During the Blitz, London suffered 71 aerial attacks and was bombed for 57 consecutive nights. In the first 30 days alone, almost 6,000 people were killed and twice as many were badly injured.

The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing ... (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London recall fighting the fires until New Year 1941, in a film by J.B. Priestley.

The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted eight months and targeted 16 British cities.