Cardiff
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain#entry8 .
Monday, November 26, 2018
Coventry Blitz
40-11-14 Coventry Blitz ..
Coventry
40-11-14 Coventry toll > .
Coventry: "Lessons from history: the Blitz, the building boom and the people left behind"
https://theconversation.com/lessons-from-history-the-blitz-the-building-boom-and-the-people-left-behind-47109 .
Reading my grandad’s Blitz reporting makes it all the sadder to see social history repeat itself .
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain#entry1 .
German bombing of Coventry
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-33986317 .
Remembering WWII blitz on Coventry
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11741315 .
Morning after Coventry blitz
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-34796057 .
Moonlight Sonata: The Coventry Blitz "was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the Luftwaffe. The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz .
Coventry
40-11-14 Coventry toll > .
Coventry: "Lessons from history: the Blitz, the building boom and the people left behind"
https://theconversation.com/lessons-from-history-the-blitz-the-building-boom-and-the-people-left-behind-47109 .
Reading my grandad’s Blitz reporting makes it all the sadder to see social history repeat itself .
http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain#entry1 .
German bombing of Coventry
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-33986317 .
Remembering WWII blitz on Coventry
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11741315 .
Morning after Coventry blitz
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-34796057 .
Moonlight Sonata: The Coventry Blitz "was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the Luftwaffe. The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Blitz .
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Explosives WW1
A Bangalore torpedo is an explosive charge placed within one or several connected tubes. It is used by combat engineers to clear obstacles that would otherwise require them to approach directly, possibly under fire. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "Bangalore mine", "banger" or simply "Bangalore". The primary use of the torpedo is clearing paths through wire obstacles and heavy undergrowth. It will clear a 3- to 4-metre wide path through wire obstacles.
The Bangalore torpedo was first devised by Captain R. L. McClintock, of the Royal Engineers while attached to the Madras Sappers and Miners unit of the Indian Army at Bangalore, India, in 1912. He invented it as a means of blowing up booby traps and barricades left over from the Second Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. The Bangalore torpedo could be exploded over a mine without a sapper having to approach closer than about 3 m (10 ft).
By the time of WW1 the Bangalore torpedo was primarily used for clearing barbed wire before an attack. It could be used while under fire, from a protected position in a trench. The torpedo was standardized to consist of a number of externally identical 1.5 m (5 ft) lengths of threaded pipe, one of which contained the explosive charge. The pipes would be screwed together using connecting sleeves to make a longer pipe of the required length, somewhat like a chimney brush or drain clearing rod.
A smooth nose cone would be screwed on the end to prevent snagging on the ground. It would then be pushed forward from a protected position and detonated, to clear a 1.5 m (5 ft) wide hole through barbed wire. During the 1917 Battle of Cambrai, British Royal Engineers used them as diversions to distract the enemy from where the real battle was to be fought.
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Germany Bombed
.42-3-28 Carpet Bombing of Germany begins on Lübeck - WW2 - April 3, 1942 > .
September 4th, 1939 - Blenheim Attack on Wilhelmshaven - RAF's 1st WW2 > .
September 4th, 1939 - Blenheim Attack on Wilhelmshaven - RAF's 1st WW2 > .
Lübeck was the first German city to be attacked in substantial numbers by the Royal Air Force. The attack on the night of 28 March 1942 created a firestorm that caused severe damage to the historic centre, with bombs destroying three of the main churches and large parts of the built-up area. It led to the retaliatory "Baedeker" raids on historic British cities.
Although a port, and home to several shipyards, including the Lübecker Flender-Werke, Lübeck was also a cultural centre and only lightly defended. The bombing on 28 March 1942 was the first major destructive attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German city, and followed the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942 which authorised the targeting of civilian areas.
Although a port, and home to several shipyards, including the Lübecker Flender-Werke, Lübeck was also a cultural centre and only lightly defended. The bombing on 28 March 1942 was the first major destructive attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German city, and followed the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942 which authorised the targeting of civilian areas.
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