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10 July 10, 1940 (Wednesday) 11 July 11, 1940 (Thursday) ... Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag reviewing the course of the war and then warned, "Mr. Churchill, or ...
9 July: A fairly indecisive naval skirmish happens off the coast of Italy. No ships are lost. 10 July The Battle of Britain begins with Luftwaffe raids on channel shipping. President Roosevelt asks Congress for huge increases in military preparations. 11 July: RAF raids on enemy emplacements in the Netherlands and on German munitions factories.
The Battle of Britain began on 10 July 1940, when the first Luftwaffe bomber fleets began attacking convoys and Royal Navy forces in English ports and the Channel. The results were positive and the Germans succeeded in forcing the British to abandon the channel convoy route and to redirect shipping to ports in north-eastern Britain.
On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the Luftwaffe started attacking southern England. In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation ...
German bombing of Britain reached its peak in October and November 1940. In post-war ... Luftwaffe losses from 10 July to 30 October 1940 total 1,977 ...
9 July 1940 Official start date of the Battle of Britain. 10 July 1940 Introduction of Defence Regulation 58AA allowing the Minister of Labour to ban strike action and force compulsory arbitration. No strikes are called by any trade union during the war; there are unofficial short local strikes in coal, shipbuilding and machinery. [12] 21 July 1940
The squadron was formed on 10 July 1940 at RAF Duxford. [1] It was the first RAF squadron to be raised crewed by foreign nationals, in this case escaped Czechoslovak pilots. Initially it had two Squadron Leaders: the British Douglas Blackwood [2] and the Czechoslovak Alexander Hess.
On 2 July 1940, in the aftermath of the French surrender, Adolf Hitler decided that an invasion of Britain could only begin after achieving air superiority. On 12 July he outlined his reasoning: aerial domination over the invasion area and its sea approaches was necessary to compensate for the weakness of the Kriegsmarine .