On the night of May 5 1941 Luftwaffe bombs were dropped in and around Dumbarton for the third time.
Whilst the town didn’t suffer the devastation during World War II that neighbouring Clydebank had done, it is believed that 17 Sons and Daughters of the Rock lost their lives to bombs dropped on Dumbarton.
During two nights of German bombing raids on March 13 and 14, 1941, a total of 528 people were killed, more than 600 injured and around a quarter of Clydebank’s 12,000 homes destroyed.