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The Coventry bombing of 25 August 1939 was carried out by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as a part of its S-Plan campaign of bombing English cities to aid the German cause. A bomb was left in Coventry city centre in the West Midlands, which resulted in 5 deaths and 70 injuries. Two IRA members were convicted of the bombing and hanged, while a third, who acknowledged planting the bomb, escaped. Several accused were acquitted. It was the first bombing of the campaign in which civilians were killed. Republican sources later claimed that civilians were not the intended target(s).
