My thanks go to David Poole for his invaluable assistance in locating the headstones of those buried in the York Cemetery.
I am especially grateful to the editor of the York Press for permission to use their pictures of the bomb damage in York.
Every attempt has been made by the author to secure the appropriate permissions for the images reproduced on this website and, where requested, the appropriate fee has been paid.
If there has been an oversight or error then please accept my apologies, contact me and I will rectify the mistake.
The following books were most useful:
Pfadfinder....Luftwaffe Pathfinder Operations Over Britain by Ken Wakefield
(ISBN 0 7524 1692 8)
Air War over East Yorkshire by Paul Bright
(ISBN 0 9545605 7 4)
Luftwaffe at War....German Elite Pathfinders KG100 in Action by Manfried Griehl
(ISBN 1 85367 429 9)
Broken Eagles, Luftwaffe Losses over Yorkshire 1939-1945 by Bill Norman
(ISBN 0 85052 796 1)
The Great York Air Raid 1942 by Charles Whiting
(ISBN 978 0 904775 57 0)
ARP and Civil Defence in the Second World War by Peter Doyle
(ISBN 978 0 74780 765 0)
Lincolnshire Airfields of the Second World War by Patrick Otter
(ISBN 1 85306 424 6)
Yorkshire Airfields of the Second World War by Patrick Otter
(ISBN 1 85306 542 0)
Goebbels Diaries (1942)
(ISBN 9780837138152)
Fighter Command Diaries edited by John Foreman
(ISBN 978 1871187359)
Bomber Command Diaries edited by Martin Middlebrook & Chris Everitt
(ISBN 1 85780 033 8)
After the Battle....The Blitz Volume 3
(ISBN 978 0900913587)
RAF Squadrons by Wing Commander C G Jefford
(ISBN 1 85310053 6)
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War by Robert Bevan
(ISBN 978-1861893192)
Websites:
St Martin's le Grand, York (www.stmartinsyork.org.uk)......The York Casualty List.
Other websites are individually acknowledged and linked from the relevant item.
The East Riding Archives in Beverley:
CD/1........Number and duration of public air raid warnings in the East Riding in WW2.
CD/10......Civil Defence Incident Log Book.
CD/15......Incident Reports (Derwent Sub Control Area).
CD/23......Incident Reports (Pocklington Sub Control Area).
CD/28......Results of Enemy Air Attack (Home Security Operations Bulletins).....No95.
CD/30......Enemy Air Activity in the East Riding.
CD/33.....Control Room Files Nos. 20-35.
CD/50.....Ministry of Home Security Circulars.
POL/3/6/7/1......Lists of observation points within the East Riding.
POL/3/6/7/25......File of air raid damage reports and reports of unexploded bombs and mines.
The National Archives:
406 Sqn ORBs......AIR27/1791/15
133 Sqn ORBs......AIR27/945/15
68Sqn ORBs......AIR27/604/22
253 Sqn ORBs......AIR27/1511/44
1459 Flight ORBs......AIR27/2006/13
No:4 Delivery Unit ORB.....AIR29/890
No: 87 MU ORB.....AIR29/1026
RAF 80 Group ORB.......AIR26/580
Fighter Groups Operations Records (No:12 &13 Group).....AIR 25/220 and AIR25/233
Fighter Command ORBs......AIR24/509
The Bombers Baedeker...........AIR14/2662 & AIR14/2663
Combat Reports (406Sqn)...... AIR50/139/20,35,40,41,
Combat Reports (253Sqn)......AIR50/97/1, AIR50/97/20, AIR50/97/28.
Fighter Command Orders of Battle 1942-1943......AIR16/1085
Information from German (Air Force) PoWs.......AIR40/3075 & AIR40/2410
Ministry of Home Security
Air Raid Warning Districts......HO 186/215 & HO 186/727 & AIR 16/40
Air Raid Damage April 28/29th......HO 192/129 & HO 192/130
Air Raid Assessment Reports.......HO 192/1652 & HO 192/1653
Air Raid Assessments, York......HO 192/1676
Intelligence Branch Report, York......HO 199/46
Operations Bulletins 1940-1942......HO 199/506
British Transport Commission, Bomb Damage......AN 2/129/2