Title

V-bomb incident in Farringdon Road, London, World War II, 1945. Artist: Unknown

Caption

V-bomb incident in Farringdon Road, London, World War II, 1945. On 8 March 1945 a German V2 rocket struck Smithfield Market at the junction of Charterhouse Street and Farringdon Road, killing 110 people.

Date

1940

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_397

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

33,5Mb (997,2Kb) / 9,9in x 13,2in / 2960 x 3952 (300dpi)

Keywords

road building buildings England people male technology man men destruction house street country guy blood British English lane devastation avenue war location century city of london Britain rocket casualty wound wartime concept B&W 1940s MONOCHROME wounded Forties bombed bleeding World War II World War two WWII missile bombing Nazi black & white black and white B W V2 world war 2 20th century ballistic missile Blitz Nazis Nazism decade Farringdon Road Home Front Second World War TGN WW2 photograph Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown Braun Wernher von Wernher von Braun V-2 Wernher von Braun photograph