'Firebomb Fritz' Magazine Clipping
Article about: Hello folks. A very minor piece of ephemera, easy to overlook on its own. An advertisement for the Fire Guard, cut from a period magazine. Depicting the infamous 'Firebomb Fritz' character,
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I like it, and thanks for sharing.
Mart
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Great display. My late Grandmother lived in Birmingham during the War and could remember an incendiary bomb clattering down the roof of the house and landing in the back garden. Luckily it failed to ignite and her neighbour quickly put a bucket of sand over it.
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Spitace41
Great display. My late Grandmother lived in Birmingham during the War and could remember an incendiary bomb clattering down the roof of the house and landing in the back garden. Luckily it failed to ignite and her neighbour quickly put a bucket of sand over it.
That must have been truly terrifying to experience firsthand. You can imagine how much worse it might have been if it had broken through the roof tiles and ended up in the attic. I've heard that the Luftwaffe added secondary charges to them later on as well, with the intention of killing the volunteer firefighters who rushed to deal with them.
B.B.
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