![]() ![]() Where I live in Kent, the Luftwaffe simply followed the incredibly straight railway line from Dover-London (originally a Roman Road) but common opinion is that many pilots dumped their payloads over the Kent countryside rather than risk flying into London itself where they might easily engage with the RAF or crash into the numerous anti-aircraft air balloons. The Blitz Spirit was born from 1941 onwards. My mum - an aeroplane engine mechanic -actually survived the bombing of the converted Rolls Royce car factory, in Crewe. My dad's family lost their entire home and my mum's family were air wardens and patrolled during the Blackout. The aerial attacks finally came in 1941 during the Blitz. Very few of the original posters survived and the Keep Calm campaign resurfaced only as recently as 2000 when one was found in an old bookstore. The aerial attack didn’t come and the Keep Calm campaign was never launched and the posters were literally pulped due to a paper shortage. So they trialled three potential civic campaigns of which Keep Calm emerged as a clear winner and 2.5 million posters were printed. ![]() It was not a campaign to bolster grit but to maintain civic order. Their primary fear was panic and looting. They anticipated at least 170,000 deaths in London in the first two months. Based on the 1914-1918 WW1, they estimated casualties and deaths would exceed 2.1 million in the form of bombings and gassing of civilians. In 1939, The Ministry of Information (UK) anticipated that the war (WW2) would primarily come in the form of an aerial attack.
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