Faster access than browser!
285 relations: Adlertag, Adolf Hitler, Air Ministry, Air officer commanding, Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom, Air raid shelter, Air supremacy, Airborne Interception radar, Airpower, Albert Kesselring, Angus Calder, Anna Freud, Anti-Aircraft Command, Anti-aircraft warfare, Antisemitism, Arc lamp, Atlantic Ocean, Auxiliary Fire Service, Avro Anson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Baedeker Blitz, Balkan Campaign (World War II), Barge, Battersea Power Station, Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign), Battle of Britain, Battle of Britain Day, Battle of France, Battle of Shanghai, Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of the Beams, BBC, Belfast, Belfast Blitz, Bethnal Green tube station, Beveridge Report, Big Week, Billy Mitchell, Birmingham, Birmingham Blitz, Black market, Blackout (wartime), Blast furnace, Bofors 40 mm gun, Bombing of Barcelona, Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Bombing of Guernica, Bombing of Hamburg in World War II, Bombing of Wiener Neustadt in World War II, Boulton Paul Defiant, ..., Bricklayers' Arms, Bristol Beaufighter, Bristol Blenheim, Bristol Blitz, British and French declaration of war on Germany, British Indian, British Red Cross, British Union of Fascists, Cardiff, Cardiff Blitz, Celestial navigation, Churchill war ministry, City of London, Civil Defence Service, Civil defense siren, Close air support, Clydebank, Clydebank Blitz, Coal, Committee of Imperial Defence, Communist Party of Great Britain, Coventry, Coventry Blitz, Cult of the offensive, Daily Worker, Delay-action bomb, Derby, Dornier Do 17, Dunkirk evacuation, East Anglia, East End of London, Ebury Publishing, Economic warfare, Edward Addison, Edward Glover (psychoanalyst), Electronic countermeasure, English Channel, Erich Raeder, Essex, Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, Exeter Blitz, Explosive material, Falklands War, Farnborough Airport, Fighter Interception Unit, Fire-control system, Firebombing, Firestorm, Fliegerführer Atlantik, Flight sergeant, Flying officer, Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, Frederick Alfred Pile, Fuze, Gallup (company), German Air Fleets in World War II, German strategic bombing during World War I, Giulio Douhet, Glasgow, Gloucester, Gosport, Greater London, Greece, Greenock Blitz, H. G. Wells, Hans Jeschonnek, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Harold Macmillan, Heavy bomber, Heinkel He 111, Herbert Morrison, Hermann Göring, Hispano-Suiza HS.404, History of Portsmouth, History of the Second World War, Home Guard (United Kingdom), Home Secretary, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Hugh Dowding, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Hugo Sperrle, Hull Blitz, John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, John Cunningham (RAF officer), Joseph Stalin, Junkers Ju 87, Junkers Ju 88, Kampfgeschwader, Kampfgeschwader 1, Kampfgeschwader 26, Kampfgeschwader 3, Kampfgeschwader 30, Kampfgeschwader 40, Kampfgeschwader 54, Kampfgeschwader 55, Kampfgruppe 100, Karl Dönitz, Kensal Green station, Kent, Kingston upon Hull, Kriegsmarine, Labour Party (UK), Lehrgeschwader 1, Leslie Gossage, List of crossings of the River Thames, Liverpool, Liverpool Blitz, London, London Docklands, London Underground, London Victoria station, Long ton, Lord's, Lorenz beam, Luftflotte 2, Luftflotte 3, Luftwaffe, M1919 Browning machine gun, Manchester, Manchester Blitz, Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Meaconing, Medium bomber, Messerschmitt Bf 109, Messerschmitt Bf 110, Metropolitan-Vickers, Minister of Aircraft Production, Ministry of Home Security, Ministry of Supply, Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Munich Agreement, Nazism, Neville Chamberlain, Newcastle Blitz, Newcastle upon Tyne, No. 10 Group RAF, No. 11 Group RAF, No. 12 Group RAF, No. 219 Squadron RAF, No. 604 Squadron RAF, No. 80 Wing RAF, North Sea, Norwegian Campaign, Nottingham Blitz, Oberkommando der Luftwaffe, Office of Public Sector Information, Operation Barbarossa, Operation Sea Lion, Operation Steinbock, Owen Tudor Boyd, Phoney War, Pilot officer, Plymouth, Plymouth Blitz, Port of London, Portsmouth, QF 3-inch 20 cwt, QF 3.7-inch AA gun, Radar, Radio navigation, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command, RAF Fighter Command, RAF Kenley, Rail freight transport, Ralph Ingersoll (PM publisher), Rationing in the United Kingdom, Rechlin–Lärz Airfield, Reginald Victor Jones, Reichsmarschall, Richard Overy, Rifle, River Clyde, Royal Air Force, Royal Army Pay Corps, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Navy, Royal Pioneer Corps, Royal Victoria Dock, Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, SC1000 bomb, Schräge Musik, Sebastian Cox, Second Great Fire of London, Sheffield Blitz, Shell shock, Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Southampton, Southampton Blitz, Southern Railway (UK), Southsea, Spanish Civil War, St Pancras railway station, St Paul's Cathedral, St Paul's Survives, Stephen Bungay, Strategic bombing, Strategic bombing during World War II, Sunderland, Supermarine Spitfire, Swansea Blitz, Thames Estuary, The bomber will always get through, The Guardian, The Salvation Army, The Scout Association, The Shape of Things to Come, The Wages of Destruction, The Week, Things to Come, Tram, Turbinlite, U-boat, United States Air Force, United States Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces, Ural bomber, V-1 flying bomb, V-2 rocket, Victory garden, Walther Wever (general), West Ham Power Station, West Midlands (region), Western Approaches, Western Front (World War II), Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Winston Churchill, World War I, World War II, Yale University Press, Yugoslavia, 10th Air Corps. Expand index (235 more) »
Adlertag
Adlertag ("Eagle Day") was the first day of Unternehmen Adlerangriff ("Operation Eagle Attack"), which was the codename of a military operation by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe (German air force) to destroy the British Royal Air Force (RAF).
