Lookout in the Blackout, 1940

ID: 424 ~ Source: "[Lookout in the Blackout, 1940.]" Image.  From The National Archives: The Art of War. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/theartofwar/prop/home_front/INF3_0293.htm (accessed July 11, 2018).  ~ Creator: Pat Keely ~ Date: 1940
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The "Lookout in the Blackout" campaign originated in February, 1940 under the guidance of the Ministry of War Transport due to the growing number of fatal accidents occurring during the blackout.

This file appears in: Seeking Shelter

By Alan Davies
"Well the government required you to put up any material that would block light being emitted from windows to aid German bombers. But although the war started on 3 September ’39 the bombing didn’t start until June of 1940. Although Hitler…