Diary April 13, 1940

War Diary, 04-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

castaway recovered — A castaway from a sunken German ship is recovered from the water.

Diary for Saturday, April 13, 1940:

Sea War

SECOND BATTLE OF NARVIK. Battleship HMS Warspite and nine destroyers attack eight German destroyers – which are all sunk or disabled (and then scuttled by their crews, which escape ashore). Three British destroyers damaged. HMS Warspite‘s Fairey Swordfish spotter plane bombs U-boat U-64. Admiral Whitworth decides to occupy Narvik, but quickly reverses his decision.

Air War

15 Hampden bombers drop parachute mines off Danish coast (night April 13-14), first British aerial mining.

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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.

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