Coastal Command aircraft successfully bombed enemy supply
ship off Norwegian coast. Another left in sinking condition
off Dutch coast.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed Nordsee Canal, North
Holland, barges at Stavoren, in Friesland, oil depots at Hamburg
and Amsterdam, docks at Wilhelmshaven and Bremen, and eight
Luftwaffe aerodromes in Holland and Germany. Luftwaffe bombers
made three raids on Malta, but damage was slight.
During night of July
26-
27
July 1940 a Luftwaffe bomber was brought down off Southeast
coast. Four daylight raiders, including a seaplane, shot down.
Night raids were on a small scale, chietiy in areas of Wales
and South West England.
Sydney radio announced that a total of 125,000 men had volunteered
for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Adolf
Hitler received Bulgarian Premier and Foreign Minister
at Berchtesgaden.
Rumanian Premier and Foreign Minister hadconversations with
Mussolini and Ciano at Rome.
Eleven prominent British subjects detained by Japanese gendarmerie.
Go To: 28th
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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