Videos tagged with BRITISH ARMY
NEAR MISS CRASH IN TIGER MOTH
former British Army officer John Elliott talks about learning to fly a Tiger Moth aircraft and a near fatal crash.
WHAT A SOLDIER HAD TO DO TO GET A BATH IN 1942
John joined up as soon as he was old enough for military service and was keen to get into the war. Here he talks about the training, and about how he had to buy his weekly bath in Glasgow on a Saturday night - and the lengths he had to go to in order to be able to do so.
LIBERATING NORWAY AT END OF WW2
Having trained as a paratrooper, John was keen to get into the war - but the closest he got to action was a hair-raising flight to Norway, where he and his troops were treated to a heroes welcome by the local girls - to the evident chagrin of the occupying Germans!
EXPLOITS WITH GENERAL GEORGE ERROL PRIOR-PALMER
Some lovely stories from John about how he came to be the General's "personal pilot", including how he forced the General to note railway stations from the air to help them to navigate, and how John ended up "buzzing" the General's wife on her yacht in the Solent.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR
The British army were hampered in their preparations for war because the politicians did not want it to be thought that they had made up their minds ahead of a UN Resolution. And when James heard Rumsfeld say "we don't do nation-building" he knew it would all go wrong.
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JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR Prison guards
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes life in the camp - and ho
London being bombed during WW2
Bill Avis talks about bombs falling on London during the Second World War, collecting shrapnel, and picking up something and taking it home that was more dangerous than he thought!
BOMB EXPLODES ON HMS ANTELOPE Part 2 Falklands War
On May 23rd 1982 Warrant Officer John Phillips and his colleague Staff Sergeant James Prescott were called to HMS Antelope to defuse two 1,100 pound (500 kg) bombs...when one exploded.... In his e
LIFE IN LONDON DURING THE BLITZ
Now 91 years old, Fay lived in Woolwich Arsenal during part of the war, and tells how she went shopping during air-raids, but came to fear the arrival of the "doodle-bugs".
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ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 1
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he describes the moment the atomic bom
FLOODED FLEETWOOD
About a flood that happened in Fleetwood.
Earliest memory of World's Oldest man
Henry William Allingham was born on 6th June 1896 and, at the time he gave this interview, was a supercentenarian, World War I veteran and at the age of 113 years and 13 days, the oldest living man
Friendship
How a best friend is the difference between coping and not coping with life's more challenging, random and unexpected moments.
London during WW2
My Granny describes what life was like during the war in London. Social life still went on for many.
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