Clydebank Blitz

Clydebank Blitz
Part of the Strategic bombing campaign of World War II
A defused 1,000 kg Luftmine (German parachute mine) in Glasgow, 18 March 1941
Date March 1941 Location Clydebank, Scotland Result Clydebank largely destroyed by German air raids
Belligerents
Nazi Germany	United Kingdom  ∟  Scotland
Commanders and leaders
Adolf Hitler Hermann Göring Hugo Sperrle Albert Kesselring Hans Jeschonnek	Winston Churchill Hugh Dowding Frederick Pile Owen Tudor Boyd Leslie Gossage
Casualties and losses
2 bombers shot down	1,200 killed, 1,000 wounded, 8,500 homes destroyed or damaged

The Clydebank Blitz was a pair of air raids conducted by the Luftwaffe on the shipbuilding and munition-making town of Clydebank in Scotland. The bombings took place in March 1941.

The air raids were part of a bombing program known today as The Blitz.