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May 18, 2016 · By the end of the war, 517 had detonated in London, killing 2,511 people. The damage from World War II transformed London into the architecturally diverse city it is today. The maps help...
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Feb 6, 2023 · By early 1941, the German air war on Britain had claimed 41,000 lives and caused widespread destruction. London lost more than a million buildings in the war; the center of Coventry was wiped out...
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Oct 8, 2015 · Some 25,000 people were killed in a firestorm and 75,000 of its 220,000 homes were destroyed. British fire hazard maps, which show the areas of Berlin and Hamburg most susceptible to fire,...
September 7, 1940 - May 11, 1941. Location: Bristol. London. Merseyside. United Kingdom. England. Participants: Germany. Context: World War II. Key People: Adolf Hitler. the Blitz. Map of bomb damage in London during the Blitz.
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Jul 10, 2015 · 10 July 2015. IWM. Burning building in Manchester after a German air raid, December 1940 (© IWM) By Paul Kerley. BBC News Magazine. In early World War Two - from autumn 1940 to spring 1941 - German...
Oct 16, 2019 · Bombing Britain. The online map uses intelligence reports held in the National Archive. The map includes information on the number of people killed or injured in each raid. Approximately 60,000...
In the United Kingdom, 60,595 Britons were killed by German bombing, and in France, 67,078 French people were killed by Allied bombing raids. Belgrade was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe on 6 April 1941, when more than 17,000 people were killed.
