The British Admiralty announced that the minesweeper HMS Dundalk
had been sunk by Kriegsmarine mine.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) attacked targets in Berlin area, including
power stations and railway yards. Other forces bombed railways,
wharves and warehouses at port of Emden, oil plants at Magdeburg
and Hanover, goods yards, industrial targets and railway junctions
in various places, docks at Hook of Holland and many aerodromes.
Two Kriegsmarine supply ships in convoy off Frisian Islands
torpedoed by Coastal Command Beaufort aircraft. Another vessel
heavily machine gunned.
The war against Italy, Series of night raids made by the British
Royal Air Force (RAF) on Gura. Other aircraft raided Asmara
aerodrome, Gondar, Tessenie and Kassala. In Western Desert
British aircraft raided Sidi-Barrani.
Luftwaffe day activity confined to isolated attacks by single
aircraft over southeast and Midland areas.
During the night bombers made gliding raids on London. Church
severely damaged; houses and shops demolished. West of Scotland
had severe raid over wide area, but only house property suffered.
Luftwaffe lost one aircraft, Britain none.
Adolf
Hitler met Franco on French Spanish frontier.
M. Laval reported to Marshal Pétain at Vichy on his
meeting with Adolf
Hitler.
R156
R-boat
Launched 23 October 1940
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