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Luftwaffe bombs Coventry
Thursday, November 14, 1940 www.onwar.com
Over Britain... There is an especially heavy and effective German attack on Coventry involving 449 planes. Factories and historic buildings are badly damaged. Warning has been received during the afternoon of the day and the few precautions possible at this short notice have been taken by the relevant authorities.
In the Balkans... All the Greek forces have gone over to the offensive against the Italian invaders. Reinforcements have been brought from the troops facing Bulgaria. British aid to Greece begins to arrive. Over the course of the next two days, four cruisers ferry 3400 troops and airfield staff from Alexandria to Piraeus. By November 20th another 4000 have arrived.
In Singapore... The new British Commander in Chief for the Far East, Air Marshal Brooke-Popham arrives.
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November 14th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group. Aircraft of Nos. 101, 105 and 110 Squadrons attack Cambrai and Beauvais, home of KG 76 and KG 53. Also airfields at Etaples, Knocke, Rennes and Amiens/Glisy are bombed.
Coventry:
Special Constable Brandon Moss (b. 1909) saved four people trapped under the dangerously unstable debris of two bombed buildings. (George Cross)
London:
The Air Ministry announced:
Today the German Luftwaffe made several unsuccessful attempts to penetrate to London. British fighters put up vigorous resistance enabling them to repel each of the attack waves. Not one bomb fell on London.
In another announcement the Air Ministry said:
On the night before Thursday, the Italian naval port of Taranto was again bombed.
London: Neville Chamberlain’s funeral is held at Westminster Abbey.
Prime Minister to General Wavell: General situation makes it very desirable to undertake operation (Operation Compass) of which you spoke to Eden. It is unlikely that Germany will leave her flagging ally unsupported indefinitely. ...now is the time to take risks and strike the Italians ...
Corvettes HMS Auricula and Wallflower launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: Soviet-German negotiations on the USSR joining the alliance of the fascist states failed. (Dave Shirlaw)
ITALY:
Rome: The Italian Stefani News Agency reported:
The Italian Armed Forces Bulletin No. 138 reported on the enemy raid on Taranto on the night of 11th-12th November. Yesterday in the House of Commons, Churchill gave a completely false version of this incident. However, Italian authorities do not think it necessary to reply to this kind of tendentious twisting of the facts.
ALBANIA: Dimitry Statharos reaches the Albanian front south of Koritsa (Korce) and participates in a week long bombardment of the Italian stronghold. The next two and a half weeks will be his busiest combat period of the six month campaign, in addition to bombarding Italian positions he and his men must fight off the cold and hunger as it is in this three week period that food supplies arrive sporadically and his men must turn to boiling snails at times in order to get by. (Steve Statharos)
SINGAPORE: Air Marshall Brooke-Popham arrives as the new British Commander in Chief.
CANADA: Corvette HMS Trillium arrived Halifax from builder Montreal, Province of Quebec.
Minesweeper HMCS Mahone launched North Vancouver, British Columbia. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Washington: It is reported that Congress has had to take other quarters because engineers have decided that the 112-ton roof of the House chamber and the 90-ton roof of the Senate may crash any day.
Destroyers USS Hobson and Emmons laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
To keep ENIGMA a secret, Churchill allowed the attack on Coventry to proceed without ordering any extra defensive measures by the RAF or Army AA, despite advance notice of the raid due to codebreaking.
I remember my Grandma telling me about the raid on Coventry, she was in the middle of it and escaped death by a miracle. It wasn't pleasant.