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During World War II, the Luftwaffe launched the Blitz, a night-bombing campaign of British towns. In early 1941, 5 raids reduced much of Plymouth to rubble. The royal dockyards at Devonport were the main target in order to facilitate Nazi German domination during The Battle of the Atlantic. Despite massive damage to the centre of Plymouth and surrounding areas, the dockyards were relatively unscathed. At one point it was estimated that 1 in 5 of the city's population of approximately 220,000 was rendered homeless. The rebuilding of the city centre attracted continuing controversy due to its modernist design and necessarily rapid completion. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Deutsche Luftwaffe or   (German: air force, literally Air Weapon, pronounced lufft-va-fa, IPA: ) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ... Heinkel He 111 German bomber over the Surrey Docks, Southwark, London (German propaganda photomontage). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... , Plymouth (Cornish: ) is a city of 243,795 inhabitants (2001 census) in the south-west of England, or alternatively the West Country, and is situated within the traditional and ceremonial county of Devon at the mouths of the rivers Plym and Tamar and at the head of one of the... The name of Devonport has spread from the original Devonport, Devon in England to: Devonport, suburb of Auckland, New Zealand and the Devonport Naval Base Devonport, Tasmania, Australia Devonport is now part of Plymouth and is the site of the Devonport Dockyards. ... Battle of the Atlantic can refer to either of two naval campaigns, depending on context: World War I - First Battle of the Atlantic World War II - Second Battle of the Atlantic A Third Battle of the Atlantic was envisioned to be be part of any Third World War that arose... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ...


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Plymouth is a city in the South West of England, or alternatively the Westcountry, and is situated within the traditional county of Devon.
Plymouth was where the defeated Napolean Bonaparte was brought aboard the HMS Bellerophon before his exile to St Helena in 1815 and the surviving crew of the RMS Titanic disaster disembarked on their return to England in 1912.
On on December 14 1810, Plymouth was struck by the strongest tornado yet reported in the UK (as of August 2005), with a T8 rating on the TORRO scale, and a wind speed of 213 to 240 mph.
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