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		<title>28-Dec-39: Soviet Division Destroyed; Red Army High Command Regroups; Fritz Thyssen Protests German Actions to Hitler; Polish Deportations More Frequent; HMS Barham Hit by Torpedoes; British Start Meat Rationing; Japanese Bomb Lanchow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 28-Dec-1939, the 89th day of World War II; there are 2,074 days left in the conflict.
The Soviet Red Army&#8217;s 163rd Division of the Ninth Army is destroyed by the Finns near Suomussalmi after attempts to relieve it by the 44th Division were turned back (and the 44th itself was destroyed). Training, tactics, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20-Dec-39: Red Army Attacks in Finland Weaken; Graf Spee&#8217;s Commander Commits Suicide in Buenos Aires; US Seeks to Prevent Export of Technical Data</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/605</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 20-Dec-1939, the 81st day of World War II; there are 2,082 days left in the conflict.
The Soviet Red Army attacks on the Mannerheim Line in the Battle of Summa are beginning to weaken, while the Finns cut off the Soviet 122nd Division at Salla, near the White Sea.
Captain Hans Langsdorff, commander of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19-Dec-39: Battle of Summa Continues in Finland; Germans Scuttle Ship Off US Coast; British Scientists Develop Anti-Magnetic Mine Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 19-Dec-1939, the 80th day of World War II; there are 2,083 days left in the conflict.
The Battle of Summa in Finland continues with the Soviet Red Army attacking the Mannerheim Line continuously, with little success.
The Germans successfully launch a surface raiding ship, the Atlantis, but suffer a loss when the Kriegsmarine is forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18-Dec-39: Soviet Attacks Continue on Various Finnish Defenses; Germans Down Half of British Air Raid Bombers Over Heligoland; Hitler Meets Quisling Again, Offers Aid; Graf Spee Fallout Continues</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/601</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 18-Dec-1939, the 79th day of World War II; there are 2,084 days left in the conflict.
Attacks by the Soviet Red Army continue on the Mannerheim Line around Summa, along with bombing of Helsinki from the air and shelling of battery positions along the Finnish Baltic coast. The United States Navy in Washington D.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17-Dec-39: Soviet Attacks Hammer Mannerheim Line at Summa, Are Repulsed; Finns Refine Successful Tactics, Destroy Two Red Army Divisions; First Canadian Division Lands in Liverpool; French Claim German Reconnaissance Flights Increased Over Western Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 17-Dec-1939, the 78th day of World War II; there are 2,085 days left in the conflict.
The saga of the Admiral Graf Spee German pocket battleship comes to an end in front of a large crowds lining the quays on both sides of the River Plate in South America. The ship had been in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13-Dec-39: Finns Press Attacks on Soviet Eighth Army; River Plate Estuary Drama Unfolding Over Graf Spee; Royal Navy Sub Torpedoes German Cruisers; House of Commons Holds Secret Session</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/591</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 13-Dec-1939, the 74th day of World War II; there are 2,089 days left in the conflict.
A series of attacks by the Finns on the Soviet Eighth Army is the focus of action going into week two of the Winter War.
British Royal Navy Commodore Henry Harwood of the HMS Ajax is accompanied by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6-Dec-39: Red Army Attacks Islands, Mannerheim Line; Roosevelt Sends Sympathy to Finns; Italians Send 50 Aircraft to Helsinki; Germans Decry Neutral Countries&#8217; Behavior; HMS Jersey Torpedoed; Aktion T4 Euthanasia Program Claims Mental Patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 6-Dec-1939, the 67th day of World War II; there are 2,096 days left in the conflict.
The Finns celebrate Independence Day even as the Red Army presses its attack during the Winter War. US President Franklin Roosevelt sends a message of sympathy to Finnish President Kyösti Kallio. The Italians deliver 50 aircraft to Finland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5-Dec-39: Finn Resistance Stiffens on Mannerheim Line, New Tactics Exploited; Soviets Claim No Longer at War; Finns Bomb Murmansk; Churchill Declares Germans Have Sunk to Lowest Form of Warfare Imaginable</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/532</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 5-Dec-1939, the 66th day of World War II; there are 2,097 days left in the conflict.
