Diary March 31, 1940

War Diary, 03-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

children filling sandbags — For the children in Britain the filling of the sandbags is a funny game.

Diary for Sunday, March 31, 1940:

Home Fronts

Britain: A large proportion of people evacuated from cities in September 1939 have now drifted back home; only 300,000 schoolchildren, out of original one million, remaining in country reception areas.

Sea War

Only one British merchant ship – SS Daghestan (5,742 t.) – lost through enemy action in week ending March 31.
Merchant shipping losses in March 1940: 45 Allied ships with 107,009 tons in Atlantic, 0 Allied ship with 0 tons elsewhere.
3 U-boats sunk in the Atlantic, Arctic or Baltic.

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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.

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