Germany claimed to have captured Przemysl and Bialystok. The
struggle for Warsaw and Brest-Litovsk continued.
French troops advanced still further on the 40 mile front
from the Luxembourg frontier to 12 miles east of Saarbrücken.
A Soviet Japanese armistice on Manchukuo-Mongolia frontier
was arranged in Moscow.
Four vessels Fanad Head, Davara, Rudyard Kipling, and Cheyenne
was sunk by U-boats.
The Belgian steamer Alex van Opstal was sunk near Weymouth,
by either a submarine or a mine dropped by the Luftwaffe.
M18 Minesweeper
Launched 16 September 1939
T15
Torpedo boat
Launched 16 September 1939
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2194 Days Of War.
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