BOMBING

London, England · January 12, 1940 On this date in 1940 the German Luftwaffe conducted its first bombing raid on London, the British cap­i­tal, four months after assaulting the Polish cap­i­tal, War­saw, at the start of World War II in Europe. Five months later, on May 10, the Royal Air Force retal­i­ated with its first stra­tegic bombing…