Damage to Exeter during WW2 - Baedeker Blitz
"Exeter under fire" - Damage sustained by bombing on the city by German planes of the luftwaffe during WW2. The Baedeker Blitz (or Baedeker raids) were targetted raids, chosen for hitting sites of cultural or historical significance, rather than for any military value. The first Baedeker raids hit Exeter on 24th April 1942
Picture No
10997491
Media ID
46723214
Size
4409px x 5483px
(3.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph in The Third Year of War in Pictures, 1942
Date
1942
