military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (04/10/91)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 11 April, 1941 Italian and Hungarian forces join in the attack on Yugoslavia. British forces manage to hold the Monastir Gap in the face of escalating German assaults with strong air support. Elsewhere in Greece, however, German advances continue, with gains in the Florina region and through the Bitolj Pass. German panzers sweep past Tobruk and continue their eastward advance. The city is besieged, and a second assault is launched by Rommel, using elements of the German 5th Light division and the Italian Brescia and Trento division. The defenders manage to turn back the attack. The Vichy government closes its borders to Frenchmen of military age. Young Frenchmen have been leaving the country to enlist with the Free French. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "In the moment when Italian and German units joined hand for the first time in the Yugoslav theatre of war, I greet you most heartily." - Adolf Hitler, in a telegram to Benito Mussolini