Battle of Britain
Day 75
Weather - Overcast with early morning fog. Cloudy in most areas with occasional rain.
Combat - Compared to the previous Sunday, this day was very quiet of combat with only reconnaissance raids being flown across the whole of southern England from 0700hrs to 1900hrs.
Although most of the raids went without interception, one Ju88 was shot down by a Spitfire of No: 234 Squadron over the Channel at about 1700hrs.
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During the night the main bombing raids were targeted on London with small raids plotted over Bristol, South Wales and Liverpool.
R.A.F. Losses: 3 aircraft damaged or destroyed (all accidents) with no pilot loss.
Luftwaffe Losses: 12 aircraft damaged or destroyed, 11 pilots killed or missing and 2 wounded.
NOTE: Losses include non-combat patrols and accidents.
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]Battle of the Atlantic
- In further attacks on Convoy HX-72 U-100 sinks the British steamer Empire Airman (6586t), the British tanker Frederick S. Fales (10,525t) and the Norwegian steamer Simla (6031t) 340 miles west of Bloody Foreland. 33 are lost from the Empire Airman, 2 from the Frederick S. Fales and 5 from the Simla. Survivors are picked up by the British corvettes La Malouine and Heartsease.
- The Norwegian steamer Tirrana (7230t), which was captured by the German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis on 10 June, is sunk by the British submarine Tuna 10 miles south of Bordeaux. 187 men are lost in the sinking.
| ]Diplomatic Relations
- The Vichy authorities in Indochina agree to the Japanese ultimatum of September 20. Japan is formally granted air bases and the right to maintain troops in French Indochina under terms of a treaty signed in Hanoi. The governor general of Indochina, Gen Georges Catroux, sought Allied aid to fight the Japanese, but Britain (and the United States) said it was not possible to consider military action in Asia.
- In protest of the Prime Minister's failure to declare war on Italy, the Saadist Party minister withdraw from the Coalition Government.
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Finland
Finland agrees to allow transit rights to German troops en route to north Norway in return for arms supplies.
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The Japanese enter Indochina after concluding a long period of negotiation with the Vichy government. The Japanese aim is to prevent aid reaching the Chinese through Indochina. There are to be 6,000 troops stationed in the country and they are to have transit rights.
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Mediterranean
- The British submarine Truant sinks the Italian steamer Provvidenza (8459t) about 4 miles off Ischina.
- The British submarine Osiris sinks the Italian destroyer Palestro in the southern Adriatic off Durazzo.
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