Diary November 20, 1939
War Diary for Monday, November 20, 1939: Sea War German seaplanes begin dropping the new magnetic mines in British East Coast shipping lanes (night 20-21).
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War Diary for Monday, November 20, 1939: Sea War German seaplanes begin dropping the new magnetic mines in British East Coast shipping lanes (night 20-21).
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War Diary for Monday, November 20, 1944: Western Front Tanks of French 1st Army drive through Belfort Gap and reach upper Rhine. Sea War Pacific: Kaiten ‘suicide torpedo’ sinks US
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War Diary of World War One for Friday, November 20, 1914: Eastern Front Captured documents tell Russians Germans reading their cipher so key changed, but Austrian Captain Pokorny solves again
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War Diary of World War One for Thursday, November 19, 1914: Eastern Front South Poland: Austrian Second Army storms Mykanow and Klekoty but blocked by Russian Fourth Army. Conrad complains
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War Diary for Sunday, November 19, 1939: Occupied countries Poland: Germans erect barricades round Jewish quarter of Warsaw.
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War Diary for Sunday, November 19, 1944: Western Front British and US troops capture Geilenkirchen, north of Aachen. Occupied countries Albania: Hodja’s Partisans liberate Tirana. Home Fronts USA: Cost of
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War Diary of World War One for Wednesday, November 18, 1914: Eastern Front East Prussia: Russians beaten at Soldau. Poland: Russians retreat on Lowicz, 150,000 men near Lodz encircled on
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War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1944: Air War Germany: 291 RAF bombers attacking Münster and dropping 1,694 t of bombs. Home Fronts USA: Cost of living has risen 29%
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War Diary for Saturday, November 18, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: Four merchant ships sunk by magnetic mines off British East Coast. 86 passengers killed on Dutch liner Simon Bolivar. Home
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War Diary of World War One for Tuesday, November 17, 1914: Western Front Falkenhayn begins transferring 9 divisions to Eastern Front, ‘low fighting strength … and bad autumn weather’ ends
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War Diary for Friday, November 17, 1944: Western Front 1st US Army captures Gressenich, 16 km east of Aachen. Sea War Pacific: Japanese aircraft carrier Shinyo sunk by US submarine
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War Diary for Friday, November 17, 1939: Sea War Atlantic: Pocket battleship Deutschland (Germany) arrives at Gdynia (Baltic) after her Atlantic raiding cruise (2 ships sunk). Renamed Lützow by Hitler
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War Diary of World War One for Monday, November 16, 1914: Eastern Front Poland: Russian rear guards beaten at Vlotslavek and Kutno. Russian I Corps marches 70 miles (ca. 113
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War Diary for Thursday, November 16, 1944: Air War Germany: 10,000 t. bombs dropped from 1,200 8th USAAF planes and 1,100 Lancaster and Halifax bombers obliterate fortified towns of Düren,
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War Diary for Thursday, November 16, 1939: Sea War British, French and Australian warships search for German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee in Indian Ocean and East Indies.
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