[Homer_J_Simpson]

A key to the map symbols is on my profile.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

At the urging of Ribbentrop, Admiral Raeder invited the American naval attaché to come to see him on September 16 and stated that he had now received reports from all the submarines, “as a result of which it was definitely established that the Athenia had not been sunk by a German U-boat.” He asked him to so inform his government, which the attaché promptly did.

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Hey, isn’t that attaché Commander Victor Henry?

[Vaquero]

the Japanese were smart maintaining their non aggression pact with Russia and Hitler was a royal ass by opening a new front in the east, and pissing on the non aggression pact he made with Stalin, after the Brits showed more resistance, than he expected, in the west....absolutely dumb.

[tcrlaf]

Aircraft Losses-16-SEP-1939

Bristol Blenheim Mk.I
RAF 25 Sqn.
Registration: L6678

Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Filton, Gloucestershire - United Kingdom
Phase: Approach
Nature: Military

Narrative:
Engine failed, stalled on approach & wing hit ground.

[tcrlaf]

Events of September 16, 1939

* (0800 hours) A German officer enters Warsaw, Poland, to deliver a military ultimatum to surrender the city by 0310 hours September 17. Receipt of the message is refused.

* A Soviet-Japanese agreement for cessation of hostilities in the Nomonhan area along the Outer Mongolia - Manchuhuo frontier is announced.

* (1510 hours) German planes distribute pamphlets with a surrender ultimatum over Warsaw, Poland: military surrender by 0310 hours, or 1510 hours for civilian population to leave the city.

* German forces begin large counterattacks on French forces at the France-Germany border: in the Moselle Valley, the Nied Valley, around Saarbrüken, and in the Vosges Mountains.

* Premier George Kiosseivanoff of Bulgaria officially declares the country’s neutrality.

* Germany closes the frontier with the Netherlands.