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A London Blitz Letter Reaches Shamokin, PA

Summary by Wynning History
In November 1940, readers of the Shamokin News-Dispatch in Shamokin, PA opened their paper to a first-hand account of the London Blitz, sent from a woman living beneath the German bombs then falling on the British capital during World War II. The letter came from Alice Watts, chief telephone operator in Streatham, a neighborhood on the south side of London, and it had traveled thousands of miles to reach Pennsylvania’s Coal Region. The Shamokin…
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Wynning History broke the news on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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