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| The Manchester Blitz is the name given to the most destructive raids on the city during the Second World War. The German Luftwaffe mounted consecutive attacks on the Manchester area on the nights of December 22/23 and 23/24, 1940. Large areas of Manchester, Salford and Stretford were devastated, leaving an estimated 684 people dead and 2,364 wounded. |
| Manchester and Salford were both thought to be under serious threat from enemy aerial bombardment. The only part of Manchester not in the designated evacuation zone was the Wythenshawe estate. |
| North-west England, which was well beyond flying range of the V1, might have expected to escape damage from this particular Second World War weapon. However, on December 24, 1944, the Germans employed a specialist bomber unit, Kampfgeschwader 53, to attack Manchester using the air-launched version of the V1. |
| Each recruit to the British Army had to be graded medically. This grading was done by National Service Medical Boards, which were composed of civilian medical practitioners acting on behalf of the Minister of National Service. |
| First and Second World War memorials form the main part of the UK National Inventory of War Memorials(UKNIWM) and they are the memorials that people tend to automatically think of. |
| The Mersey ferry Royal Daffodil evacuated 7,461 service personnel from Dunkirk, in five trips between May 28 and June 2, 1940. |
| Bernard Law Montgomery, arguably the most celebrated British military commander of the twentieth century, began his army career in 1908 and by the date of his retirement in 1958 had risen to the rank of Field Marshal, as well as being created Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. |
| Advice on mounting old family medals. |
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