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St Paul's Cathedral, World War II (City of London, England: 1940)
 
London is still 'taking it'
St. Paul's Cathedral
City of London, England
December 1940
International News
US Library of Congress: No know restrictions on use.

Reference
Jackson, G. (2015). We Shall Fight in the Streets.
    In Silver Linings (p. 9).
    Bon Air, Virginia: DR Publishers.

Keywords
Blitz
Bombing
Winston Churchill
London
Hitler
Nazi Germany
Winnie
World War II

Chapter 3

We Shall Fight in the Streets (Jackson)

It’s impossible to know what helped shape our family resolve to persevere through the difficulties that life presented. My Dad had a keen sense of the importance of being true to his ideology. A conversation with my Mum revealed the required mindset to survive Hitler’s bombs that exploded on nearby streets.

Apart from heredity, perhaps my personal inspiration came from my parents’ lives and a life-long admiration of Sir Winston Churchill, whom Londoners affectionately called Winnie. Although I did not have to live through Hitler’s Blitz, years later, I was a bomb warden during the IRA terrorist bombings of London.

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