The Archive · 1940

Another Bus Hit

"The London area bombings were widespread and damage was dong (0 number of houses and shops. Th tone district a number of people (ravetling in an omelbur were silled or injured. In other parts of the London area there were some casual ties, but full reports are not yet avall= able."

Thirty-five districts in the London area and twelve districts in coastal reds of the Brits Iles were heavily bombed by German planes up 10 am. today.

Bighteen 'London districts had been bombed up te 1240 am. when the Germans Intensified thelt' attacks.

In one London street a bomb killed 2 civilian and set fire to a gas main. Firemen quickly extinguished the fre,

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