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32.1 Hitler's Lightning War
32.1 Hitler's Lightning War
1 Hitler’s Lightning
War
Secret Agreement
Nonaggression
pact—Germans and
Soviets agree not to
fight each other. This
was known as the
“Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact” signed in 1939.
Agreement includes
secret deal to split
Poland
A pair of 264
Squadron Defiants.
(PS-V was shot
down on 28 August
1940 over Kent by
Bf 109s.)
Aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London. St. Paul's
Cathedral is in the background. 306-NT-901B-3.
Standing up gloriously out of the flames and smoke of surrounding
buildings, St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during the great fire raid
of Sunday December 29th." 1940. 306-NT-3173V.
Over 500 firemen and members of the London Auxiliary Fire
Fighting Services, including many women, combined in a war
exercise over the ground covered by Greenwich (London) Fire
Station." Ca. July 1939. 306-NT-901-19.
Children of an eastern suburb of London, who have been made
homeless by the random bombs of the Nazi night raiders, waiting
outside the wreckage of what was their home." September 1940.
306-NT-3163V.
Two bewildered old ladies stand amid the leveled ruins of the
almshouse which was Home; until Jerry dropped his bombs. Total
war knows no bounds. Almshouse bombed Feb. 10, Newbury,
Berks., England." Naccarata, February 11, 1943. 111-SC-178801.
89.Life in London
during the war. View
of a V-1 rocket (flying
bomb) in flight, ca.
1944. 306-NT-3157V.
The British nickname
was a “Doodlebug”
A London
bus is
submerged
in a bomb
crater after
a German
air raid.
The Mediterranean and the Eastern Front