Coventry Blitz
![Winston Churchill visiting the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in September 1941](/Images/godic/202501/06/Churchill_CCathedral_H_142503809.jpg")
![Broadgate, Coventry in 1917](/Images/godic/202501/06/Coventry_Broadgate_19173809.jpg")
![Coventry Cathedral in ruins after the Luftwaffe air raid](/Images/godic/202501/06/Coventry_Cathedral_after_the_air_raid_in_19403809.jpg")
![The Holy Trinity Church rises above a scene of devastation](/Images/godic/202501/06/Coventry_devastation_H_56013810.jpg")
The Coventry blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen ) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during World War II by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940.