Diary October 5, 1939

War Diary, 10-1939, Diary WW2, Year 1939 / 1 minute of reading

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, October 5, 1939:

Poland

End of Polish campaign. Germans ‘mopping up’ Polish troops still at large between river Vistula and river Bug.
Hitler flies to Warsaw and reviews victory parade.
105,000 Polish Soldiers escaped abroad to Romania and will become the Polish armed forces in exile.

Sea War

Eight groups of British and French warships hunt Admiral Graf Spee in Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Pocket-battleship Deutschland sinks SS Stonegate in North Atlantic.

Politics

Soviet-Latvian Mutual Assistance Pact. Soviet forces to be based in Latvia.

Home Fronts

France: Chamber of Deputies prorogued and 26 Communist deputies arrested.

POLISH CAMPAIGN LOSSES:

	Germany	Poland	Russia
Killed Soldiers	10,572	66,300	734
Wounded Soldiers	30,322	130,000	?
POWs	-	967,000 (750,000 to Germany)	-
Tanks	217	?	?
Planes	285	333	?

About The Author

Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.