New!!: The Blitz and Adlertag · See more »
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and Adolf Hitler · See more »
Air Ministry
The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.
New!!: The Blitz and Air Ministry · See more »
Air officer commanding
Air officer commanding (AOC) is a title given in the air forces of Commonwealth (and some other) nations to an air officer who holds a command appointment which typically comprises a large, organized collection of air force assets.
New!!: The Blitz and Air officer commanding · See more »
Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organisation in the United Kingdom set up in 1937 dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids.
New!!: The Blitz and Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom · See more »
Air raid shelter
Air raid shelters, also known as bomb shelters, are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air.
New!!: The Blitz and Air raid shelter · See more »
Air supremacy
Air supremacy is a position in war where a side holds complete control of air warfare and air power over opposing forces.
New!!: The Blitz and Air supremacy · See more »
Airborne Interception radar
Airborne Interception radar, or AI for short, is the British term for radar systems used to equip aircraft in the air-to-air role.
New!!: The Blitz and Airborne Interception radar · See more »
Airpower
Airpower or air power consists of the application of military strategy and strategic theory to the realm of aerial warfare.
New!!: The Blitz and Airpower · See more »
Albert Kesselring
Albert Kesselring (30 November 1885 – 16 July 1960) was a German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Albert Kesselring · See more »
Angus Calder
Angus Lindsay Ritchie Calder (5 February 1942 – 5 June 2008) was a Scottish academic, writer, historian, educator and literary editor with a background in English literature, politics and cultural studies.
New!!: The Blitz and Angus Calder · See more »
Anna Freud
Anna Freud (3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst.
New!!: The Blitz and Anna Freud · See more »
Anti-Aircraft Command
Anti-Aircraft Command (AA Command, or "Ack-Ack Command") was a British Army command of the Second World War that controlled the Territorial Army anti-aircraft artillery and searchlight formations and units defending the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Anti-Aircraft Command · See more »
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
New!!: The Blitz and Anti-aircraft warfare · See more »
Antisemitism
Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.
New!!: The Blitz and Antisemitism · See more »
Arc lamp
An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).
New!!: The Blitz and Arc lamp · See more »
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
New!!: The Blitz and Atlantic Ocean · See more »
Auxiliary Fire Service
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was first formed in 1938 in Great Britain as part of the Civil Defence Service.
New!!: The Blitz and Auxiliary Fire Service · See more »
Avro Anson
The Avro Anson is a British twin-engined, multi-role aircraft built by the aircraft manufacturer Avro.
New!!: The Blitz and Avro Anson · See more »
B. H. Liddell Hart
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (31 October 1895 – 29 January 1970), commonly known throughout most of his career as Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, was a British soldier, military historian and military theorist.
New!!: The Blitz and B. H. Liddell Hart · See more »
Baedeker Blitz
The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids were a series of attacks by the Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Baedeker Blitz · See more »
Balkan Campaign (World War II)
The Balkan Campaign of World War II began with the Italian invasion of Greece on 28 October 1940.
New!!: The Blitz and Balkan Campaign (World War II) · See more »
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.
New!!: The Blitz and Barge · See more »
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London.
New!!: The Blitz and Battersea Power Station · See more »
Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign)
The Battle of Berlin was the British bombing campaign on Berlin from November 1943 to March 1944.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign) · See more »
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of Britain · See more »
Battle of Britain Day
Battle of Britain DayMason 1969, p. 386.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of Britain Day · See more »
Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of France · See more »
Battle of Shanghai
The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) of the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of Shanghai · See more »
Battle of the Atlantic
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of the Atlantic · See more »
Battle of the Beams
The Battle of the Beams was a period early in the Second World War when bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) used a number of increasingly accurate systems of radio navigation for night bombing in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Battle of the Beams · See more »
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
New!!: The Blitz and BBC · See more »
Belfast
Belfast (is the capital city of Northern Ireland, located on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast of Ireland.
New!!: The Blitz and Belfast · See more »
Belfast Blitz
The Belfast Blitz consisted of four German air raids on strategic targets in the city of Belfast in Northern Ireland, in April and May 1941 during World War II, causing high casualties.
New!!: The Blitz and Belfast Blitz · See more »
Bethnal Green tube station
Bethnal Green is a London Underground station in Bethnal Green, Greater London, England, and is served by the Central line between Liverpool Street and Mile End.
New!!: The Blitz and Bethnal Green tube station · See more »
Beveridge Report
The Beveridge Report, officially entitled Social Insurance and Allied Services, is a government report, published in November 1942, influential in the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Beveridge Report · See more »
Big Week
Big Week or Operation Argument was a sequence of raids by the United States Strategic Air Forces (USSTAF) from 20 to 25 February 1944, as part of the European strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany.
New!!: The Blitz and Big Week · See more »
Billy Mitchell
William Lendrum Mitchell (December 29, 1879 – February 19, 1936) was a United States Army general who is regarded as the father of the United States Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and Billy Mitchell · See more »
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Birmingham · See more »
Birmingham Blitz
The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning on 9 August 1940 and ending on 23 April 1943.
New!!: The Blitz and Birmingham Blitz · See more »
Black market
A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or transaction that has some aspect of illegality or is characterized by some form of noncompliant behavior with an institutional set of rules.
New!!: The Blitz and Black market · See more »
Blackout (wartime)
A blackout during war, or in preparation for an expected war, is the practice of collectively minimizing outdoor light, including upwardly directed (or reflected) light.
