Not fun fact: The USA dropped more bombs on Vietnam than all countries on each other in the WW2.
I mean i get people having grievances over stuff like this but what was expected from a major war? It’s not like wars before didn’t had atrocities and unnecessary killings. Obviously most recent one was much more brutal cause the capabilities were exponentially higher.
War is bad and always been bad.
Looks bad at a distance, but zoom in and… well thats actually a lot of distance between bombs. Most would hit at buildings and… then what? There is very little that would actually have any kind of effect on British capability to survive as a nation and keep fighting.
I mean i am assuming people are inside bomb shelters and not their apartments ofc.
Lot of destruction on invidual human level, but very little on strategic.
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Altough this does not show important things like size of the bomb and if they are incendiary or not. So some of these would do very little, while others could do a lot. Germans however did not really have many heavy strategic bombers, so i am guessing bombs were on smaller size than what allies would drop, especially after Americans joined in.
Do you have one for Paris?
Not related but it is really shocking to learn that Laos is the most bombed nation in the history.
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>Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War. The operation resulted in 260 million bombs being dropped on Laos, making Laos “the most heavily bombed nation in history”
It’s funny, I work in construction in London. A part of desk studies, you need to check surveys of bomb locations and add the level of risk encountering a bomb as part of the desk study.
And do you by chance know a good eye witness account of that time? I’m the guy that told the story about the book on Hamburg and seeing that map, a recount from “the opposite side” so to speak would give great perspective to both situations.
And you are not linking to the page because?
“The nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them”
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[Source.](http://bombsight.org/#11/51.5010/-0.1741)
Shame it only shows London.
Not fun fact: The USA dropped more bombs on Vietnam than all countries on each other in the WW2.
I mean i get people having grievances over stuff like this but what was expected from a major war? It’s not like wars before didn’t had atrocities and unnecessary killings. Obviously most recent one was much more brutal cause the capabilities were exponentially higher.
War is bad and always been bad.
Looks bad at a distance, but zoom in and… well thats actually a lot of distance between bombs. Most would hit at buildings and… then what? There is very little that would actually have any kind of effect on British capability to survive as a nation and keep fighting.
I mean i am assuming people are inside bomb shelters and not their apartments ofc.
Lot of destruction on invidual human level, but very little on strategic.
​
Altough this does not show important things like size of the bomb and if they are incendiary or not. So some of these would do very little, while others could do a lot. Germans however did not really have many heavy strategic bombers, so i am guessing bombs were on smaller size than what allies would drop, especially after Americans joined in.
Do you have one for Paris?
Not related but it is really shocking to learn that Laos is the most bombed nation in the history.
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>Operation Barrel Roll was a covert U.S. Air Force 2nd Air Division and U.S. Navy Task Force 77, interdiction and close air support campaign conducted in the Kingdom of Laos between 14 December 1964 and 29 March 1973 concurrent with the Vietnam War. The operation resulted in 260 million bombs being dropped on Laos, making Laos “the most heavily bombed nation in history”
It’s funny, I work in construction in London. A part of desk studies, you need to check surveys of bomb locations and add the level of risk encountering a bomb as part of the desk study.
Pollanball comic about the same subject.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/85e6t8/marking_bombs/](https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/85e6t8/marking_bombs/)
Do you know, how many bombs are still found every year? Because I live in a small German city that, according to [the other map](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12lk0da/ww2_destruction_in_germany_and_its_very_uneven/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) didn’t get many bombs and we still have half the city paralyzed every two or so years for 1-2 days when a bomb is found and defused. I imagine with a density like that, a lot of bombs must be found all the time. And echo from a dark time…
And do you by chance know a good eye witness account of that time? I’m the guy that told the story about the book on Hamburg and seeing that map, a recount from “the opposite side” so to speak would give great perspective to both situations.
And you are not linking to the page because?
“The nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else and nobody was going to bomb them”