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London’s Blitz shelter tunnels to become a new tourist attraction
Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War Two bombing by Germany are set to be transformed into the British capital’s biggest new tourist attraction for years, according to the company ...
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London in WWII: The Horror of the London Blitz
On December 29, 1940, for example, the bombers hit the City of London, the financial district of the capital. In the night, ...
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WW2: Eight months of Blitz terror
'Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ‘blitzkrieg’, meaning ‘lightning war’. Its explosive sound describes the Luftwaffe’s almost continual aerial bombardment of the British ...
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Plans Are Taking Shape for an Extravagant New Tourist Attraction Inside London’s World War II-Era Tunnels
The 86,000-square-foot labyrinth was built in the 1940s during the London Blitz. Now, workers are transforming it into a museum, memorial, art gallery and bar Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent An ...
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First plane lands at London's Heathrow since fire cut power to Europe's busiest airport
The first plane landed at Heathrow Airport late Friday, about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub.The British ...
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The Blitz
The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing campaign against Britain in World War Two. The raids killed 43,000 civilians and lasted for eight months, petering out when Hitler began to ...