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Date: Mar 17 12:03 2011

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Clydeside Blitz. It was a clear, spring night in Glasgow on Thursday, March 13, 1941, the sky illuminated by a full "bombers' moon". Locals could hear the pulsating drone of the Luftwaffe bombers as they approached and the ack-ack of the anti-aircraft guns in nearby Drumchapel. Read more On the first night of the Clydeside Blitz I was working overtime in Reid Gear Company, Linwood, in Renfrewshire and if I remember correctly the time was around 8 p.m. There was a full moon in a cloudless sky when the bombs started dropping along the Clydeside. Read more __________________

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