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RAF | German |
Sun.
October 6th |
Wet | London and SE England lightly attacked. Low-flying fighter
bombers attack Biggin Hill airfield and destroy three barrack blocks.
Night: Slight activity over London |
1 | 6 |
Mon.
October 7th |
Poor | Aircraft factory at Yeovil bombed
Night: London, Merseyside and Firth of Forth bombed. Hatfield, Ford, Tangmere and Lee-on-Solent and Eastleigh airfields hit |
17 | 21 |
Tues.
October 8th |
Fair | Persistent bombing attacks on London.
Night: London bombed |
4 | 14 |
Wed.
October 9th |
Poor | South-eastern airfields and London hit.
Night: London heavily bombed |
1 | 9 |
Thur.
October 10th |
Patchy | South-eastern airfields, Weymouth and London attacked by incessant
raids of fighter-bombers and bombers.
Night: London, Merseyside, Manchester and airfields attacked |
5 | 4 |
Fri.
October 11th |
Showers, fair intervals, early mist, night fog | Southend, Kenley and Biggin Hill airfields attacked. Folkestone, Weymouth,
Canterbury and Deal bombed.
Night: London, Teeside, Tyneside, Merseyside and Manchester bombed |
9 | 7 |
Sat.
October 12th |
Mist and fog dispersed by light wind | London attacked.
Night: London bombed |
19 | 11 |
Sun.
October 13th |
Early fog, clearing to fine, becoming cloudy in the afternoon | Fighter-bomber raid on London.
Night: Dundee, Bristol, Merseyside, wales and London attacked |
2 | 5 |
Mon.
October 14th |
Rain | Light raids over Midlands and SE England.
Night: Full moon night. London badly hit by Bf 110's. Waterloo Station badly damaged, underground lines hit, power stations, gasworks and roads hit. Over 900 fires started |
0 | 3 |
Tues.
October 15th |
Fair, Straits of Dover cloudy | Fighter-bomber attacks on London and Kent.
Night: Heavy bombing of London and Birmingham |
12 | 13 |
Wed.
October 16th |
Foggy in France, mist and rain at night in Britain | Weather prevented everything except sporadic single sorties over SE
England.
Night: Light attacks on London |
1 | 13 |
Thur.
October 17th |
Rain with bright intervals | Fighter-bombers attack London and Fighter Command HQ at Stanmore. seaside
towns of Margate and Broadstairs bombed.
Night: SE England attacked |
3 | 15 |
Fri.
October 18th |
Fog in SE England | Widespread small-scale raids.
Night: Same as daytime |
4 | 15 |
Sat.
October 19th |
Cloudy | Little activity.
Night: Weak attacks on London, Merseyside and Bristol |
5 | 5 |
Sun.
October 20th |
Cloudy | Fighter-bombers hit London and Kent.
Night: Coventry and London badly hit |
4 | 14 |
Mon.
October 21st |
Rain, cloud, fog | London, west England and Merseyside raided.
Night: London, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Liverpool and Birmingham bombed. South coast radar stations attacked |
0 | 6 |
Tues.
October 22nd |
Rain and fog | Two convoys off Dover and one in Thames Estuary unsuccessfully attacked.
Night: Light attacks on Birmingham and London |
6 | 11 |
Wed.
October 23rd |
Cloudy, rain | Nuisance raids on Tangmere and Biggin Hill airfields, London, Harwich,
Southampton and Cromer.
Night: Glasgow and London bombed |
6 | 4 |
Thur.
October 24th |
Low cloud | Sporadic intrusions over south and central England.
Night: Light attacks on Birmingham and London |
0 | 8 |
Fri.
October 25th |
Fair with low cloud | London and SE England hit by bombs jettisoned or dropped from high
altitude.
Night: Harwich raided by Regia Aeronautica (Italian air force) |
10 | German
20 Italian 2 |
Sat.
October 26th |
Cloudy becoming fair | Frequent fighter-bomber attacks on SE England, London and a Channel
convoy.
Night: Merseyside, Manchester and London bombed |
2 | 10 |
Sun.
October 27th |
Cloudy | Fighter and fighter-bomber sweeps of up to 50 strong attack London
and Thames Estuary in morning. In the late afternoon London, Southampton
and airfield at Martlesham Heath attacked.
Night: London, Bristol and Liverpool bombed. Several airfields strafed |
8 | 12 |
Mon.
October 28th |
Cloudy, some fog | London bombed. convoys in Thames attacked.
Night: London, Merseyside and Midlands raided |
2 | 11 |
Tues.
October 29th |
Haze and low cloud | Last great German effort of the Battle. Raid heading for London engaged
at 11.00am. Second raid intercepted by 602 Sqn. and 12 fighter-bombers
shot down. Three raids totalling 112 fighter-bombers attacked Portsmouth.
Italians using obselete aircraft bomb Ramsgate.
Night: London and central England heavily bombed |
7 | 19 |
Wed.
October 30th |
Rain and overcast | 80 bombers appear over Thames Estuary, followed 15 minutes later by
another 100. Six RAF sqns intercepted them. In the afternoon 130 enemy
planes approached the south coast but only a few got through to London.
Bad weather hampered both defenders and attackers.
Night: Scattered small raids |
5 | 8 |
Thur.
October 31st |
Hazy and wet | Weak effort by fighter-bombers against London and Kent.
Night: Weak bomber effort |
0 | 0 |
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133 | 266 | ||
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271 | 503 | ||
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278 | 365 | ||
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175 | 332 | ||
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73 | 157 | ||
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930 | 1623 |