Whispering….I didn’t think cars were allowed…..Now that one should have appeared in the picture thread
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Interesting trivia thread
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It's a weapon of war.... hence why Slim is keen.
Yes, seen a lot in Dublin in 1916.....
How old are you?
Older than that if you saw things in 1916
Well it’s only 19:50 now.
The bags containing the gas in early Zeppelin airships, such as those used to bomb English cities in WW1, were made out of cow intestines, specifically the membrane which surrounded the appendix.
It took the membrane from approximately 250,000 cows to produce the bags for one airship.
The commodity was so precious that the production of sausages, including frankfurters, was forbidden during hostilities.
Shame they allowed frankfurter production to restart, horrible things.
It took the membrane from approximately 250,000 cows to produce the bags for one airship.
The commodity was so precious that the production of sausages, including frankfurters, was forbidden during hostilities.
Shame they allowed frankfurter production to restart, horrible things.
The first Zeppelin raid marked the first direct German attack on Britain. The target that was successfully hit was Great Yarmouth, where there were fatalities.
Thought he was good in the Rocky horror picture show
Who bombed Dublin..? Don't tell me.... the feckin' Yanks.They bombed Dublin - by mistake. Can't remember how many were killed.
There is a German forces graveyard of war casualties in Dublin mountains.
Hope this post passes the censorship committee
I bet it was another one of those friendly fire incidents.
Bastids.
The bleedin Germans. It was dark......
Didn't know where they were.
If it was dark then how could you be sure it was Germans..?
If they were bombing you then it's accepted practice to do it from high up, so my guess is they were above you.
My dad can remember seeing German aircraft going over, I believe some of it was thought to be when they read the maps wrong they just dumped the bombs and went home.
He lived in South East Ireland and recalls them going north.
There were also theories that it was during attempts to reach Belfast and also attempts by Germany to blame Britain.
He lived in South East Ireland and recalls them going north.
There were also theories that it was during attempts to reach Belfast and also attempts by Germany to blame Britain.
Eastbourne was possibly the most bombed town in Britain other than London during W2 - apparently it was the first place a lot of Luftwaffe crew saw so they unloaded and turned for home. The is a JU88 at the bottom of the lake in Hamden Park, sadly there is no memorial to mark the crew that are believed to have gone down with it.
Why would you want to put up a memorial to an enemy bomber crew.?
I absolutely get why that wouldn’t have happened before but 80 odd years on I wouldn’t have a problem with it. At the end of the day they gave their lives.
If it were an RAF aircraft in Germany I would like to think they would be remembered in the same way.
Having watched a documentary about the bombing of Dresden, I doubt it. I've seen memorials to WW2 allied aircrew in countries which were under the Nazi jackboot, but I've not heard of or seen any in Germany.
You should research the number of allied bomber aircrew who bailed out over enemy territory only to be murdered. Start with the US aircrew murdered at Russelsheim.
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I know all that.
for me visiting the chapel at St John’s in Cambridge and learning the story of how the students campaigned to have one of their former number who was German and died serving his country added to the ‘allied’ ex students who died serving their country was a real life lesson.
we will have to agree to disagree.