Aircraft of fleet air arm sank Italian destroyer and hulk
used for storeship in harbour North of Augusta, Sicily.
Dutch tanker, Lucrecia was reported sunk by
U-34
on
7 July 1940
Latvian steamer sunk by German Luftwaffe planes.
REF bombers delivered daylight attacks on aerodromes at St
Omer and Amiens. Malta raided. However, no damage and few
casualties.
Blenheim bombers set fire to petrol dump near Tobruk, Libya.
Several raids carried out on Macaac aerodrome. Italians still
persistently attacking the British Moyale, on Kenya-Abyssinia
frontier.
Sudanese police post at Kurmuk reported captured by Italians
on
7 July 1940.
Large scale fighting took place all day of south east coasts
of England. 14 Luftwaffe aircraft were shot down, and 23 damaged.
Bombs dropped in South Wales, damage and some buildings, and
minor damage reported from districts in South of England.
Damage done to residential district on south coast, four people
killed, fleeing civilians machine-gunned.
British union of Fascists are banned as a illegal.
French National Assembly accorded for powers to Marshal Pétain,
government by 569 votes to 80.
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July
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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