Between August 1940 and January 1942, almost 4000 people were killed and 3500 seriously injured in Merseyside as the result of German air raids. The first German bombs landed on Merseyside on 9 August 1940 at Prenton, Birkenhead. In the following sixteen months, German bombs killed 2716 people in Liverpool, 442 people in Birkenhead, 409 people in Bootle and 332 people in Wallasey. The worst periods of bombing were the ‘Christmas Raids’ of December 1940, and the ‘May Blitz’ of 1941. The final bombs to be dropped on Merseyside during the War landed on 10 January 1942.

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