Liverpool targeted again

3rd May 1941: Ports receiving munitions from America are very much in the front line

Liverpool 1941. Extinguishing Incendiary Bombs in front of the Officers’ Mess, Watercolour L. E. D. Keene, 1941

The ports receiving the goods and munitions from America that kept Britain fighting were now a prime target for the Luftwaffe. Their ordeal was just as much a part of the Battle of the Atlantic as the struggle at sea. Merseyside and Liverpoo…