New!!: The Blitz and Blackout (wartime) · See more »
Blast furnace
A blast furnace is a type of metallurgical furnace used for smelting to produce industrial metals, generally pig iron, but also others such as lead or copper.
New!!: The Blitz and Blast furnace · See more »
Bofors 40 mm gun
--> The Bofors 40 mm gun, often referred to simply as the Bofors gun, is an anti-aircraft/multi-purpose autocannon designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors.
New!!: The Blitz and Bofors 40 mm gun · See more »
Bombing of Barcelona
The Bombing of Barcelona was a series of Nationalist airstrikes which took place from 16 to 18 March 1938, during the Spanish Civil War.
New!!: The Blitz and Bombing of Barcelona · See more »
Bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre.
New!!: The Blitz and Bombing of Dresden in World War II · See more »
Bombing of Guernica
The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial bombing of the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
New!!: The Blitz and Bombing of Guernica · See more »
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
The allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians.
New!!: The Blitz and Bombing of Hamburg in World War II · See more »
Bombing of Wiener Neustadt in World War II
Wiener Neustadt, a city in Austria, was the target of bombing raids during World War II by the Allies.
New!!: The Blitz and Bombing of Wiener Neustadt in World War II · See more »
Boulton Paul Defiant
The Boulton Paul Defiant was a British interceptor aircraft that served with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Boulton Paul Defiant · See more »
Bricklayers' Arms
Bricklayers' Arms is a busy road intersection between the A2 and the London Inner Ring Road in south London, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Bricklayers' Arms · See more »
Bristol Beaufighter
The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often referred to simply as the "Beau") is a multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Bristol Beaufighter · See more »
Bristol Blenheim
The Bristol Blenheim is a British light bomber aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company (Bristol) which was used extensively in the first two years and in some cases throughout the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Bristol Blenheim · See more »
Bristol Blitz
The Bristol Blitz was the heavy bombing of Bristol, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Bristol Blitz · See more »
British and French declaration of war on Germany
The Declaration of war by France and the United Kingdom was given on 3 September 1939, after German forces invaded Poland.
New!!: The Blitz and British and French declaration of war on Germany · See more »
British Indian
British Indians (also Indian British or Indian Britons) are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots lie in India.
New!!: The Blitz and British Indian · See more »
British Red Cross
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
New!!: The Blitz and British Red Cross · See more »
British Union of Fascists
The British Union of Fascists, or BUF, was a fascist political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.
New!!: The Blitz and British Union of Fascists · See more »
Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Cardiff · See more »
Cardiff Blitz
The Cardiff Blitz refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Cardiff Blitz · See more »
Celestial navigation
Celestial navigation, also known as astronavigation, is the ancient and modern practice of position fixing that enables a navigator to transition through a space without having to rely on estimated calculations, or dead reckoning, to know their position.
New!!: The Blitz and Celestial navigation · See more »
Churchill war ministry
The Churchill war ministry was a Conservative-led coalition government in the United Kingdom that lasted for most of the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Churchill war ministry · See more »
City of London
The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.
New!!: The Blitz and City of London · See more »
Civil Defence Service
The Civil Defence Service was a civilian volunteer organisation established in Great Britain by the Home Office in 1935.
New!!: The Blitz and Civil Defence Service · See more »
Civil defense siren
A civil defense siren (also known as an air-raid siren or tornado siren) is a siren used to provide emergency population warning of approaching danger and sometimes to indicate when the danger has passed.
New!!: The Blitz and Civil defense siren · See more »
Close air support
In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as air action such as air strikes by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and which requires detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement of these forces and attacks with aerial bombs, glide bombs, missiles, rockets, aircraft cannons, machine guns, and even directed-energy weapons such as lasers.
New!!: The Blitz and Close air support · See more »
Clydebank
Clydebank is a town in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
New!!: The Blitz and Clydebank · See more »
Clydebank Blitz
The Clydebank Blitz comprised two devastating Luftwaffe air raids on the shipbuilding town of Clydebank in Scotland which took place in March 1941.
New!!: The Blitz and Clydebank Blitz · See more »
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
New!!: The Blitz and Coal · See more »
Committee of Imperial Defence
The Committee of Imperial Defence was an important ad hoc part of the government of the United Kingdom and the British Empire from just after the Second Boer War until the start of the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Committee of Imperial Defence · See more »
Communist Party of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.
New!!: The Blitz and Communist Party of Great Britain · See more »
Coventry
Coventry is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Coventry · See more »
Coventry Blitz
The Coventry blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war") was a series of bombing raids that took place on the English city of Coventry.
New!!: The Blitz and Coventry Blitz · See more »
Cult of the offensive
The cult of the offensive refers to a strategic military dilemma, where leaders believe that offensive advantages are so great that a defending force would have no hope of repelling the attack; consequently, all states choose to attack.
New!!: The Blitz and Cult of the offensive · See more »
Daily Worker
The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in New York City by the Communist Party USA, a formerly Comintern-affiliated organization.
New!!: The Blitz and Daily Worker · See more »
Delay-action bomb
A delay-action bomb is an aerial bomb designed to explode some time after impact, with the bomb's fuzes set to delay the explosion for times ranging from very brief to several weeks.
New!!: The Blitz and Delay-action bomb · See more »
Derby
Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Derby · See more »
Dornier Do 17
The Dornier Do 17, sometimes referred to as the Fliegender Bleistift ("flying pencil"), was a light bomber of Nazi Germany during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Dornier Do 17 · See more »
Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
New!!: The Blitz and Dunkirk evacuation · See more »
East Anglia
East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.
New!!: The Blitz and East Anglia · See more »
East End of London
The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.
New!!: The Blitz and East End of London · See more »
Ebury Publishing
Ebury Publishing is a division of Penguin Random House, and is a well-known publisher of general non-fiction books in the UK.
