
Air War
RAF daylight raids on airfields in Brittany; night raid on Bordeaux.
Diary for Tuesday, August 5, 1941: Eastern Front Operation Barbarossa: Guderian liquidate Smolensk–Orsha ‘pocket’. SIEGE OF ODESSA by Rumanian-German forces begins (ends October 16). Rumanians…
Diary for Wednesday, August 6, 1941: Russian Front Operation Barbarossa: Special communique issued by German High Command claims that Wehrmacht has inflicted ‘annihilating blows unique…
Diary for Thursday, August 7, 1941: Air War France: RAF carries out repeated sweeps over north France: 10 fighters lost, 7 Me 109Fs shot down.…


