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MON 16 OCT 1939War day 46Home front
The first German air raid on Britain began with a reconnaissance flight, a delayed order to fire and a bomb that went clean through its main target.
On 16 October 1939, twelve Junkers Ju 88s of I./Kampfgeschwader 30 headed for the Royal Navy at Rosyth. Their mission followed a morning reconnaissance flight by two Heinkel He 111s of Kampfgeschwader 26. Flight Lieutenant George Pinkerton of No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron had intercepted one over the Isle of May, damaging it before it escaped east. The aircraft had photographed the naval dockyard and reported warships in the Firth of Forth. The raid that followed was the first German air raid on Britain during the war.
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