II nd WORLD WAR 
Second World War
Date start: 3 Sep 1939
Date end: 15 Aug 1945
Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939. Preparations for war had been in progress for some time and the government expected major air attacks on all Britain's cities, particularly London. Mass evacuation from London began on the day that war was declared. During August and September 1939, about 600,000 children, mothers and expectant mothers were moved into the relative safety of Kent, Sussex, Wales, Devon and Cornwall. London was not attacked early in the war and many evacuees returned. However flurries of evacuation took place after the fall of France, at the beginning of the Blitz, and with the arrival of the V1 flying bombs in 1944.
