Air Operations, Europe
15 Me-109s destroy a flight of 5 RAF Battles over the Saar.[
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]Battle of the Atlantic
U-3 sinks the Danish steamer Vendia (1150t) 35 miles northwest of Hanstolm, Denmark and the Danish steamer GunM 30 miles northwest of Hanstolm. The Vendia loses 11 of her crew while U-3 picks up 6 survivors. The Danish steamer Svava rescues the rest. The Danish steamer Dagmar picks up the crew of the Gun.[
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The German pocket-battleship Graf Spee sinks the British steamship Clement (5051t) in the Atlantic off the coast of Brazil. 185,000 tons of merchant shipping have now been lost by the Allies. The Royal Navy begins its search for the German pocket-battleships.
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]Poland, Politics
A new Polish government is formed in Paris. Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz is the new president and Gen Wladyslaw Sikorski the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. This is only the first in a long line of European governments-in-exile to be set up in the wake of German domination.[
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