27 Oct 1939
- Francis Tuker was promoted to the rank of colonel. ww2dbase [Francis Tuker | CPC]
- Heinz Guderian was awarded the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. ww2dbase [Heinz Guderian | AC]
- The US Consul at Gibraltar met with British authorities to protest the detention of American merchant ships by the United Kingdom. ww2dbase [CPC]
- The Gloster Aircraft Company produced its first Hurricane I fighter. They would deliver one thousand machines by the end of 1940 and attained a peak production rate of 130 Hurricane aircraft per month. In total Gloster would eventually build 1,850 examples for Hawker Aircraft. ww2dbase [Hurricane | AC]
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