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A BACK TO NORMANDY HISTORICAL EDITION DECEMBER 1939 31 DAILY EDITIONS

December 1939

Daily Normandy — every edition of December 1939, day by day.
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1 December Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima commanding officer of the Taiwan Army 11 events 2 December Vyacheslav Molotov signing a pact with Soviet-puppet state Finnish Democratic Republic 6 events 3 December The 21 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1939-12-03 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Training 3 events 4 December King George VI arrived in France to inspect Britis 3 events 5 December On Tues. 05 Dec 1939 Japanese battleship Hiei undergoing a full power trial 2 events 6 December Finns held off heavy Soviet attacks on the Mannerh 2 events 7 December Soviet 9th Army attacked in central Karelia, Finla 3 events 8 December Belgian ship Louis Scheid ran aground and broke up 1 events 9 December The 98 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1939-12-09 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Training 4 events 10 December Soviet 7th Army, while attacking Finnish defense f 3 events 11 December Vidkun Quisling met with Erich Raeder in Germany 5 events 12 December On Tues. 12 Dec 1939 Adolf Hitler postponed the decision to invade Fran 3 events 13 December Cruiser Köln returned from screening mission fo 5 events 14 December The 99 Sqdn left from Newmarket Heath at 1939-12-14 at 11:43. Loc or duty Reconnaisance 5 events 15 December 5,000 Japanese troops launched a counter-attack ag 3 events 16 December Vidkun Quisling met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin, G 3 events 17 December The 105 Sqdn left from an unknown RAF station at 1939-12-17 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Training 5 events 18 December The 37 Sqdn left from Feltwell at 1939-12-18 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Reconnaisance 16 events 19 December On Tues. 19 Dec 1939 In their attack on Summa, Finland, the Soviet Army 5 events 20 December Soviet Army called off the attack on Summa, Finlan 2 events 21 December The 44 Sqdn left from Waddington at 1939-12-21 at an unknown time. Loc or duty Reconnaisance 9 events 22 December Flight of Hurricane I N2385 and Sergeant R M Perry on 1939-12-22 10 events 23 December At 0630 hours, 4 Finnish divisions counterattacked 4 events 24 December Finnish Army Lieutenant Aarne Juutilainen and his company holding a Christmas service near the Kollaa River, 4 events 25 December The Red Army resumed attacking the Taipale sector 2 events 26 December On Tues. 26 Dec 1939 The first Royal Australian Air Force personnel arr 2 events 27 December Arthur Chin shot down a Japanese A5M fighter 7 events 28 December Finnish troops gathering captured Soviet weapons, 4 events 29 December Soviet 163rd Division, trapped in the Finnish vill 2 events 30 December Remnants of the Soviet 163rd Division was destroye 1 events 31 December Chinese declared victory at Kunlun Pass 59 kilomet 4 events
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