Darkest days - Belfast remembers the Blitz
It was one of Northern Ireland's darkest days - the Belfast Blitz.
15 April 1941 was a night when nearly 1,000 people were killed during a sustained bombing campaign by the Germans.
The city was regarded as a legitimate target during World War II because of its shipyard and aircraft factory.
The night chosen by the bombers to carry out their deadly attack was Easter Tuesday 1941.
An air warden in Belfast that night said "The sirens started at quarter to eleven, and by eleven o'clock my team was on the street - that started six hours of horror, death and destruction."
For hours, hundreds of tons of high explosive bombs and incendiaries rained down on the city.
Around the targets in the docks area were crowded terraced houses. Back-to-back streets of industrial squalor, the housing of those who worked in the factories and mills....
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15 April 1941 was a night when nearly 1,000 people were killed during a sustained bombing campaign by the Germans.
The city was regarded as a legitimate target during World War II because of its shipyard and aircraft factory.
The night chosen by the bombers to carry out their deadly attack was Easter Tuesday 1941.
An air warden in Belfast that night said "The sirens started at quarter to eleven, and by eleven o'clock my team was on the street - that started six hours of horror, death and destruction."
For hours, hundreds of tons of high explosive bombs and incendiaries rained down on the city.
Around the targets in the docks area were crowded terraced houses. Back-to-back streets of industrial squalor, the housing of those who worked in the factories and mills....