Hi Alistair Thanks for your post. I too am a writer and am currently writing a novel for children based on the idea. How odd that we should be working on the same thing. The idea will only be a couple of chapetrs in my book, which will have a wider theme. Fascinating to think we are coming at the same idea but from two different starting points: you a picture and me a question from a
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Morning I know what the kids will ask. If a u-boat attempted to sail up the Thames in 1941, what defences from the English would it have had to get past? I know nothing about the detail. Were English ships using detection systems back then? Sorry for my ignorance. I have a hazy recollection of sonar being used in old British war movies. Many thanks Gary Nott
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Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for the link to the clip. I will share it with the children I teach, who will love it.
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Morning All Just humour me. Would it have been possible for a u-boat to sail up the Thames to Tower bridge? I am teaching the Second World War to a class of eleven year olds and I was asked the question. The bright kid who asked compared it to the Twin Towers 9/11 attack - ie it was such an outrageous idea that it might have worked. What would have prevented it? Best Wishes Gary
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