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My great-grandmother and the Blitz
On the week marking the 75th Anniversary of the Coventry Blitz, 麻豆社 Coventry & Warwickshire's Richard Williams goes in search for his family's experience of that night.
That night on the 14 November 1940, nearly 500 planes dropped 30,000 bombs on the city. 578 people were killed in one night and over 68,000 properties were damaged, including his great-grandmother's house in Red Lane.
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