HMS Royal Oak
There are only two kinds of ships in the navies of the world: SUBMARINES and "targets"!
There are not many stories to day since the image quality is so poor.
Navy Loss is Heavy – 2-4
The International Situation – 3
Blockade Doomed, Elated Nazis Say – 5
Berlin Guns Roar to Fight Off Plane – 6
Danzig Nazi Demands Ousting of All Jews - 6
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/oct39/f15oct39.htm
Nazis seek return of ethnic Germans
Sunday, October 15, 1939 www.onwar.com
In Riga... A German-Estonian treaty is signed providing for the transfer to the Third Reich of Estonians of German ethnic origins.
In Finland... The government introduces compulsory national service.
In Kaunas... The Polish minister in protests to the Lithuanian government against the incorporation of Vilna, on the grounds that the Soviet Union has no right to dispose of this territory.
On the Western Front... German forces are reported massing behind the lines. Reconnaissance forces are active on the whole front.
In ???... The first exchange of British and German consular officials takes place.
In Occupied Poland... There are reports of a typhoid and cholera break out in Warsaw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport
The airport was dedicated on October 15, 1939, as the New York Municipal Airport, and opened for business on that December 2.[3] It cost New York City $23 million to turn the tiny North Beach Airport into a 550-acre (2.2 km2) modern facility. Not everyone was as enthusiastic as LaGuardia about the project, some regarded it as a $40-million boondoggle. But the public was fascinated by the very idea of air travel, and thousands traveled to the airport, paid the dime fee, and watched the airliners take off and land. Two years later these fees and their associated parking had already provided $285,000, and other non-travel related incomes (food, etc.) were another $650,000 a year. The airport was soon a huge financial success.
Thank you for putting these on every day.
It is sickening to go day by day on these news reports and see how a situation that could have been controlled led to immediate deaths of 60 million people and the enslavement of half of Europe
This is what dictators can do. No one stood up forcefully against Hilter. He NEVER won the absolute majority of votes in Germany. NEVER. He was hated by the correct thinking part of Germany. Even his Italian allies hated him for his rash actions.
Yet, his power was allowed to grow incrementally. Even we in the USA are to blame. Idiots like Lindbergh and his ilk had the stupid notion of neutrality.
That will NEVER work with a tyrant. Sooner or later the fascists would hit the USA. The same is true today of Communists or the Jihadists. One can never be the size of the USA and pretend to be neutral
Hitler should have been dealt with in the mid to late 30s and forcefully. Maybe the world would have been a better place then.
There are only two kinds of ships in the navies of the world: SUBMARINES and "targets"!
Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien, commander of U-47:
