No Liland, I didn't mean to suggest that most people can remember the bombing. But there are a lot of us who do. And if you extend living memory to include people who have parents who remember it, it's probably a majority.

Living memory/folk memory - it's still pretty close. And I think that affects how a lot of people react to the idea of air raids happening to other people. In fact I strongly suspect that the reason why the term "air strikes" was used all the time was to try and undermine the link. I don't mean that necessarily makes people oppose the bombing , but it cuts down the sense of distance - there's more of an awareness that "that could be us".

(I also suspect incidentally that this folk memory was one reason why the IRA bombing campaigns in London were treated in a relatively matter-of-fact most of the time.)