Diary April 29, 1940

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

De Haviland DH82 Tiger Moth, the standard RAF elementary trainer. It was build at Hatfield (795 plus 1,611 pre-war) and by Morris (3,210) in Great Britain and in Canada (1,520), Australia (1,085) and New Zealand (344).

Diary for Monday, April 29, 1940:

Air War

Empire Air Training Scheme: training of pilots and air crews begins at schools in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Norway

British troops land at Bodo.
Cruiser HMS Glasgow transports King Haakon, Crown Prince Olav and Norwegian government from Molde to Tromso. Norwegian government issues declaration condemning German ‘terrorism’ – members of the government having personally witnessed such acts of violence against unarmed and innocent Norwegian civilians.

Sea War

German U-boat U-50 sunk by destroyers HMS Amazon and HMS Witherington off Shetlands.
British submarine Unity rammed and sunk by SS Atle Jarl off the Tyne.

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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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