German Bombers 2nd World War

[mark]

the guilt that they must of carried around with them all the these years must be huge - the guilt from having survived when all their pals didn't

my dad has only been back to his village once since 1945. when he was called up, he and all the lads from the village were drafted into the fusiliers. he discoverd you got 2 shilling extra per week in the Royal Engineers so transfered. got home eventually after the war to discover every single one of his pals that he'd grown up with and be called up with, 21 one of them in total, were slaughtered at Anzio. He was the only lad of his generation to survive from the village. He's never been back since

The guilt he must of carried around all these years must be unfathomable. maybe one of the reasons why he will never talk about his childhood/teens and growing up in rural northumberland

[Red5]

No where was safe during WW2. There was an aerodrome at Boulmer and my mother, who was a baby during the outbreak of the war was in her pram outside and a german aircraft strafing the airfield missed her pram by inches as they lived literally yards from the airfield.
Lisle Stanton (unfortunately no longer with us)was a fisherman in the village and I was best mates with his son Andrew as we grew up. One Sunday we were at his having tea and Lisle told us a bout the time a Stukka buzzed the village and began strafing the cobles, within minutes, from the skies came a hurricane which promptly shot down the german aircraft which now lies somewhere offshore. Not many people left now to tell the tales during the war, but I love hearing how people got thru it!

[Stores]

This isn't really connected but I've had this website on my favourites for a while now.

http://www.skylighters.org/history/smugglers.html

My mother tells of bombs falling on the railway station at the bottom of Matthew Bank in South Gosforth and a number of fataliies.

[marksworld]

another story i have been told is a german bomber being shot down of the N E coast and srash landing in the blue bell wood near where st georges hospital is, i know the pilot survived but dont know about the rest of the crew but have been told that the local bobby was the first up there and he kicked his arse all the way back to morpeth police station



cheers
mark

[fozally]

WAR TRIVIA: When I was a kid my next door neighbour was old then (lots of years ago) and he use to tell me that the gun pits which are now all covered over on the Leas at S/Shields were where the real big guns were but they also placed teleghraph poles every so often right along the cliff tops with camoflage netting over the top so they looked like big guns sticking out.

[BriH]

[QUOTE camoflage netting over the top so they looked like big guns sticking out.[/QUOTE]



Hey Zippie - heres your Answer - camouflage netting around your bollocks - WEH HEY ,your lass thinks you have had Surgery


Well heres me F*cking nicked next time i am doing 30.4 mile an hour


LMCO

[zippie]

yes penile reduction hurts but no pain no gain , hmm dream on you stupid fat jarra bar steward,nice one bri uwltgfc lol

[BriH]

[QUOTE uwltgfc [/QUOTE]


Can anyone tell me what this means ?? !!

apart from using the rosetta stone ,i have no idea






I really do know ,but the first one to answer apart from Zippie and his friends gets 50 crab

[BriH]

Well thats no one who cares to take a stab at winning 50 crab (30 mins and no takers)


PHEW thank Fook for that - i only have 128


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