Interactive map of every bomb dropped on london from oct 1940 to June 1941

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That's amazing! It's a wonder London is still there.
 
Was always fascinated by the technology advances in that era.Some pretty crazy stuff,on the German's side at the end.
 
Abodybomber said:
Was always fascinated by the technology advances in that era.Some pretty crazy stuff,on the German's side at the end.
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1--If Hitler had not been insane

2--If the Germans had had some oil

3--If they had not betrayed Russia

We might all be speakin' de Deutch
 
Damn true powerpoint post,67.You know your stuff.If this doesn't ring a bell,chech it out.The Horton Brothers,the HO-229.You'll recognize it.classi
 
Someone on another forum asked me what a "parachute mine" was since they seen one on the map. I know some might not know what they are so:

It was a sea mine dropped by aircraft under parachute. If it landed in the water it would sink to the bottom and await for a ship or a sub. If it landed on land then a timer would start and explode 25 seconds after impact. Most of the time....

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Abodybomber said:
Damn true powerpoint post,67.You know your stuff.If this doesn't ring a bell,chech it out.The Horton Brothers,the HO-229.You'll recognize it.classi
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I'd forgotten about them, but I have read of them in the past. Before my house fire in 2003, we used to have two good used bookstores here, and I had picked up a BUNCH of good books about WWII

Drache said:
"parachute mine"
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This reminds me of another little known story of WWII, and it concerns the U.S. There's a book called "Silent Siege,"

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Siege-III-Civilians-Documentary/dp/0936738731"]Silent Siege III: Japanese Attacks on North America in World War II : Ships Sunk, Air Raids, Bombs Dropped, Civilians Killed : Documentary: Bert Webber: 9780936738734: Amazon.com: Books[/ame]

which tells of the secret Japanese balloons carrying explosives with barometric exploders which Japan launched "in the wind" at this country by the hundreds. The U.S. govt kept these out of the news, both to avoid any panic, and to keep the Japanese from knowing if they were effective. They caused little damage. Some folks were killed, one incident was at a church picnic where someone came across the unknown device and tried to pick it up, when it exploded.

They had mechanisms to drop ballast and keep the balloon at altitude

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Another Jap project was hanger equipped subs with tiny, fold--apart aircraft. They tried to start forest fires in the PNW but we had had a wet year, and the Japs did not understand our weather patterns. I believe they managed to start a small fire in Oregon. These were tiny, single engine, single person aircraft on floats.

Depiction of an I-400 class aircraft carrying sub:

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The tubular shape on the near side is the hanger bay

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67Dart273 said:
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which tells of the secret Japanese balloons carrying explosives with barometric exploders which Japan launched "in the wind" at this country by the hundreds. The U.S. govt kept these out of the news, both to avoid any panic, and to keep the Japanese from knowing if they were effective. They caused little damage. Some folks were killed, one incident was at a church picnic where someone came across the unknown device and tried to pick it up, when it exploded.
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I actually knew about those balloons. A friend has a piece that is supposedly from one of them. The last supposed piece from one of those Fire Balloons was found in 1978.

There was one High Explosive Bomb and four incendiary bombs per balloon.

There were German U-boats in Canadian waters and there was even one sunk in the Churchill River.

Hell German U-boat crews even hunted Canadian Polar Bears for dinner:

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I bet that was a big treat after months of sea. From stories and photos I've seen, German subs were "no damn fun" when they left port for a long patrol. There was food and other supplies stuck everywhere, on the floor in crew's racks, ridiculous. I don't know that US boats were quite that bad.

Both the Germans and the Japs got uncomfortably close to our shorelines. "We" the big, the all knowing, Americans, refused to listen to the Brits, who at the time we entered the war Dec 7, had already been supplying "stuff" to the Brits via the Merchant Marines , certainly unsung heros and victims of that war. We refused to take the Brits advice concerning sub hunting and convoys for a very long time, and east coast places line Coney Island refused to shut down over losing money. The Germans happily used coastal lights for navigation and to silouette targets!!!

One thing that was the downfall of the German "wolf packs" is that the commanders "back home" insisted the German subs stay in touch via radio, so we just DF'd 'em, a fairly easy job back then, and both SONAR and RADAR had made some inroads by then.

An aside, you have to understand that the cavity magnetron, claimed by the Brits, has really not changed very much since WWI, in every microwave oven you see It essentially is a "one component transmitter" needing nothing more than appropriate power (filament and hi volt.) to make it produce RF output.
 
How on earth do they know where all those bombs fell? Did someone keep records or what?
 
67Dart273 said:
Both the Germans and the Japs got uncomfortably close to our shorelines.
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I believe the only bombs (balloon bombs aside) that did hit the mainland US were in Oregon. Japanese plane flown from a sub i25 dropped two incendiary bombs on brookings Oregon.
Ft Stevens by Astoria they shelled the base, other than that the Santa Barbara oil fields were shelled.
 
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