Ever wondered what a bomber stream sounded like?

Well I would not. I can still hear the one that rumbled over our roof as he bombed the village.

I’m sure you don’t, but equally some Germans might have the same opinion as you do, towards the recording that we have all thought so highly of!
But that doesn’t stop us listening to it. :p

Excellent thought provoking sound.

I once asked my mother what the sound was like… She hated it and said she didn’t want to think about it… She lost her brother on Halifaxes. It must have been hard to hear the sound night after night.

Chilling to think that 46 Bomber Command airmen didn’t survive that particular operation.

Yes, I had that Sounds of The Aeroplane at War LP, although rather scratched. I always wondered the era it was from, same sort of period as ‘Sounds of Shuttleworth’, except ‘Sounds’ was original WWII recordings.

Is there a similar recording of german bombers anywhere?
I’d be keen to hear the difference.

Well I would not. I can still hear the one that rumbled over our roof as he bombed the village.

Is there a similar recording of german bombers anywhere?
I’d be keen to hear the difference.

Oooh err, made my hairs stand up on end listening to that!
What greater contrasting sounds could one put together?

Does anyone remember the old Golden Hour LP from the 70’s…..Sounds of the Aeroplane at War? That had recordings of lots of planes, some quite obscure. It also included a track called Thousand Bomber Raid with the sound of bombers starting, taking off and the flying into the distance.

PSB are a fantastic band. The War Room
EP has Spitfire and London Can Take it on- worth getting! Also one called Protect and Survive!

Wow, never heard anything quite like it! Very moving.

James

It’s a sound that lulled me to sleep as a kid.

No, not a bomber stream, I’m way too young for that, just the heavy drone of a big multi-piston engined job gradually fading on a quiet night. Can’t remember when I last heard one – mid 1960s, maybe?

But to have heard hundreds passing over like that – wow…

I suppose a well equipped studio could reproduce the sound of a bomber stream quite easily given today’s technology?

Thanks for posting that up Adrian,I had never heard it before either!

An amazing and very poignant sound…. I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like to live through that time, but listening to this brings it home to those of us born in the wrong era but who have total respect for the many that gave their lives……

Something very eerie and poignant about that recording. Thanks for sharing the link.

Thank you for this … much appreciated. Don

Recording on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MHqW5KVds

John

Nice one John, thanks. I can capture that one.

Cheers

Recording on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_MHqW5KVds

John

Radio 6 are currently playing a track called “London Can Take It” by Public Service Broadcast, which is a strange hybrid of WW2 American propaganda broadcast and a modern beat, which makes for disturbing listening. It reminded me of this, which I first heard on a Manfred Mann’s Earth Band album (hippy alert!).

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/09/nightingales-and-bombers/

197 bombers heading for Mannheim, 186 returned. And the nightingales sang on…

I guess this is what people like my father heard night after night, day after day, as the RAF and the USAAF did their work.

Adrian

That PSB (J Wilgoose) young wippersnappers aren’t that bad. Pretty good use of archive sound snippets. They did a pretty good track called ‘Spitfire’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u4Md_aXVJE&list=FLd-2akmyqo-5xWT5FNQVmjA&index=22&feature=plpp_video

Martin

I had this on an old 78 and it was called `Bombers and Nightingales`………………

Thanks so much for posting this Adrian. I’ve been searching for a recording of a bomber stream for years. Can’t believe there aren’t more out there really….the later big raids must have made a truly impressive sound.

Any idea if this can be saved somehow?

Would also be great to hear from anyone who knows of any other recordings.

Cheers