Both London and German have seen attacks during war, there was one specific type of attack that Germany called the blitz, what did London call a similar attack?
History of London:  It has withstood plague, devastating fire, civil war, aerial bombardment, terrorist attacks, and widespread rioting. The Blitz:  The term was first used by the British press as an abbreviation of "Blitzkrieg" (lightning war). The Blitz:  The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940, a battle for daylight air superiority between the "Luftwaffe" and the Royal Air Force over the United Kingdom.
aerial bombardment