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Added in September 2010
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 ...
Added in August 2010
2010-08-23
16 August 1940 Of the two main British fighter types participating in the Battle of Britain, the rugged Hawker Hurricane was notorious for its ...
2010-08-12
4 August 1940 In the late afternoon of 4 August 1940, Polish pilot Witold Urbanowicz arrived by car in front of the officers’ mess ...
2010-08-03
3 August 1940 During the first phase of the air battle in July, Dowding’s Fighter Command, although desperately short of pilots, had beaten the ...
Added in July 2010
2010-07-24
24 July 1940 Margate was a seaside town which for over a century had attracted crowds of Londoners by its wide beaches and amusement facilities. In the morning of ...
2010-07-14
13-14 June On these days, one could sit all day on top of the medieval walls of the Dover Castle and watch the steam ...
Added in June 2010
2010-06-23
19-23 June 1940 British evacuation from the continent was finally complete and, overall, a success: some 144,000 returned to UK. Left behind in France were ...
2010-06-11
10-24 June 1940 On 10 June there was no longer any hope of defending the French capital. Paris was declared an open city, and ...
2010-06-04
4 June 1940 On this day, 70 years ago at 3:40pm, Churchill rose in the House of Commons to report on current war situation. ...
2010-06-02
23 May – 1 June, 1940. in a space of just over a week, the home force held their stand in a large aerial battle and their best weapon hitherto largely held in reserve, the Spitfire, was blooded an fulfilled expectations. RAF got its first fighter aces.