000180
Description
A file of reports relating to the air raids on Coventry between April 8 and April 11, 1941. Subjects covered in the file include the details of the air raids, including the type of bombs used and the number of aircraft involved; the damage to buildings and public utilities, including hospitals, factories, housing, public buildings, roads, bus transportation, communications, sewers, the gas and water supplies, and the office of the Ministry of Pensions; the number of casualties, including police and wardens; the number of fires; and the bombing of airfields. Other subjects discussed include public morale; the work of the casualty services, rescue parties, fire services, police, and wardens; the impact on industrial production; the salvage of food and medical supplies; labour for reconstruction work; the evacuation of children; crime, including looting; emergency loudspeaker announcements by the Ministry of Information; and accommodation shortages for the homeless, medical patients, and reconstruction workers.
Keywords
accommodation, air raids, aircraft, airfields, air-raid precautions, air-raid wardens, allowances, ambulances, banking, billeting, bomb damage, buses, cereals, children, civilian casualties, communal feeding, communications, compensation, construction, crime, dairy, demolition, emergency procedures, employment, evacuation, factories, family, finance, fire prevention, fire services, fires, first aid, flour, food preparation, food supplies, fuel, furnishings, gas, healthcare, high-explosive bombs, homelessness, hospitals, housing, housing shortages, incendiary bombs, industrial production, industry, infrastructure, labour shortages, labour supply, local authorities, looting, meals, medical supplies, military operations, milk, mothers, motor vehicles, municipal buildings, parents, pensions, petrol, police, priority classes, propaganda, public health, public morale, public transport, railways, rationing, repair, rescue, retail, roads, salvage, schools, skilled labour, surveys, The Blitz, traffic, transportation, unexploded bombs, water supply
