(Another sad report, this time a woman in Derby, England, Evelyn Hart, attempted to kill her five children and herself using the gas from the oven. Fortunately, her nine-year-old son got out the front door and yelled "She's gassing us" and two men responded, kicked the door in and rescued them before any damage had been done. Only six days previous, Louise Nicosia, killed her six children with gas from the oven, she died on July 15th.)

(The propaganda and intelligence organizations in both Britain and Germany were working overtime. After weeks of "invasion" talk in the press, now the report that Germany may not invade comes out. In fact, the decision to scrap the invasion had not been "officially" made by Hitler, but to be sure, he never was going to invade England. This report suspects a double game, where the Germans now say no invasion, but really plan to invade. The hope is that the British will lower their defences and make the invasion easier. This is a great study in how propaganda is used to fool the enemy, and this time the propaganda worked well for the Germans. Now the British won't believe the invasion has been cancelled and will continue to use resources to repel the invasion that never was.)

(This Associated Press report seems to be one of the more absurd reports as of late. They are telling the public that the Germans have 600,000 troops ready to invade England. This must have terrified the British public. The report also states that the Germans have hundreds of ships ready to sail for the invasion. Apparently, according to the report, the Germans have strategically placed these hundreds of ships along the coast between Breast, France and Bergen, Norway. This is certainly a clever way to disguise an invasion, position your ships along a 1,000-mile coastline with the Skagerrak separating them. The report also states that the invasion, which has been delayed, might be launched on Friday next, that would be within three days of this report.

I wonder if any editor bothered to ask if there was any evidence that 600,000 troops were in position to launch an invasion? Or if an editor asked how many ships would be required to transport 600,000 troops across the English Channel and the North Sea? Maybe the editor asked, where are the landing craft? Where are the escorts which would be needed? Or did the reporter expect the British would allow these German ships to come into Southampton, Portsmouth, Newcastle or Plymouth and use the docking facilities to disembark while the Royal Navy just watched them sail by? Did nobody ask any questions about the veracity of such a report? I guess they did not, because if they had, it would never have been published.

As a historical note, Hitler's plan included landings from Ramsgate to the Isle of Wight with a simultaneous landing in Scotland as a diversion.)

(The same Associated Press, which wrote the report that Germany was just about to invade England with 600,000 men and hundreds of ships, is reporting, on the same day, that Hitler now wants a peace deal.)

(I Just had to point this one out, any report that begins with "The fierce, roaring, gargantuan monster..." is a must read.)

(The funeral arrangements for Robert Wadlow, the "World's Tallest Man" who died on July 15th..

(Landing panic overwhelming!)

(Again over 50,000 BRT sunk by U-boats and the Luftwaffe.)

(Again three merchant ships at 17,000 BRT sunk.)