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Thread ID: 118640	2011-06-14 10:04:00	Blitz Street on Prime.	martynz (5445)	PC World Chat

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1209244	2011-06-14 10:04:00	Anyone else watching it? I have a personal interest having survived a WWll bomb.	martynz (5445)
1209245	2011-06-14 10:12:00	i've found it to be a really fascinating series. thoroughly enjoying it so far	GameJunkie (72)
1209246	2011-06-14 10:55:00	Born in 1940 in London. Remember the fires in the street And vividly the air raid sirens, when they sounded we would be picked out of our beds (my brother and cousin) and taken next door where they had a \ deep cellar with bunks. My mother moved 10 times because of bomb damage. My father away at war 1939-1945 (doing his duty). The sirens still give me a creepy feeling.	gradebdan (2186)
1209247	2011-06-14 23:31:00	Anyone else watching it? I have a personal interest having survived a WWll bomb. Tell us more! Sounds like an interesting story :D	Bozo (8540)
1209248	2011-06-14 23:34:00	I never knew how destructive the V1 "doodlebug" really was until I saw Blitz Street. How anyone could be so insane as to bomb a city like that in the name of expanding their empire is completely beyond me. Coming from the Xbox generation, this really was an eye-opener.	mookster1 (15854)
1209249	2011-06-14 23:55:00	I have watched a couple of episodes. Was a bit amused to see a so called 1940's street scene with a 1950's Morris Minor in it. Ken ;)	kenj (9738)
1209250	2011-06-14 23:55:00	Been watching with interest, both my parents lived on the SE coast so frontline for invasion and can remember the sound of V1 and V2's flying over. My father remembers going to the beach and crawling between the strands of barbed wire so they could swim	gary67 (56)
1209251	2011-06-15 00:14:00	I never knew how destructive the V1 "doodlebug" really was until I saw Blitz Street. How anyone could be so insane as to bomb a city like that in the name of expanding their empire is completely beyond me. Coming from the Xbox generation, this really was an eye-opener. Well the poms started the blanket city bombing first.	prefect (6291)
1209252	2011-06-15 00:31:00	Well the poms started the blanket city bombing first. Not quite - it was after a bombing raid the RAF conducting on Berlin itself that sent Hitler into a flying rage - he had previously stated that no bomb would drop on Berlin. This was during the Battle of Britain when the Luftwaffe had been concentrating on strategical points such as munitions factories, airfields, radar sites etc. This however changed the objectives of the bombers in the Battle of Britain which led it into the Blitz stage where large scale 'carpet' bombing of the major cities, in particular London, were bombed without discrimination. It was Hitler's fit of rage over this bombing that largely saved Britain in my opinion anyway. While the cities were destroyed and civilian casualties high - it gave the airfields/factories a chance breath and build a force more capable of defeating the Luftwaffe which of course would be the first defeat Hitler would taste. It was until several years later (around 1943) that the RAF and USSAF starting bombing cities on a large scale.	Bozo (8540)
1209253	2011-06-15 00:50:00	The german bombs were relatively lightweight compared to the RAF - Every Lancaster carried a 4000lb cookie, soft case HE bomb, and then the rest of the bomb loads were made up of 1000lb Hard cased HE bombs and paniers iof incendiaries. The first firestone was caused, without intention, in Coventry, the first British deliberately created Firestone was created in the bombing of Wuppertal, and then replicated many times over, the most noted being the destruction of much of the Hamburg area over 1 weeks intensive bombing, and the destruction of Dresden in February 1945 by 36 hours continuous bombing - RAF bu night, USAAF by day, this raid killed as many Germans as the bombing of Nagasaki. I guess the moral lesson for the Germans and the Japs, was don't start something you can't finish.	KenESmith (6287)
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