The sky was clearing in Belfast on Easter Tuesday, the 15 April 1941, as 180 German bombers took off from aerodromes in Northern France.
Exhausted air-raid wardens, firemen and ambulance men tore at the smouldering rubble to bring the trapped, dead and injured to the surface.
After the Easter Tuesday Blitz around 40,000 people in Belfast had to be put up in rest centres. Around 70,000 had to be given meals every day in emergency feeding centres.
Over 200 German bombers approached the coast of County Down during the last hour of Sunday the 4th of May 1941.