Spring blossom outside St Clements church... it was gutted in worst night of Blitz then later rebuilt (Image: In Pictures via Getty)Winston Churchill later described it as “the most destructive attack of the whole Night Blitz”. Overnight on May 10-11, 1941, more than 500 German aircraft spent six hours raining hundreds of tons of high explosive and more than 80,000 incendiaries in the capital. Some 1,436 men, women and children perished, while 1,800 were seriously injured, and 11,000 houses were destroyed. The fires could be seen 160 miles away and 700 acres had burned – more than during the Great...
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