My air cadet unit visit to USAF Alconbury was cancelled the morning we were supposed to go in 1969. It was flippin cold and we went to the Shuttleworth Collection instead......I'm still "harrumphing" exactly 52 years later.....
You only have to listen to the intro music to realise how far we have come and how far we have fallen. I wasn't even alive when this was made but we have lost something, turned in on ourselves a fractured and insular people. Where are the old ladies on the bus who would chat and gossip with the rain still dripping from their coats. Everyone is silent now. Locked in their heads and afraid to be set free.
You two David's need to calm down, it's not that bad ahahaha- times change, the young arent gonna hold onto the ways of the old, and that'll be the same for the next generation and the next and the next
@@mattc3991 yes, but sadly some the ‘young folk’ today have little or no respect for the very country they live in. Like the secondary school children in London burning the union flag that was flown at their school.
@@Jimmythefish577 every generation has that, it's not about being "young folk" it's about having a distain for authority (whether you chose to agree with it or disagree is a seperate story). Look at the flappers in the 20s, the hippies in the 60s, the Iraq war protestors. To blame it on the youth is a disservice to what it actually is.
Upper Heyford England 74 to 77 lived in Glory farms an American housing area Bicester, loved it even tho I don't think we were liked by the english community very much and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT
As an Air Cadet in the 70's I went to RAF Little Rissington on annual camp & one of our days out was to visit the 20th TFW & their F111's at RAF Upper Heyford, we were made very welcome & enjoyed some great hospitality courtesy of the USAF, a brilliant day out
I have two friends who were born at the hospital at RAF Mildenhall. Their fathers were Americans and their mother's British. There must have been a lot of "activity" in and around Mildenhall.
We would have been beaten by Hitler but for the Americans. England should never forget the debt that we owe the United States. Sadly there are plenty of young people that have no concept of history and have never even been taught about the two world wars, when America came to our aid.
Rubbish, we beat them back during the Battle of Britain, after which Hitler turned his focus on Russia, who comprehensively drove the Germans all the way back from Stalingrad to Berlin, the Russians were in Berlin long before the Americans, they're the reason hitler shot himself, because they were on his doorstep, basic WW11 history.
My air cadet unit visit to USAF Alconbury was cancelled the morning we were supposed to go in 1969. It was flippin cold and we went to the Shuttleworth Collection instead......I'm still "harrumphing" exactly 52 years later.....
Look at Life at it's charming and fascinating best.Excellent-thanks so much for sharing
All members of the 70's Rock band "America", were US citizens brought up in an American Airbase in Hertfordshire, England.
I didn't know that.
I saw them on their first UK tour in Harrogate.
That was fascinating. I wonder how many of the people shown are still around? Hope life was kind to the newlyweds.
I would have loved living in that street with all the American muscle cars about
there was a 60 something Stingray that was just up my street in the 70s Bicester England and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT true and true
My dad was stationed at South Ruislip 1963-66. I was a young lad. Good times. Brings back memories.
Growing up in Bedfordshire & Huntingdonshire from the mid 1960s, there seemed to be US bases and US servicemen everywhere
You only have to listen to the intro music to realise how far we have come and how far we have fallen.
I wasn't even alive when this was made but we have lost something, turned in on ourselves a fractured and insular people. Where are the old ladies on the bus who would chat and gossip with the rain still dripping from their coats.
Everyone is silent now. Locked in their heads and afraid to be set free.
When England was England & there wasn’t this pc bullcrap degenerates around .
You two David's need to calm down, it's not that bad ahahaha- times change, the young arent gonna hold onto the ways of the old, and that'll be the same for the next generation and the next and the next
@@davidbrooks187 Amen, David.
@@mattc3991 yes, but sadly some the ‘young folk’ today have little or no respect for the very country they live in. Like the secondary school children in London burning the union flag that was flown at their school.
@@Jimmythefish577 every generation has that, it's not about being "young folk" it's about having a distain for authority (whether you chose to agree with it or disagree is a seperate story). Look at the flappers in the 20s, the hippies in the 60s, the Iraq war protestors. To blame it on the youth is a disservice to what it actually is.
My oh my, those lovely English girls. 👀
I don't think coaching from Peterborough football club 'The Posh' (and 4th division for ever when I was a kid) is that lucky!
"Peace Is Our Profession"
Born at RAF Upper Heyford.. stationed at RAF Croughton and RAF Alconbury..
Upper Heyford England 74 to 77 lived in Glory farms an American housing area Bicester, loved it even tho I don't think we were liked by the english community very much and yes I'm a Air Force BRAT
As an Air Cadet in the 70's I went to RAF Little Rissington on annual camp & one of our days out was to visit the 20th TFW & their F111's at RAF Upper Heyford, we were made very welcome & enjoyed some great hospitality courtesy of the USAF, a brilliant day out
1:43 - Interesting car choice for an American serviceman at left: British-registered left-hand drive Renault.
I have two friends who were born at the hospital at RAF Mildenhall. Their fathers were Americans and their mother's British. There must have been a lot of "activity" in and around Mildenhall.
Please can someone tell me what type of aircraft are those top-wing reconnaissance jets are with the twin engines under their wings?
RB-66s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_B-66_Destroyer
Does anyone know the airfield shown during the opening landing sequence?
sculthorpe norfolk
Seven bedrooms...and likely one bath and no furnace.
We would have been beaten by Hitler but for the Americans. England should never forget the debt that we owe the United States. Sadly there are plenty of young people that have no concept of history and have never even been taught about the two world wars, when America came to our aid.
Rubbish, we beat them back during the Battle of Britain, after which Hitler turned his focus on Russia, who comprehensively drove the Germans all the way back from Stalingrad to Berlin, the Russians were in Berlin long before the Americans, they're the reason hitler shot himself, because they were on his doorstep, basic WW11 history.
@@beyergarret123 I take you've never heard of "Lend Lease".
America virtually bankrupted us and made us give up most of out territories, if that is what you like to call helping us!
Raymond Shaw returned stolen territories to rightful owners.
@@AA-mj8ot well written aa
What a splendid nuclear armed occupation.
🇬🇧🇺🇸 xx
USAF Alconbury ?
Back when you learned stuff in school.
Pip Pip Cheerio
Bob’s your uncle
Helping the over 60s club 🤣! Good grief they are running the world now.
"Overpaid, oversexed and over Here". 😁
‘One yank and they’re down’
J
Jesus most of those school kids at the start looked in their 30s!
When Britain was great!
it was never great