1940 Battle of Britain - 'The hardest day" Luftwaffe lose 69 aircraft, the RAF 68 in largest combined losses during an air battle.
1941 German concentration camp Amersfoort opens.
1943 Final convoy of Jews from Salonika, Greece, arrives at Auschwitz.
1943 Otto Skorzeny's Heinkel-111 shot down at Sardinia.
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