Shelling of steamer British Commander by unknown vessel in
Indian Ocean was reported by a New York wireless station,
Finnish steamer Elle sunk by U-boat off the west coast of
Ireland.
During the night the British Royal Air Force (RAF) heavily
bombed targets in Berlin. Other squadrons attacked airframe
factory at Leipzig,
Junkers
works at Dessau, oil-plants at Reisholz, Dortmund and Nordenham
and several aerodromes.
Skua aircraft of Fleet Air Arm successfully attacked oil depots,
motor patrol vessel and supply ship along Norwegian coast.
Heavy air attacks over Kent coast and Thames estuary. The
British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters and antiaircraft batteries
split up raiding, formations and series of fights took place
at high altitudes. Few bombs dropped.
Night raid on London. Parachute flares and incendiary bombs
dropped. Some damage done and casualties caused. Many towns
in South east, Midlands, South West coast and North West coast
also raided.
Twenty-nine Luftwaffe aircraft shot down. Fourteen British
machines lost, but pilots of seven safe.
It was announced that Adolf
Hitler had summoned Foreign Ministers of Hungary and Rumania
to conference in Vienna on Transylvanian dispute.
R153
R-boat
Launched 28 August 1940
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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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