Diary March 26, 1942

03-1942, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1942 / 1 minute of reading

U-123 from Type IX B went in service on May 30, 1940. She sunk a total of 39 ships with 206,000 tons and the British submarine P615.

WW2 War Diary for Thursday, March 26, 1942:

Sea War

Atlantic: American ‘Q-ship’ Atik (disguised anti U-boat hunter) sunk in fierce gun duel with the German Type IX U-boat U-123.

Air War

Western Europe: RAF daylight raid on Le Havre.
Germany: 192 RAF bombers attacking Essen and dropping 300t of bombs.

Home Fronts

USA: Accidental explosion of 21 t of gelignite at Pennsylvania quarry kills 31.
Germany: Fritz Sauckel appointed ‘General Commissioner for the Employment of Labour’.

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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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