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September 28th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group (Whitley). Bombing - industrial targets at Berlin - Fokker aircraft factory at Amsterdam - ‘Razzling’.

51 Sqn. Twelve aircraft. Eleven got off, six bombed Berlin, four bombed alternatives.

78 Sqn. Eight aircraft to Berlin. One aborted, three bombed primary, two bombed alternatives, two failed to bomb.

RAF Fighter Command: Luftwaffe raids on London and Solent. Scattered bomber raids massively escorted, with inevitable results. Hurricanes particularly suffering. At night London is bombed.

From four large morning raids only six enemy aircraft penetrate to central London after 24 RAF Squadrons reacted.

Afternoon aroused a 25-Squadron response to deal with about 40 bombers and 120 fighters, all flying high. Other fighters engaged about 50 Bf110s off Portsmouth.

After dark 121 raiders approached London, 65 crossing its heart between 18:46 and 07:12 and causing the guns to fire for nine hours. Major incidents occurred at Lambeth and Nine Elms goods yards, the Albert Embankment, and Southwark, where three HEs destroyed St. Peter’s Crypt Shelter, killing 18 outright and trapping many.

Losses: Luftwaffe, 16; RAF, 16.

The first of fifty old destroyers arrives from the USA.

GERMANY: Hitler secretly orders the economy to be mobilized toward the invasion of Russia. (Jack McKillop)

U-97 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

NORWAY: The Nazi commissioner Josef Terboven formally deposes the King and nominates Vidkun Quisling “sole political leader.”

ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-37 sank SS Corrientes in Convoy OB-217.
U-32 sank SS Empire Ocelot in Convoy OB-218.

An enemy submarine spotted by U-31. U-31 dived and heard a torpedo running which missed. (Dave Shirlaw)

U.S.A.: The US Army’s Louisiana manoeuvres, which began on 14 September, end. (Jack McKillop)

Submarine USS Mackerel launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Lunenburg laid down Lauzon, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)