In London, people queued to receive gas masks while workers placed sandbags ... The bombing campaign, commonly known as the ...

Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ... By the late spring of 1940 hardly anyone was carrying their gas mask and shelters were filling up with water through disuse.

Tucky and their school friends are to be evacuated from London to Devon to escape the Blitz. They take the underground from Islington to Paddington Station with their suitcases and gas masks.