Diary January 30, 1940

War Diary, 01-1940, Diary WW2, Year 1940 / 1 minute of reading

Sunderland flying boat on ocean patrol mission.

Diary for Tuesday, January 30, 1940

Sea War

Heinkel He 111 bombers again attack shipping off British coast.
German U-boat U-55 attacks convoy off Land’s End, sinking 2 ships; but is then damaged by sloop Fowey and a Sunderland flying boat and forced to scuttle.

Home Fronts

Germany: Hitler speaks at Berlin Sportpalast on seventh anniversary of the Nazi regime. He demands Lebensraum (‘living space’) for Germans; ridicules Chamberlain (‘pious and Biblebelieving’), Churchill and Daladier; and declares that, since ‘they started the war, … they will get all the war they want !’.

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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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