Diary September 20, 1940

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

Two U-boats of a Wolf-pack in the Northern Atlantic.

Diary for Friday, September 20, 1940:

Sea War

Atlantic: First successful U-boat Wolf-pack operation: three of the ‘ace’ commanders – Schepke (U-100), Prien (U-47) and Kretschmer (U-99) – scatter Convoy HX.72 in Northwestern Approaches and sink 12 ships totalling 77,900 t. (September 20-22).

Politics

Japanese ultimatum to Vichy authorities in French Indo-China, demanding air bases, use of Haiphong harbour and freedom to transport troops to China via Indo-China. (Vichy French agree September 22.)

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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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