Just found this vid - ARP interview, 1940

Discussion in '1940' started by At Home Dad (Returning), Jul 30, 2009.

  1. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    Newsfilm Online - Air Raids & A.R.P Interview[​IMG]


    Air Raids & A.R.P Interview
    Gaumont British News, Issue No 675, 24 June, 1940

    [​IMG]This is a Gaumont British News story about one of the early air attacks mounted by the Luftwaffe against Britain, in the wake of the French government's call for an armistice. The report includes film of a wrecked bomber and an interview with a clergyman who was at the scene of one of the explosions.
     
  2. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    AtHomeDad

    Thanks for the link.

    The jingoistic background music and the Oxford English of the commentator immediately take me back to those early days of the war.

    It was another world, believe me !

    Ron
     
  3. At Home Dad (Returning)

    At Home Dad (Returning) Well-Known Member

    E.V.H. Emmett! I love his voice and wish I could mimic it!

    Different world, you said it!

    British propoganda was so much more cheerful and optimistic
    than the German stuff, it always seems to me.

    Cheers, Ron
     

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