What made this Luftwaffe air raid so unusual was the extreme altitude at which it had been carried out by a revolutionary new enemy bomber. The 250 kg bomb had been dropped at the then phenomenal ...

During the raid the Luftwaffe dropped their biggest bomb on ... Figures show that, during the war, it suffered; More than 500 air raid alerts. 1,299 people were killed and 1,303 were seriously ...

but its planners hoped it was convincing when viewed from on high by an anxious Luftwaffe bombardier. In the event of a night raid, Richmond’s city lights would be darkened. Then the dummy field ...

Rescue workers searching through the wreckage of a police station in Coventry following the Luftwaffe air raid on 8th April, 1941. A policeman on traffic duty in the blackout. His helmet has a ...

They even found out what time the Luftwaffe commandant was due to step ... They could relay the horrible echoes of the air raid, unfolding live, or they could shut down the transmission.

Now they had to face the fearsome Luftwaffe during some of the fiercest ... At 11:30 in the morning, air raid sirens wailed over London. Waves of incoming German aircraft left thousands dead ...

THE air-raid warning sirens long ago fell silent but our forebears’ wartime exploits will come back into focus when we mark the 80th ...

Belfast was one of 16 cities across the UK to suffer as a result of the Blitz, the name given to the bombardment of urban areas by the German air force in World War Two. The Luftwaffe carried out ...