Blitz artefacts wanted for expanded exhibition
Sheffield Blitz Memorial Trust wants to create a larger, permanent exhibition of items from the air raids on the city centre in 1940. Chair of the trust, Neil Anderson, said the expanded exhibition, ...
Why the Bristol Blitz was covered up
On Sunday 24 November 1940, Germany dispatched 148 bombers to attack Bristol. BBC Radio Bristol's John Darvall spoke to ...
Public Appeal for Sheffield Blitz Artefacts to Expand Museum Exhibition
The Sheffield Blitz Memorial Trust is calling on the public to help bring history to life by loaning treasured artefacts, ...
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The Blitz
Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was applied by the British press to the tempest of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941. This concentrated ...
John A. Hemingway, Last Survivor of the Battle of Britain, Dies at 105
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...