21 Oct 1939
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
- British light cruiser HMS Orion and Canadian destroyer HMCS Saguenay located German tanker Emmy Friedrich in the Yucatán Channel, and began to move to intercept. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | Yucatán Channel, Gulf of Mexico | CPC]
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