The Mechelen
Incident of 10 January 1940, a Luftwaffe plane carrying Helmuth Reinberger and
Erich Hoenmanns who was the pilot crash landed in Belgium, due to bad weather,
carrying secret papers for the operation Fall Gelb, The authorities in Brussels
fully understand. Adolf
Hitler's intention to attack their country as well as the Netherlands.
On 10 February 1940, Russians continued their attacks here, first bombing
Finnish troops by aeroplane, accompanied by heavy artillery fire, then pushing
forward succeeding waves of men, all along the line Finns claimed that all attacks
were repulsed.
T17
Torpedo boat
Launched 13 March 1940
Thor
HSK 4 Auxiliary cruiser
Commissioned 15 March 1940
On 18 March
1940, Accompanied by Joachim
von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano Adolf
Hitler and Mussolini conferred together in a bullet-proof railway train in
frontier station on the Brenner pass. The conference lasted 2 1/2 hours, after
which the dictator's return to their own capital's.
On 9 April 1940,
Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and
Norway, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark under the pretext of taking over their
protection. Attack on Norway began about midnight on Monday, landings being made
at various points on the coast. There was resistance and sharp fighting took place
in the air and along the coast. Oslo occupied in afternoon. Narvik, Bergen, Trondheim
and other ports also reported to be in German hands.
Z21
Wilhelm Heidkamp Destroyer
Sunk 10 April 1940
Königsberg
Light cruiser
Sunk 10 April 1940
5:35 a.m. on 10 May 1940 German
airborne troops land on the bridges at Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Moerdijk in Holland
and more parachutists dropped on the fortress of Eben Emael, the key to the defence
of Liege in Belgium, and the German armies of Heeresgruppe B (Army Group B) were
commanded by Fedor
von Bock, and Heeresgruppe A (Army Group A) Commanded by Rudolf
von Rundstedt. Cross the frontiers of Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.
The Second Armistice at Compiègne was signed at 6 50 PM on 22 June
1940 near Compiègne. Adolf
Hitler deliberately chose Compiègne Forest as the site to sign the
armistice due to its symbolic role as the site of the 1918 Armistice with Germany
that signalled the end of World War I with a German defeat.
On 19 July
1940, Italy�s fastest cruiser, Barte olomeo Colleoni, was sunk, and another put
to flight off Crete, by Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney and small destroyer force.
The British Admiralty announced that two British merchant ships, King John and
Davisian had been sunk in region of West Indies by enemy raider, believed to be
converted merchant vessel.
T19
Torpedo boat
Launched 20 July 1940
Luchs
Torpedo boat
Sunk 26 July 1940
Prinz
Eugen Heavy cruiser
Commissioned 1 August 1940
HMS Transylvania
was a British liner, and in September 1939, the liner was converted into an armed
merchant cruiser, pennant F56. And on 10 August 1940, off Malin Head, Ireland
she was torpedoed by the
U-56.
HMS Transylvania was being towed afterward but sank before reaching land. 36 lives
were lost.
Otto
Fein
Takes command of the Battleship
Gneisenau
on 20 August 1940 to 11 April
1942 Bismarck
Battleship
Commissioned 24 August 1940
Ernst
Lindemann
Takes command of the Battleship
Bismark
on 24 August 1940
On 2 September 1940, Repeated attempts by big Luftwaffe
formations to bomb Kent and Thames estuary aerodromes, and to reach London, were
beaten off by fighters and antiaircraft gunners. Series of dramatic air battles
took place one being over a Southeast coast town.
On 18-19 October 1940,
Many ships are sunk from the Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective
wolfpack of the war including On the night of 18-19 October 1940, five boats made
a concentrated attack. The U-boats involved were U-46,
U-99,
U-100,
U-101 and
U-123.
U-99 was commanded
by the famous ace Korvettenkapitän Otto
Kretschmer. The attack was coordinated from Lorient by Admiral Karl
Dönitz and his staff. SS Creekirk, SS Empire Brigade, SS Fiscus, SS Assyrian.
On 14 November 1940, The city of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500
Luftwaffe bombers, 568 people are killed, during the Coventry Blitz.
On 29 December 1940, Slight Luftwaffe activity over Britain by daylight. Second
Great Fire of London, At night waves of aircraft made determined attempt on London,
showering incendiary bombs over both City and outskirts. Many buildings destroyed
by fire, including the Guildhall, nine City churches, Trinity House, several halls
of City Companies, a museum, two hospitals, several schools and innumerable commercial
buildings and houses.
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