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It was four years after the Sheffield Blitz — the devastating December 1940 attacks that left thousands homeless — and the ...

But Hitler had one last surprise in store for Sheffield. On Christmas Eve 1944, a V1 rocket — one of Hitler’s infamous "Doodlebugs" — fell on Beighton, in what is now Rother Valley Country Park.