London and Southampton raided. Night: Heavy raids on London and the Midlands. Weather: Channel overcast. Haze in northern France and Dover Straits. Main Activity: In what seems in retrospect like a last convulsive spasm, the Luftwaffe pilots gave of their best. By 11 a.m. thirty of them were fighting it out with British fighters over […]
1940
29
Oct
30
Oct
Wednesday 30 October 1940
Nuisance raids on a reduced scale. Night: Activity reduced. Weather: Low cloud and continuous drizzle in all regions. Main Activity: It was not until 11.30 a.m. that the first plots began to appear on the operations rooms tables. They were comparatively small. At midday eighty raiders flew into the Estuary and at 12.15 two waves […]
31
Oct
Thursday 31 October 1940
Fighter-bomber and fighter sweeps. Night: Activity greatly reduced. Weather: Drizzle in the Channel, haze in the Thames estuary and Dover Straits. Summary: The rains came, as it were, to douse the last remaining embers of a bonfire. A few of them spat, however, into sixty half-hearted incursions across the Channel. By nightfall the Battle of […]