GaryPacker
Hi,
I know London and the South were bombed with V2's and my question is: Did Sheffield also have V2 attacks?
My mother told me about the doodlebugs and the noise they made and how people were scared when they stopped the noise. They didn't know where they were going to fall. All part of the terrorist aspect, I should imagine.
My mother and her family lived in Sheffield. My mother's uncle was in bed when the siren went off. He said he wasn't leaving his bed. That is, until a bomb exploded nearby and shattered the windows, covering him in glass. He was in the shelter like a shot.
When I mentioned to a friend, who was on the south coast during the war as a young lad, that my mother said about the V2's, he said that they only went as far as London because they had just enough fuel to get them there before the fuel ran out.
My ex-wife's grandmother's uncle, who went to Coventry from South Wales on the train (paid for by somebody else) also said that rockets fell on Coventry. After his first night being blitzed, he decided he was going back to South Wales, but was too short of money to pay for the train ticket, so he walked back.
Did the Germans have launch sites in Belgium and did they launch V2's on Coventry and Sheffield?
I was used to tall stories from my father. For years I believed the scar over his right eye was the result of a German bayonet and the hole in his foot was caused by a German bullet. I was 5 when he told me these stories.
I was eight when my grandmother told me he got the scar from falling out of a tree and the hole in his foot was a verruca.... He was 4 when the war broke out...
I can't ask my parents since they died 30 years ago.
If you can answer, I would be most grateful.
Kind Regards,
Gary
I know London and the South were bombed with V2's and my question is: Did Sheffield also have V2 attacks?
My mother told me about the doodlebugs and the noise they made and how people were scared when they stopped the noise. They didn't know where they were going to fall. All part of the terrorist aspect, I should imagine.
My mother and her family lived in Sheffield. My mother's uncle was in bed when the siren went off. He said he wasn't leaving his bed. That is, until a bomb exploded nearby and shattered the windows, covering him in glass. He was in the shelter like a shot.
When I mentioned to a friend, who was on the south coast during the war as a young lad, that my mother said about the V2's, he said that they only went as far as London because they had just enough fuel to get them there before the fuel ran out.
My ex-wife's grandmother's uncle, who went to Coventry from South Wales on the train (paid for by somebody else) also said that rockets fell on Coventry. After his first night being blitzed, he decided he was going back to South Wales, but was too short of money to pay for the train ticket, so he walked back.
Did the Germans have launch sites in Belgium and did they launch V2's on Coventry and Sheffield?
I was used to tall stories from my father. For years I believed the scar over his right eye was the result of a German bayonet and the hole in his foot was caused by a German bullet. I was 5 when he told me these stories.
I was eight when my grandmother told me he got the scar from falling out of a tree and the hole in his foot was a verruca.... He was 4 when the war broke out...
I can't ask my parents since they died 30 years ago.
If you can answer, I would be most grateful.
Kind Regards,
Gary