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."

Teacher Training College,, Townhill,  Swansea 

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.'