Sunday 9 November 1941
Part of Force K returning to Malta after destroying the Duisburg Convoy, 9 November 1941. |
Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Penelope (HMS Penelope Association). |
- Light cruiser HMS Aurora (flagship)
- Light cruiser HMS Penelope
- Destroyer HMS Lance
- Destroyer HMS Lively
- SS Duisburg (7,889 tons, German freighter)
- SS San Marco (3,113 tons, German freighter)
- MV Maria (6,339 tons, Italian)
- SS Sagitta (5,153 tons, Italian freighter)
- MV Rina Corrado (5,180 tons, Italian freighter)
- MV Conte di Misurata (5014 tons, Italian tanker)
- MV Minatitian (7599 tons, Italian freighter)
- Maestrale (Maestrale class)
- Grecale (Maestrale class)
- Lebeccio (Maestrale class)
- Fulmine (Folgore class)
- Euro (Turbine class)
- Alfredo Oriani (Oriani class)
Italian destroyer Libeccio sinking on 9 November 1941 after being torpedoed by Royal Navy submarine HMS Upholder. |
German Stuka dive-bombers heading towards their target between the Dnipro and Crimea on November 6, 1941. (Image: AP Photo). |
Red Army prisoners of the Wehrmacht attempting to get drinks of water from a frozen stream, 9 November 1941. |
Since September 19 we had given up trying to get convoys through to Libya; every attempt had been paid for at a high price... Tonight we tried it again. A convoy of 7 ships left, accompanied by two ten-thousand-ton cruisers and ten destroyers....All - I mean all - of our ships were sunk.The Italians relieve two commanders of their duties, but lack of aggressiveness and the other factors that contributed to the disaster are endemic in the Italian Navy. The real losers in the encounter are not the Italians anyway - they are the Germans in North Africa. General Rommel badly needs supplies to continue the siege of Tobruk and advance into Egypt. Without supplies, the Afrika Korps is doomed. The irony of the North African campaign is that the battles in the desert will be won at sea.
November 1941
November 1, 1941: Finns Attack Toward Murmansk Railway
November 2, 1941: Manstein Isolates Sevastopol
November 3, 1941: Japan Prepares to Attack
November 4, 1941: German Advances in the South
November 5, 1941: Last Peace Effort By Japan
November 6, 1941: Stalin Casts Blame in an Unexpected Direction
November 7, 1941: Stalin's Big Parade
November 8, 1941: Germans Take Tikhvin
November 9, 1941: Duisburg Convoy Destruction
November 10, 1941: Manstein Attacks Sevastopol
November 11, 1941: Finland's Double Game Erupts
November 12, 1941: T-34 Tanks Take Charge
November 13, 1941: German Orsha Conference
November 14, 1941: German Supply Network Breaking Down
November 15, 1941: Operation Typhoon Resumes
November 16, 1941: Manstein Captures Kerch
November 17, 1941: Finland Halts Operations
November 18, 1941: British Operation Crusader
November 19, 1941: Sydney vs. Kormoran Duel
November 20, 1941: The US Rejects Final Japanese Demand
November 21, 1941: Germans Take Rostov
November 22, 1941: Kleist in Trouble at Rostov
November 23, 1941: Germans Take Klin, Huge Battle in North Africa
November 24, 1941: Rommel Counterattacks
November 25, 1941: HMS Barham Sunk
November 26, 1941: Japanese Fleet Sails
November 27, 1941: British Relieve Tobruk
November 28, 1941: Rostov Evacuated, German Closest Approach to Moscow
November 29, 1941: Hitler Furious About Retreat
November 30, 1941: Japan Sets the Date for its Attack
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