Diary June 21, 1941

06-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

Wavell with O'Connor — Wavell (on right) with O’Conner, his architect of the great victory over the Italians in North Africa in winter 1940-41.

Diary for Saturday, June 21, 1941:

North Africa

After the failing of Operation Battleaxe, Auchinleck succeeds Wavell as British CinC Middle East. Wavell appointed CinC India.

Middle East

Free French forces occupy Damascus.

Occupied countries

Yugoslavia: King Peter and Yugoslav Prime Minister, General Simovic, arrive in London.

Neutrals

Russia: 1,500,000 children to be evacuated from large cities.

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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.