Clydebank Blitz

Clydebank Blitz
	Part of the Strategic bombing campaign of World War II
	; A defused 1,000 kg Luftmine (German parachute mine) in Glasgow, 18 March 1941
Date	March 1941
Location	Clydebank, Scotland
Result	Clydebank largely destroyed by German air raids
Belligerents
Nazi Germany	United Kingdom; ∟ Scotland;
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler; Hermann Göring; Hugo Sperrle; Albert Kesselring; Hans Jeschonnek;	Winston Churchill; Hugh Dowding; Frederick Pile; Owen Tudor Boyd; Leslie Gossage;
Casualties and losses
2 bombers shot down	1,200 killed, 1,000 wounded, 8,500 homes destroyed or damaged

The Clydebank Blitz was a pair of air raids conducted by the Luftwaffe on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941.

The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as The Blitz.

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