Diary for Monday, September 2, 1940:
Air War
Heavy raids on airfields. Serious damage at Detling and Eastchurch (bomb dump explodes). Surprise low-level attack on Biggin Hill. Fighter-bomber unit Erpr.Grp.210 suffers heavy losses (8 Me 110s). Small-scale night raids on Birmingham, Liverpool and Cardiff. Mines dropped in Thames Estuary (similar operations on six other nights in September 1940).