The "War Requiem" helped dedicate the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962, the old one and most of the city around it having been devastated by German bombing.
Gonaïves, a city in Haiti's northwest, was no boomtown when the storms hit, having been devastated by a hurricane in 2004, from which it was still recovering.
General Vaught was quoted by The Washington Post on the 25th anniversary of the aborted raid as having been devastated by the feeling he had "let the country down and left the hostages there".
A13 Assessing Decline in Africa A World Bank report said people in sub-Saharan Africa were living less well than they did in the 1960's, having been devastated by war, corruption and disease.
"It was here in Darwin where our alliance was born," Mr. Obama said, at "Australia's Pearl Harbor" — a nickname derived from the town's having been devastated in bombing attacks by the Japanese in 1942, just months after the Pearl Harbor attack.
Amid heavy casualties, the Eighth Army retreated to the Imjin River, south of the 38th parallel, having been devastated by the overwhelming Chinese force.
