It was a long night, last night, on September 7th, 1940, when the Germans bombed London. London was the “Heart of England”, which meant that this city was one of the most important cities to the Allies at the time. The first attack started at 4:00 P.M. and lasted until 6:00 P.M. that night. In these two hours 348 German bombers escorted by 617 fighters blasted London rapidly. {London before and after the bombings (blitz) of 1940} That was only the beginning of what was going to be a very long night, because after a short amount of time London was bombed again with incendiary bombs on the first wave. This caused fire to a very large amount of buildings all around London, burning most