October 6th, 1940 (SUNDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:Battle of Britain: Small raids penetrate to several airfields (Middle Wallop, Northolt, Biggin Hill). The weather is dull with continuous rain all day. During the day, the Luftwaffe carries out most attacks by singly flying aircraft, which operate chiefly in East Anglia, Kent and Sussex. A number of attacks are made on various aerodromes in the country but there is very little damage to report. Quite a feature of the day is the number of attacks which have been made on small towns with machine-gun fire - Wickham Market, Felixstowe and Shirley (a suburb of Southampton) suffered chiefly, but very little damage is done.
CANADA: The fourth group of eight USN destroyers involved in the Destroyers for Bases Deal that arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, yesterday are decommissioned and turned over to RN authorities. The eight ships and their new names are: (1) Branch (DD-197) to HMS Beverley, (2) Hunt (DD-194) to HMS Broadway, (3) Mason (DD-191) to HMS Broadwater, (4) Satterlee (DD-190) to HMS Belmont, (5) Laub (DD-263) to HMS Burwell, (6) Aulick (DD-258) to HMS Burnham, (7) Edwards (DD-265) to HMS Buxton, and (8) McLanahan (DD-264) to HMS Bradford.
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-123 sinks SS BENLAWERS in convoy OB-221.
U-37 sinks SS BRITISH GENERAL in convoy OA-222.
During the morning U-103 fires two torpedoes at a lone tanker, but both miss the target. In the evening U-103 sinks SS NINA BORTHERN with four torpedoes.