Saturday, November 17, 2018

Liverpool Blitz

Liverpool

13 merchant ships sunk by Luftwaffe, May 1941 - WW2 > .
41-5-10 Bombing of London (HoC), Hull, Liverpool, Belfast, Greenock - WW2 > .
UXB - unexploded bomb disposal squads - 40-5-12 Earl of Suffolk killed - WW2 > .
41-5 - Blitz crescendo - Liverpool, Belfast, Nottingham, Hull, London - WW2 > .
Children of the Blitz - Liverpool >> .

http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-blitz-around-britain#entry6 .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iARGjM0DYUQ .

UXBs & Bomb Disposal Companies ..

Unexploded ordnance (UXO, sometimes abbreviated as UO), unexploded bombs (UXBs), or explosive remnants of war (ERW) are explosive weapons (bombs, shells, grenades, land mines, naval mines, cluster munition, etc.) that did not explode when they were employed and still pose a risk of detonation, sometimes many decades after they were used or discarded.

London Blitz

London - Blitz Through Time ..

40-12-30 Second Great Fire of London

st pauls aerial view 1
To the north was Paternoster Square and Paternoster Row. Historic streets that were one of the centres of the publishing industry with many thousands of books stored stored in these buildings.
http://alondoninheritance.com/thebombedcity/the-second-great-fire-of-london-29th-december-1940/


Ironically, this version of St. Paul's Cathedral was completed October 26, 1708 after the Great Fire of London (September 4, 1666) destroyed the earlier Gothic cathedral (the 4th church on the site, consecrated in 1240). By the early hours of 30 December, 1940, the devastation was plainly visible.

   

41-1-11 Bank of England > .

London - April 11, 1941

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"The've got it coming to them" | London Blitz | 11 April 1941 > .

London, Balham Tube station

sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...