September 24th 1940

Tuesday September 24th

General de Gaulle arrived at Dakar in Africa with an expeditionary force to demand its surrender. I hope this enterprise succeeds* – it seems important to me.

Invasion seems to have hung fire a bit! London is still being attacked.

* In the event, the allies' attempt to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa (now Senegal) failed. See the Wikipedia entry on the Battle of Daker/Operation Menace at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dakar