The British Royal Air Force (RAF) Coastal Command aircraft,
after attacking two Kriegsmarine ships in the North Sea, engaged
seven escort
Messerschmitts
Bf 109 and shot one down. British machine damaged but
landed safely.
Daylight attacks made on Luftwaffe aerodromes. Night raids
on oil refineries at Magdeburg.and Hanover on aerodromes at
Cam, Abbeville and Quakenbrück, near Hanover; on island
of Texel and key railway centres in the Ruhr and Rhineland.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) raided Sidi el Tmimi, seriously
damaging three Italian aircraft and seaplane jetty at Bomba.
Reported that South African Air Force had made bombing expedition
from Mega, Western Abyssinia, to Indian Ocean, raiding . all
enemy aerodromes, Mega wireless station, and other targets.
Luftwaffe made short raids by single aircraft on British coasts
Damage to one aerodrorne, a Yorks town and a residential district
on South Coast. Aerial torpedo wrecked eight cottages in Southeast
town. Thirteen raiders. destroyed one British fighter lost,
but pilot safe.
Rumanian Government agreed to cede, Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria.
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August
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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