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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/sep40/f15sep40.htm

Luftwaffe losses mount over Britain

Sunday, September 15, 1940 www.onwar.com

Over Britain... Kesselring makes another great effort against London. He plans two main raids but they cannot be timed to catch the RAF fighters refueling because his strength is sufficiently reduced that he must send the same fighters on both occasions. He can muster 400 fighters but less than 200 bombers in the morning attack. The fighting is very heavy with the Germans being harried all the way to London, then being heavily engaged over London and all the way back to the coast. The bombers are not able to drop their loads with any accuracy at all. The afternoon shows a similar story but the fighter battles are more intense and the bombers bomb nearer to their targets as a consequence. Although the fighter combats have gone about equally the German bomber losses are very severe, bring the German loss for the day to 60 aircraft for a bag of 26 from the RAF. Many more German bombers have been damaged or have crewmen dead or wounded. Their morale suffers as they meet up to 300 RAF fighters in one raid after their leaders have told them that the RAF as a whole has less than this number. Although it is not apparent at the time or for several weeks afterward, this is the last real attempt by the Luftwaffe to destroy the resistance of Fighter Command.

USSR... The USSR modifies its conscription laws. From now on 19-20 year olds will be conscripted.

Canada... Following legislation passed in August single men between 21 and 24 are called up.

"Willkie Says That Roosevelt ‘Promoted’ the Munich Pact – 8-9"

Excellent speeches by Wilkie, really hard hitting on FDR -- I think Wilkie's sure to win in November.
After all, who would ever vote for a socialist Democrat when they can have a... a... er... liberal RINO instead... oh dear.

;-)

"Ground is Broken for a Monastery – 13"

Interesting story mentioning some interesting names:

Francis Spellman, then Archbishop on Boston, had been instrumental, along with Joseph Kennedy, in reelecting President Roosevelt in 1936 by inviting Cardinal Pacelli (future Pope Pius XII) to America -- where he silenced the popular anti-Roosevelt Catholic firebrand, Father Coughlin of Detroit.
Archbishop Spellman:
The Carmelite Nuns, whose most well known martyr Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), was still protected in the Carmelite monastery at Ect, Netherlands.
In 1942 she will be arrested there, shipped to Auschwitz and gassed.

It is most interesting to note the direct connection to the future "Ground Zero Mosque," in that as a result of a similar controversy over building a Carmelite monastery at Auschwitz, considered by many to be "insensitive", Pope John Paul II will agree not to build it.

At Auschwitz in 1942, Sister Edith Stein will be gassed as a Jew, despite her long-since conversion to Catholicism.
She represents the powerlessness of the Church to protect Jews -- even those converted and physically living in monasteries -- against the bestiality of Nazi insanity.

She is the ultimate answer to the question of Pope Pius XII: why did he not do more to stop the Holocaust?