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The 14th. November 1940 is remembered for the bombing of central Coventry, especially the cathedral, however ther were two worse raids on Coventry in April 1941.
I was a schoolboy aged 10 and watched as the German bombers created havoc on the industrial heart of Coventry, the Daimler Factory close to our house was ablaze most of the night.
This is not my story though, rationed as we were, real eggs and bacon were a rarity, dried eggs if we were lucky.
I attended Holbrook Lane Junior School, next door to which was a Co-op wharehouse, the morning after one of the raids, I walked the half mile to school to see a pall of smoke hanging over it.
When I arrived it was obvious that the school had not been hit, but the wharehouse had, the fire had been extinguished, there was virtually nothing left, but there was the most delicious aroma of cooked bacon and eggs, that smell stayed with me until the war's end when once again real food gradually became available.

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