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[[Lübeck]] was bombed for the first time by the [[Royal Air Force]] on the night of [[28 March|28]]/[[29 March]] [[1942]]. It was the first major success for [[RAF Bomber Command]] against a German city.<ref name=RAFdiary>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/mar42.html Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary Campaign Diary March 1942]</ref>

==[[Antigua and Barbuda]]==

==Main raid==

===Writers and intellectuals===

[[Lübeck]], the old [[Hanseatic League|hanseatic]] city and cultural centre on the shores of the [[Baltic Sea]] was easy to find under the light of the full moon on the Saturday night of, [[28 March]] 1942, and the early hours of [[29 March]] ([[Palm Sunday]]).<ref>The raid is locally commemorated on Palm Sunday, not on exact the calendar day of the raid.</ref>. Due to the dry frost there was a clear visibility and the waters of [[Trave]], [[Elbe-Lübeck Canal]], ''Wakenitz'' and the [[Bay of Lübeck]] were reflecting the moonlight.<ref name="Luebeckische_Geschichte">Antjekathrin Graßmann: ''Lübeckische Geschichte'', 2nd. edition, Lübeck 1989, p.723-728</ref> 234 [[Vickers Wellington|Wellington]] and [[Short Stirling|Stirling]] bombers droped about 400 tons of bombs including 25,000 [[incendiary device]]s. The [[RAF Bomber Command]] lost twelve aircraft in an attack.<ref name=RAFdiary/>

*[[Marie-Elena John]]

*[[Leonard Tim Hector]]

*[[Jamaica Kincaid]]

*[[Gregson Davis]]

*[[Basil Hill]] -

===Political leaders===

There were few defences<ref>Five heavy [[Anti-aircraft warfare|anti aircraft batteries]] and four light ones</ref> so many crews crews attacked at 600 metres (2,000 feet). The attack took place in three waves, the first, which arrived over Lübeck at 23:18, consisting of exprianced crews in aircrafted fitted with [[Gee (navigation)|Gee]] electronic navagation systems (Lübeck was beyond the range of Gee but it helped with preliminary navigation). The raid finished at 02:58 on Sunday morning.<ref name=Luebeckische_Geschichte/> More than 400 tons of bombs were dropped; of which two thirds were incendiary. 191 crews claimed successful attacks.<ref name=RAFdiary/>

*[[Vere Cornwall Bird]]

*[[Lester Bird]]

*[[James Carlisle]]

*[[Robert Hall]]

*[[Tim Hector]]

*[[Wilfred Jacobs]]

*[[Baldwin Spencer]]

*[[Reginald St. Clair Stevens]]

*[[Sydney Walling]]

*[[George Walter]]

===Religious leaders===

[[Blockbuster bomb]]s in the first wave of the raid opened the brick and copper roofs of the buildings and the following incendiaries set them afire.<ref name=Luebeckische_Geschichte/> 1,468 (or 7.1%) buildings in Lübeck were destroyed, 2,180 (10.6%) were seriously damaged and 9,103 (44.3%) were lightly damaged; these represented 62 per cent of all buildings in Lübeck.<ref name=RAFdiary/> The bombing of Lübeck struck a corridor about 300 metres (330 yards) wide from [[Lübeck Cathedral]] to St. Peter's Church, the town hall and [[St. Mary's Church, Lübeck]]. There was another minor area of damage north of St. Gilles (Aegidienkirche). Also ''St. Lorenz'' a residential suburb in the west of the [[Holstentor]] was severely damaged. The German police reported 301 dead, 3 persons missing and 783 injured, more than 15,000 (ca.10%) lost their residences.<ref name=Luebeckische_Geschichte/><ref>[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/mar42.html Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary Campaign Diary March 1942] give the number of casualities as "312 or 320 people killed (accounts conflict), 136 seriously and 648 slightly injured"</ref>

*[[George McGuire]]

