5923358 ?London Raid Damage This Morning?, 8 October 1940 (b/w photo) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: ?London Raid Damage This Morning?, 8 October 1940. Photograph, World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945) 1940. An injured man is helped through a damaged London street by Air Raid Precautions (ARP) staff. The ?SP? on their helmets denotes that they are from a stretcher party. Between September 1940 and May 1941 London was constantly bombed in the \'Blitz\'. During this period more than 20,000 Londoners were killed. The German raid of 8 October saw serious fires in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe alongside damage to government buildings in Whitehall and Charing Cross station. One of 58 British official photographs.); by National Army Museum ; out of copyright.