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• Monday, 2 September 1940

  2 September 2010 in 1940s, Air defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940

  The Manchester Guardian sums up the weekend's raids above (5). Eighty-five enemy aircraft were shot down on Saturday, and another twenty-five yesterday. British losses on those days were thirty-seven and fifteen, respectively. The headlines make for reassuring reading: 'Raiders baffled in attacks on aerodromes', 'Raiders scattered on way to London', 'Nazis lose 700 airmen in [...]

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• Sunday, 1 September 1940

  1 September 2010 in 1940s, Maps, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940

  The New Statesman was a little off in its belief that the Germans have given up 'blitzkrieg' tactics, as yesterday they renewed their heavy daylight assaults against RAF aerodromes. According to the Observer (above, 7) they also targeted 'women shoppers' in two places near or in London. On page 8, there's a handy map to [...]

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• Saturday, 31 August 1940

  31 August 2010 in 1940s, Civil defence, Periodicals, Post-blogging 1940, Radio

  Saturday is the day that the new New Statesman and Nation comes out. (The Spectator comes out on Friday, but I missed that yesterday. Not to worry; there's always next week.) It's a 'week-end review', not a newspaper, but inevitably has much commentary on the war, generally from a left-wing perspective. Indeed, this week it [...]

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• Friday, 30 August 1940

  30 August 2010 in 1940s, Air defence, Civil defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940

  Interestingly, after yesterday's coordinated pro-bombing campaign, today's headlines in The Times (4) emphasise the efforts of Bomber Command over those of Fighter Command. In particular, a raid on Berlin on Wednesday night (or Thursday morning) is described in some detail. A 'large number of bombs, high explosive and incendiary' were dropped 'on a series of [...]

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• Thursday, 29 August 1940

  29 August 2010 in 1940s, Air defence, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging 1940

  The daylight air battles over the south of England intensified yesterday, as these headlines from the Manchester Guardian (5) show. The RAF shot down 24 enemy aircraft while losing 12 of its own (4 of the pilots are safe). Churchill visited the south-east coast and saw some of the action. He was driven out from [...]

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