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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
Speaks as a Victor – 2-3
Hitler Says War Keeps Him From Goal in Reich – 3
New Kind of Bread to Aid Britons Bear the Strain – 3
U.S. Will Reopen Martinique Office – 3
The International Situation – 4
Britain is Defiant – 5-6
British Navy Aids in Land Defenses – 6
U.S. Ambulance Corps to Stay On in France – 6
Sea Battle Fought in Mediterranean – 7-8
British Fire Heavy on Fort Capuzzo – 8
150 Planes Battle over British Coast – 9
Nazi Raider Sinks 2 British Ships Off West Indies; Sea Hunt Begins – 10
Ironside Replaced as Defense Chief – 10
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques - 11
4 posted on 07/20/2010 5:30:46 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jul40/f20jul40.htm

German night-fighter achieves kill

Saturday, July 20, 1940 www.onwar.com

An Me110 of NJG 1specially outfitted for night fighting, with its pilot and radio operator prepare for take off.
Over Germany... First Lieutenant Werner Streib in an Me110 night-fighter, using only visual contact, achieves the first nighttime kill of the war by shooting down a British Whitley bomber over northwestern Germany.

In Berlin... Goring, the commander in chief of the Luftwaffe, orders the creation of the first specialized night-fighter wing — Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 (NJG 1) — under the command of Colonel Josef Kammhuber.

In the Mediterranean... Off the coast of Tobruk in Libya, 2 Italian destroyers and a cargo ship are torpedoed by British Swordfish torpedo bombers.


5 posted on 07/20/2010 5:33:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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