Diary September 13, 1940

09-1940, War Diary, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero of 14th AG over southern China in the autumn of 1940. This aircraft participtated in a vicious combat with enemy Polikarpov I-15, I-16 and Curtiss Hawks, after which the Zero pilots claimed to have destroyed 13 aircraft in just 15 minutes without loss.

Diary for Friday, September 13, 1940:

Air War

China: Debut of Japan’s Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter: 13 Zeros escort bomber formation to Chungking and shoot down all defending fighters (20-plus); 4 Zeros damaged.
Battle of Britain: 5 bombs dropped on Buckingham Palace by daylight raider.

North Africa

ITALIAN INVASION OF EGYPT. 10th Army occupies Sollum.

Sea War

Atlantic: Battleships HMS Hood, Nelson and Rodney leave Scapa Flow for Rosyth to counter threatened German invasion.

Home Fronts

Germany: Government to subsidize voluntary evacuation of children from Berlin to safer areas.

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.