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No - Blithfield was always intended as a drinking water reservoir, and was planned before 1939. It was formed by building a dam to block the river Blith. Its history is here:

http://www.blithfieldeducationcentre.co.uk/reservoir.htm

You may be thinking of the explosion at RAF Fauld in 1944, when an underground munitions dump exploded with the loss of about 75 lives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Fauld_Explosion

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