BUt that was my memory as a wee laddie.

There were a number of hits but it seems that Dundee was a secondry target to Clydeside.
A good book which lists them all is " THIS DANGEROUS MENACE,    Dundee and the River Tay at War" Mainstream Publishing.

There was also straffing raids. Saw one of these.

http://www.caledonius.co.uk/brechin/Page50.html

23 high explosive bombs on one house - a tad bit of overkill imho.

The bomb that did the most damage took out a tenement in Rosefield Street, killing one person, and blew out all the windows in Logie School; another just missed the Forest Park Cinema and hit a generating station next door.

The audience stood up, dusted themselves off, then sat down to watch the rest of the movie. Seats at the Forry cost 2d and 4d each in those days so were not to be given up lightly.

Logie was closed for a about a year so the pupils were grateful to Hitler for an unexpected holiday.   I was going to the Blackie but all of the primary schools had been taken over to by the Government to provide accomodation for the Free Polish Army which was stationed in Dundee at the time so we had no school to go to anyway.

However, the gap in the tenement buildings in Rosefield Street was left in a state of disrepair for years and provided a marvelous adventure playground for the neighbourhood kids. It was known as the "bombies".

It was widely believed that Hitler had a soft spot for Dundee because;

1. The City's voters had kicked Churchill out of office back in the 20's.

2. Hitler's grannie was buried in the Howff.

I don't know how true that was but the "boys of the marmalade" had it soft compared to Glasgow and Coventry.         

And that the first German plane was shot down by Sqd 606 City of Glasgow.( How ever also heard the clain it was Sqd 609 some where else ).

1940

28 Jun : Leyshade Farm, Tealing - 2 H.E.    Balbinny Farm Arbirlot - 2 H.E.

03 Jul : East Braikie, Kinnell - 3 H.E.

17 Jul : Montrose - 16 H.E.

23 Jul : Montrose 1 H.E.

02 Aug : Linlathen House - 23 H.E.    Broughty Ferry-Forfar Road near Kellas - 4 H.E.   East Pitkerro, Broughty Ferry-Forfar Road - 8 I.B.    Dundee (Linlathen) - 23 H.E.

03 Aug : Tealing - 4 H.E.

04 Aug : Newmill of Craigeassie - 4 H.E.    Miltonbank, Tannadice - 7 H.E.

15 Aug : Montrose - 2 H.E.    Montrose - 1 H.E.    The Links, Barry - 1 H.E.    Fauldiehill, Carnoustie - German plane brought down

25 Aug : Montrose - 15 H.E.s    Kirkton of Craig, Montrose - 3 H.E.    Balkeillie - 5 H.E.

28 Aug : Monifieth - 8 H.E.    Monifieth - 1 I.B.    Hillside Farm, Forfar (Balmashanner) - 2 H.E.    Bogardo - 1 H.E.    Near Edzell - 2 H.E.    Auchenblae - 1 H.E. (this not reported in original article)

25 Sep : Dundee (Dalkeith Road and Kingsway) - 2 H.E.

02 Oct : Asylum, Hillside, Montrose - 5 H.E.

11 Oct : Bank of Arbirlot - 90 I.B.    Kirkton, Inverkeilor - 4 H.E.    Mains of Kelly, Arbroath - 3 H.E.    West Scryne - 2 H.E.

14 Oct : Small Holdings, Tealing - 1 H.E.

16 Oct : Crudie, Arbirlot - 4 H.E.    Burgh of Arbroath - 4 H.E.

25 Oct : Train machine-gunned near Montrose    Montrose - 20 H.E.    Montrose Burgh - 22 H.E.    Balfour and Chapelton, Menmuir - 1 H.E.   Arbroath - 8 H.E.    Nazis claim Dundee bombed (no bombs dropped)

31 Oct : Bell Rock machine-gunned

04 Nov : Whitefield Farm, Strathmartine - 1 H.E.    Dundee (Baxter Park and Arbroath Road) - 3 H.E.

05 Nov : Philiphie Farm, Airlie - 3 H.E.    Grange of Airlie 1 H.E.    Milton of Ruthven - 4 H.E.    Hayston Hill, Glamis - 1 H.E.    Knockenny, Glamis - 1 H.E.    Dundee (Farington St., Fernbrae, Briarwood Tee, Rosefield St., Forest Park) - 8 H.E.

