 Lillim
Female, 30-39, Midwest US
 260 Posts
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Monday, December 10, 2012 8:33:10 PM
Holy crap... even if the locations aren't right, that's a ridiculous number of bombs. I'd heard of the Blitz, but don't think I really understood how much happened. |
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 McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10192 Posts
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Monday, December 10, 2012 7:45:04 AM
@MacGuffin
Your country participated in those wars too nice try. How does one live with a stick so far up ones ass? |
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 Nickel2
Male, 50-59, Europe
1523 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 3:19:32 PM
Very interesting. Does not show the bombs that missed London and landed out in the country due to counter-espionage reporting of hits. There was a doodle-bug landed near my village, but not shown. |
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 MacGuffin
Female, 30-39, Europe
2597 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 7:11:38 AM
And it still didn't teach us how evil it is for one nation's Government to inflict this type of damage on the innocent civilians of another nation. Hitler still lives on in us. |
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 madduck
Female, 40-49, Europe
2828 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 4:09:27 AM
Thats interesting, the house I grew up in was hit by an incendiary bomb- and they list a bomb falling nearby at Westfields avenue but not one there. I can't even ask when this happened as my Grandmother and Aunts are now dead. when you stripped the paper off the walls you could see the damage- and the crack which ran all down the house- had it not been a terrace it would have fallen down.... |
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 Finker
Male, 40-49, Europe
480 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 4:03:19 AM
5Cats, interesting to think if another WW happened now it probably would just be one big red pin for that whole area. |
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 Sistarose
Female, 30-39, Australia
371 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 2:55:26 AM
Brings home the scary reality of the Blitz, even just a little. |
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 thenedman
Male, 18-29, Europe
225 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 1:19:58 AM
@onoffonoffon The Allies were pretty bad with their bombing as well, check out the fire bombing of Dresden |
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 onoffonoffon
Male, 30-39, Western US
1242 Posts
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Saturday, December 08, 2012 12:31:00 AM
Wow! Now I'm going to have to read up on what caused all this hatred to build up. I mean really, how pissed off do you have to be to do this to another nation and another people. Especially if by in large most people involved in the war did not personally know many or any of the opposition. And yes I know that it's a bit ironic considering from what's going on right now with my country. |
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Bakcagain21
Male, 18-29, Europe
273 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 11:58:48 PM
Had seen this before. Already knew the houses around my area that got hit. We were taken on a Blitz tour as a kid by our school. Nice to know it wasn't made up :P |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25558 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 8:38:18 PM
Ah, good old fashioned carpet-bombing.
We should do more of that. In Afghanastan for instance. |
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 5Cats
Male, 40-49, Canada
16887 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 7:02:47 PM
Interesting, but the red pins don't shrink when you expand the view: they block out everything!
If you know London well, you can zoom right in, but I don't know it at all. I'd have prefered a better "wide view" not covered with huge pins...
But thanks! It's very cool! |
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 Evil_Eye
Male, 18-29, Europe
1275 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 6:38:48 PM
My city didn't get off so easy ether...
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 patchouly
Male, 40-49, Canada
2955 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 6:37:57 PM
Amazing post! Thanks thenedman! |
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 Corydoras87
Male, 18-29, Europe
611 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 6:34:57 PM
a similar map is found in the Imperial War museum in london :) |
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thenedman
Male, 18-29, Europe
225 Posts
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Friday, December 07, 2012 5:54:19 PM
Link: London Blitz From Oct 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941 [Rate Link] - A interactive map showing every bomb dropped onto London during the Blitz in WW2 |
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