When you think about the bombing of the UK during the Second World War, many initially think of the Blitz and the use of horrific terror weapons such as the V1 and V2 rockets. Yet in the north too, towns and cities suffered from similarly-terrifying air-raids. One such city was Grimsby, situated on the southern bank of the Humber estuary. In 1943 the residents of Grimsby and Cleethorpes became the victims of a new type of morale-wrecking weapon: the butterfly bomb - history's first ever cluster explosive. Drones historian James Rogers tells the story behind the butterfly bomb: why it was such a deadly weapon of war and how the local residents of Grimsby and the surrounding area pulled together to deal with this new threat.
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Prisoners of War
Dr James Rogers visits Camp 83 - Eden Camp - in Yorkshire to discover the untold story of prisoners of war in the UK during the Second World War.
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The Devil's Porridge
Dr James Rogers visits the Devil's Porridge Museum to find out more about H.M. Factory, Gretna - the United Kingdom's largest cordite factory during World War One. He discovers the untold story of the young 'Gretna girls' that worked in the Factory and the dangerous task they faced creating the p...
