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Soviets demand Romanian lands
Thursday, June 26, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Bucharest... The Soviets present an ultimatum to Romania demanding the cession of territory in Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Germany reluctantly intervenes to help persuade the Romanians to give in.
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June 26th, 1940
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Bomber Command: Bombing - aluminium works. 58 Sqn. Ten aircraft to Ichendorf. Four bombed primary, four bombed alternatives.
77 Sqn. Five aircraft to Ludwigshaven. One returned early and landed at Bircham Newton after two aircrew baled out. Four bombed.
102 Sqn. Five aircraft to Ludwigshaven. Two returned early, one bombed primary, one bombed alternative.
The British government releases a paper revealing the Lancastria tragedy. Recent estimates give nearly 5 000 dead. Official reports are still sealed the most likely reason unfortunately being so as to negate claims laid by survivors and their relatives against the British government. (Lawrence Patterson)
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Corvette HMS Crocus launched. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: Russia demands that Romania secedes Bessarabia (Moldovia) and northern Bukovina.
CANADA: Corvette HMCS Trillium launched Montreal, Province of Quebec. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: SS Dimitris was shelled and sunk by U-29. All hands survived.
At 0228, the unescorted Crux was torpedoed and sunk by UA. Twenty minutes after the crew left the ship in lifeboats; a southbound ship passed by very near, but did not see them in the dark. They did not use their flashes to make themselves known, because they thought that the U-boat was still near them. The British SS Brutus picked them up the following day. (Dave Shirlaw)
Not that he needed any shoving, but this action by the USSR, which went beyond the Secret Protocols of the Non-Aggression Pact, and posed a threat to Hitler’s chief source of oil, Ploesti, was one more nudge toward BARBAROSSA.