Children in an eastern suburb of London whose home was destroyed in The Blitz, September 1940. The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term comes from Blitzkrieg, meaning "lightning war" in German.

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