The invention of the long-range bomber meant that the government had estimated that 600,000 British civilians might die in bombing in the first two months of a war.
Even Caernarfonshire, which was near the flightpath of bombers heading to Liverpool, saw five deaths in bombing raids over the course of the war. In April 1941, 27 people lost their lives in a ...
The air raid shelter was full of people when she arrived. She finally found her family in the shelter and hugged them. The bombing raid ended, and Kamei saw that many who had been badly burned had ...
AIR-RAID SIREN ALAN: This is an air-raid shelter that was used during the war by… ISABEL: If a bombing raid happened when Grandad was at school the whole class was sent to an air-raid shelter.