Alma Terrace & St James Street
8 June 1941 · Penzance, Cornwall
View this record on the map →- Date
- 8 June 1941
- Record type
- Historic bombing area
- Bomb type
- HE
- Casualties
- 9
- Location
- Penzance, Cornwall
- Position accuracy
- Confirmed event, street-derived point
What happened
Bombing struck the residential streets of Alma Terrace and St James Street, killing nine people and injuring 26. It was the deadliest single attack on Penzance in the whole war.
Casualty note
Nine killed and 26 injured; hundreds of houses damaged.
Also worth knowing
Across the war Penzance recorded 16 dead, 48 houses completely destroyed and 157 seriously damaged, under more than 700 air raid alerts.