5 May 1884
France
France
- Jean Decoux was born in Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Jean Decoux | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
20 Jun 1940
France
France
- The 1,177-ton Dutch steamer Berenice departed Bordeaux, France at 1330 hours with 22 passengers on board, mostly Dutch and Belgians refugees, among them the poet H. Marsman and his wife and the Dutch painter T. Bottema. The ship sailed together with the Dutch steamer Orpheus, the coasters Nettie and Ary Scheffer and the tug Seine, but they got dispersed in the following night and only the Nettie was in visual range. ww2dbase [Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]
22 Jun 1940
France
France
- The 3,713-ton French merchant steamer Amienois was bombed and sunk by German aircraft as she was pulling out of the harbor at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Start of the Battle of the Atlantic | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]
30 Sep 1940
France
France
- Reginaldo Giuliani arrived at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
5 Oct 1940
France
France
- Luigi Torelli arrived at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
- Capitano Tarantini arrived at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Capitano Tarantini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
11 Nov 1940
France
France
- Capitano Tarantini departed Bordeaux, France for a war patrol. ww2dbase [Capitano Tarantini | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
16 Mar 1941
France
France
- Reginaldo Giuliani departed Bordeaux, France for Gdynia (Gotenhafen), occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
23 May 1942
France
France
- Reginaldo Giuliani arrived at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
3 Jun 1942
France
France
- Luigi Torelli departed Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
24 Jun 1942
France
France
- Reginaldo Giuliani departed Bordeaux, France for a war patrol. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
15 Jul 1942
France
France
- Luigi Torelli arrived in Bordeaux, France in the evening. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
30 Mar 1943
France
France
- G. van der Vuurst, survivor of Dutch steam merchant ship Madoera, which was damaged by German submarine U-653 on 24 Feb 1943, was landed by German submarine U-758 at Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Bordeaux, Aquitaine | HM]
16 May 1943
France
France
- Reginaldo Giuliani departed Bordeaux, France. ww2dbase [Reginaldo Giuliani | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
14 Jun 1943
France
France
- Aquila VI departed Bordeaux, France with a cargo of mercury, stell, 800 Mauser MG 151/20 aircraft cannons, a 500-kilogram SG 500 bomb, torpedoes, and two Würzburg radar sets on board. Her passengers included Colonel Kinjo Satake (trained with latest German telecommunications technology), Heinrich Foders (Telefunken radar engineer with Würzburg anti-aircraft radar blueprints), and a number of German radar and shipbuilding engineers. ww2dbase [Luigi Torelli | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
10 Jan 1944
France
France
- French police arrested 228 Jews in and near Bordeaux and rounded them up at the Bordeaux synagogue. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Bordeaux, Aquitaine | CPC]
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