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    The 1939 Coventry bombing was an act of terrorism committed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 25 August 1939 in which a 5.1 lb (2.3 kg) bomb upon a...
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    The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British...
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  • executed for his role in the 1939 Coventry bombing, which killed five civilians and injured seventy others. In early 1939, McCormick volunteered for active...
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    Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England. The...
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    Poland is attacked by Germany. 1939 Coventry bombing: An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people. August...
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    in England shortly following an IRA bomb that exploded in Coventry on 25 August 1939 (see 1939 Coventry bombing), resulting in the deaths of several...
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  • attack as all victims named by police". Daily Record. 25 May 2017. "Arena bomb 'injured more than 800'". BBC News. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018. Evans...
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    Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected...
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    World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in...
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  • philanthropist James McCormick (1910–1940), IRA member, perpetrator of the 1939 Coventry bombing John Wesley McCormick (1754–1837), early US settler in Indiana Malky...
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    The bombing of Warsaw in World War II started with the aerial bombing campaign of Warsaw by the German Luftwaffe during the siege of Warsaw in the invasion...
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  • and into Palestine. 1939 – The Irish Republican Army carries out the 1939 Coventry bombing in which five civilians were killed. 1939 – The United Kingdom...
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  • Coventry City Football Club (commonly known as simply Coventry) is a professional football club based in Coventry, West Midlands, England. The club plays...
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  • (Irish republican) (1907–1940), IRA member, perpetrator of the 1939 Coventry bombing Peter Barnes (journalist), senior Washington correspondent for the...
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    of Coventry, an industrial city in the Midlands that was the target of a German bombing raid in November 1940, when over 10,000 incendiary bombs were...
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     59. United States Strategic Bombing Survey (June 1946). "U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki"...
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    The aerial bombing of cities is an optional element of strategic bombing, which became widespread in warfare during World War I. The bombing of cities...
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    the Soviet Union. Bombing failed to demoralise the British into surrender or do much damage to the war economy; eight months of bombing never seriously...
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  • S-Plan (category Conflicts in 1939)
    Campaign was a campaign of bombing and sabotage against the civil, economic and military infrastructure of the United Kingdom from 1939 to 1940, conducted by...
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    The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during...
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  • Peter Barnes (Irish republican) (category 1939 murders in the United Kingdom)
    participating in the 1939 Coventry bombing, which was part of the IRA's sabotage campaign in England (the S-Plan). The Coventry bombing killed five people...
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  • Coventry bombing: An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in Coventry, killing 5 and injuring 70. In London, police defuse two similar bombs and arrest...
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    first bombs fell on Wieluń on the morning of 1 September 1939 has been a subject of debate, particularly in reference to claims that the town's bombing was...
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    RAF Baginton, by the Royal Air Force. It was damaged in the 1940 Coventry Blitz bombing raid by the Luftwaffe. The following units were here at some point:...
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    Hitler singled out Coventry for heavy bombing raids.[citation needed] Large areas of the city were destroyed in a massive German bombing raid during the...
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  • This was the sort of accuracy that even daytime bombing could rarely achieve. The raid on Coventry with full support from other units dropping on their...
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    extremely poor, as was bombing accuracy if the target city (let alone the actual military target) could be found. Consequently bombing operations were very...
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    Bombing of Frampol occurred during the German invasion of Poland in 1939. On 13 September, the town of Frampol with a population of 4,000 was bombed by...
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    The bombing of Chongqing (simplified Chinese: 重庆大轰炸; traditional Chinese: 重慶大轟炸, Japanese: 重慶爆撃), from 18 February 1938 to 19 December 1944, was a series...
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