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The devastation of the Blitz in the UK has been revealed in never ... Rare pictures show damage caused by bombings in Liverpool, the city which suffered the most civilian deaths in the UK outside ...
Do you remember the May Blitz of 1941 – or do you have a family story handed down through the generations? The Museum of Liverpool, in partnership with the ECHO, is hosting a special May Blitz ...
The Blitz saw the family made homeless and split up for almost five months, staying with two different sets of relatives in north Liverpool. Clare had to sleep in a walk-in wardrobe as there weren ...
We were sitting in the air raid shelter one night during a blitz in Liverpool. For four hours we had sat there, Bang! - and still there was no sound of the All Clear. We could hear the breaking of ...
They experienced everything from being buried alive to losing friends and family. Today they proudly proclaim, ‘We survived that, we can survive anything!' No wonder those doughty Britons who grew up ...
While the so-called ‘Blitz Spirit' has latterly been painted as a myth, aerial attacks by the Luftwaffe on the UK's towns and cities DID bring Britons together in unforeseen ...
The Blitz, which lasted from Sept. 7, 1940, until May 11, 1941, caused widespread devastation to the U.K. Liverpool was hit toward the end of the campaign, with German bombers responsible for ...
On 17 September 1940, while travelling across the Atlantic from Liverpool, the Benares was struck ... the aim to evacuate children away from the blitz to safety in commonwealth countries.
I was born in 1942 so this story is mainly the story of my parents and aunt who lived through the Liverpool blitz. Because of the docks Liverpool was bombed nightly. (My husband was a child in ...