 Complete the following phrase:  During the Second World War, Kiel remained one of the major naval bases and shipbuilding centres of the German Reich. There was also a slave labour camp for the local industry. Because of its status as a naval port and as production site for submarines, Kiel was heavily bombed by the Allies during this period. The bombing destroyed more than 80 of the remaining old town, 72 of the central residential areas, and 83 of the industrial areas. During the RAF bombing of 2324 July 1944, Luftwaffe fighters tried to intercept the spoof i.e. decoy force instead of the main force attacking Kiel, and there was no water for three days; trains and buses did not run for eight days and there was no gas available for cooking for three weeks. There were several bombing raids of the port area during the period 20 February  20 April 1945 which successfully eliminated many U-boats, and the few large warships cruisers Hipper, Scheer, and Köln still afloat at that time. Although the town was beyond the stop-line set for the western Allies in the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, it and its port, its scientists, and the canal were seized by a British T-Force led by Major Tony Hibbert on 5 May 1945. This forestalled capture of the town by the Soviets, whom the western Allies expected to advance from Germany to Denmark in violation of the 