1939-45 Kent in words and pictures

By: KentOnline reporter multimediadesk@thekmgroup.co.uk

Published: 13:26, 10 June 2005

1941: Shoppers and children wearing gas masks in Maidstone during a mock gas attack

DEVASTATION:The scene after a doodlebug struck in Snodland

IN SHOCK: A young woman is pulled from the debris of a bombed house

JANUARY 1944: This picture, which was censored at the time, shows shell damage in St Winifred's Road Cheriton

JUNE 1940: Pupils from Gillingham being evacuated

RETAIL THERAPY: The Duke of Kent meeting Marks & Spencer staff in Canterbury in 1942 after their shop had been damaged

The KM Group salutes those who survived the horrors - and those who didn't

The courage of the people of Kent during the dark years of the Second World War have been captured in a special Kent Messenger Group supplement.

About 9,000 people were killed or injured in the county and around 200,000 homes were wrecked as 750,000 bombs and rockets rained down.

Sixty years on, the 24-page supplement recalls those dreadful times in the FrontLine County.

It contains many moving stories and pictures and is dedicated to the people who endured life in the Garden of England between 1939-45.

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The supplement is free with current editions of the KM Group's paid-for titles (£1 when sold separately).

Don't miss it.

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