New!!: The Blitz and Ebury Publishing · See more »
Economic warfare
The Oxford English Dictionary defines economic warfare or economic war as involving "an economic strategy based on the use of measures (e.g. blockade) of which the primary effect is to weaken the economy of another state".
New!!: The Blitz and Economic warfare · See more »
Edward Addison
Air Vice Marshal Edward Barker Addison (4 October 1898 – 4 July 1987) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who served as Air Officer Commanding No. 100 Group from 1943 to 1945 during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Edward Addison · See more »
Edward Glover (psychoanalyst)
Edward George Glover (13 January 1888 – 16 August 1972) was a British psychoanalyst.
New!!: The Blitz and Edward Glover (psychoanalyst) · See more »
Electronic countermeasure
An electronic countermeasure (ECM) is an electrical or electronic device designed to trick or deceive radar, sonar or other detection systems, like infrared (IR) or lasers.
New!!: The Blitz and Electronic countermeasure · See more »
English Channel
The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.
New!!: The Blitz and English Channel · See more »
Erich Raeder
Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960) was a German grand admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Erich Raeder · See more »
Essex
Essex is a county in the East of England.
New!!: The Blitz and Essex · See more »
Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II
The evacuation of civilians in Britain during the Second World War was designed to protect people, especially children, from the risks associated with aerial bombing of cities by moving them to areas thought to be less at risk.
New!!: The Blitz and Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II · See more »
Exeter Blitz
The term Exeter Blitz refers to the air raids by the German air force on the British city of Exeter, Devon, during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Exeter Blitz · See more »
Explosive material
An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
New!!: The Blitz and Explosive material · See more »
Falklands War
The Falklands War (Guerra de las Malvinas), also known as the Falklands Conflict, Falklands Crisis, Malvinas War, South Atlantic Conflict, and the Guerra del Atlántico Sur (Spanish for "South Atlantic War"), was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands, and its territorial dependency, the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
New!!: The Blitz and Falklands War · See more »
Farnborough Airport
Farnborough Airport or TAG London Farnborough Airport (previously called RAE Farnborough, ICAO Code EGUF) is an operational business/executive general aviation airport in Farnborough, Rushmoor, Hampshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Farnborough Airport · See more »
Fighter Interception Unit
The Fighter Interception Unit (FIU) was a special interceptor aircraft unit of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Fighter Interception Unit · See more »
Fire-control system
A fire-control system is a number of components working together, usually a gun data computer, a director, and radar, which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target.
New!!: The Blitz and Fire-control system · See more »
Firebombing
Firebombing is a bombing technique designed to damage a target, generally an urban area, through the use of fire, caused by incendiary devices, rather than from the blast effect of large bombs.
New!!: The Blitz and Firebombing · See more »
Firestorm
A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system.
New!!: The Blitz and Firestorm · See more »
Fliegerführer Atlantik
Fliegerführer Atlantik (German: "Flyer Command Atlantic") was a World War II Luftwaffe naval command dedicated to maritime patrol.
New!!: The Blitz and Fliegerführer Atlantik · See more »
Flight sergeant
Flight sergeant (commonly abbreviated to Flt Sgt, F/Sgt, FSGT or, currently correctly in the RAF, FS) is a senior non-commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and several other air forces which have adopted all or part of the RAF rank structure.
New!!: The Blitz and Flight sergeant · See more »
Flying officer
Flying officer (Fg Off in the RAF and IAF; FLGOFF in the RAAF; FGOFF in the RNZAF; formerly F/O in all services and still frequently in the RAF) is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.
New!!: The Blitz and Flying officer · See more »
Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor
The Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor, also known as Kurier to the Allies, was a German all-metal four-engined monoplane originally developed by Focke-Wulf as a long-range airliner.
New!!: The Blitz and Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor · See more »
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain uses material from Imperial War Museum’s sound archive.
New!!: The Blitz and Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain · See more »
Frederick Alfred Pile
General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet, (14 September 1884 – 14 November 1976) was a senior British Army officer who served in both World Wars.
New!!: The Blitz and Frederick Alfred Pile · See more »
Fuze
In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates function.
New!!: The Blitz and Fuze · See more »
Gallup (company)
Gallup, Inc. is an American research-based, global performance-management consulting company.
New!!: The Blitz and Gallup (company) · See more »
German Air Fleets in World War II
A list of Luftwaffe "Luftflotten" (Air Fleets) and their locations between 1939 and 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and German Air Fleets in World War II · See more »
German strategic bombing during World War I
The best-known German strategic bombing campaign during World War I was the campaign against England, although strategic bombing raids were carried out or attempted on other fronts.
New!!: The Blitz and German strategic bombing during World War I · See more »
Giulio Douhet
General Giulio Douhet (30 May 1869 – 15 February 1930) was an Italian general and air power theorist.
New!!: The Blitz and Giulio Douhet · See more »
Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Glasgow · See more »
Gloucester
Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.
New!!: The Blitz and Gloucester · See more »
Gosport
Gosport is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England.
New!!: The Blitz and Gosport · See more »
Greater London
Greater London is a region of England which forms the administrative boundaries of London, as well as a county for the purposes of the lieutenancies.
New!!: The Blitz and Greater London · See more »
Greece
No description.
New!!: The Blitz and Greece · See more »
Greenock Blitz
The Greenock Blitz is the name given to two nights of intensive bombing of the town of Greenock, Scotland during the Second World War when the Nazi German Luftwaffe attacked on 6–7 May 1941.
New!!: The Blitz and Greenock Blitz · See more »
H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
New!!: The Blitz and H. G. Wells · See more »
Hans Jeschonnek
Hans Jeschonnek (9 April 1899 – 18 August 1943) was a German Generaloberst and a Chief of the General Staff of Nazi Germany′s Luftwaffe during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Hans Jeschonnek · See more »
Hans-Jürgen Stumpff
Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (15 June 1889 – 9 March 1968), was a German general during World War II and was one of the signatories to Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of the war.