===Actors and Comedians===

[[Arthur "Bomber" Harris]], Air Officer Commanding Bomber Command, wrote of the raid that "[Lübeck] went up in flames" because "it was a city of moderate size of some importance as a port, and with some submarine building yards of moderate size not far from it. It was not a vital target, but it seemed to me better to destroy a industrial town of moderate importance than to fail to destroy a large industrial city". He goes on to describe that the loss of 5.5% of the attacking force was no more than to be expected on a clear moon lit night, but if that loss rate was to continue for any length of time RAF Bomber Command would not be able to "operate at the fullest intensity of which it were capable".<ref>Harris, Arthur (1947); ''Bomber Offensive'', Pen & Swords, (Paperback 2005), ISBN 1-84415-210-3; page 105</ref>

*[[Bert Williams]]

*[[Anna Maria Horsford]] - Actress (of Antiguan descent)

*[[Conrad Roberts]]

===RetaliationArtists===

* [[Shermain Jeremy]]

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* [[Gregory Abbott]] - Singer

* [[King Short Shirt]] - Calypsonian

* [[Swallow (Calypsonian)]] - Calypsonian

* [[King Obstinate]] - Calypsonian

* [[Burning Flames]] - Soca Band, (Official Web site [http://www.onyanandburningflames.com])

* [[Claudette "CP" Peters]] - Soca Artist

*[[Marie-Elena John]] - Author

===Athletes===

A. C. Grayling in his book ''Among the dead cities'' makes the point that as the [[Area bombing directive]] issued to the RAF on [[14 February]] 1942, focused on the "morale of the enemy civil population", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF "Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries" to help them carry out the directive — The RAF were well aware that the techniques were effective because cities such as [[Coventry]] had been [[Coventry Blitz|subject to such attacks]] by the [[Luftwaffe]] during [[the Blitz]].<ref name="Grayling-51,52">A.C. Grayling (2006); ''Among the dead cities''; Bloomsbury (2006); ISBN 0-7475-7671-8 . Pages 50,51</ref> In the opinion of [[Joseph Goebbels]], the Nazi's Propaganda Minister, the raid fulfilled the RAF's directive for he wrote in his diary "The damage is really enormous, I have been shown a newsreel of the destruction. It is horrible. One can well imagine how such a bombardment affects the population".<ref>Grayling, ''Among the dead cities'' (see [[#References|References]]) Page 101</ref> To help offset the damage the raid had on German morale, the German hierarchy launched a well published raid on [[Exeter]] on [[23 April]] 1942, which was the first of the [[Baedeker Blitz|'Baedeker' raids]].<ref name="Grayling-51,52"/>

* [[Vivian Richards|Sir Issac Vivian Richards]] - Cricketer

* [[Curtly Ambrose]] - Cricketer

* [[Richie Richardson]] - Cricketer

* [[Andy Roberts]] - Cricketer

* [[Ledley King]] - Footballer

* [[Speedy Claxton|Craig Speedy Claxton]] - Basketball player (of Antiguan descent)

* [[Maurice Hope]] - Boxer

* [[Emile Heskey]] - Football player (of Antiguan descent)

* [[Colin Kazim-Richards]] - Football Player (of Antiguan descent)

==Redcross[[The portBahamas]]==

===Athletes===

*[[Christine Amertil]]

*[[Christopher Brown]]

*[[Tonique Williams]]

===Political leaders===

In 1944 [[Eric M. Warburg]], liasion officer between US Army Air Force and RAF, and [[Switzerland|Swiss]] diplomate [[Carl Jacob Burckhardt]] as president of the [[International Committee of the Red Cross]] declared the Lübeck port a ''[[Red Cross]] port'' to supply<ref>under the

*[[Janet Bostwick]]

[[Geneva Convention (1929)]]</ref> allied prisoners of war in German custody with ships under Swedish flag from [[Gothenburg]] which protected the city from further allied air strikes. The mail and the food was brought to the [[German POW camps|POW-camps]] all over Germany by truck under supervision of the Swedish Red Cross and its vice president [[Folke Bernadotte]].<ref>Bernadotte meet [[Heinrich Himmler]] in Lübeck in spring 1945, when Himmler made his offer of surrender to the allies.</ref>

*Sir [[Milo Butler]]

*[[Perry Christie]]

*Dame [[Ivy Dumont]]

*[[Hubert Ingraham]]

*[[Fred Mitchell (Bahamas)|Fred Mitchell]]

*Sir [[Lynden Pindling]]

*[[Cynthia Pratt]]

*Sir [[Stafford Sands]]

*[[Brent Symonette]]

*Sir [[Roland Symonette]]

*Sir [[Orville Turnquest]]

*[[Tommy Turnquest]]

==Lübeck martyrs=Actors===

*[[Calvin Lockhart]]

The ''Lübeck martyrs'' were a group of three catholic clergymen and the protestant reverend ''Karl Friedrich Stellbrink'' who were arrested following the raid, tried by the [[People's Court (German)|People's Court]] in 1943 and sentencend to death by [[decapitation]], all of them beheaded [[10 November]] [[1943]] in the Hamburg prison at ''Holstenglacis''.

