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August 7th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM: RAF Fighter Command: Weather, cloudy. Luftwaffe attacks a convoy off the east coast.
Heavy raids on Poole, Dorset and bombs fall for the first time on Exeter.
Losses: Luftwaffe, 2. RAF 0.
Barnes Wallis in a meeting with the Deputy Director of Operational Requirements (RAF) proposes a 4,000lb bomb to be carried in a Wellington.
GERMANY: Daily Keynote from the Reich Press Chief:
In the matter of air leaflet propaganda, the Minister [of Propaganda, Göbbels] states that he does not expect much to come out of a German air-leaflet propaganda campaign in England, because the amount of effort that would go into it would be out of all proportion to the results ... The Minister admits that the most recent leaflets dropped by the British, are somewhat more dangerous than the earlier ones. He wishes to be informed at once of the exact wording of every new enemy leaflet that appears.
U-140 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine K-22 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Kamloops launched Victoria British Columbia. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Destroyer USS Grayson launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-38 sank SS Mohamed Ali El-Kebir. (Dave Shirlaw)
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Day 342 August 7, 1940
Battle of Britain Day 29. At 2.45 AM, D.S. Smith of 616 Squadron is killed when his Spitfire crashes during a night flying exercise. It is another fine day but very little Luftwaffe activity allows RAF to rest men and make repairs to aircraft & airstrips. 1 convoy is bombed. Overnight, there is bombing & minelaying all along the East coast of Britain & on the West from Land’s End to Liverpool.
East Africa. Indian troops from Aden (1st Battalion, 2nd Punjab Regiment) reinforce British forces in British Somaliland.
At 9.40 PM, 150 miles off Ireland, British troopship Mohamed Ali El Kebir, carrying 631 troops, 66 naval personnel & 165 crew from England to Gibraltar, is hit with 1 torpedo from U-38. Escort destroyer HMS Griffin depth charges U-38 for 2 hours while Mohamed Ali El Kebir sinks (10 crew members, 86 troops & naval personnel killed). HMS Griffin rescues 155 crew, 611 troops & naval personnel from various lifeboats, rafts and out of the water. http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/454.html
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