World War II Today: February 16
1940 The British destroyer Cossack, enters a Norwegian fjord, captures the German freighter Altmark, former supply ship of the Graf Spee and frees 300 British merchant seamen who were captured from vessels sunk by the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic. 1942 Dönitz orders all available U-boats in the Atlantic to attack British and American […]
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