Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest photographs of World War II being taken — and of a defining moment in British history.
On the night of December 29, 1940, Daily Mail chief photographer Herbert Mason was firewatching on the roof of the newspaper's offices between Fleet Street and the Thames.
The Luftwaffe's blitz on London was at its height: after a brief pause decreed by Hitler on Christmas Day, Goering's bombers had resumed their almost nightly pounding of the capital.
A brief attack on December 27 inflicted 600 casualties, more than 50 of them in a single public shelter in Southwark which received a direct hit.
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