Blitz Birmingham

[Bazile]

We all know about the blitz of Coventry during the second world war .

Did you also know that Birmingham was blitz also as intensely as Coventry

I didn't realise that .
Just been watching a programme on BBC , with David Harewood .

However there was a censorship of news regarding this , because a lot of manufacturing for the war effort was done in Birmingham , hence the targeting by the Nazis .

However the government did not want the Nazis to know how successful they had been , hence all the news items of Birmingham showing people getting on with life , but very little pictures of any damage

[jno]

so, ze traitorous BBC have broken ze embargo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Blitz

[piggynose]

Speaking about Brum
https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-birmingham-54117532?amp_js_v=a3&amp_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15998359733621&;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&;amp_tf=From%20%251%24s

[Bazile]

I posted that in news earlier , piggynose

[barry1010]

Birmingham born and bred, grandparents born in the late 19th century so I am fully aware of the bombings. There are still plenty of bomb craters dotted around Birmingham.

[ladybirder]

The blitz on Coventry was the single most concentrated attack on A British City in the 2nd World War because it was a major centre for war production. The smell and heat of the burning reached into the German cockpits 6,000ft above. Why did they keep B'ham blitz quiet and not Coventry?
Worth reading the link.

https://www.coventry.gov.uk/info/217/coventry_blitz/2603/20_facts_you_might_not_know_about_the_coventry_blitz

[Peter Pedant]

Barry - you should note your memories down as so many people are - well you know - stopping writing down their memories

Forty y ago - people were more ready to recall the IRA bombing - which ran and ran because of the mistakes made

Remember you proles that the Baedekker raids and those on heavy industry
were peanuts compared to the flattening of Germany in 1945
and a pin prick compared to the amount poured on Tokyo in one raid - - in one raid ( the biggy Mar 1945 which burnt 16 sq mi of Tokyo) - more than the whole of tonnage on England in 1940

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

1 kiloton in one raid. - 16 sq burnt out - 50-100 000 casualties
80% of Japanese homeless by Aug 1945 = internal refugees. Deliberate policy of 'deroofing' war personnel