V2 Rocket Hits in London

[MasterBlaster]

This is interesting, Google mapped them out.

Just zoom in.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

London sure took a beating in WW2

 

[MasterBlaster]

All that shit back then was REALLY wack.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Big time...... They bombed the hell out of England let alone the rest of Europe. I can't even begin to imagine what it would have been like to live through it

 

[Old Monkey]

Excellent targeting.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'd like to see the damage in dollars in today's economy. WE think we have it bad, ha!

Excellent targeting.

No, there was no targeting whatsoever. Every shot was a blind shot.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

That is what was so fearsome about it... It was just a random rain of missiles...

 

[Old Monkey]

Um, then why is there such a tight cluster of hits right where London is?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Primitive ballistics and guidance systems.. Once you have it dialed in keep it consistent. The plan was to get Britain to surrender by breaking the wills of the Brits through shear terror. They underestimated the brits and eventually the US.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

I've taken down London Plane trees full of shrapnel from V1 ( aka doodlebugs) rockets. Make a cut, sharpen your saw.......make a cut, sharpen your saw. Talking to the old folks in those areas of London was an eye opener to say the least.

 

[MasterBlaster]

You damn skippy.

They underestimated the brits and eventually the US.

 

[Old Monkey]

Primitive ballistics and guidance systems.. Once you have it dialed in keep it consistent. The plan was to get Britain to surrender by breaking the wills of the Brits through shear terror. They underestimated the brits and eventually the US.

I see, so you mean they aimed them at London? Interesting.

 

[Old Monkey]

I've taken down London Plane trees full of shrapnel from V1 ( aka doodlebugs) rockets. Make a cut, sharpen your saw.......make a cut, sharpen your saw. Talking to the old folks in those areas of London was an eye opener to say the least.

Now all you have to worry about is wiping raccoon blood of your saw.


Hey how was your trip home? I don't remember seeing a report anywhere in the house, perhaps I missed it. I trust you had a good time?

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Thanks for asking mate, to tell you the truth I couldn't wait to get back here.

 

[Paul B]

I used to have a client that came in to the nursery every couple weeks, old Dutch dude, we used to talk about him and his brothers used to try to catch finches and other little wild birds for his momma to make soup out of, that and eating flower bulbs. Some tough times back then.

My pops in law has told me about when he was 3 or 4, with his momma, hiding in a hay stack in a field in Poland with the Germans sticking bayonetted rifles in to the stack looking for people, he said the knife tip was jabbed in front of his face a couple times before they left. Chilling.

 

[Newfie]

I see, so you mean they aimed them at London? Interesting.

Not so long ago, we fought total wars, where everyone was fair game. There was no such thing as collateral damage. The US and UK bombed many a German city into the stone age.

 

[Old Monkey]

I was just trying to prove my point that the targeting was rather good especially considering that rockets were a new technology.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Who knows for sure, Darin, the North and the Irish seas might be a massive junkyard of old rocket parts. The hits were just the ones in the middle.

 

[Newfie]

I was just trying to prove my point that the targeting was rather good especially considering that rockets were a new technology.

You're no fun. How about a spirited debate on the ethcis of war, past and present.

 

[woodworkingboy]

If we do that, Newfie, we need to get these folk's opinions too.

 

[Newfie]

I'm praying he has pants on!

 

[High Scale]

My father grew up in London during the war and of course being a lad he loved it, he used to get told off for watching the dogfights overhead rather than getting down the shelter and of course, like most of the boys his age, he collected shrapnel.

 

[Old Monkey]

I love that movie where the kids are running around the rubble of their much hated school, yelling "Thank you Adolph!"

 

[Mr. Sir]

1941

 

[blue]

I've taken down London Plane trees full of shrapnel from V1 ( aka doodlebugs) rockets. Make a cut, sharpen your saw.......make a cut, sharpen your saw. Talking to the old folks in those areas of London was an eye opener to say the least.

Done exactly the same about 10 years ago,was about 70' up a London Plane and totally trashed a topper chain.It confused the hell outta me as to where all the teeth gone for a while