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The location, size and date of bombs dropped on Norwich were mapped by the Air Raid Precautions, as part of the UK bomb census. [3] [6] The bombs were physically mapped on 6-foot-square (1.8 m) map, created from three Ordnance Survey maps and mounted on chipboard, using 679 paper labels.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, [4] for a little more than 8 months during the Second World War.. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the ...
The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen ⓘ) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November ...
Around 4,000 people were killed in the Merseyside area during the Blitz. [2] This death toll was second only to London, which suffered over 40,000 by the end of the war. Bomb splinter damage on the lower section of the Titanic Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room , Liverpool, England
Nottingham Blitz. Map of locations of bombing in Nottingham during the Second World War. Published in the Nottingham Evening Post 17 May 1945. The Nottingham Blitz was an attack by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on Nottingham during the night of 8–9 May 1941. [1]
The first air raid on the city took place on 9 August 1940, carried out by a single aircraft which dropped its bombs on Erdington. One person was killed, and six injured. [4] On 13 August the aircraft factory in Castle Bromwich which produced Spitfires was attacked. Eleven bombs hit the main target causing significant damage. 7 people were ...
1,200 killed, 1,000 wounded, 8,500 homes destroyed or damaged. The Clydebank Blitz was a pair of air raids conducted by the Luftwaffe on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941. The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as The Blitz.
History. The main German bombing across the UK occurred until June 1941. [1] Around 40,000 people were killed. The German raids began as daylight raids, but would later be mostly at night from September 1940 onwards. The Luftwaffe dropped around 36,800 tonnes in 1940 and around 21,800 tonnes in 1941. It would drop around 3,000 tonnes per year ...