Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

In message <1hw57xr.6d2yjv1gubksjN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

sigvaldi <sigvald@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder wrote:
[snip]

German planes near Iceland were very rare indeed.

German aircraft flew over Reykjavik and other places in the west of
Iceland on numerous occasions, often bombing and strafing, German
planes near the east of Iceland were almost a daily occurrence.

(Wow! Almost a plane a day!)

Iceland does not have a large population - the entire country has a
population only marginally more than the London borough[1] I grew up in
(London's population dwarfs Iceland's), and I doubt it was much
different back in the WWII years. If that `almost one warplane a day'
is also `often bombing and strafing', it's a big deal to Iceland.

How do you 'often bomb and strafe' with one plane?

Very easily if there is no air opposition. Remember the Luftwaffe was set
up as a tactical force to support the army, after dropping the bomb load they
would return and shoot up the survivors.

Didn't find anything at first sight.
Quite likely it happened though.
Hitler seems to have been furious
about the British occupation of Iceland,
and even ordered plans made for a counter-invasion.

The Germans had outline plans for invading Iceland before the British
arrived. It was one of the factors for the Allied occupation. German naval
strategy at one time envisaged using Iceland as a base for surface raiders.
Though how they were going to resupply was never clear.

Whatever military operations must have been aimed
at the Brits there, not at the Icelanders.

Not just the British there was a major US base there as well, Meeks Field.

As I said elsewhere, after 1941 the Condor
was used for recon only to conserve numbers.

But not a situation that could be relied on by the Allies to continue.

--
Graeme Wall

My genealogy website:
<http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/index.html>
.

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