September 1940 was the key date for the Battle of Britain - Britain was running out of trained pilots and fighters, despite winning all the sorties on the numbe

September 1940 was the key date for the Battle of Britain - Britain was running out of trained pilots and fighters, despite winning all the sorties on the numbers. That was when Germany made their "revenge" attack on London, and switched to the Blitz instead of targeting airfields. Comical really - Germany had been bombing London for months. Of course some bombs always fell on surrounding residential areas, whether German or Allied bombing - targeting simply wasn't very precise, especially in dodgy weather. So every RAF or German raid on docks or factory had collateral civilian casualties. Germany publicised the one that covered their tactical switch away from airfields. Ironically that in no small part allowed the RAF space to rebuild men and machines. :) It was far, far more than 3,000 bombs. There were around 1,500 V2's sent to London and the SE (and a similar number against Belgium), and around 10,000 V1's (doodlebugs). In terms of conventional bombing there were tens of thousands of tonnes of bombs dropped on London. Liverpool and Manchester got far, far less but I remember both had bomb sites scattered around well into the seventies, maybe eighties. Edit: I found some numbers - 20k tonnes on London, 2k tonnes on Liverpool, and they only include raids where over 100 tons were dropped in the figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#Bombing_raid_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#Bombing_raid_statist... Also worth noting the Nazis had terrible bombers - all twin engined light bombers - they had no heavy bombers. Their heaviest bomber was the He111 with a two tonne bomb load. Ju88 and Do17 were nearer one tonne. A Lancaster or Flying Fortress 5-10 tonnes depending on range.