Evacuee ship, taking 320 British children to Canada torpedoed
during night in Atlantic. One casualty, ship�s purser.
During night the British Royal Air Force (RAF) again raided
Berlin. Direct hits secured on military; targets including
petrol installations, aircraft factories and aerodromes, Electrical
works and railway junction badly damaged.
Other aircraft bombed quays and railway sidings at Boulogne.
Still others attacked oil depots at Gelsenkirchen, Magdeburg
and Cherbourg, dark warehouses at Hamburg, goods yards at
Bremen, Hamm and Soest, shipping at Emd�nf gun emplacements
at Cap Gris Nez, and aerodromes in Germany and Holland.
Great air battles fought over London area all day and night.
High explosive and incendiary bombs dropped.
Bombs dropped indiscriminately in Kent and Surrey. Slight
damage reported. Attempts made to attack the British Royal
Air Force (RAF) aerodromes in Home Counties. At one town industrial
premises damaged and number of casualties. Late at night Luftwaffe
aircraft were reported over 11 towns besides London area.
Sixty-two Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed. Twenty-seven British
fighters lost, but pilots of fifteen safe.
Rumania yielded to Axis terms and agreed to cede to Hungary
whole of Northern Transylvania and three Szekla provinces.
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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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