{"id":954,"date":"2020-04-18T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T16:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostlogos.co.uk\/?page_id=954"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T12:50:05","slug":"1939-40-xvi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=954","title":{"rendered":"1939-40 (xvi)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>[16th page \u2013 December 1940, in ink]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Page16_9001003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Page16_9001003-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1000\"\/><\/a><figcaption><strong>View manuscript<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>1st December 40 not Broken&nbsp;[illegible]&nbsp;at said time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dec 2nd on Sat night Strong German Air forces formations attacked the harbour of Southampton in successe Waves.&nbsp; as already reported. bombs of the heaviest Calibre were dropped &amp; more than 60 large fires as well as numerous smaller fires Could be observed Which during the night became. one extensive sea of flames&nbsp; a large power works was hit and numerous warehouses were set on fire in the Quays on the test and in other parts of the harbour area&nbsp;&nbsp; during the same night and yesterday German heavy &amp; light bombers dropped bombs in London.&nbsp; otherwise the daylight activity of the German air force. was restricted to reconnaissance flights and fighter action during t he course of which a series of successful aerial combats developed.&nbsp; last night the attacks. on Southampton and other towns were continued whilst again the R.A.F. did not go into action only early this morning a few planes. which flew into Germany via the North Sea dropped bombs on Residential Quarters in a town in a coastal district&nbsp; several civilians were injured&nbsp; German fighter shot down Eleven enemy planes over Southern England.&nbsp; two German planes are missing.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=220\">View next page<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=952\">View previous page<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=775\">Return to 1939 &#8211; 40<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[16th page \u2013 December 1940, in ink] 1st December 40 not Broken&nbsp;[illegible]&nbsp;at said time Dec 2nd on Sat night Strong German Air forces formations attacked the harbour of Southampton in successe Waves.&nbsp; as already reported. bombs of the heaviest Calibre were dropped &amp; more than 60 large fires as well as numerous smaller fires Could &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/?page_id=954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;1939-40 (xvi)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":775,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954\/revisions\/2039"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turnillhiswebsite.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}