Diary February 16, 1940

War Diary, 02-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Altmark in Joessing Fjord — The supply ship ‘Altmark’, with 303 prisoners on board which came from the sunken ships of the ‘Admiral Graf Spee’, was on her way back to Germany. In Joessing Fjord, the British destroyer ‘Cossack’ entered the neutral Norwegian territorial waters. The British boarded the ship, rescued almost all the prisoners and killed a number of German sailors.

Diary for Friday, February 16, 1940:

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Atlantic: RESCUE FROM THE ALTMARK. Boarding party from destroyer HMS Cossack rescue 299 British merchant navy personnel from German supply ship Altmark (formerly attached to Admiral Graf Spee) in Joessing Fjord, Southwest Norway; seven German sailors killed. Norway protests British violation of her neutrality, on February 17, and proposes international arbitration, February 25).

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Sweden refuses Finnish appeal for right of passage of foreign troops and direct military assistance.

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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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