[Homer_J_Simpson]

Thousands Caught – 2
Fleet’s Guns Rout Italians in Desert – 2-3
Australians Arriving in Egypt to Join the Offensive (photo) – 3
Nazi Plane Output Said to Reach 3,500 a Month – 3
Wavell Asked ‘Crushing Defeat’ of Italians; Hope to ‘Shorten the War’ Voiced in Order – 3
The International Situation – 4
Greeks Push Ahead – 4-5
British Advance Conceded in Rome – 5-6
Italians Drop Guns in Hasty Retreat – 6
‘Panzer’ Division Keeps Up Fast Pace * – 7
Yule Cheer in Camps Endorsed by Lehman – 7
Armored Units of the United States Army in Manoeuvres in Kentucky – 8
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 9-10

* Were they demoted overnight? Yesterday they were the 1st Armored Division. Today they are the 2nd.

Brig. Gen. George A. Patton Jr., commanding the division, remained on the highway, checking in late-arriving units. . . .

Which emerged from the experience determined to be early-arriving units in the future.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/dec40/f14dec40.htm

Interned IRA members riot

Saturday, December 14, 1940 www.onwar.com

Over Italy... British aircraft bomb Naples. The Italian cruiser Pola is damaged.

In Ireland... Interned IRA members set fire to Curragh Camp, near Dublin, and clash with police and military troops. Four IRA members are reported injured.

[iowamark]

For those interested in early tank warfare, a US Army short filmed at Fort Knox in 1940:

“The Tanks are Coming” Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN6htrp8Pnc

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZb3gBHV5ls