Early Bleneim loss - Sept 39

[Blenheim]

As far as I am aware, no Blenheims were lost on 2nd September 1939. The following three losses are the closest to that date:

21 Squadron lost L1352 on 01/09/39 when an engine failed in the circuit at Watton.

600 Squadron lost L1164 on 03/09/39 when it stalled on a single-engined approach to Hendon, spun and dived into the ground at The Burroughs, Hendon. P/O J.N.L. Isaac, flying solo, was killed (he was the first British death of WW II, 1 hour 50 minutes after the declaration of war).

604 Squadron lost L6615, also on 03/09/39 when it hit a tree approaching North Weald and crashlanded 50 yards short of the boundary, hitting a cow.

You mention that this information came from a German newspaper article and I wonder if it was a modern newspaper or one published at the time. If the latter I would imagine the report may have been part of a general and on-going effort to get the populace "psyched up" for war.