World War 2 London Bomb Map

Decades later a team of researchers used data to create a map that locates where each bomb was dropped during that period.
World war 2 london bomb map. Interactive map reveals where hitler s feared v2 bombs landed in london and the south east an interactive map has been created showing exactly where hitler s rockets killed thousands of brits in. Bomb sight makes you discover london during ww2 luftwaffe blitz bombing raids exploring maps images and memories. Written by lawrence. A new digital map has painstakingly recorded all the bombs that fell on britain during world war ii.
The maps help explain how rows of grand old flats can be interspersed with more modern buildings. She added the database allows us to visualise how bomb strikes affected the entire country not just london and the south east. The map plots the locations dates and times of bomb attacks across the uk it is the first to map the devastation the nazis wrought across the entire nations london and the south east were worst. For the first time ever those remarkable maps have been reprinted and published for general readers in the london county council bomb damage maps 1939 1945 thames hudson.
By clicking on a pin on the map people can view and download information on an air raid in that area including the exact date location and number of casualties. The bomb sight web map and mobile app reveals ww2 bomb census maps between 7 10 1940 and 06 06 1941 previously available only by viewing them in the reading room of the national archives. The interactive map shows where every bomb landed from the first to hit the mainland in the. The damage from world war ii transformed london into the architecturally diverse city it is today.
Bomb sight project maps where bombs fell on london during world war ii.