My cousin and his wife are British, living in London. He's a retired opera singer from Covent Garden. We correspond by email. I never thought to ask him if he and his parental family went through the blitz. He may have been too young. I'll bring it up in my next email and see if has any observations on the subject.
BTW, my cousins are ardent conservatives (Tories) and they can't stand Obama. They are surprisingly 'up' on him and his evilness .....as are many Londoners.
Rule Britannia!
Leni
Let me know what he says. I’d be interested to hear it. My wife used to live in Ireland and we have many close friends there. Though they are all too young to have lived at the time, you will see me occasionally key in on aspects of the Irish experience in the fight to remain neutral and some of the ridiculous attempts by the Nazis to use that to their advantage.