ROYAL VISITOR - 1974

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Queen Elizabeth II meeting London Fire Brigade members who responded to 1974's wave of IRA bombings.

LONDON'S TOLL

The Luftwaffe dropped thousands of bombs on London from 1939 to 1945, killing almost 30,000 people and demolishing more than than 70,000 buildings. Additionally, 1.7 million structures sustained bomb damage.