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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 bombings took place in March 1941.
Between 13 and 15 March 1941, while undergoing repairs in John Brown's shipyard, she took part in the defence of Clydebank in the Clydebank Blitz against air raids by the Luftwaffe. A memorial to the ship's crew was later erected in Clydebank.
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]
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 ...
Clydebank Blitz: The Luftwaffe bombed the Scottish shipbuilding town of Clydebank for the first of two nights. 15 members of the Dutch resistance were executed by firing squad in Scheveningen. [1] German submarines U-79 and U-561 were commissioned.
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.
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.
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 ...