WW2 War Diary for Wednesday, May 20, 1942:
Home Fronts
Germany: Göring exhorts munitions workers and farmers to ‘rally and doing together. Like the front (line soldiers) welded together by blood, so must you be welded together by work.’
Sea War
Atlantic: Mexican tanker Faja de Oro sunk by U-boat off Florida.
Burma Campaign Losses :
dead, wounded and missing | involved |
|
---|---|---|
British, Indian and Burmese | 13,463 | 47,000 |
Chinese | ? | 95,000 |
Japanese | 4,597 | 75,000 |