New!!: The Blitz and Hans-Jürgen Stumpff · See more »
Harold Macmillan
Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
New!!: The Blitz and Harold Macmillan · See more »
Heavy bomber
Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range of their era.
New!!: The Blitz and Heavy bomber · See more »
Heinkel He 111
The Heinkel He 111 was a German aircraft designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934.
New!!: The Blitz and Heinkel He 111 · See more »
Herbert Morrison
Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron Morrison of Lambeth, (3 January 1888 – 6 March 1965) was a British Labour politician who held a variety of senior positions in the Cabinet.
New!!: The Blitz and Herbert Morrison · See more »
Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and Hermann Göring · See more »
Hispano-Suiza HS.404
The HS.404 is an autocannon originally designed and produced by Hispano-Suiza in the mid-1930s.
New!!: The Blitz and Hispano-Suiza HS.404 · See more »
History of Portsmouth
Portsmouth is an island port city situated on Portsea Island in the county of Hampshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and History of Portsmouth · See more »
History of the Second World War
The History of the Second World War is the official history of the British contribution to the Second World War and was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
New!!: The Blitz and History of the Second World War · See more »
Home Guard (United Kingdom)
The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Home Guard (United Kingdom) · See more »
Home Secretary
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, normally referred to as the Home Secretary, is a senior official as one of the Great Offices of State within Her Majesty's Government and head of the Home Office.
New!!: The Blitz and Home Secretary · See more »
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and House of Commons of the United Kingdom · See more »
Hugh Dowding
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, (24 April 1882 – 15 February 1970) was an officer in the Royal Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and Hugh Dowding · See more »
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, (3 February 1873 – 10 February 1956) was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard · See more »
Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle (7 February 1885 – 2 April 1953) was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Hugo Sperrle · See more »
Hull Blitz
The Hull Blitz was the Nazi German bombing campaign targeting the English port city of Kingston upon Hull during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Hull Blitz · See more »
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, (8 July 1882 – 4 January 1958) was a British civil servant and politician who is best known for his service in the Cabinet during the Second World War, for which he was nicknamed the "Home Front Prime Minister".
New!!: The Blitz and John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley · See more »
John Cunningham (RAF officer)
John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham (27 July 1917 – 21 July 2002) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) night fighter ace during the Second World War and a test pilot.
New!!: The Blitz and John Cunningham (RAF officer) · See more »
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality.
New!!: The Blitz and Joseph Stalin · See more »
Junkers Ju 87
The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.
New!!: The Blitz and Junkers Ju 87 · See more »
Junkers Ju 88
The Junkers Ju 88 was a German World War II Luftwaffe twin-engined multirole combat aircraft.
New!!: The Blitz and Junkers Ju 88 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader
Kampfgeschwader are the German-language name for (air force) bomber units.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 1
Kampfgeschwader 1 (KG 1) (Battle Wing 1) was a German medium bomber wing that operated in the Luftwaffe during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 1 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 26
Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26) "Löwengeschwader" (in English Bomber Wing 26 aka "Lions' Wing" by virtue of its insignia) was a German air force Luftwaffe bomber wing unit during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 26 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 3
Kampfgeschwader 3 "Blitz" (KG 3) was a Luftwaffe bomber wing during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 3 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 30
Kampfgeschwader 30 (KG 30) was a Luftwaffe bomber wing during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 30 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 40
Kampfgeschwader 40 (KG 40) was a Luftwaffe medium and heavy bomber wing of World War II, and the primary maritime patrol unit of any size within the World War II Luftwaffe.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 40 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 54
Kampfgeschwader 54 "Totenkopf"() (KG 54) was a Luftwaffe bomber wing during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 54 · See more »
Kampfgeschwader 55
Kampfgeschwader 55 "Greif" (KG 55 or Battle Wing 55) was a ''Luftwaffe'' bomber unit during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgeschwader 55 · See more »
Kampfgruppe 100
Kampfgruppe 100 (KGr 100) was a specialist unit of the Luftwaffe during the early stages of World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Kampfgruppe 100 · See more »
Karl Dönitz
Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz;; 16 September 1891 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who played a major role in the naval history of World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Karl Dönitz · See more »
Kensal Green station
Kensal Green is a Network Rail station served by London Underground Bakerloo line and London Overground trains.
New!!: The Blitz and Kensal Green station · See more »
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.
New!!: The Blitz and Kent · See more »
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull, usually abbreviated to Hull, is a city and unitary authority in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Kingston upon Hull · See more »
Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and Kriegsmarine · See more »
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Labour Party (UK) · See more »
Lehrgeschwader 1
Lehrgeschwader 1 (LG 1) (Demonstration Wing 1) formerly Lehrgeschwader Greifswald was a Luftwaffe multi-purpose unit during World War II, operating fighter, bomber and dive-bomber Gruppen.
New!!: The Blitz and Lehrgeschwader 1 · See more »
Leslie Gossage
Air Marshal Sir Ernest Leslie Gossage, (3 February 1891 – 8 July 1949) was a former artillery officer who become a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps and later a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Leslie Gossage · See more »
List of crossings of the River Thames
This is a list of crossings of the River Thames comprising over 200 bridges, 27 tunnels, six public ferries, one cable car link, and one ford.
New!!: The Blitz and List of crossings of the River Thames · See more »
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.
New!!: The Blitz and Liverpool · See more »
Liverpool Blitz
The Liverpool Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of the English city of Liverpool and its surrounding area, during the Second World War by the German Luftwaffe.
