germans bomb ireland

railwaylad

looking for any info or photos on old irish army vehicle pre 1980
also any info or photos on germans bombing ireland ww11 there is a lot of info on north strand but i ko there was outher bombs drop. would love any info at all
....thanks.

diverdriver

There was a book on the subject of Irish army vehicle. Can't think of the name now.
As for German bombs, well my great uncle was bombed in Wexford. Ruined his day that.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Who are you writing your piece for? Newspaper? School project?

Give us some credit ffs...

johnny_doyle

DublinHeritage has some info re photos taken after the North Strand bombings

http://www.dublinheritage.ie/historic_photographs/north_strand_bombing.html


this will lead you onto 2 related sites re the incident.


FYI, Bill Cullen's book "It's a Long Way from Penny Apples" starts off re these bombing.

The following from Dublin City gives some info too

http://www.dublincity.ie/SiteCollectionDocuments/Public%20Libraries/HertHist/n_strand_bombing_archives.pdf

Catriona Crowe, an archivist at the National Archives of Ireland, recently published a book titled "The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand, 1941 - The Untold Story".

railwaylad

thanks for the post lads, im not writing a book,,,, my late fathers friend use to tell us story's about the germans bombing dublin this old lad use to tell us he was part of a anti aircraft gun crew in a area which is now dublin 10
their gun was on a hill know as the colifornia hill over looking the bridge in chapelizod (which is now dublin 20) he was always telling us that his crew open fire on the aircraft that bomb the north strand in 1941 over the years we often wounder was this true or a spoof,,,, do you know anywere i could look for such records...
i found a lot of photos on the north strand but very fue others

i found this photo which would have been taking from colifornia hill don't know the year

concussion

Contact An Cosantoir ( http://www.dfmagazine.ie ) and request a back issue of Volume 64, No. 7, September 2004. They published an an article entitled "Air Raid Message Red" which includes the after action report written by the commmander of 1 AA Bn (now 1 ADR). Several gun positions fired on the EN A/C so that story could very well be true.

Another Irish military board has the after action report but I don't know the current postition on linking, perhaps a mod could let me know if I can post it?

(No, I'm not a huge history nerd but I remembered the name of the article and a google of that yielded a reference in this book http://books.google.ie/books?id=7yVsz0GYWSEC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=%22air+raid+message+red%22&source=bl&ots=pszhJKQCkH&sig=MQ6PNTOOajYwLRjrVO6sVePUPw8&hl=en&ei=-kH1Svr1KoOC4QbWwpHcAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22air%20raid%20message%20red%22&f=false so I was able to get the publication details. It also mentions that the article is misleading in that it deals with the current organisation but I'm almost certain it covers the air raid aswell)

railwaylad

concussion wrote: »

Contact An Cosantoir ( http://www.dfmagazine.ie ) and request a back issue of Volume 64, No. 7, September 2004. They published an an article entitled "Air Raid Message Red" which includes the after action report written by the commmander of 1 AA Bn (now 1 ADR). Several gun positions fired on the EN A/C so that story could very well be true.

Another Irish military board has the after action report but I don't know the current postition on linking, perhaps a mod could let me know if I can post it?

(No, I'm not a huge history nerd but I remembered the name of the article and a google of that yielded a reference in this book http://books.google.ie/books?id=7yVsz0GYWSEC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=%22air+raid+message+red%22&source=bl&ots=pszhJKQCkH&sig=MQ6PNTOOajYwLRjrVO6sVePUPw8&hl=en&ei=-kH1Svr1KoOC4QbWwpHcAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22air%20raid%20message%20red%22&f=false so I was able to get the publication details. )

yer a grand wee lad thanks alot and well done.........thanks

concussion

These websites may come in useful aswell

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/bombings.html#may3141
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/eire.htm
http://northstrandbombing.wordpress.com/

Edit - run a Google search for "Air Raid Message Red" Dublin and click 'pages from Ireland'

railwaylad

thanks for the mail lads im looking into it.

McArmalite

Charlie Ripe Skulduggery wrote: »

Who are you writing your piece for? Newspaper? School project?

Give us some credit ffs...

How someone is supposed to give a stupid f**king post like yours credit is beyond me.

concussion wrote: »

These websites may come in useful aswell

http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/bombings.html#may3141
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/eire.htm
http://northstrandbombing.wordpress.com/

Edit - run a Google search for "Air Raid Message Red" Dublin and click 'pages from Ireland'

Good stuff concussion, the http://northstrandbombing.wordpress.com/ is very good.

FiSe

railwaylad wrote: »

yer a grand wee lad thanks alot and well done.........thanks

All what you've ever wanted to know -not only- about 'bombing' of Ireland is in the book called 'Guarding Neutral Ireland' by Michael Kennedy:

http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/reviews.php?intProductID=785

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

McArmalite wrote: »

How someone is supposed to give a stupid f**king post like yours credit is beyond me.

When somebody comes on here, looking for info in a certain area on his first post, it looks very suspicious. Considering Boards.ie is great spot for newspapers to get stories and the likes. It's not that hard to figure out if you have any intelligence at all... :rolleyes:

*Edit*

The op could have put in a little bit more effort into the post, explaining his situation and giving us more information.

merrionsq

McArmalite wrote: »

How someone is supposed to give a stupid f**king post like yours credit is beyond me.

Charming. Do you reckon the Brits were involved?

railwaylad

first bombs to hit ireland was on a village in wexford (compile) 3 killed august 1940, also hit in 1941 carlow, kildare, louth, meath, wicklow,waterford, germans allways said that they were all accidental and paid compensation both during the war and after the war. talk in the village of compile was that they were hit because products from a local creamery had been found on capture british prisoners....still checking on info about aa batterys in dublin 1941 may have been called thunderbolt dublin north and spearhead dublin south anty aircraft divison.

concussion

Just a heads up on the units and terminology used, it may be of benefit for your research. The AA gun positions were manned by 1 Anti Aircraft Battalion and were were reporting to Air Defence Command in Dublin Castle. The unit was made up of 3 Medium and 1 Light Battery's (sub-units), which, along with Bn Hq (and possibly, a Hq Battery (another sub-unit) made up the ~ 1,000 strong 1 AA Battalion (unit).

The number of guns in each postition would have been based on operational needs. One gun plus crew would be termed a detachment, several guns would be a troop. A Battery would generally have 2 Troops of 2-4 guns but those aren't fixed. The Order of Battle in the book I linked above will allow you to determine the exact arrangement.

Keep us updated when you get more info, I for one am quite interested (seeing as I'm serving in 1 AD Regiment, renamed from 1 AA Bn.