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Mainila Incident at Finish-Russian border
week from November 20 - 26, 1939

Mainila incident at Finish-Russian border (on November 26) was the main event of the week !

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939

Sea War: German seaplanes begin dropping magnetic mines in British East Coast shipping lanes (night 20-21).

Heinkel He 115 B-0 seaplane
Picture: a Heinkel He 115 B-0 seaplane of 1939, one of the earliest versions for service use. They were used to carry the new 2,028 lb magnetic mine.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1939

Sea War Atlantic: German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst despatched into North Atlantic.
Mine victims off British East Coast include new cruiser HMS Belfast (damaged).

German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 1939
Picture: the battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst in 1939 during a fleet show.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1939

Sea War: Royal Navy experts defuse German magnetic mine dropped on Shoeburyness mud flats off coast of Essex. After examining its mechanism, they devise means of ,neutralising' ships' hulls.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1939

Sea War Atlantic: British armed merchant-cruiser Rawalpindi overwhelmed by Scharnhorst South East of Iceland (265 dead).
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau avoid pursuit and reach port, November 27.

Home Front Britain: Bacon and butter rationed.

British one week ration for a person in WW2
On this picture you can see what the food ration per week for one person was in Britain during WW2.

Occupied Poland: Polish Government-in-Exile established at Angers (West France).

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1939

Home Front Germany: Government takes in trust the property and financial interests of Fritz Thyssen. The iron and steel magnate and a key supporter of Hitler in earlier years had fled to Switzerland in September 1939.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1939

Sea War: Germans lay mines off South West Sweden, inside Swedish territorial waters. Sweden protests on November 27.

Inside view of a German fortress at Siegfried line
In the meantime, nearly nothing is going on at the Western Front. This picture shows the inside view of a German fortress bunker of the Siegfied Line. Only the weapons tower is visble above the ground level.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1939

Diplomacy: (MAIN EVENT) 'Mainila Incident'. Russians accuse Finns of shelling village of Mainila, killing 4 soldiers, and demand immediate withdrawal of Finnish troops from vicinity of Leningrad (today St.Petersburg).
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