The target was the Westminster Cathedral.
By good fortune, the airmen miscalculated the trajectory and the bomb missed the church.
These were called Victory Gardens, a term first coined by George Washington Carver, an American agricultural scientist.
The Dig for Victory movement gained momentum across America and Europe.
Both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle had vegetable gardens.
Mr. Hayes wasnt the only one who saw opportunity in an act of destruction.
Such resourcefulness during times of conflict was also seen among the Vietnamese.
The bombing left the countryside pockmarked with large craters which thevillagers transformedinto ponds for rearing fish.
A fishery in a bomb crater in Vietnam.
Image credit:Rural Aquaculture
The Westminster Cathedral crater garden.
