29 Apr 1941
- Allied resistance on mainland Greece ended at 0530 hours when 8,000 British, New Zealand, Australian, Greek, and Yugoslavian troops surrendered at Kalamata, Greece. On the same day, British intelligence picked up positive information about the German invasion of Crete; in response, most British troopships at Suda Bay in Crete were dispatched to Alexandria, Egypt to prevent being attacked by German aircraft. ww2dbase [Balkans Campaign | TH]
- Charles Lindbergh resigned from the US Army reserves. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Overnight, German bombers attacked Plymouth, England, United Kingdom, damaging cruiser HMS Trinidad and sinking auxiliary patrol vessel Pessac. ww2dbase [Battle of Britain | CPC]
- German bombers attacked Allied defenses at Tobruk, Libya as well as its harbor, sinking HMS Chakla. ww2dbase [Siege of Tobruk | CPC]
- Indian 20th Infantry Brigade arrived at Basra, Iraq from Bombay, India. ww2dbase [Campaigns in the Middle East | CPC]
- In Algiers, Algeria, during a tour of North Africa, the head of Commissariat général de l’éducation générale et aux sports (CGEGS) Jean Borotra unveiled a new oath for Vichy French and colonial athletes. ww2dbase [Algiers | CPC]
- German submarine U-75 hit British passenger liner City of Nagpur 500 miles west of Ireland with 4 torpedoes between 0230 and 0600 hours, ultimately sinking her and killing 16; 452 survivors were picked up by destroyer HMS Hurricane. ww2dbase [CPC]
- 10 miles off the coast of England, United Kingdom in the North Sea, German motor torpedo boats sank British ship Ambrose Fleming, killing 11. ww2dbase [North Sea | CPC]
- Morosini departed La Pallice, La Rochelle, France at 0744 hours for trials, returning at 1650 hours. ww2dbase [Morosini | La Rochelle, Poitou-Charentes | CPC]
- Shen Jinding (Shen Ching-ting), the Chinese ambassador to Panama, was given the concurrent role of ambassador to Honduras. He would remain in Panama City and would never set up an embassy in Honduras. ww2dbase [Panama City | CPC]
- The British Admiralty issued a request for six C-3 Liberty hulls to be converted to fighter aircraft carriers. Five of these (HMS Archer, Avenger, Biter, Dasher and Tracker) would enter service in 1943 equipped with Martlet and Swordfish aircraft. ww2dbase [AC]
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