"Courageous Croydon" is chock a block full of excerpts and memories of people that survived the blitz. I would assume that between them all and the history it would be quite correct. A Good read actually and eye popping, complete with photos, map of where the bombs dropped etc. Cheers Pam > thanks for that. It had failed to distinguish between the blitz and the V > weapons, and to recognize the substantial lull. I guess the germans had > more > pressing concerns. > > Chris > > >> Hi Chris & John, >> I have a copy of a book called "Courageous Croydon" ( a Croydon >> advertiser >> publication) and I quote. >> " For three years after the blitz from May 1941 to June 1944 there was a >> lull in Croydons war-time ordeal >> with only sporadic raids. Then came the V-weapons." unquote. >> Croydon is very close to London albeit considered at the time to be >> Surrey >> and my family all lived around here during the war, Croydon, Norwood >> etc. My dad was in the AK-AK.........So I can assume from this, that >> Wiki >> might just might have it right. >> Cheers Pam from Adelaide Australia >> >>> John >>> >>> to be a bit more precise, Bomb-sight covers 7th October 1940 to 6th June >>> 1941. Google suggest that the V1 flew around this latter date, but that >>> conflicts with Wikipedia, which states the designer of the whole weapon >>> was >>> not involved until 1942. The pulse jet engine was tested in January >>> 1941, >>> and was flown in April. Wikipedia says the first use was on 13 June 1944 >>> following the allied landings in France. >>> >>> Chris Willis in Yateley, Hants >> >> > > . > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com > . > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SURREY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >