January 2nd, 1940 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:RAF Bomber Command: North Sea reconnaissance. Three German aircraft destroyed; two British aircraft lost.
Anti-Aircraft cruiser HMS Coventry damaged in a German air attack on the Shetland Islands.
FRANCE: The Royal Canadian Air Force Air Division Europe Planning Team is formed at Paris to prepare for the establishment of RCAF units on the continent.
GERMANY:
U-555,
U-556,
U-751 laid down.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA:
Prague: Journalists and ex-army officers are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the
Nazis.
FINLAND: The Battle of Salla begins. At the Finnish town of Salla, taken by the Soviets in 1939, Finland attempts to outmanoeuvre the Soviet Union, unsuccessfully. Finnish resistance fighters, refusing to give into the Soviets, continue attacks.