Milehouse / Stoke, reported parachute mine and incendiary fall
1940 to 1944 (exact date not yet established) · Plymouth, Devon
View this record on the map →- Date
- 1940 to 1944 (exact date not yet established)
- Record type
- Reported, unconfirmed
- Bomb type
- unknown
- Location
- Plymouth, Devon
- Position accuracy
- Reader-reported, not yet corroborated against the bomb book
What happened
A reader recalls a parachute-mine landmine coming down in the Milehouse/Stoke area, plus heavy incendiary fall across the district — including several incendiaries on their own house and garden — consistent with the thousands of incendiaries dropped on Plymouth during the Blitz.
Also worth knowing
Filed as a placeholder pending a specific date and street. Stoke and Milehouse sit within the area the Town Clerk's bomb book covers (held at The Box), which would be the authoritative source for pinning this to an exact site and night — see the correction routes on this site if you can supply a date, street, or bomb-book reference. The coordinate given is a rough district centre only, not an incident location.