The British Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command made further
night attacks on various, objectives in Germany, including
docks at Hamburg, Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, and Emden, factories,
oil refineries and goods yards. Fourteen enemy aerodromes
in Holland and Germany also attacked.
Coastal Command aircraft bombed munition dumps at Harlingen,
on Dutch coast, and barges near Bruges.
Italian aircraft raided Aden and Malta.
Small British garrison at Moyale still holding out.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) made raids on El Aden, El
Gubbi, and Bardia, and on shipping at Tobruk.
Six Luftwaffe bombers and six fighters shot down during enemy
raids on shipping, and on land areas in England, Scotland,
and Wales. Damage slight, and casualties few, since many bombs
fell in open country.
M31
Minesweeper
Launched 13 July 1940
Go To: 14th
July
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SS Kemmndine, 7,769 ton Glasgow liner,
meets her doom in the Indian Ocean on 13 July 1940 after
being attacked by the Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser
Atlantis.
The track of the German torpedo is still to be seen as the
explosion churns up the sea and sends a cloud of smoke and
debris high into the air. The captain, Robert Reid, and
his crew, taken aboard the Kriegsmarine surface raider
Atlantis,
were landed at Mogadishu, Italian Somaliland, in July 1940.
Here they remained in captivity under the Italians until
released by our victorious South African Forces when they
took this port. Inset, smoke and foam having subsided, the
Kemmendine, her back broken, slowly disappears beneath the
waves.
Photos, Keystone
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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