Diary August 27, 1941

08-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

The sabotaged Zaporozhe Dam near Dnepropetrovsk.

Diary for Wednesday, August 27, 1941:

Russian Front

Operation Barbarossa: Retreating Russian forces sabotage great Zaporozhe Dam (Dnepropetrovsk Dam) over river Dnieper. Germans capture Tallinn, capital of Estonia. Besieged Russian garrison of Hangö repels determined Finnish attacks by land and sea.

Air War

Germany: Russians bomb Koenigsberg (night August 27-28).

Sea War

Atlantic: German Type 7 U-boat U-570 captured by Royal Navy, south of Iceland following damage sustained from depth charges dropped by RAF Hudson. (Recommissioned as HM sub Graph, September 19, 1941; wrecked March 20, 1944.)

Neutrals

Vichy France: Vichy leaders Laval and Deat shot and wounded at Versailles; gunman arrested.

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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.