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Evacuation Operation Pied Piper September 1939
The Blitz 1940-1941

The Observer, 8 September 1940
London's night of fires: the beginning of the blitz
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Monday 7 September
2015 06.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/from-the-archive-blog/2015/sep/07/blitz-london-september-1940

The Manchester Guardian, 10 September 1940
London's night of fires: the beginning of the blitz
G
Monday 7 September
2015 06.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/from-the-archive-blog/2015/sep/07/blitz-london-september-1940

A bus is left leaning against the side of a building
in the aftermath of a German bombing raid on London
in the first days of the blitz, 9 September 1940.
Photograph: H. F. Davis/Getty Images
London's night of fires: the beginning of the blitz
G
Monday 7 September
2015 06.00 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/from-the-archive-blog/2015/sep/07/blitz-london-september-1940

Huge area of debris in London
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks
during the Battle of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
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Bus laying inside huge bomb crater in a London street
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks
during the Battle
of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=73f492f6445593a2

Wreckage of bus leaning into huge crater
in front of bombed
out buildings,
a result of German aerial blitz attacks
during the Battle of
Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images

Winston Churchill (L)
standing in ruins of House of Commons
debating room
after German blitz air raid.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: May 1941
Life Images

Standing up gloriously
out of the flames and
smoke of surrounding buildings,
St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured
during the
great fire raid of Sunday December 29th. 1940.
306-NT-3173V.
Pictures of World War II
US National Archives
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http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos

Londoners sleeping underground in subway
for protection during German bombing raids.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=6f5b56b6dd847dd0
Dancing Through the War
How the Royal Ballet
danced
on
as the bombs rained down
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2007/feb/15/
dance

During gas invasion test during WWII,
all civilians and wardens wear gas masks (respirators).
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
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https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/
Story/0,6051,127462,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/
Story/0,6051,127470,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/
Story/0,6051,127512,00.html
14 November
1940
Destruction of
Coventry / 'Coventration'

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
walks . . .
through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral . . .
1942.
Photograph. Prints and Photographs
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LC-USZ62-16191 Digital ID# cph 3a18421
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/images/wc0106-3a18421r.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-hour.html

The morning after an air raid on Coventry in the 1940s.
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
A tale of twin cities:
how Coventry and Stalingrad invented
the concept
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2016 07.30 GMt
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/04/twin-cities-coventry-stalingrad-war
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/history/coventry_blitz/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/
slaughter-by-moonlight-the-coventry-blitz-2130231.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/
slaughter-by-moonlight-the-coventry-blitz-2130231.html?action=Gallery
https://www.theguardian.com/news/1940/nov/21/
mainsection.fromthearchive
September 27 1940
Kent
Skirmish between
a downed
German bomber crew
and a group of
British soldiers
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/7956015/
Kent-battle-between-German-bomber-crew-and-British-soldiers-marked-after-70-years.html
- 20 August 2010
1941
British Arrive in the Balkans
http://iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/
1941-british-arrive-in-the-balkans/
Battle of Britain
The Blitz
1940-1941
Evacuation Operation Pied Piper
September 1939
The Home Front

Girl guides and sea rangers selling savings stamps
Ted Dearberg/Imperial War Museum
The Blitz: rare colour photographs – in pictures
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Friday 10 July 2015 07.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/10/
the-blitz-rare-colour-photographs-in-pictures

Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz,
aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images

Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz,
aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images

Jean Cardy, third from left behind hatless girl,
waiting for the train with her classmates.
Photograph: Getty Images
That’s me in the picture:
Jean Cardy being evacuated to
Surrey, 1939
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Friday 6 March 2015 16.00 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/06/
thats-me-picture-jean-cardy-classmates-evacuated-surrey-1939

The Home Front in Photographs
Sutton Publishing, £19.99
The Guardian p. 10
30.10.2004
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-blitz
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/from-the-archive-blog/2015/sep/07/
blitz-london-september-1940
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/sep/02/
hand-coloured-bomb-damage-maps-london-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/02/
blitz-london-bomb-sites-redevelopment
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/31/
battle-of-britain-won-german-ineptitude-british-heroism
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/08/11/431536978/
in-london-a-bomb-in-the-basement-stirs-memories-of-the-blitz
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/10/
the-blitz-rare-colour-photographs-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/mar/06/
thats-me-picture-jean-cardy-classmates-evacuated-surrey-1939
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/gallery/2010/sep/24/london-tube-station-blitz-gallery
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/sep/07/british-pathe-archive-blitz
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/world/europe/17freeborn.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/
personal-memories-from-battle-of-britain-veterans-2079951.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/10/
alexander-chancellor-surviving-the-blitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/sep/08/
the-blitz-in-colour-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/sep/07/
british-pathe-archive-blitz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
remembering-the-blitz-francis-beckett
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
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remembering-the-blitz-london-fox
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
remembering-the-blitz-coventry
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
remembering-the-blitz-london-crowther
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
remembering-the-blitz-london-james
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/
remembering-the-blitz-london-warschauer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2010/sep/06/
blitz-london-coventry-anniversary-second-world-war-bombing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xpBneBRDwI&feature=channel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/
blitz-second-world-war
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/7986187/
Anniversary-of-the-Blitz-I-thought-I-cannot-be-alive.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/7986047/
Anniversary-images-bring-the-Blitz-up-to-date.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7980357/
Rare-colour-footage-of-Winston-Churchill-and-King.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7980357/
Rare-colour-footage-of-Winston-Churchill-and-King.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/
exhibition-marks-blitz-and-dresden-bombings-2071949.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/29/
blitz-london-crime-flourish-blackout
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second-world-war-blitz-survivor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/
britainatwarreadersmemories/4512474/Britain-at-War-evacuees-1939.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/30/
unnamed-woman-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/08/
family-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/
battle-of-britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/blitz_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1162/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a2296497.shtml
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2286740.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8229175.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7921.shtml
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7922.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7939.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_3500000/3500865.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2171148,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1887666,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/sep/17/secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1787239,00.html
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http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127470,00.html
https://www.theguardian.com/century/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127512,00.html
The meticulously hand-coloured
bomb damage maps of London – in pictures
The devastation
wrought on the capital by the
blitz
was documented
by the architect’s department
of London County Council.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/sep/02/
hand-coloured-bomb-damage-maps-london-in-pictures
7 September 1940
London Blitz
The first day
of the German bombardment of
London
that lasted 76 consecutive nights
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/06/blitz-night-fire-new-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/06/blitz-night-fire-new-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/sep/06/blitz-second-world-war-map
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/07/remembering-the-blitz-francis-beckett
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/germany_bombs_london#p0091xz2

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WWII poster:
Firebomb Fritz campaign: Britain Shall Not Burn
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/
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Second-World-War-posters.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/churchill_audio.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/
flower_shows/hampton_court_2005/hcgrowyourown_index.shtml
https://www.iwm.org.uk/
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topstories3.secondworldwar
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secondworldwar.world
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Story/0,6051,127505,00.html - -
8 December 1941
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/1941/jan/22/
past.secondworldwar
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79080880;
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