Tremendous Devastation
Exhausted air-raid wardens, firemen and ambulance men tore at the smouldering rubble to bring the trapped, dead and injured to the surface.
At dawn on Wednesday the 16 April a thick yellow pall covered Belfast. Exhausted air-raid wardens, firemen and ambulance men tore at the smouldering rubble to bring the trapped, dead and injured to the surface.
Army lorries were piled high with corpses and severed limbs. Many of the dead were laid out at the Falls Road Public Baths and St George鈥檚 Market. Emma Duffin, a nurse, recalled a nightmarish scene: 鈥淒eath should be dignified, peaceful; Hitler had made death grotesque. I felt outraged.鈥�
No other city in the United Kingdom, except London, had lost so many lives in one air raid.
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