On a road thronged with Refugees (1 Viewer)

[Horus]

Relief that it wasn't them. Pity for who it was.



Steve

 

[Mike97]

Great scene, hard to imagine what those refugees had to endure back then.

 

[Horus]

Great scene, hard to imagine what those refugees had to endure back then.

Thanks Mike ! :salute::

Certainly those on the Continent had what must have felt like a lifetime under the Nazi Yoke and a terrible time it must of been without knowing when or if there was any light at the end of the tunnel in the early days !.
Just the stories my parents, who would recant of the war years, when as children they'd see German Bombers flying low enough to see the pilot as they dropped bombs near my Grandparents home on the Woking Road, to my Dad experiencing a Doddle bug engines cutting out almost overhead as he was doing the Bakers round on bike in Worplesdon ! Of course today's generation breaks down with stress if they can't get the latest play station on the day it comes out !

Steve

 

[wayne556517]

SUPERB :salute::

 

[villagehorse]

Just a moment in history captured so well Steve. Robin.

 

[jason foote]

Fantastic photos. We all love toy soldiers but war sucks

 

[Desertkiwi]

Steve, reminds me of the opening scene in the 1969 'Battle of Britain' movie

 

[Horus]

SUPERB :salute::

Just a moment in history captured so well Steve. Robin.

Fantastic photos. We all love toy soldiers but war sucks

Steve, reminds me of the opening scene in the 1969 'Battle of Britain' movie

Thanks for the comments guys ! :salute::

And Thank God Britain wasn't invaded !

Steve

 

[Guy]

Absolutely magnificent.
My parents ( my mother and her family,- father was in the Belgian army as an artillery liaison officer) were amongst the refugees who fled to France . They were not well received by our Southern neighbours. and upon their return, when France had capitulated, they found 2 German officers who had requisitioned their home . They could move in again but the Germans stayed for the duration of the war, until the city was liberated in Sept 1944
Guy

 

[Larry Allen]

A different and nice interpretation of the opening events of WWII.
I reminds me of a scene in the mini-series .. The Winds of War .... where the refuges were under constant attack from the German fighter planes.

--- LaRRy

 

[Horus]

Absolutely magnificent.
My parents ( my mother and her family,- father was in the Belgian army as an artillery liaison officer) were amongst the refugees who fled to France . They were not well received by our Southern neighbours. and upon their return, when France had capitulated, they found 2 German officers who had requisitioned their home . They could move in again but the Germans stayed for the duration of the war, until the city was liberated in Sept 1944
Guy

Interesting family history Guy. I guess it must of happened a lot with so many refugees having run from the invading Germans. Thanks for sharing. :salute::

Steve

A different and nice interpretation of the opening events of WWII.
I reminds me of a scene in the mini-series .. The Winds of War .... where the refuges were under constant attack from the German fighter planes.

--- LaRRy

Thanks Larry
Say Winds of War and I immediately think of Robert Mitchum, but the Heaven knows Mr Allison, Mitchum playing the Gyrene in the film that he starred with Deborah Kerr who played the Nun !

Steve