WWII Multimedia Timeline: 1939-1941

The Battle of Britain: July 10-October 31, 1940

Troops arrive as children evacuate Big Ben through barbed wire Aircraft Spotter German Heinkel He 111 Bombers Over the English Channel German plane over London Bomb shelter entertainment Subway Sleepers Asleep in a bomb shelter London's dock area, September 7, 1940 Building ablaze Burning building at night Building collapsing Firefighters and bombed-out buildings Firefighters close up Children peer from bomb shelter Unexploded bomb warning sign Daily life continues amid rubble Building facade exposed Family sits in rubble Children by wrecked home Building in ruins London Necropolis Railway Station Destruction of a London college Coventry Cathedral in ruins Coventry Cathedral in ruins Love among the ruins Mother holds child and gas mask

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