(^22) DAILY MIRROR THURSDAY 05.03.2020
DM1ST
The first Blitz
by jeremy armstrong
historic Top-secret
map from the collection
D-Day maps
set to go up
for auction
A STASH of Second World
War documents including
secret D-Day maps is
going up for auction.
Among them are an air
support plan for the
Normandy Landings and
a note to then US general
Dwight Eisenhower.
Ex-RAF serviceman
Mike Frith, 73, bought
them “many years ago”.
The self-confessed
hoarder rediscovered
them at his Lincoln home
and showed antique
dealer Mark Hebblewhite.
Mr Hebblewhite said: “I
was holding history in my
hands. It felt like my ‘Del
boy’ moment.”
The sale is on March 11,
at bonhams, London.
WW1 shelling of
town film found
hell at
home
Hartlepool
house hit
by Germans
rubble German navy brings mayhem to town
devastated Woman comforts child after the raid
victim Rescuers bring a body out of a home
DRAMATIC footage of the first
attack on British civilians
during a World War has been
discovered at a flea market.
The five-minute newsreel, now
restored, shows the aftermath of the
shelling of Hartlepool, Co Durham,
by German ships on December 16,
- Some 130 people were killed
and more than 500 wounded.
The film was in a box of broken
cameras bought at a market for £20
by Mark Simmons, Hartlepool
council’s museums curator. He said
the film, also showing the attacks
on Scarborough and Whitby, was
“mostly previously unseen footage”.
Expert Graham Relton said it was
of “unique historical significance”.
See it at: yorkshirefilmarchive.
com/film/attack-hartlepools.
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