Here in Canterbury the local newspaper published a map to raise funds for forces charities showing where the bombs fell in the 1942 Baedecker raids; interestingly it also shows where a Junkers 88 crashed in the town. I have a copy but don't know if the paper has any plans to put it on line, I might suggest it to them. Bob ---------------------------------------- > To: goons@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:07:00 -0700 > Subject: [G] website on the London bombing blitz of WW2 > From: goons@rootsweb.com > > For those with history and ancestors of WW2 and London, this may be useful. > Pinpoint bomb drops in your grand/parents neighbourhoods. > > The site is at: bombsight.org > > It starts with a map of London, dotted with bomb locations throughout the > city. You can zoom in on a street, or for something really scary, zoom out > to see southeast England blanketed by red pins. When you zoom in, you can > click on a bomb icon for further details. There is usually a "read more" > link in the popup, which leads to 1940 photo images from the area, > contributed people's stories relating to this area and even more. > > For those living in London, there is an Android app available. With it, you > can use your device GPS to see the bomb locations superimposed on today's > Google street view. > > Does this help anyone find some background on their relative's wartime > stories??? > > > About the project > ----------------------- > The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between > 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the > Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps > available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able > to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs > from the period. > > The project has scanned original 1940s bomb census maps , geo-referenced the > maps and digitally captured the geographical locations of all the falling > bombs recorded on the original map. The data has then been integrated into > 2 different types of applications: > > Jim Benedict > Guild Representative for Western Canada > Guild of One-Name Studies: Guild member #4794 > Calgary, Alberta > www.BenedictGenerations.com > ======================================================== > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message