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The Blitz Begins

Name: The Blitz Begins – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1940Date range

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1Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill7 September 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Faces the start of sustained German bombing of London.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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