Blitz on Kent (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783463473)

Located on the far southeastern corner of Britain, Kent was the closest county to Occupied Europe. Suffering not only direct bombardment by heavy guns from France, the airspace over Kent provided the quickest route from Luftwaffe airfields in Northern France to London.

As such the county suffered from the very beginning of the Battle of Britain, the Blitz in 1940, through the Tip and Run raids of 1942 and 1943, to the V-1 and V-2 weapon onslaught that only ended in 1945.

Towns such as Canterbury were also singled out and suffered their very own Blitz. As a result of this continuous onslaught during the Second World War, the county earned the nickname "Hellfire Corner".

Author: Mark Khan
ISBN-10: 1783463473
ISBN-13: 9781783463473
Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2024
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback