Tiff= Blitz in Plymouth

• On the evening of 22nd of April 1941 during an attack on the central area, the communal air raid shelter took a direct hit killing 72 people.
• During the Blitz 2 main shoipping centers and nearly ever civic building were destroyed, along with 26schools and 8 cinema's, 41 churches, 3754 houses destroyed, 18,398 seriously damaged.
• 1st bomb fell on saturday 6th July 1940 at Swilly killed 3 people
• Early 1941 live raids reduced much of the city to rubble.
• Last attack 30th April 1944.
• 59 bomb attacks - 1172 killed, 4448 injured.
• Royal dockyards were the main target at HMNB Devon Port.
• March 1941 St Andrews Church was bombed and badly damaged.