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when my grandmother was a child the Germans dropped a bomb on her street. She told me that her home city, Stoke-on-Trent, wasn't a strategic target but the Germans would sometimes drop bombs anywhere just to get rid excess weight on the way home. Is that true?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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