Eighty years on. 19th November 1939

Historical

In Warsaw barricades began to go up around the Jewish ghetto.

In Czechoslovakia 50,000 people were under arrest and three more dissidents were executed.

Winston Churchill proposed mining the River Rhine by dropping mines from bombers.

The Chinese Nationalist Government ordered a winter offensive against the Japanese.

Game day 80. Britain

The two convoys heading for the USA sailed south-south-west around Newfoundland.  After reorganisation a flotilla of four battleships left Gibraltar as protection for these convoys.  Three ships were left at Gibraltar.

Background image © Milton Bradley Games

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General Whiskers

Wargaming butterfly (mainly solo), unpainted model figure amasser, and Historical Re-enactor of the black powder era.

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