London Endures Blitz: 57 Nights of Nazi Bombing Begin
Luftwaffe bombers unleashed over 100 tons of explosives on sixteen British cities, yet failed to crush national morale or halt industrial output. Winston Churchill's retaliatory strike on Berlin ignited this twenty-sixty-seven-day campaign that killed more than forty thousand civilians while leaving Britain's war economy intact. The offensive ultimately proved futile as Hitler redirected his forces eastward, abandoning any hope of compelling a surrender before the invasion threat faded.
September 7, 1940
86 years ago
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