Re: Luftwaffe Raid On Portreath 20/21 May 1941
Thanks Nick, I'd done the same as you and taken a screenshot of the record.
"Hundreds" was the description from the ground at the two off-airfield sites.
I am interested Chris in your comment that Portreath was targeted the night before.
The Cornwall Constabulary record that contains details of all the bombs dropped on the county only gives bombs dropping on Cawsand & the Rame peninsula (opposite Plymouth), at Braddock near Lostwithiel, at Callington (all in the east of the county) and around Nancledra which is between Penzance and St Ives (in the west of the county - where I presume the intended target was the HAA gun site at Badger's Cross). There is no record of any bombs dropped on or near Portreath.
As to UXB's from the original incident of this post, I have now come across a record of a UXB being found in the gorse as late as 9 March 1942. Given that 75 years later in many places WW2 bombs are still being uncovered, one wonders what may lurk on that site!
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