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The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941. Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students. They will be able to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.
Dr Kate Jones, the University of Portsmouth geographer who devised the project, said: "When you look at these maps and see the proliferation of bombs dropped on the capital, it does illustrate the meaning of the word Blitz, which comes from the German meaning lightning.
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But as for your question, if you zoom in you can see whole neighborhoods (several blocks) that went untouched and certain spots that where hit over and over again. I suspect that if the fire and blast damage where somewhat contained, a lot of bombs fell on buildings or areas that had already been destroyed. But that's just my guess.
Its quite simple. While the German onslaught was fierce, not everyone was killed or hurt. It may have been demoralizing, but it also had the effect on the British populace that they needed to fight on or be conquered. It was a simple choice.
I have a very good friend who is an East Ender. (Though he was serving in Burma during the Blitz.) He's told me of the courage and defiance his family and friends had. He said if a house was bombed at night the next morning the mother of the family went out, swept up all the damage and hung a curtain across where the front door had once been. The prettier the better. Sometimes more than one curtain had to be hung during the duration of the bombing. He said they never thought of leaving. The curtains were their way of shaking their fists at the Nazis.
The answer as to how Londoners and in fact the people of the United Kingdom is very simple -the unbreakable willpower/spirit of the British people. Even when the city was being blasted and burning there was no panic little hording and people even climbed up on roofs to toss the incendiaries into the streets to keep buildingds from falling prey to the bombs. One of my parents knows what it was like because she was born in 1933 and lived in West London (Hammersmith (The locals insist it should be called West Kensington)) My grandparents lived several blocks from several major rail lines and factories and the area was bombed. The house they lived in was bracketed by bombed out city blocks. My mom stayed with her parents and knows what it was like to spend nights in a local Tube station about 3 blockws walk from her home.
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