Off Topic BBC Documentary on Hull Blitz

[DMD]

I couldn't decide where to sit this, so I'll maybe move it later.

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[look_back_in_amber]

Very interesting Dutch, poignant and moving, and to think that when we were kids in the sixties and seventies that we used to play on areas known as 'bombed buildings' without fully realising what had gone before.

RIP to all those souls that fell.

 

[CANADATIGER]

Thanks for posting this DMD. That brings back memories. I was 2 1/2 years old and living on Fairfax Avenue in North Hull when the German air-raids began in 1941. The house across the street from us took a direct hit and everyone in it was killed. My Grandad who lived near East Park, and who continued running his cabinet making business on Dansom Lane throughout the war, quickly moved my Mum and me out to Beverley, (my Dad a bomber pilot was away at war), where Mum and I lived for the next 15 years.

RIP to all who died in those horrendous bombing raids!!

 

[GlassHalfHull]

Thanks for posting DMD. A very moving and thought provoking documentary. I hadn't realised half of what this revealed, but remember vividly reading Commando comics and seeing plenty of old bombsites as a boy, and thinking how very glamorous and exciting it would have been to have been born a generation earlier. How wrong I was.

 

[tigerincanada]

Thanks DMD, very interesting and very sad. I was born five years after the war had ended but it was very much part of my childhood. Playing on bombies and avoiding certain gents who were a bit suspect as a result of the war as well as all of the stories.

The observation that devoting resources to carpet bombing in order to undermine German morale rather than using the resources more strategically may have lengthened the war was rather interesting.