Let’s get a sense of proportion here. I very much doubt it shows all bombs dropped during the period, or even most of them. How would they know? Presumably it shows the location of whichever bombs happened to be recorded.
It would be interesting to have an estimate of what proportion of total bombs dropped were recorded in the surveys.
It would be even more interesting to know where the unexploded ones are. The only one I know of is in a S. London cemetery.

Try this document..

http://www.contaminatedland.co.uk/sere-dip/estd-uxb.htm#KEYWORD-ONE

the Mersey’s ports and dockers would handle over 90 per cent of all the war material brought into Britain from abroad with some 75 million tons passing through its 11 miles (18 km) of quays.

And a scant 30 years later you could hardly get any of them to do anything!

Apparently there are quite a few of them in a TV soap.

But I too was wondering why hold a service to commemorate something that common when I read it on the beeb website. After all, many pilotless aircraft fell to earth all over the country, I’m all for commemoration of those that took crew to their early demise, but this one?…hmm.

You could use google earth or Flashearth to find a property near said airfields. Then use the online post code finder Royal Mail have, and bobs yer aunty 🙂

In some instances, Peat type soil conditions can cause bones to disappear in a few decades.

I echo the sentiments of many of the proceeding posts, and an absolutely stunning sight for those who were there to witness it. Well done Avespecs, and to everyone involved in New Zealand!

IMHO, I’m sorry, but for all my intent of sitting watching objectively, I didnt rate the programme at all. Interviews with people who clearly thought the sun shone out of his exhaust, and interviews with those who thought differently.

While it is good to see that period remembered, and thankful as we are for small mercies in amongst ‘The Only Way Is Essex’ and ‘Desperate Scousewives’, To pick this chap as the epitome of the Battle Of Britain when there could have been so many others who could have been eligible for the subject was a poor choice.