German aircraft carried out a number of attacks on Great Britain last night.

The raid was lasted for several hours.

On the 14th of November, 1940, Coventry was subjected to a devastating air raid, killing hundreds of civilians.

At the time, very few people knew that Churchill could have been warned, and more than

30 years later, an enduring myth was born. It was believed that he'd sacrificed Coventry

to protect the ultra-secret that Bletchley Park was reading Germany's most secret communications.

In this month's episode of the Bletchley Park podcast, we delve into how that

myth came to be, and we dispel it with help from German Airsection veteran Sir Arthur Bonsor

and Bletchley Park's research historian, Dr David Kenyon. The myth is born in 1974 when FW Winterbottom

wrote his book, The Ultra Secret. He said in his book that Bletchley

were regularly reading the relevant Luftwaffe traffic and on the day they knew which targets

were to be bombed. He claimed that the name Coventry was actually spelled out in an enigma message

and that as a consequence of that Churchill knew that Coventry was going to be bombed,

but he was so worried about the enigma secret getting out

that he decided to let it be bombed and basically not tell anyone.

Up on the top roof and the lower roofs and the ground floor,

we waited, bomb after bomb, incendiary bomb, fell.

And we fought them with what we could of the equipment we had

one after the other and then finally a group of three fell on the roof and the fire blazed up and we

had no more sand and no more water and practically no more sinks to go on the fire got a complete drip of the

roof and burnt from roof to roof and all the pews blazed up, that's great inferno inside.

I think we all tried to do our best. The fire service was simply magnificent.

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