The Blitz

[Born Hunter 17,832]

For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII.

 

http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941

 

Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!

[walshie 2,804]

Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house.

[mackem 27,843]

The luftwaffe also bombed the vickers factory at brooklands near weybridge 83 killed,and theres a sad wooden cross in weybridge cem for a family,mum,dad,daughter and grand daughter who had their house flattened by a stray bomb,must have been terrible times to live through,i will have a look at that link.

[Born Hunter 17,832]

Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house.

 

I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really.

 

Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year.

[paulus 26]

 

Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house.

 

I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really.

 

Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year.

 

http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/lancaster-crashes-in-lincolnshire-lancaster-crash-sites

 

and http://aircrashsites.co.uk/

[Born Hunter 17,832]

I think the first casualtys in British soil were on Hartlepools ' Headland.

Then either Redcar or Scarbrough ?

 

I wouldn't know but London certainly wasn't the only place that suffered. The North and the Midlands was the home of the country's heavy industry so I believe I'm correct when I say that the Luftwaffe's tactical bombing was directed there to inhibit British ability to fight. But The Blitz, which the original link is more about, had a different military objective, it was psychological warfare, crush the enemies will to fight.

 

Obviously I've seen all the pictures before but just thought this simple map gave a little more perspective. The shear density of hits in less than a year is eye opening.

Edited May 10, 2016 by Born Hunter

[DogFox123 1,379]

For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII.

 

http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941

 

Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!

We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden.

[Born Hunter 17,832]

 

For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII.

 

http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941

 

Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!

We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden.

 

 

This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up!

 

And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital!

Edited May 10, 2016 by Born Hunter

[DogFox123 1,379]

 

 

 

For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII.

 

http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941

 

Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!

We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden.

This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up!

 

And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital!

Nazi's industry capital? News to me that one. Why did it take us till the war was nearly over to realise this?

 

We actually found a Bomb at Port Talbot working on the railway.

[Born Hunter 17,832]

 

 

 

For anyone interested I found this site that has mapped every bomb that hit London during WWII.

http://bombsight.org/#10/51.5079/-0.0941

 

Absolutely unreal when you look at it. Strategic bombing! Just flatten everything!

We weren't exactly strategic when we bombed the fcuk out of Dresden.

This isn't a "oh look how evil they were to us" post. If you have a similar map for Dresden stick it up!

 

And as a matter of fact Dresden was a Strategic bombing. The same as the Blitz. At least though Dresden had a tactical angle of being the Nazi's Industry capital!

Nazi's industry capital? News to me that one. Why did it take us till the war was nearly over to realise this?

We actually found a Bomb at Port Talbot working on the railway.

It didn't take to the end of the war. It took to the end of the war for it to become a priority target for tactical as well as strategic reasons. Edited May 10, 2016 by Born Hunter

[keepitcovert 842]

Just this week there has been a memorial service in Hull marking 75 years since the blitz on the city, Hull was never named in reports about the bombing it was always refered to as a north east coast town, yet it suffered some of the worst raids in 1941 most of the centre was flattened over 2 nights with over 400 killed in those 2 nights. Between Hull and the coast lies the village of patrington and on the marshland they dug out lakes in the same shape as the docks in Hull to fool the luftwaffe into bombing them instead of the real docks..There is still a bombed out cinema in hull which the council were talking of opening a museum about the blitz.

[paulus 26]

Just this week there has been a memorial service in Hull marking 75 years since the blitz on the city, Hull was never named in reports about the bombing it was always refered to as a north east coast town, yet it suffered some of the worst raids in 1941 most of the centre was flattened over 2 nights with over 400 killed in those 2 nights. Between Hull and the coast lies the village of patrington and on the marshland they dug out lakes in the same shape as the docks in Hull to fool the luftwaffe into bombing them instead of the real docks..There is still a bombed out cinema in hull which the council were talking of opening a museum about the blitz.

They did similar in Germany, The Luftwaffe base at Gutersloh was designed so all the airfield could be flooded and made to look like a lake, it was not until someone got a picture of a cow standing in the middle of the lake that the deception was uncovered

[kanny 20,955]

 

 

I think the first casualtys in British soil were on Hartlepools ' Headland.

Then either Redcar or Scarbrough ?

 

I wouldn't know but London certainly wasn't the only place that suffered. The North and the Midlands was the home of the country's heavy industry so I believe I'm correct when I say that the Luftwaffe's tactical bombing was directed there to inhibit British ability to fight. But The Blitz, which the original link is more about, had a different military objective, it was psychological warfare, crush the enemies will to fight.

 

Obviously I've seen all the pictures before but just thought this simple map gave a little more perspective. The shear density of hits in less than a year is eye opening.

My grandfather was at RHP when it got bombed he lost a cousin in that bombing to ... nothing compared to London though that map shows how horrific it must have been. Edited May 10, 2016 by kanny

[treecreeper 1,136]

There was a unexploded bomb found in a place I used to fish was a problem and they dropped the water level down. Bomb squad came and blew it up I think. Would of been alright casting in and blowing half the water out the lake ?

[kanny 20,955]

 

 

Nice find BH. I've just seen the one that left shrapnel marks in the back of my old house.

 

I'd love to see a similar map for the whole of the UK, including plane crash sites too. I live in Bomber country so be of more interest to me really.

 

Still, quite amazing (if that's the appropriate word?) to see the devastation that London suffered over the period of a year.

As you say we are in bomber country ...I had a ride out out on the bike and went through screveton there's a memorial there also huge figures in the fields and quite a story behind them worth a look if you haven't seen it already