harry wrote:

Er that was revenge for Coventry, and Birmingham and London, Bath,
Glasgow, Port Glasgow. York, Bristol Cardiff. I could go on.
was also Rotterdam, Warsaw, Antwerp etc.

I don't think "revenge" is a very good motive.

Never a bomb fell on America ('til 11/9) and then what a lot of
whinging went on.

"... And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;..."