01:45:
Bomb takes out Central telephone exchange.
Belfast loses contact with anti-aircraft operations control

Without the advice of the ops room Belfast's anti-aircraft guns fall silent for fear of hitting "friendly" Hurricanes. Unaware, Fighter Command had already withdrawn the Hurricanes

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140 fires rage through Belfast spreading into conflagrations

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The City Morgue is unable to cope with the numbers.
The dead are laid out in Falls Road Public Baths
and in St. Georges Market.

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21 April:
The unclaimed bodies are buried in mass graves at the City and Milltown cemeteries

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German propagandist, Lord Haw Haw, boasts:
"The Fuhrer will give you time to bury your dead before the next attack..
Tuesday was only a sample."

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