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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
They were just boys but their bravery was without bounds as they navigated the Blitz-torn streets to deliver potentially life-saving messages to the emergency services as the bombs rained down on ...
It may be 80 years since Robert Cochrane was pulled from the rubble of the Clydebank Blitz but to him it still seems like only yesterday. Today, on the anniversary of the devastating raids, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
of my Clydebank childhood. It was as a result of his belligerence that I occupied a house with two different addresses. His Luftwaffe devastated the town a few years before I was born and miles away ...