13 May 1939
China
China
- American destroyer USS Bulmer arrived at Gulangyu island, an international settlement off Xiamen, China in response to the arrival of a Japanese Special Naval Landing Force detachment nearby. ww2dbase [Xiamen, Fujian | CPC]
- Mongolian cavalry forces occupied the area near Nomonhan, Mongolia Area, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Khalkhin Gol | Nomonhan, Mongolia | CPC]
- Joseph Stilwell began a period of leave in China. In the following two months he would visit various locales in French Indochina; Siam; British Malaya; Java, Dutch East Indies; and the Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Joseph Stilwell | CPC]
- The Dutch government departed the Netherlands at 1720 hours aboard HMS Windsor, arriving in England, United Kingdom later on the same day. ww2dbase [Invasion of France and the Low Countries | CPC]
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