https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj Quotes and images of The Blitz en-us 2021-04-26 11:39:25 UTC 2026-01-30 03:54:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f6e9.png https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459265881 It was a frightening time - the saturation of bombing and munitions and engineering works in Coventry. ]]> 2021-04-26 13:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459265881 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459267827 “I used to sleep here at night” it reminded him when he went to Holborn tube.]]> 2021-04-26 13:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459267827 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459269759 “I was left shaking but I wasn’t afraid.”]]> 2021-04-26 13:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459269759 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459282383 It was both frightening and happy I had been awarded something and frightening that the war was on]]> 2021-04-26 13:06:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459282383 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459285690 “It was very cold and there was always the fear that if they burst a water main we might get flooded.”]]> 2021-04-26 13:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459285690 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459293092 “I immediately ducked down to away”]]> 2021-04-26 13:08:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459293092 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459297167 “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”]]> 2021-04-26 13:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459297167 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459301895 “Once, before I was evacuated, a bomb dropped in our garden, but it didn’t go off.”]]> 2021-04-26 13:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459301895 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459302294 “You could hear the bombs echo down the lift shaft.”]]> 2021-04-26 13:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459302294 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459311726 I kept thinking “is it ever going to end?”]]> 2021-04-26 13:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459311726 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459324233 “During the blitz, I was part of the support team at Kennedy Airdrome, looking after the aircraft]]> 2021-04-26 13:14:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459324233 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459324740 “ a little girl who lived up our road ran up to me  and said mummy daddy please...” something was wrong” ]]> 2021-04-26 13:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459324740 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459328445 “There must have been at least a thousand people there.”]]> 2021-04-26 13:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459328445 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459339283 “ a little girl who lived up our road ran up to me  and said mummy daddy please...” something was wrong” ]]> 2021-04-26 13:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459339283 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459354340   The blitz is a shortened from the German words blitzkrieg meaning lightning war]]> 2021-04-26 13:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459354340 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459364190 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.]]> 2021-04-26 13:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459364190 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459375228 Liverpool sustained 4,000 deaths alone.]]> 2021-04-26 13:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459375228 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459377864 Dropping more than 100 tons of high explosives,the German fair forces raided the uk for 267 days,causing considerable damage ]]> 2021-04-26 13:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459377864 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459389619 Although the British sustained around 40,000 deaths, The Nazis sustained 42,000 deaths.]]> 2021-04-26 13:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459389619 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459403232 German airforces bombed the uk for 267 days and more than 40,000 civilians were killed.]]> 2021-04-26 13:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459403232 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459410043 London was attacked 71 times (57 nights consecutively),  Birmingham,Liverpool and Plymouth eight times Briston six, Glasgow five,Southampton four,Portsmouth and hull three.]]> 2021-04-26 13:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459410043 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459427001 German bombers used landmarks such as rivers to navigate at night.]]> 2021-04-26 13:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459427001 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459437831 During the Blitz, people sheltered in under ground tunnels, it was very cramped because everyone hade to sleep vertically next to each other.]]> 2021-04-26 13:34:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459437831 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459438230 This is the after effects of a bombing…]]> 2021-04-26 13:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459438230 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459461976 Hundreds of buildings in London were destroyed in the course of the Nazi bombing. ]]> 2021-04-26 13:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459461976 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459470456 You can see the fear on the children’s faces because they are getting evacuated ]]> 2021-04-26 13:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459470456 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459478479 Although the destruction the blitz caused Britain endured and won the war.]]> 2021-04-26 13:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459478479 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459484928 You could see families being serperated.]]> 2021-04-26 13:42:40 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459484928 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459486858 Planes dropped bombs on cities all around Britain,this caused a lot of disruption to the buildings and created a very smoky atmosphere.]]> 2021-04-26 13:43:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459486858 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459492308 This is torture the way the civilians feel

]]> 2021-04-26 13:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459492308 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459517017 As an outcome of the Blitz included 43,000 deaths 51,000 injured civilians and 2.25m homeless people.]]> 2021-04-26 13:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459517017 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459531351 30,000 tons of high explosives dropped in 127 raids.]]> 2021-04-26 13:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459531351 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459535215 30,000 tons of high explosives were dropped in 127 raids]]> 2021-04-26 13:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459535215 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459539129 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.]]> 2021-04-26 13:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459539129 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459560534 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.]]> 2021-04-26 13:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459560534 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459562402 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]]> 2021-04-26 13:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459562402 https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459569728 During the bomb air raide  volunteers Will be putting out fires caused by the bombs.]]> 2021-04-26 13:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/cwallis9/f7jo9d7j93874iwj/wish/1459569728