Coventry Blitz

Coventry Blitz
	Part of the Strategic bombing campaign of World War II
	; Winston Churchill, the Mayor J. A. Moseley, the Bishop of Coventry M. G. Haigh, the Deputy Mayor A. R. Grindlay, and others visiting the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in September 1941
Date	1940–1942
Location	Coventry
Result	Coventry city centre heavily damaged by German air raids
Belligerents
Nazi Germany	United Kingdom

The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen^ⓘ), or Coventration of the city,^[1] was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940 and continued into the morning of 15 November.

^ "This Day in History 1940: Germans bomb Coventry". 12 April 2009. Archived from the original on 12 April 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

[1] "This Day in History 1940: Germans bomb Coventry". 12 April 2009. Archived from the original on 12 April 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2021.

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