Brighton Blitz
The Brighton Blitz was the bombing of
To prepare the coastline against possible sea-borne invasion by German troops, the beaches were closed at 5.00 pm on 2 July 1940 and were mined and guarded with barbed wire. Both the
Bombing raids
1940
On the evening of 14 September 1940[2] a lone Dornier Do 17 bomber, which had become separated from its main group, dropped twenty 50 kg bombs across Edward Street and the Upper Rock Gardens area. Two bombs hit the Odeon cinema[3] in Kemp Town killing four children and two adults along with a further 48 people killed in the surrounding area.[4] This would prove to be the worst raid on Brighton for casualties inflicted during the war.[5]
1943
At 12:25 p.m. on 25 May 1943 the town was attacked by 25 to 30 German
1944
In 1944 Brighton was hit by V-1 flying bombs.[citation needed] On the 10th of July 2 Sappers were killed whilst clearing mines on the beach - They were Sapper John Owen Morris from Llanddeiniolen Caernarvonshire, North Wales and L/Cpl James Green Evans from Llanfairfechan, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales.
External links
- Rare original colour footage of bomb damage in Brighton (at bfi.org.uk)
References
- ^ a b Graham Spicer (29 April 2005). "In The Line Of Fire - Brighton in World War Two | Culture24". www.culture24.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 November 2015.
- ISBN 9781784997809– via Google Books.
- ^ "Surviving the Odeon bombing | Wartime Memories" March 14, 2009
- ^ "Looking back at the Kemp Town Odeon bombing | The Argus". www.theargus.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
- ^ "The Blitz Years". The Argus.