At 12:46 AM 1/19/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
>A lot of it was propaganda to the British public to convince them how
>important the war was....
>
>Of course there were maps. Ordnance Survey maps were originally produced
>for military use (hence the name), but nowadays are available just about
>anywhere in the UK (most bookshops keep at least the local ones). During
>the war they were probably impossible to obtain, but before the war, trivial.
>
>And you can bet they had got them in Germany as well. After all, the
>British certainly had German maps.
>
>The other thing that worries me is that Stonehenge is not the best
>landmark in that area. Salisbury Cathedral's spire is probably a lot
>easier to see from a distance.
>
>-tony
>
>
I once heard that the Luftwaffe got a lot of its info on the location of
British aircraft factories from advertising in The Aeroplane and other
magazines.
Regards
Charlie Fox
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Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 09:11:32 GMT