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SUBSCRIBE OR DOWNLOAD NEWEST EPISODE EVERY SECOND FRIDAY Picture by John O'Brien, Jr. 2 OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS We’ve Always Been Green JUNE 2021 JUNE 2021 WWW.OHIOIANEWS.COM OHIO IRISH AMERICAN NEWS 3 On January 1 and 2nd, German planes 55,000 homes, more than half in dropped bombs on Counties Meath, The Blitz the city, were damaged or destroyed, Cleveland Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, Carlow and Continued from previous page leaving 100,000 temporarily home- Comhrá' Kildare. On the 3rd of January, Dublin constructed there. For the Royal Navy, less. 900 people lost their lives; anoth- By Bob Carney was hit again, in the South Circular aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers er 1,500 were injured, 400 severely. 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