Hospitals bombed

10th September 1940: Many German bombers miss the Docks in the East End of London - casualties are widespread and indiscriminate

The soon-to-be iconic image of Eileen Dunne, aged 3, was taken by Cecil Beaton at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London in September 1940. There was a careful policy of not releasing photographs of the badly injured and not showing anyone in severe distress. In an era when people around the world were adjusting to the fact that civilians w…