Nez today the Daily Mail would be full of pictures of heroic muslims with hijabs and burqa staring out over the straights of Dover with an SLR in hand.

Moggy

Providing the right risk assessments had been done and full protective clothing was worn (ear mufflers because the gun is to loud ! eye protection in case i get grass in my eye !) and of course don’t forget the solicitors would have to giver their permission too

For those who didn’t hear it first time around . . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtJ_zbz1NyY

… we have lost the sense of our country and people marching shoulder to shoulder with a common goal has gone.

Don’t rely too heavily on the ‘common purpose’ propaganda that has since become embedded in the Home Front legend.

The Eastenders famously booed and heckled the royal family, the miners tried to hold the country to ransom with a series of strikes for better pay.

Make no mistake. If a new Hitler were camped on Cap Gris Nez today the Daily Mail would be full of pictures of heroic muslims with hijabs and burqa staring out over the straights of Dover with an SLR in hand.

Moggy

We live with the knowledge of what happened 70 years ago which is horrifying in itself but to not know,only to be living on information given through the radio and newspapers which would be heavily censored anyway is at best horrific.Having said that ignorance is bliss at times and knowing you are fighting for YOUR country and rightful can give abit of morale and a reason.
Nowadays with all the immigrants here we have lost the sense of our country and people marching shoulder to shoulder with a common goal has gone.

I still always wonder how the conscientious objectors felt when they saw the first film from the death camps.

I think most people would have been in shock and disbelief. How could one human being do that to another human being. But it still goes on in some places even today in the so called now civilized world.

Sadly it takes War to bring people together, we forget our petty differences and pull together as per the quote.

Makes me think though these days going back to the 1970’s when there was a sugar shortage some people in the super market rather than just take one bag tried to clear the shelf for themselves. Pure and utter selfishness though thankfully the shop didn’t let them get away with it. Turn out a bit of an embarrassing situation for the customer.

I still think its fantastic how with shear determination people came and worked together to defended this small island against an evil tyrant.

I still always wonder how the conscientious objectors felt when they saw the first film from the death camps.

My parents had a two-year old, and mum was pregnant with my older brother. I know that the first thing they did was to bury an Anderson Shelter in the back garden of their home which was only a couple of miles from the Liverpool docks. The neighbours formed working parties, so that they went from house to house as a team, digging and constructing, rather than each working alone on their own shelter.

Moggy

In that time at least we knew what the right thing to do was…and did it, imagine debating weither to stand up to hitler or just to send humanitarian help to the Polish people.
sorry if I,m getting political,but those 285 will I think have a lot to answer for…
regards
jack…

It must have been a very scary time listening to the radio and hearing war declared.
Chamberling had a very foreboding voice as if he knew this could very well be the end.
Still can’t imagine what it would feel like looking up to see hundreds of enemy aircraft filling the sky or listening to
the whistling of the bombs and wondering if you would be next.
When I look around museums all those tanks, guns, bombs, uniforms. Like a made up world that didn’t happen somehow.
Then you look around all the war cemeteries and wonder how it was allowed to happen at all.

:eagerness:

The start of WW2…………..

………unless you happen to be Polish. 🙁