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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. Dropping high explosive bombs, incendiary bombs and parachute mines , the Riverside area was the first to be bombed.
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.
19-21 February – Swansea Blitz: 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea. Much of the city centre is destroyed. [7] [8] 26 February – Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff. Buildings damaged include Cardiff University and a children's home. [9] February – Six cattle are killed in an air raid on Cwmbran.
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.
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 ...
Grangetown was attacked in the Cardiff Blitz. On 2 January 1941, during the full moon, around 100 German World War 2 planes raided Cardiff for over 10 hours. A cellar at Hollyman Brothers Bakery on the corner of Corporation Road and Stockland Street was being used as a bunker.
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 ...
Cardiff Blitz Military unit The Swansea Rifles , later the 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion of the Welch Regiment , was a Volunteer unit of the British Army from 1859 to 1954.