A woman who used to lay out the bodies of air raid victims on a school playground has been recalling nights of "relentless bombing" on the 80th anniversary of The Blitz. The attacks on British ...

The Blitz was Nazi ... Goering's plans to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain were failing and, also in response to a RAF raid on Berlin, they changed their tactics to ...

Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of the Blitz. When people heard the ...

Rescue workers search through the rubble of Eglington Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after a German Luftwaffe air raid ... Tuesday Raid - was on another scale. Belfast Blitz: Marking ...

The Bristol Blitz would last for around six months and would change the city forever. The effect it had on Bristolians was traumatic but thanks to air raid shelters and several false alarms ...

Socially, the first major revolution for Blitz women was in the workplace ... well as volunteering in civil defence, as part of ARP (Air Raid Precautions) and the WVS (Women’s Voluntary Service ...

So far, the city has largely escaped the worst of the blitz, which has massacred civilians ... It has struck the door of an air raid shelter. 6.50pm: The top of the Royal Exchange is now ablaze.