When the bombs fell: The Orkney air raid
April 6, 2021 at 11:00 am
The bombed-out cottage of Isa MacLeod at Bridge of Waithe, Stenness – Sphere Magazine
By Patricia Long
The little parish of Stenness suffered the worst effects of the German bombing raid on 16 March 1940 but was not the only part of Orkney to be attacked…
An extract from W. S. Hewison,
This Great Harbour Scapa Flow, 1985:
“The enemy bombers came in from the east as darkness began to fall on Saturday evening, 16 March. Intelligence reports later put the number at 14 or 15 although some estimates were as high as 35 – it was difficult to make an accurate count as some of them dived out of the twilight while others made high-level attacks…
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