Good morning, The BBC set up a web site for people who lived through the Blitz and the bombing to be able to send in contributions of their own personal experiences. Their contributions can be viewed on this web site. My own contributions based on my experiences as a young kid living in the South London area from 1939 to 1944 are there somewhere. We slept in our garden in our damp Anderson shelter for most nights during the worst of the bombing. My wife slept inside their house, they used their Morrison shelter as their dining room table. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/C54689 I believe that over 40,000 civilians lost their lives in London alone due to the air raids. On a personal note, my cousin has recently sent me a copy of a letter sent by Winston Churchill, By the King's order, to her grandfather, Alfred Joseph Thomas Segrott, informing him that his name was to be published in the London Gazette as commended for his brave conduct during an air raid on Grange Rd, in Bermondsey on the 17th. Sept. 1940. For most of us kids, our dads, brothers and uncles were already away fighting and in some cases dying in battles with the the Germans on the land, the sea and in the air and then came a further disruption to our lives as we were evacuated. I was lucky, for me the experience was very rewarding. Others, unfortunately, were not so lucky. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml Regards. Patrick. Perth, Western Australia.