Saturday, October 28, 1939 - First German plane shot down over Britain

[Bootie]

In Britain... A German He111 bomber was shot down by RAF fighters east of Dalkeith in southeastern Scotland -- it is the first German airplane shot down over the British Isles. Two of the 4-man crew survived. The aircraft is part of Luftflotte 2 which is based in the extreme north of Germany and is engaged in attacking shipping off the northern and eastern coasts of Scotland.

In France... The British Expeditionary Force is reported to have enough food to feed its nearly 200,000 troops for 46 days.

In Berlin... Himmler issues his Lebensborn decree, urging single German women to dispense with the "bourgeois custom" of marriage to bear racially pure children.

In Occupied Czechoslovakia... German police fire on student demonstrators in Prague marking the 20th anniversary of the former Czechoslovakian independence. Street fighting later breaks out in the city center with ethnic Germans clashing with Czech nationalists. One student is killed and a total of 16 casualties are reported. Some 3500 people are arrested.

In Bratislava... Joseph Tiso becomes the first president of independent Slovakia (formerly part of Czechoslovakia).

In Moscow... Molotov -- in a speech before the Supreme Soviet -- asserts the that USSR has a right and duty to adopt strong measures to insure security and publicly demands territorial concessions from Finland.

 

[Louis]

In Britain... A German He111 bomber was shot down by RAF fighters east of Dalkeith in southeastern Scotland -- it is the first German airplane shot down over the British Isles. Two of the 4-man crew survived. The aircraft is part of Luftflotte 2 which is based in the extreme north of Germany and is engaged in attacking shipping off the northern and eastern coasts of Scotland.

Crazy those guys .-
I was reading that the two survivors remained prisoners until the end of the war .-