WW2 Air Raid Map - now nationwide
Discussion
Experts at the University of York and the Britain’s National Archives have created an interactive map which shows the locations of over 30,000 air raids on Britain during WW2. It has detailed accounts of when and where bombs landed in the country between 1939 and 1944.
The records span from the first bomb to land near Edinburgh (on October 16, 1939, just six weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland) to the last one on the southeast coast of England (March 29, 1945).
A similar project mapped the bombs that fell on London during the war. This is the first time the entire country has been mapped out this way.
The map is free to use at http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain
Every single pin on the map shows another bomb that fell regardless of whether it exploded. Clicking on a pin reveals information about the air raid on that area including the date, location and number of casualties. The information is downloadable.
The records span from the first bomb to land near Edinburgh (on October 16, 1939, just six weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland) to the last one on the southeast coast of England (March 29, 1945).
A similar project mapped the bombs that fell on London during the war. This is the first time the entire country has been mapped out this way.
The map is free to use at http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain
Every single pin on the map shows another bomb that fell regardless of whether it exploded. Clicking on a pin reveals information about the air raid on that area including the date, location and number of casualties. The information is downloadable.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 22 October 17:06
Cor Blimey! Sarah has been busy. Or perhaps not, as all I get from that link is a screen full of code.
I wish i'd had more time, and been more interested in the activity undertaken by EOC Group at Wimbish station when I was based there. The original maps from the 1940s, complete with all the bomb impacts marked in pencil, were stored in the archives, and slowly but surely a small section was working it's way through them, transferring the marks and notes from old 'inch scale' maps onto modern 1:50,000 maps, then digitising it all.
It was all available for modern EOD troops to use in investigation work where bombs were freshly dug up and needed dealing with. Bombs fall in patterns, and where a newly discovered bomb fits into a pattern from a known raid, old intelligence sources can be scoured for clues as to bomb size, type, and fusing even before the excavation proper is started. If only I'd paid more attention, really, I could have made some copies of those old maps relevant to where I live/used to live...
I wish i'd had more time, and been more interested in the activity undertaken by EOC Group at Wimbish station when I was based there. The original maps from the 1940s, complete with all the bomb impacts marked in pencil, were stored in the archives, and slowly but surely a small section was working it's way through them, transferring the marks and notes from old 'inch scale' maps onto modern 1:50,000 maps, then digitising it all.
It was all available for modern EOD troops to use in investigation work where bombs were freshly dug up and needed dealing with. Bombs fall in patterns, and where a newly discovered bomb fits into a pattern from a known raid, old intelligence sources can be scoured for clues as to bomb size, type, and fusing even before the excavation proper is started. If only I'd paid more attention, really, I could have made some copies of those old maps relevant to where I live/used to live...
It's http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain (without the full stop at the end) and it's still overloaded.
FourWheelDrift said:
It's http://www.warstateandsociety.com/Bombing-Britain (without the full stop at the end) and it's still overloaded.
Sorry, that's down to me (the full stop, not the overloading). OP now corrected.It's still overloaded, more's the pity.
We did a mechanical installation job on Barrow in Furness waste water plant a few years ago, I prepared the tender.
It’s the only job I have tendered that had a bomb drop map in the invitation package.
There were a lot of large excavations and structures being built on site.
The amount of bombs that were dropped on that area was astounding,
It’s the only job I have tendered that had a bomb drop map in the invitation package.
There were a lot of large excavations and structures being built on site.
The amount of bombs that were dropped on that area was astounding,
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