*[[Earl Maynard]]

Stellbrink explained the raid next morning in his palm sunday [[sermon]] as a [[trial by ordeal]], which the Nazi authorities interpreted to be an attack on their system of government and as such undermined morale and aided the enemy.<ref>[http://www.erzbistum-hamburg.de/luemartyr2.htm "Ihr Blut floss ineinander"] (in German)</ref><ref>James Sheard [http://www.poetburo.org/jrjsheard/article/ Must. Resist. Historical. Themes.] "There is a small memorial stone in Lübeck to the Lübeck Church-Martyrs ... The stone is in German and English. It commemorates the arrest and execution of three Catholic churchmen and one Evangelical pastor - ostensibly for breaking the wireless laws and undermining morale. They had been active in exchanging information and ideas on the progress and morality of the war with other churches and individuals and had formed some sort of an anti-war movement. Interestingly, the Palm Sunday 1942 destruction of Lübeck - and their churches - had given their thinking a powerful and somewhat primitive religious impetus (of the 'sign from God' type)".</ref>

*[[Sidney Poitier]]

*[[Roxie Roker]]

==[[Barbados]]==

==Reconstruction and memorial==

===Athletes===

Under wartime and postwar conditions it took until 1948 to remove most of the construction waste and demolition rubble.<ref>estimated total 700,000 m³; by the end of 1948 there were still 100,000 m³ left</ref>

*[[Andrea Blackett]]

*[[Anson Carter]]

*[[Joel Garner]]

*[[Gordon Greenidge]]

*[[Conrad Hunte|Sir Conrad Hunte]]

*[[Malcolm Marshall]]

*[[Earl Maynard]]

*[[Garfield Sobers|Sir Garfield Sobers]]

*[[Obadele Thompson]]

*[[Clyde Walcott|Sir Clyde Walcott]]

*[[Everton Weekes|Sir Everton Weekes]]

*[[Kevin Weekes]]

*[[Anson Carter]]

*[[Frank Worrell|Sir Frank Worrell]]

*[[Pierre Browne]]

===Mariners===

The remaining and the rebuilt parts of the old town are now part of the [[World heritage]]. The memorial for the bombing is in the ground floor of the southern tower of St. Mary's church: The bells as they fell out of the burning tower. Since the reconstruction of St. Mary had priority, the reconstruction of the cathedral was not finished before 1982, the reconstruction of St. Peter not before 1986.

*[[William Shorey]]

===Musicians===

==Time line for air raids on Lübeck==

*[[Grandmaster Flash]]

*[[Anderson Armstrong]]

*[[Arturo Tappin]]

*[[Terry Arthur]]

*[[Adrian Clark]]

*[[Rupee (musician)|Rupert Clarke]]

*[[Rayvon]]

*[[Terencia Coward]] (TC)

*[[Mighty Gabby]]

*[[Grynner]]

*[[Alison Hinds]]

*[[Lil Rick]]

*[[Mac Fingall]]

*[[Jackie Opel]]

*[[Red Plastic Bag]]

*[[Zeeteah Massiah]]

*[[Rihanna]]

*[[Shontelle]]

*[[Edwin Yearwood]]

*[[Contone]]

*[[Pong]]

*[[Peter "Ram" Wiggins]]

*[[Richard Stoute]]

*[[Karl "Agany" Payne]]

*Natalie Burke

*Doug E. Fresh

===Political leaders===

* 28/29 March 1942 first and main RAF raid, followed by some minor raids in connection with the bombing of other north German cities as target:

*Sir [[Grantley Adams]]

** 16 July 1942 21 Stirlings in an RAF raid. Only 8 aircraft reported bombing the main target; 2 Stirlings were lost.

*Sir [[Courtney Blackman]]

** 24/25 July 1943 first raid of the [[Battle of Hamburg]], 13 RAF [[de Havilland Mosquito|Mosquito]]s carried out diversionary and nuisance raids to Bremen, Kiel, Lübeck and Duisburg.

