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During 1940 the Luftwaffe targeted Cardiff on 3, 10 and 12 July and 7 August. This was followed in 1941 with raids on 2, 3 and 10 January. Over 100 bombers attacked the city over a 10-hour period beginning at 6.37 pm on the night of 2 January 1941.
2 January – Cardiff Blitz: 165 people are killed in Luftwaffe air raids on Cardiff, and Llandaff Cathedral is seriously damaged. [3] 17 January – Swansea Blitz: 58 people are killed in an air raid on Swansea, the town's worst individual raid. [4] 20 January – Welsh press magnate William Ewart Berry is created Viscount Camrose.
At the time the 9th AA Division was created, the towns of South Wales, including important coal and oil port facilities, refineries, steelworks and ordnance factories, were under almost nightly air attack (the Cardiff Blitz and Swansea Blitz), to which the AA defences replied as best they could.
There were heavy night raids on Cardiff on 2 January, 3 and 4 March 1941 (the Cardiff Blitz), with frequent smaller raids. [ 28 ] [ 35 ] By the end of February 1941 the HAA guns (3-inch, 3.7-inch and 4.5-inch ) in the Cardiff GDA only numbered 52 out of a planned establishment of 64.
The following events occurred in January 1941: ... Llandaff Cathedral was damaged by German bombing during the worst night of the Cardiff Blitz. [6]
Ronald Brignall, who saved Cardiff’s City Hall from destruction during a German air raid in the Second World War, has been praised for his efforts. Wartime hero who saved historic building with ...
1938: The county borough of Cardiff was extended to include Rumney. 1939: Billy the Seal died. [5] [25] 1941: The heaviest German Luftwaffe raid of World War II, the Cardiff Blitz, occurred; 156 people were killed. [5] 1946: Welsh National Opera staged its first productions at the Prince of Wales Theatre.
The Blitz, explained The German air force’s bombing of London from Sept. 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, left about 43,500 people dead and many more homeless. The attack campaign became known as "the ...