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The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire of London has begun".
Website. theblitz.com. WRKZ (99.7 FM ), branded 99.7 The Blitz, is a commercial active rock radio station licensed to Columbus, Ohio, and serving the Columbus metro area. It is owned by the North American Broadcasting Company, along with sister stations 920 WMNI and 103.9 WJKR. The studios are on Dublin Road ( U.S. Route 33 ).
Kegerator containing a half-barrel keg. Kegerator, a portmanteau of the words keg and refrigerator, is a refrigerator that has been designed or altered to store and dispense kegs . A kegerator keeps a keg in a refrigerated environment and uses CO 2 to pressurize and dispense beverages from the keg. This process keeps the contents of the keg ...
1,500 m. Filling weight. Unknown. Panzerblitz is a German anti-tank unguided aerial rocket developed during the Second World War . The missile was based on the R4M Orkan air-to-air rocket used by the Messerschmitt Me 262. It was fitted with either an 80 mm (3.1 in)-diameter standard [clarification needed] warhead, in Panzerblitz I, or a 210 mm ...
The Plus GSM World Blitz Cup was a 367-player Swiss-system tournament held in Warsaw, Poland, on 9 January 2000. Hosted at the Warsaw Polonia Chess Club, the event consisted of 11 rounds, with each match comprising two 5-minute games for a total of 22 games per player.
Unknown. 3,363 aircrew. 2,265 aircraft (summer 1940 – May 1941) [3] The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and originated from the term Blitzkrieg, the German word meaning 'lightning war'. [4]
Exeter Blitz. The term Exeter Blitz refers to the air raids by the German Luftwaffe on the British city of Exeter, Devon, during the Second World War. The city was bombed in April and May 1942 as part of the so-called "Baedeker raids", in which targets were chosen for their cultural and historical, rather than their strategic or military, value.
4,000. The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the English city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe . Liverpool was the most heavily bombed area of the country, outside London, [1] due to the city having, along with Birkenhead, the largest port on the west coast and being ...