What the Luftwaffe and the subsequent RAF's aerial surveys can tells us about wartime London – from public parks being turned into allotments to the sprawl of air raid shelters and the astonishing scale of bomb damage.

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Story: Wartorn London Revealed

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What the Luftwaffe and the subsequent RAF's aerial surveys can tells us about wartime London - from public parks being turned into allotments, to the sprawl of air raid shelters and the astonishing scale of bomb damage.

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