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1st August 1940 - Hitler may attack USA by air
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2nd August 1940 - Raids won't stop us making planes and bombs - Russia stays out, says Molotov
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3rd August 1940 - Beaverbrook joins war cabinet, may quit aircraft ministry
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4th August 1940 - Hitler plots far east war - Hamburg gets another hammering
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5th August 1940 - Aged generals sacked from home guard
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6th August 1940 - G-Men unmask plot to wreck planes, ships - Secret schools give lessons in terrorism
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7th August 1940 - Roosevelt envoy meets King & Premier - Duc's double attack plam - Somaliland invaded
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8th August 1940 - Italian troops reach the Gulf of Aden
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9th August 1940 - 53 Nazi planes shot down in day - RAF lose 16 in giant raids on Channel convoy
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10th August 1940 - Navy plane swoops on captured port - Dive bombs Italian HQ
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11th August 1940 - German threat to Americas - RAF go all out against Italians
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12th August 1940 - 60 Nazi planes destroyed - All day fighting over the channel
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13th August 1940 - Bombs on Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Susstz & Kent
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14th August 1940 - 69 down yesterday - 191 in 3 days
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15th August 1940 - RAF strikes at Nazi and Italian plane works
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16th August 1940 - Croydon airport bombed
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17th August 1940 - Bombs on London suburbs - 70 raiders down yesterday
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18th August 1940 - Axis morale is badly shaken - British civilians are the target now
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19th August 1940 - 115 Nazis down out of 600 - Raifers given their biggest beating
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20th August 1940 - Berlin raid alarm this morning - Britisj forces withdrawn fro Somaliland
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21st August 1940 - German 'Q' plane crashes in Eire
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22nd August 1940 - Nazi destroyers bombed - Italian factory crippled
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23rd August 1940 - Dover area shelled in blackout
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24th August 1940 - British landbatteries hit Calais pier
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25th August 1940 - All day onslaught by bomber waves
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26th August 1940 - Lomdon bombed again - Germans lose another 39 planes
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27th August 1940 - All-night raid on London
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28th August 1940 - Night raiders over 20 towns - London bomarded again
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29th August 1940 - Churchill in the front line - Raiders beaten off
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30th August 1940 - Nuisance raider held off London
