Diary June 10, 1940

War Diary, 06-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Italian troops at the French Alpine frontier — Italian troops marching on to the French Alpine frontier.

Diary for Monday, June 10, 1940:

Politics

ITALY DECLARES WAR ON BRITAIN AND FRANCE. Hostilities to begin at midnight. CANADA DECLARES WAR ON ITALY. French Government leaves Paris for Tours, on river Loire.

France

Rommel drives French IX Corps and British 51st Highland Division towards coast, north of Le Havre. Manstein’s 38th Infantry Corps crosses the Seine.

Sea War

Mediterranean: 6 British submarines leave Malta for operations off Italian harbors and naval bases. Italian torpedo boats and destroyers sink subs Odin, Grampus and Orpheus (June 13, 16 and 27, resp.).

Neutrals

USA: Roosevelt speaks at University of Virginia: ‘On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it in the back of its neighbor.’

Home Fronts

Britain: Duff Cooper, Minister of Information, condemns Mussolini: ‘[he] has declared war upon the Allies with whom Italy fought in the last Great War and who … saved Italy from destruction.’

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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.