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Monarch Gives In – 2-3
Britain’s Defenses Failing, Nazis Say – 3
The International Situation – 4
Commons Carries On Despite Raid Alarm; Suspends Only as Nazis Near Westminster – 4
Thames Area Hit – 5
Four Destroyers Sunk, Nazis Claim – 5
Nazis Seize Fire Engines Of Dutch for Ruhr Fires – 5
British Shell Isle in the Dodecanese – 6-7
War of Attrition? – 7
An ‘Aurora Borealis’ of War in the German Skies (photo) – 8
Churchill Asserts ‘We Can Stand It’ – 9
Prime Minister Churchill’s Report to the House of Commons on Progress of War – 10-12
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 13-14

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/sep40/f06sep40.htm

U-boat attacks surfaced to avoid sonar

Friday, September 6, 1940 www.onwar.com

In the North Atlantic... U-65 guides U-47 to convoy SC-2. During the night (September 6-7) U-47 sinks 3 ships by attacking while surfaced. This tactic effectively counters the sonar [referred to by the British as ASDIC because it was developed by the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee] equipped escorts.

Over Britain... The German attacks on the British airfields continue. Effort is wasted on less vital aircraft factories. They attack a more important airplane plant at Brooklands. The RAF is now flying more sorties per day than the combined total of the German bombers and fighters.

In Britain... The King and Queen visit RAF Fighter Command headquarters at Bentley Priory, Stanmore (Middlesex). Meanwhile, a German agent, Caroli, lands by parachute in Oxon and he is arrested almost immediately.

In Vichy France... General Weygand resigns from the government. He takes command of Vichy French forces in north Africa.

In Romania... King Carol abdicates in favor of Prince Michael. Later in the month it is announced that the fascist Iron Guard is to be the only legal political party.