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"Bringing Up Father" (12/25/1940) by George McManus

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Title:	"Bringing Up Father" (12/25/1940) by George McManus
Artist:	George McManus (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Comic Strip
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	926
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Added to Site:	3/2/2017
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Christmas 1940

The US was still asleep, but not so in Great Britain.

By the end of 1940, 24,000 civilians had been killed in the Blitz and hundreds of thousands made homeless. In November, German bombers had obliterated Coventry city centre and there had been particularly fierce raids on Manchester and Liverpool in the days leading up to Christmas.

In order to avoid the bombs, many families spent some of the festive period in air-raid shelters and other places of refuge and decked out their temporary homes with makeshift decorations. Very short Christmas trees were in demand because of the height of the shelters.

The public were discouraged from giving presents and encouraged to give as much as they could to the war effort. Almost �10 million in war bonds was sold in the week before Christmas.

Mercifully, there was an unofficial postponement of the bombing by both sides from Christmas Eve until the 27th. Sunday 29 December marked one of the fiercest bombing raids of the whole Blitz - so fierce it caused what became known as the Second Great Fire of London.

I have the BUF episode from two days earlier (12/23/1940), which apparently kicked this run from Maggie off. Time will tell if the 12/24 installment will show up.

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