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Description: | The wreckage of Elmer's End bus garage shows the aftermath of an air raid that killed ten staff. Two men in steel helmets are hardly visible amidst the wreckage of burnt-out buses: 39 were destroyed.
During an air raid the previous night, a V1 flying bomb hit the main entrance of the garage, causing a fire. Jack Cunningham, one of the staff members, died sounding the alarm to warn his colleagues of the imminent explosion. Bus services were resumed the day after the bomb hit.
V1 flying bombs, also called 'doodlebugs', were designed to explode on impact. A new weapon invented by the Germans, they were used as part of a major offensive from June 1944. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport London at War | Temporal: | 19 Jul 1944 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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