Not to get off the subject but Dave Allen At Large came on here right after Monty Python's Flying Circus. Never before have I laughed as hard as...
February 3, 1940 -Light cruiser Helena (CL-50) departs Montevideo, Uruguay, for Brazilian waters as her shakedown cruise continues (see 5...
February 2, 1940 -Light cruiser Helena (CL-50), at Montevideo, Uruguay, on her shakedown cruise, sends party to inspect wreck of German armored...
February 1, 1940 -President Roosevelt writes First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill, concerning the detention of U.S. merchantmen, and...
January 31, 1940 -U.S. passenger liner Washington is detained for several hours at Gibraltar by British authorities, but is allowed to proceed the...
January 30, 1940 -U.S. freighters Examelia (detained at Gibraltar since 20 January) and Cold Harbor (detained there since 27 January) are released...
January 29, 1940 -British Admiralty orders that no American ships should, under any circumstances, be diverted into the war zone delineated by...
January 28, 1940 -U.S. freighter Sarcoxic is detained temporarily at Gibraltar for several hours by British authorities; freighter Waban, bound...
[img] Your numbers on Guadalcanal are close, 1592 US Marines and Army killed to approx 14,800 Japanese killed in action or missing with another...
With all due respect respect Duck, the Japanese Navy was quite a formidable opponent at the beginning of the war. After all for about the first 6...
Good luck, God bless and God Speed Panzer. Look forward to your next report.
January 27, 1940 -U.S. freighter Cold Harbor, bound for Odessa, is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities, January 27, 1942 -Unarmed U.S....
January 26, 1942 -First U.S. Expeditionary Force to Europe in World War II arrives in Northern Ireland. -U.S. freighter West Ivis is torpedoed...
January 25, 1940 -Auxiliary Bear (AG-29) (U.S. Antarctic Service) reaches 77°43'S, 143°52'W; it marks the deepest penetration by any ship into the...
January 24, 1940 -Interior Department motorship North Star (U.S. Antarctic Service) departs Bay of Whales, Antarctica for Valparaiso, Chile, for...
The Germans having 4 large fleet carriers operating in the Atlantic...interesting idea to say the least. Look at the potential ramifications this...
January 23, 1940 -Great Britain and France announce they will attack any German vessels encountered in Pan-American Safety Zone. -U.S. freighter...
January 22, 1940 -U.S. freighter Excellency is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities; freighter Nishmaha, detained there the previous day,...
January 21, 1940 -Auxiliary Bear (AG-29) follows leads in the ice spotted on the 19th; the ship's Barkley-Grow floatplane flies over the northern...
January 20, 1940 -United States protests British treatment of American shipping in the Mediterranean. -U.S. freighter Examelia is detained at...
