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...hardier unionists ventured on the "blitz course"-the mean, trying 1,000-yard obstacle trail where Rangers are toughened: through barbed wire, up cliffs, over barricades, crawling on their stomachs while tracer bullets streaked above and bombs burst around. For a final treat the Division staged a mock battle, and the weary visitors watched guns and tanks they had helped make swing into action...
Botanists haunted bomb cavities for London rocket (Sisymbrium irio), which flourished after the great fire of 1666. Already 95 types of flowers and shrubs unknown for decades before the blitz have been found in holes where nitrates from burning bombs have enriched the soil...
Sound War. When the blitz began, sound recording became an effective claymore against rumor. Censorship hid the facts of Liverpool's first severe bombing, and word of mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...
...morning during the worst of the blitz BBC's Gilliam parked a sound truck near a London shelter to record the comments of East Enders emerging after eight hours underground. A cocky cockney woman grabbed the microphone and said: "If 'itler thinks 'e can win this war by bombin' women and children, 'e's fahnd a big mistyke, that's all. Because we can tyke it, we can tyke it." According to Gilliam, the cockney woman's use of the phrase was the hit, became the popular answer to the blitz...
William Johnes, timekeeper, and his wife were veterans of the blitz. Ordinarily, they scorned shelters. This time his children, who had been evacuated during the blitz, were in town, and for their sakes he had decided to take cover. Mr. Johnes was carrying Peter, 7, in his arms. Patricia, 11, was just in front of him. June, 13, was behind...