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org3432 on Jan 14, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bomb Sight – Mapping the World War 2 London Blitz ...

The part that always surprised me about the blitz is only 28k killed and 25k wounded. How is that even possible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

> Civilian casualties on London throughout the Blitz amounted to 28,556 killed, and 25,578 wounded.

lostlogin on Jan 14, 2018 [–]

That seems a lot of dead to me, but it is a lot less than later bombing caused and the lack of firestorms is the reason. The allies put a lot of effort into optimising conditions for causing them.

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