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On 1 March 1943, thirty-six bombers of the 12th Air Force dropped 94 tons of bombs over the harbour: of Palermo; the objective was hit, disabling the drydock and sinking the destroyer Geniere and some smaller vessels, but once again part of the bombs fell on the city, hitting among other things the Cathedral.