The Blitz was a series of German air raids on the United Kingdom during World War II, from September 7, 1940 to May 10, 1941. British rescue workers dug through the rubble to recover the bodies and injured of British citizens who had been buried alive, with only their hands sticking out. The bombing of Merseyside in north-west England by the German army reached its peak during the Blitzkrieg of seven nights from May 1st to 7th, 1941. In particular, the dockside area of Bootle was targeted by German bombers, and during the Blitzkrieg on Liverpool, around 90% of the town's houses were damaged.
Bootle, which is adjacent to the city of Liverpool and has many docks, became the area in Britain that was bombed the most. The number of civilian deaths due to German military hostilities in the Bootle borough was recorded as 458. On May 8, the Emergency Committee of Liverpool recorded that more than half of the 1,000 bodies that had already been taken to the mortuary in Webster Road were unidentified.
The town of Bootle, which has the largest dock in the port adjacent to Liverpool, was left with only about 15% of its houses after the final attack on May 10, 1941. For seven nights from May 1, 1941, Bootle was one of the most bombed places in Britain, with more than 1,000 people killed or injured and more than 80% of the houses damaged or destroyed. More than 20,000 residents lost their homes in the air raids. Electricity, gas and water supplies were all cut off, and thousands of people relied on the services of army canteens to secure their meals. Many bridges were bombed, railway lines were blown up, and trains and trams were also badly damaged. Many schools, churches and shops were destroyed by high explosives and parachute mines that rained down on Bootle over seven nights in May. Warehouses, timber yards and factories were set on fire by incendiary bombs and burned to the ground in large fires.
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