“Like in a disaster movie’: Wehrmacht World War II bomb explodes in England. It was the largest evacuation of civilians in England since the end of the Second World War - and stirred up old fears.

The British speak of the “Blitz Spirit”. Plymouth was the target of 59 air raids by the German Luftwaffe between 1940 and 1944. In Plymouth alone, around 1,200 people died and almost 40,000 residents were left homeless.