The Swansea Blitz 19-21 February 1941
We Remember
The Swansea Blitz 19 th to 21st February 1941
Swansea burning, pictured from Townhill
19 th to 21st February 1941
The Swansea Blitz
By Marion Garnett nee MacDonald
We Remember
19 th to 21st February 1941
A video by Peter Hall
YouTube link https://youtu.be/ABYja_9R8Zc
. Grafton Maggs: 'Hard to believe that 80 years have passed since.'
... 2nd Platoon's service during the Swansea Three Nights Blitz, of Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, and Friday 21 February 1941 ...
By Peter Dover-Wade
"Dedicated to the memory of my childhood friend Terry Absalom. One of the 387 people killed in the Swansea Air Raids. Who left this life so soon - reaching first his journey's end."
By Edna Davies ( nee Harris)
The air raids came in 1941, when Swansea was targeted by the German bombers and set on fire and bombed mercilessly during the three nights' Blitz.
Including photos of the Swansea Blitz
by Carol Powell
... During the blitz a piece of shrapnel landed on my sister's bed'. Pieces of jagged shrapnel ... The Swansea Blitz from Townhill, February 1941 ...
by Bernard Bellush an American GI
A GIs view of bombed Swansea.. 'Looking about us we saw, at first hand, the meaning of the word blitz.'