September 1940

Date

Action

Weather

RAF
Losses

Luftwaffe
Losses

1 September

Fighter Command regroups
Biggin Hill, Eastchurch and
Detling bombed
London Docks attacked
Destroyers HMS Esk and HMS Ivanhoe mined. HM Trawler Royalo sunk

20

19

17

13

2 September

Night bombing from Exeter to Glasgow.
Beaufighter enters service
Biggin Hill, Eastchurch, Rochford, North Weald, Gravesend, Kenley, Hornchurch, Brooklands, Lympne
and Detling bombed
Rochester bombed.

 

29

27

48

42

3 September

Birmingham, Castle Bromwich, Liverpool, Cardiff and Manchester bombed at night
North Weald
bombed
Sealion postponed to 21 September.

24

19

31

18

4 September

Liverpool bombed overnight.
Eastchurch, Redhill, Brooklands
and Lympne bombed.
Daylight attacks on Rochester, Canterbury, Faversham and Reigate.
CHL at Poling attacked

 

23

18

35

28

5 September

Widespread bombing raids. Thameshaven bombed.

 

26

25

45

33

6 September

A,B and C squadrons categorised.
Liverpool and Thameshaven bombed.
Attack on
Brooklands

 

26

25

53

44

7 September

Göring visits Pas de Calais.
Biggest ever raid mounted 348 bombers, 617 fighters. Target is East London. Second wave attacks in the evening, the first of 57 consecutive days bombing
Codeword Cromwell sent "invasion believed imminent".

 

42

39

63

54

8 September

43 and 111 squadron withdrawn
Airfields and suburbs of south London attacked
Six more Beaufighters enter service
Evening raids on London and the docks. All rail lines cut.

 

5

4

24

17

9 September

Daylight raids on S. London, Southampton and Surrey.
London bombed at night
HM Trawler Dervish mined
HM SSV Minnie de Larinaga salvaged

25

24

44

37

10 September

Daylight raids on Norwich, Portsmouth, Southampton, Littlehampton,Bognor, Farnborough and Great Yarmouth
Bombers attack Berlin.
London attacked at night

Dull and Overcast

4

0

11

6

11 September

Daylight fighter attacks on London.
Portsmouth and Southampton bombed
Invasion barges bombed

43

43

47

40

12 September

Bomber command attacks railyards
Daylight attacks in Kent, Sussex and Hampshire
London attacked at night

Rain

2

2

13

7

13 September

Greater co-ordination of Bomber Command attacks. German anti-aircraft defences revised. Six Staffeln withdrawn.
London bombed

 

3

2

10

7

14 September

Daylight attacks on London, Brighton and Eastbourne.
Coastal radar stations attacked
CH jamming reported
London bombed at night

 Weather worsens

19

18

20

17

15 September

Issue of Fighter Command instruction No18. Spitfires take top cover, Hurricanes to remain at medium altitude.
Attacks on invasion barges continue

 

35

34

80

79

16 September

Fighter vs fighter clashes
London, Bristol,Liverpool, Southampton bombed at night

 .

4

2

18

13

17 September

Luftwaffe freijagd at high altitude.
Bomber Command attacks barges

 .Poor weather

13

9

17

12

18 September

Night attacks on London, Bristol. Liverpool and Southampton
Bomber Command attacks invasion barges.
Daylight attacks on Rochester, Chatham and
Gravesend

20

15

27

24

19 September

Sea Lion postponed indefinitely
London bombed

.Heavy rain

1

0

20

18

20 September

Medway towns bombed. London bombed at night

10

9

13

13

21 September

Freijagd
11 Group's airfields attacked.
Brooklands bombed

2

1

14

10

22 September

Night bombing on London and Liverpool
Airfields attacked at
Waddington, Digby and Scampton

2

0

12

7

23 September

Night bombing on London, Liverpool and Merseyside.
Daylight raid on Eastbourne.
Freijagd

13

10

22

18

24 September

Woolston Factory (Southampton) and London bombed
MTB No15 and HM Trawler Loch Inver mined

15

9

23

21

25 September

RAF reconnaissance indicates 40% of barges gone
Daylight raids on Portland, Plymouth, Falmouth, Southampton and Swannage.
Filton attacked

6

3

22

19

26 September

Woolston and Filton factories bombed

9

9

17

12

27 September

Raids on 10 and 11 Group airfields.
Bombing of London, Bristol, Sherbourne, the Filton factory, and Yate

41

41

67

63

28 September

Fighter vs fighter battles.
Use of Bf110s as bombers with heavy escorts.
HM Trawler Recoil mined

22

20

13

11

29 September

Little activity. Merseyside bombed

8

5

18

15

30 September

London and Sherbourne bombed
HM Trawler Comet mined
Dowding knighted

36

32

59

57

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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