The Russian air force active in the region bordering railway
line to Swedish frontier.
Finns isolated a Russian battalion, part of a force sent to
make contact with Russian troops at Suejaervi, north of Lake
Ladoga.
Finnish warplanes dropped 3,000,000 pamphlets over Leningrad,
an 3 January 1940 and carried out bombing raids on Russian
island bases at Oesel and Dagoe.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) made successful reconnaissance
flights over north-west Germany, and patrols over seaplane
bases in Heligoland Bight.
Hermann
Göring
Assumes control of all German war industries and all government
departments concerned with economic side of the war.
Paris reported that in lower Vosges German detachment of 100
was surprised and machine-gunned by French patrol.
The British trawler Daneden is feared lost with a crew of
nine.
Reported that British liner Tuscan Star had been bombed and
machine-gunned by Luftwaffe aeroplane shortly after leaving
England. Raider driven off by ships anti-aircraft guns.
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January
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
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