Diary October 14, 1939

War Diary, 10-1939, Diary WW2, Year 1939 / 1 minute of reading

Battleship Royal Oak. — Battleship Royal Oak

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, October 14, 1939:

Sea War

Atlantic: BATTLESHIP ROYAL OAK SUNK (833 dead) in ‘impregnable’ anchorage of Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, by U-boat U-47 from Guenther Prien. British Home Fleet subsequently retires to Loch Ewe (West Scotland).
Polish submarine Orzel reaches British waters after amazing escape from Baltic.

Western Front

General Gamelin, French CinC, issues melodramatic Order of the Day predicting a massive German offensive ‘at any moment’.

Neutrals

Finland: Military mobilization.

Secret War

Escaped Polish Intelligence team resume code-breaking operations with their highly secret replicas of the German Enigma machine in France. The Poles had supplied one replica each to Britain and France on July 25.

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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.