On this day in 1940 German bombers destroyed much of Coventry, England.  Thanks to David B. for this tip.

Read the entire story on the BBC web site.

Or see lots of very good pictures here

Coventry is my mothers families ancestral home and we held our family reunion in Wolston a village five miles from there last summer.  My mother, Kathleen, was in the Home Guard during WW2.  She worked as a aimer on an anti-aircraft gun and was credited with shooting down a German bomber.  I don’t know if it was during the bombing of Coventry or at some other time.