Linby Docks Bombing

Linby Docks Bombing

Linby is a small village in England of 232 people that was bombed repeatedly by the Luftwaffe during World War 2, thanks to a blunder by German intelligence, who thought that a pair of small streams running through the village named Linby Docks were of strategic importance.

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