Merseyside Blitzed

21st December 1940: The strategically important port of Liverpool is the target of the first of several severe air raids

An injured woman is helped to a reception centre from a First Aid Post, after her home was bombed in a Liverpool Blitz.

Liverpool was probably the most critical wartime mercantile port, the destination of many convoys from America. It was also easy to locate by air, with the lights of Dublin burning across the Irish Sea. It had already received much atte…