Today In History:  03 September  [1939]   --  Britain's first military action of WW2

In Britain's first military action, the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command sends out 27 planes to bomb the Kriegsmarine, but they turn back before having been able to find any targets. Overnight ten Armstrong Whitworth Whitleys made the first of many 'nickel raids' in Bremen, Hamburg and the Ruhr in which the planes dropped propaganda leaflets.

PHOTO: Merlin-powered prototype K7208 (converted Whitley Mk I), circa 1938

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Photo Attribution:  Public Domain  via Wikimedia.