AIR WAR OVER EAST YORKS IN WWII . FTR005

In most accounts of the air war over Britain in WWII, events in East Yorkshire are mentioned only in passing, yet it was at Ottringham, on 20 August 1940, that the first enemy aircraft fell to the guns of a Polish fighter squadron in the RAF. It was also where the north-east town, as Hull was identified in the news bulletins of the day, suffered under the bombs of the Luftwaffe, with nearly 87 000 homes destroyed or damaged and 1200 deaths. In fact the last British civilians to die as a direct result of Luftwaffe bombs in WWII were killed in Humm on 17 March 1945. East Yorkshire was also the home of much of the RAF's heavy night-bombing force. This book, based on years of indepth research into primary sources, personal accounts and experiences, reveals many new facts and gives long-overdue recognition to the events and people who fought, lived and all too often, died, in East Yorkshire during 1939-1945.