A recent program on Stonehenge on the Discovery channel said the RAF wanted to
level Stonehenge with explosives, but the person who owned the land they were
on refused to let them. *boggle* Is it just me, or does all this suggest
that in the 1930s and early 40s good maps were much harder to come by than
today? I know the advent of satelite mapping has improved it, but you'd think
anyone planning to invade England would have gone there in 1938 and just
BOUGHT maps.
> I've never heard that one. Plenty of things like that were done in WW2,
> mostly to impress upon the public that 'there's a war on'.
>
> Both my parents (who lived through the war) assure me that Stonehenge was
> not moved, laid flat, or anything else in the war.
>
> Of course some things (stained glass windows, for example) were moved to
> protect them in the event of bombing.
>
> Anyway, stones lying flat in a field would also be a good landmark IMHO.
> Possibly even more visible.
>
> -tony
>
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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