Diary April 20, 1941

04-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

Diary for Sunday, April 20, 1916:

Balkans

GREEK ARMY IN ALBANIA SURRENDERS to SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.

Home Fronts

India: Nearly 400 casualties in rioting between Sikhs and Moslems at Ahmedabad, Bombay (April 18-20).

Air War

90 German aircraft raid Athens: small force of Hawker Hurricane fighters (7 lost) shoot down 15 aircrafts. Squadron Leader Pattle, top-scoring RAF fighter pilot of WW2 (41 victories) killed.

Sea War

Mediterranean – Bombardment of Tripoli: British battleships Warspite , Valiant , Barham and cruiser Gloucester fire 530 t. of shells, damaging 7 ships and setting fire to oil installations (night April 20-21). Valiant damaged by mine while returning to Alexandria.

Politics

US-Canadian agreement on joint production of war materials for Britain.

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.