[MinuteGal]

YAHOO! NEWS this morning is showing a brief snippet of a rare home movie just now released by the British government. The film, which was shot on camera equipment of the forties, is actually in early color, though it's rather darkened. It was recently found in the attic of a WW2 air raid warden.

The snippet which shows the result of one nightly Luftwaffe bombing raid is less that two minutes long.

It shows a couple of the totally devasted blown-out multi-story buildings and stores on pricey Oxford street which was and still is the premier London shopping thoroughfare.

Included is a shot of the badly damaged flagship John Lewis department store, a well-known emporium of the day.....and which remains so today.

The snip shows rescue crews bringing out an injured man and what looks like victims on stretchers, dead or alive.

The text mentions that the clip shows Winston Churchill visiting the bomb sites, but I didn't see it....it must have been lopped off.

Too many folks today, especially the younger ones, have no clue of the horrors and shattered nerves endured by Londoners on a nightly basis. It behooves everyone to take a look at the up-close-and-personal destruction in this brief footage and to remember with the utmost admiration how the Brits 'carried on' with determination and courage.

Leni

[CougarGA7]

Very cool. Be sure to stop by tomorrow, I’ll be posting an audio interview with a man who survived a bombing. Only about 2.5 minutes, but still pretty interesting.

[iowamark]

“Film of the London Blitz in colour unseen for 70 years”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJUNHg11dRc