On this day in history

[Soviet Ace]

July 26, 1936: Axis Powers (Germany & Italy) decide to get involved in the Spanish Civil War

1937: Battle of Brunete ends with a strong resistance from Republican forces against Franco, but are forced to retreat from the town.

1944: Great Britain is hit with it's first V2 Rocket

1953: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on a government military base, starting the Cuban Revolution.

[Gilly]

July 27th

1882
One Geoffrey De Havilland is born

1949
And by an ironic coincidence this day saw the first flight of the worlds first commercial jet airliner The De Havilland Comet...... When it wasn't falling out of the sky!!

2002
An Su27 crashes during an airshow in Lviv, Ukraine killing 85 spectators and injuring hundreds more in what is the worst airshow disaster in history

[Gilly]

July 28th

1935 the first flight of the B17 is made

1942 Stalin issues order 227 which states anyone leaving their post without orders to do so is to be shot

1943 Operation Gamorrah. The British firebomb hamburg resulting in 42,000 civilian deaths

1945 a B25 crashes into the 79th floor of the empire state building


Meanwhile in 1940....
In the morning, a number of bombers attacked targets in Cornwall, Cardiff and Newport. At midday, a substantial Luftwaffe formation approached Dover but turned back without dropping any bombs and then dispersed. In the early afternoon, a large force of bombers accompanied by Me109s, around fifty of each, approached Dover. 74, 41, 11 and 257 Squadrons engaged them. Fighter Command that day flew 758 sorties with a loss of 2 Spitfires and 3 Me109s were shot down