Diary December 2, 1939

War Diary, 12-1939, Diary WW2, Year 1939 / 1 minute of reading

French observer Western Front 1939 — A French observer on a tree at the Western Front.

War Diary for Saturday, December 2, 1939:

Finland

Winter War: Finnish covering forces (13,000 men) on Karelian Isthmus slowly withdrawing to the Mannerheim Line. Mines and traps destroy numbers of Russian tanks.
Helsinki Olympic Games (planned for 1940) abandoned.

Sea War

German SS Watussi scuttled off South Africa, under shellfire from battlecruiser HMS Renown.

Politics

Finnish Government appeals to the League of Nations.
Soviet puppet People’s Government of the Finnish Democratic Republic established under Finnish communist Otto Kuusinen at Terijoki on Gulf of Finland.
US Government proposes ‘moral embargo’ on sale of American arms to countries guilty of ‘terror’ bombing from the air.

Western Front

French communiqué reports: ‘A quiet day on the whole of the front…. the air forces, on both sides, were completely inactive’.

Neutrals

Italy: Pro-Finnish demonstrations in Rome. Vatican condemns Russian aggression.

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.