Table of Data Points

Tag : Combat

1939-09-22Lvov

Soviet troops capture Lvov

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1939-09-20U-27 sunk

U-27 was hunted down and sunk very early in the war. She was the second submarine (after U-39) to be sunk.

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1939-09-17Soviets Invade

Soviet troops invade Poland from the east.

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1939-09-17Courageous

British aircrat carrier is sunk by U-29 southwest of Ireland. The submarine is in turn sunk by destroyers in the carrier's escort.

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1939-09-15Warsaw

German troops surround the Polish capital, Warsaw.

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1939-09-14First U-Boat sunk

U-39, having been on patrol for 27 days, fires two torpedoes at the HMS Ark Royal. The torpedoes explode prematurely and the sub is hunted down and sunk by destroyers. The crew survives and are captured.

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1939-09-121939-09-18Battle of the River Bzura

Polish Poznan Army attempts to break out of its encirclement. The attempt fails and at the end of the battle 170,000 Polish troops surrender.

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1939-09-09BEF

The British Expiditionary force begins deployment into France.

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1939-09-04Kiel Canal

In the first British attack of the war, British aircraft unsucessfully attack the German coast near the entrance to the Kiel Canal. Seven aircraft are lost.

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1939-09-041939-10-07Saarland

French troops temporarily enter German Saarland

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