The British War office communiqué announced that operations
in Norway were proceeding according to plan, that French troops
had landed in Norway, and that on
19
April 1940 Allied forces occupied certain points of vantage.
The British Admiralty announced that three German aircraft
had been shot down and others damaged during air attacks on
British naval units and transports. No hits were obtained
by the Luftwaffe bombers.
Two German transports were hit by torpedoes.
Large numbers of British Royal Air Force (RAF) aircraft bombed
aerodromes at Kristiansand and Stavanger in Norway, and that
of Aalborg in Denmark, which has served as a German airbase.
All British aircraft returned safely.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters shot down two
Messerschmitts
Bf 109 and two
Heinkel
He 111 over the Western front.
Two German aircraft, a fighter and a reconnaissance machine,
shot down by French fighters.
German raiders appeared over the Thames estuary late in the
evening. But were driven off by British fighters and anti-aircraft
defences.
British steamers Mersey and Hawnby were sunk off the southeast
coast after explosions.
Romanian government decreed that all armed merchant vessels
using Danube must unload all armaments and munitions at the
mouth of the River.
Italian steamer Balbo mined off south east coast of England.
Otto
Fein
Takes command of the Battleship
Gneisenau
on 20 August 1940 to
11
April 1942
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The Second Great War.
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2194 Days Of War.
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