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During the bomb air raide  volunteers Will be putting out fires caused by the bombs.

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People used to live in a underground station for safety but the smoke from the fire and the bombs but trains used to come through but it was very rare for that to happen

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The Morrison shelter ,which looked like a cage, was created in a home and it would protect you from bombing.More than 500,000 were made by the end of the war.

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September 7th 1940, the German Air Force launched a campaign that went on for 8 months that would charge explosives down on 16 major British areas and other small towns.

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30,000 tons of high explosives were dropped in 127 raids

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30,000 tons of high explosives dropped in 127 raids.

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As an outcome of the Blitz included 43,000 deaths 51,000 injured civilians and 2.25m homeless people.

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This is torture the way the civilians feel

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You could see families being serperated.

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Planes dropped bombs on cities all around Britain,this caused a lot of disruption to the buildings and created a very smoky atmosphere.

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Although the destruction the blitz caused Britain endured and won the war.

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Hundreds of buildings in London were destroyed in the course of the Nazi bombing.

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You can see the fear on the children’s faces because they are getting evacuated

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This is the after effects of a bombing…

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During the Blitz, people sheltered in under ground tunnels, it was very cramped because everyone hade to sleep vertically next to each other.

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German airforces bombed the uk for 267 days and more than 40,000 civilians were killed.

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Although the British sustained around 40,000 deaths, The Nazis sustained 42,000 deaths.

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German bombers used landmarks such as rivers to navigate at night.

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London was attacked 71 times (57 nights consecutively),  Birmingham,Liverpool and Plymouth eight times Briston six, Glasgow five,Southampton four,Portsmouth and hull three.

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Dropping more than 100 tons of high explosives,the German fair forces raided the uk for 267 days,causing considerable damage

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Liverpool sustained 4,000 deaths alone.

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Between 7 September 1940 and the 21 of may 1941 there was a major aerial raids(attack in which more than 100 tons of high explosives were dropped)on 16 british cities.

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The blitz is a shortened from the German words blitzkrieg meaning lightning war

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“ a little girl who lived up our road ran up to me  and said mummy daddy please...” something was wrong”

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“There must have been at least a thousand people there.”

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“ a little girl who lived up our road ran up to me  and said mummy daddy please...” something was wrong”

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“During the blitz, I was part of the support team at Kennedy Airdrome, looking after the aircraft

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I kept thinking “is it ever going to end?”

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“One lived day to day. One didn’t think of tomorrow until you got there. And, in the morning we said: “Thank God we are here”

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“Once, before I was evacuated, a bomb dropped in our garden, but it didn’t go off.”

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“You could hear the bombs echo down the lift shaft.”

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It was both frightening and happy I had been awarded something and frightening that the war was on

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“I immediately ducked down to away”

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“It was very cold and there was always the fear that if they burst a water main we might get flooded.”

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“I used to sleep here at night” it reminded him when he went to Holborn tube.

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It was a frightening time - the saturation of bombing and munitions and engineering works in Coventry.

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“I was left shaking but I wasn’t afraid.”