Is there any truth in a statement i heard, that during the War
the Welsh used to pick out huge arrows in stones, pointing the
way to Liverpool, so that the germans wouldn,t bomb them ?
2006-12-12 01:13:33 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Rubbish. I'm old enough to have lived through the war and air raids. As the raids when they really got going were in the dark how the heck could the German pilots see the stones? Only the Americans continued with daylight raids and got badly mauled until they got long distance fighter escorts.
I am not welsh and don't understand why people always try to do them down. They have probably not known many.
2006-12-12 04:31:57 · answer #1 · answered by Sparks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
living in wales all my life, I've never heard of anything like that. I'm sure my family members would have mentioned something like that, even my nan (rest her soul) would have said something, she was 19 when the war started and died last year, she mentioned plenty of times when bombs missed where she worked and lived but nothing about directing the Germans up north !!
2006-12-12 01:26:52 · answer #2 · answered by price 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These were common and never-substantiated rumors not just local to Wales. Like urban legends, these seem to crop up in countries and times across a broad span.
2006-12-12 03:10:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! I am sure the Germans found Liverpool without any help.
2006-12-12 01:52:59 · answer #4 · answered by verduneuro 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ive read this in some history books but it could just be bollocks
2006-12-12 02:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by JUDGE DEATH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
might be true. i would of gone for massive neon lights personally.
2006-12-12 03:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by jj26 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably cos they had no good chippies.
2006-12-12 01:17:09 · answer #7 · answered by ANON 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not...lol.
2006-12-12 01:14:54 · answer #8 · answered by Diadem 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