As Americans remember Pearl Harbor Day this date, a new interactive website has plotted the agony Londoners had already suffered for a year during the Blitz, the 1940-41 German bombing campaign that killed 20,000 and left 1.4 million homeless.
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| Each red dot represents a bomb dropped on London. |
Pearl Harbor was, undoubtedly, an awful experience for those who suffered through it. But it pales to being bombed for 57 straight days (and nights), having more than one million homes destroyed or damaged, and the loss of more than 20,000 lives. And, of course, the bombing of London continued throughout the war with attacks by V-1 and V-2 rockets, which claimed thousand more lives. The American citizenry, for the most part, got off very easy in World War II.
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