Diary September 5, 1940

09-1940, War Diary, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

force-landed Me109 from von Werra — A British guard with the force-landed Me 109 from von Werra.

Diary for Thursday, September 5, 1940:

Air War

Luftwaffe raid Biggin Hill and Detling airfields; Ju 88s and He 111s fire oil storage tanks at Thameshaven (these burn for many days); Maidstone bombed. Night raids on Liverpool and Manchester.
Oberleutnant von Werra captured when he force-lands Me 109E in Kent; von Werra is later only German PoW to escape (from Canada) and return to Germany.

Sea War

Operation Walter: German minelayers active in Straits of Dover (night September 5-6).

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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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