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Churchill willing to fight Japan too
Monday, November 10, 1941 www.onwar.com
British Prime Minister ChurchillIn London... British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that “should the United States become involved in a war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour.”
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November 10th, 1941
UNITED KINGDOM: Churchill announces in a speech: “... should the United States become involved in a war with Japan, a British declaration of war will follow within the hour.”
Destroyer HMS Troubridge laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
GERMANY: U-528 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
FINLAND: The Finnish troops of Group O (Maj. Gen. Woldemar Oinonen) cut the Murmansk railway at Perälahti. This doesn’t seriously hinder the Soviet supply flow, however; Soviets had already constructed a railway further east. (Mikko Härmeinen)
U.S.S.R.: Soviet submarine losses:
M-34 Black Sea Fleet Constanta area. (mined)
M-59 of the Black Sea Fleet in the Sulina area.
S-34 Black Sea Fleet off Emine Cape (mined in Burgas Bay) (Mike Yared)(146 and 147)
CANADA: Calgary: LAC Karl Mander Gravell (b.1922), RCAF, crashed and tried, despite terrible burns and the loss of an eye, to save his pilot. He later died. (George Cross)
A troop convoy designated WS-124 sails from Halifax, consisting mainly of U.S. transports, with a U.S. escort as far as South Africa. Among the transports are the three premier liners of the American merchant marine (America, Manhattan and Washington), now in Navy service as USS West Point, Wakefield and Mount Vernon, respectively. The convoy is initially destined for Basra. (Keith Allen)
U.S.A.: Submarine USS Tunny laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
In the North Atlantic, U-109 met the Silva Plana, a German capture, and escorted it to safe French waters.
U-752 was slightly damaged when it struck bottom in the Arctic Sea. (Dave Shirlaw)