RAF Fighter Command BOB Campaign Diary - 5 September 1940

[Peter Cook]

I am trying to locate a copy of the text of the RAF Fighter Command Battle of Britain Campaign Diary for 5 September 1940. The Diary was reproduced in a digital form on the RAF Website at https://www.raf.mod.uk/history/campaign_diaries.cfm. It was created for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, and is no longer available from that site. I have the text for all the other days, but not 5 September 1940, which, curiously, was the only day not included in the original website.

The source of the original text data is The Air Ministry War Room Daily Summary, which was compiled throughout the duration of the war to give senior officers and politicians an overview of the RAF’s operations and to summarise reports of enemy action in the previous 24 hours. It is not to be confused with the very abbreviated entries in John Foreman's Fighter Command War Diaries - Vol. 1: September 1939 to September 1940.

Does anyone know of a source for this day?

Peter

[Luc Vervoort]

Hi Peter,

Have a look at :

https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/ou...n-narratives1/


Best regards

Luc

[Peter Cook]

Thanks Luc,

I am aware of that paper Air Defence of Great Britain Vol II The Battle of Britain Jul - Oct 1940 which is a post-war analysis, not the Diary that was written up at the time.

Peter