Cluster Bombs

Warfare

History Hit

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In 1943, Grimsby was hit by a new type of weapon: butterfly bombs, also know as cluster bombs. This episode from Dan Snow's History Hit features the World Wars' very own James Rogers, telling Dan all about the terrifying experience of being attacked by cluster bombs, and how they've been used around the world since.

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0:00.0	Spexavers have asked me to tell you something important, so I've gone creative and dug out my
0:05.9	old jack-in-the-box. It's about prices and how they jump up when you least expect them.
0:16.0	I said jump up when you least expect them. I said jump up when you least expect them. Oh, that Spexaver's glasses still start from 15 pounds.
0:19.0	Not now, Jack, including standard single vision lenses only. He's going to jump up now isn't he?
0:24.3	Oh well you're better off with spec savers. Oh I knew it. Ask in store for details.
0:32.3	Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit World Wars podcast. I'm your host James
0:35.7	Rogers and we are dedicated to that turbulent period in history between 1914 and
0:40.6	1945. I've dug back deep into the Dan Snow's History Hit Archives to pull out an
0:46.6	episode that I think is pretty good. That's because it is the first ever episode that I recorded on Dan Snow's history hit and it got me into this game.
0:57.1	It is about the Second World War cluster bombing of Grimsby of all places.
1:02.4	Cluster bombs were a pretty new invention for the Second World War
1:04.9	invented by the Nazis and one of the most horrendous of these was the Butterfly Bomb which
1:10.4	packed quite a punch despite its relatively innocent name.
1:15.0	There were 3,000 of these dropped on Grimsby in one night.
1:19.0	I think this is a fascinating history. I've been to the town, interviewed the veterans. I've done a number of years of research on this and I hope you also find it fascinating as well. So here's my second world war research with Dan Snow on the pod. Thanks to have me done. I mean it's always good to have you back on your last, you're wildly popular last time so we thought
1:55.8	we'd get it back on.
1:56.8	So this time, this is an odd story.
1:58.8	Let's go back to the beginning.
1:59.6	Go back to the beginning of how, how did you come across this story? Oh God right I was researching the early
2:06.0	stage of my PhD and I was looking at the reasons why certain weapons are
2:12.0	accepted in war and other weapons are dismissed as being
2:16.1	immoral, illegal, unacceptable in times of war for killing and so I started
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