The bombing of British cities
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- Created on: 02-06-19 16:00
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- The bombing of British cities.
- September 1940 - Hitler bombed Britain into submission.
- The Blitz.
- 2nd September - 2nd November - London bombed every night.
- over 15,000 people killed
- 250,000 people made homeless.
- Coventry
- 14th November 1940.
- Over 300,000 incendiary bombs set off.
- factories in Coventry were back in full production within days.
- Liverpool
- 3rd May 1941.
- 600 bombers.
- Direct hit on the docks.
- Belfast
- devastated by 4 German bombings.
- April and May 1941
- 1,000 people were killed.
- 1,500 people made homeless.
- 150,000 people left without homes.
- Glasgow & Clyde
- Shipyards were hit hard in the spring of 1941.
- 13-14 March 'Clydebank Blitz'
- 528 people killed.
- 35,000 left homeless.
- Swansea
- 27th June 1940, 3.30am
- 19,20 and 21st of February 1941
- '3 night Blitz'
- 1,273 high explosives and 56,000 incendiary bombs
- '3 night Blitz'
- 230 deaths.
- Between 1940-43 Swansea was bombed 44 times.
- September 1940 - Hitler bombed Britain into submission.
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