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 ==Chapter Three. Follow the Breadcrumbs==
+[[File:Dunhill-1941-BombedOut.jpg|thumb|400px|Dunhill in front of his shop, Courtesy, pipedia.org]]
 I needed to investigate further. How did these six pipes end up in the United States? Who brought them and when? In Our Family Business (1979), Mary Dunhill mentions that the Dunhill store (and many others in the surrounding area) was destroyed during the Luftwaffe blitz bombing of London in mid-1941. According to Tommy Zman Zarzecki, “Churchill Cigars” (famous-smoke.com): “After the Nazi blitz on London in 1941, enemy bombs all but blew the famed Dunhill cigar shop to pieces.” Alex R. Iapichino, “The History of the Dunhill Cuban Cigars” (cigarsense.com) tells it slightly differently: “War wreaked havoc in Central London, and on 17th April 1941 at around 3.00 am in the morning, the Alfred Dunhill shop was hit by two parachuted land mines destroying much of the premises in Duke Street.”
+And a more detailed explanation is in Michael Balfour, Alfred Dunhill. One Hundred Years and More (1992): “…after a lull of many weeks German air raids were resumed on 19 March 1941, with increased intensity. Early in the evening of Wed. 16 April, the bombs began to fall, by 2:30 AM on the morn of 17 April they were falling at roughly 20-second intervals. It was the heaviest raid on London since the war began. At about 3 o’clock that morning two land mines, each weighing about a ton and suspended from parachutes of green silk, hit the Alfred Dunhill shop and destroyed most of it. The Jermyn Street shop area was completely destroyed, but part of the old Duke Street premises survived the blast. Most of the stocks and all the museum were lost, but the shop cat survived.” (Lost, as in missing or physically destroyed?)
-[[File:Dunhill-1941-BombedOut.jpg|thumb|400px|left|Dunhill in front of his shop, Courtesy, pipedia.org]]And a more detailed explanation is in Michael Balfour, Alfred Dunhill. One Hundred Years and More (1992): “…after a lull of many weeks German air raids were resumed on 19 March 1941, with increased intensity. Early in the evening of Wed. 16 April, the bombs began to fall, by 2:30 AM on the morn of 17 April they were falling at roughly 20-second intervals. It was the heaviest raid on London since the war began. At about 3 o’clock that morning two land mines, each weighing about a ton and suspended from parachutes of green silk, hit the Alfred Dunhill shop and destroyed most of it. The Jermyn Street shop area was completely destroyed, but part of the old Duke Street premises survived the blast. Most of the stocks and all the museum were lost, but the shop cat survived.” (Lost, as in missing or physically destroyed?)