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  1. The Fifth Raid: 3/4 September

    2023-12-13 19:52:00 UTC

    BERLIN BOMBED AGAIN Power stations and armament works attacked – The Times, September 5, 1940 – Photo: © IWM (CH 15644) With the arrival of the new month of September a new phase in the air war was about to begin between Berlin and London. The invasion menace…


  2. Heart of Berlin Bombed

    2022-04-28 15:18:00 UTC

    ‘British Bombs set Big Fires in Berlin. Nazis Blast London’  – New York Journal-American, Saturday, 31 August, 1940 – Photo by UMBO/ ullstein bild. On the night of August 30/31, 1940, the air alarm sirens and the anti-aircraft bursts woke up Berliners from their sleep again, who hurried…


  3. British third raid on Berlin

    2022-04-03 14:56:00 UTC

    ‘Two nights later we returned to Berlin… …to be met by numerous searchlights and well directed and intensive flak. The raids must have destroyed the myth of German invincibility, thus causing considerable anger to Hitler and Goering who had boasted that such raids would never happen.’ – Squadron Leader Andrew…


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