Operation Motorman
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Operation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. The operation took place in the early hours of 31 July 1972 with the aim of retaking t
HMS Fearless landed troops and armoured engineering vehicles at Derry
A Centurion AVRE, as used by the Army in Operation Motorman (Exhibit at the Royal Engineers Museum, Kent)
Bloody Friday (1972)
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Bloody Friday is the name given to the bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 21 July 1972, during the Troubles. At least twenty bombs exploded in the space
Operation Motorman
…called a ceasefire and vowed that it would not launch attacks except in self-defence. On 21 July 1972, in the space of 75 minutes, the Provisional IRA detonated 22 bombs in Belfast. Nine people (including two soldiers and a loyalist volunteer) were killed and 130 were injured. The attack prompted the British Government to implement…
The Laganbank Road exit from the bus station in Oxford Street where six people were killed
Aftermath of the Oxford Street bomb showing the remains of one of the victims being shovelled into a bag