*[[J.M.G. Adams]]

** 15/16 September 1944 diversionary raid by 9 RAF Mosquitos. The main raid was on Kiel with other cities hit by diversionary raids.

*[[Owen Arthur]]

** 2/3 April 1945 training raid by one RAF aircraft.

*[[Errol Barrow]]

*[[Bussa]]

*[[Anne C. Cools]]

*Sir [[Clifford Husbands]]

*[[Clyde Mascoll]]

*Dame [[Billie Miller]]

*[[Richard B. Moore]]

*[[Charles O'Neale]]

*[[Clement Payne]]

*[[Erskine Sandiford]]

===Writers and intellectuals===

==See also==

*[[Edward Brathwaite]]

*[[:de:Lübecker Märtyrer|Lübecker Märtyrer in the German Wikipedia]]

*[[Austin Clarke]]

*The tragedy of the sinking of the [[SS Cap Arcona]] on 3 May 1945 happened on the Bay of Lübeck and not in Lübeck itself.

*[[Geoffrey Drayton]]

*[[Alan Emtage]]

*[[George Lamming]]

*[[Glenville Lovell]]

==References[[Dominica]]==

===Writers and intellectuals===

*Graßmann, Antjekathrin: ''Lübeckische Geschichte''. (In Engl.: Lübeck's history). 934p., Lübeck 1989. ISBN 3-79503-203-2

*[[Irving Andre]]

*Grayling, A. C. (2006); ''Among the dead cities''; Bloomsbury (2006); ISBN 0-7475-7671-8 . Pages 50,51

*[[Lennox Honychurch]]

*Harris, Arthur (1947); ''Bomber Offensive'', Pen & Swords, (Paperback 2005), ISBN 1-84415-210-3; page 105

*[[Jean Rhys]]

*[http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/diary.html Royal Air Force Bomber Command 60th Anniversary: Bomber Command Campaign Diary]

===Political leaders===

==Footnotes==

*[[Phyllis Shand Allfrey]]

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*[[Pierre Charles]]

*[[Rosie Douglas]]

*[[Edison James]]

*[[Patrick R. John]]

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*[[Nicholas Liverpool]]

*Sir [[Clarence Seignoret]]

*[[Oliver Seraphine]]

*[[Vernon Shaw]]

*[[Roosevelt Skerrit]]

*[[Crispin Sorhaindo]]

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*[[Mikey Cipriani]]

*[[Herbert Julian]]

==[[United States Virgin Islands]] and [[British Virgin Islands]]==

===Writers and intellectuals===

*[[Barbara Christian]]

*[[Geraldo Guirty]]

*[[Ariel Melchior|Ariel Melchior, Sr.]]

*[[Arthur Schomburg]]

===Doctors and Scientists===

*[[John Lettsome|Dr. John C. Lettsome]]

===Political leaders===

*[[Judah Philip Benjamin]]

*[[Edward Blyden]]

*[[Frank Rudolph Crosswaith]]

*[[Rothschild Francis]]

*[[Hubert Henry Harrison]]

*[[Elizabeth Anna Hendrickson]]

*[[Casper Holstein]]

*[[Roy Innis]]

*[[D. Hamilton Jackson]]

*[[J. Raymond Jones]]

*[[William Alexander Leidesdorff]]

*[[T. McCants Stewart]]

*[[Terence Todman]]

*[[Ashley Totten]]

*[[Denmark Vesey]]

===Artists and Architects===

*[[Austin Hansen]]

*[[Camille Pissarro]]

*[[William Thornton|Dr. William Thornton]]

===Actors===

*[[Kelsey Grammer]]

*[[Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs]]

===Athletes===

*[[Raja Bell]]

*[[Tim Duncan]]

*[[Julian Jackson]]

*[[Calvin Pickering]]

[[Category:Caribbean people| Eastern Caribbean]]

[[Category:Lists of people by ancestry|Eastern Caribbean]]

==External Links ==

*[http://www.calypsonians.com Calypsonians.com who sung what, when and won]