In the summer of 1940, and until the spring of 1941, Germany began their relentless aerial attacks, targeting British cities, ports and industrial areas. During November a devastating raid levelled the centre of Coventry leaving the city's cathedral in ruins.
Roy from Northamptonshire, a small boy at the time, was in Coventry visiting relatives. "My Uncle held me up to the window to see the glow from Coventry while it was being bombed in 1940." "I had to spend the night in an Anderson shelter, it was the first and only time!
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