Although we see this during the bombings of London, how many recall doing this during air raid drills during school hours?
Although we see this during the bombings of London, how many recall doing this during air raid drills during school hours?
With seemingly endless bombing campaigns reducing cities to rubble, those lucky enough to not be directly engaged in combat still often lived in constant fear of death.
Pictured above are British schoolchildren during an air raid drill.
It is unlikely that either their wooden desks or their hand placement would have provided much protection had they suffered a direct hit from a German bomb.
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