Air Raid Soundscape.flac

I used your sound in an animation called WWII Bombing Campaign 1939-1945 that runs in our museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada.
It is not available online.

I used your sound in an animation called WWII Bombing Campaign 1939-1945 that runs in our museum Bomber Command Museum of Canada.
It is not available online.

Using this for our war scene in youth theatre. Thank you so much

Torterolli

2 years, 11 months ago

Thank you.

Nice, I just miss the whistling. Yes, WW2 bombs did whistle. In fact, any fast but subsonic-moving object with sharp edges will whistle, but WW2 era bombs did have whistle-shaped parts to make them louder and improve the psychological effect (if you can make an enemy flee or surrender, that's much more effective than killing them. And less cruel).

And it worked. Some survivors from the WW2 bombings said that the thing they most remember is the whistling. A loud, constant pitch sound* that, in their words, sounded like the bombs are going to fall in your head. Much louder than the aircraft engines. In an intense raid you could barely hear anything but whistling and detonations.

*The famous falling pitch is only perceived from the perspective of the bomber, due to doppler effect.

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