1939 Coventry bombing

When

25 Aug 1939

Kind

Terrorist attack

Killed

5

Coordinates

52.41° N, 1.48° W

Part of the IRA 1939–40 S-Plan campaign

The 1939 Coventry bombing was an act of terrorism committed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 25 August 1939 in which a 5.1 lb bomb upon a bicycle was placed in Coventry city centre in the West Midlands of England as part of the organisation's 1939–40 S-Plan campaign. The explosion resulted in the deaths of five civilians, with over seventy others injured.

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