Diary June 26, 1941

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

This important road bridge across the Dvina at Daugavplis (as well as the railway bridge) was captured by German special forces of the division Brandenburg using Russian uniforms.

Diary for Thursday, June 26, 1941:

Eastern Front

Operation Barbarossa: German Panzers reach river Dvina and Daugavpils.
Siege of Hango: Russian garrison holds out in naval base, west of Helsinki, until evacuated, December 1941.
Italian expeditionary force to be sent to Russia.

Sea War

Black Sea: Russian destroyers shell Constanta (munition train explodes); Moskva mined and sunk.

Air War

Balkans: Luftwaffe bomb Leningrad; Red Air Force attack Bucharest.
Kassa Incident: Two aircraft bomb Hungarian border town of Kassa, killing 20 and injuring 41. Hungary blames Russia, but raid probably fabricated by Luftwaffe.

Politics

FINLAND: GOVERNMENT DECLARES WAR ON RUSSIA.

Home Fronts

Germany: P. G. Wodehouse, the author, broadcasts a ‘non-political’ talk from Berlin (Wodehouse had been captured at Le Touquet in 1940).

About The Author

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.