WII Bombing London

It is amazing. You can still see parts of London that were damaged by the bombs, the Embankment spinx for example. I was in Berlin not too long ago, nothing was left standing, it was quite literally wiped off the face of the Earth.
 
Was watching some footage from the Blitz on the history channel and there was this one man interviewed that showed how pussified we'd become as a nation.

He'd just lost his building and a family member had died but when interviewed he just said something like "That Hitler is a right rotten scoundrel, I hope we get the bugger" with absolute composure.

Nowadays, a single death on our side and we start crying "bring the boys home, this can't go on!!!!"
 
estebanrey said:
He'd just lost his building and a family member had died but when interviewed he just said something like "That Hitler is a right rotten scoundrel, I hope we get the bugger" with absolute composure.
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We were just as effective at using film for propoganda as Joseph Geobbels don't believe everything you see in newsreel reporting available from the period. London came closer to breaking than the myth created at the time, that has propogated since, would lead you to believe.
 
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Just seen this on the BBC website. I can see the bomb which landed at the end of my current road and destroyed several houses, a block of flats was later built in there place. I can also see the marker for the bomb that landed in the garden of my parents old house :).
 
Shame it hasn't got Hull on there. Outside of London, Hull was probably the city that suffered the most from the blitz. The Germans thought that Hull was the key port from which Russian convoys departed.
 
physichull said:
Shame it hasn't got Hull on there. Outside of London, Hull was probably the city that suffered the most from the blitz. The Germans thought that Hull was the key port from which Russian convoys departed.
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Think Liverpool and Merseyside was hit worse than Hull overall. It would have been a lot worse fro Liverpool too, if not for the thousands of beacon lamps that were lit each night on mountains in NE Wales. The Germans dropped thousands of bombs on the mountains thinking they were over Liverpool.
 
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