The worst hit Strategically id say was Coventry as it was the center of the industrial heart of England.
It was responsible for the production and design of many military weapons as well as cars and transport, aero engines, marine, and tank, engines and gearboxes, and large bore naval weapons (ships guns) it also had a huge Naval ordinance depot that produced and filled up to 16" shells and Ariel bombs as well as torpedoes. It was very luckily not hit at all. Had it been hit there would have been NO MORE Coventry.
Coventry's production ability was devastated in three nights of continual bombing. Its city center for a radius of a mile was laid flat all that stood in it was an uncontrollably burning Cathederal with an intact tower it still stands in fact to this day. And the British in return earmarked and did exactly the same to Dresden to wreak their revenge. As for the blitz being a success no not really it led to the capture of many of his best and most experienced aircrews hence he resorted to using the V1 pilotless bombers that the Brits jokingly called ' The Doodlebug'
More bombs were however dropped on London than Coventry though they undoubtedly damaged the war effort and sometimes morale. They did not do nearly the amount of damage to the war effort as the bombing of Coventry did.
My grandparents lived and worked in Coventry throughout the war and the Coventry Blitz. So i have heard their first hand stories.
A very interesting and well researched book can be read about the bombing of Coventry it is called The Coventry Option... It's by an Author called Alan Burton.
' It explains how the bombing of Coventry was made possible by the Irish Republican Army of the time.
Without their help The German Luftwaffe and their planes would never have been able find the city or bomb their targets.
Coventry was surrounded by wooded countryside... The Home guard had laid a huge painted canvasses on the treetops complete with barrage balloons about 5 miles from the city center to the North and East of Coventry in order to change the City's appearance from the air hence the German pilots and navigators had often mistook it to be a part of the Small Heath area of Birmingham in their earlier raids. due to the shape of the great canvasses.
The Coventry raids were also unique as the Coventry raids were the first ever to be conducted under the guidance of a homing signal.
The transmitter was smuggled into the Rolls Royce aero engine plant In the inner city area of Cheylesmore.
This was the same plant that was responsible for the production of the Spey and Merlin engines. That were built to power the Hurricane and Spitfire fighters of The Royal Air force. And Coventry also produced the engines for most of Britains heavy bombers. Finally as to British morale .... Hitler greatly underestimated them on that. One place the British excel is in the face of adversity.
@ -Charli Most of the bombers used had 4 or 5 man crews. Plus they often needed German fighter support to reach their targets. So German losses were far from few. In fact the Battle of Britain really was the air battle that took the wind out of their Luftwaffe's sails for the remainder of the War.