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05-03-2008, 05:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | Examples of British Bomb Shelters Examples of British Bomb Shelters From: Examples of British Bomb Shelters  Street shelters  Guard shelter  Table shelter  "Churchill's Egg"
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-03-2008, 09:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | I do like the Guard's Shelter. This is another good page(s) on Air Raid precautions and types of shelters: Air Raid Shelters
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05-03-2008, 10:20 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | They would all have been somewhat claustrophobic wouldn't they?
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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05-03-2008, 10:47 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | I've heard of a number of instances where people refused to use shelters because of their claustrophobia, or fear of being buried alive, with tragic consequences.
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05-03-2008, 11:42 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | A convent near to where I stay, had in its garden a one man air raid shelter, which was tiny. However they converted it to be used by the Nuns as a place for meditation and relaxation! I saw a similar one at the Overloon museum as well!
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05-03-2008, 06:49 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4  | I understand a lot of people also refused to use shelters as bombs were only a possibility. Spiders were a certainty
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05-03-2008, 11:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | What evil spiders are there in the UK?
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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06-03-2008, 07:26 PM
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You're Top Poster: #4 | Quote:
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06-03-2008, 11:32 PM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Oondreds of legs or just eight? 
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