Along the same lines as yesterday’s post about early Kodachrome photos, I offer you these startling images of London in the grip of an incessant German bombing campaign, The Blitz.

Life Goes On, London During the Blitz

A bus travelling in black out conditions falls into a bomb crater on Ballham High Road.

The Houses of Parliament, 1941. Note the anti-aircraft balloons dotting the sky.

Carrying On. A man reads a book in a London park, as an anti-aircraft balloon lies in the background.

Smoke, every morning of the Blitz