New!!: The Blitz and Liverpool Blitz · See more »
London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and London · See more »
London Docklands
London Docklands is the name for the riverfront and former docks in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and London Docklands · See more »
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and London Underground · See more »
London Victoria station
Victoria station, also known as London Victoria, is a central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in Victoria, in the City of Westminster, managed by Network Rail.
New!!: The Blitz and London Victoria station · See more »
Long ton
Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton,Dictionary.com - "a unit for measuring the displacement of a vessel, equal to a long ton of 2240 pounds (1016 kg) or 35 cu.
New!!: The Blitz and Long ton · See more »
Lord's
Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.
New!!: The Blitz and Lord's · See more »
Lorenz beam
The Lorenz beam was blind-landing radio navigation system developed by C. Lorenz AG in Berlin.
New!!: The Blitz and Lorenz beam · See more »
Luftflotte 2
Luftflotte 2 (Air Fleet 2) was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Luftflotte 2 · See more »
Luftflotte 3
Luftflotte 3 (Air Fleet 3) was one of the primary divisions of the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Luftflotte 3 · See more »
Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Luftwaffe · See more »
M1919 Browning machine gun
The M1919 Browning is a.30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
New!!: The Blitz and M1919 Browning machine gun · See more »
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
New!!: The Blitz and Manchester · See more »
Manchester Blitz
The Manchester Blitz (also known as the Christmas Blitz) was the heavy bombing of the city of Manchester and its surrounding areas in North West England during the Second World War by the Nazi German Luftwaffe.
New!!: The Blitz and Manchester Blitz · See more »
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB (25 May 1879 – 9 June 1964) was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century.
New!!: The Blitz and Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook · See more »
Meaconing
Meaconing is the interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals.
New!!: The Blitz and Meaconing · See more »
Medium bomber
A medium bomber is a military bomber aircraft designed to operate with medium-sized bombloads over medium range distances; the name serves to distinguish this type from larger heavy bombers and smaller light bombers.
New!!: The Blitz and Medium bomber · See more »
Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Messerschmitt Bf 109 is a German World War II fighter aircraft that was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.
New!!: The Blitz and Messerschmitt Bf 109 · See more »
Messerschmitt Bf 110
--> The Messerschmitt Bf 110, often known non-officially as the Me 110, was a twin-engine heavy fighter (Zerstörer—German for "Destroyer") and fighter-bomber (Jagdbomber or Jabo) developed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s and used by the Luftwaffe during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Messerschmitt Bf 110 · See more »
Metropolitan-Vickers
Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse.
New!!: The Blitz and Metropolitan-Vickers · See more »
Minister of Aircraft Production
The Minister of Aircraft Production was the British government position in charge of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, one of the specialised supply ministries set up by the British Government during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Minister of Aircraft Production · See more »
Ministry of Home Security
The Ministry of Home Security was a British government department established in 1939 to direct national civil defence (primarily tasked with organising air raid precautions) during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Ministry of Home Security · See more »
Ministry of Supply
The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK Government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.
New!!: The Blitz and Ministry of Supply · See more »
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi–Soviet Pact,Charles Peters (2005), Five Days in Philadelphia: The Amazing "We Want Willkie!" Convention of 1940 and How It Freed FDR to Save the Western World, New York: PublicAffairs, Ch.
New!!: The Blitz and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact · See more »
Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined.
New!!: The Blitz and Munich Agreement · See more »
Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
New!!: The Blitz and Nazism · See more »
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.
New!!: The Blitz and Neville Chamberlain · See more »
Newcastle Blitz
The Newcastle Blitz refers to the strategic bombing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during the second world war.
New!!: The Blitz and Newcastle Blitz · See more »
Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.
New!!: The Blitz and Newcastle upon Tyne · See more »
No. 10 Group RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 10 Group RAF · See more »
No. 11 Group RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 11 Group RAF · See more »
No. 12 Group RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 12 Group RAF · See more »
No. 219 Squadron RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 219 Squadron RAF · See more »
No. 604 Squadron RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 604 Squadron RAF · See more »
No. 80 Wing RAF
No.
New!!: The Blitz and No. 80 Wing RAF · See more »
North Sea
The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
New!!: The Blitz and North Sea · See more »
Norwegian Campaign
The Norwegian Campaign (9 April to 10 June 1940) was fought in Norway between Norway, the Allies and Germany in World War II after the latter's invasion of the country.
New!!: The Blitz and Norwegian Campaign · See more »
Nottingham Blitz
The Nottingham Blitz was an attack by the German Luftwaffe on Nottingham during the night of 8–9 May 1941.
New!!: The Blitz and Nottingham Blitz · See more »
Oberkommando der Luftwaffe
The Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL), translated as the High Command of the Air Force in English, was the high command of the Luftwaffe.
New!!: The Blitz and Oberkommando der Luftwaffe · See more »
Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
New!!: The Blitz and Office of Public Sector Information · See more »
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Operation Barbarossa · See more »
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Sea Lion, also written as Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe), was Nazi Germany's code name for the plan for an invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Operation Sea Lion · See more »
Operation Steinbock
Baby Blitz or Operation Steinbock (Unternehmen Steinbock) was a strategic bombing campaign by the German air force (the Luftwaffe) during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Operation Steinbock · See more »
Owen Tudor Boyd
Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, (30 August 1889 – 5 August 1944) was a British aviator and military officer.
New!!: The Blitz and Owen Tudor Boyd · See more »
Phoney War
The Phoney War (Drôle de guerre; Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.
New!!: The Blitz and Phoney War · See more »
Pilot officer
Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; PLTOFF in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries.
New!!: The Blitz and Pilot officer · See more »
Plymouth
Plymouth is a city situated on the south coast of Devon, England, approximately south-west of Exeter and west-south-west of London.
