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R. A. F. BOMBS BERLIN AND NORTH ITALY; CHURCHILL ASKS FRENCH TO AID BRITAIN (10/22/40)
Microfiche-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 10/22/40 | Raymond Daniell, James B. Reston

Posted on 10/22/2010 5:31:00 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: milhist; realtime; worldwarii
Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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1 posted on 10/22/2010 5:31:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
German Fighter Range and British Radar Deployment
Marcks’ Plan, August 5, 1940
The Mediterranean Basin (Map 33)
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – The Imperial Powers, 1 September 1939

Plus a special guest map from Michael Korda’s, “With Wings Like Eagles,” showing the air defenses of England and Wales, August 1940.

2 posted on 10/22/2010 5:31:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Winston S. Churchill, Their Finest Hour


3 posted on 10/22/2010 5:32:37 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Gordon W. Prange, At Dawn We Slept

4 posted on 10/22/2010 5:33:24 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; GRRRRR; 2banana; henkster; ...
Raids Hit at Axis – 2
2D ‘Freedom’ Station in Reich Herd Here – 2
The International Situation – 3
Briton Broadcasts – 4
Nazis Ban All War News from 11 P.M. to 6 A.M. – 4
Text of Churchill’s Talk to French – 5
Nazis Widen Raids on British Plants – 6
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 7-8
5 posted on 10/22/2010 5:34:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Accommodations in the West of England for the “Black Move”?

Was the "Black Move" a plan for the evacuation of London?

6 posted on 10/22/2010 5:46:56 AM PDT by iowamark
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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/oct40/f22oct40.htm

Luftwaffe raids weakening

Tuesday, October 22, 1940 www.onwar.com

Over Britain... The shortest night raid since the beginning of “The Blitz” is recorded. A large department store is destroyed in the attack.

In Italian East Africa... South African air force planes attack Birikau for the fifth time.


7 posted on 10/22/2010 5:53:04 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/22.htm

October 22nd, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Battle of Britain: In foggy weather, five German crashes lead to the loss of several senior officers.
Losses: Luftwaffe, 11; RAF, 5.

FRANCE: Montoire: Hitler discusses France’s role in Europe’s “new order” with the vice-premier, Pierre Laval.

GERMANY: Rhineland: 5,000 German Jews are deported to camps in France.

U-68 launched.

U-108 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)

RED SEA: Italian destroyer ‘Nullo’ is destroyed as she lies aground by RAF Blenheims.

U.S.A.: Richardson protests the unreality of the existing War Plans to Stark.

The USAAC ordered that the national star insignia was to be (1) placed on the fuselage and (2) removed from the top of the right wing and the bottom of the left wing. The USAAC also ordered that rudder stripes were to be removed. (Jack McKillop)

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Canadian destroyer HMCS Margaree is lost in collision with merchantman SS Port Fairy as she escorts Liverpool-out convoy OL8 450 miles to the west of Ireland at 53 24N, 22 50E. Cut in half the forward half of the ship sinks immediately, the after half remaining afloat is eventually sunk by gunfire from the Port Fairy. She sinks with 142 casualties, but 31 crew survive. Compounding the tragedy, 86 of those lost are survivors of the Fraser disaster. Margaree is the second destroyer lost due to collision within four months. This is the last of the short lived fast OLs from Liverpool. (Alex Gordon)(108)


8 posted on 10/22/2010 5:55:58 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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http://worldwar2daybyday.blogspot.com/

Day 418 October 22, 1940

Battle of Britain Day 105. Widespread fog in the morning restricts Luftwaffe to reconnaissance flights. In the afternoon, fog clears to rain and Luftwaffe sends 2 fighter sweeps, 1 over Kent and 1 over Southeast London and Thames Estuary (3 Bf109s shot down, 6 REF fighters shot down with 4 pilots killed). 2 minesweeping trawler hits mines and sink. HMT Joseph Button sinks 6 miles off Aldeburgh, Suffolk, (5 killed) and HMT Hickory sinks in the English Channel, South of Weymouth (24 killed). Night bombing of London is light but Liverpool is attacked and Coventry is heavily bombed from 8-10 PM, starting 150 fires and causing much damage.

Canadian destroyer HMCS Margaree, escorting convoy OL-8, collides with freighter Port Fairy 300 miles West of Ireland and sinks (142 crew lost, 34 rescued by Port Fairy). HMCS Margaree had previously been in the Royal Navy as HMS Diana and had been commissioned into the Canadian Navy on September 6. Most of the crew had survived the sinking of destroyer HMCS Fraser on June 25 after a collision with cruiser HMS Calcutta.


9 posted on 10/22/2010 5:59:50 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Was the "Black Move" a plan for the evacuation of London?

Only of "essential" civil servants. See the the first memo on reply #4 from September 14 for Churchill's explanation.

September 14 thread

10 posted on 10/22/2010 6:12:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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Thank you.


11 posted on 10/22/2010 6:55:58 AM PDT by iowamark
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Battle of Britain Campaign Diary

Date: 22nd October 1940


12 posted on 10/22/2010 8:37:46 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (It take a village to raise an idiot.)
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