[Homer_J_Simpson]

Worst Damage Yet – 2-3
Britain to Make Scrap Of Famous Locomotive – 3
The International Situation – 4
British Pound Foe – 4-5
First London Raid Starts Fires; Populace Is Calm Under Bombing – 5-6
Britons Again on Alert For Parachute Menace – 5
Nazis Claim Hits on British Bases – 7
Italians Pressing Air Raids in Egypt – 7-8
The Weakness of Greece (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 8
Nazis Claim Sinking of Three More Ships – 9
Major Sports Yesterday – 9
Willkie Holds Lead in Gallup Test, But Roosevelt Picks Up Four States – 10-11
Hopkins Resigns from the Cabinet (by Bertram D. Hulen) – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 13

News of the Week in Review
Twenty News Questions – 14
Campaign of Britain Entering a Third Phase – 15-16
Answers to Twenty News Questions – 16

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/aug40/f25aug40.htm

Attrition ratio favors Germans

Sunday, August 25, 1940 www.onwar.com

Over Britain... The main German attack is against the fighter airfield at Warmwell. The attack is heavily escorted and, despite powerful British fighter forces being sent, the Germans only lose one bomber and each side loses 11 fighters. In total the Germans lose 20 aircraft and the British 16. This ratio favors the Germans in the long run. During the night the Germans attack Birmingham and other targets.

Over Germany... In response to the events of the previous night the RAF bombs Berlin. This is something of a shock to the German leaders who have claimed extravagantly that this is impossible.

[BroJoeK]

"Willkie Holds Lead in Gallup Test, But Roosevelt Picks Up Four States – 10-11"

Interesting to note yet again how foreign 1940s era politics were to our assumptions today...

The "Solid South" which we today think of as solidly conservative -- the very heart of "Red State Country" -- was then solidly behind Socialist Roosevelt, the progenator of our own generation of Democrat leaders.

At the same time, today's People's Republics of New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, etc., etc., were the 1940's supposedly more conservative Republican strong-holds.

Goes to show that in the long run lots of things change...