Coventry: Timeline

1939   An IRA bomb explodes in the center of Coventry, England England

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 killing five people.

1940   World War II World War II

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: In England England

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, the city of Coventry is destroyed by 500 German Germany

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 Luftwaffe Luftwaffe

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 bombers (150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives, 130 parachute mines leveled 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people were killed).

1940   World War II: In response to Germany Germany

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 leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force Royal Air Force

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 begins to bomb Hamburg Hamburg

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 (by war's end, 50,000 Hamburg residents died from Allied attacks).