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	<description>From Dunkirk to the Blitz</description>
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		<title>Day 907 February 23, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trondheim, Norway. British submarine HMS Trident torpedoes German cruiser Prinz Eugen, destroying her stern. Prinz Eugen is towed to Lofjord, where her stern is cut away and plated over. She will be steered back to Kiel with 2 manually-operated rudders...]]></description>
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		<title>The Battle of the Sittang River, Burma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few hours had passed the Japs started to call us, giving us the creeps and the feeling that you wanted to be just a little closer to the man next to you. We kept quiet in order to conceal our position though the temptation to yell something bac...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 906 February 22, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overnight 675 miles East of Newfoundland, U-155 locates convoy ONS-67, sinking British tanker MV Adellen (36 killed, 12 survivors) and Norwegian MV Sama (19 dead, 20 survivors) at 7.03 AM.U-boats feast on unescorted shipping off the US East coast and i...]]></description>
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		<title>A Soviet Army ‘destroyer detachment’ in action</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A member of the destroyer detachment entered a house and swept the people sitting there with his quick dark glance. Everyone understood that this had become his habit, the habit of a man who breaks into a house and kills. Lieutenant Matyushko, too, int...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 905 February 21, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U-boats take a toll on Allied traffic through the Caribbean. At 1.23 AM 125 miles Southeast of Ocean City, Maryland, U-432 sinks US freighter Azalea City carrying 7806 tons of linseed from Trinidad to Philadelphia (all 38 hands lost). At 3.32 PM 7 mile...]]></description>
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		<title>USS Lexington fighters hit Japanese bombers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite this concentrated opposition, Lieutenant O'Hare, by his gallant and courageous action, his extremely skillful marksmanship in making the most of every shot of his limited amount of ammunition, shot down 5 enemy bombers and severely damaged a si...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 904 February 20, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Battle of Badung Strait continues. At 1.30 AM, Dutch cruiser HNLMS Tromp and 4 US destroyers USS John D. Edwards, Parrott, Pillsbury, and Stewart arrive in Badung Strait. In another an exchange of torpedoes and gunfire, USS Stewart is temporarily immob...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Australia’s Pearl Harbour’ – the bombing of Darwin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the noise had gone and everything was quiet it was great fun talking about how we felt while the raid was on. Well, I for one had the wind up properly, but after it was over I was fine again but while it was on I hugged the ground pretty close.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 903 February 19, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overnight, Japanese troops land unopposed at Denpasar, Bali. At 7 AM, 13 US heavy bombers and 7 dive bombers attack the 4 Japanese destroyers and 2 transports in raids lasting all day (transport ship Sagami Maru is badly damaged by a bomb in the engine...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 902 February 18, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[German bombers sink British minesweeping trawler HMT Botanic in the North Sea. WWI-era US destroyer USS Truxton runs aground and disintegrates in heavy weather on Ferryland Point, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Despite the help of locals, 119 crew die (3...]]></description>
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		<title>A forced labour gang in Dresden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Different foreman, different supervisor, again both were very-humane and anti-Nazi. "Don't say that we treated you well, not at the Community either, rather say we were bad; otherwise we’ll be in trouble." "Look, I can’t tell you, 'Work more slowly...]]></description>
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		<title>Marched into captivity on Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next I saw a column of at least a hundred Chinese civilians being marched across a pedang in the same direc- tion as us. They wore white shorts and white T-shirts but were blindfolded. It struck me then as strange that we had not also been blindfolded....]]></description>
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		<title>Day 901 February 17, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 4.30 AM, Warrant Flying Officer Nobuo Fujita flies a two-seater Yokosuka E14Y floatplane from Japanese submarine I-25 over Sydney Harbour for reconnaissance of the airfield. By 7.30 AM, the floatplane is stowed and I-25 heads South towards Melbourne...]]></description>
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		<title>Heroic work saves HMS Thrasher from oblivion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got a rather startled report back that there was what appeared to be a bomb lying on the fore-casing just under the gun, and there was a hole in the casing which seemed to indicate that something had gone into the casing and which might be causing th...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 900 February 16, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 71 days, Japanese have captured Hong Kong, advanced down the Malay peninsula and captured Singapore, invaded Southern Burma and threaten Rangoon, occupied most Philippines island and compressed the American defenders into the Southern Bataan peninsu...]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It later transpired that the Japanese had brought up their veteran troops. As we had defended our ground so well, they thought we were a crack regiment under the direct command of General Wavell. These enemy companies acted more or less independently, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 899 February 15, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore. Churchill gives General Wavell “discretion to cease resistance”, which Wavell passes on to Malaya commander General Percival. At 9.30 AM, Percival meets with senior military and civilian leaders. Low on ammunition, with dead and wounded ...]]></description>
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		<title>The last gallant battle of HMS Li Wo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.M.S. Li Wo hoisted her battle ensign and made straight for the enemy. In the action which followed, the machine guns were used with effect upon the crews of all ships in range, and a volunteer gun’s crew manned the 4-inch gun, which they fought wit...]]></description>
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		<title>Day 898 February 14, 1942</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 3.37 AM Southeast of Nova Scotia, U-576 sinks British catapult armed merchant ship Empire Spring (all 53 hands lost).At 8.17 AM in the Bay of Bengal 2 miles off the East coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Japanese submarine I-166 sinks British freight...]]></description>
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		<title>Desperate last hours in Singapore</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down below I found an air raid shelter built entirely of large tins of corned beef, and as I dived in, it was explained that the bomb splinters could slice through the sides of a ship, but could not penetrate the corned beef. Good old Admiralty ham. As...]]></description>
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