Diary July 28, 1940

War Diary, 07-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Squadron Leader 'Sailor' Malan — Squadron Leader ‘Sailor’ Malan, born in South Africa, achieved 35 air victories (No 3 of RAF) and survived WW2.

Diary for Saturday, July 28, 1940:

Air War

Battle of Britain (Day 19): air battle over Straits of Dover. ‘Sailor’ Malan wounds Mölders – German fighter ‘ace’ – who crash-lands his Me 109E.

Sea War

Atlantic: Three Italian submarines begin operations in Azores-Madeira area, sinking two ships.
British armed merchant cruiser Alcantara (22,200 t) fights German disguised raider Thor off Brazil; Alcantara hit in engine room (9 casualties) and forced to put into Rio de Janeiro.

Politics

Act of Havana: USA and 20 Latin American Republics in conference at Havana agree to take immediate action if any European colony in the Americas is threatened with aggression.

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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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