Tallboy & grandslam craters
I live a short distance from where they tested these bombs at Ashley ranges in the New Forest. The craters now have single tress in their centres and can be seen on Google Earth. Also, there is a full size submarine pen alongside which has been hidden by earth - but is now starting to appear again. It was so large and tough the Army were unable to demolish it after WW2 - so it was buried. I herad that it cost 250 thousand UK pounds to build at the time. A huge sum. interestingly, you could now stand alongside it and not know it was there apart from small patches of erosion that are staring to show the hardened concrete. Funnly enough these huge bombs clearly missed there targets & i was told that the sub-pen bombing was suspended in order to drop the supply of bombs they had at the time on a large viaduct/bridge.
I live a short distance from where they tested these bombs at Ashley ranges in the New Forest. The craters now have single tress in their centres and can be seen on Google Earth. Also, there is a full size submarine pen alongside which has been hidden by earth - but is now starting to appear again. It was so large and tough the Army were unable to demolish it after WW2 - so it was buried. I herad that it cost 250 thousand UK pounds to build at the time. A huge sum. interestingly, you could now stand alongside it and not know it was there apart from small patches of erosion that are staring to show the hardened concrete. Funnly enough these huge bombs clearly missed there targets & i was told that the sub-pen bombing was suspended in order to drop the supply of bombs they had at the time on a large viaduct/bridge.