Been reading the posts on the Bombing of Coventry BBC 2 programme. I thought it was impressive but there is probably more to be told.
I went to College in Coventry in the early 1970s and lodged with an old lady. She and her friends still felt very sharply about the causualty (death) figures released at the time and just after the war, that were the same ones used in the programme. They thought the figures had been massaged down to a third of the actual. They based this on trying to find people they knew at the time and years after and checking them against the missing and the dead. I didn't take much notice at the time but looking at the film the casulty figures from the bombing and firestorm looked low.
They also talked about the workers brought in from Birmingham after the raid to get repairs and production running again, again scarcely covered in the film.
yes it was horrible what they did to dear old cov; and they said churchill had some inclinings but he never
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Alf April 2008 from the tower