On August 24, 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, two German bombers, acting without orders, dropped their loads over the city of London. How interesting that things many people see everyday have such an interesting history. These defences did hold back the Allied advance in 19445, but only to the extent of prolonging the inevitable. "It was the worst place you could be," said Paul Rogers of the 101st Airborne. The BBC and World War Two David HendyEmeritus Professor . An airfield opened on the Moray coast in northeast Scotland to protect the naval port of Lossiemouth had itself to be carefully protected against attack, as these concrete tank traps, pictured, right, testify, Believed to have been built by the Soviets as an observation post for a nearby battery (the surrounding trees have grown up since the war), this tower may have been deliberately designed to resemble one of the broken-down windmills with which this island still abounds. The ensuing carnage began with 72 days of intense bombardment. Hi Catherine, the caption is right at the bottom: it is the entrance to deep level air raid shelter, Stockwell, London, painted with a modern memorial mural. In those six years, military deaths on all sides were estimated at 15 million and civilian deaths at 34 million. Imagine being a kid in post-war Hiroshima an encounter with the Hippo Car just might be the best thing to happen to you all day, perhaps all week. Exploring World War 2 London with children - A family day out Picture sourced by MailOnline Travel, The Diaz Point Post, Cape Town, South Africa, The Diaz observational point on Cape Point in Cape Town, South Africa. An interactive map showing the location of bombs dropped on London during World War II has been created. Other websites recording evidence of bomb damage from World War Two. Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, []. Berlin today is once again Germany's capital and one of Europe's most beautiful and vibrant cities. Abandoned Places in the Architecture category. Today, Kiska is a part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, and special permission is needed to visit. HistoryNet.com contains daily features, photo galleries and over 25,000 articles originally published in our nine magazines. The government also constructed deep level shelters underneath London underground stations from 1940. Of the nearly 20,000 Japanese servicemen defending Iwo Jima, only 216 remained alive to be taken prisoner at the end of the five-week battle. Repair of shrapnel damage from September 194o at University College London, Zoology Museum, Gower St. Damage at St Clement Dane's in the Strand from 10th May 1941 when the church was gutted. After five weeks, 89,000 casualties, and the thorough destruction of several villages and much of the Ardennes, the Americans continued their advance. Picture sourced by MailOnline Travel, The Atomic Bomb Dome was the only building to survive near the epicentre of the atomic bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroying some 90 per cent of the city.
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