More than 17 tons of high-explosive bombs and several hundred incendiary bombs were dropped on a munitions factory at Luenen, despite well-organized ground defences, which included anti-aircraft batteries, numerous search-lights and a balloon bar-of a railway station.
Planes machine-gunned streets. breaking windows and dislodging tiles from roofs, but as nearly everybody had take shelter nobody was hurt, Among other damaged buildings were a hospital a school a club. two stores, a garage and about 15 houses.
Many city workers returning to their homes found them seriously damaged, and in many streets houses had heir windows blown in and the furniture badly damaged.
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