Scary!

[JD6920s]

This would be a blow if it went off whilst driving over it!

Giant 33ft crater is left in German field after WWII bomb explodes
https://mol.im/a/7175549

 

[2wheels]

who put the tramlines there?

 

[Scribus]

Good old Germany. Note that it happened at 3:52 exactly, not at around 3:50 or or about ten to four, nope, the good burghers of Limburg had perfectly synchronized chronometers and it was their very first thought to check them.

 

[Barleycorn]

Well you started it, you invaded Poland!!

 

[Tarw Coch]

It says the area was used for target practice during the war, does that mean it might have been one of “theirs”?
I can’t think why “we” would have been using a German field for target practice.

 

[Scribus]

It says the area was used for target practice during the war, does that mean it might have been one of “theirs”?
I can’t think why “we” would have been using a German field for target practice.

In the early part of the war Bomber Command took a few photos and decided that only 5% of their bombs landed within a mile of the target. Can't remember the exact figures now but basically it was much more a miss rather than hit affair.

 

[Tarw Coch]

In the early part of the war Bomber Command took a few photos and decided that only 5% of their bombs landed within a mile of the target. Can't remember the exact figures now but basically it was much more a miss rather than hit affair.

On a similar note, I’ve heard stories of German bombers heading for Liverpool dropping their bombs early, some say the crews bottled it, didn’t want to get shot down in the flak but couldn’t return loaded so dropped their bombs early and headed home, I also heard quite recently that there was an area where they had frames filled with straw which they would light when German bombers were approaching , the bombers seeing the fires would think that was the target and drop their bombs, well short of their intended target.

 

[Scribus]

On a similar note, I’ve heard stories of German bombers heading for Liverpool dropping their bombs early, some say the crews bottled it, didn’t want to get shot down in the flak but couldn’t return loaded so dropped their bombs early and headed home, I also heard quite recently that there was an area where they had frames filled with straw which they would light when German bombers were approaching , the bombers seeing the fires would think that was the target and drop their bombs, well short of their intended target.

Aye, there were all sorts of tricks going on in Blighty at the time. The Aluminum works in Banbury were camouflaged and a mock factory built outside of town to confuse the bombers and I believe lights were laid out on the Mendips to make them look like Bristol, but one or to other TFF members will know more about that.

 

[Al R]

On a similar note, I’ve heard stories of German bombers heading for Liverpool dropping their bombs early, some say the crews bottled it, didn’t want to get shot down in the flak but couldn’t return loaded so dropped their bombs early and headed home, I also heard quite recently that there was an area where they had frames filled with straw which they would light when German bombers were approaching , the bombers seeing the fires would think that was the target and drop their bombs, well short of their intended target.

I worked in Hampshire for a while where there was some seriously big holes in the middle of fields, it wasn’t far from Salisbury plain/Andover but whether it was a missed target or pilots bricking it and letting go early I wouldn’t know?
Pendine beach where they do a lot of land speed races and car filming is still littered?

Shocking that the article says 10% never went off in Germany :0



Surely bombardments like this must’ve left an enormous amount of shells un detonated?
https://www.quora.com/Which-battle-saw-the-most-intense-artillery-barrage-in-history

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....-artillery-bombardment-doomed-nazi-berlin/amp

 

[Lincs Lass]

In the early part of the war Bomber Command took a few photos and decided that only 5% of their bombs landed within a mile of the target. Can't remember the exact figures now but basically it was much more a miss rather than hit affair.

Alot were ditched if the bomb aimer couldnt get a clear shot of the targets ,,with search lights and heavy akak fire ,it was easier to abort the mission ,drop everything anywhere as they couldnt take it home or land with it