steel factories in Sheffield continued to operate and provide essential supplies for the war effort.
Widespread damage and civilian casualties, Sheffield in extensive structural ruins.
Belligerents
United Kingdom
Germany
Commanders and leaders
Winston Churchill
Hugh Dowding
Frederick Pile
Owen Tudor Boyd
Sir Leslie Gossage
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Hugo Sperrle
Albert Kesselring
Hans Jeschonnek
Casualties and losses
660+ dead
1,500+ injured
40,000+ homeless
3,000+ houses destroyed
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The Sheffield Blitz is the name given to the worst nights of German Luftwaffe bombing in Sheffield, England, during the Second World War. It took place during nighttime on 12 and 15 December 1940.
In 1940, Sheffield was a city of about 560,000 people and contained industries primarily centred on steel and armaments. Hadfields steelworks was also the only place in the UK at that time where 18-inch armour-piercing shells were made. Most factories were located in the East End of the city beside the River Don. Documents captured at the end of the war showed the targets for the raids included the Atlas Steelworks, Brown Bayley Steelworks, Meadowhall Iron Works, River Don Works, Darnall Wagon Works, Tinsley Park Collieries, East Hecla Works and Orgreave Coke Ovens.[1]
The full moon was on 14 December 1940,[2] and both blitz nights were cold and clear.
The German code name for the operation was Schmelztiegel ("Crucible").
^License, Paul (2000) Sheffield Blitz – In words, pictures and memories, Sheffield Newspapers Ltd.
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