Where the Doodlebugs crashed in Kent—V-1 impact sites—Bomb Alley 1944 old map

£320

SKU: P-7-028456

'Where the Doodle Bugs Crashed in Kent. Summer 1944'


An extraordinary contemporary record of the V-1 campaign, plotting approximately 2,400 flying bombs that fell across Kent and into the Channel during the summer of 1944—“200 more than London.” Each black dot marks a crash site, their concentration turning the county into the notorious “Bomb Alley,” while arrows offshore record missiles brought down at sea. The accompanying “Official Story of County’s Ordeal” describes the attacks, casualties and air-defence response. Reprinted from the Kent Messenger of 15 September 1944 and sold for 6d in aid of Service Charities, the sheet was produced amid wartime paper shortages on surplus packaging-label stock. Its dense plotting makes the indiscriminate geography of the world’s first operational cruise-missile campaign immediately visible, from Sevenoaks and Maidstone to the Kent coast and English Channel.

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Size 45 x 67 cm | 17.5 x 26.5 inches

Date Published: 1944

Type: Black-and-white folding newspaper map, printed on obsolete wartime packaging paper

Author: Pratt Boorman, H. R.

H. R. Pratt Boorman, editor and proprietor; Kent Messenger, publisher

Publication: Kent Messenger Doodlebugs map

Where the Doodle Bugs Crashed in Kent. Summer 1944. Maidstone: Kent Messenger, [late 1944]. Reprinted from the Kent Messenger (the County Paper of Kent), issue of 15 September 1944. Printed on wartime surplus packaging-label stock.

Condition: Good |

Good; suitable for framing. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain

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