# Any famous urban legends of WWII?

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> [@TriPolar](#):
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> Yeah, 3rd or 4th grade I think. [Snow Treasure](http://www.librarything.com/work/34146).

I read it, too, but with this older cover: [http://www.lostpaper.com/toshop/images/store/photos1/0404/4-04-04a000000000073.JPG](http://www.lostpaper.com/toshop/images/store/photos1/0404/4-04-04a000000000073.JPG)

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**Flodnak** , that’s a great one!

There were a number of stories in the aftermath of the Belfast Blitz as explained on the [wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Blitz):

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> One widespread criticism was that the Germans located Belfast by heading for Dublin, which was not observing a blackout and following the railway lines north. In The Blitz: Belfast in the war years, Dr Brian Barton wrote: “Government Ministers felt with justification, that the Germans were able to use the unblacked out lights in the south to guide them to their targets in the North.” Barton insisted that Belfast was “too far north” to use radio guidance.
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> Other writers, such as Tony Gray in The Lost Years state that the Germans did follow their radio guidance beams. Several accounts point out that Belfast, standing at the end of the long inlet of Belfast Lough, would be easily located.
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> Another claim was that the Catholic population in general and the IRA in particular guided the bombers. Dr Barton wrote: “the Catholic population was much more strongly opposed to conscription, was inclined to sympathise with Germany”, "…there were suspicions that the Germans were assisted in identifying targets, held by the Unionist population.

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