Diary March 16, 1941

03-1941, War Diary, Year 1941 / 1 minute of reading

Depth-charge explosion. The depth-charge was still the most important weapon against submarines during the whole war.

Diary for Sunday, March 16, 1941:

Sea War

Atlantic: Two U-boat ‘aces’ Kretschmer (U-99) and Schepke (U-100) lost while attacking Convoy HX.112. U-100 rammed by HMS Vanoc; U-99 depth-charged by HMS Walker. Kretschmer captured – his total score is 266,629 t. of Allied shipping.

Home Fronts

Germany: Hitler predicts that Germany will win the war during 1941, in speech in Berlin.
Liner Bremen catches fire at Bremerhaven.

East Africa

Indian troops make successful sea-borne landing at Berbera (British-Somaliland conquered by the Italians in August 1940).

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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.

Sea War

Home Fronts

East Africa

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