New!!: The Blitz and Plymouth · See more »
Plymouth Blitz
The Plymouth Blitz was a series of bombing raids carried out by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on the English city of Plymouth in the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Plymouth Blitz · See more »
Port of London
The Port of London lies along the banks of the River Thames from the capital to the North Sea.
New!!: The Blitz and Port of London · See more »
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
New!!: The Blitz and Portsmouth · See more »
QF 3-inch 20 cwt
The QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German airships and bombers and on the Western Front in World War I. It was also common on British warships in World War I and submarines in World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and QF 3-inch 20 cwt · See more »
QF 3.7-inch AA gun
The QF 3.7-inch AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and QF 3.7-inch AA gun · See more »
Radar
Radar is an object-detection system that uses radio waves to determine the range, angle, or velocity of objects.
New!!: The Blitz and Radar · See more »
Radio navigation
Radio navigation or radionavigation is the application of radio frequencies to determine a position of an object on the Earth.
New!!: The Blitz and Radio navigation · See more »
RAF Bomber Command
RAF Bomber Command controlled the RAF's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968.
New!!: The Blitz and RAF Bomber Command · See more »
RAF Coastal Command
RAF Coastal Command was a formation within the Royal Air Force (RAF).
New!!: The Blitz and RAF Coastal Command · See more »
RAF Fighter Command
RAF Fighter Command was one of the commands of the Royal Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and RAF Fighter Command · See more »
RAF Kenley
The former Royal Air Force Station Kenley, more commonly known as RAF Kenley was a station of the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War and the RAF in the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and RAF Kenley · See more »
Rail freight transport
Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
New!!: The Blitz and Rail freight transport · See more »
Ralph Ingersoll (PM publisher)
Ralph McAllister Ingersoll (December 8, 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut – March 8, 1985 in Miami Beach, Florida) was an American writer, editor, and publisher.
New!!: The Blitz and Ralph Ingersoll (PM publisher) · See more »
Rationing in the United Kingdom
Rationing was introduced temporarily by the British government several times during the 20th century, during and immediately after a war.
New!!: The Blitz and Rationing in the United Kingdom · See more »
Rechlin–Lärz Airfield
Rechlin–Lärz Airfield (German: Flugplatz Rechlin-Lärz) is an airfield in the village of Rechlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.
New!!: The Blitz and Rechlin–Lärz Airfield · See more »
Reginald Victor Jones
Reginald Victor Jones, FRSE, LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in.
New!!: The Blitz and Reginald Victor Jones · See more »
Reichsmarschall
Reichsmarschall, Marshal of the Reich (literal translation: Empire or Realm), was the highest rank in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Reichsmarschall · See more »
Richard Overy
Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany.
New!!: The Blitz and Richard Overy · See more »
Rifle
A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.
New!!: The Blitz and Rifle · See more »
River Clyde
The River Clyde (Abhainn Chluaidh,, Watter o Clyde) is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.
New!!: The Blitz and River Clyde · See more »
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Air Force · See more »
Royal Army Pay Corps
The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC) was the corps of the British Army responsible for administering all financial matters.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Army Pay Corps · See more »
Royal Flying Corps
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War, until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the Royal Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Flying Corps · See more »
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Navy · See more »
Royal Pioneer Corps
The Royal Pioneer Corps was a British Army combatant corps used for light engineering tasks.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Pioneer Corps · See more »
Royal Victoria Dock
The Royal Victoria Dock is the largest of three docks in the Royal Docks of east London, now part of the redeveloped Docklands.
New!!: The Blitz and Royal Victoria Dock · See more »
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National governments of the 1920s and 1930s.
New!!: The Blitz and Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood · See more »
SC1000 bomb
The SC 1000 (Sprengbombe Cylindrisch 1000) was a large air-dropped general-purpose thin cased high explosive demolition bomb used by Germany during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and SC1000 bomb · See more »
Schräge Musik
In World War II, Schräge Musik was the name Germans gave to upward-firing autocannon that the Luftwaffe mounted in night fighter aircraft.
New!!: The Blitz and Schräge Musik · See more »
Sebastian Cox
Sebastian Cox, MA (born in 1956), is the Head of the Air Historical Branch (AHB) of the Royal Air Force, a specialist archive and history unit based at RAF Northolt, Middlesex, which seeks to maintain and preserve the historical memory of the RAF and to develop and encourage "an informed understanding of RAF and air power history by providing accurate and timely advice to Ministers, the RAF, other government departments and the general public".
New!!: The Blitz and Sebastian Cox · See more »
Second Great Fire of London
The "Second Great Fire of London" refers to one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz.
New!!: The Blitz and Second Great Fire of London · See more »
Sheffield Blitz
The Sheffield Blitz is the name given to the worst nights of German Luftwaffe bombing in Sheffield, England, during the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Sheffield Blitz · See more »
Shell shock
Shell shock is a term coined in World War I to describe the type of posttraumatic stress disorder many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD itself was a term).
New!!: The Blitz and Shell shock · See more »
Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside
Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.
New!!: The Blitz and Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside · See more »
Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
New!!: The Blitz and Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet · See more »
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Southampton · See more »
Southampton Blitz
The Southampton Blitz was the heavy bombing of Southampton by the Nazi German Luftwaffe during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Southampton Blitz · See more »
Southern Railway (UK)
The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.
New!!: The Blitz and Southern Railway (UK) · See more »
Southsea
Southsea is a seaside resort and geographic area, located in Portsmouth at the southern end of Portsea Island, Hampshire, England.
New!!: The Blitz and Southsea · See more »
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española),Also known as The Crusade (La Cruzada) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War (Cuarta Guerra Carlista) among Carlists, and The Rebellion (La Rebelión) or Uprising (Sublevación) among Republicans.
New!!: The Blitz and Spanish Civil War · See more »
St Pancras railway station
St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.
