The Luftwaffe bombs Dublin
31st May 1941: Neutral Ireland is shocked by the deaths of wholly unprepared citizens sleeping in their beds
At 2 am on the morning of 31st May, Dublin, the capital of neutral Ireland, was bombed by the Luftwaffe. It was the most serious incident in a string of accidental bombings to hit Ireland during the war, probably attributable to very serious navigational errors. Such errors may have res…
