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The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, for eight months, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London, towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority, between the Luftwaffe and the ...
Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during The Blitz in Holborn, Central London.
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
14 May: The Rotterdam Blitz ended the Battle of the Netherlands. 15 May: A kill shared by French pilot René Mouchotte and Englishman Jack Charles becomes the 1,000th victim of RAF Biggin Hill fighters--Vickers threw a "fabulous party" 15 May: The RAF lost the 100th of its France-based bombers. In 72 hours, it had lost half of its offensive force.
M ore than eight decades after the Blitz, when Nazi Germany bombed Britain for nine months straight between 1940 and 1941, Oscar winner Steve McQueen’s film Blitz, in theaters Nov. 1 and on ...
Director Steve McQueen could not have made his latest film “Blitz” without production designer Adam Stockhausen. McQueen needed him to help tell the story of World War II London as it came ...
The film is written and directed by “12 Years a Slave ... “It was very important to see the makeup and disparity of London in the midst of the blitz, but also the aftermath where people are ...
All together, that makes more than 50,000 killed. During the year 1943 alone, 7,458 French civilians died under Allied bombs. The deadliest Allied bombings during the German occupation were: Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris 2–3 March 1942, more than 600 people killed, Saint-Nazaire 9, 14, 17 and 18 November 1942, 228 dead, Rennes 8 March 1943 ...