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8 photos tagged airraids, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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• ww2
• destruction
• proni
• belfastblitz
• belfast
• merge
• blitz
• bombing
• ruins
• aftermath
• northernireland
• wartime
• family
• women
• wwii
• worldwarii
• american
• jewish
• worldwar2
• jewishwomen
• jewishamericanwomen
• wood
• shadow
• sky

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• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 5 photos
• JWA Commons 2 photos
• North East Museums 1 photo

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Bomb damage at Readhead's shipyard, South Shields, 1941

from North East Museums

• A.Davey said:

  Well, you can see the airmen posing by their warplanes, and you can see the bombers flying in formation, and you can see them dodging the flak to get to the target, but only photos such as this one make you realize what warfare does to us. Enormous losses of capital investments take place in the blink of an eye. Where do you even begin sorting out a ruin like this one?

• Ramon Meneses said:

  That's the question I was going to ask, "How do you recover from this tangled mess?"

York Street post-Belfast blitz - merge

from Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Alan said:

  The person who does these is very talented. My ancestral home.