Thanks Icare for the extracts I hadn’t seen them before. It certainly was heavily bombed. The Ack Ack guns fired repeatedly all night, with shrapnel falling like rain.. In the May blitz the guns had to be re barreled frequently.
A pic of ‘HOME’ after it had been ‘tidied up’
Just thinking Regle, you must have flown up and down the Humber from Snaith a few times, did it look an easy target. I saw the Humber one moonlit night (bombers moon ?) the confluence of the Humber and the River Hull shone like a mirror in the shape of an inverted T providing a perfect aiming point..
Coupled with the fact that the mouth of the Humber estuary is shaped like a funnel I would think German pilots wouldn’t need Pathfinders.. Would think it was a perfect place to jettinson bombs on aborted mission on Leeds, Manchester, and Liverpool.
Will answer Goosequil tomorrow. And. Regle, I certainly had a Smith and Wesson 38 will try to find my issue book and report back next post.