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The aftermath of rocket attacks in Britain

30th March 1945: The devastation, disruption and heartache caused by the V2 rockets will take a long time to recover from

Mar 30, 2025
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Ruined flats in Limehouse, East London. Hughes Mansions, Vallance Road, following the explosion of the last German V2 rocket to fall on London, 27 March 1945

On 27th March, Ivy Millichamp had become the last civilian casualty of enemy action on British soil, the last of 67,100 civilian deaths during the war. She was the only fatality of a V2 rocket that …

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