World War Two: Evidence of damage/stuff left over now.
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On a much smaller scale, a friend I've lost contact with used to work as a cabinet maker.
One fine day, he's running a load or German deal wood through the saw, when the blade snagged something. It had hit, and cut neatly through, a .45 full metal jacketed bullet, taking the top off at an angle.
We presumed, that it would have been fired circa mid 1940's, from a Thompson sub machine gun, and remained in the tree for 50 odd years until the saw revealed it?
One fine day, he's running a load or German deal wood through the saw, when the blade snagged something. It had hit, and cut neatly through, a .45 full metal jacketed bullet, taking the top off at an angle.
We presumed, that it would have been fired circa mid 1940's, from a Thompson sub machine gun, and remained in the tree for 50 odd years until the saw revealed it?
village in france left how it was sinse the war
http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
steveo3002 said:
village in france left how it was sinse the war
http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
Went to Oradour in April - very very sobering indeed.http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
Not much to add, one of the dog walking haunts was an American Army training camp and you can still find the concrete paths and building foundationsbut no war damage so not really on topic.
Likewise it's still rumoured, but never been confirmed officially, that one of the reasons that the Bewdley bridge over the Severn can still carry heavy traffic today is because of secret strengthening work to permit passage of tanks in case of invasion.
Speaking of tanks, as a sprog we visited relatives in Gosport. Remember asking why seemingly random stretches of road were concrete. Apparently this was where tanks queued up prior to D-day embarkation and it was to prevent damage as they turned the tighter corners.
Likewise it's still rumoured, but never been confirmed officially, that one of the reasons that the Bewdley bridge over the Severn can still carry heavy traffic today is because of secret strengthening work to permit passage of tanks in case of invasion.
Speaking of tanks, as a sprog we visited relatives in Gosport. Remember asking why seemingly random stretches of road were concrete. Apparently this was where tanks queued up prior to D-day embarkation and it was to prevent damage as they turned the tighter corners.
Mr Happy said:
I'm sure that this building in Hull was left as it was when it was hit by one of the hundreds of bombs dropped there during WW2.
I was going to mention this, but I don't know where it is in Hull. What street is it on?The odd thing is I love stuff like this - hence the thread - I lived in Hill for three years and knew nothing about it.
Hull, like parts of Sunderland is one of those forgotten victims of bombing. Both places really took a pasting and it's hard to explain, but it seems in some way parts of those towns never really recovered from the Blitz. I wish I could describe it better.
Condi said:
I used to farm outside Hull and we had lines of bomb holes in the fields. Usually when the bombers came under attack they would just dump them bombs for extra speed, and so the landscape was full of them.
Wasn't Hull where they built a dummy harbour out in the fields as a decoy? I think they built streets with dummy tram lines and such like, and maybe this is why the bombs were dropped in "your" fields.mcelliott said:
steveo3002 said:
village in france left how it was sinse the war
http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
Went to Oradour in April - very very sobering indeed.http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
philthy said:
mcelliott said:
steveo3002 said:
village in france left how it was sinse the war
http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
Went to Oradour in April - very very sobering indeed.http://secondworldwar.co.uk/index.php/massacre-at-...
loafer123 said:
I have a copy of the London Bomb Damage maps which shows the extent of damage caused by bombs in Greater London during WW2 and the location of each V2 rocket landing.
Absolutely fascinating.
They might be the ones that were used to create the Bomb Sight website;Absolutely fascinating.
http://www.bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900
Covers 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941. The pattern of red over certain areas is mind blowing.
FiF said:
Not much to add, one of the dog walking haunts was an American Army training camp and you can still find the concrete paths and building foundationsbut no war damage so not really on topic.
Likewise it's still rumoured, but never been confirmed officially, that one of the reasons that the Bewdley bridge over the Severn can still carry heavy traffic today is because of secret strengthening work to permit passage of tanks in case of invasion.
Speaking of tanks, as a sprog we visited relatives in Gosport. Remember asking why seemingly random stretches of road were concrete. Apparently this was where tanks queued up prior to D-day embarkation and it was to prevent damage as they turned the tighter corners.
Don't forget nearby Drakelow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakelow_Tunnels -- worth a visitLikewise it's still rumoured, but never been confirmed officially, that one of the reasons that the Bewdley bridge over the Severn can still carry heavy traffic today is because of secret strengthening work to permit passage of tanks in case of invasion.
Speaking of tanks, as a sprog we visited relatives in Gosport. Remember asking why seemingly random stretches of road were concrete. Apparently this was where tanks queued up prior to D-day embarkation and it was to prevent damage as they turned the tighter corners.
Next time i'm at my mums i'll try to remember to get a picture of her Grand Piano. It was pretty much the only thing left standing in 1942 when a bomb landed in the back garden of their house in West London. The woodwork is fully of scars and shrapnel! (Amazingly, it still sounds fine ;-)
(The Family, including my Mum, who was 6 at the time, were hiding in the cellar at the time, and escaped without serious injury. Mum doesn't remember being scared, but remembers that she could hardly hear for a few hrs afterwards (due to the blast pressure) and everyone was shouting to try to make themselves heard!)
(The Family, including my Mum, who was 6 at the time, were hiding in the cellar at the time, and escaped without serious injury. Mum doesn't remember being scared, but remembers that she could hardly hear for a few hrs afterwards (due to the blast pressure) and everyone was shouting to try to make themselves heard!)
There's St Luke's church in Liverpool city centre which was badly damaged during a bombing and has been left as a shell as a memorial. It's affectionately known as 'the bombed out church'. There's also lots of shrapnel damage to the stone fronts on the city centre buildings and docks, some of which has only started to be repaired in the last few years. Further north in front of the docks are the foundations for anti-aircraft guns which were used to defend the docks.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Dudley+Dr,+Gla...
Dudley Drive, Glasgow. Note the different style of the buildings at the front. Replacements for houses destroyed by a land mine in 1941. 35 killed.
Dudley Drive, Glasgow. Note the different style of the buildings at the front. Replacements for houses destroyed by a land mine in 1941. 35 killed.
Up until around 2000 the lower end of Tottenham Court road had a row of small temporary looking shops on the Western side. All single storey I think and looking very out of place. They were replacements for bombed buildings and you could see the shapes of the roofs of the vanished buildings on the walls of higher buildings behind.
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