How much was your city destroyed during the blitz?

[Dean]

My school was open during WW2 so school children remembered the planes going over and stuff, and they had to build shelters etc.

Oh and I live decently near Bethnal Green which is where the Blitz happened the most (East End of London).

[Caution]

I don't think it was, people were evacuated here because it's kind of rural.

[Axel]

Well I don't live in a city and there's no reports of it being bombed, but there's a few reports of people evacuating here.

[Sarah]

I don't know how much damage was done but 270 city residents died and 409 were injured. Wikipedia says they chose us because of our docks? Only two places in wales were bombed during the blitz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea_Blitz

[myke]

god knows but i know that a lot of areas around here were utilised during the war

e.g. duxford

and the train line here was one of the main ones to deliver weapons etc to london

[Shockwave.2CC]

My city, Leicester had two hundred and fifty homes completely destroyed during WWII.

Never new this though:

Though not in the front line, Leicester and Leicestershire played a significant role during the Second World War in the battle for the skies and in clothing the troops. Leicester was also a place of sanctuary. Regarded as a comparatively safe area, around 30,000 people, mainly children, were evacuated to Leicester during the first weeks of the war alone, to live in the city for the duration of hostilities. In the later part of the war, Italian and German prisoners of war swelled the city’s population. During the period of the war, more than two hundred and fifty homes were completely destroyed, more than one hundred people lost their lives and several hundred suffered injuries.

[dbgtz]

Basingstoke was among the towns and cities targeted during the Second World War, and suffered bomb damage including St Michael's Church. After the war, it had a population of 25,000.

Thats it pretty much.

[Jordy]

Nottingham was one of the cities targetted during the Blitz but I don't think it was damaged too much in comparison to others seeing as it wasn't a port or major point of industry. Also didn't realise Hull was damaged so much, I always thought it was Coventry which came out worst.

A few miles away the large ironworks was bombed from what I remember hearing quite extensively but I've just researched it...
"The foundry was once regarded as the most important bomb-making factory of World War II, so modern that it is said that the Germans would not target it because they wanted the factory for themselves."

[Circadia]

I'm not sure what happen to Blackpool really because its not really mentioned when were studying ww2 its places like London that are mentioned

[GommeInc]

All I know is that a Zeppelin was shot down in the village. Colchester was apparently heavily bombed during the Blitz:

Air raid sirens sounded over 1000 times in Colchester during the course of the war. Colchester was "blitzed" by the Luftwaffe on several occasions.[12] They included:

* Severalls Raid - On 11 August, 1942 38 citizens were killed when a German plane dropped a stick of bombs on Severalls Hospital.
* Chapel Street Raid - 8 citizens were killed when a Dornier 217 dropped four bombs on South Street and Essex Street on 28 September, 1942. The air raid siren, in this case, only sounded after the bombs had already dropped, causing outcry in the town.
* St Botolphs Raid - In February 1944 a large Luftwaffe firebombing raid dropped a stream of 1400 incendiary bombs on the St Botolphs area of the town, destroying 14 buildings and seriously damaging 99 others. Two-thirds of the Paxman Britannia Works was destroyed during the raid.

Home Guard antiaircraft batteries were established on Abbey Field and engaged enemy aircraft 14 times during a 21 month period.

Can't find any sources of the Zeppelin that landed in a field nearby, but I have seen photos in the Factory Museum