London, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Swansea, Glasgow, Coventry, Plymouth, Manchester, Newcastle and many more all suffered heavy losses. I think that London took the brunt of the bombing as the docks and surrounding areas were nigh on obliterated and were easy to find as the Luftwaffe just followed the Thames which on a moonlit night was like a ribbon, but other cities also had heavy losses. Coventry was badly hit because it was making tanks etc and the centuries old cathedral was destroyed. The docks of Plymouth and Portsmouth on the south coast also suffered badly.
A lot of smaller towns on flight paths had bombs dropped on them as the planes returned to Germany and got rid of any bombs they had not dropped so it was not just cities that suffered bombing.
My mums cousin worked at Bourgoise making kits for the troops and escaped being killed as she had finished her shift. The factory was hit with a big loss of life mainly women because it was behind Croydon airport which had a Spitfire squadron based there.
Apart from German bombers, people had to endure the V1 and V2 rockets. The VI dropped out of the sky when it's engine stopped but the V2 was silent and only made it's presence known when it had dropped and exploded. These also killed a lot of people.
It was to break morale and despite the propaganda it did break the morale of a lot of people. The constant bombing and threat of losing ones home or not knowing if they were going to be alive the next day wore people down. Many people moved out of the cities to the country to escape the bombing but a lot had to stay because of work commitments and the fact that they had no relatives to stay with etc.
London, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Swansea, Glasgow, Coventry, Plymouth, Manchester, Newcastle and many more all suffered heavy losses. I think that London took the brunt of the bombing as the docks and surrounding areas were nigh on obliterated and were easy to find as the Luftwaffe just followed the Thames which on a moonlit night was like a ribbon, but other cities also had heavy losses. Coventry was badly hit because it was making tanks etc and the centuries old cathedral was destroyed. The docks of Plymouth and Portsmouth on the south coast also suffered badly.
A lot of smaller towns on flight paths had bombs dropped on them as the planes returned to Germany and got rid of any bombs they had not dropped so it was not just cities that suffered bombing.
My mums cousin worked at Bourgoise making kits for the troops and escaped being killed as she had finished her shift. The factory was hit with a big loss of life mainly women because it was behind Croydon airport which had a Spitfire squadron based there.
Apart from German bombers, people had to endure the V1 and V2 rockets. The VI dropped out of the sky when it's engine stopped but the V2 was silent and only made it's presence known when it had dropped and exploded. These also killed a lot of people.
Obviously someone else cannot think for themselves as they have copied this answer word for word!
The purpose of the London Blitz (as indeed with the Blitzes on all of our major cities here in UK) was to break the morale of the people to force them to demand their government capitulate - to surrender.
But it did not work out quite like that.
In the immediate aftermath of the Blitz on Coventry, the King and Queen visited the city - the people of Coventry did not need any advice from their government; instead they wanted the King - and it worked because his visit boosted their morale.
The Coventry Blitz
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Poor old London - the Blitz
As Bazza says. They wanted to get the British to the table to talk peace and surrender. It was a mistake to switch to the cities from the airfields as it gave the RAF time to get its act together and it effectively meant they lost the Battle of Britain and hence the war. Google will give you the figures if you look hard enough.
Well it was to break our morale, hitler planned to invade britain in 1940,and from july to september in that year he launched a series of heavy air raids against shipping,airfields,ports and towns to "soften up" the british before sending in the landing craft, but our smaller air force destroyed two german planes for every british plane lost, and forced hitler to abandon his invasion as he did not have enough air support for his troops.he also did not know the british people, it just made us more determined to beat him, all major cites were bombed,london, coventry, liverpool, bristol,southampton, all the docks, especially in the east end of london, to destroy goods that we had to import,over 60,000 civilians were killed in these bombings and thousands of homes destroyed,there was a massive house building programme after the war.
To break morale. It is said because the Germans bombed our civilian areas that it allowed uninterrupted arms production. So the action was a mistake and counterproductive.
To terrorise the civil population so that they would seek surrender.
And in some places, such as Glasgow, the intention was to kill off the skilled workforce.
Bombing was mainly aimed at London and as it was difficult to miss and was the largest city - they also bombed cities which were important to the war effort because of what they manufactured. Later Hitler and his gang started their infamous Baedecker raids design to destroy cultural sites.
to demorialise the population.
I have to do a homework project on the home front, and I was just wondering, why were cities bpmbed during the blitz? I couldn't find a clear answer on Google.
Also, which cities were bombed the most and why?
Thank you, it would be a great help if I could get this answered.
