Bournemouth Blitz | |||||
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Part of the Strategic bombing campaign of World War II | |||||
VE Day Memorial Stone in Bournemouth Gardens | |||||
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The Bournemouth Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bournemouth, Hampshire (but now in Dorset), England from 1940 to 1944, by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.[1]
More than 2,200 bombs fell on Bournemouth and Poole during World War II, and 350 civilians and servicemen were killed.[2]