On this day: the aftermath of an air raid

Air_Raid_Damage_in_the_United_Kingdom_1939-1945_H8138 British troops of Western Command clearing up bomb damage in Birkenhead, Cheshire, 15 March 1941. Second World War World War Two

The British Army cleans up after an air raid on Birkenhead, England in this photograph dated the 15th of March, 1941.

The Blitz, Germany’s bombing offensive against the United Kingdom, ran from September 1940 to May 1941, and attacked London as well as the UK’s major ports and industrial cities.

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