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Sunderland in world war 2

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The Lambton Worm said:
One of the reasons Sunderland was bombed so much was that we produced 1/4 - 1/3 (reports vary) of the total tonnage produced by all British shipyards during WWII.

Little known fact - the Liberty Ships were based on a design by J.L. Thompson & Sons. I'm not 100% certain but I think the SD14 is a derivative of the Liberty Ships too.



Tidied as they were the top team in Germany during the Third Reich. ;)
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The Lambton Worm said:
One of the reasons Sunderland was bombed so much was that we produced 1/4 - 1/3 (reports vary) of the total tonnage produced by all British shipyards during WWII.

Little known fact - the Liberty Ships were based on a design by J.L. Thompson & Sons. I'm not 100% certain but I think the SD14 is a derivative of the Liberty Ships too.



Tidied as they were the top team in Germany during the Third Reich. ;)
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Schalke were the team the crew of the submarine in Das Boot supported.
 
There were a few raids on Aberdeen - they knocked out the ice rink and managed to hit one of the main cemeteries - people in neighbouring streets actually had to clear human remains that were blown through their windows! You can still see the shrapnel damage on some of the granite headstones (and the walls of the houses).

There's a war grave section in an old churchyard not far from Dyce Airport - there are about 60 Commonwealth War Graves (mostly RAF) and a dozen or so Luftwaffe. Our local ATC Squadron has a parade every Remembrance Sunday where they place individual poppies on each grave - it's incredibly moving. Most of the airmen were little more than kids - late teens, early 20's - same age as my lads are now.
 
dcl0sc said:
I think so... the street looks like Duke Street North
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Me grandad was in the volunteer fire brigade when home from merchant navy

Served during the fulwell rd raid. Apparently there was a direct hit on a shelter and they had to pick bits of people off the nearby tram wires
 
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Not to mention our roll-on roll-off ack-ack on the Queen Alexandria bridge...

Icarebecauseyoudo said:
Me grandad was in the volunteer fire brigade when home from merchant navy

Served during the fulwell rd raid. Apparently there was a direct hit on a shelter and they had to pick bits of people off the nearby tram wires
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Fulwell is littered with houses/structures that don't belong... there must be some ghosts roaming the streets....
 
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Robin Auld, then an ARP messenger, recalled: “There was a tremendous cacophony, with bombs and land mines exploding. We expected our end to come, but it didn’t. The dust was choking when I left the shelter and got to the side of a crater. In front was a young girl lying dead across the edge. A voice called out to fetch bandages.

f***ing hell that's grim.
 
me dad was 9 when it started lived in Deptford, saw the parachute mine that hit Laings yard and a railway bogie come flying over from the blast and landed in the gasworks beside Simpson st school
 
TK-421 said:
I'd say probably Coventry too
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aye, Alvis had a fair few factories making trucks in that area.

Difficult to say really who would be above us in this league table cos altho we had big factories dotted all over the place we also spread it out as much as we could to avoid putting all of our eggs in 1 basket (a lesson learnt after Supermarine at Southampton was flattened in the BoB - which destroyed all the plans, jigs and prototype of the 4 engine bomber they were working on)
 
Paddy O'Dors said:
Schalke were the team the crew of the submarine in Das Boot supported.
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True and their most successful years were during the Third Reich. This has also led to the rumour that Hitler supported them and is why they were so successful.

Over a dozen seasons, from 1933 to 1945, Schalke won 162 of 189 Gauliga matches, drawing 21 and losing only 6. On the way, they scored 924 goals and gave up just 145. From 1935 to 1939, they did not lose a single league match. The club's dominance throughout this period led them to be held up for propaganda purposes by the
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