Diary October 15, 1940

10-1940, War Diary, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Burning buildings after a Blitz air raid — Burning buildings after a ‘Blitz’ air raid, close to St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London.

Diary for Tuesday, October 15, 1940:

Air War

THE BLITZ: 400 German bombers raid London by moonlight, dropping 530 t of high-explosives bombs, starting 900 major fires in the City of London and seriously disrupting road and rail communications; Oxford Street blocked; BBC Broadcasting House hit. 400 killed, 900 injured (600 trapped in Balham Underground Station).
RAF night raid on Kiel (repeated October 16-17): 5 aircraft lost on second raid.

Sea War

Mediterranean: British sub Rainbow and Italian submarine Enrico Toti (damaged previously and unable to submerge) fight gun battle off Calabria; Rainbow sunk.

Neutrals

USA: 16 Million men register for military service.

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

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