ATROCITIES AT SCAFATI, NEAR POMPEII, ITALY; ADVANCE OF US TROOPS ON PRATELLA AND PRATA SANITA, ITALY; BRITISH TROOPS ENTER BELGIUM NEAR BRUSSELS; GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP AT VUGHT, THE NETHERLANDS; CAPTURE OF CELLE, NORTH EAST OF HANOVER, GERMANY; STARVING INTERNEES AT BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, GERMANY [Allocated Title]

The 'Blitz' – from the German term Blitzkrieg ('lightning war') – was the sustained campaign of aerial bombing attacks on British towns and cities carried out by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) from September 1940 until May 1941.

When Britain went to war on 3 September 1939 there was none of the 'flag-waving patriotism' of August 1914. The British people were now resigned to the fact that Hitler had to be stopped by force. 

The 'Market Garden' plan employed all three divisions of First Allied Airborne Army. Altogether, some 35,000 parachute and glider troops were involved in the operation.