Thread by @MuseumLiverpool, Today marks 80 years since the May Blitz, a devastating week for [...]

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Today marks 80 years since the May Blitz, a devastating week for Liverpool, when 681 planes dropped 870 tonnes of high explosives and more than 112,000 firebombs on the city.

#MayBlitz #BlitzedLiverpool

Liverpool's May Blitz was the most concentrated series of air attacks on any British city area outside London during the Second World War.

Find out more here: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/liverpool-and-may-blitz-of-1941

#MayBlitz #BlitzedLiverpool

Liverpool and the May Blitz of 1941

The May Blitz on Liverpool, 1-7 May 1941, was the most concentrated series of air attacks on any British city area outside London during the Second World War. The German Luftwaffe caused enormous...

https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/liverpool-and-may-blitz-of-1941

Over the next few days this thread will be marking the anniversary, and the overwhelming shock and grief which engulfed the city that terrible week in May 1941

The first bomb landed upon Seacombe, Wallasey, Wirral, at 22:15 on 1 May. The exterior of this house and shelter on Wellington Road, L15 was decimated on the same night by a high explosive bomb #MayBlitz #MayBlitzed

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