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Blitz on Grimsby
54 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 1983
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Malcolm Smith
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July 9, 2023This is a very good little book for detail but it is not really complete.
I know, because I was there ... as a child.
When I was 9 years old we experienced the infamous butterfly bomb raid in June 1943. One month later we were bombed out and people were maimed and killed adjacent to us.
I remember it well.
But, we were about 150 yards away from the border between Grimsby and Cleethorpes ... on the same night a cinema was destroyed on the Grimsby side of the road and people were killed there.
This book lists the last air raid as on 13/07/1943 - but it was n't.
My grandparents lived in Grimsby and we went to stay with them because our house was destroyed ... there were air raids during this time when I was with my grandparents.
We later moved to a house further into Cleethorpes and there were still air raids. These included V1's released from German vessels near the mount of the Humber intended for Manchester.
The most serious raid was not one of those. It was in March 1945 (totally pointless) I have very good reason to remember it. I was 10 years old. The raid seemed to have ended, and my Dad and I left our Anderson shelter, but, I saw a German twin engin in aircraft flying slowly along our street machine-gunning into houses and gardens (think it as a Ju88) I dived into our shelter and loosened a tooth, my Dad landed on top of me. The noise of the machines guns was very loud as the aircraft went by. Years later my baby-boomer brother found spent rounds in the garden (think they were 13mm - heavy machine-guns) By that time I had left school and I had left for work and study reasons in September 1952.
In Professor Smith's book are listed two deaths in March 1945. They were adjacent to where this happened. I read in the local paper that this event occurred so it will be in the 'Grimsby Evening Telegraph' archive. I think four people were killed by this aircraft.
I know, because I was there ... as a child.
When I was 9 years old we experienced the infamous butterfly bomb raid in June 1943. One month later we were bombed out and people were maimed and killed adjacent to us.
I remember it well.
But, we were about 150 yards away from the border between Grimsby and Cleethorpes ... on the same night a cinema was destroyed on the Grimsby side of the road and people were killed there.
This book lists the last air raid as on 13/07/1943 - but it was n't.
My grandparents lived in Grimsby and we went to stay with them because our house was destroyed ... there were air raids during this time when I was with my grandparents.
We later moved to a house further into Cleethorpes and there were still air raids. These included V1's released from German vessels near the mount of the Humber intended for Manchester.
The most serious raid was not one of those. It was in March 1945 (totally pointless) I have very good reason to remember it. I was 10 years old. The raid seemed to have ended, and my Dad and I left our Anderson shelter, but, I saw a German twin engin in aircraft flying slowly along our street machine-gunning into houses and gardens (think it as a Ju88) I dived into our shelter and loosened a tooth, my Dad landed on top of me. The noise of the machines guns was very loud as the aircraft went by. Years later my baby-boomer brother found spent rounds in the garden (think they were 13mm - heavy machine-guns) By that time I had left school and I had left for work and study reasons in September 1952.
In Professor Smith's book are listed two deaths in March 1945. They were adjacent to where this happened. I read in the local paper that this event occurred so it will be in the 'Grimsby Evening Telegraph' archive. I think four people were killed by this aircraft.
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