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One of the greatest challenges in the aftermath of the Clydebank Blitz was where to take the dead. The town's morgue was far too small to cope with the number of people killed over the two nights of devastation, 528 in total. Across Clydebank, makeshift mortuaries were established in buildings such as churches and schools. One of these was the newly built Clydebank High School on Janetta Street. Within its gym hall and along its corridors, bodies were laid out in rows as families were...

While researching the maternal side of my family, I came across several newspaper articles from 1939 about my great-grandfather's...

Eighty-three years ago, on the 13th and 14th of March 1941. Hitler did his best to destroy my hometown of Clydebank; the town was raised...