New!!: The Blitz and St Pancras railway station · See more »
St Paul's Cathedral
St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London.
New!!: The Blitz and St Paul's Cathedral · See more »
St Paul's Survives
St Paul's Survives is a photograph taken in London during the night air raid of 29/30 December 1940, the 114th night of the Blitz of World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and St Paul's Survives · See more »
Stephen Bungay
Stephen Francis Bungay (born 2 September 1954) is a British management consultant, historian and author who has made a special study of the Battle of Britain.
New!!: The Blitz and Stephen Bungay · See more »
Strategic bombing
Strategic bombing is a military strategy used in a total war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its morale or its economic ability to produce and transport materiel to the theatres of military operations, or both.
New!!: The Blitz and Strategic bombing · See more »
Strategic bombing during World War II
Strategic bombing during World War II was the sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory during World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Strategic bombing during World War II · See more »
Sunderland
Sunderland is a city at the centre of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 10 miles southeast of Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 miles northeast of Durham, 101 miles southeast of Edinburgh, 104 miles north-northeast of Manchester, 77 miles north of Leeds, and 240 miles north-northwest of London.
New!!: The Blitz and Sunderland · See more »
Supermarine Spitfire
The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force and other Allied countries before, during and after World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Supermarine Spitfire · See more »
Swansea Blitz
The Swansea Blitz was the heavy and sustained bombing of Swansea by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany from 19–21 February 1941.
New!!: The Blitz and Swansea Blitz · See more »
Thames Estuary
The Thames Estuary is the estuary in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
New!!: The Blitz and Thames Estuary · See more »
The bomber will always get through
The bomber will always get through was a phrase used by Stanley Baldwin in 1932 (although the theory was originally developed by Italian General Giulio Douhet), in the speech "A Fear for the Future" to the British Parliament.
New!!: The Blitz and The bomber will always get through · See more »
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
New!!: The Blitz and The Guardian · See more »
The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.
New!!: The Blitz and The Salvation Army · See more »
The Scout Association
The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom (UK).
New!!: The Blitz and The Scout Association · See more »
The Shape of Things to Come
The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106.
New!!: The Blitz and The Shape of Things to Come · See more »
The Wages of Destruction
The Wages of Destruction is a non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany.
New!!: The Blitz and The Wages of Destruction · See more »
The Week
The Week is a weekly news magazine with editions in the United Kingdom and United States.
New!!: The Blitz and The Week · See more »
Things to Come
Things to Come (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British black-and-white science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells.
New!!: The Blitz and Things to Come · See more »
Tram
A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.
New!!: The Blitz and Tram · See more »
Turbinlite
The Helmore/GEC Turbinlite was a 2,700 million candela (2.7 Gcd) searchlight fitted in the nose of a number of British Douglas Havoc night fighters during the early part of the Second World War and around the time of The Blitz.
New!!: The Blitz and Turbinlite · See more »
U-boat
U-boat is an anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat".
New!!: The Blitz and U-boat · See more »
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
New!!: The Blitz and United States Air Force · See more »
United States Army Air Corps
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941.
New!!: The Blitz and United States Army Air Corps · See more »
United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF), informally known as the Air Force, was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America during and immediately after World War II (1939/41–1945), successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force of today, one of the five uniformed military services.
New!!: The Blitz and United States Army Air Forces · See more »
Ural bomber
The Ural bomber was the initial aircraft design program/competition to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s.
New!!: The Blitz and Ural bomber · See more »
V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.
New!!: The Blitz and V-1 flying bomb · See more »
V-2 rocket
The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
New!!: The Blitz and V-2 rocket · See more »
Victory garden
Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.
New!!: The Blitz and Victory garden · See more »
Walther Wever (general)
Walther Wever (11 November 1887 – 3 June 1936) was a pre-World War II Luftwaffe Commander.
New!!: The Blitz and Walther Wever (general) · See more »
West Ham Power Station
West Ham Power Station was a coal-fired power station on Bow Creek (the tidal mouth of the River Lea) at Canning Town, in east London.
New!!: The Blitz and West Ham Power Station · See more »
West Midlands (region)
The West Midlands is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes.
New!!: The Blitz and West Midlands (region) · See more »
Western Approaches
The Western Approaches is an approximately rectangular area of the Atlantic ocean lying immediately to the west of Ireland and parts of Great Britain.
New!!: The Blitz and Western Approaches · See more »
Western Front (World War II)
The Western Front was a military theatre of World War II encompassing Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany. World War II military engagements in Southern Europe and elsewhere are generally considered under separate headings. The Western Front was marked by two phases of large-scale combat operations. The first phase saw the capitulation of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France during May and June 1940 after their defeat in the Low Countries and the northern half of France, and continued into an air war between Germany and Britain that climaxed with the Battle of Britain. The second phase consisted of large-scale ground combat (supported by a massive air war considered to be an additional front), which began in June 1944 with the Allied landings in Normandy and continued until the defeat of Germany in May 1945.
New!!: The Blitz and Western Front (World War II) · See more »
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.
New!!: The Blitz and Westminster Abbey · See more »
Whitehall
Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.
New!!: The Blitz and Whitehall · See more »
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.
New!!: The Blitz and Winston Churchill · See more »
World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
New!!: The Blitz and World War I · See more »
World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
New!!: The Blitz and World War II · See more »
Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
New!!: The Blitz and Yale University Press · See more »
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.
New!!: The Blitz and Yugoslavia · See more »
10th Air Corps
X.
New!!: The Blitz and 10th Air Corps · See more »
Redirects here:
Blitz of London, Bombing campaign of London, Bombing of Britain, Bombing of London, Bombing of London in World War II, Der Blitz, London Blitz, London blitz, The London Blitz, The London blitz, The blitz, The london blitz, World War II/London.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz
