Allied Planning
(12th?)The first meeting of the Anglo-French Supreme War Council takes place at Abbéville.[
]Battle of the Atlantic
- German crytographers crack the British merchant shipping code giving away convoy information.
- The British steamer Firby (4869t) is sunk by U-47 300 miles WNW of Cape Wrath. The British destroyer Fearless picks up the survivors.
- U-30 sinks the steamer Blairlogie (4425t) west of Ireland. The crew is rescued by the American steamer American Shipper.
- The British tanker Inverliffey (9456t)is sunk by U-38 270 miles west southwest of Land's End. The American steamer R G Stewart picks up the survivors.
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The British have quickly mined the Channel to prevent German naval incursions there.[
]Poland
The German forces cross the San River north and south of Przemysl. The Polish resistance at Radom is overcome and 60,000 men are captured. The industrial area of Upper Silesia is completely in German hands. The battle on the Bzura continues but the leaders of the German Army South, von Rundstedt and his Chief of Staff, Erich von Manstein, are beginning to assemble reinforcements for 8th Army.
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