manchester england was it bombed bad during the war

[loverboy1]

cant find information on manchester england ... was it bombed badly during the war , battle of britain ,,tks

 

[Tako_Kichi]

cant find information on manchester england ... was it bombed badly during the war , battle of britain ,,tks

Not sure about during the BoB but it certainly caught some bombs during the war as did Liverpool and many other cities but none got hit as hard as Coventry or London.

 

[flashgordon]

Plymouth was severely hit too as the Germans tried to hit the naval dockyards.

Manchester WWII on You Tube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0xrje7YY4

museum link: http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/manchester/local/TRA27952.html

 

[loverboy1]

thank you kindly for the links ,,,,my motherinlaw is form there i live with her and well , thanks to this video ....no words needed


tks

joshua

 

[ndicki]

As a rough guide, all the major ports got a thumping. Manchester was hit, but as it's not a port, it could have been hit harder still. Surprisingly enough, the Germans never really caught on to striking railways and railyards. York and Crewe come to mind... If you look at the Bomber Command efforts later in the War, you can see a thought-through strategy for the paralysing of German industry and communications - even if it wasn't necessarily as effective as it might have been, given the limitations of the equipment of the time. But it did exist. You can search in vain for any equivalent strategy on the part of the Luftwaffe. Target selection, ports apart, seems to have been based essentially on throwing darts at the map... Thank goodness.