23 Nov 1939
- RAF claimed seven Luftwaffe aircraft over France. ww2dbase [TH]
- Rawalpindi stumbled upon German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. When asked to abandon ship, Captain Edward Kennedy turned toward the German ships in an attempt to get into range of her 6-inch guns. She was to be sunk by the German 11-inch guns before she could get close enough. ww2dbase [Rawalpindi | AC]
- Adolf Hitler gathered the top German leaders and lectured them on his vision for the future of Germany, which involved an invasion of France. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]
- In an aerial battle over the French border, Leutnant Werner Methfessel became the Luftwaffe's first Bf 110 fighter pilot ace (although the veracity of his claim remained in some doubt). ww2dbase [Bf 110 | AC]
- Togo arrived at Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Togo / Coronel | Hamburg | CPC]
- All Jews above the age of 10 in the General Government in German-occupied Poland were required to wear the Star of David. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Britain recovered a magnetic mine from muddy fields near River Thames in southern England, United Kingdom. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | England | CPC]
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