Interactive map of every bomb dropped on london from oct 1940 to June 1941

That is really interesting... My Dad took me for a walk where he lived in London during the war and showed me some of the places bombs hit. That map shows one a few houses from where he lived at the time.
 
Wow, indeed. And that represented only 9 months of bombing.

I was fortunate to have been born 35 miles north of London in Luton. We got bombed there as well.
(Vauxhall Motors made tanks.) We moved to Glasgow in 1941 to escape the bombing.

Late '44/'45 we moved back to London because the war was almost over and the bombing was all
over as well. Right?

Wrong! Because then along came the V1s and V2s. I got injured by one of these...a disability I suffer
to this day.
 
Someone on another forum asked me what a "parachute mine" was since they seen one on the map. I know some might not know what they are so:

It was a sea mine dropped by aircraft under parachute. If it landed in the water it would sink to the bottom and await for a ship or a sub. If it landed on land then a timer would start and explode 25 seconds after impact. Most of the time....

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This was just the one phase of bombing, my Dad also told me about the V1 and V2 rockets amongst other stories of things to fall from the sky during the war there.
 
That is insane, really makes you think of what those people suffered through yet never gave up. Really humbling, I think a lot of people these days would just cower and surrender.

Also really interesting to see just how accurate the Luftwaffe was, lots of hits right along the bridges and edges of the river.
 
Wow, that site just goes to show the extent of it all..Mum and Dad spent half their time in air raid shelters during 1940/41...Later bombing with V1's demolished an adjacent street and took the roof of Mums house...Londoners certainly went through it (as did those in Liverpool, Coventry, Bristol, and many other cities)..
 
The UXB crews must have been the bravest on the home front. Trying to pull a fuze out of something like that one above at the bottom of a hole, knowing that if it goes they won't find enough of you to fill a cigar box.

Rule 303 thank you for posting that.
 
They knew how to bring it back then. They didn't piss around. I bet a pic of Berlin would be solid red. They allies always did a better job.
 
drache said:
Someone on another forum asked me what a "parachute mine" was since they seen one on the map. I know some might not know what they are so:

It was a sea mine dropped by aircraft under parachute. If it landed in the water it would sink to the bottom and await for a ship or a sub. If it landed on land then a timer would start and explode 25 seconds after impact. Most of the time....

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I think these fellas must of knew what they were doing! Is it the red wire or blue?
 
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