Scotland Versus Hitler [I Love History]

The German air raids on London are well known, but few people know that the second most bombed town in the UK was Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Or that the first Nazi raid on Scotland was on the Firth of Forth, when two Scottish RAF squadrons chased the Germans away, downing the first German plane to be shot down on British soil. The Clydebank Blitz is fairly well known, when the Nasties sought to cripple Scotland and Britain's capacity for building and repairing shipping, but few people know about what was probably the last air battle in Western Europe in April 1945 when Mosquitoes from Banff intercepted a German force of 18 planes and shot down 14 of them.
Lots of forgotten history there.

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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

Hollywood will write a script one day about a team of Americans there at the time.. put you right on the map 😎👍🕺🏻

helensusanswift · 26-30, F

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Oh, no doubt. At that time the mood in the USA was not to get involved at all, while at one time in 1940 the only fully ready allied unit was a Canadian division; the Canadians never get the credit they deserve, in the Sudan War, the Boer war, Kaiser Bill's war or Hitler's War. The first massed German raid on Britain was on Orkney, too, but it's never mentioned in history books. Selective history is a bit frustrating.