WW2 butterfly bomb fragments.
Following the raid on Grimsby and Cleethorpes on Monday 14th June 1943, fragments of butterfly bomb wings were to be found everywhere.
Following the raid on Grimsby and Cleethorpes on Monday 14th June 1943, fragments of butterfly bomb wings were to be found everywhere.

Butterfly bombs were everywhere!

Butterfly bomb wings from the Grimsby area raid on 14th June 1943

An original piece of a Butterfly Bomb dropped on the boundary of Grimsby and Cleethorpes in June 1943

‘Butterfly bomb’ lodged in a hedge c1943

Relic shell of a WW2 ‘butterfly bomb’ bomblet from Grimsby; totally inert 1943

German markings on a wing of a butterfly bomb dropped on Grimsby on 14th June 1943