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Radio Berkshire,6 mins

Reading's only fatal air raid during WW2

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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. Âé¶¹Éç 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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