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After two nights visiting Liverpool the Luftwaffe moved on to Manchester, for the nights of the 22nd and 23rd. 122 people were killed and 426 seriously injured.
At 5.15pm on Sunday December 22 1940, 270 German aircraft, including Heinkel 111s and Junkers 88s, crossed the south coast bound for Manchester, using the still-blazing fires of Liverpool to guide their way.
Two waves of bombing, from 7.45pm to 1.20am and from 2am to 6.55am concentrated first on Manchester city centre, then the docks and industrial areas of Salford and Trafford Park. Pathfinder aircraft dropped incendiaries, and the bombers than bombed the fires.
A building crashes to the ground at Deansgate in the centre of Manchester on the 22 Dec 1940.
At 5.15pm on Sunday December 22 1940, 270 German aircraft, including Heinkel 111s and Junkers 88s, crossed the south coast bound for Manchester, using the still-blazing fires of Liverpool to guide their way.
Two waves of bombing, from 7.45pm to 1.20am and from 2am to 6.55am concentrated first on Manchester city centre, then the docks and industrial areas of Salford and Trafford Park. Pathfinder aircraft dropped incendiaries, and the bombers than bombed the fires.
A building crashes to the ground at Deansgate in the centre of Manchester on the 22 Dec 1940.