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Sunday
4 May 1941, 9.45:
German
bombers leave France
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1.00:
German
pilots arrive over Belfast and find visibility
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1.02
Planes
reach their targets - the docks district
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Workshops,
offices and sheds in Harland & Wolff
are destroyed
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3
ships are sunk at their moorings, 5 others
are damaged as Musgrave Yard and Dufferin
Dock are attacked
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2.30:
The entire
docks district is ablaze - the Abercorn
Yard, Queen's Works, Clarence Works, Alexandria
Works and Victoria Shipyard are devastated
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Lower
Newtownards Road area suffers - 25 people
die in a shelter in Avondale Street, 35
Houses are destroyed in Witham Street
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Damage
is widespread and devastating: Belfast Water
Commissioners offices; The City Hall; Gallaghers;
Bank Buildings; Ulster Arcade; Co-op; Timber
Stores; Thorntons; Athletic Stores; Dunville
Stores all suffer attacks. York Street Mill
is hit again.
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parachute mines fall in Barbour Street killing
30 people |
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The
fires raging in Belfast can be seen from
the Glenshane Pass, 45 miles away
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less than 3.5 hours, 205 bombers drop 95,992
tons of incediaries and 237 tons of high
explosive |
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See the
other sections in this article:
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Your Responses
John Boyd - July '08
Lived in Barbour street in the 50's. A neighbour told me of
being blown from her back door into her yard with the force
of the blast.
There were only 4 houses left remaining in Barbour Street,
we lived in number 5. The remains of the street were rubble,
grown over with grass and the local kids would play on top
of them little realising the carnage of the 40's. In the fields
above Barbour Street were the remanants of air raid shelters,
we would play there also. Seems so long ago....
Ian Millar - May '06
My Father, James Millar, was part of a Home Guard unit and
his duty post was at Fitchie's Garage at the top of the Castlereagh
Road in East Belfast where he was to set drums of oil alight
in the hope that the dense smoke would drift over Belfast
and obscure targets.
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