Why holding the line during the Battle of Britain proved so important... and helped deter an invasion of Great Britain in ...

The Prime Minister’s prediction became true in September when the Luftwaffe began targeting British cities, especially the capital. Indeed, London in WWII suffered extensive damage. Thousands of ...

St Mary Aldermanbury and seven other City churches were badly damaged during a particularly devastating night of the Blitz as waves of Luftwaffe planes dropped bombs over London in what some ...

Its explosive sound describes the Luftwaffe’s almost continual ... have done when the bombs fell? The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that ...

You might expect a warplane to be pained in drab, neutral colors that fade into the background. But that's not what Germany ...

A V-1 flying bomb—fired by Germany’s Luftwaffe at London but shot down minutes ... By the end of World War II, Germany had fired around 10,000 buzz bombs at Britain. More than 2,400 struck ...

In April 1941, Belfast suffered the first of four air attacks by the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe ... Apart from London, this was the greatest loss of life in any night raid during the Blitz.

Industrial cities and ports were the Luftwaffe's main targets ... properties and animals safe during the Belfast Blitz. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain?