Hitler's Revenge Weapons by Walpole Nigel;

Author:Walpole, Nigel;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / Weapons
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Limited
Published: 2018-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

Edward (Ted) Carter, Chief Warden for Waltham Holy Cross, keeping an eye on an unexploded 1000kg German bomb. (Courtesy Janet Grove)

All ARP posts were equipped with very basic safety equipment, including these first aid kits. (Courtesy Lowewood Museum)

On 20 September 1944 Waltham Holy Cross Wardens set up this Incident Post, by the Green Man Public House, Waltham Abbey, to deal with the effects of a V1 which landed close by in Larsen’s Recreation Ground. (Courtesy Janet Grove)

So it was that, from April 1945, all the offensive and defence air assets, which had worked so hard together to minimise the effects of Hitler’s Vergeltungswaffen, became available to support the invasion forces on the continent, or to deploy to the Far East to take part in operations against Japan. On the home front, the passive defences and, in particular, the ARP were unlikely to be required at their present levels and preparations began at once to stand down most of the wartime volunteers. They and everyone in the peace-loving world celebrated Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) on 8 May, with great gusto while two powerful searchlights, from somewhere north of the author’s home, made a gigantic V in the sky above. Ted Carter and the Waltham Holy Cross ARP paraded for the last time on 13 May 1945, the sirens had stopped their wailing and the nights were now left to the nightingales.

Strict food rationing continued throughout the war and to a lesser extent until 1954. (Courtesy Lowewood Museum)

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