That's a pretty awesome map,  I remember seeing some of the bomb damage to different things when I was over there, but I never imagined it was that bad.

Four misused asterisks in one sentence--that's like hitting an infield home run or something.

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You can sit up on the hill below Crystal Palace and look north across London, and you'll see Council Towers all lined up merging into Central London in straight lines from all directions.  It looks very deliberate, and it was; the path of Heinkels on their runs dropping their payloads. 

Parts of London are still being repaired, In the late 70's for awhile I  used to live in a bombed site in temporary metal housing that was only meant to be up for a couple of years.  Of course, Britain was paying off the Marshall plan so it's recovery fell far behind that of Germany who got a free ride for repairs.  Family's in Britain were still living under rations up into the early 60's.

Everyone forgets the brilliance of the Marshall Plan and how it pushed us, as the only remaining industrial power, to the forefront of the world.  They still claim that our level of success was because of the "American experience"; all one has to do is look up how many Ford tractors they were forced to purchase under that deal to learn the real truth.