A high school history teacher of mine was from London. He enlisted during the War and went off to some camp or other for training and basically waited there for D-day. While he was off doing this the Battle of Britain started.
His first leave he headed into London to visit his mum and dad at their flat. As he tells the story, he put on his best army duds, all spit-and-polish, set to be welcomed as the Brave Soldier Boy. First evening he's home a V1 buzz bomb flies over. He literally dives under the kitchen table as his mother calmly says, "Oh, don't worry Ian, that one's not even close." As my old teacher relates it, at that moment he knew who was really fighting the war. Don't even remember what history he taught in that course, that was what I took away from it. Can't imagine what life would have been like during the Blitz (or the bombing of Madrid, Hamburg, Tokyo, Hanoi, Stalingrad, Dresden, Manchester, etc, etc, etc...). cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: Bob W <p...@web-options.com> Sent: December 8, 2012 12/8/12 To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <pdml@pdml.net> Subject: OT: Bomb sight This is an interesting website which shows you where all the bombs landed in London during the blitz. The link is set up with the coordinates round my house, on Azof Street: <http://bombsight.org/?#16/51.4890/0.0063> When I first moved here the site at the junction with Christchurch Way was still derelict, 50 years after the war. It's been built on now. Some of the older people still living on this street were here throughout the war, while the bombs were dropping round them. From time to time while people are doing building work an unexploded bomb still turns up. The most recent near to me was on the riverside path about 10 years ago. When you zoom out of the map it's quite shocking to see how many bombs fell in such a short time. We gave as much as we got, of course. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
