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Its round-the-clock bombing of London was an immediate attempt to force the British government to capitulate, but it was also striking at Britain's vital sea communications to achieve a victory through siege.
the Blitz, (September 7, 1940–May 11, 1941), intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom during World War II. For eight months the Luftwaffe dropped bombs on London and other strategic cities across Britain.
On 7 September 1940 the Blitz got under way when two waves of German bombers dropped their loads over London, killing or wounding 2,000 people and igniting the largest fires the city had seen since 1666. The Great Fire of London: how the ferocious blaze of 1666 destroyed the capital.
On September 7, 1940, 300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. This bombing “blitzkrieg” (lightning war) would continue until May 1941.
The London Blitz was a sustained air attack on the British capital by German (and some Italian) bombers from September 1940 to May 1941. The attacks killed 42,000, injured 50,000, and made hundreds of thosuands of people homeless.
The Blitz, the German bombing campaign against Britain during the Second World War, had a profound impact on London. From September 1940, the German Luftwaffe dropped some 20,000 bombs on the city, killing thousands, and leaving many more homeless.
The raid by over 500 aircraft against central London on 10–11 May 1941 led to the highest nightly casualty figure. On this one night, over 700 tons of high explosives and more than 80 tons of incendiaries were dropped. More than 2,000 fires were started that night affecting 61 London boroughs.
The Blitz (the London Blitz) was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7th September 1940 and 10th May 1941 during the World War Two. Every night bar one for ten solid weeks,from 7 September to 14 November 1940, London was attacked by an average of 160 bombers.
The Accidental Bombing of London and the Escalation of the Blitz. The first major bombing raid on London occurred on August 24, 1940, when a group of German bombers accidentally dropped their payloads on the city while trying to target the docks.
A bus is left leaning against the side of a terrace in Harrington Square, Mornington Crescent, in the aftermath of a German bombing raid on London in the first days of the Blitz, on September 9,...