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London During the Blitz: Then and Now Photographs (12 photos)

On May 11, the United Kingdom will mark the 75th anniversary of “The Longest Night”, the final horrible night of the Blitz—an eight-month-long aerial bombing offensive launched by Nazi Germany during World War II.  More than 40,000 British civilians were killed in the Blitz, 1.5 million Londoners were left homeless and the city’s landscape was left shattered. Below, Getty Images photographer Jim Dyson recently traveled to locations across London to make comparisons between scenes from the Blitz and present-day images, laying one on top of the other.

In this digital composite image a comparison has been made between a London scene during the Blitz of 1940-1941 and present day, to remember the 75th anniversary of the end of the Blitz in London on May 11, 2016. The black-and-white overlay image is a view east down the Thames towards smoke rising from fires in Surrey docks, following the first German air raid of the London Blitz on September 7, 1940. The present-day scene is a view of Tower Bridge taken on April 25, 2016. (Keystone/ Hulton Archive / Getty — Jim Dyson / Getty)
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/05/london-during-the-blitz-then-and-now-photographs/481851/