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RAF | German |
| Mon.
August 19th |
Cloudy, eastern England showers | Activity restricted by weather. Many German reconnaissance
flights. Raids on Dover, Portsmouth, Southampton and Pembroke Dock.
Night: Small raids on Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Hull, Leicester, Derby, Bristol and Southampton |
3 | 6 |
| Tues.
August 20th |
Most places rain and cloud, fine over Channel | Attack on Dover balloon barrage. Manston, West Mailing and Eastchurch
airfields hit. Convoys off Welsh and East Anglian coasts attacked.
Night: Bombers over south-west England |
2 | 6 |
| Wed.
August 21st |
Rain and cloud | Before noon 50 barrage ballons shot down at Dover. Debden, Eastchurch
and Detling airfields attacked. Biggin Hill and Hornchurch airfields badly
damaged in the afternoon. All raids were roughly handled by RAF fighters.
Grimbsy, Canterbury, Norwich, Bournemouth, Southampton and Newmarket bombed.
Night: Small raids on Firth of Forth, Hull and Harwich |
1 | 12 |
| Thur.
August 22nd |
Rain squalls and cloud | Manston airfield bombed. Dover bombed. Shipping in Channel attacked.
Night: Airfields bombed at Manston, North Coates, St. Eval and Wick. Aircraft factory at Filton bombed. Convoy attacked at Wick |
5 | 2 |
| Fri.
August 23rd |
Showers, cloudy, some bright patches | Tangmere, Biggin Hill and Abingdon airfields lightly attacked. Portsmouth,
Maidstone, St. Albans and Cromer visited by bombers. Convoys off Norfolk
and Essex coasts attacked. German bombs jettisoned by mistake over London
residential areas.
Night: Pembroke Dock and factories in the Midlands attacked |
0 | 5 |
| Sat.
August 24th |
Showers in north, fine in south | Manston airfield heavily damaged. Further attacks on Hornchurch, North
Weald, Ramsgate, Portsmouth and Dover.
Night: Northern England and SE England visited by 170 bombers. Again, by mistake, bombs fall on London |
22 | 38 |
| Sun.
August 25th |
Fair becoming cloudy | In the mid-afternoon Warmell airfield badly damaged. West of England,
the Scilly Isles and Pembroke Dock bombed. Heavy raids on Thames Estuary
and Dover.
Night: South Midlands, south Wales, south England and Montrose airfield in Scotland attacked |
16 | 20 |
| Mon.
August 26th |
Channel cloudy, most of Britain also | Late morning Biggin Hill and Kenley airfields, Folkstone and
Dover balloon barrage attacked by over 150 aircraft. Six RAF sqns meet
and scatter raids. In afternoon more than 100 enemy planes attempt to bomb
Hornchurch and North Weald airfields. Raid turned back by RAF fighters
but Debden airfield severely damaged. Another 150 plane raid intercepted.
Portsmouth, Biggin Hill, Kenley, Debden and Warmell attacked.
Night: Bournemouth, Coventry, St. Eval and Plymouth bombed |
31 | 41 |
| Tues.
August 27th |
Dover Straits hazy, rain Midlands and east | Luftwaffe reconnaissance flights.
Night: South and south-east England visited by bombers |
0 | 3 |
| Wed.
August 28th |
Generally fair to fine, Dover Straits cloudy | Rochford and Eastchurch bombed. German fighter sweeps over the Thames
Estuary and Kent engaged by RAF.
Night: 150 bombers attack Derby, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Sheffield and London |
28 | 30 |
| Thur.
August 29th |
Bright intervals between rain | Light raids on south and south-east England
Night: 130 bombers attack Liverpool |
9 | 17 |
| Fri.
August 30th |
Fair over Britain, Channel fine | Diversionary attacks on shipping in Thames Estuary. In morning three
raids damage Biggin Hill. RAF had sixteen sqns up in defence. In
afternoon raids on Kenley, Biggin Hill and Shoreham airfields. Rye, Pevensey,
Dover, Foreness, Beachy Head, Forelight and Whitsable radar stations rendered
unserviceable. At 4.00pm, Biggin Hill and North Weald airfields attacked.
Airfields at Oxford, Luton and Debden damaged. Biggin Hill attacked again
by 10 enemy aircraft at 6.00pm.
Night: London, Liverpool and south Wales bombed. Single plane attacks on airfields in the south. |
25 | 36 |
| Sat.
August 31st |
Dover Straits hazy, elsewhere fair | Radar stations at Rye, Pevensey, Beachy Head, Foreness and Whitstable
damaged. Dover balloon barrage destroyed. North Weald, Hornchurch, Biggin
Hill, Croydon and Detling airfields attacked. Debden airfield hit by 100
bombs.
Night: Liverpool badly damaged. Bristol, Manchester, Portsmouth, Durham, Gloucester and Worcester bombed |
39 | 41 |
| Sun.
September 1st |
Fine | More attacks on airfields. Eastchurch, Detling, Biggin Hill, Lympne
and Hawkinge all attacked. Docks at Tilbury and Dover bombed.
Night: Sheffield, Liverpool, Hull, Grimsby and Burton attacked |
15 | 14 |
| Mon.
September 2nd |
Fine, Dover Straits hazy | Airfields at Biggin Hill, Rochford, North Weald, Debden, Eastchurch,
Hornchurch, Kenly, Digby and Detling attacked. Aircraft factory at Brooklands
bombed.
Night: Liverpool and Birmingham bombed. Mines laid off Welsh coast |
31 | 35 |
| Tues.
September 3rd |
Mostly fine | Airfields at North Weald, Hornchurch and Debden severly hit.
Night: Liverpool, south wales and SE England bombed |
16 | 16 |
| Wed.
September 4th |
Fine | Dover ballon barrage hit. Lympe and Eastchurch airfields attacked.
Goering decides to attack the aircraft industry. Brooklands and Rochester
aircraft factories hit.
Night: Liverpool, Bristol, Newcastle, Manchester, south Wales, Gravesend, Tilbury and Nottingham bombed |
15 | 20 |
| Thur.
September 5th |
Mostly fine | Attacks on airfields at Croydon, Lympne, North Weald, Biggin Hill and
Eastchurch.
Night: Liverpool, London, Manchester and 40 other places bombed. |
20 | 23 |
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