That brought the death toll from the bombing to 166, including 19 children.
Ministers had no choice but to distance themselves from the bombing.
During the second world war, the churches remains were further damaged from bombing.
Aaron Lake could almost feel the earth shake from the bombing.
The recession of the late 1940s and early 1950s presented a different challenge from bombing, but no less severe.
Even there it was not safe from the bombing and they moved again to Bedford.
Analysis looked into how much it was possible or desirable to preserve the damage from bombing.
Some Arab students said they had already felt reverberations from the bombing.
Yugoslavia, he said, had suffered estimated damage of $40 billion from the bombing.
'Well, it'll be a change from the bombing' he said.