The British Admiralty announced that the submarine HMS Oswald
was overdue and must be presumed lost. The British liner Kemmerdine
overdue and presumed lost.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) bombed aerodromes of Schiphol
and Valkenburg. Coastal Command aircraft shot down a Messerschmitt
off Le Havre. Night raids made on, Hamburg docks, supply depots
at Hamm, Soest and Cologne. Minelaying in enemy harbours and
estuaries continued.
Italian columns from Hargeisa and Oadwina, Somaliland, reported
to be advancing northwards. Big air battle over Sidi-Amar,
Libya, when Gladiators engaged much larger force of Italian
fighters. Fifteen of latter were destroyed. Two British aircraft
missing.
Walrus aircraft of Fleet Air Arm, operating from Australian
cruiser Hobart, made divebombing attacks on Italian Headquarters
at Zeila, causing damage and casualties. Italian aircraft
made unsuccessful bombing attacks on British warships in Gulf
of Aden.
Sixty-one Luftwaffe raiders shot down in Channel during big
air fight. Waves of German dive bombers attacked British convoy,
causing considerable damage. Eighteen British aircraft down,
but three of their pilots safe. Air battle followed attacks
by motor torpedo boats (
E-boats),
which sank three coastal vessels in a convoy. One
E-boat
sunk and another damaged. Luftwaffe aircraft dropped bombs
over wide area of Britain. Little damage reported except from
Northeast England, where a sanatorium and a shop property
suffered. There were "a number of casualties.
R53
R-boat
Launched 8 August 1940
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
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2194 Days Of War.
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