Editing Aberdeen (section)

===Second World War===

Over the course of [[World War II]] Aberdeen was attacked 32 times by the German [[Luftwaffe]]. One of the most devastating attacks was on Wednesday 21 April 1943 when 29 Luftwaffe [[Dornier Do 217|Dornier 217s]] flying from [[Stavanger]], Norway attacked the city between the hours of 22:17 and 23:04.<ref>[http://www.mcjazz.f2s.com/Blitzkreig.htm "The Aberdeen Mittwoch Blitz – Wednesday 21st April 1943"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105231049/http://www.mcjazz.f2s.com/Blitzkreig.htm |date=5 January 2013 }}, ''The Doric Columns'', Retrieved 13 September 2019.</ref> A total of 98 civilians and 27 servicemen were killed, along with 12,000 houses damaged, after a mixture of 127 Incendiary, High Explosive and Cluster bombs were dropped on the city in one night.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/4170473/blitz-aberdeen/|title=The Aberdeen Blitz of 1943 left the City in ruins and death all around|newspaper=Press and Journal|date=20 April 2022|access-date=8 October 2022|archive-date=7 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707123341/https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/past-times/4170473/blitz-aberdeen/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Two books written in 2018 and 2022 using bombing records held in London identified that unexploded bombs from the 1943 raid were found in the 1950s and 1980s making the bombs dropped 129 in total. Damage from the raid can still be seen in some parts of Aberdeen.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}