City Centre
March to April 1941 · Plymouth, Devon
View this record on the map →- Date
- March to April 1941
- Record type
- Historic bombing area
- Bomb type
- mixed
- Casualties
- 1174
- Location
- Plymouth, Devon
- Position accuracy
- Rough area
What happened
The central shopping and civic areas were devastated during the seven heaviest nights of the Blitz, part of a citywide toll of 1,174 civilians killed, 3,209 injured, and over 4,000 properties destroyed outright.
Casualty note
Citywide Blitz toll, not specific to this area alone.
Also worth knowing
This should become a polygon or cluster once individual raid reports from the bomb book are digitised.