WWII: Start of the Blitz

7th September 1940

The sustained bombing of Britain during The Blitz hit many towns and cities across the country, beginning with the bombing of London for 76 consecutive nights from the 7th September 1940. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.