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| Thur.
August 8th |
Showers with bright intervals, cloud over Channel | Morning attack on convoy by Ju 87's and Bf 109's intercepted
by six squadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires. Second raid of 60 Ju 87's
met by four RAF squadrons. At 5.00pm more than 80 Ju 87's and Bf 109's
make third attack. Seven RAF squadrons intercept.
Night: Minelaying, small bomber raids |
19 | 31 |
| Fri.
August 9th |
Rain with bright intervals, cloud over Channel | Shipyards at Sunderland bombed. East coast convoys attacked.
Night: Minelaying and attacks on east coast shipping |
3 | 5 |
| Sat.
August 10th |
Cloudy, some thunderstorms, windy, bright patches | Norwich bombed. Reconnaissance over the Channel and inland.
Night: Minelaying |
0 | 0 |
| Sun.
August 11th |
Fair morning but a little cloudy | No. 74 Sqn intercepts raid on Dover barrage balloon by Bf 110's and
Bf 109's. Portland naval base attacked by 150 German bombers. Five Hurricane
and two Spitfire squadrons engage.
Night: Raids on Merseyside, mines laid in Bristol Channel |
27 | 36 |
| Mon.
August 12th |
Fine with patches of mist | Attacks on radar stations. Ventnor put out of action, others damaged.
Airfields at Manston, Hawkinge, Lympne heavily attacked. Portsmouth, Dover
and Hastings bombed.
Night: Minelaying |
22 | 31 |
| Tues.
August 13th |
Foggy in France, Channel under heavy cloud. Mist and some cloud over England | Bad weather postpones Adlertag Zero Hour till afternoon. One formation
of 55 Do 17's missed the order and bombed Eastchurch airfield. Spitfires
of 74 Sqn and Hurricanes of 11 and 151 Sqns caught the bombers on the way
home and shot down four. In afternoon 23 Bf 110's tried to decoy RAF fighters
away from a Ju 87 raid. Five Bf 110's were shot down. Ju 87 raid went unintercepted
but failed to deliver bombs due to low cloud. Oldham, Farnborough and Detling
airfields attacked. Southampton docks heavily damaged.
Night: Midlands, West Country and Scotland bombed |
13 | 34 |
| Wed.
August 14th |
Cloud with bright intervals | Airfields, radar stations and aircraft factories attacked. 16 Bf 110's
bombed Manston and destroyed four hangars. Dover and Folkestone balloon
barrages attacked. Hawkinge, Sealand, and Lympne airfields attacked. Railway
lines bombed at Southampton.
Night: Some small nuisance raids |
8 | 19 |
| Thur.
August 15th |
Fine over Britain | The Luftwaffe's 'Black Thursday'. 60 Ju 87's and 40 Bf 109's attacked
Lympne, Hawkinge and Manston. Damage to electricity supplies put Dover,
Rye and Foreness radar stations off the air. From Norway, 63 He 111's and
21 Bf 110's of Luftflotte V tried to attack airfields in the north of England.
Intercepted by 72, 14, 65, 79 and 607 sqns, 8 He 111's and 7 Bf 110's were
downed. No airfields were hit. A second raid of 50 Ju 88's without fighter
escort was met by 616 sqn and a flight of 73 sqn and six bombers were destroyed.
Some bombs fell on Bridlington and 10 aircraft were destroyed on the ground
at RAF Driffield. Luftflotte V never attacked in daylight again.
Continuous attacks on the south of England. In the afternoon raids of 100 and 150 planes were intercepted by 1, 17, 32, 64, 151 and 601 sqns. Martlesham Heath airfield was strafed and bombed. Later more heavy raids hit Biggin Hill, Worthy Down, Odiham and Croydon airfields The RAF flew a total of 974 sorties and the Luftwaffe 1,786 sorites that day. Night: Bristol, Birmingham, Southampton, Boston, Harwich, Swansea Crewe and Beverley bombed |
30 | 75 |
| Frid.
August 16th |
Channel hazy, other places fair | Attacks begin around lunchtime. West Malling, Tangmere, Westhampnet,
and Manston fighter airfields attacked. West Malling put out of action
for four days. Non-fighter airfields were attacked at Farnborough, Harwell,
Brize Norton, Gosport and Lee-on-Solent. Many aircraft were destroyed on
the ground but only three of these were fighters. Ventnor radar station
put out of action. London docks heavily bombed.
Night: Bristol, Chester, Portland, Newport, Swansea, Worcester and Tavistock bombed |
22 | 45 |
| Sat.
August 17th |
Fine | Luftwaffe rests. Only one reconnaissance mission flown.
Night: Small raids on Wales, Midlands and NW England |
0 | 3 |
| Sun.
August 18th |
Fine, later cloudy | Huge German formations attacked West Malling, Biggin Hill, Kenley and
Croydon around midday. Other airfields and Poling radar station attacked.
Ju 87's were so roughly handled by Spitfires and Hurricanes of 152 and
43 Sqns respectively that the Stukas were withdrawn from the battle. Galland's
second in command, Oberleutnant Schopfel shot down four Hurricanes in two
minutes over Folkestone.
Night: Bristol, eastern England and south Wales bombed. Mines laid in the Bristol Channel. |
31 | 53 |
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