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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the night the Luftwaffe bombed Derry


Today marks the 80th anniversary of the night the Luftwaffe bombed Derry
German bombers targeted the city during the Blitz
Messines Park, where thirteen people lost their lives in the 1941 raid.
Reporter:
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Liam Tunney talks to historian
Nigel Henderson about how a Shantallow housing development became the unintended target of German bombers in 1941.
April 15, 1941. German bombers swarmed the skies. Belfast bore the brunt of a 200-strong Luftwaffe squadron, with 900 dead and 1,500 injured as a result.
Seventy miles up the road, Derry was hit only once. It was not the Germans’ planned target.
Thirteen lives were lost when a German bomb overshot its proposed target and hit Messines Park in Shantallow, home to a colony of ex-servicemen who had served in the Great War. ....

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