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Bath Blitz
Air raids on Bath, Somerset, during WWII / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term Bath Blitz refers to the air raids by the German Luftwaffe on the British city of Bath, Somerset, during World War II.
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The city was bombed in April 1942 as part of the so-called "Baedeker raids", in which targets were chosen for their cultural and historical, rather than their strategic or military, value.