{"id":504,"date":"2007-11-14T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/family\/coventry-bombed-by-germans-1940"},"modified":"2007-11-14T16:30:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T00:30:34","slug":"coventry-bombed-by-germans-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Coventry Bombed by Germans 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1940 German bombers destroyed much of Coventry, England.\u00a0 Thanks to David B. for this tip.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/onthisday\/hi\/dates\/stories\/november\/15\/newsid_3522000\/3522785.stm\">entire story on the BBC web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/coventry\/features\/local-history\/archive-photographs-ww2.shtml\">lots of very good pictures here<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"tt-flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2024745197\/gosford-street-bombedjpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"177\" border=\"0\" alt=\"gosford-street-bombed.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2238\/2024745197_287da49d64_m.jpg?resize=240%2C177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coventry is my mothers families ancestral home and we held our <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/family\/the-wolston-reunion\">family reunion<\/a> in Wolston a village five miles from there last summer.\u00a0 My mother, Kathleen, was in the Home Guard during WW2.\u00a0 She worked as a aimer on an anti-aircraft gun and was credited with shooting down a German bomber.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if it was during the bombing of Coventry or at some other time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1940 German bombers destroyed much of Coventry, England.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-88","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}