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Bomber Command strikes Dusseldorf
Saturday, December 7, 1940 www.onwar.com
Over Germany... British RAF bombers raid Dusseldorf during the night (December 7-8).
Over Britain... There are no air raids record — day or night — for the first 24 hour period since August 7th.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/07.htm
December 7th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Fighter Command: No. 263 becomes the first Squadron to be operational with the Westland Whirlwind single-seat twin-engined fighter. They are used at first on convoy patrol.
GERMANY:
The RAF tonight bombs the industrial city of Dusseldorf.
NORTH AFRICA:
RAF Wellingtons based in Malta bombed Castel Benito in Libya and destroyed 29 Italian aeroplanes.
During the night a British and Commonwealth force of 30,000 men and 275 tanks under Maj. Gen Richard O’Connor sets forth on a 70-mile march around the Italian minefield’s flank and take the enemy from the rear.
PACIFIC OCEAN: German Auxiliary Cruiser Komet sinks the merchantman Vinni.
U.S.A.:
The American Federation of Labor reports that there are 8,130,000 registered unemployed in the United States.