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| Bomb raid against London, with the parliament in the light of conflagration, circa 1940. |
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| The king and queen stand amid the bomb damage at Buckingham Palace, circa 1940. The palace was a deliberate target for the Luftwaffe as their high command felt that the destruction of the Royal Palace would demoralize the nation, whereas it had the opposite effect. The queen was famously to utter, "I'm glad we have been bombed. Now I can look the East End in the face." |
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| People attending a concert in the subway at Aldwych Station, circa 1940, to protect themselves from German bombs. |
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| Members of an army bomb disposal squad rolling an unexploded German bomb through a London park after defusing it. The bomb was later taken to Hackney Marsh, where it was exploded, circa September 1940. |
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| Nurses sort through the rubble of a damaged hospital after being bombed by Nazi airmen during raids on London on Sept. 25, 1940. |
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| Arriving for work as usual, Mrs. Marsh works amongst the broken glass of a tailor's shop after an air raid on the East End of London on Sept. 28, 1940. |
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| A barrier erected by police across is dealt with, circa October 1940. Signs showing the temporary addresses of firms which have moved due to wartime disruption are displayed on the barrier. |
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| A bus lies in a large crater in the road in Balham, London, the morning after a German air raid during the Battle of Britain on Oct. 15, 1940. During the raid on night of the Oct. 14, a bomb exploded on Balham High Street, destroying part of the tube station underneath. |
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| The library at Holland House in Kensington, London, extensively damaged by a Molotov "Breadbasket" fire bomb, circa October 1940. |
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| King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit the site of a bombed cinema in West London, during a tour of the area on Nov. 19, 1940. |
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| Houses wrecked by German bombing on the outskirts of Coventry, England, on April 10, 1941. |
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| Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with his wife and the American ambassador, visits the bombed city of Bristol in April 1941. |
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| A workman looks at a poster of the film "So This Is London" on the wall of the remains of a bombed London cinema on May 8, 1941. |
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| Bomb damage inside Westminster Abbey, London, on May 13, 1941. |
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| Winston Churchill visits the ruins of Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, England, on Sept. 28, 1941, following its destruction during the Coventry Blitz (Nov. 14 and 15, 1940). In later years when the RAF and the USAAF bombed cities in Nazi Germany, they used the words "coventration bombing" to describe their blanket bombing attacks. |
