Mainly fighter and fighter-bomber sweeps. Night: Widespread raids with London the main target. Weather: Cloudy all day except for brighter weather in the late morning. Main Activity: The two Luftflotten made an early start and by 7.45 a.m. were raiding London and convoys in the estuary with a series of formations of as many as […]
1940
27
Oct
28
Oct
Monday 28 October 1940
Convoy off Dover and shipping in the Thames Estuary attacked. London attacked during the afternoon. Night: Widespread attacks across the country. Weather: Misty in northern France. Fog over the Thames Estuary and Straits clearing later. Main Activity: Mist in northern France restricted the Germans to nuisance raids by single aircraft which also attacked some ships […]
29
Oct
Tuesday 29 October 1940
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 […]
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 […]