Swansea Blitz - Wikipedia
The Swansea Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of Swansea by the German Luftwaffe from 19 to 21 February 1941. A total of 230 people were killed and 397 were injured.
Swansea blitz: Childhood memories of 'bombing horror', 80 …
More than 40 acres of Swansea were destroyed by the three nights' of bombing in February 1941. By Rhys Williams. BBC News. Eighty years after Swansea endured the Three Nights' Blitz,...
The Blitz - Wikipedia
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, [4] for a little more than 8 months during the Second World War. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle ...
Swansea Blitz: The failed attempts to rebuild a shattered town
Feb 20, 2021 · Forty-one acres were devastated by the Luftwaffe raids in the Three Nights' Blitz of February 1941. The local authority had "ambitious and forward-thinking" plans to restore Swansea to its...
How Swansea suffered during The Blitz and how it shaped the …
Mar 10, 2021 · IT WAS just after 3:30am on June 27th, 1940, that explosions echoed throughout Swansea. A Luftwaffe plane had marked the east of the city, near the Danygraig area, for an onslaught of explosives to be dropped from the sky, causing significant damage and deaths.
Swansea at war: How city on Nazi hitlist coped on WW2 home front
2 days ago · The blitz between 19 - 21 February 1941 killed more than 200 of the 384 people who would die in 40 Luftwaffe air raids over Swansea throughout the war. In that short space bombers dropped 1,273 ...
Three Nights' Blitz - Swansea
The bombing of Swansea by the Luftwaffe in World War Two culminated in three nights of devastation on 19, 20 and 21 February 1941. The centre of Swansea was turned from bustling streets to a pile...
The Blitz - Swansea Museum
The Luftwaffe unleashed 1273 high explosive bombs and 56,000 incendiary devices to devastate an area of 41 acres using target maps based on aerial reconnaissance photographs. 857 properties were destroyed, 11,000 properties were damaged. 230 …
The bombs which changed the face of Swansea
Feb 18, 2016 · On the nights of 19, 20 and 21 February 1941, Swansea endured Wales’s heaviest bombing raid of the Second World War. Fires raged, lighting up the night sky for miles around. 41 acres of the town centre were reduced to rubble: 857 building were destroyed and more than 11,000 properties damaged.
The story of Swansea's Three Nights' Blitz
The Three Nights' Blitz of Swansea, 19-21 February 1941. Share. Watch on. We made this film from photographs in our holdings to tell the story of three terrible nights in February 1941.