Talk:Tallboy (bomb)

message: Deatailed history of use a really unique and valuable text, i am just not sure the source/voice relationships sometimes. For instance w/gender classes, citation would righly cite "her" pronoun for place/object, whereas passive/neutral voice suggest "it".
-dkz  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dkz999 (talk • contribs) 21:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc.

message: I have doubts about the caption for the photo of the bombs at RAF Bardney: The caption says it's November but the trees appear to be in full leaf.216.52.207.104 (talk) 21:31, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Tirpitz was not tranferred to Tromso for reparation. It schould serve as a floatig coastal battery.--WerWil 13:33, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought that on the day that 617 Squadron tried to find the Eagle's Nest it was covered in clouds, so that instead they bombed the SS garrison's quarters. Darkmind1970 16:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Paul Brickhill's book certainly says that 617 flattened the nearby SS barracks rather than the Eagle's Nest.  And there’s plenty of photos of the latter taken post-war, not to mention my own memory of visiting the place as a tiny Mr Larrington in the summer of 1969. Mr Larrington (talk) 23:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Tirpitz

message: The text says that the tail was about half the length of the bomb, but it's obviously much shorter than this.  Is the picture of an earlier design or is the text talking about the "tail" as in the non-explosive part, and not just the fins?  It should be clarified.  KarlM 02:59, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: tailfin size

message: A H Midgley was my great grandfather. He designed the fuse for the Tall-Boy and the W Bomb and, although I'm yet to confirm it on the internet, the Bouncing Bomb.   He was a British inventor who specialised in valve switches, having previously designed a number of switches for organs, cookers, cars etc.  At the time of designing the fuse for the Tall-Boy he worked through h Midgley Harmer Ltd in Middlesex.
86.131.64.72 (talk) 00:27, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albert Henry Midgley 

message: It'd be helpful if we could get the relative size of the bomb (compared to a human) in the image.  Any pictures which show personale and the bomb at the same time? Oberiko (talk) 20:51, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Relative size in image?

message: It just seems like too much of a coincidence that the number 617 would appear in both the squad number and the number of airplanes. I suggest removing the 969 number before that is confirmed. Should also be removed from the heligoland article. Although operations with 1000 bombers were probably not uncommon, i wonder if heligoland would be such an important target.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.227.45.59 (talk) 17:31, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heligoland bombings 

message: February 8 [1944]
(evening) Twelve British Lancaster bombers attack Limoges, France. They destroy most of the Gnome et Rhône airplane-engine factory. All planes return to England safely. A 12,000-pound bomb is dropped for the first time. [84.214,346]
http://ww2timeline.info/ww21944.htm
--37.190.52.21 (talk) 04:41, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virgin bombing 

message: Five times 2,000 is 10,000.  Right? Tmangray (talk) 04:37, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: 12,000 Pounds is Five Tons?

message: I changed the infobox picture for the following reasons.
* The picture is of a replica, if they're available, pictures of the actual topic of the article are better.
* The picture is of a rubbish replica. If you look closely, it's shape is quite different to the wartime bombs pictured in the Tallboy category on Commons. The while body of the replica bomb is curved - actual Tallboys have a straight-sided, cylindrical section in the middle. I suspect it's a replica of something else entirely, and the picture's uploader has made a mistake.
* The new picture includes people, this provides an immediate rough scale and gives a good idea of the bomb's size.
Catsmeat (talk) 16:58, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox picture

message: In the section regarding operations in support of Operation Crossbow, mention is made of the bombing of the Watten Bunker. If the writer had taken the trouble to 1. READ the books "The Dam Busters" and "Cheshire VC" written by Paul Brickhill, 2. Visited the Blok Haus, and maybe 3. Tracked down several members of the RAF who took part in the bombing of the Blok Haus to which the writer refers (several are still 2016, still alive), they would then have learnt that the 617 Squadron went several times to attempt to bomb the blok haus, and on the 25th July 1944 the atmosphere was so clear that no marking of the target was required. From an altitude of 20000 feet and 2 miles back the Tallboys were released with 30 minute delays on the fuses - no explosions were noted. Photographs taken just over 30 minutes after the bombs had been dropped revealed that the Blok Haus received "... Five direct hits, and half a dozen very-very near misses..." When the advancing armies of the allies reached Watten "...They found that "tallboys" had smashed the roof and wrecked the building inside so badly the Germans abandoned it..." A visit to the Blok Haus shows the proximity of the near misses along with the hole in the roof and the wreckage inflicted by the penetration of the tallboys into the structure. The hole in the roof is clearly visible on Google Earth! 617 Squadron permanently put the Watten Bunker out of action and the evidence is still there to see. My late father in law was on the raid and was a tail gunner in one of the Lancaster bombers, I am also in regular contact with a dear friend who also was on the same raid and he too served as a tail gunner. When in 2013 my wife and I mentioned to him that we had visited the Watten Bunker he, completely unbidden, said "Did you see the hole in the roof which we put ther in July 1944?" As an aside the bunker also serves as a memorial to several hundreds of slave workers who were entombed in the structure and the local population of about 8000 people, less than 1000 came home after the war ended. If you wish to make remarks about a bomb raid please ensure you check your facts as otherwise you insult the very brave men who put their lives on the line and all too often paid a terrible price. To those who died at Watten and elsewhere may they all rest in peace.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.231.231 (talk) 14:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bombing the Watten Bunker - aka Blok Haus d'Eperlecques 

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message: Hi there
It seems like the second bomb failure has just been found: https://szczecin.onet.pl/swinoujscie-odnaleziono-bombe-tallboy-z-ii-wojny-swiatowej/gqnn9hg (article in Polish). Keep an eye.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Witkacy26 (talk • contribs) 11:29, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  another failure found