April 29th, 1941 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Channel Stop: Three Blenheims from 101 Sqn. attack two 1,500-ton ships off Nieuport. One Blenheim is shot up.15 Blenheims of 82 Sqn make a sweep off Norway, one large freighter is damaged for the loss of two Blenheims.
Minesweeping trawler HMS Hildasay launched.
GERMANY:
ITALY: Count Ciano writes: "The Croatian affair has taken many steps forward. The crown is offered to a prince of the house of Savoy..."
GREECE: Sgt. John Daniel Hinton (b. 1908), 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, cleared three
machine guns, a mortar and a German-held house before being taken, wounded. (VC)
Evacuations through this morning from Greece result in about
50,00 troops removed at a cost of 2 destroyers and 4 transports.
Greece falls. 223,000 P.O.W.s. Some Greek and British soldiers escaped to
Crete. The British lost 12,000 men and all their heavy equipment. The
Germans lost 2,559 men, 5,820 wounded men, 3,169 missing men. (Steve
Stathros)
SYRIA: In reply to a British warning of a possible German airborne attack against Syria, General Dentz replies that his orders are to resist all aggression.
CANADA: Submarine HMS Thunderbolt assigned to Halifax for convoy escort duty.
Corvette HMCS Pictou commissioned.
ATLANTIC OCEAN:
Destroyer HMS Hurricane rescued the master, 170 crewmembers, eight gunners and 273 passengers from the British steam passenger ship City of Nagpur which was sunk in position 52.30N, 26.00W by U-75. The survivors were landed at Greenock.