19 Nov : Off Auchmithie - 1 H.E.

1941

12 Feb : Junkers 88 plane down at Pitairlie - 5 killed

19 Feb : Manse, Lunan - 4 H.E.

11 Mar : Heinkel shot down off Tay

16 Mar : Huntingfauld, Tealing - 6 H.E.

30 Mar : Bell Rock machine-gunned

08 Apr : Carlungie Farm - 4 H.E.    Baldovan House - 1 H.E.

17 Apr : Arbroath 1 H.E.

10 May : S.E. Fullerton, Meigle - 1 H.E.

16 May : Montrose -3 H.E.

27 May - Montrose Burgh - 2 H.E.

27 June - Arbirlot - 2 H.E.

16 Aug : Arbroath - 2 H.E.    Rossie Island, Montrose - 2 H.E.

03 Oct : Balfour Hill, Menmuir - 4 H.E.

02 Nov : Mains, Wellbank, Monifieth - 1 H.E.    Linlathen Farm, Monifieth - 1 H.E.    Blairfield, Liff, and Benvie - 1 H.E.    Linlathen Housing Scheme, Glenconner Drive, Dundee - 1 H.E.

09 Nov : Off Montrose - 6 H.E.

08 Dec : Lunan Bay - 4 H.E.

1944

22 Apr : Dundee machine-gunned

I remember the Baxter Park bomb well. The morning after the raid we were up there admiring the crater.

HMS Activity (aircraft carrier) was fitting out at the Caledon and was considered to be a target of the day.

The first one referred to, the Rosyth raid, 1939, the pilot of the spitfire from Glasgow (he was actually a farmer, they were airforce auxiliarys) actually ended up C.O. in Tealing a couple of years later, I spent a brief time in Tealing with the air cadets.

:)

WRT your April 22    entry about Dundee being Machine Gunned If you visit Dundee Forum you will see a photo of Victoria road Cinema almost from My grand mothers bedroom window. ( actuall its from a house about No 55 she lived in 49. ) But thats where some of the bullets landed. Just as my grand father was getting of the Tram.
He picked up one of the bullets.

:)

Saw one section of one going down Alexander street steps ( to Dens ) one winter after the war.

Great fun. but the last run went out onto Dens and was traped under a tram.

Had to jack up tram to get folded sheet out of track. Luckilly no one hurt.

When my father returned from Stonehaven they stayed in it for a few nights but he said it was full of water & mosquitoes so they ended up in the house anyway.

I've got a nagging memory of seeing Anderson Shelters (or similar) in the back gardens of prefabs but I can't recall exactly where.
May have been where my uncle lived at the bottom of Strips of Craigie Road, or could have been Blackshade.

Onnyhoo, you may find these links of interest:-

http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/interesting/prefabs/prefabs.htm

http://www.revue.com/carte_blanche/elisabeth_blanchet/index_us.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/cardiff_aberdulaisroad/pages/gerald_nash.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1544793.stm

http://www.kimthew.com/timesldn.html

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My gran also had an anderson shelter in her prefab which was between what Montgomerie Ave and Kingsway.

Check this URL on construction

http://www.fortunecity.co.uk/meltingpot/oxford/330/shel/shel2.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293420/Spitfire-fight-scene-carved-lawnmower-10-acre-field-amazing-tribute-Battle-Britain-bravery.html

[quote]
How the Battle of Britain started with the Battle of Scotland
By Trevor Royle

11 Jul 2010

Luftwaffe pilots dubbed the Firth of Forth ‘suicide corner’ after falling to Scots air aces – eight months ahead of ‘the big one’.
[snip]
The first exchange between the RAF and the Luftwaffe was on September 4, 1939, when a German Dornier Do 18 flying boat was engaged by an aircraft from RAF Leuchars. The first kill came on October 8, when another Do 18 was shot down by another Leuchars-based Lockheed Hudson from 224 Squadron while on patrol over the North Sea 20 miles off Aberdeen.

The war began in earnest on October 16 – some eight months before the Battle of Britain got under way – over the Firth of Forth when Spitfires of the 602 (City of Glasgow) and 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadrons became the first British fighters to engage enemy raiders over the Scottish mainland, shooting down two Nazi fighters as astonished crowds watched from below.
[unquote]

See the whole story at:-

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/how-the-battle-of-britain-started-with-the-battle-of-scotland-1.1040497

or

http://tinyurl.com/3736qmv

:)

http://www.dundee-at-war.net/index.htm

Mary and John Curran were my mother and father-in-law and I have some copies of the original newspaper reports.

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/120593-wwii-spycatchers-revealed-after-70-years/