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Appendix 37: Principal German Night Attacks 1942

(Compiled from British and German Sources)

1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Night	Primary Target	Tonnage Aimed at Target	Tonnage On Target or on Land within 50 miles	On Target	Col. (5) as % of Col. (4)	Col. (5) as % of Col. (3)
March 23	Dover	..	18	11	65	..
23	Portland	..	5	5	100	..
April 2	Weymouth	..	24	18	75	..
17	Southampton	..	33 a	7 a	21	..
23 24	Exeter Exeter	175 a	52 a	1 a 27 a	.. 51	16
25	Bath	210	150	92	61	44
26	Bath	115	65	43	67	37
27	Norwich	102	56	54	97	53
28	York	101	84	55	66	54
29	Norwich	90 a	49 a	45 a	91	50
May 3	Exeter	131	78	62	80	47
4	Cowes	162	88	69	78	43
8	Norwich	113	68	1.5	2	1
19	Hull	168	108	30	27	18
24	Poole	166	49	9	18	5
29	Grimsby	70 a	28 a	–	0	0
31	Canterbury	116	55	46	84	40
June 1	Ipswich	88	49	9	18	10
2	Canterbury	52	23	8	36	15
3	Poole	139	61	17	27	12
6	Canterbury	54	33	7	22	13
21	Southampton	133	68	25	37	!9
24	Birmingham	51	20	–	0	0
26	Norwich	56	28	20	73	36
27	Weston-super-Mare	47	17	15	88	32
28	Weston-super-Mare	47	20	18	90	38
July 6	Middlesbrough	48	30	16 b	(53)	(33)
7	Middlesbrough	59	26	16 b	(63)	(27)
July 25	Middlesbrough	28	23	21 b	(90)	(79)
27	Birmingham	78	36	24	67	31
29	Birmingham	71	24	10	42	14
30	Birmingham	49	26	– c	0	0
31	Hull	46	34	3	9	7
Aug. 1	Norwich	20	10	8	80	40
4	Swansea	13	5	-	0	0
10	Colchester	15	10	2	20	13
13	Norwich	8	3	1	33	13
14	Ipswich	6	5	0.5	10	8
20	Portsmouth	18	13	1	8	6
26	Colchester	6	9 d	–	0	0
Sept. 6	Sunderland	19	10	0.3	3	2
17	King’s Lynn	7	7	5 e	(70)	(70)
Oct. 31	Canterbury	52	35	11	31	21

NOTE

a Excludes incendiaries.

b Includes Billingham.

c 14 tons fell on Wolverhampton and Walsall.

d Includes some bombs aimed at secondary targets.

e Includes Yarmouth.