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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

World War II in Pictures- A raid on Belfast claims the lives of nearly 1000 people on 15 April 1941.

The Belfast Blitz. Whitewell Road, 15/16th April 1941.Lower Donegall Street, Belfast after the bombing by the Luftwaffe on April 15th 1941. 900 people died in this attack.
On 15 April 1941 Belfast suffered the greatest loss of life in a single raid on the UK outside of London, due in part to the inadequacy of the city's anti-aircraft defenses. Nearly 1,000 people died and half the houses in the city were damaged. Roughly 100,000 people of a total population of 425,000 were left homeless.

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