air war over the uk. 40s

[Anonymous]

i know this is a odd place to ask this. but as a lot of ppl. from the uk. read this i wondered if any one would know or not.
Q; was any one hurt or killed on the ground by falling gun fire from the air plane's fighting over head in the 1940s.
i have always wondered on this after seeing movie's on the air war over the uk. the shells that missed the aimed at plane have to land some where.

do any one know of or rember being told of this happing.
i would like to know..

[Anna78]

Well, I don´t know. But maybe you find an answer in the RAF-Museum (royal air force) in London or at the britain at the war museum. If you are from the UK you should visit at least the RAF-Museum. It´s great. And it´s for free.

[Anonymous]

I would say that the answer to your question is almost certainly 'yes.' Any war involves a number of fatalities as events in Iraq this year have demonstrated all too well and, even with the best policies in place designed to protect civilians as much as possible, things sadly can and do go wrong.

Having said that, my father was a navigator with the RAF during World War II, and he's always said that as far as military casualties were concerned, more men died in accidents on training exercises in those not-too-safety-conscious days than ever did in actual combat.

:wink:

[Indigo]

Of course they did.

That's why all civil defence workers were issued with hard hats.

A hard hat ain't much use against a falling bomb, or even a fragment of an exploded bomb. But it's quite nifty if your problem is falling shrapnel - i.e. fragments of spent munitions from air-to-air and ground-to-air gunnery, descending under the influence of gravity alone.