| Bomb sites on 14:15 - Dec 5 with 1913 views | chris1969 |
Buckingham Palace got very lucky they were obviously targeting it and managed too miss everytime. |  | |  |
| Bomb sites on 14:21 - Dec 5 with 1898 views | TheBlob |
I think they deliberately targeted my nan,she got blown up twice. |  |
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| Bomb sites on 14:39 - Dec 5 with 1877 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Bomb sites on 14:21 - Dec 5 by TheBlob |
I think they deliberately targeted my nan,she got blown up twice. |
I suppose, after the first time, when she put herself back together, they just got mad and it became personal.  |  |
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| Bomb sites on 14:42 - Dec 5 with 1873 views | TheBlob |
| Bomb sites on 14:39 - Dec 5 by BrianMcCarthy |
I suppose, after the first time, when she put herself back together, they just got mad and it became personal. |
Especially since when the third one didn't go off they found the message on the 1000 pounder. "Zis is for you Willesden Nan schweinhund." | |
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| Bomb sites on 14:44 - Dec 5 with 1869 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| Bomb sites on 14:42 - Dec 5 by TheBlob |
Especially since when the third one didn't go off they found the message on the 1000 pounder. "Zis is for you Willesden Nan schweinhund." |
Mein Gott, she has put herzelf back zegether again! We will eliminate Robogran! | |
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| Bomb sites on 14:45 - Dec 5 with 1863 views | pomanjou |
| Bomb sites on 12:48 - Dec 5 by A40Bosh |
Wish I had never opened this thread!!!!
That's the rest of the day now gone reading accounts of life during the war in Eastcote and Ruislip.
Compared to central Londoners us Suburbanites would have gotten off lightly!!!
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At the Memorial Park, Pinner at, the Heath Robinson Exhibition in the West House Museum are a mass of local photographs of bomb damage and a detailed map of all bombs dropped in the area which may be of interest to you.
As a boy I lived in Grimsby at the time and the nearest a bomb dropped was about 200 yds away; close enough to feel it! We only got bombed when the krauts failed to reach Sheffield steel etc and they just dropped indescriminately on built up areas. |  |
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| Bomb sites on 15:00 - Dec 5 with 1851 views | kensalriser |
Amazing really that people went about their everyday lives through that. My grandad was an ARP Warden. I can't imagine what he saw, he never spoke about the war. All we've got to moan about is poxy football. |  |
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| Bomb sites on 15:01 - Dec 5 with 1848 views | TheBlob |
| Bomb sites on 14:44 - Dec 5 by BrianMcCarthy |
Mein Gott, she has put herzelf back zegether again! We will eliminate Robogran! |
She was eventually discovered face down in a packing crate.Melbourne,1967,clutching a mysterious piece of paper.Message read....
"Zo,you think you can escape the Third Reich?Eat cyanide Hida.Sincerely yours A.Hitler,Buenos Aires" | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:05 - Dec 5 with 1843 views | HantsR |
Thanks for that link Metallica; it overcomes the 404 error problem and I can get into the main site.
I'll be interested to find the East End site that did for one set of grandparents and an aunt in 1941 - my mum and her sister were dug out of the rubble. |  | | |
| Bomb sites on 15:08 - Dec 5 with 1838 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Jerry spent far to much time pissing about with his planes to win by bombing.
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| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| Bomb sites on 15:09 - Dec 5 with 1836 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Bomb sites on 15:05 - Dec 5 by HantsR |
Thanks for that link Metallica; it overcomes the 404 error problem and I can get into the main site.
I'll be interested to find the East End site that did for one set of grandparents and an aunt in 1941 - my mum and her sister were dug out of the rubble. |
Cool glad it helped. | |
| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| Bomb sites on 15:14 - Dec 5 with 1830 views | TheBlob |
| Bomb sites on 15:08 - Dec 5 by Metallica_Hoop |
Jerry spent far to much time pissing about with his planes to win by bombing.
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Made the fatal error of switching attention to the Eastern Front.Phew,that was close.
The exclamation "one small step for man,a giant leap for mankind" was supposed to have been used by an engineer seeing the first (german)jet powered bomber take off,Armstrong nicked it. | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:16 - Dec 5 with 1825 views | Metallica_Hoop |
That wouldn't suprise me. US nicked most of them after the war. | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:16 - Dec 5 with 1825 views | W7Ranger |
My Grandad was on his way home from work (think it was a factory where weapons were being made) with his best mate when a Doodble Bug appeared overhead and stopped directly above them! They immediately feared the worse and shook hands with each other in a "well, this is it" moment as they waited for it to drop to the ground...
