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September the 7th. A day of remembrance. The Blitz.
15 years ago
And so it is, with a twist of fate, that this page/group/gallery was founded today.
For those of you that don't know, Today is the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.
The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The Blitz hit many towns and cities across the country, but it began with the bombing of London for 76 consecutive nights. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.
London was not the only city to suffer Luftwaffe bombing during the Blitz. Other important military and industrial centres, such as Aberdeen, Barrow-in-Furness, Belfast, Bootle, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Clydebank, Coventry, Exeter, Glasgow, Greenock, Sheffield, Swansea, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Sunderland, and Southampton, suffered heavy air raids and high numbers of casualties. Birmingham and Coventry were very badly affected with the Spitfire and Tank plant being based in Birmingham and many other munitions factories in Coventry. Coventry was almost totally destroyed.
Smaller bombing raids were made on Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Exeter, and Bath. Oxford was not bombed because Adolf Hitler wanted it to be his capital; Blackpool also escaped heavy bomb damage as Hitler wanted to use it for his entertainment. Hitler's aim was to destroy British civilian and government morale.
Its intended goal of demoralizing the British into surrender unachieved, the Blitz did little to facilitate potential German invasion. By May 1941, the imminent threat of an invasion of Britain had passed and Hitler's attention was focused on Operation Barbarossa in the East. Although the Germans never again managed to bomb Britain on such a large scale, they carried out smaller attacks throughout the war, taking the civilian death toll to 51,509 from bombing. In 1944, the development of pilotless V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets briefly enabled Germany to again attack London with weapons launched from the European continent. In total, the V weapons killed 8,938 civilians in London and the south-east.
In 1940 we, the British, stood tall despite horrendous attacks on Civillian targets, and it is on this day, we remember the devastation caused and remember why Germany was our enemy.
Our men and women, civillian and military stood tall and held firm, and told the Encroaching enemy "NO. We will not falter!" And we did not move an inch.
What was intended to be a hit to our morale did nought but show hitler our rage, and fuel our war machine, doubling our fury and resolve. We would not be beaten.
And so it is. I, Ethan Black, citizen of Coventry write this jounal here today, to remember and thank those many people who gave their lives to win the war.
Those people who gave their lives on the ground, at sea and in the air to ensure the saftey of those who lived on.
Because I exist, and many of the people of Great Britain and Europe live on because of their service and dedication to duty.
Because of this, not one of them is a number to me, each one who died has a name and a rightful place to be honoured and remembered and because of this, I ask all of you to remember with me.
All of you, around the world. Because, in one way or another, we have all known these national losses.
Other places were bombed, perhaps not as aggressivley or as randomly, nor as brutally as the Bombings of British cities in the Blitz, but the loss was all the same, and our forces stood for us.
The American people came to know the same sorrow albeit not of the same scale, come 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Russian people lost 40,000 in the bombing of Stalingrad. What united us was a common enemy, and our furor towards them.
To this end, I ask you again, to take a moment of your time, to remember the losses of the war, both to military personnel and civilians.
Remember the Blitz.
7th September 1940 to 10th September 1940.
43,000 civilians dead.
Never Forget.
Please take a moment to make a journal, draw a picture, just to say a few words of rememberance. Ask your friends and spread the word.
(Be sure to link to here, and leave a link to your picture or journal so they can be replied to by others or favorited here)
Today we can remember together.
Written by Ethan Black
V for Victory.
For those of you that don't know, Today is the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.
The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The Blitz hit many towns and cities across the country, but it began with the bombing of London for 76 consecutive nights. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.
London was not the only city to suffer Luftwaffe bombing during the Blitz. Other important military and industrial centres, such as Aberdeen, Barrow-in-Furness, Belfast, Bootle, Birkenhead, Wallasey, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Clydebank, Coventry, Exeter, Glasgow, Greenock, Sheffield, Swansea, Liverpool, Hull, Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, Eastbourne, Sunderland, and Southampton, suffered heavy air raids and high numbers of casualties. Birmingham and Coventry were very badly affected with the Spitfire and Tank plant being based in Birmingham and many other munitions factories in Coventry. Coventry was almost totally destroyed.
Smaller bombing raids were made on Edinburgh, Newcastle, York, Exeter, and Bath. Oxford was not bombed because Adolf Hitler wanted it to be his capital; Blackpool also escaped heavy bomb damage as Hitler wanted to use it for his entertainment. Hitler's aim was to destroy British civilian and government morale.
Its intended goal of demoralizing the British into surrender unachieved, the Blitz did little to facilitate potential German invasion. By May 1941, the imminent threat of an invasion of Britain had passed and Hitler's attention was focused on Operation Barbarossa in the East. Although the Germans never again managed to bomb Britain on such a large scale, they carried out smaller attacks throughout the war, taking the civilian death toll to 51,509 from bombing. In 1944, the development of pilotless V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets briefly enabled Germany to again attack London with weapons launched from the European continent. In total, the V weapons killed 8,938 civilians in London and the south-east.
In 1940 we, the British, stood tall despite horrendous attacks on Civillian targets, and it is on this day, we remember the devastation caused and remember why Germany was our enemy.
Our men and women, civillian and military stood tall and held firm, and told the Encroaching enemy "NO. We will not falter!" And we did not move an inch.
What was intended to be a hit to our morale did nought but show hitler our rage, and fuel our war machine, doubling our fury and resolve. We would not be beaten.
And so it is. I, Ethan Black, citizen of Coventry write this jounal here today, to remember and thank those many people who gave their lives to win the war.
Those people who gave their lives on the ground, at sea and in the air to ensure the saftey of those who lived on.
Because I exist, and many of the people of Great Britain and Europe live on because of their service and dedication to duty.
Because of this, not one of them is a number to me, each one who died has a name and a rightful place to be honoured and remembered and because of this, I ask all of you to remember with me.
All of you, around the world. Because, in one way or another, we have all known these national losses.
Other places were bombed, perhaps not as aggressivley or as randomly, nor as brutally as the Bombings of British cities in the Blitz, but the loss was all the same, and our forces stood for us.
The American people came to know the same sorrow albeit not of the same scale, come 1941 and the attack on Pearl Harbour, the Russian people lost 40,000 in the bombing of Stalingrad. What united us was a common enemy, and our furor towards them.
To this end, I ask you again, to take a moment of your time, to remember the losses of the war, both to military personnel and civilians.
Remember the Blitz.
7th September 1940 to 10th September 1940.
43,000 civilians dead.
Never Forget.
Please take a moment to make a journal, draw a picture, just to say a few words of rememberance. Ask your friends and spread the word.
(Be sure to link to here, and leave a link to your picture or journal so they can be replied to by others or favorited here)
Today we can remember together.
Written by Ethan Black
V for Victory.
DireWolf505
~direwolf505
*Nods* Must have been unbelievably terrifying.
drakerogers
~drakerogers
*salutes*
