ELECTION 1940
Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected for an unprecedented third term in office on 5 November, beating Republican rival Wendell Willkie. The election had largely been fought over the US involvement in the war, with interventionists and non-interventionists dividing opinion in both major political parties. Pictured, the president speaks to a voter on election day in Hyde Park, New York.
COVENTRY BLITZ
On 14 November the city of Coventry suffered its worst night of bombing with 500 tons of high explosives, 30,000 incendiaries and 50 landmines dropping on a single night. The city’s cathedral was utterly destroyed in the attack, which was all the more devastating due to the clear, moonlit conditions, giving the bombers greater accuracy. After the war, as a gesture of reconciliation, Coventry was twinned with German…
