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The Clydebank Blitz was a pair of air ... Clydebank in 1941 was a ... Post-Blitz Clydebank — a documentary about Clydebank, Scotland from 1947 to 1952; Full list of ...
Lorna Graham and her family spent two days in an Anderson shelter during one of Scotland’s most devastating air raids in March 1941. Woman, 91, shares Clydebank Blitz memories to mark ...
13–14 March – Clydebank Blitz: bombing of Clydebank. 6–7 May – Greenock Blitz: Greenock is intensively bombed. 10 May – Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland claiming to be on a peace mission. 12 May – the Honours of Scotland are secretly buried within Edinburgh Castle as a precaution against invasion. [2]
ORP Piorun was an N-class destroyer operated by the Polish Navy in World War II.The word piorun is Polish for "Thunderbolt".Ordered by the Royal Navy in 1939, the ship was laid down as HMS Nerissa before being loaned to the Poles in October 1940 while still under construction.
However, on the nights of 13/14 and 14/15 March 1941 the shipyard town of Clydebank suffered the worst destruction and loss of life in any air raid on Scotland (the Clydebank Blitz). There were further heavy raids on Glasgow and Clydeside on 7/8 April and on 5/6 and 6/7 May.
12th Anti-Aircraft Division (12th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of the Second World War.It defended Western Scotland and Northern Ireland, including the period of the Clydebank Blitz and Belfast Blitz, but only had a short career.
[88] [93] There were three other heavy raids on Clydeside during the Blitz, on the nights of 7/8 April, 5/6 and 6/7 May 1941. [ 91 ] [ 94 ] However, after the Blitz ended in May 1941, sufficient reinforcements were arriving to allow AA Command to withdraw 83rd (Blythswood) HAA Rgt to meet the urgent need for AA reinforcements in overseas theatres.
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 ...