Blitz Anniversary
by 61 years ago today, on Sept. 7, 1940, Adolf Hitler sent his Nazi Luftwaffe bombers to begin the most ferocious onslaught against civilian targets imaginable, the sole aim to break the will of the British people, but the Austrian megalomaniac had reckoned without the Stiff Upper Lip.
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61 years ago today, on Sept. 7, 1940, Adolf Hitler sent his Nazi Luftwaffe bomber planes on their initial attacks on London, estimated 450 people killed in raids that happened both day and night. This was to be the most ferocious onslaught against civilian targets imaginable, the sole aim to break the will of the British people, but the Austrian megalomaniac had reckoned without the Stiff Upper Lip.
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London was to be faced with similar attacks daily over a sixty-odd day period, during the intensive bombardment dubbed BlitzKrieg – Lightning War – by the German attackers, Civilians hurried to find escape in ramshackle bomb shelters or in subway stations, anywhere that promised some protection.
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Many towns received similar treatment, Coventry, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham also getting pounded in a period of sustained bombing that lasted right through to until May 1941.In the month before the Blitz, the Luftwaffe, attacked Royal Air Force bases hoping to disable the RA.
This was to have been the prelude to an amphibious invasion, but stiff resistance caused Hitler to grow frustrated and begin targeting civilian centers to weaken British morale, but despite a great deal of damage, did the goal of defeating British forces failed utterly.
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On September 15th 1940,the Luftwaffe attempted its largest single-day attack on the RAF, but it was repelled with severe losses to the Germans, effectively, ending any hopes Hitler had of a land invasion, because he had no air cover to protect the landing craft. The resolve and courage under fire of the British public at that time must have had the German leader crying with frustration.
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Whatever he threw at this small island, and however bad it got, the people simply gritted their teeth and got on with life, more acts of heroism performed on a daily basis than could possibly ever be recounted here. It is good to remember those dark, dark days, because they remind us that we should never let such times happen again.
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Post CommentAroosa Gloomy
On September 7, 2011 at 7:13 am
Adolf Hitler is my and my bros favrt.
PaulB
On September 7, 2011 at 7:18 am
Kids need showing this in schools. They have no idea! My Mum will be proud of you Tony.