Post Raid Recce Pic – Ulm

There also seem to be a lot of houses in the foreground which have apparently survived, certainly with their roofs intact.

Hi kiethmac,
Interesting pic (and the others too). 🙂

“Diving intervention perhaps?”

Well you could perhaps say that diving intervention prevented the church from recieving a direct hit,but also it seems likely that the churchyard would’ve acted as a fire break,so the fires from the residential areas didn’t spread to the church.The large slates on major buildings like that were also much heavier,so it was less likely for them to be blown away by the blast of the bombs and therefore wouldn’t expose the roof timbers to the following incendiaries-it was the incendiaries and the fires they started which caused the most damage.