The London Blitz

Really cool Chocolate, thanks for sharing it!

One landed not far from my house, crazy it was that was widespread, I'm right on the outskirts. Would be interesting to know where London lived, he looks like a lucky man.


From my local newspaper website (With a little editing):

"A week after D.Day over a period of 9 months, four German crude and noisy V1 flying bombs dubbed ‘Doodlebugs’, or ‘Buzzbombs’ flew in from France or Holland and crashed in various places in the locality. These loud and destructive incursions happened into "mytowns" airspace between June 1944 and April 1945. The last one in Surrey fell opposite the Canlo Club in "a" Road one Sunday lunchtime. Neighbouring children ran to look into the crater according to living eye witnesses. On a freezing cold Sunday the 11th of February 1945 at 2am in the morning, a V2 rocket, the product of the cutting edge of Nazi technology, and which was built by slave labour, fell on the frozen "field in my town" creating the loudest (double) bang ever heard in the district for those still awake to hear it. This particular V2 rocket had been launched from Holland (probably The Hague) just 6 minutes before. Its parabolic flight curve and 3000 mph descent and explosion broke a few windows, woke people up, and disturbed the contents of the sleepers chamber pots in "a" Lane. The evidence of the forty foot wide crater can still be seen, although it is filled in and covered with weeds."
 
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Morning guys, my wife was looking at the new bomb location map yesterday and believe it or not it did not show all the bombs which landed around me and my wife's homes.
We lived in East London , Walthamstow to be exact. My wife's house had a hit by what her mother called an "oil bomb" which failed to explode, all around us whole rows of houses were flattened. Near the end of the war we, my father and I was standing on our bomb shelter after an alert and could hear the rocket coming towards us, we called them "doodle bug's" the motor cut out and it started to dive straight for our house when, at the last moment the motor fired a couple more times just enough to lift the nose up and a it missed our house by inches. It landed about half a mile away taking out a row of houses. More civilians died during the Bombing of England than the whole of the Armed Forces. The past is the past but it has a funny way of catching up with us all.
 
I was born in SE London and our house was one of only 8 left standing after a airbourne mine took out two streets.
It is showing up on that map in Adamsrill Road.

My fathers side of the family comes from Limehouse which is next to the Docks and the furthest they moved out was to Forest Gate.

Your parents London must have become 10 pound poms???
 
I SURVIVED LONDON BLITZ said:
Morning guys, my wife was looking at the new bomb location map yesterday and believe it or not it did not show all the bombs which landed around me and my wife's homes.
We lived in East London , Walthamstow to be exact. My wife's house had a hit by what her mother called an "oil bomb" which failed to explode, all around us whole rows of houses were flattened. Near the end of the war we, my father and I was standing on our bomb shelter after an alert and could hear the rocket coming towards us, we called them "doodle bug's" the motor cut out and it started to dive straight for our house when, at the last moment the motor fired a couple more times just enough to lift the nose up and a it missed our house by inches. It landed about half a mile away taking out a row of houses. More civilians died during the Bombing of England than the whole of the Armed Forces. The past is the past but it has a funny way of catching up with us all.
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London, it is amazing to be able to hear an account first-hand. Thank you.
 
Nuclear Cowboy , one of the most memorable sites was later in the war when watching hundreds of Allied bombers pass over head on there way to bomb Germany , the sky was black with them. Very impressive.
 
LOL sorry a ten pound pome is an Englishman who only paid 10 pounds fare to Australia, pome stands for Prisoner of mother England.
 
It's so interesting, I had no idea that was the scale of the blitz, I knew it was large but that many? Blimey, but looking at it now, it's like it never happened!

I've been to London every year for practically my whole life and I still haven't seen it all.
 
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