Coventry was part of Britains industrial centre of production, among, of course, many other places. The Luftwaffe was guided by the transmission of radio beams sent from 2 different locations, when the beams intersected the Bomber was over Coventry. At this time bomb aiming from an aeroplane was very haphazard indeed & the targetting of individual sites was very hit & miss (Mostly miss) & therefore civillians were attacked as much as military targets. Incendiary bombs were dropped to set fire to buildings, and once alight these fires attracted more of the same.
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Coventry was blitzed. There is a website about it: The Coventry Blitz Resource Centre, which is hosted on www.familyresearcher.co.uk . Lots of info about the Coventry Blitz there.
The most intense spell of bombing took place on the night of the 14th of November 1940. Most of the city centre was destroyed.
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Coventry was bombed several times by the Luftwaffe. The most devastating attack occurred on 14 November 1940. On that day, 568 people were killed and 60000 buildings were destroyed.
Monday, May 6th, 1941. At 12 am.
It started on September 7, 1940. See the related links below for details about the Blitz.
With Germany Blitzkrieging Poland to jump-start WW2 in a very bad way.