Air Raid Sirens followed by the All Clear (Very good quality recording)

A recording of the Carter Gents air-raid sirens and all-clear that would have been a very familiar sound to all civilians in Britain from 1939 - 1945 along with bombing, destroyed cities and thousands killed each night under the heavy bombing raids by the Luftwaffe.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• air raid sirens
• all-clear siren
• blitz
• London
• wartime

[Anders2185]

@matforsbon "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." I have every sympathy for German civilians, but just remember who started it and why.

[hotelmario510]

I find this sound fascinating and at the same time disturbing.

[LivingInEnvy]

@Anders2185 America was worse than than the Nazi's actually with the assistance of British Air Force as far as bombings. They literally turned a civillian city to glass, creating fire storms that sucked the people in burning them alive. And that was just one poor defenseless city, think of all the rest. America isn't nearly as innocent as people think, we have done much of the same things as the Nazi's. Just Hitler decided to take on the world and couldn't. America is a bit more powerful.

[therealdeal989]

I am so glad that I have not heard this sound as a precursor to "incoming" devastation. We use 2 to call in the Volunteer Emergency Responders though. I can hear them 6 miles away.

[The0rangePanda]

Scary as fuck, if I ever heard this I would immediately smoke a fuck load of weed till I pass out.

[tandreww2002]

@timHYPERLITE Yes it was. It gave us quite a scare until we learned that they were just malfunctioning.

[timHYPERLITE]

@tandreww2002 was it a nuclear warning?

[tandreww2002]

When I was in the US Navy serving on board a Submarine we had a siren that sounded just like this, though it meant something entirely different, at the sub base that I was at. One night the sirens malfunctioned and the whole entire night the "air raid" siren was going off along with a few other every once in a while. It was an interesting night.

[ThisIsForSOAP]

How do i download this?



[JayinHogtown]

My father was born in London in early WWII, and grew up with this echoing through London almost every night. When he moved to Canada in the 60s, a fire truck siren sent him under his table at a restaurant on his first day in Canada. Even into the 90s, I couldn't play the NHL games on the computer, as the air raid siren in that game would make him shiver and sweat. Long after Hitler's death, the war still has it's victims.

[DSDMovies]

Even without the connection to impending bombing, the sound is frightening by itself.