February 27th, 1940 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
RAF Fighter Command: Firth of Forth - One Luftwaffe aircraft shot down.
Northumberland coast - One Luftwaffe aircraft shot down.
Four North Sea trawlers attacked by Luftwaffe aircraft - No damage - One bomber severely
damaged by machine-gun fire from trawlers.
RAF Bomber Command: 4 Group. Leaflets and Reconnaissance - Berlin. 51 Sqn. One aircraft.
Moderate opposition.
The first volunteers leave to aid the Finnish forces.
First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill claims half of the German U-boat strength has been destroyed.
SCANDINAVIA: Sweden and Norway again refuse Finland's request for transit rights for foreign troops.
FINLAND: The two reinforced battalions of SFK man the front around Märkäjärvi in Salla, freeing five Finnish battalions to the desperate battles in and around the western shore of Gulf of Viipuri in south-eastern Finland's coast. Of SFK's third battalion only a company and a battery made it to the front just before the end of the hostilities. (203)
GIBRALTAR: U.S. freighter SS
Sundance is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities.