‘The kisses on your windows won’t help you’ Liverpool and in particular Bootle were targeted by the Germans – and badly hit – as a port town. The city had become a lifeline to Britain during the Battle of the Atlantic and the convoys were controlled from an underground command centre, the' Western Approaches' at Derby House in the City Centre beneath a 1930s office building. The food, fuel, weapons and troops that came in to Liverpool saved Britain and made possible the liberation of Europe.

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