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It is said that up to a third of central London was destroyed during the Blitz (1940-41), over a million houses turned into ruins. The Blitz was conducted by German bomber planes. Where I live in south east England, you can see, all over the place, the remains of gun emplacements where the British would attempt to shoot the Germans out of the sky before they reached London.

The V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs came in 1944. Up to a hundred V-1s a day were launched at south-east England at their peak.