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V1 & V2 Bombs dropped on Lordship Lane.


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Last week my Aunty sent me a copy of my Nan's diary during the "Doodlebug" part of the Blitz, which she always told me was worse than the original Blitz for the nerves - it is really vivid stuff and you can tell that My nan was on the edge of a nervous breakdown - the only time she was relaxed in it was when she went down the pub and 'shot the dog"??? whatever that meant. She also talks about my mum (who was about 6 then) starting to stop talking and just laughing hysterically or cry..in the end my grandad shipped them off to relatives in Liverpool!
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When I was a kid there was an old man who lived on his own in a flat above my friends home. He used to tell us stories about growing up during the war. I can't recall all of them apart from the one he told of a direct hit on his family home killing his mother and brother. That still chokes me a bit.
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macroban Wrote:

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> > Penguin68 Today, 11:43AM

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> > Sandperson Today, 11:59AM

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> Neither funny.

>

> MacRoban



I thought it was pretty good Macro. There's always this site for more info.


and if you do a search on the forum this subject comes up every couple of months.

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MsDulwich Wrote:

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> My Great Aunt was shopping in the Coop store at

> the junction of Shawbury Road and Lordship Lane

> just before the V1 bomb dropped. She escaped and

> ran home to safety and sheltered in her air raid

> shelter.

>

> For further useful background info see;

> http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary_du

> lwich.html


Which is the same site I linked to in my post. ;-)

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Sandperson:


> Did you not see? Last week it was. There was police tape up and everything. William rose was devastated and in Liquorice several cocktails were spilled.


Well perhaps Sandperson didn't have relatives or family friends involved.

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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Didn't anyone point out that Liverpool was a

> docks?

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> That aside, give us some more snippets, Quids.


Doodle bugs didn't get that far (Liverpool) and the Luftwaffe didn't venture out by 1944.....learn some history PGC

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I heard that SE London took the brunt of the V1 & V2 attacks because British Intelligence deliberately issued false damage reports making the Germans think they were hitting the docks & central London instead - they didn't know that their rockets were actually falling short of their intended targets. Anyone know if this is true?
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