Articles Tagged with "History"
Added during 2010
2010-10-12
6 October 1940 Even under the best of circumstances, fighter operations of the 1940 would be a highly challenging business. Complexity of aircraft built ...
2010-10-05
30 September Monday, 30 September saw the last major daylight attack against London. Before noon, the Germans sent two large formations of between 200 ...
2010-10-01
27 September 1940 Seasalter is a small village located on the north coast of Kent, facing the Isle of Sheppey and the estuary of ...
2010-09-24
17 September 1940 On 17 September, following the decisive air battle over London and the South of England two days previously, Hitler summoned a ...
2010-09-16
15 September 1940. The weather was fine over south-eastern England on 15 September – commemorated annually ever since as the Battle of Britain Day.
2010-09-15
Describing the events of 15 September 1940, this letter by Sergeant Pilot G. D. Bushell of No. 213 Squadron, RAF provides a first-hand account of the grand air battle of that day.
2010-09-14
7 September 1940. The London Blitz began in the afternoon of 7 September with the first mass daylight air raid on the docks area.
2010-09-14
6 September 1940 By the beginning of September, London had entered its second year in the war. Three million men were called to arms, ...
2010-09-08
5 September 1940 Leutnant Franz von Werra was one of several Luftwaffe personalities who rose from obscurity to fame in a space of merely ...
2010-09-06
5 September 1940 As the first week of September was nearing its end, Fighter Command, which had been constantly mauled for three weeks, reached ...
