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Phony War - Allied action during the Phony War

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The Allies' only major military actions during the Phony War were at sea. Notable events among these were the following: In October 1939 the obsolete battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk in Scapa Flow by the U-boat U-47. In November 1939 German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was attacked by the cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate and trapped in Montevideo harbour where she was scuttled. On April 10, 1940, the mining of Norwe ...

Phony War: Encyclopedia II - Phony War - Allied action during the Phony War

Phony War - Allied action during the Phony War

The Allies' only major military actions during the Phony War were at sea. Notable events among these were the following:

In October 1939 the obsolete battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk in Scapa Flow by the U-boat U-47.
In November 1939 German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was attacked by the cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate and trapped in Montevideo harbour where she was scuttled.
On April 10, 1940, the mining of Norwegian fjords by British warships, intended to block Swedish iron ore shipments to Germany, followed by two months of battle around the harbour of Narvik in northernmost Norway (see: Allied campaign in Norway).

The Allied airforce also showed some activity in that period, running several minor bombing raids on German factories and naval bases. The Royal Air Force also conducted a large number of combined reconnaissance and propaganda leaflet flights over Germany. These leaflet flights were jokingly termed "Bomphlet raids" or "Confetti War" in the British press. The Germans were sending reconnaissance aircraft as well.

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