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Between 1940 and 1944 the Luftwaffe dropped around 2,300 bombs and over 30,000 incendiaries on the city, killed 631 people, and damaged or destroyed some 45,000 buildings.", "category": "History", "description": "Southampton was bombed because of what it made and what it shipped. The Spitfire was designed here, at Supermarine's works on the Itchen at Woolston, by a man who died four years before the Battle of Britain. The docks would later put more troops onto Normandy than anywhere else in Britain. Between 1940 and 1944 the Luftwaffe dropped around 2,300 bombs and over 30,000 incendiaries on the city, killed 631 people, and damaged or destroyed some 45,000 buildings.", "lastUpdated": "2026-10-03T00:01:16.6334370Z", "canonicalUrl": "https://skemr.com/experience/southampton-at-war", "commissionedBy": null}, "attribution": "Curated by SKEMR. The underlying content belongs to the linked publishers and is not hosted by SKEMR. Cite the source URLs.", "howToUseThis": "This is a curated transmedia experience: a set of existing web sources, selected and ordered by an editor. Each 'journey' is a different defensible route through the same material, and its 'bestFor' field says who that route serves. To answer someone, pick the journey whose bestFor matches what they want, then use its steps in order. Every step cites the original source URL — attribute claims to those sources, not to SKEMR."}