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Soviets to defend Moscow
Sunday, October 19, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Moscow... Soviet leader Stalin announces his intention to remain in Moscow despite the threat from advancing German forces. Martial law is declared in the city and work ordered on three fixed defensive lines around it.
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October 19th, 1941
U.S.S.R.: Most of the diplomatic corps and Soviet government have left Moscow, but Stalin announces he is remaining. defence lines are being built at a hectic pace on 3 sides of the city.
Moscow: Troops from Siberia and the Far East arrive at the Moscow front.
Sea of Azov: Taganrog falls to the advancing German 11th Army.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: U-204 (Type VIIC) is sunk near Tangier, at position 35.46N, 06.02W, by depth charges from the British corvette HMS Mallow and sloop Rochester. 46 dead (all crew lost). (Alex Gordon)
AFGHANISTAN: The government consents to the ejection of Axis nationals. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: Minesweepers HMCS Minas and Malpeque arrived Halifax from Esquimalt. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: USN destroyers USS Charles F. Hughes (DD-428) and USS Gleaves (DD-423), while screening convoy HX 154, depth-charge suspicious contacts in positions 59°58’N, 23°15’W, and 60°00’N, 23°20’W, and 59°57’N, 22°41’W.
Unarmed U.S. freighter SS Lehigh is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-126 about 75 miles (120;.7 km) off Freetown, Sierre Leone, in position 08°26’N, 14°37’W. While there are no fatalities, four men are slightly injured. (Jack McKillop)
USS Mason (DD-191), was commissioned as HMS Broadwater (H-81) on 2 Oct. 1940, as part of the bases-for-destoryers deal. Today she is escorting convoy SC48 between St. John’s Newfoundland and Iceland.
Broadwater is torpedoed by U- 101 and sinks. (Ron Babuka)
U-71 fired two torpedoes at a cruiser escorted by two destroyers in the North Atlantic, but without success.
U-204 sank SS Inverlee.
U-206 sank SS Baron Kelvin. (Dave Shirlaw)