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spidge · 11-04-2007, 02:30 PM

From: SeaWaves Magazine

April 11th 1941

1941 - President Roosevelt tells Churchill that the US Navy will extend the American Defensive Zone to 26 degrees West. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are no longer war zones. This means that US ships can now dock in Egypt
1941 - Under American pressure Admiral Darlan agrees not to move the battlecruiser Dunkerque from Oran to dry dock in Toulon lest it should fall into German hands
1941 - The German Navy investigates and concludes that none of their submarines are in the vicinity at the time of USS Niblack's attack. The US Navy's conclusion is that Niblack has depth-charged a false contact
1941 - Bangor-class minesweepers HMCS Kenora, For William, Milltown, Kentville, Mulgrave ordered
1941 - Destroyer HMS Blankney commissioned
1941 - Corvette FS Commandant Drogou (ex-HMS Chrysanthemum) launched
1941 - SS Aegeon sunk by U-124 at 06.55N, 15.38W

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spidge Legendary Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 8,056	From: SeaWaves Magazine April 11th 1941 1941 - President Roosevelt tells Churchill that the US Navy will extend the American Defensive Zone to 26 degrees West. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden are no longer war zones. This means that US ships can now dock in Egypt 1941 - Under American pressure Admiral Darlan agrees not to move the battlecruiser Dunkerque from Oran to dry dock in Toulon lest it should fall into German hands 1941 - The German Navy investigates and concludes that none of their submarines are in the vicinity at the time of USS Niblack's attack. The US Navy's conclusion is that Niblack has depth-charged a false contact 1941 - Bangor-class minesweepers HMCS Kenora, For William, Milltown, Kentville, Mulgrave ordered 1941 - Destroyer HMS Blankney commissioned 1941 - Corvette FS Commandant Drogou (ex-HMS Chrysanthemum) launched 1941 - SS Aegeon sunk by U-124 at 06.55N, 15.38W __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm