Re: London blitz map
Sun Dec 09, 2012 8:45 am
Ed Walters wrote:http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205018034
I assume this is Northolt camouflaged as described above!
It would seem so, as it looks like you can see what looks like the fake river flowing through the middle of the airfield.
That photo is taken looking south.
I've marked an approx outline of the airfield in yellow, and have circled in red the area to the south of the A40 roundabout junction where the cluster of bombs landed as shown on the Bombsite map I posted earlier.
Re: London blitz map
Sun Dec 09, 2012 4:56 pm
I've been reminded, thanks to my friend Brett Holman's blog, that of course they shouldn't have been bombing any airfields; "It's The Blitz, Stupid"*, i.e. the period the Luftwaffe switched from the RAF's airfields to strategic industrial / terror** bombing.
Brett's blog comment: http://airminded.org/2012/12/10/nearly-all-the-bombs/
Notable also, is that Brett points out that there's rather a lot of bombs missing, as it's a partial listing for the period, not the lot.
On that note, touching on a point well made earlier, if I lived on the spot where there's a longer gap in a line of red dots than the rest, I'd be checking to see if a dud had been defused; or looking to move house!
Regards,
*Non-literary illusion, not an insult.
**Chose adjective based on Axis / Allied allegiance.
Brett's blog comment: http://airminded.org/2012/12/10/nearly-all-the-bombs/
Notable also, is that Brett points out that there's rather a lot of bombs missing, as it's a partial listing for the period, not the lot.
On that note, touching on a point well made earlier, if I lived on the spot where there's a longer gap in a line of red dots than the rest, I'd be checking to see if a dud had been defused; or looking to move house!
Regards,
*Non-literary illusion, not an insult.
**Chose adjective based on Axis / Allied allegiance.