# Interactive map of the London blitz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182 "2012-12-06T14:19:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/21 "2012-12-09T21:11:09Z")
> [@Dervorin](#): > > Amazing. A bomb landed pretty much on top of the building I now live in. That’s a really sobering reminder of what WW2 must have been like. I wonder if there’s a similar map for Dresden, or any German city. [Here you go for Dresden](http://littlebrownbride.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/red20swatch.jpg). It’s zoomed out a bit. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/22 "2012-12-09T21:22:50Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > Thanks for posting that… astonishing. Even more so the more you zoom out. Wow. I had no idea… Stunning. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/23 "2012-12-09T21:28:18Z")
I never realized how intense the bombing was, and how horrifying it must have been for the residents. I wonder how the city functioned at all during this period. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/24 "2012-12-09T22:09:47Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Thanks for posting this. It’s extremely interesting to see where they hit, and even though I’ve read about the bombings, seeing all the red really stuns me. Check out some of the numbers on the red blobs. That’s just what the project has mapped so far, further down the river was devastated as well, and many, many other places in the UK. A map like this of Germany would, after the various air commands got going, be an even denser sea of red. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/25 "2012-12-09T22:15:43Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I never realized how intense the bombing was, and how horrifying it must have been for the residents. I wonder how the city functioned at all during this period. Stoically. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/26 "2012-12-10T02:17:19Z")
It makes me wonder how many people they had mapping the bomb sites, as opposed to, say, fighting fires or clearing rubble. It reminds me of one one of my fav British miniseries – _Danger: UXB_ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182/27 "2012-12-10T13:27:13Z")
[Here’s a BBC news piece](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4655437.stm) on the official London bomb damage maps from that period. Very interesting. they point out just how miraculously St. Pauls survived almost untouched amidst total devastation. Here’s another site with better version of that map: [BUILDING STOREYS: The Blitz - Researching the Damage Today](http://building-storeys.blogspot.com/2010/09/blitz-researching-damage-today.html#!/2010/09/blitz-researching-damage-today.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interactive-map-of-the-london-blitz/643182.md?page=1)