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EventDate
The Tartan Pimpernel, Donald Caskie, dies at Greenock 27th December
Socialist campaigner John Maclean is released from prison 3rd December
First warnings received in Operation Dark Harvest 9th October
Colonel Robert A Smith goes into battle 14th September
War crimes accused Anton Gecas dies in Edinburgh 12th September
Submarine U-23 is sunk 20th July
Hundreds killed as battleship sinks in Scapa Flow 9th July
Naval hero Admiral Adam Duncan is born in Dundee 1st July
The German fleet is scuttled in Scapa Flow 21st June
Rudolf Hess flees to Scotland 10th May
Biological weapons tests begin in the Outer Hebrides 8th May
Clydebank suffers aerial attack 14th March
Scottish spy Jessie Jordan is arrested 2nd March
American servicemen drown on liner torpedoed off Islay 5th February
More than 100 sailors killed in the Battle of May Island 31st January
Stornoway harbour shipwreck kills 200 soldiers 1st January
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