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Home guard and R.A.F. men remove the casing of a German flying bomb which crashed and exploded in the Regent Palace hotel annex in London. The hotel s(...)

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Home guard and R.A.F. men remove the casing of a German flying bomb which crashed and exploded in the Regent Palace hotel annex in London. The hotel s(...)

Date7/13/1944

Names

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Home guard and R.A.F. men remove the casing of a German flying bomb which crashed and exploded in the Regent Palace hotel annex in London. The hotel suffered some damage but only one person; a chambermaid; was killed by the bomb.

Subject

World War, 1939-1945

Bombing, aerial

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019228F

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