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Sep 10, 1940:
British War Cabinet reacts to the Blitz in kind
On this day in 1940, in light of the destruction and terror
inflicted on Londoners by a succession of German bombing raids,
called "the Blitz," the British War Cabinet instructs British
bombers over Germany to drop their bombs "anywhere" if unable to
reach their targets.
The prior two nights of bombing had wrought extraordinary damage,
especially in the London slum area, the East End. King George VI
even visited the devastated area to reassure the inhabitants that
their fellow countrymen were with them in heart and mind. Each
night since the seventh, sirens had sounded to announce the
approach of incoming German planes, which had begun dropping
bombs indiscriminately in the London vicinity, even though the
docks had been their primary target on Day One of the Blitz. As
British bombers set out for Germany to retaliate, they were
instructed not to return home with their bombs if they failed to
locate their original targets. Instead, they were to release
their loads where and when they could.
On the night of the 10th, a night when British Home Intelligence
had been alerted of how panicked Londoners were becoming at the
sound of those air-raid sirens, Berlin was paid in kind, with a
cascade of British bombs_one of which even landed in the garden
of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Party's minister of propaganda.
73, K.O. n0kfq
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