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Bombing began at the outset of hostilities on 10 May and culminated with the destruction of the entire historic city centre on 14 May, an event sometimes referred to as the Rotterdam Blitz. According to an official list published in 2022, at least 1,150 people were killed, with 711 deaths in the 14 May bombing alone, [2] and 85,000 more were ...
Location. Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule, suspension, and, until 1960, cantilever bridge [1] in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel. [2] It crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges ...
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]
The Tower of London, officially His Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress of the Tower of London, is a historic castle on the north bank of the River Thames in central London, England. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is separated from the eastern edge of the square mile of the City of London by the open space known as ...
Luftwaffe. 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, [2] leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire ...
In the Rotterdam Blitz on May 14, 1940, the Laurenskerk was heavily damaged, with only the tower and walls surviving. At first there were calls to demolish the church, but that was stopped by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. The provisional National Monuments Commission had both supporters and opponents of restoration.
The ravens of the Tower of London are a group [a] of at least six captive ravens (currently nine) [3] resident at the Tower of London. [4] Their presence is traditionally believed to protect the Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it." [4]
The V-1 flying bomb ( German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1" [a]) was an early cruise missile. Its official Reich Aviation Ministry ( RLM) designation was Fieseler Fi 103 [3] and its suggestive name was Höllenhund ( hellhound ). It was also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb or doodlebug [4] [b] and in Germany as Kirschkern ( cherry ...