The Finnish Second Corps, manning the Mannerheim Line, the main defensive strongpoint on the Karelian Isthmus, encounters forward units of the Soviet Seventh Army during the sixth day of the Winter War. The Finns begin to master tactics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-Dec-39: Soviets Press Forward in Finland; Swedes Call Up Reserves; British Accidentally Drop First Bomb on German Territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 3-Dec-1939, the 64th day of World War II; there are 2,099 days left in the conflict.
The Soviet Eighth Army pushes the Finnish Army backwards near Suojarvi; the Finns send reinforcements near Kuhmo, where the Soviet Ninth Army&#8217;s 54th Division is pressing forward. The Winter War is in its fourth day. To the west, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2-Dec-39: Red Army Lands Near Petsamo as Advance Proceeds Slowly; League of Nations Asked to Mediate; 1940 Olympics Cancelled; Western Front Quiet; Germans, British Score High Seas Sinkings</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/525</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 2-Dec-1939, the 63rd day of World War II; there are 2,100 days left in the conflict.
The Red Army lands near Petsamo, Finland, in order to join up with the Fourteenth Army nearby. The Red Army advance into Finland proceeds slowly and has yet to reach Finnish defensive lines. The Finns ask the League [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21-Nov-39: German Magnetic Mines Continue to Wreak Havoc on British Shipping, Chamberlain Announces Retaliatory Measures; With German Help, Slovaks Reclaim Territory Seized by Poles</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/501</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 21-Nov-1939, the 52nd day of World War II; there are 2,111 days left in the conflict.
German magnetic mines dropped by the Luftwaffe in British territorial waters continue to make up the bulk of the war news. A brand-new British cruiser, HMS Belfast is badly damaged by one of the mines in the Scottish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18-Nov-39: IRA Terrorists Explode Bombs in London&#8217;s Piccadilly Circus; German Magnetic Mines Claim Five Ships, Including Dutch Ocean Liner</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/494</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 18-Nov-1939, the 49th day of World War II; there are 2,114 days left in the conflict.
Irish Republican Army terrorists explode four small bombs outside businesses in London&#8217;s Piccadilly Circus. No deaths or injuries are reported.
German Luftwaffe aircraft drop magnetic mines via parachute into British waters for the first time since the war began. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15-Nov-39: Czech Student&#8217;s Funeral Turns Into Bloodbath, Neurath Closes Czech Higher Education; Ribbentrop Rejects Peace Appeal; French Add Work Hours; Last Chinese Port Falls to Japanese</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 15-Nov-1939, the 46th day of World War II; there are 2,117 days left in the conflict.
In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, several thousand students attend the funeral for medical student Jan Opletal, shot in the stomach by German troops during anti-occupation demonstrations in Prague on 28-Oct, who died 11-Nov.
Opletal (1-Jan-1915 – 11-Nov-1939) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17-Oct-39: Ju-88s Strike Scapa Flow; HMS Iron Duke Damaged, Beached; Mostly Quiet on the Western Front; Turks Break Off Soviet Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 17-Oct-1939, the 47th day of World War II; there are 2,146 days left in the conflict.
Representatives of the Turkish government, in Moscow to negotiate a defense treaty with the Soviet Union, break off their talks without agreement. Both the Turks and the Soviets claim mutual friendliness and respect for each other, but Soviet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16-Oct-39: Germans Announce End of Polish Campaign, Even as a Few Polish Troops Hold Out; Fighting Flares Along Western Front; Royal Navy Experiences Another Surprise Attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 16-Oct-1939, the 46th day of World War II; there are 2,147 days left in the conflict.
Germany&#8217;s Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW &#8211; High Command of the Wehrmacht/Armed Forces) issues a communique that the Polish Campaign is officially ended, although a few regular Polish troops continue to offer token resistance in remote areas. This part [...]]]></description>
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