A fundraising appeal has been launched by the London Ambulance Service (LAS) to get its only remaining World War Two ambulance known to have been used in the Blitz back on the road. The 90-year ...

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities. Language: English Cymraeg Gaeilge Gàidhlig ...

Air-raid siren sounds the warning. Air-raid sirens first sounded the warning in London in September 1939. They became an almost daily part of life in the capital a year later during the height of ...

LONDON, Jan. 15 -- The London transit system escaped a repeat of the devastating suicide bombings of July 7, 2005, only through "good fortune," possibly hot summer weather or the faulty mixing of ...

My sister was 3 yrs and I was 2yrs when WW2 started. my ... of our home contents in a bombing raid on a previous house in Hackney London.The sounds of the sirens is something I will ...

The second world war may have ended 79 years ago, but local residents are still discovering remnants of it's impact. In may 2022, two undetonated bombs from WW2 were discovered in Poppy Giles’s ...

Codenamed "V-1" ("Vergeltungswaffe Eins," or "Vengeance Weapon-1,") it was the world's first operational cruise missile, deployed against Allied targets in London; Antwerp, Belgium; and other ...

Fact Check. It was an iconic image showing the devastation London sustained during the Blitz, an eight-month aerial bombing campaign carried out by the Nazis during World War II.But the photograph ...

Wartime bombing raids significantly cut rising morning temperature in southwestern England. ... WW2 bombing raids impacted England's climate. July 8, 2011 / 1:58 PM EDT / CBS News ...

On the 10th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on British soil, NPR hears the voices of first responders, survivors and others who lived through the London subway and bus bombing.

The challenge of sonically recreating the world of London in 1940 for Joe Wright‘s “Darkest Hour” not only involved historical accuracy but subjective license. After all, the psychological ...

LONDON (Reuters) - All flights to and from London's City Airport were canceled on Monday after an unexploded World War Two bomb weighing half a tonne was found buried in silt in the River Thames.