Also re parachute bomb comment-what was the obvious benefit of using them instead of “free fall” bombs-were they on delay time fuses-set to disrupt things-well after the raids were over etc??
I’m going to pass comment on this, because if I’m wrong I will be put right very quickly!
As far as I am aware the “land mines” (the parachute bombs) were naval mines and presumably were dropped largely for blast effect as they weren’t going to penetrate the ground. They could do surprisingly little damage – although Navestock Church in Essex was badly damaged by one that fell in the churchyard, considering that the sundial in the photo marks where the thing fell, by all the rights it should have been utterly flattened…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/barryslemmings/250398154/
I don’t think they were dropped with any particular accuracy (plus the higher they were dropped, the further they could drift) – my parent’s village in NW Essex stopped two one night, main damage a wood stripped of leaves and a number of broken windows – but they were fifty-odd miles from London, and five from the nearest likely target, RAF Debden.
Adrian
P.S. Has the Wail blamed the Huns yet?
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