London blitz map

expat · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:51 am **Posts:** 68

Interesting site , plots the bombs that fell on London during the blitz .
http://bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:37 am

Interesting. Several very random thoughts of varying seriousness:

Where's the Rose & Crown? :lol:

Bet the Luftwaffe would've like to have had this in 1940. :shock:

The b@astards missed ALL my schools.

While growing up in S London, there were a lot of gaps even as late as the 1970s which were colloquially known as 'bombsites'; some of them certainly weren't, some may well have been - it'd be interesting to compare them. At a quick look, the bombsite playground area adjacent to my primary school seems to be marked as a real bomb location.

Note also this is effectively for less than one year of bombing (although the worst period); and excludes the V-1 and V-2 attacks of 1944, where S London was harder hit than earlier.

Regards,

CDF · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 1:57 am

Sobering nod to the effectivness of knickebein (FuG28a & AW28 Auswertegerät 28)

Thanks for posting

PeterA · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:11 am

JDK wrote:

Interesting. Several very random thoughts of varying seriousness:

Where's the Rose & Crown? :lol:

Bet the Luftwaffe would've like to have had this in 1940. :shock:

The b@astards missed ALL my schools.

While growing up in S London, there were a lot of gaps even as late as the 1970s which were colloquially known as 'bombsites'; some of them certainly weren't, some may well have been - it'd be interesting to compare them. At a quick look, the bombsite playground area adjacent to my primary school seems to be marked as a real bomb location.

Note also this is effectively for less than one year of bombing (although the worst period); and excludes the V-1 and V-2 attacks of 1944, where S London was harder hit than earlier.

Regards,

A fascinating map.

Our bomb shelter marked in Red. I can just remember it.

Northolt airfield just a couple of miles to the SW.

I would be very interested to see a similar map for Darwin.

PeterA

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:31 am

PeterA wrote:

I would be very interested to see a similar map for Darwin.

Malta, on the other hand would be easy; one, big, red dot. :shock:

seagull61785 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 3:56 am

I wonder what Cologne or Dresden would look like?

JDK · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 5:10 am

seagull61785 wrote:

I wonder what Cologne or Dresden would look like?

Reaped.

There was a recent link to a European bomb-plotting map, IIRC?

Noha307 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 07, 2012 9:08 am

I found a map with all the impacts of the V-1 & V-2s in a city in the Low Countries a while back. Gimme a sec...

...here we go: http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/antwerp.html (Scroll down to near the bottom of the page)

Also found this while I was searching: http://londonist.com/2009/01/london_v2_rocket_sitesmapped.php

Firebird · **Posted:** Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:35 am

PeterA wrote:

A fascinating map.

Our bomb shelter marked in Red. I can just remember it.

Northolt airfield just a couple of miles to the SW.

As someone that was brought up in the same area as you, Peter, it's interesting to see that the Luftwaffe did an excellent job of almost completely missing RAF Northolt

It seem their main target was the area of ground south of the A40 that became Sports and Social Clubs

CDF · **Posted:** Sat Dec 08, 2012 7:10 am

Firebird wrote:

it's interesting to see that the Luftwaffe did an excellent job of almost completely missing RAF Northolt

As well as PO Prune

Quote:

Under the leadership of the station commander, Group Captain Stanley Vincent, the airfield was camouflaged to resemble civil housing. Vincent had been concerned that camouflaging the airfield as open land would look too suspicious from the air; Northolt was surrounded by housing and so a large open area would draw attention. A fake stream was painted across the main runway while the hangars were decorated to look like houses and gardens.The result was so effective that pilots flying to Northolt from other airfields often struggled to find the airfield

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Northolt#cite_ref-3

expat · **Joined:** Mon Aug 08, 2005 7:51 am **Posts:** 68

The paint bit at RAF Northolt didn't last too long , was so good the pilots couldn't find the place , this was mentioned in the small station museum that was housed in the Air Movements Section when it was in the old prefab type buildings , i was stationed there for 3.5 years .Was during my time there that the real spitfire was taken apart and sold .
Just before i left they were digging for the new gate and some poor JCB driver found a German bomb .....bet he could have turned coal to diamonds at that moment

maxum96 · **Posted:** Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:16 pm

Interesting map. The one thing I noticed (and maybe it's a coincidence) is that you can see multiple bomb hits in a straight line. Looks just like hits from an aircraft bomb run to me.

Ed Walters · **Joined:** Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:01 pm **Posts:** 4

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018034

I assume this is Northolt camouflaged as described above!

Ewan · **Joined:** Tue Mar 15, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 113

Fascinating stuff, I went for a look around my old suburb (Raynes Park) and it triggered a memory of being shown a photo by a babysitter (I was 7) of the church in Durham Rd which had taken a big hit and was basically a shell - it had been rebuilt afterward - but sure enough the bomb hit is shown on the map. Quite incredible to see just how many were dropped on London and surrounds.....

CDF · **Posted:** Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:47 am

Ed Walters wrote:

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018034
I assume this is Northolt camouflaged as described above!

Exactly

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