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Cardiff and the Blitz. "Jack was heartbroken - he'd lost all that family," said Mr Williams. Some 900 people died as a result of the bombing and 1,500 were injured. The worst hit areas were Grangetown and Riverside.

Llandaff is a district, community and coterminous electoral ward in the north of Cardiff, capital of Wales. Due to the presence of Bristol Harbour and the Bristol Aeroplane Company the city was a target for bombing, and was easily found as enemy bombers were able to trace a course up the River Avon from Avonmouth using reflected moonlight on the waters into the heart of the city. The Cardiff Blitz (Welsh: Blitz Caerdydd); refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II. The Cardiff Blitz (Welsh : Blitz Caerdydd); refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II. Southampton was a strategic bombing target for the Luftwaffe as it contained both busy docks with associated business premises and factories and the Supermarine factory building Spitfires in Woolston.
"I'd finish my final round about 6pm and I went down the shelter, and then was given a bowl of soup. He remembers, with his older brother, their fascination when watching a body being removed from the debris the next day. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sites. In total 355 were killed. You'd walk down a few step into the cellar, there was seats inside and steel poles put in by the corporation to reinforce it. There, casualties included an estimated 50 killed in De Burgh Street, Riverside. This was followed in 1941 with raids on 2, 3 and 10 January.

John Williams, a 14-year-old delivery boy for the bakery, arrived the next morning for his horse-drawn round to find his employer Bill Hollyman's baker shop reduced to rubble. ", "I'd been with the other children that day but everyone who went into that shelter in the bakery was killed outright.".

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They took place primarily during April and May 1941, although the earliest Luftwaffe bombing occurred in September 1940. It is 70 years since the worst night of the Blitz for civilians in Cardiff - when a bombing raid saw more than 150 killed. [1] [5].

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Achetez neuf ou d'occasion The nomination of a conservative judge paves the way for a bitter Senate fight as an election looms. Censorship meant restrictions in details of the air raids in the newspapers, with scant details and in the days to follow, few death notices were published.

Comment les évaluations sont-elles calculées ? Roy Noble narrates a documentary on the Cardiff Blitz and war effort.