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