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Rumania
Rumanian offer of mediation rejected by British and French governments
   War in the West: Politics and diplomacy
   Phoney War, 1939-1940
   Rumania: International relations
   United Kingdom: International relations
   France: International relations

Bohemia-Moravia
Anti-Nazi uprising in Prague
   Germany: Occupied territories
   Czecho-Slovakia: Home front and occupation
   Czecho-Slovakia: Occupation, collaboration, and resistance
   Prague during the war years

Germany
Hitler orders unrest in Prague must come to an end or protesters will be shot and city burned to the ground
   Germany: Occupied territories
   Czecho-Slovakia: Occupation, collaboration, and resistance
   Prague during the war years
   Adolf Hitler

United Kingdom
Convoy OA 36G departs Southend
   Atlantic convoys

Convoy OB 36 departs Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys

Atlantic Ocean
British vessel Arlington Court sunk by U-43
   The U-Boat war, 1939-1945

Sierra Leone
Convoy SL 9 departs Freetown for Liverpool
   Atlantic convoys

China
Battle of South Kwangsi: Japanese 5th Infantry Division and Taiwan Brigade advancing north toward Nanning
   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945


Dates are local to the time zone in which the event occurred, but discrepancies and inconsistencies abound throughout the sources, especially when events ocurred shortly before or after midnight.

Entries on file for this date: 8
Total entries on file: 60,291
Updated: 21:34 Pacific Time on 15 May 2013

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Principal sources for this War Diary
Alden. U.S. Submarine Attacks during World War II
Argyle. Chronology of World War II
Brown. Warship Losses of World War Two
Browning. US Merchant Vessel Casualties of World War II
Carter and Mueller. Combat Chronology, 1941-1945
Cressman. The Official Chronology of the US Navy in World War II
Edelheit and Edelheit. A World in Turmoil
Foreman. Fighter Command War Diaries (five volumes)
Goralski. World War II Almanac, 1931-1945
Hague. The Allied Convoy System
Hammel. Air War Europa
Hammel. Air War Pacific
Hauner. Hitler: A Chronology of His Life and Time
Kay. Chronology: New Zealand in the War, 1939-1946
Middlebrook and Everitt. Bomber Command War Diaries
Niestle. German U-Boat Losses during World War II
Rohwer. Allied Submarine Attacks of World War Two
Rohwer. Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two
Rohwer. Chronology of the War at Sea
Salmaggi and Pallavisini. 2194 Days of War
Sommerville. World War II Day by Day
Swain. A Chronology of Australian Armed Forces at War, 1939-45
Taylor. Barbarossa to Berlin (two volumes)
Williams. Chronology, 1941-1945
Young. Britain's Sea War

Various other Chronology volumes also served as sources.

Many additional volumes were consulted for specific topics.
 

 

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