Fortunately for them (and me!) it exploded in the air!!!!
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| Bomb sites on 15:21 - Dec 5 with 1816 views | TheBlob |
| Bomb sites on 15:16 - Dec 5 by Metallica_Hoop |
That wouldn't suprise me. US nicked most of them after the war. |
We gifted the Yanks a Whittle Jet engine and the Cavity Magnetron(radar)and they've made trillions out of them since.Did they thank us?Did they bollocks.Even made us cancel the TSR2 and with government collusion made sure they were the first through the sound barrier when we were about to pip them.
Bastards. | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:24 - Dec 5 with 1424 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Bomb sites on 15:21 - Dec 5 by TheBlob |
We gifted the Yanks a Whittle Jet engine and the Cavity Magnetron(radar)and they've made trillions out of them since.Did they thank us?Did they bollocks.Even made us cancel the TSR2 and with government collusion made sure they were the first through the sound barrier when we were about to pip them.
Bastards. |
If only the 'Comet had had round windows too 
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| Beer and Beef has made us what we are - The Prince Regent |
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| Bomb sites on 15:26 - Dec 5 with 1420 views | TheBlob |
| Bomb sites on 15:24 - Dec 5 by Metallica_Hoop |
If only the 'Comet had had round windows too
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Lovely plane in the end though.Should never have cancelled Nimrod. | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:28 - Dec 5 with 1413 views | Metallica_Hoop |
| Bomb sites on 15:26 - Dec 5 by TheBlob |
Lovely plane in the end though.Should never have cancelled Nimrod. |
I agree 100%
Or the Harrier or our Carriers until the other two are build, yet I hear we are giving 2Billion to 3rd world 'eco' projects.
As they say in Codename: Warlord "ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH"  | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:43 - Dec 5 with 1393 views | Metallica_Hoop |
Cheers Blobby some good stuff there.
I can see one slight problem with the six engine jet though, the afterburners all seem to point at the tail Airilons  | |
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| Bomb sites on 15:52 - Dec 5 with 1385 views | HollowayRanger |
| Bomb sites on 15:14 - Dec 5 by TheBlob |
Made the fatal error of switching attention to the Eastern Front.Phew,that was close.
The exclamation "one small step for man,a giant leap for mankind" was supposed to have been used by an engineer seeing the first (german)jet powered bomber take off,Armstrong nicked it. |
read long ago the germans could have won ww2 very easily after dunkirk by simple invading
malta!
malta was like a knife in rommels ribs we sunk most of his africa korps supplies while monty got most of his ,if malta had been taken by germans then rommel would have got all his supplies and monty few of his = german victory in africa ie egypt = middle east = all that lovely oil something the germans were always short off |  |
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| Bomb sites on 15:57 - Dec 5 with 1385 views | KernowRanger |
| Bomb sites on 15:52 - Dec 5 by HollowayRanger |
read long ago the germans could have won ww2 very easily after dunkirk by simple invading
malta!
malta was like a knife in rommels ribs we sunk most of his africa korps supplies while monty got most of his ,if malta had been taken by germans then rommel would have got all his supplies and monty few of his = german victory in africa ie egypt = middle east = all that lovely oil something the germans were always short off |
My grandfather was Maltese, and to hear some of the stories he had was just incredible. In just ONE day, Malta had the same number of bombs dropped on it as dropped on London during the whole of the blitz! |  | | |
| Bomb sites on 16:09 - Dec 5 with 1372 views | HollowayRanger |
| Bomb sites on 15:57 - Dec 5 by KernowRanger |
My grandfather was Maltese, and to hear some of the stories he had was just incredible. In just ONE day, Malta had the same number of bombs dropped on it as dropped on London during the whole of the blitz! |
i know mates dad was a gunner there
we sent tons of stuff there as it was vital to hold on to it | |
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| Bomb sites on 16:17 - Dec 5 with 1367 views | A40Bosh |
What a great thread for a Weds afternoon, full of interesting stories and information about WW2 and not a single line of negativity anywhere about how sh#t SWP and Bosing................
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| Bomb sites on 17:57 - Dec 5 with 1339 views | MrSheen |
My grandmother used to clean houses in Golders Green. She told me that one of the very first bombs dropped on London landed there. Some of the inhabitants, including one of her employers, thought it was deliberate targetting by the Nazis and decided to blend in with the wider population for safety...at the Cumberland Hotel in Marble Arch. Hitler must have heard because he gave Hyde Park a right pounding. |  | | |
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