WWII Bombs on Scotland

[Hibee]

Are there any websites which show where bombs fell on Scotland, during WWII?

Other than the Clydebank and Clydeside raids, were there sufficiently few bombs to make this feasible?

Hibee

[Ina]

Hibee,

Quite a few bombs fell in Greenock, my hometown , on May 6th and 7th 1941. 280 people were killed and 1200 injured.

Months after the raid the Air Ministry said that on May 6th 60 German planes took part in the raid. and on May 7th 250 planes took part in the raid over Greenock.

There is a book out called "The Greenock Blitz".

Ina

[momat]

I'm another who would like to know about that topic ,as I was told a bomb fell outside the Nursing Home where I was born and that it landed in the SNOW and didn't explode but the Nursing Home was evacuated to safety .This was in Glasgow's Great Western Road and wonder if any reports went in the newspapers .

[Alan SHARP]

I'm another who would like to know about that topic ,as I was told a bomb fell outside the Nursing Home where I was born and that it landed in the SNOW and didn't explode but the Nursing Home was evacuated to safety .This was in Glasgow's Great Western Road and wonder if any reports went in the newspapers .

Greetings Maureen from the Waikato.

When I was brought up, I was informed it was NOT polite to enquire after a ladies age. However if by any chance you were referring to the March 20th 1941 raid on Glasgow you will see a brief eye witness account in my ANZAC post on April 25 this year, quoting from the diary of young Jack ALLEN.

Regards,

Alan SHARP.

[Currie]

Wiki has information on which cities were bombed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

You can browse the wartime Glasgow Herald here (You can try the search facility but it isn’t very useful) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=G ... 7&b_mode=2

Alan

[Montrose Budie]

Are there any websites which show where bombs fell on Scotland, during WWII?

Other than the Clydebank and Clydeside raids, were there sufficiently few bombs to make this feasible?

Hibee

Hi Hibee

There certainly were, in terms of large raids on other town and cities, especially those with military establishments. As regards smaller raids, this could be a problem, never mind there's the problem of 'strays', as wherever the Luftwaffe was aiming, many bombs went astray.

Note that there were many major targets well away from the towns and cities. A short distance away from where I currently live is still the main munitions depot for the Royal Navy. I believe that the Luftwaffe tried to find it during WWII on several occasions !

In the street where I used to live in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow, I noticed that there had been bad damp penetration in the roof as some time well in the past.

When up in the loft with a local builder, then in his 70s, discussing a new skylight, I asked if he could suggest a reason for this previous damp.

He asked if I'd noticed that the bungalow diagonally opposite was a completely different design from all those around, - I hadn't, - the reason being that a German bomber on a Clydeside raid in the 1940s got its navigation wrong and dropped a stick of bombs that landed down the middle of the street, except the last one, which took out the original bungalow. The previous damp in our roof was a good number of tiles being blown of by the blast.

I'm certain that ARP and other authorities would have kept a detailed record of such damge at the time, but can only suggest trying TNA at Kew as regards the location of surviving records.

mb

[Currie]

This book looks interesting.

“Luftwaffe over Scotland”, by Les Taylor.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/edito ... -22108111/

Alan

[Montrose Budie]

This book looks interesting.

“Luftwaffe over Scotland”, by Les Taylor.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/edito ... -22108111/

Alan

Thanks Alan

Ordered on Amazon at £8.93 !

There were other possible suppliers a few pence cheaper but this was from an oft used and greatly trusted supplier ......

mb

[Ina]

This book looks interesting.

“Luftwaffe over Scotland”, by Les Taylor.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/edito ... -22108111/

Alan

Thanks Alan,

I too have ordered the book. I was a baby during the Greenock Blitz. My mother used to tell the stories about the two nights of the German blitz, and how we spent the time in an air raid shelter. The bombs fell all around us......but they missed me LOL.

Ina

[momat]

Hi Alan,
I was also told this

When I was brought up, I was informed it was NOT polite to enquire after a ladies age

When we get to our age it is something to be proud of not hide .I was born on 1st April 1941 (and no, not a joke) so the bomb I refer to must have dropped sometime after that date .
All I know was that the family didn't know where my mother and I along with the others had been evacuated too and my Uncle who was an Ambulance driver had to enquire through the sources that would have ben in charge as my Father was at the front doing his bit .
I will have a look at all the suggestions posted.
Thanks to you all.
Also would there be lists of those who served in the Ambulance service or Auxilary services ?