Sep 3 1939

From The Space Library

September 3-4: RAF Bomber Command carried out first night propaganda raid, dropping leaflets over Hamburg, Bremen, and the Ruhr. On September 27, British Air Ministry announced that the RAF had dropped 18 million leaflets over Germany since the beginning of the war. When leaflet bombing was suspended on April 6, 1940, Bomber Command had dropped 65 million leaflets.