I posted this in the campfire section a bit ago but this thread seems like a good place for it
http://www.bombsight.org/#15/51.5050/-0.0900It's amazing the amount of bombs that fell on London during the blitz and that any of the original city survives today. You can use the pull-down to view different weeks or even enter an address.
On the issue of Britain's loan from the US, the money that was paid back in 06 was postwar money. I didn't know much about it and learned some interesting stuff in these two articles. Largely the loan could have been paid back but made business sense to string it out to 06. Note that significant sums were paid back to Canada as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/marshall_01.shtmlhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6215847.stmLove getting over there for work and pleasure and hope to share a pint or dram sometime with a member or two from the campfire. We are truly two nations that have much more in common than we do differences.
There is no doubt that Britain and it's Commonwealth partners own the victory in the BoB and US had minimal input (despite Hollywierd trying to day otherwise). What happened afterward though would have been very different if the US had not weighed in and started the Lend Lease and thus began the war on the U-Boats. If that had not happened I suspect that Britain would have died a slow death by supply strangulation and then who knows what would have happened.
On the original topic, there is far more misinformation in this thread than truth and it heartens me to see that tin foil sales in the UK will remain as strong as they do in the US.
