All the Nazi bombs!

[Morrus]

At least, all the ones dropped on London in WW2, all on one map. It's quite astonishing when you look at it.

http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4996/-0.1620

 

[Nellisir]

At least, all the ones dropped on London in WW2, all on one map. It's quite astonishing when you look at it.

http://bombsight.org/#13/51.4996/-0.1620

That's...yeah. It's one thing to hear about it, quite another to see.

 

[Umbran]

When I zoom out... Damn, that was harsh.

 

[Wicht]

It seems remarkable, zooming out, that London would still be there.

 

[tomBitonti]

I tried to see if the blips represent bomblets or bombs, and found this, among other data:

Probably the most devastating strike occurred on the evening of 29 December, when German aircraft attacked the City of London itself with incendiary and high explosive bombs, causing a firestorm that has been called the Second Great Fire of London.[117] The first group to use these incendiaries was Kampfgruppe 100 which despatched 10 "pathfinder" He 111s. At 18:17, it released the first of 10,000 fire bombs, eventually amounting to 300 dropped per minute.[118] Altogether, 130 German bombers destroyed the historical centre of London.[119] Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded. The Luftwaffe had dropped 18,291 short tons (16,593 t) of bombs.[120]

We're talking thousands of tons of bombs. Enough said.

Thx!

TomB

 

[Dioltach]

Well, we mustn't complain. Stiff upper lip and all that.

 

[Janx]

Well, I'm glad they didn't bomb you guys off the map.

I'm guessing the bomb's damage radius was sort of low. When you zoom in, you see there's some gap between hits, which is likely how london survived.

 

[nerfherder]

I recognise one of those locations (from when I was at college) - you can still see the shrapnel marks in the stone wall on the opposite side of the street.

 

[billd91]

Keep in mind that the shift from targeting the RAF directly to terror bombing London and other cities is the primary strategic shift that enabled the RAF to win the Battle of Britain, an important component in keeping the Germans from launching Operation Sealion and invading. Despite the human cost and urban destruction, those recorded bomb strikes also represent victory for Britain.

 

[Derren]

We're talking thousands of tons of bombs. Enough said.

Spread over nearly a hundred of raids
As for individual raids go, the attacks of German bombers were a lot less severe than the RAF bombing of German cities where they only needed one raid to flatten everything.