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David Morton

World War II devastation in South Shields and the same location today - in one image

None of us can fail to have been shocked and appalled by the scenes coming out of Ukraine over the last couple of weeks.

That there is a brutal war on the European continent in 2022 simply beggars belief.

Looking back, it's perhaps also hard to comprehend that during a time period still within living memory, towns and cities on the British mainland were the targets of enemy bombers and suffered devastating attacks and loss of life.

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