Bombs in Coventry

Hindenburg – that address must be close to my late mother’s childhood home in Trentham Road. During the war, although married and living elsewhere in Coventry, she would have been still working at the Co-op dairy in Swan Lane.

Is it a butterfly bomb, did the Luftwaffe use such weapons? Could it be some device to slow the fall of the bomb?

How did the photo album get to Somerset?

Roger Smith.

There is also a place called Mulliner Road in the Photos…I bought the album off a web auction.

Looking at the butterfly bomb hanging in the tree, it appears to be in someones back garden as there is a washing line and pole in the background.
I dont think it would of been hanging there for all that time, it may have been placed there and photographed as a training aid?
I remember whilst in school back in the late 50’s early 60’s we were told about them by our headmaster as some were found in the local area and we were instructed to leave them well alone and contact the police if we came across them in the woods.
Ian

The top one doesn’t look very Germanic, and I cannot identify the type.

The Butterfly Bomb is definitely a fake, I’d say. The SD2 had a body with much more “rounded” ends and the butterfly vanes had strakes that were not quite as defined as this one. The body on this one looks like a cut-off piece of round section wood dowel, to me. I have owned a few of these and this does not look right. Even if the vanes are the real thing it looks as if somebody has replaced the body with a dummy, possibly for instructional/demonstartion purposes; ie if you see something like this don’t touch it!!

The bottom is something like a SC500 I’d think? Looks the real deal to me.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Bomb.
And not just Coventry. As a 5-yr old we were shown pictures and told to “tell a Policeman”
Resmoroh

Hindenburg – that address must be close to my late mother’s childhood home in Trentham Road. During the war, although married and living elsewhere in Coventry, she would have been still working at the Co-op dairy in Swan Lane.

Is it a butterfly bomb, did the Luftwaffe use such weapons? Could it be some device to slow the fall of the bomb?

How did the photo album get to Somerset?

Roger Smith.