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1st July 1940: The first Luftwaffe bombing raid on mainland Britain leaves a small community in shock

Jul 01, 2025
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The small town of Wick in the 1940s, once an important herring fishing port.

The war still seemed very distant from Wick in north-east Scotland in 1940. The old fishing port was about as far from the invasion scare on the south and east coast as it was possible to get on mainland Britain. The civilian airport outside the town had recently been converted …

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