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Firefighters Carrying Out a Corpse from a Bombed Out Building, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. 'Any night, any time, summer 1940. Fire and flame, death and destruction...Any morning-after in London - or is it Coventry, Bristol, Portsmouth? Liverpool, Belfast, Birmingham? Plymouth or Glasgow? There goes your neighbour, Mrs Higgins, and me speaking to her only yesterday...Yesterday was the old order of things. Today is different, just as tomorrow will be different, because it has to be'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.