 Jeff Ewing  | 08 Apr 2015 7:20 a.m. PST |
A Mapquest map showing bomb strikes in London: link |
| Kelly Armstrong | 08 Apr 2015 7:42 a.m. PST |
Wow, Jerry was pretty good at hitting inside the London Beltway . . . |
| Wackmole9 | 08 Apr 2015 7:50 a.m. PST |
have you every seen the map like this of Antwerp for just 1944 it amazing anything survived. |
 enfant perdus | 08 Apr 2015 7:55 a.m. PST |
Imagine what realtors could've done with this. "The price is a bit higher than we were expecting." "Yes, but as you can see from the map, Jerry hasn't landed a bomb anywhere near here. Bomb-proof neighborhoods are very desirable right now. It's a sellers market." |
| Matsuru Sami Kaze | 08 Apr 2015 8:07 a.m. PST |
Imagine what Berlin bombstrikes must look like. goog gawd yawl. |
| 45thdiv | 08 Apr 2015 8:14 a.m. PST |
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| JimDuncanUK | 08 Apr 2015 8:21 a.m. PST |
I'm told that the RAF and the USAAF dropped more bombs on Germany in one day than the Luftwaffe dropped on London during the entire Blitz. We're gonna need a bigger map. |
| Andrew Walters | 08 Apr 2015 8:32 a.m. PST |
Seems like they missed the railway lines improbably often. |
 ColCampbell | 08 Apr 2015 8:40 a.m. PST |
And here is the UK National Archives page for the entire project. Lots more information available. link Jim |
| FreddBloggs | 08 Apr 2015 9:15 a.m. PST |
Actually it shows what bloody idiots the Luftwaffe planners were. Look at the map on the western edge for Harefield, follow the Grand Union Canal, you see a few bombs, carry on the map to where Park Lane Crosses the Canal, the area devoid of bombs even close. That was the Harefield Rubber Company, the third largest one in the country, then think just how important rubber was, for tires, seals and who knows what else…. |
 Saber6  | 08 Apr 2015 10:14 a.m. PST |
Interesting point Fred. I looked at a Rail yard (Heavers Meadow) and there are few bombs marked |
| enfant perdus | 08 Apr 2015 12:13 p.m. PST |
then think just how important rubber was Exactly. Roosevelt formed the Rubber Reserve Company in June 1940. Shortly after the fall of SE Asia and the Indies, the major rubber companies were gathered and told if they couldn't figure out how to manufacture at least 400,000 tons of synthetic rubber per year by 1943, we could not win the war. Meanwhile, the Germans… |
| Charlie 12 | 08 Apr 2015 1:25 p.m. PST |
Seemed to lack a strategic objective. Unless they were following Douhet's ideas to the letter. |
| Jeff Ewing | 08 Apr 2015 3:13 p.m. PST |
Seems like they missed the railway lines improbably often. Supposedly British bomber crews joked that they did not hit the cathedral in Cologne because they used it as their main aiming point! |
 20thmaine | 08 Apr 2015 4:46 p.m. PST |
Well, looks like I can narrow down to about three bombs the detonation that blew out my grandparent's windows. Interesting link – thanks ! |
| jgibbons | 08 Apr 2015 5:31 p.m. PST |
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| JCD1964 | 08 Apr 2015 11:08 p.m. PST |
A very interesting site. I can see the aerial mine that nearly blew my dad and his family to bits in Ilford, as well as the bomb that wrecked my grandmother's house in Blackheath. |
| PiersBrand | 09 Apr 2015 2:12 a.m. PST |
Wow… Someone dropped an HE in the back of my Nans house… Luckily her house wasnt built till 1960 so a narrow escape! Her house was built in the grounds of a manor house that was an Observer Corp post as it had several high towers and sat upon a high hill. Her home in Balham during the war seems to have weathered a storm unharmed. |
| Doug em4miniatures | 09 Apr 2015 4:11 a.m. PST |
Is there one of these for other places? I'd like to see the strike that took out our house in Liverpool (before I was born, I hasten to add). Doug |
| Martin Rapier | 11 Apr 2015 8:24 a.m. PST |
It doesn't seem to show incendiaries (at least not the one which hit my Dads house). I think there are a few of these surveys including one for V1 and V2 strikes. |
