How the Guardian and Observer reported the start of the ‘blitzkrieg’ - Germany’s sustained bombing campaign of the UK in the second world warThe meticulously hand-coloured bomb damage maps of LondonThe blitz: scarce colour photographsSeventy-five years ago,the second world war bombing campaign known as the blitz began in earnest. On the afternoon of 7 September 1940, 348 German bombers and more than 600 Messerschmitt fighters flew over southern England before dropping high-explosive and incendiary bombs on London. The raid ended at 6:10pm but as the docks area of the city’s East stop burned, and a second attack lasting eight hours took status that night. The next morning’s Observer carried reports of the attack but also noted that London remained composed as thousands of people ‘treated the desperate fight being waged in the air as a spectacle’.
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Source: theguardian.com