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Reading's only fatal air raid during WW2
At teatime on 10 February 1943, four bombs were dropped across Reading. It was the only fatal air raid the town experienced during the war.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire's Kirsten O'Brien speaks to local historian and author Mike Cooper about the attack.
Photo: Civil Defence emergency services search through the bomb damaged Friar Street in Reading. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
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