“The whole world seemed ablaze” | A letter from the London Blitz reaches Shamokin, PA in 1940

In November 1940, a letter from a telephone operator in London found its way into the pages of the Shamokin News-Dispatch. Alice Watts described incendiary bombs lighting every garden in her neighborhood on fire, whole streets reduced to rubble - and sleeping in her top-floor bed anyway, because a bomb either had your name on it or it didn't. Read the story from the London Blitz.

Exploring the history of “The Blitz” that devastated London in 1940-41 | Travel

In early 2024, we had the chance to explore sites connected to the darkest days in the history of London - the Blitz.

Letters from War – The West Schuylkill Press-Herald reports on a soldier’s 1944 visit to war-time London

The West Schuylkill Press-Herald summarized what Irvin Schwartz reported seeing in the bomb-damaged capital of Great Britain in March 1944.