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A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed (or reflected) light. This was done in the 20th century to prevent crews of enemy aircraft from being able to identify their targets by sight, such as during the London Blitz of 1940.
After the bombing of Guernica, Gaumont-British began distributing newsreels on air-raid safety to British cinemas. [5] Wardens gave ARP advice to the public and were responsible for reporting bombs and other incidents, and were joined by the Women's Voluntary Service in May 1938. [1] On 1 January 1938, the Air-Raid Precautions Act 1937 (1 & 2 ...
British culture in the Second World War (1999) Jones, Helen (2006). British civilians in the front line: air raids, productivity and wartime culture, 1939-45. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-7290-1. Levine, Joshua. The Secret History of the Blitz (2015). Marwick, Arthur. The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. (1976).
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...
Blackout: Reinventing women for wartime British cinema (Princeton UP, 2014) Moshenska, Gabriel. "Spaces for Children: School Gas Chambers and Air Raid Shelters in Second World War Britain." in Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Conducting Memory Work in Post-industrial Societies 66 (2014): 125+. Noakes, Lucy.
Gordon Frederick Cummins (18 February 1914 – 25 June 1942) was a British serial killer known as the Blackout Killer, the Blackout Ripper and the Wartime Ripper, who murdered four women and attempted to murder two others over a six-day period in London in February 1942.
Churchill later conceded that the raids might have been the result of a British invention which distorted Luftwaffe radio guidance beams so as to throw their planes off course. [45] [46] Dublin had limited blackout regulations at the time, so the city was clearly visible, unlike British cities.
Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged. [1] It was under air raid alert for 1,000 hours. [2] Hull was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. [1]