Finns maintained defence of Karelian Isthmus and denied that
Russians have broken through. Russian attacks in the North
were repulsed. Fierce fighting in Petsamo district.
Nine Luftwaffe aircraft driven of by the British Royal Air
Force (RAF) fighters from Firth of Forth area, five being
hit To Luftwaffe aircraft were engaged of the Northeast coast
by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters and pursued
out to sea. One was hit.
The British air ministry announced that in an engagement over
the North sea on
6
December 1939 with two
Dornier.
Seaplanes were attacked and damaged by aircraft of the coastal
command. One British aircraft failed to return.
Patrol activity was reported from the Western front, German
raiding party's showing great persistence.
HMS Jersey damaged by torpedo, but managed to reach port.
The attacking U-boat was reported sunk.
Two Polish submarines Wilk and Orzel escaped from the Baltic
and joined the British Navy.
It was reported that her Majesty's trawler Washington, was
sunk by a mine in the North sea on
6
December 1939.
The Dutch freighter Tajandoen was torpedoed in the English
channel, survivors taken off by the Belgian cargo boat Louis
Scheid which later ran aground on the Devon coast.
The Norwegian tanker Britta was sunk off the west coast of
England.
The British steamer Thomas Walton was sunk, probably by a
torpedo off the coast of Norway.
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December
Articles:
We escaped
torpedo, Fire and shipwreck
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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