Five Years, 37 Raids, 196 Dead ; Bygones: Keeping It Local
Grimsby Telegraph › September 10, 2009
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In the final part of our series on the outbreak of the Second World War, we focus on the air raids in the Grimsby and Cleethorpes area.
IT WAS during the night of September 3, 1939, that the first air raid sirens of the war rang out across Grimsby and Cleethorpes.See the full content of this document
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Five Years, 37 Raids, 196 Dead ; Bygones: Keeping It Local
Children were dragged from their beds, whole families fled to the shelters or, if they had not yet been finished, hid under stairs or tables, fearful of the carnage about to fall from the skies.
It didn't happen, of course. The "raid" was either an exercise or a hasty finger on the al...See the full content of this document
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