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Resource-inch type image data 2211712 TM htype 100000 worst bombing in Wimbledon wartime.
Resource-inch type image data 2211713 TM htype 100000 worst bombing in Wimbledon wartime.
Resource-inch type image data 2211714 TM htype 100000 worst bombing in Wimbledon wartime.
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Single worst night of Wimbledon bombing during World War II arrived there exactly 72 years this week November 6, 1940, not less than 67 fell into a time of incendiary devices each weighed a kilo.
However, these were low compared to other shells and bombs that hit the city, first during the Blitz between August 1940 and May 1941 and from February to August 1944 included Horrors kilo 1800- Satan and rockets V1 unmanned known doodlebugs and their successors, the V2s.
Overall, more than 12,000 houses were damaged, 2,000 homeless, 1,071 injured and 150 people were killed at Wimbledon during the war between the streets affected were Stanley Road, Haydons the road, Road Revelstoke, South Park Road , Home Park Road and Woodside Some 90 of all ammunition exploded on impact the rest was left as a serious threat and had to be collected for disposal.
For many months after the war began in September 1939, the city's priorities were the preparations and evacuations, but Wimbledon first known Nazi aggression directly August 16, 1940 following a raid on Croydon aerodrome .
Bombs were dropped following the approximate line of Merton High Street and Kingston Road to West This has become a model for future attacks and it was believed that the return of the German pilots were Dropping bombs unused Wimbledon There was no large strategic sites to make it vulnerable, unlike other parts of London, but the station was a major intersection and there were two obvious potential targets of CLG spark plug plant on the Portsmouth road and factory Toy Triang that had been converted for the production of machine guns There were also military training in the municipality and a POW camp was near Westside.
The All England Center Court field was used as a first point of support and funeral, which was hit more than once Specifically, as home to both Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding RAF and the War Minister Leslie Hore-Belisha see page Heritage 7 September 2012 Wimbledon held the staff would have been major trophies for the Nazis Fortunately, they were denied in both cases.
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