http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...rld-War-II.html

Brings you straight back...

These look great, amazing to see those 'kids' around that Spitfire.

PS You're not over 80 are you Frey?

I think he is just putting his Saitek pedals onboard Frog.

Great pics.

When I see pictures like that in colour I begin to wonder how we'd cope in this day and age with that type of destruction. I think in the modern western world we would find it much harder as we are so accustomed to the convenience and luxuries of modern living.

Look at how some of us 'suffer' if we don't have electricity, or even heaven forbid an Internet connection for a few days. How would people cope if they lost their entire house and immediate neighbourhood?

When my Mum was a kid their house got flattened during an air raid. Apparently,they just packed up what they could salvage into a hand cart and walked the 6 miles to a relatives house in the country and stayed there for the remainder of the war.
Even so they had three close calls after that as they were on the Dooglebug flightpath to London through Kent.

My Mum lived through this in Watford just NW of London. She worked in a factory making bomb sights and my Grand Dad was a WW I vet doing Air Raid Warden duty. When they told me stories I had no comprehension of what it was like to live through this. Figured it out real quick during a tour in Viet Nam.

a pox on the man who mentioned a loss of internet connectivity! Actually with my speeds at home it is like i have no internet for days at a time, ...sometimes 60 minutes takes four days.

Amazing pictures.


Wheels

Kind of going off topic but this is the suffering the middle class deals with today:

Life is So Hard

Absorbing pics!

Some of you would not have failed to notice that the Spit re-arming pic is actually of a post-Battle of Britain aircraft with the 18" fuselage band which has not been accurately positioned.

Nice find, glad of the release of those pictures- always interesting to see the colour photos from the times. One of my mothers uncle was a firefighter in Coventry, then London, so heard some but not all of the stories. My grandfather flew with the RAF before and during the Battle, and another of my mothers uncles was a rear gunner in a Lancaster (no idea which squadron). Thanks for sharing the find, Frey.

Brings you straight back indeed. Testimony to the steadfastness of the London people and drama that went on in those times. Makes you wonder how people coped day in and day out.

These pictures look like they could have been taken from the Luftwaffe raids on London but they aren't.
This is London 2011... Riot City







WTF is England coming to???