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Night Bombing of Britain intensifies
During the week the enemy made a greater number of long-range nightbomber sorties than during any other week of the war. On the 19th/20th. approximately 500 aircraft were employed; this is the highest...
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Condor Base at Bordeaux bombed
On the night of the 22nd/23rd twenty-four heavy bombers attacked the aerodrome at Bordeaux; twenty-nine tons of high explosive and two thousand eight hundred incendiaries were dropped. The attack...
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First night of Southampton Blitz
You could see the whole of the city of Southampton from the hill and if there was a raid it looked like dozens of vast red fans over Southampton. I found that very frightening and I was glad to be in...
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Hugh Dowding is retired from the RAF
Yet the reserved uncharismatic, Dowding, nicknamed "Stuffy", was not popular amongst the higher echelons of the RAF. Some argued that he was not a sufficiently personable leader and should be spending...
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SS Patria sunk in Haifa Harbour
Jewish refugees were held in the port of Haifa on the SS Patria with the intention of making them proceed on to Mauritius. On the 25th November 1940 the SS Patria was bombed in attempt to prevent it...
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German raiders off New Zealand
The armed merchantman Rangitane had delivered evacuee children to New Zealand and was returning with a valuable cargo to Britain when she was trapped between the Orion and the Komet. Refusing orders...
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Battle of Cape Spartivento
Our forces engaged the enemy at extreme range, but were unable to overtake them. Fleet Air Arm aircraft from H.M.S. Ark Royal, however, succeeded in attacking with the following results : one torpedo...
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Nazi film ‘The Eternal Jew’ is released
Although the violent, murderous anti-semitic attitude of the regime towards was readily evident in its actions in Poland, the process was less blatant in Germany and occupied western Europe. Here the...
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Incendiary bombs over Surrey
One fell in a garden four houses away. They are small magnesium and carbide bombs about 2 feet long and 2 or 3 inches wide. A small fin of alloy one end enables them to fall straight down when the...
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British Empire troops ready in the Desert
The British had reinforced their army in the desert. Churchill had made the decision to send a number of the of new Matilda tanks, taking a risk that they would not be needed for the threatened...
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