Diary for Sunday, December 29, 1940:
Air War
Britain: SECOND GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. 136 aircraft drop 30,000 incendiaries – great conflagration in ‘City’ area; Guildhall and 8 Wren churches gutted.
Neutrals
USA: Roosevelt declares in a radio ‘fireside chat’ broadcast: ‘We must be the great arsenal of democracy.’