Table of Data Points

Tag : Europe

1939-10-06Poland

Polish resisitance ends.

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1939-09-30Graf Spee

The German raider sinks the merchantman Clement, off Brazil.

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1939-09-25English Channel

The British Royal Navy begins laying mines in the English Channel. Germans begin to lay magnetic mines in British coastal shipping lanes.

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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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1939-09-19Brest-Litovsk

German and Soviet armies meet at Brest-Litovsk

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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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