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Chapter 39 South-East Asian Campaign December 7th - December 20th, 1941 In the early hours of December 7th, 1941, tragedy struck...

It was the Olympic. She was able to sink the U-103 by ramming the Uboat.

Snopes says it's true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gigantic/ I suspect Gigantic was the name as its part of the Greek Myth theme...

At this point Phillips should have heard from Adm .Hart CinCAF, in Manilla about the numbers and composition of the ships at Cam Rahn...

<pours one out for Rear Admiral Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock KCVO CB SGM>

1941, Friday 05 December; The summary was finished, the facts (as much as they had) laid bare. All the senior officers and the aides...

1912-1913 A Brief Overview RMS Titanic would begin her service transporting passengers alongside her sister, Olympic, uninterrupted from...

The fact that there are two/three rather makes the point! I don't think Park is diplomatic enough to wrangle NZ G-G, but Auckland...

June - July 1941 Eastern Front While the Soviet Union would later deny it in later years, it and Germany had been extremely close...

May 18th - June 15th, 1941 Greek Front As the Allies retreated from the Aliakmon to Thermopylae, there was a pressing need to...

Autumn 1940 - Spring 1941 East Africa Campaign Often forgotten, one forgets that the East Africa Campaign would later have...

The SBU Vindicator was a dive bomber and could not carry torpedoes. The TBD Devastator was the USN torpedo bomber.

January 1941 Mediterranean Campaign With the effective neutralization of the Kriegsmarine, the transfer of Allied assets to the...

November - December 1940 Indochinese Theatre While the British and their Commonwealth allies were beginning to taste success in...

October 1940 - January 1941 African & Mediterranean Fronts The Allies had several things on their plate after the Fall of France...