Battle of Britain – Pictorial edition Newspaper Book Coverage

Total pages: 175

Date of PaperPagesEvent Covered
6-page pictorial section
July 11, 1940Pages 1 and 9“RAF’s battle score - 37”
July 12, 1940Page 1“4 more raiders added to the bag”
July 13, 1940Page 1“8 more German raiders fall to RAF, AA”
July 15, 1940Page 1“Greatest hero of them all – Douglas R. S. Bader”
July 16, 1940Page 1“Whistling bombs on town”
July 22, 1940Page 1“LDV traps 3 Nazi airmen”
July 23, 1940Page 12“Stairway of planes met 6”
July 25, 1940Page 1“Battle of 100 planes”
July 27, 1940Page 12“28 planes in record day’s bag”
July 29, 1940Pages 1 and 3“New Nazi air trick fails”
July 30, 1940Page 1“17 raiders down in 30 minutes”
July 31, 1940Page 3“Damage was 21 raiders down”
August 1, 1940Page 1“RAF bag 240 in July”
August 6, 1940Page 1“Why Hitler has waited so long”
August 7, 1940Page 1“Nazi airman at large for nine days”
August 9, 1940Page 3“Boy risks life to save his puppy in raid”
August 10, 1940Page 1“16 warplanes gift by M.P.”
August 11, 1940Page 2“Naked woman blown out of bath by bomb”
August 12, 1940Pages 1 and 12“60 fall to RAF and guns”
August 13, 1940Pages 1 and 12“Nazis raid naval port 39 down”
August 14, 1940Page 1“Yesterday’s total 69”
August 15, 1940Pages 1 and 12“Bomb hits in path of Express”
August 16, 1940Pages 1 and 3“144 down out of 1,000”
August 17, 1940Page 1“Raiders bomb London suburbs and gun streets”
August 19, 1940Pages 1, 3 and 12“140-16: RAF’s biggest victory”
August 20, 1940Pages 1 and 12“RAF men gave life to win”
August 21, 1940Page 12“Bombs on cripples’ camp”
August 22, 1940Page 1“Planes dive to gun women”
August 23, 1940Page 1“Germans now raid in dark”
August 24, 1940Page 12“Bombs on centre of town”
August 25, 1940Page 3“RAF hurls Nazis back in mass raids”
August 26, 1940Pages 1 and 12“34 Nazis down in one fight”
August 27, 1940Page 1“Bombers 6 hours over London”
August 28, 1940Page 1“Nazis over London, 21 towns”
August 29, 1940Page 1“Planes 6 hours over London”
August 30, 1940Page 1“200 raiders scattered, pursued”
August 31, 1940Page 1“London raiders crash in suburbs”
Sept 1, 1940Pages 1 and 3“Nazi planes dive to machine-gun women shoppers”
Sept 2, 1940Pages 1 and 12“Four raiders dive bomb town”
Sept 3, 1940Pages 1, 3 and 12“Sky ping pong beat raids”
Sept 4, 1940Page 1“300 raiders quit after one-hour battle”
Sept 5, 1940Page 1“London barrage beats attacks”
Sept 6, 1940Pages 1 and 3“A.A. blast breaks up raiders”
Sept 7, 1940Pages 1, 3 and 11“Fighters smash mass raids on ‘dromes”
Sept 8, 1940Pages 3 and 4“Sirens sent them home to deaths”
Sept 9, 1940Pages 1, 2, 3, 11 and 12“Second night in battle of London”
Sept 10, 1940Pages 1, 3 and 12“Air battle seen over Houses of Parliament.”
Sept 11, 1940Pages 1, 2 and 3“Cloud dodgers in 4th blitz”
16-page pictorial section
Sept 12, 1940Pages 1, 2 and 12“Hitler plan to invade is ready”
Sept 13, 1940Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12“London barrage beats biggest German raid”
Sept 14, 1940Pages 1 and 12“Kind and Queen in Palace, bombed”
Sept 15, 1940Pages 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 16 and 20“The King prayed here 2 hours before bombing”
Sept 16, 1940Pages 1 and 3“100 shot down in raids on city”
Sept 17, 1940Pages 1, 2, 3, 6 and 11“Raiders fled after 10-mins. fight”
Sept 18, 1940Pages 1, 3, 11 and 12“West End bombed again”
Sept 19, 1940Pages 1, 3 and 11“RAF bag 46 in 5 attacks”
Sept 20, 1940Pages 3 and 11“Bombs but still they wed, shop”
Sept 21, 1940Pages 3 and 11“Six bombs hurled on them”
Sept 22, 1940Pages 2, 3 and 13“500 saved in raid fire”
Sept 24, 1940Page 1“Giant plane fled”
Sept 26, 1940Page 12“Bombed on their mercy job”
Sept 27, 1940Page 12“First bunk shelter”
Sept 28, 1940Pages 1 and 3“130 down in day war”
Sept 29, 1940Page 3“Crocked plane bagged enemy”
Sept 30, 1940Page 1“Worshippers bombed in a chapel”
Oct 1, 1940Page 3“Wally is the hero of a town”
Oct 2, 1940Pages 1 and 2“First women to win George Medal”
Oct 6, 1940Pages 2, 3 and 13“The bomb the world heard”
Oct 7, 1940Page 3“Girl aids ARP, saves 3 relatives”
Oct 8, 1940Pages 3 and 11“New all-London evacuation drive”
Oct 9, 1940Page 12“50 areas in big Nazi night raids”
Oct 10, 1940Page 3“24-hours-a-day war on blitz”
Oct 11, 1940Pages 1 and 3“St. Paul’s bombed”
Oct 12, 1940Page 12“Fighters beat off Dorniers, get three”
Oct 13, 1940Pages 2, 5 and 20“Rich mystery man aids raid victims”
Oct 14, 1940Page 2“Drove raider into balloon cable”
Oct 15, 1940Pages 3 and 11“Stars will sing in big shelters”
Oct 16, 1940Page 11“Escapes bomb – runs, falls in manhole”
Oct 17, 1940Pages 1 and 12“I won’t let them hurt you”
Oct 18, 1940Page 2“Woman’s will power saves family”
Oct 20, 1940Pages 2, 3 and 10“Bomb traps mother, six daughters”
Oct 21, 1940Page 2“Big shelter is hit, but few hurt”
Oct 22, 1940Pages 2 and 12“1,000 lives saved by a shelter”
Oct 27, 1940Page 5“To the rescue: In the raid on London yesterday”
Oct 28, 1940Page 2“Daredevil Ted, 15, was hero in bomb blaze”