| Description | Bulletin No. 21, 20 November –27 November, also bulletins Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, giving RAF losses and German Air Force losses, numbers of aircraft destroyed and number of civilian casualties, 1940/1941. Also bulletins 1-21 giving information on losses, damage sustained and naming places. Report on the German air raid on Coventry on night of 14/15 November 1940. This was one of the worst air raids of the War and the damage sustained was terrific, including the destruction of Coventry Cathedral. These reports give full information which was withheld from the public at the time. Notes by the inspector general on further lessons of intensive air raids. Report on air raid damage in Luton on Sunday, 22 September 1940. Eastern regional circular – Further lessons of intensive air raids. Home Security circular No. 168/1941 – Co-ordination of measures to deal with heavy air attack. Ministry of Health memo on health services after heavy raiding. Eastern regional circular – Intensive bombing. Circular No. 11, 8 February 1943. Also notes on recent raids. Eastern regional circular – Small anti-personnel bombs and notes on a raid on Grimsby, and circulars and notes on lessons from recent raids. Circular from ARP officer to sub-controllers, senior wardens, village directors, etc – First aid at flying bomb incidents. Home Office circular No. 9/1945 – Lessons from rocket attacks. Publication ‘Air raids on the Isle of Ely, 1940-1944’. Air raid and other war incidents in Huntingdonshire (to 31 December 1943) compiled by Sir John Scott, county controller of Huntingdonshire. Several letters sending this publication to various people appear on the file, but unfortunately no actual copy. This file gives a picture of the War and bombing at its worst from 1940-1944. |