"Did a Nazi bomb fall on your house?"

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2 in the road where I grew up. Given that the road is only has 20 houses in it they'd have been pretty close.
 
LordSplodge said:
There's an Anderson Shelter buried in our back garden but according to that map no bombs fell on Derby.
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I used to live in a house in an area that was quite wealthy during the Second World War and our garden had a full concrete bunker! Dug in around 3ft underground and 3ft above with a 6 inch wall of concrete around it. Me and my mates used to use it a kind of kids hideout when I was young. There was also a chest in it which had a wardens helmet. I would imagine quite a few people went down there when the sirens went off, not just the homeowners.
 
Don't know who I dislike more, the Nazi's who dropped the bombs in the first place or the 1950's/60's town planners that came along filled in the sites with terrible concrete blights.
One aerial mine looks to be responsible for two horrific tower blocks near me, the only two remaining in the area.
I wonder if the Luftwaffe would be kind enough to revisit their work as an act of reconciliation.
 
Kind of, yes. My parents house was part demolished by a bomb. If you look at the blocks of streets around that area, every second street has a big block of flats where there should be more terraced housing, and these are in a straight line diagonally across the direction of the street. Behind and to the right of my parents house is a block of flats, and in front and to the left is another one, which were built over the rubble of the bomb blasts.

The front of my parents house is not quite level with the houses on the other side, making me think that the front wall was rebuilt from ground to roof after the bomb over the road, and before they bought it years after the war.

Checking the map, a high explosive bomb is marked over the road from my parents house, and another one on the street behind.
 
just reading lots of v1 rockets where shot down but v2s weighed 13 tons and traveled at 3000mph :eek:. but the rocket batteries where beaten back during operation market garden so they started firing them at east Anglia instead of London.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
That's very interesting, thanks! We had a V2 land a few doors down from us, which blew all the bloody doors and windows off our house. Oddly enough, it's not on that map.
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The census wasn't over the full extent of the war and the V2s came quite late (1944).

When they released the site (a year or so ago) we found the bomb that destroyed my Granddad's house. It was pretty much a direct hit, and sadly killed two of his sisters. My Granddad was severely injured including being blind for a while afterwards and never could walk properly again. Only reason he survived (and therefore I exist!) was because he was playing the piano at the time and it shielded him from the brunt of the blast.
 
My gran lost both her parents as a child during this, she herself made it to the bomb shelter at the back of the garden but her parents didn't. I'll have to ask her if she can remember the road she grew up on
 
harry5522 said:
A colleague of mine, his father was a member of the Luftwaffe. I was over at my colleague/friends house recently and he was showing me loads of memorabilia he has from his dad who was also a POW. He also had some instruments from inside the plane his dad flew. Really interesting actually!
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dont need a map to see as you can see gaps in the terraces close by the path of sticks of bombs from the he-111's that bombed the port of tyne
 
Is it Coventry that has the old bombed Cathedral/Church in the middle of the Roundabout?
I've only driven there once but i thought it was a strong memorial.
 
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