The WW2 Targets of the New Forest - Part Four
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- During the Second World War, a section of the New Forest in Hampshire was annexed, closed off from the public and used by the RAF as a bombing range. Many bombs, including Barnes Wallis' 'Bouncing Bombs' were tested for accuracy there.
Dave Ford is my guide and together we explore the remaining artifacts of those targets in this four part series of walks.
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It was my friend, F/Lt Trevor Muhl the bomb aimer who dropped the Grand Slam that brought down the Bielefeld viaduct! He is buried in the church yard 200m from my house. I spent a lot of time with him when I was a teenager as he taught me all about developing and printing B/W photographs. He was a really nice, humble guy.
Fascinating videos! I knew about 'Grand Slam', but it adds something to know that this was where Grand Slam and also the Tallboys were tested. It's regrettable that those weapons were not available earlier in WW2.
A great series of 4 videos! You hit the jackpot finding Dave. He is very pleasant to watch and listen too. Just the sort of person one would like to find on a rainy afternoon in a pub and spend a few hours listening to him about his local knowledge and tales he may have.
He is such a good egg! More with Dave to follow.
What an utterly spellbinding series of videos! Thank you so much.
Our pleasure - all thanks go to Dave Ford.
+Richard Vobes this series would be worthy of viewing in secondary school history classrooms.
It always staggers me how quickly we can forget 'recent' history. The London docks are a case in point. Thousands of people worked there until the mid 1960s, now the few remains are an enigma. Just how did warehouse cranes work? Not in the way you would imagine, but that's another story!
Great video. Amazing information, Dave Ford was brilliant.
Thanks very much - Dave is a great chap!
@@RichardVobes How did Dave Ford get involved in this series? Does he lead walks or give talks on the subject? Keen to know more.
Just watched all four of your video's on this, and oh boy so so interesting, makes me wish I still lived down south, thank you for sharing the video's.
Glad you like them!
It's really fascinating about the bomb crater definitely my favourite video of the four parts - talk about best till last
That the way to do - :)
Great series of 4 episodes Richard, really interesting, spent plenty of time on the new forest over the years and had no idea. Thank you, and thanks to font of knowledge Dave too!
Glad you enjoyed it
A wonderful set of vieos - thank you for showing the targets, craters and "anonimalies"! :-)
Glad you like them!
Really interesting stuff - it amazing how many little air raid shelters still exist in people’s back gardens - hopefully they will be easier to remove than that one!
Yes indeed. :)
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