"Did a Nazi bomb fall on your house?"

Mujja · 9 Apr 2015 at 15:51

MooMoo444 said:
What does the map in the OP represent, are the red dots muslim families?

I see what you tried to do there but you failed, wrong religion and so last century.

Mujja · 9 Apr 2015 at 15:55

They got the zoo twice

DXP55 · 9 Apr 2015 at 15:55

I lived in Birmingham and just past next terrace down was a bomb site - we played on it till we left in 1951 - My Dad was almost blind in one eye so they wouldn't have him in services so he was ambulance driver at night going round bombing with a sack picking up body part's - He never spoke about the war - my Mom told me.

Dave

Ryan-3 · 9 Apr 2015 at 15:55

I didn't realise they came as close to where I live in WW1. :eek:

Soon as I opened the link it talks about Zeppelin L9 at Blyth and the surrounding area! I knew they did in WW2, as they tried to flatten the areas around the docklands.

Sega Mega Dave · 9 Apr 2015 at 16:12

I can't believe they didn't try and do a smiley face. Disappointing bomb positioning.

TheMightyTen · 9 Apr 2015 at 16:28

Efour said:
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.

It does have the bombed cathedral shell, but it's not in the middle of a roundabout, it's next door to the modern Cathedral opposite the University and backing onto the last couple of medieval lanes left in the city, so if you were driving around there you were lost

Tunney · 9 Apr 2015 at 17:23

Looks like one was dropped about 10 meters from our house. No wonder our road is such a mix of architectures!

inogen · 9 Apr 2015 at 17:33

Both of the houses I lived in have red dots on them.

Would make sense of the great big cracks up the walls in the second one.

Gerard · 9 Apr 2015 at 17:41

Parachute mines and high explosive bombs, does it also list doodlebug and v2 impacts?

Puzzled · 9 Apr 2015 at 21:21

Efour said:
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.

Plymouth has that, right next to the city shopping centre.

Was looking through pics of Bristol before ww2 and its crazy how much was lost and also how it's only recently some of the sites have been redeveloped.

Castle park has a bombed shell of a church as a reminder but seeing pics of the area before the war is like looking at a different city.

Jumper118 · 9 Apr 2015 at 22:37

nope. it was a field in 1945 so they would have to do some time wrap stuff to bomb my house.

lazieb · 9 Apr 2015 at 23:37

A few roads away from my house but nothing on target!

rare · 9 Apr 2015 at 23:55

Thanks for sharing, very interesting project. The fear must have been quite terrible, the noise of the sirens, the explosions. Nasty stuff.

Judgeneo · 9 Apr 2015 at 23:59

Efour said:
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.

Only if by roundabout you mean ringroad

Rroff · 10 Apr 2015 at 01:24

3 HE bombs around 100m from my old flat in London but nothing closer. (Around 30 within half a mile).

dunker · 10 Apr 2015 at 02:04

dissapointed it's only london. though would'nt be surprised if we had bombs near here, as appuldurcombe house/monument was bombed and we ar'nt far from that on the island.

Participant · 10 Apr 2015 at 06:48

DXP55 said:
going round bombing with a sack picking up body part's - He never spoke about the war - my Mom told me.

I'm not surprised he never spoke about it if he went around bombing then picking up the body parts

Hades · 10 Apr 2015 at 07:24

They hit my old school. But I knew that anyway as there was a picture on the wall of the school with a hole in the roof. Luckily it didn't explode.

Also hit a house a few doors away from my old house. Again that was obvious though because it was the only newer house in the road.

Orionaut · 10 Apr 2015 at 08:00

The thing that I always find interesting about stories like this is....

How people always talk about "How the NAZI's did XXXX"

The NAZI's were a political organisation not a people with a unique national/ethnic identity.

It was "Germans" who did all this!

Terminal_Boy · 10 Apr 2015 at 08:25

Orionaut said:
The thing that I always find interesting about stories like this is....

How people always talk about "How the NAZI's did XXXX"

The NAZI's were a political organisation not a people with a unique national/ethnic identity.

It was "Germans" who did all this!

Why have you capitalised "Nazi"? It's not an acronym, but merely a handy way of indicating a supporter of the NSDAP.