Morale is high in Britain

8th July 1940: Government monitoring of public attitudes finds people in a resilient mood even as air raids begin

Cruiser Mk IV tanks of 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armoured Brigade, 1st Armoured Division, drive through a Surrey village, July 1940.

Britain was now experiencing an increasing number of small air raids. These were mainly probing attacks in southern England as the Luftwaffe tested British air defences. But the Ministry of Information report for the 8th…