Picture: Clydebank Central Library SEVENTY-SIX years ago tonight a devastating aerial attack took place which will never be forgotten. Official estimates from the Clydebank Blitz record that 528 ...
Eighty years on from the event, a survivor has recalled in crystal clear detail the terrifying moment Nazi bombs dropped around her Clydebank home. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...
A BLITZ survivor has revealed the horrors of the Clydebank bombing that have haunted him for the last 75 years. Grandad John Scanlon was just 11 on the night of March 13, 1941, when the Luftwaffe ...
The town was devastated and 528 people killed when Luftwaffe bombers targeted local shipyards and munitions factories on 13 and 14 March 1941. A service was held on Saturday at the Blitz Memorial in ...
THE names of more than 500 civilians who lost their lives in the Clydebank Blitz will now be remembered, following the unveiling of a new memorial. The memorial, created by artist Tom McKendrick, is ...
THE Luftwaffe bombers had long since returned to their Continental bases, their nights’ work done. On Clydeside, rescue squads were clawing without cease at the pulverised remains of houses, searching ...
A care home resident has shared her memories of taking refuge in an Anderson shelter for two days during the Clydebank Blitz to mark Remembrance Sunday. Lorna Graham, 91, lived in Clydebank during the ...
Those who died in the Clydebank blitz are being remembered during a series of events to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the World War II attack. Hundreds of Luftwaffe bombers targeted local ...
The last reel of young friends starring Shirley Temple was playing on the screen of La Scala when the first of 260 German raiders turned in the sky over Loch Lomond and began their bombing run up the ...
On 13 and 14 March 1941, Clydebank was the target of one of the most intense Luftwaffe bombing raids of World War II. Each night, over 200 German bombers attacked, aiming to destroy naval, ...