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The Battle of Britain ran from 10 July to 31 October 1940. The Royal Air Force lost approximately 1,500 aircraft and 544 pilots. The German Luftwaffe lost about 1,900 aircraft. The German invasion of Britain (Operation Sea Lion) was postponed indefinitely in September and never reactivated.
Read the story →British and American bombers conducted four raids on Dresden between the evening of 13 February and the afternoon of 15 February 1945. The combined raids killed approximately 25,000 civilians and destroyed about 90 percent of the historic city centre. The military justification was disputed at the time and has remained contested in subsequent historical scholarship.
Read the story →The Crystal Palace housed the Great Exhibition of 1851, was moved to a south London hill, and stood there for eighty-five years. On the night of 30 November 1936 it caught fire and burned to the ground in a single evening. Two hundred thousand people watched.
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